Abstract

This thesis presents a new wireless inductive power transfer topology using half bridge current fed converter and a full bridge active single phase rectifier. Generally, the efficiency of inductive power transfer system is lower than the wired system due to higher power loss in inductive power transfer coils. The proposed converter reduces these limitations and shows more than 4% overall efficiency improvement comparing with such system in battery charging of low-voltage light-load electrical vehicles such as passenger cars, golf carts etc. This is realized by synchronous rectification technique of the vehicle side converter. Simulation results obtained from Matlab Simulink are included to validate the analysis and performance of the proposed converter. A scale-down 250 W lab prototype is developed and experimental results are presented to verify the comparative study results.