An Efficient Wireless Power Transfer System for An Implantable Deep Brain Stimulation

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient wireless power transfer (WPT) system for implantable deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices. A head-mounted DBS device is taken into account in the design procedure of the presented WPT system. A three coil system is designed to provide high efficiency power transfer. The LCC compensation network which has constant voltage characteristic is used in the transmitter side and two receiver coils using series compensation are located in the receiver side, into the human tissue. Finally, performance of the proposed WPT system is tested by a 3D electromagnetic simulation work at a 10 mm distance. Based on the simulation results, 1.19 V DC output voltage is regulated while the DC output current is 24 mA. The power transfer efficiency is achieved as 4.63% at full load condition.