Difference in Power Transfer Mechanism From Near Field to Far Field

Prof.Patrick Hu/Daniel Kuerschner/Prof.Charles Sullivan/Prof.Naoki Shinohara/Prof.N. Borges Carvalho

University of Auckland / Qualcomm / Thayer School of Engg at Dartmouth / Kyoto University

* Prof. Patrick Hu graduated from Xian JiaoTong University, China, with BE and ME degrees in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He received his Ph.D from the University of Auckland in 2001. Patrick is a leading researcher in wireless power technologies. He holds more than 50 patents in wireless/contactless power transfer and microcomputer control technologies, published more than 200 peer reviewed journal and conference papers with over 4000 citations, authored the first monograph on wireless inductive power transfer technology, and contributed 4 book chapters on inductive power transfer modeling/control as well as electrical machines. He has been awarded the Univ of Auckland VC’s Funded Research and Commercialization Medal in April 2017. Patrick is a full professor and the Deputy Head (Research) of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also the Head of Research of PowerbyProxi Ltd, as well as guest professor of ChongQing Univ and TaiYuan Univ of Technology, China.

* Mr. Daniel Kuerschner received Diploma and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He worked in the field of wireless power transfer at the Institut f. Automation und Kommunikation (Magdeburg) from 2004-2011 and at Paul Vahle GmbH (Kamen) from 2011-2013. There, he was responsible for the design and the development of power electronics, passive components and the overall system for a wide range of applications, from milliwatt up to 100 kW power transfer. In 2013, he joined Qualcomm Halo (Munich) and is responsible for simulation, design and EMC/EMF of wireless electric vehicle charging (WEVC) systems. Daniel Kuerschner has more than 14 years of experience with inductive power transfer technology, particularly with power electronics, magnetics, electromagnetic compatibility and simulation methods. In these fields he has published more than 30 scientific papers and he gave more than 40 lectures at workshops, seminars and conferences. For more than 10 years he is member of several scientific and industrial panels and standardization bodies, such as IEEE, SAE, CISPR and German VDE, ZVEI and DKE.

* Prof. Charles R. Sullivan received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1987, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. He was with Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, Pennyslvania, designing electronic ballasts from 1987 to 1990. He is currently a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire. His primary research interest is the modeling, optimization, and fabrication of passive components for power electronics applications. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and two IEEE Power Electronic Society Prize Paper Awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

* Prof. Naoki Shinohara received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering, the M.E. and Ph.D (Eng.) degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1991, 1993 and 1996, respectively. He was an associate professor in Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University by recognizing the Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere since 2004. From 2010, he has been a professor in Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University. He has been engaged in research on Solar Power Station/Satellite and Microwave Power Transmission system. He is IEEE MTT-S Distinguish Microwave Lecturer, IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 26 (Wireless Power Transfer and Conversion) vice chair, IEEE MTT-S Kansai Chapter TPC member, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference advisory committee member, URSI commission D vice chair, international journal of Wireless Power Transfer (Cambridge Press) executive editor, technical committee on IEICE Wireless Power Transfer, communications society member, Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications president, Space Solar Power Systems Society board member, Wireless Power Transfer Consortium for Practical Applications (WiPoT) chair, and Wireless Power Management Consortium (WPMc) chair.

* Prof. Nuno Borges Carvalho was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received the Diploma and Doctoral degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He has been a reviewer and author of over 200 papers in magazines and conferences. He is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microwave Magazine, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation and Cambridge Wireless Power Transfer Journal. He is a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.