Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Sungkyunkwan University

Won Jin Son

Woo Young Lee

Byoung Kuk Lee

Gyu Yeong Choe

Jae Eun Cha

Jong Eun Byun

Jae Han Lee

Sang Joon Ann

A method for performing switching synchronization of a bridgeless rectifier in an electric vehicle (EV) wireless power transfer system may include receiving, by an EV control module, an input voltage of a transmission-side resonance circuit from a transmission-side of the EV wireless power transfer system; calculating, by the EV control module, a phase difference between the received input voltage and a voltage or a current selected in the bridgeless rectifier and a reception-side resonance circuit; and controlling, by an EV control module, switching time points of switches included in the bridgeless rectifier to decrease the calculated phase difference. The reception-side resonance circuit may be electromagnetically coupled to the transmission-side resonance circuit, and the bridgeless rectifier may be configured to rectify an output of the reception-side resonance circuit and to output the rectified output.

Method and apparatus for performing switching synchronization for bridgeless rectifier in electric vehicle wireless power transfer system

A method for controlling wireless power transfer to an EV using a bridgeless rectifier may include detecting a phase difference between an input voltage of a transmission-side resonance circuit and an output voltage of a reception-side resonance circuit; after detecting the phase difference, predicting a resonance frequency change direction according to a preconfigured design condition; and controlling switching time points of switches included in the bridgeless rectifier in a direction compensating for the predicted change direction.

Method and apparatus for controlling wireless power transfer to electric vehicle using bridgeless rectifier

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