Communication-Less Receiver-Side Resonant Frequency Tuning for Magnetically Coupled Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Compensating for deviations in the resonant frequency is crucial in magnetic resonance coupling wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. Thus, this study proposes a communication-less receiver-side resonant frequency-tuning scheme that compensates for the reactance in the receiver without communicating with the transmitter. The proposed scheme comprises an inductor-capacitor-capacitor compensation topology at the transmitter and a half-bridge circuit at the receiver, whose operating phase is set to be orthogonal to the receiver current. Resonant frequency tuning can be achieved by adjusting the DC voltage applied to the half-bridge circuit to maximize the power received at the load. The reactance compensation ability of the proposed scheme is analyzed through experiments on a 200 kHz WPT system. When the secondary capacitance deviated from −20% to +20%, the efficiency degradation was maintained within 6.7% with the proposed scheme, whereas the efficiency degraded by up to 33.3% without compensation.