1743 results about "Wireless power transfer" patented technology

An apparatus for use in a magnetic induction wireless power transfer system comprises at least one booster coil positioned adjacent an active coil of a magnetic induction wireless power transfer system and a capacitor electrically connected to the booster coil. A capacitance of the capacitor is selected such that a current in the booster coil is approximately equal to a current in the active coil during wireless power transfer. The apparatus may comprise at least one shielding coil positioned adjacent an active coil of a magnetic induction wireless power transfer system, a capacitor electrically connected to the shielding coil, and a conductor positioned adjacent the shielding coil opposite the active coil. The conductor encompasses the shielding coil.

A power transmitting apparatus measures a Q factor of a power transmitting unit that performs wireless power transfer to a power receiving apparatus, and determines presence / absence of an object different from the power receiving apparatus based on the Q factor. The power transmitting apparatus obtains a first index value regarding a predetermined physical amount different from the Q factor after measurement of the Q factor, obtains a second index value regarding the predetermined physical amount before wireless power transfer to the power receiving apparatus starts after the it is determined in the above determination that an object different from the power receiving apparatus does not exist; and determines presence / absence of an object different from the power receiving apparatus based on the first index value and the second index value.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a first wireless device may transmit, to a second wireless device, a first signal for probing an energy state of the second wireless device. The first wireless device may monitor for a second, backscattered signal indicating the energy state of the second wireless device and may transmit, to the second wireless device, an indication of resources for harvesting energy based on monitoring for the second, backscattered signal. The first wireless device may transmit, to the second wireless device and over the resources, a third signal distinct from the first signal and associated with harvesting energy.

A roadway section enables dynamic wireless power transfer to a vehicle. The roadway section comprises pavement material and a wireless power charger. The pavement material defines a pavement section volume having a top surface on which the vehicle traverses. The wireless power charger includes a conductive element located at least partially within the pavement section volume and configured to emit a magnetic field toward the top surface of the pavement section volume to wirelessly transfer electric power to the vehicle. The conductive element includes an upper surface that is located at least five centimeters (5 cm) below the top surface of the pavement section volume.

A wireless power transmission apparatus for induction heating includes: a working coil configured to change operation based on selection of a mode of operation from among a plurality of operating modes, the plurality of operating modes including a wireless power transmission mode configured to wirelessly transmit power and a heating mode configured to heat one or more objects, an inverter configured to output, to the working coil, current at an operation frequency, and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate an eccentricity degree between the working coil and a reception coil of a target object, and control, in the wireless power transmission mode, the operation frequency based on the calculated eccentricity degree while performing wireless power transmission to the target object.

The present disclosure relates to a device and method for controlling transmission of power in a wireless power transmitting system. The present specification discloses a wireless power transmitting method comprising the steps of: performing a digital ping on each of a plurality of coil combinations formed from a plurality of primary coils; receiving a signal intensity packet of each of the coil combinations from the wireless power receiving device; and forming the magnetic coupling by operating a coil combination selected on the basis of the signal intensity packet, and transmitting wireless power to the wireless power receiving device on the basis of the magnetic coupling. Therefore, an optimal multi-coil can be rapidly selected according to the location of the wireless power receiving device.

Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For example, a first network device can transmit, to second network device(s), a first information signal including information indicating a frequency for a backscattered signal. The first network device can transmit, to a third network device, a second information signal including information indicating a frequency shift for shifting a reference signal to produce the backscattered signal. The first network device can transmit the reference signal to the third network device. The first network device can select, based on channel reports received from the second network device(s), the energy harvesting waveform and at least one second network device for providing the energy harvesting waveform to the third network device. The first network device can transmit, to the at least one second network device, a scheduling signal including scheduling instructions to transmit the energy harvesting waveform to the third network device.

Systems and methods for deployable and reusable autonomous vehicle systems and networks are provided. The autonomous vehicles include solar power satellite sandwich modules for collecting solar radiation and / or radiant heat and converting it to useable energy to power on-board systems, for storage, or for transmission as electromagnetic radiation in wireless power transfer. The autonomous vehicles disclosed herein may be configured as nodes in a fixed or mobile deployable network for wireless power distribution and / or data transmission across multiple domains (water / land-to-air-to-space). Fleets of autonomous vehicles may be configured for various applications such as micro- or macro-wireless power grids, beam riding highways for orbital raising, point-to-point-transport and in-flight charging, on Earth and in Space.

A wireless power transmission method executed by a power transmitter comprising multi-coils, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: detecting a second power receiver while transmitting power to a first power receiver; determining at least one primary coil adequate for power transmission; by using the determined at least one primary coil, determining whether the second power receiver supports a shared mode protocol; and if the second power receiver supports the shared mode protocol, transmitting power to the first and second power receivers according to the shared mode protocol, wherein the shared mode protocol may be a protocol for simultaneously managing information exchanges between the power transmitter and multiple power receivers.

A wireless power transfer (WPT) device includes a polyphase coil network comprising a plurality of phases for transfer of high-frequency AC power, each one of the plurality of phases comprising a phase coil, wherein the polyphase coil network is configured to operate in a polyphase configuration to enable transfer of polyphase high-frequency AC power with a mating WPT device operating in a polyphase mode; and operate in a single phase interoperability configuration to enable transfer of single phase high-frequency AC power with a mating WPT device operating in a single phase mode.

Provided in the present disclosure is a method for receiving wireless power from a wireless power transmitter by a wireless power receiver in a wireless power transmission system, and a device using same, the method including: entering a power transmission phase associated with wireless power reception; transmitting a first application message to the wireless power transmitter in the power transmission phase; and receiving a second application message, which is a response to the first application message, from the wireless power transmitter in the power transmission phase, wherein the wireless power receiver finishes receiving the second application message within a specific time interval, and a start point of the specific time interval is a start point of the first application message.

A wireless power transmission method executed by a power transmitter comprising multi-coils, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: detecting a second power receiver while transmitting power to a first power receiver; determining at least one primary coil adequate for power transmission; by using the determined at least one primary coil, determining whether the second power receiver supports a shared mode protocol; and if the second power receiver supports the shared mode protocol, transmitting power to the first and second power receivers according to the shared mode protocol, wherein the shared mode protocol may be a protocol for simultaneously managing information exchanges between the power transmitter and multiple power receivers.

A wireless charging system may include a wireless power receiving device that receives wireless power signals from a wireless power transmitting device. The wireless power transmitting device may transmit efficiency information to the wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device may update a wireless power delivery parameter based on the received efficiency information.

The present disclosure provides: a method by which a wireless power transmitter transmits wireless power to a wireless power receiver in a wireless power transmission system; and a device using same, the method comprising: entering a power transmission phase related to the transmission of the wireless power; receiving, from the wireless power receiver, a first application message in the power transmission phase; and transmitting, to the wireless power receiver, a second application message, which is a response to the first application message in the power transmission phase, wherein the wireless power transmitter initiates the transmission of the second application message within a specific time period, and the start point of the specific time period is the end point of the first application message.

The invention discloses a wireless power transmission coil optimization method and a related system, which can realize automation of coil structure parameters and multi-target global optimization by acquiring a coil geometric parameter space, constructing a comprehensive optimization function and performing iterative search in the coil geometric parameter space. The problems that in traditional design, the number of simulation iterations is large, design efficiency is low, local optimum is prone to occurring, and multiple performance indexes are difficult to balance are effectively solved, coil design efficiency and precision are remarkably improved, and dependence on artificial experience is reduced. Therefore, the number of manual intervention and simulation is remarkably reduced, the coil design efficiency is improved, and the prototype development period of the WPT system is shortened. Besides, iterative search is carried out in the parameter space, so that the whole design space can be effectively explored, a locally optimal solution trap can be jumped out, and a globally optimal or approximately globally optimal coil structure parameter combination can be obtained more possibly.

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for foreign object detection (FOD) in a wireless power transfer (WPT) system. An FOD protocol can be coordinated with different operating phases of the WPT system, such as an idle phase, a configuration phase, a connected phase, and a power transfer phase. An FOD assessment unit may perform foreign object detection assessments as part of each operating phase. The FOD protocol may include an initial idle phase foreign object detection assessment in the idle phase to handle a scenario in which a Power Receiver is placed on the Power Transmitter before the Power Transmitter has been turned on. The FOD assessment unit may adjust offset values used during each FOD assessment to improve accuracy of foreign object detection. The offset values may be adapted to accommodate movement of the Power Receiver after the initial idle phase foreign object detection assessment.

Systems and methods for a wireless power transfer system are provided. A resonator arrangement includes a housing, a magnetic core positioned within the housing and defining an annular groove, a coil element positioned within the annular groove and configured to generate a first magnetic field, and a counter-coil element positioned proximate the coil element, the counter-coil element configured to generate a second magnetic field that is out of phase with the first magnetic field to facilitate reducing far-field electromagnetic emissions.

Provided herein are reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) including a surface, a source tile positioned on or proximate a first side of the surface and including a source power layer including a power amplifier and a transmitter coil configured to generate an electromagnetic field and a radio frequency (RF) layer configured to receive power from the source electromagnetic field, and a patch antenna grid for reflecting a RF signal, and a plurality of extender tiles positioned on or proximate the first side of the surface, the extender tiles each including an extender power layer including a passive transceiver coil for receiving the source electromagnetic field and relaying the source electromagnetic field as an extender electromagnetic field and an extender RF layer configured to receive power from the extender electromagnetic field, and an extender patch antenna grid for reflecting at least one of the RF signal or a second RF signal.

A power transmitter (101) provides power to a power receiver (105) via an inductive power transfer signal which is also used by the power receiver (105) for communication by load modulation. The power receiver (105) comprises a transmitter (509) arranged to transmit symbols in accordance with a first or second communication mode where the first mode modulates data symbols by a chip sequence from a set of sequences and the second communication mode does not. The power receiver (105) may transmit data symbols requesting a power transfer signal variation using a chip sequence from the set. A detector (515) may detect if the variation occurs, and if so a selector (513) selects the first communication mode and otherwise it selects the second communication mode. The approach may allow selection of an appropriate communication mode without requiring data to be transmitted from the power transmitter. The approach may provide improved backwards compatibility.

The invention provides a method for extracting equivalent parameters of a cavity resonant wireless power transmission system. The method comprises the following steps: S1, acquiring system input impedance spectrum data; s2, taking the input impedance spectrum data of the system as input, and utilizing a trained LSTM regression model to obtain a preliminary predicted value of an equivalent parameter of the system; s3, based on the preliminary prediction value of the equivalent parameters of the system, performing regression fitting by adopting a nonlinear fitting algorithm to obtain an accurate value of the equivalent parameters of the system; the system equivalent parameters comprise cavity internal resistance and cavity equivalent inductance of the resonant cavity and a mutual inductance value between the coil and the resonant cavity. The method has the advantages that equivalent parameters of the cavity resonant wireless power transmission system in all current mainstream modes can be effectively extracted; the NLS algorithm is prevented from convergence failure or falling into local optimum due to the fact that an initial value seriously deviates from a real value, and the fitting precision and stability are extremely high.

A device for transmission of wireless power according to an embodiment of the present specification comprises: a power conversion circuit for transmitting the wireless power to a wireless power receiving device; and a communication / control circuit for communicating with the wireless power receiving device and controlling the wireless power, wherein the communication / control circuit transmits a response to a reception data packet received from the wireless power receiving device or a transmission data packet transmitted to the wireless power receiving device on the basis of a timeout period, and the timeout period is changed according to a communication speed between the communication / control circuit and the wireless power receiving device.

The invention discloses a laser wireless energy transfer dynamic MPPT control method based on an RL-PSO hybrid algorithm and a reconfigurable array system, and aims to solve the problems of power oscillation and mismatch loss caused by light spot offset of a photovoltaic array under laser dynamic irradiation. According to the method, reinforcement learning (RL) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are fused, dynamic parameters such as the light spot moving speed and irradiance are sensed in real time through the RL, the inertia weight and learning factors of the PSO are adjusted in a self-adaptive mode, and collaborative optimization of global search and local tracking is achieved. According to the system level, a reconfigurable photovoltaic array is designed, and according to data of a light spot position sensor, battery series-parallel topology is dynamically adjusted through a switch matrix, and current matching is optimized. According to the method, double-loop control is adopted, wherein an outer-layer RL decision module dynamically switches PSO working modes according to the environment, and an inner-layer PSO module optimizes the working voltage. The system efficiency in a dynamic scene can be improved by 15%-30%, mismatch loss is reduced by 40% or above, and the method is suitable for unsteady-state energy supply scenes such as unmanned aerial vehicles and mobile robots.

The invention belongs to the technical field of wireless communication, and discloses a task unloading and wireless energy transmission method and system, and the method comprises the steps: building a communication and calculation model between a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and a ground Internet of Things user, including a time-varying channel model for communication, a WPT (Wireless Power Transfer) channel model for modeling by using a free space loss model, and a WPT channel model for modeling by using a free space loss model; a calculation and transmission model of UAV and ground Internet of Things users; the method comprises the following steps: designing a basic framework for performing task unloading and WPT on a ground Internet of Things user by using UAV under an edge computing scene assisted by the UAV, and performing system modeling according to the framework to obtain a mathematical model of the whole system; designing an optimization problem, and defining a target function as the weighted sum of the total throughput of the system and the energy consumption of the UAV; modeling the whole framework as a Markov process, designing a reasonable state action space, and designing a reasonable reward function by using a target function; and a task unloading decision and wireless energy transmission are optimized while the total throughput of the system and the UAV energy consumption are constrained by using a double-delay depth deterministic strategy gradient algorithm.

A coil assembly for wireless electrical power transmission includes a plurality of external connecting terminals, a power feeding coil, a resonant capacitor electrically connecting with the power feeding coil, and busbars each of which electrically connects between the external connecting terminals.

A method for estimating friendly metal losses associated with wireless power transfer from a wireless power transmitter to a wireless power receiver can include obtaining an indication of received power including rectifier voltage and rectifier current of the wireless power receiver and computing a friendly metal power loss based on the indication of rectifier voltage and rectifier current of the wireless power receiver and one or more coefficients corresponding to a baseline wireless power transmission between the wireless power transmitter and the wireless power receiver. The rectifier voltage can be a rectifier output voltage, and the rectifier current can be a rectifier output current. Computing the friendly metal power loss can use an equation having a formPl⁢o⁢s⁢s=a·IT⁢X2+b·Irect2+c·Vrect2,where b is a coefficient relating to the rectifier current, c is a coefficient relating to the rectifier voltage, a is a coefficient relating to transmitter current ITX.

A power transmitter (101) provides wireless power transfer to a power receiver (105) via a wireless inductive power transfer signal. The power transmitter (101) comprises transmitter coil (203) for generating the power transfer signal and a driver (201) generating a drive signal for this. A communicator (207) communicates with the power receiver (105) via a communication channel that does not use the power transfer signal as a communication carrier. A power loop controller (205) implements a power control loop by adapting a power level of the power transfer signal in response to power control error messages received from the power receiver (105). A generator (209) introduces a power level variation sequence to the power transfer signal and a validity detector (211) detects data received by the communicator (207) to be invalid data for the power transfer in response to a comparison of the power level variation sequence and power change requests of the power control error messages.

A method in a wireless power transfer system can include, in response to a digital ping initiated by a wireless power transmitter, transmitting to the wireless power transmitter during a ping phase, a response signal. The method can further include transmitting, to the wireless power transmitter during a configuration phase, a configuration packet including first control information related to whether a wireless power receiver supports an authentication function to authenticate the wireless power transmitter; receiving, from the wireless power transmitter during a negotiation phase, a capability packet including second control information and a potential power value of the wireless power transmitter; and transmitting, to the wireless power transmitter during a power transfer phase, an authentication request message.

An efficiently compensated Inductive Wireless Power Transfer (IWPT) system, comprising an LCT having a primary side and a secondary side; an inverter that converts the input DC power to AC power at a predetermined operating frequency, the output of the inverter is being connected to the self-inductance of the primary side of the LCT via a compensation network consisting of a combination of capacitors and at least one inductor and residing solely at the primary side; a rectifier for converting AC power, induced at the secondary side of the LCT, to DC power, the input of the rectifier is being connected to the self-inductance of the secondary side of the LCT; a load being connected to the output of the rectifier; a DC power supply for feeding DC power to the input of the inverter and generating an induced power that is fed to the load.

A wireless power transmitter (WPT) 12 can include WPT circuitry having a wireless WPT coil 36 that transmits wireless power signals; and control circuitry 16 coupled to the WPT circuitry that: measures a present value of a first function of quality factor and resonant frequency of the wireless power transmitting coil and a present value of a second function of quality factor and resonant frequency of the WPT coil while the WPT is coupled to a wireless power receiver 24; determines a change between the measured present values and corresponding baseline values of the first and second functions of quality factor and resonant frequency of the WPT coil; determines whether a foreign object is present responsive to the change between the measured present values and corresponding baseline values of the first and second functions of quality factor and resonant frequency exceeding a threshold in a magnetic state space.

Operating a wireless power transfer system can include using wireless power transmitter control circuitry to: initiate a temporary pause of wireless power transfer; provide a stimulus signal to cause a resonant voltage in the wireless power transmitter coil during the temporary pause of wireless power transfer; use the resonant voltage to measure or characterize one or more parameters characterizing a wireless power transfer link, via the wireless power receiver coil, between the wireless power transmitter and the wireless power receiver; and thereafter resume wireless power transfer by ending the temporary pause of wireless power transfer.