A transcutaneous energy transmission system for an artificial organ by using a novel resonant converter

Author

Inoue, Takeshi ; Nishimura, Toshi Hiro ; Saito, Masao ; Nakaoka, Mutsuo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Control Eng., Oita High Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

17-19 Sep 1992

Firstpage

294

Lastpage

297

Abstract

A zero voltage switched resonant converter has been designed and built as a transcutaneous energy transmission system to transfer 30 W across a variable air gap of 5-20 mm. The converter could power a total implantable artificial heart through intact skin by utilizing a transformer. In the converter, the large leakage inductances of the transcutaneous transformer have been incorporated in the resonant inductor. The steady-state operation of an experimental transcutaneous power supply has been accurately predicted by the theoretical analysis

Keywords

artificial organs; cardiology; convertors; prosthetic power supplies; 30 W; implantable artificial heart; leakage inductances; resonant inductor; transcutaneous energy transmission system; transcutaneous power supply; variable air gap; zero voltage switched resonant converter; Artificial biological organs; Artificial heart; Coupling circuits; DC-DC power converters; Frequency; Power supplies; Resonance; Stationary state; Switching converters; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Engineering, 1992., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kobe

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0734-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSYSE.1992.236849

Filename

236849