A Multi-Inverter High-Power Wireless Power Transfer System With Wide ZVS Operation Range

Conventional high-power wireless power transfer (WPT) systems that are required to deliver power over a wide operating range suffer from issues like hard switching, poor current sharing, and unwanted cross-coupling issues. This article proposes a new resonant inductor integrated-transformer-based multi-inverter to improve the WPT power rating without compromising performance. Viable modulation schemes of the proposed system are analyzed, and a hybrid modulation scheme is proposed for wide-range power regulation. To further investigate the feasibility of the proposed system, the power transfer capacity, current sharing among multiple inverters, and the soft switching regions are studied. A 14-kW
LCC
–
LCC
WPT experimental system with three parallel inverters is built, which achieves 93.5% efficiency, demonstrating the high performance of the proposed system. This article is accompanied by a video demonstrating these experiments.