• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.401-406
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• 2010

Recently, many implantable medical devices have been developed and manufactured in many countries. In these devices, generally, energy is supplied by a transcutaneous method to avoid the skin penetration due to the power wires. As the most transcutaneous power transmission methods, the electromagnetic coupling between two coils and resonance at a specific frequency has been used widely. However, in case of a transcutaneous power transmitter with a fixed switching frequency to drive an electromagnetic coil, inefficient power transmission and thermal damage by the undesirable current variation may occur, because the electromagnetic coupling state between a primary coil and a secondary coil is very sensitive to skin thickness of each applied position and by person. In order to overcome these defects, a transcutaneous power transmitter of which operating frequency can be automatically tracked into the resonance frequency at each environment has been designed and implemented. Through the results of experiments for different coil surroundings, we have been demonstrated that the implemented transcutaneous power transmitter can track automatically into a varied resonance frequency according to arbitrary skin thickness change.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.1613-1616
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• 2008

A Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System (TET) has been developed for the wireless energy transmission with two magnetically coupled coils. A resonance circuit is used to raise the induced voltage and current of the secondary coil. Its resonance frequency depends on the internal resistance of circuit and the transferred energy. Because the transferred energy usually changes in wide range, the output voltage is unstable and the energy transferring efficiency decrease. A push-pull class E amplifier is usedto generate high frequency AC voltage. To maintain proper resonance frequency, the voltage output of the amplifier was continuously monitored and adjusted to the optimized resonance frequency. Because of its high frequency (370 kHz), a phase lockedloop circuit and a comparator are used to monitor the output waveform. The results of experimentaldata show that the PLL circuit can increase the transmission efficiency and stabilize the output voltage of TET.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.762-767
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• 1991

To make electromechanical total artificial heart implantable inside the body, transcutaneous energy transmission system was designed and simulated by using PSPICE program. The fabricated system was evaluated by using Mock circulation system and showed comparable performance with the D.C power supply

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.711-712
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• 2007

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.548-554
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• 2010

The transcutaneous energy transmission system (TETS) composed of a Class-E amplifier may operate at a state away from the optimum power transmission due to the load variation. By introducing the feedback-loop technique, the TETS can keep the optimum state with constant output voltage by adjusting the important design parameters, that is, the duty ratio and frequency of the driving signal and the supply voltage. The relations between these adjusted parameters and the load are investigated. The effectiveness of the feedback technique is validated through a design example with a variable load parameter. The experimental results show that the Class-E amplifier in the feedback loop can keep operating at the optimum state under the condition of up to 50 percent variation of the load value.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2003년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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• pp.267-270
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• 2003

All artificial infernal organs which are using electric energy supply energy with inductive couple. Transcutaneous energy transmission system enhance survival chance of the patients and quality of life by reducing volume and mass. In this research, we used both tune in transmission system in state of fixing cycle in order to increase the voltage gain and the current gain and to reduce effect of leakage inductance. Also to maximize the effect of resonance, a constant frequency duty cycle control method is used. Test is progressed with litz wire which is set up with various sizes of core to minimize size of converter. This research aimed in analysis of transcutaneous energy transmission system and in measuring of stability and efficiency of Lithium-ion battery charge which are using transmitted energy.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.844-849
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• 2008

A new transcutaneous energy transmission (TET) system was developed for transmitting electrical power to an implanted device, such as an artificial heart in a patient's body. This new design can maintain a stable output voltage independent of the load resistance. The system includes a compensation capacitor to reduce energy loss and increase power transfer efficiency. Experimental results show that the output voltage of the receiving coil changes very little as the load resistance varies from 14.8 ${\Omega}$ to 15 $k{\Omega}$, which corresponds to a change in output power from 0.1 to 97 W.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.155-159
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• 2005

생체에 이식되는 장치에 사용하기 위한 무선에너지 전송 시스템을 개발하였다. 이것은 체내에 이식된 장치에 경피적으로 전기에너지를 공급할 수 있는 것이다 경피적으로 결합된 트랜스포머의 권선간의 거리는 인간의 피부 두께를 고려하여 약 10$\~$20 mm이다. 본 연구에서는 Class-E 공진증폭기를 사용하여 높은 효율을 얻고자 하였다. 최대 전류는 각 주파수에서 50 mA 이상의 전류를 얻을 수 있었다. 개발된 시스템은 500 kHz, 1 MHz 및 4 MHz의 서로 다른 주파수에서 정확하게 동작하고 있다는 것을 보여주고 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.407-410
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• 2002

As a part of electro-mechanical totally implantable artificial heart, a transcutaneous energy transmission system has been developed. By mutual magnetic induction between the first coil on the skin and the subcutaneously implanted second coil, the system transfers electrical power through the skin. This research aimed a minimizing the size of the implanted part as well as maximizing the transfer efficiency. When an air gap is 1$\sim$2cm, voltage gain and current gain low and it is hard to transfer energy due to large leakage flux. That is, the required input voltage and input current must be large compared with the output voltage and output current, respectively, This paper research the inverter topology and the control method in order to increase the voltage gain and the current gain. For this purpose, this inverter employs double tune to compensate the large leakage inductance of primary and secondary of the transcutaneous transformer. And the output energy of transcutaneous energy transmission system supply for Lithium-ion battery charger.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.447-456
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• 1995

완전 이식형 인공심장 개발의 일환으로 무선에너지 전송장치를 개발하였다. 본 연구에서는 피하에 이식된 2차 코일과 피부표면에 놓인 1차 코일 간의 자기 유도의 원리에 의한 전기에너지 전송시스템을 개발하였으며, 이식될 소자의 소형화 및 전송효율의 향상을 목표로 하였다. 클래스 E 공진 증폭기를 이용하여 인공심자의 구동에 요구되는 40 Watt 전송시 75% 이상의 전송 효율을 얻었다. 또한 동물 실험을 실시하여, 체내 성능을 검증하였고 체내 이식부의 생체 적합성도 확인하였다.