Positioning-Free Resonant Wireless Power Transmission Sheet With Staggered Repeater Coil Array (SRCA)

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Contributors

  • Kazuaki Mori - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Hyunkeun Lim - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Shunta Iguchi - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Koichi Ishida - , Chair of Circuit Design and Network Theory, Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Makoto Takamiya - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Takayasu Sakurai - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)

Abstract

A magnetically resonant wireless power transmission sheet (WPTS) on a printed circuit board is developed. WPTS wirelessly supplies the power to electronic devices including the wearable wireless healthcare devices anywhere on the sheet with high efficiency. In order to increase a power transmission efficiency degraded by a misalignment of a receiver coil, a transmitter coil array and a proposed staggered repeater coil array (SRCA) are stacked in WPTS. One transmitter coil closest to the receiver coil and the surrounding four repeater coils are selectively activated based on the result of a position detection of the receiver coil. By adding SRCA to the transmitter coil array, the measured power transmission efficiency at the worst-case misalignment increases from 4.8% to 64% at a distance of 15 mm between the transmitter and receiver coils with a diameter of 40 mm. The measured results are verified by electromagnetic simulations.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number6417946
Pages (from-to)1710-1713
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume11
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 84873389615
ORCID /0000-0002-4152-1203/work/165453429

Keywords

Keywords

  • Wireless communication, Repeaters, Power transmission, Magnetic resonance