Efficiency Improvement of Wireless Charging System Based on Active Power Source in Receiver

Abstract

Wireless charging technology adapts to the electrified, lightweight, and intelligent trends of electric vehicle development. However, energy efficiency of wireless charging is still lower than conductive charging, and it is important for the wireless charging system to achieve global efficiency optimization in a constant current-constant voltage (CC-CV) charging operation. This paper proposes a novel system configuration, which adds an active power source into the receiver of the wireless charging system. It is proved that the efficiency can be increased significantly with amplitude and phase of the active power source be properly set. A novel current decoupling algorithm is used to analyze the efficiency of the new configuration, and a simulation model is established to validate the theoretical result and to explain the mechanism of efficiency improvement. The simulation shows that the active power source is able to change the power distribution and the current balance, and as a result, the efficiency increases in part of the operating region. The proposed configuration is realized in the experiment and then the efficiency improvement is demonstrated. The experimental result shows that the efficiency increases from 84.9% to 95.7% in a low coupling and slightly detuning working condition.

Keywords

• Active power source
• electric vehicles
• energy efficiency
• inductive power transmission
• wireless charging