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A Cockcroft-Walton generator driven by wireless power transfer for implanted high-voltage generation

Martinez, Thomas Guillaume  
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Almanza, Morgan  
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Civet, Yoan René Cyrille  
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December 17, 2021
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
2021 24th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS)

This paper presents a Cockcroft-Walton (CW) generator as a solution to generate an intermediate high voltage for the supply of a DEA cardiac assist device. This consists in fully passive converter allowing to output a DC signal from an alternative signal especially suitable for AC sources. Furthermore, implanted medical devices require a wireless power transfer system to provide energy inside the body without the need for wires through the skin. Thus, in this paper we propose to combine those two systems to optimize the efficiency and the size of the final system. In this work, the WPT consists in two coupled inductances of 6 cm diameter at a 2 cm distance from each other driven by a GaN half-bridge while The CW generator has 8 stages. The overall system can output 200 V at 1 W inside the body from a 20 V DC signal at the input and with an overall efficiency of 79 %.

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conference paper
DOI
10.23919/ICEMS52562.2021.9634392
Author(s)
Martinez, Thomas Guillaume  
Almanza, Morgan  
Civet, Yoan René Cyrille  
Perriard, Yves  
Date Issued

2021-12-17

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
Total of pages

4

Start page

243

End page

246

Subjects

Inductance

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Medical devices

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Wires

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Wireless power transfer

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High-voltage techniques

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Voltage

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Capacitance

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2021 24th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS)

Gyeongju, Republic of Korea (hybrid)

October 31 - November 3, 2021

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