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Title: Double-sided LCLC-compensated topology for capacitive power transfer

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OSTI ID:1568382

A double-sided LCLC-compensated network is proposed for a capacitive power transfer (CPT) system. In one design, four metal plates are used to form two power transmitting and receiving capacitors and the LCLC network is used to compensate the capacitors. In the second design, two extra metal plates are used to couple with the previous four plates at the transmitting and receiving side, respectively, which forms the capacitor-integrated structure. The circuit parameter values are tuned to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) of the input side switches. There is also a CLLC topology proposed, which is a similar variation of LCLC circuit. A 3.3 kW input power capacitive power transfer prototype is designed and built. The experiment results show that the proposed CPT system can transfer 3.1 kW output power through an air gap distance of 70 mm with a dc-to-dc efficiency of 92.1%.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
EE0005565
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Patent Number(s):
10,298,057
Application Number:
15/088,213
OSTI ID:
1568382
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 04/01/2016
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Apparatus with a moving system and a stationary system patent November 2009