Design Considerations of Superconducting Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicle at Different Inserted Resonators

The wireless power transfer (WPT) technology based on strongly resonance coupled method realizes large power charging without any wires through the air. Recently, the WPT systems have started to be applied to the wireless charging for electrical vehicles (EVs) because of their advantages compared wi...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity 2016-06, Vol.26 (4), p.1-5
Main Authors: Chung, Yoon Do, Lee, Chang Young, Kang, Hyoungku, Park, Young Gun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antennas
Copper
Couplings
Electric vehicle charging
High-temperature superconductors
inserted resonator
RLC circuits
Superconducting filaments and wires
wireless power transfer
Wires
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Summary:The wireless power transfer (WPT) technology based on strongly resonance coupled method realizes large power charging without any wires through the air. Recently, the WPT systems have started to be applied to the wireless charging for electrical vehicles (EVs) because of their advantages compared with the wired counterparts, such as convenient, safety, and fearless transmission of power. However, there are challenges in its commercialization, such as delivery distance and efficiency. To solve the problems, we proposed the technical fusion using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) resonance coil in the WPT system, which is called superconducting wireless power transfer for electric vehicle (SUWPT4EV) system. Since the superconducting wire has merits, i.e., a larger current density and a higher Q value than normal conducting wire, the HTS antenna coil enables to deliver a mass amount of electric energy in spite of a small-scale antenna, as well as is possible to keep much stronger magnetic fields out in the peripheral regions. Thus, the SUWPT4EV system has been expected as a reasonable option to improve the transfer efficiency of large electric power. In this study, as an advanced approach, we proposed the advanced SUWPT4EV system with inserted resonator using noncooled copper, cooled copper, and HTS resonators, respectively, in order to expand the transfer distance and improve the transfer ratio. In this paper, we presented operating characteristics of the advanced SUWPT4EV system and achieved the improvement and effects of transmission power for inserted resonators within 40-cm distance under radio frequency power of 370 kHz below 600 W.
ISSN:1051-8223
1558-2515
DOI:10.1109/TASC.2016.2532904