Double-Sided LCLC-Compensated Topology For Capacitive Power Transfer
First Claim
1. A wireless power transfer system, comprising:
- a pair of coupling capacitors, each coupling capacitor having an input terminal and an output terminal;
a send unit configured to transfer power capacitively through the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein the send unit includes;
an inverter configured to receive a DC input signal and convert the DC input signal to an AC input signal at a desired resonant frequency;
a send side compensation circuit interconnecting the inverter with the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein the send side compensation circuit is comprised of two bypass capacitors and each bypass capacitor is connected in parallel between input terminals of the pair of coupling capacitors; and
a receive unit configured to receive power via the pair of coupling capacitors from the send unit, wherein the receive unit includesa receive side converter configured to receive an AC charging signal from the pair of coupling capacitors and convert the AC charging signal to a DC charging signal; and
a receive side compensation circuit interconnecting the pair of coupling capacitors with the receive side converter, wherein the receive side compensation circuit is comprised of two bypass capacitors and each bypass capacitor is connected is connected in parallel between output terminals of the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein capacitance of each of the bypass capacitors is at least five times larger than capacitance of each of the coupling capacitors.
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Abstract
A double-sided LCLC-compensated network is proposed for a capacitive power transfer (CPT) system. In one design, four metal plates are used to form two power transmitting and receiving capacitors and the LCLC network is used to compensate the capacitors. In the second design, two extra metal plates are used to couple with the previous four plates at the transmitting and receiving side, respectively, which forms the capacitor-integrated structure. The circuit parameter values are tuned to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) of the input side switches. There is also a CLLC topology proposed, which is a similar variation of LCLC circuit. A 3.3 kW input power capacitive power transfer prototype is designed and built. The experiment results show that the proposed CPT system can transfer 3.1 kW output power through an air gap distance of 70 mm with a dc-to-dc efficiency of 92.1%.
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1. A wireless power transfer system, comprising:
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a pair of coupling capacitors, each coupling capacitor having an input terminal and an output terminal; a send unit configured to transfer power capacitively through the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein the send unit includes; an inverter configured to receive a DC input signal and convert the DC input signal to an AC input signal at a desired resonant frequency; a send side compensation circuit interconnecting the inverter with the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein the send side compensation circuit is comprised of two bypass capacitors and each bypass capacitor is connected in parallel between input terminals of the pair of coupling capacitors; and a receive unit configured to receive power via the pair of coupling capacitors from the send unit, wherein the receive unit includes a receive side converter configured to receive an AC charging signal from the pair of coupling capacitors and convert the AC charging signal to a DC charging signal; and a receive side compensation circuit interconnecting the pair of coupling capacitors with the receive side converter, wherein the receive side compensation circuit is comprised of two bypass capacitors and each bypass capacitor is connected is connected in parallel between output terminals of the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein capacitance of each of the bypass capacitors is at least five times larger than capacitance of each of the coupling capacitors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A compensation circuit for a capacitive power transfer system having a first coupling capacitor and a second coupling capacitor, comprising:
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a first bypass capacitor electrically coupled in parallel between input terminals of the first and second coupling capacitors; a first inductor having an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the output terminal of the first inductor is electrically coupled at a first node to the input terminal of the first coupling capacitor; a second inductor having an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the output terminal of the second inductor is electrically coupled at a second node to the input terminal of the first inductor; and a second bypass capacitor electrically coupled in parallel with the first bypass capacitor, wherein one terminal of the second bypass capacitor is electrically coupled to the second node. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. A wireless power transfer system, comprising:
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a pair of coupling capacitors, each coupling capacitor having an input terminal and an output terminal; a send unit configured to transfer power capacitively through the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein the send unit includes; an inverter configured to receive a DC input signal and operates to convert the DC input signal to an AC input signal at a desired resonant frequency; a send side compensation circuit interconnecting the inverter with the pair of coupling capacitors, wherein the send side compensation circuit includes; a first bypass capacitor electrically coupled in parallel between input terminals of the pair of coupling capacitors; a first inductor having an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the output terminal of the first inductor is electrically coupled at a first node to the input terminal of one of the pair of coupling capacitors; a second inductor having an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the output terminal of the second inductor is electrically coupled at a second node to the input terminal of the first inductor; and a second bypass capacitor electrically coupled in parallel with the first bypass capacitor, wherein one terminal of the second bypass capacitor is electrically coupled to the second node. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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