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Transcutaneous energy and information transmission system with optimized transformer parameters for the artificial heart

  • Jimei Ma*
  • , Qingxin Yang
  • , Haiyan Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The transcutaneous energy transmission system (TETS) through intact skin to power a totally artificial heart (TAH) has been designed and built. Due to large air gap, the coupling ability of transformer is low. This paper selects core material, geometrical parameters, and coils axial displacement to study their effects on coupling coefficient (k). By simulating with various values, transformer is optimized. To achieve better system requirements, two capacitors are added in series on both sides to compensate the leakage inductances, which results to the increase of efficiency from 48.7% to 91.7%. Furthermore, an information transmission system, in which through monitoring the temperature of secondary coil which reflects the value of load power, the change of temperature can adjust the input power of the primary coil to achieve high system reliability, is proposed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5433309
Pages (from-to)798-801
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume20
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Compensate
  • Coupling coefficient
  • Information transmission
  • TETS

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