Open AccessInvestigation of the effects of common and separate ground systems in wireless power transfer
Author(s) -
Park Woocheon,
Moon JungIck,
Cho Inkui
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.2020-0281
Subject(s) - wireless power transfer , electromagnetic coil , ground , transformer , coupling (piping) , power transmission , electronic engineering , engineering , wireless , inductive coupling , electrical engineering , maximum power transfer theorem , electric power transmission , electric power system , transmission (telecommunications) , power (physics) , telecommunications , physics , mechanical engineering , voltage , quantum mechanics
This article presents an investigation of the effects on a grounding system of wireless power transfer (WPT) when transmitting over relatively far distances, that is, up to 1.25 m. Conventional two‐coil WPT systems are sufficiently commercialized in strong coupling range, but it is important to accomplish the long‐range WPT in weak coupling range for further various applications. This system depends on the coupling effect between the two coils that the grounds of the transmitting and receiving coils should be completely separated. However, when evaluating the performance of two‐coil systems with the instrument consisting of two ports and one common ground, undesirable problems occur in weak coupling ranges, for example, obtaining disagreeable transmission efficiency and degrading system stability/reliability. We investigate the problems of the leakage power from common ground systems and provide a practical solution to obtain a reliable WPT system by using an isolation transformer. The usefulness of this approach is that it is possible to achieve the stability of the system with relatively far transmitting distances and to determine the exact transmission efficiency.