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A Square-Shaped Omnidirectional Wireless Charing Bowl with a Double Layer Electromagnetic Shield for Portable Device Applications
Year: 2020 | Author: Junjie Feng | Paper: T2.2
Fig. 1. The proposed square shaped charging bowl.
An important design issue of an inductive power transfer system is minimizing human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Several regulation documents offer guidance for preventing adverse health effects due to EMFs. To comply with these standards, a ferrite shield is added to reduce the stray field level; in the proposed setup, the ferrite shield layer is wrapped around the charging bowl to confine the magnetic field. Cases for the field distribution on the yz plane for a system with a ferrite shield and without a ferrite shield are shown in Fig. 2(a) and (b) respectively. Herein, the stray field outside the charging bowl decreases, but the attenuation is not enough due to the low permeability of the available high frequency (6.78 MHz) ferrite material.
To further reduce the stray field level, a conductive layer is added to the ferrite layer. The resulting yz plane field distribution is shown in Fig. 3. The stray field outside the bowl is attenuated effectively through the induction of an eddy-current within the conductive layer. Thanks to the ferrite layer, the magnetic field inside the bowl doesnt change much; therefore, the power transfer capability wouldnt suffer even with the conductive layer. And, according to Finite Element Analysis simulation, the eddy current loss in the conductive layer is around 1 mW. However, the ferrite loss is around 0.3 W at 5 W output, and the system efficiency drops from 82% to 78% after adding the double-layer shield.
Fig. 2. The yz plane field distribution with and without a ferrite shield. (a) Without shield case. (b) With a 0.3 mm ferrite (ur = 100) shield.
Fig. 3. Field distribution with double-layer shield.
