Theorizing a Simple Ferrite Cored Coil Using Image Coils in Wireless Power Transfer

Abstract

The technology of wireless power transfer, which wirelessly transmits power to any device, has been widely studied. Wireless power transfer using magnetic field resonance involves the use of coils and a material called ferrite, which improves the transmission characteristics. Until now, electromagnetic field analysis has been used to design ferrite cored coils, but electromagnetic field analysis requires a long analysis time and a computer with a large amount of memory. In this study, the ferrite shield and coil are represented as a image coil under the condition that the positional relationship between the ferrite shield and the coil does not change. This enabled the derivation of mutual inductance only by numerical analysis, which had been difficult up to now. In addition, experiments have shown that when the coil size does not change, mutual inductance can be derived only by numerical analysis using arbitrary coil parameters, regardless of the number of turns and pitch. The average error in deriving the design value was 5.2%. This facilitated the design of ferrite cored coils at 85 kHz and contributed greatly to the design of the system.

Keywords

• Wireless power transfer
• ferrite core
• coil design
• numerical analysis
• inductive wireless power transfer
• image method