AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HIGH-FREQUENCY INDUCTIVE COUPLING POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM

• US 20110074348A1
• Filed: 05/28/2009
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fundación CIRCE - Centro de Investigación de Recursos y Consumos Energéticos
• Original Assignee: Fundación CIRCE - Centro de Investigación de Recursos y Consumos Energéticos
• Inventors: Villa Gazulla, Juan Luis, Sanz Osorio, José Francisco, Sallan Arasanz, Jesús, Melero Estela, Julio Javier, Llombart Estopiñán, Andrés
• Application Number:
  US12/994,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20110074348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/126 Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00712 the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

The invention relates to an automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer system, which maintains the transferred power at a load equal to the nominal load with misalignments of up to 99% of the area of the secondary, in which the supply voltage and frequency of the system are controlled using a closed-loop control system in order to regulate the misalignments and the variation in the distance to the secondary and, in this way, transfer the nominal power.

Claims

1. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device wherein it has a closed-loop control system (4) that controls misalignments of up to 99% of the area of the winding (1.2.1) of the secondary (1.2) owing to the fact that

the closed-loop control system (4) gets the information on the power transferred to the charging system (2) and the phase shift between the voltage supplied by a supply system (3) and the current absorbed,

modifies the supply frequency so that the phase shift between the voltage and current is null,

modifies the supply voltage of the supply system (3) so that the supply power is that required by the system, and

maintains the power designated for a given misalignment until the supply system (3) reaches its nominal value,

meaning that the power transferred to a battery charging system (2) is kept equal to the nominal power, both for battery charging systems (2) with a fixed secondary (1.2) and for uninterruptible power supply systems (3) with a mobile secondary (1.2).

2. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 1 wherein for greater misalignments that need more than the designated level of power, the maximum power possible is delivered, keeping the system in resonance at all times, and the power delivered is the maximum supported by the power supply system (3).

3. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the phase shift and the power transferred to the load are obtained via measuring (6) the voltage and current of the secondary for all the configurations, it also being possible to measure (7) the voltage and the current of the primary in systems with PS or parallel-series, SP or series-parallel and PP or parallel-parallel compensation as the phase shift is reflected directly.

4. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the input voltage of the supply system (3) is modulated by the closed-loop control system (4) using a PWM power converter (4.1) that uses a square wave whose pulse width is modulated by modifying the duty cycle.

5. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 4 wherein it allows not applying all the voltage to the inductive coupling system (1) in the initial instant as the current consumed can be up to 2.5 times the steady-state current.

6. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 4 wherein the power transferred can be varied by varying the width of the square wave.

7. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 4 wherein the input voltage of the power supply system (3) is an H-bridge and a one-pulse PWM control is performed where the usual frequencies for power transfer are between 10 and 20 kHz for high-power systems with higher frequencies for low powers.

8. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 1 wherein configuration of the power supply integrated in the power-supply system (3) is push-pull or similar as this allows increasing and decreasing the average value of the voltage delivered to the inductive coupling (1).

9. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 1 wherein it is applicable for inductive couplings (1) where the winding (1.1.1.) of the primary (1.1) is longer than the winding (1.2.1) of the secondary (1.2) so that, in this case, there is no longitudinal misalignment given that when the winding (1.2.1) of the secondary (1.2) is found in the vertical direction of the winding (1.1.1) of the primary (1.1), the power delivered remains constant.

10. An automatic method for controlling a high-frequency inductive coupling power transfer device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the battery charging system (2) has an electromagnetic emissions shielding system to protect the internal parts and external elements that could be affected by the radiation.