Modeling and Design of a Transmission Coil and Four Cascaded Receiving Coils Wireless Charging Structure With Lateral Misalignments

Magnetic resonance wireless power transfer (WPT) is an emerging technology that may create new applications for wireless power charging. However, the mutual inductance fluctuations resulting from lateral misalignments are the major factors hindering the promotion of this technology. In this paper, a structure of a transmission coil and four cascaded receiving coils for wireless charging systems is proposed to suppress fluctuations in mutual inductance with lateral misalignments. The mathematical model of the proposed structure with lateral misalignments is built based on the equivalent circuit method. The expressions of the output voltage and the efficiency are then derived by solving the system equivalent equations. In addition, a method of compensation capacitance is proposed to suppress the effect of the cross-coupling mutual inductance on the voltage and efficiency. The primary advantage of the proposed structure is that the sum of the mutual inductances between the receiving coils and the transmission coil is nearly constant with lateral misalignments. Therefore, the output voltage and efficiency can also be kept nearly constant by using the proposed structure with lateral misalignments. Simulation and experimental results validating the proposed method are shown.