Design Considerations and Experimental Testing of a Wide-Area Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) System for Body-Worn Electronics

Steve Burrow (), Lindsay Clare, Bernard Stark, Steve Beeby and Neil Grabham
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Steve Burrow: School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Lindsay Clare: School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Bernard Stark: School of Electronic, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK
Steve Beeby: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Neil Grabham: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 14, 1-18

Abstract: The provision of wireless and battery-free power is key to extending the applications of body-worn sensing electronics. This paper investigates the design of an IPT system for a body-worn scenario where the challenges include highly variable coupling, the requirement for the coil/s to be flexible, and close proximity to the body. Variable coupling results in a system that must operate with received powers ranging over orders of magnitude, whilst the use of flexible coils reduces the Q-factor and results in the potential for inductance variation. The human exposure considerations limit both the maximum field strengths that the wearer of a receiver coil might experience and the field strengths that a third party might be exposed to. In this paper, analytical models are used to identify key design variables and to guide the design synthesis of an IPT system for a wrist-worn medical sensor. Practical circuits to drive the transmit coil and to interface the receive coil with the load electronics are described. A prototype system is tested to validate the theoretical analysis, providing power greater than 2 mW to the sensor over a hemispherical region up to 250 mm in radius from the transmit coil.

Keywords: inductive power transfer; body-worn electronics; medical sensors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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