Power-Spilt-Based Wireless Charging System With Communication-Free Coordination Control

In this article, a power-split-based wireless charging system (WCS) with communication-free coordination control is proposed to combat wide load and coupling variations. By using a magnetic integrated inductor, two power delivery channels are created from a single receiver coil. Large portion of received energy is directly delivered to the load. Small amount of energy is converted by using a low-voltage low-power dc-dc converter to regulate the output voltage or current achieving constant voltage (CV) or constant current (CC) charging operation. This proposal achieves higher power conversion efficiency than the traditional two-stage cascaded converter WCS. Since the dc-dc converter only processes partial power of the WCS system, this proposal reduces the voltage stress of the devices and design difficulty. A communication-free coordination control is applied, which is established by sensing the input current drop caused by the burst operation of the partial-power dc-dc converter. Thus, the CC-CV charging is realized by PWM control at the receiver (Rx) side, and the inverter is regulated with subharmonics control scheme to maintain nearly constant Rx coil current. Simulation results for both high-voltage high-power scenarios and low-voltage low-power (LVLP) scenarios are provided to investigate the operation of the proposed WCS. Finally, experimental results are captured from a 250 W/60-84 V LVLP prototype to validate the feasibility and practicability of proposed concept.

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This article proposes a power-split-based wireless charging system (WCS) with communication-free coordination control to handle wide load and coupling variations. The system uses a magnetic integrated inductor to create two power delivery channels, with a large portion of received energy directly delivered to the load, and a small amount converted by a low-voltage low-power dc-dc converter for constant voltage or constant current charging. The proposed WCS achieves higher power conversion efficiency and reduces design difficulty by processing only partial power through the dc-dc converter and applying communication-free coordination control.