• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.89-100
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• 2020

The wireless power transmission market is growing at an average annual rate of 51.5% from $ 16.4 billion in 2015 to $ 131.1 billion in 2020. However, there are limitations to commercialization due to the development of standards and technologies. Thus, this study identified trends in standards and regulations by market and by country. The research collected and filtered a total of 69,488 worldwide wireless power transfer patents by June 2019 and extracted a total of 28,555 patents. Based on this, technology development status was analyzed and predicted. In this study, long-distance and short-range technology development with high technology development difficulty and low technology development ratio could lead to growth of the entire wireless charging market. It is analyzed that investment and policy preparation are necessary to secure source technology for long-distance / near technology development than China, Japan and Europe.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.254-259
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• 2020

Phased-array antennas comprise a demanding antenna design methodology for commercial wireless communication systems or military radar systems. In addition to these two important applications, the phased-array antennas can be used in beamforming for wireless charging. In this study, a four-way analog beamforming front-end module (FEM) for a hybrid beamforming system is developed for 2.4 GHz operation. In a hybrid beamforming scheme, an analog beamforming FEM in which the phase and amplitude of RF signal can be adjusted between the RF chain and phased-array antenna is required. With the beamforming and beam steering capability of the phased-array antennas, wireless RF power can be transmitted with high directivity to a designated receiver for wireless charging. The four-way analog beamforming FEM has a 32 dB gain dynamic range and a phase shifting range greater than 360°. The maximum output RF power of the four-way analog beamforming FEM is 40 dBm (=10 W) when combined the four individual RF paths are combined.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.41-45
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• 2016

The technology of supplying the electric power by wireless power transfer (WPT) is expected for the next generation power feeding system since it can supply the power to portable devices without any connectors through large air gap. As such a technology based on strongly coupled electromagnetic resonators is possible to deliver the large power and recharge them seamlessly; it has been considered as a noble option to wireless power charging system in the various power applications. Recently, various HTS wires have now been manufactured for demonstrations of transmission cables, motors, MAGLEV, and other electrical power components. However, since the HTS magnets have a lower index n value intrinsically, they are required to be charged from external power system through leads or internal power system. The portable area is limited as well as the cryogen system is bulkier. Thus, we proposed a novel design of wireless power charging system for superconducting HTS magnet (WPC4SM) based on resonance coupling method. As the novel system makes possible a wireless power charging using copper resonance coupled coils, it enables to portable charging conveniently in the superconducting applications. This paper presented the conceptual design and operating characteristics of WPC4SM using different shapes' copper resonance coil. The proposed system consists of four components; RF generator of 370 kHz, copper resonance coupling coils, impedance matching (IM) subsystem and HTS magnet including rectifier system.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2024

최근 자율주행차 시장이 지속해 성장함에 따라 충전 인프라에 대한 필요성이 커지고 있다. 그러나 무선 충전 시스템의 경우 기존 유선 충전에 비해 대출력이 요구되어 안정성 문제가 제기되고 있다. 자율주행차 무선 충전 인프라를 구축하기 위한 표준으로는 SAE J2954가 존재하며 해당 표준에서는 차량과 전력 전송 시스템 간의 통신 방법에 대해 정의한다. SAE J2954에서는 자율주행차량의 무선 충전 통신 방법으로 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 및 UWB와 같은 물리적 미디어를 사용해 차량과 충전 패드 간의 통신을 활성화할 것을 권장한다. 특히 UWB는 실내 환경에서 견고한 통신 능력을 보이고 간섭에 민감하지 않기 때문에 실내외 충전 환경에서 적합한 솔루션이다. 해당 표준에서는 무선전력전송 시스템을 구축하기 위한 프로세스로 충전 시작부터 충전 완료까지를 여러 단계로 구분하였다. 본 연구에서는 UWB 기술을 사용하여 무선전력전송 시스템의 한 가지 프로세스인 Fine alignment의 수단으로 사용한다. 실제 자율주행차 무선전력전송 시스템에 적용 가능성을 판단하기 위해 거리에 따라 실험을 수행하였으며 UWB로부터 거리 정보를 수집하였다. UWB로부터 얻어진 거리 데이터의 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 수집한 데이터를 세 단계의 전처리 과정을 거쳐 머신러닝과 딥러닝 기법을 적용한 Single Model과 Multi Model을 제안한다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.605-610
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• 2021

현재까지 알려진 무선충전 방식 중에서 장거리에서 가장 효율이 좋은 방식은 레이저를 이용한 방식이다. 여기에 레이저를 이용한 무선통신 기술을 결합한다면 다양한 분야에 활용이 가능할 것이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 레이저를 이용한 무선충전 및 무선통신의 동시전송 기술에 관하여 연구하고 이에 대한 실험 결과를 보인다. 이 기술은 광 무선충전을 위해서 송신부에 전/광 변환을 위한 레이저 광원을 사용하고 수신부에는 광/전 변환을 위한 태양전지를 사용한다. 또한, 광 무선통신을 위해 해당 레이저 광신호에 반송파를 이용하여 신호를 송신하는 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 실험을 통해 100 mW 레이저 송신부와 태양전지 수신부를 이용하여 광 무선충전은 1.9 %의 DC-to-DC 효율을 보였으며, 무선 광통신은 전송거리가 15 m일때 최대 90 kbps의 전송속도를 보였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.306-309
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• 2019

Wireless charging is a technology of transmitting power through an air gap to an electrical load for the purpose of energy dissemination. Compared to traditional charging with code, wireless power charging has many benefits of avoiding the hassle from connecting cables, rendering the design and fabrication of much smaller devices without the attachment of batteries, providing flexibility for devices, and enhancing energy efficiency, etc. A transmitting coil and a receiving coil for inductive coupling or magnetic resonant coupling methods are available for the near field techniques, but are not for the far field one. In this paper, the wireless power transfer (WPT) circuit by using magnetic resonant coupling method with a resonant frequency of 13.45 Mhz for the low power system is implemented to measure the power transmission efficiency in terms of mutual distance and omnidirectional angles of receiver.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.691-701
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• 2019

To solve the problems in the contact charging of inspection robots, a wireless charging system for inspection robots and a control strategy are introduced in this paper. Circuit models of a wireless power system with a compound compensation circuit and a three-phase Class-D resonant inverter are set up based on circuit theory. An output voltage control method based on the equal spread regulation of the phase difference between adjacent phases and the parameter correction method in the primary compound compensation circuit are proposed. The dynamic characteristics of the key parameters varying with the secondary coil position are obtained to further investigate the adaptive location scheme during the access and exit processes of moving robots. Combining the output voltage control method and the adaptive location scheme, a transition control strategy for the standby and operation modes of the wireless charging systems for inspection robots is put forward to realize the system characteristics including the low standby power in the standby mode and the high receiving power in the operation mode. Finally, experiments are designed and conducted to verify the correctness of the theoretical research.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2018

As the wireless power transfer (WPT) technology based on strongly resonance coupled method realizes large power charging without any wires through the air, there are advantages compared with the wired counterparts, such as convenient, safety and fearless transmission of power. From this reason, the WPT systems have started to be applied to the wireless charging for various power applications such as train, underwater ship, electric vehicle. This study aims for the effect and characteristics of different inserted resonance coil between Tx and Rx coils for charging system of superconducting magnetic levitation (MAGLEV) train. The transfer efficiency and effect are evaluated with helix type, rectangular type copper resonance coil, and HTS resonance coil under bulb and HTS magnet load, respectively. The input power is adapted with radio frequency (RF) power of 370 kHz below 500 W.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2014

본 논문은 무선충전기에 있어서 효율 증대 기법에 관한 것으로, 송수신 장치간 정렬상태를 수신 장치인 스마트폰에 표시할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 구현된 무선충전기는 세계 표준인 WPC( Wireless Power Consortium ) 방식을 기반으로 되어 있어 수 100kHz 이하의 주파수로 동작하고 누설 자속을 최소화할 수 있도록 자기장 차폐제를 사용한 송수신 코일 구조를 갖는다. 송수신 장치의 정렬 상태를 확인할 수 있는 종래 방식은 수신단 코일의 수신 레벨만을 표시하는 단순 방식이지만 본 방식은 수신 장치의 위치까지 알 수 있어 보다 진보된 방식이라 할 수 있다. 무선 충전기 송수신 장치의 정렬상태 검출을 위하여 수신 코일의 위치변화와 자기장 세기가 서로 선형관계에 있음을 확인하고 삼각측량법을 이용하여 이 선형관계가 위치 정보로 변환될 수 있음을 보였다. 실험을 통하여 선형관계에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 요소들을 분석하고 이 요소들을 최적화한 상태에서의 선형 특성을 가질 수 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.221-226
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• 2019

In this work, a transmitter/receiver front-end module (T/R FEM) with an automatic Tx/Rx switching scheme for a 2.4 GHz microwave power transfer is developed for a retro-reflective beamforming scheme. Recently, research on wireless power transfer techniques has moved to wireless charging systems for mobile devices. Retro-reflective beamforming is a good candidate for tracking the spatial position of a mobile device to be charged. In Tx mode, the T/R FEM generates a minimum of 1 W. It also comprises an amplitude and phase monitoring port for transmitting RF power. In Rx mode, it passes an Rx pilot signal from a mobile device to a digital baseband subsystem to recognize the position of the mobile device. The insertion loss of the Rx signal path is 4.5 dB. The Tx and Rx modes are automatically switched by detecting the Tx input power. This T/R FEM is a design example of T/R FEMs for wireless charging systems based on a retro-reflective beamforming scheme.