Textile-Based Coils for Inductive Wireless Power Transmission

Abstract

We developed and evaluated different textile-based inductive coils for near-field wireless power transmission. The technology uses electromagnetic induction for the contactless transfer of electrical energy. Therefore, we investigated various methods for the attachment of conductive materials on a textile-based material and the production of textile-based coils based on QI standard. Afterwards, the textile-based coils were examined and evaluated due to their specific quality characteristics. This happens by calculating the transmission quality and the maximum efficiency of the system which enables comparison of different coil systems and indicates the transmission efficiency of the systems.

Keywords

• smart textiles
• textile-based inductive coil
• E-textiles
• wireless power transmission
• wearable computer
• transmission efficiency