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DESIGN OF SOLAR POWERED WIRELESS CHARGER FOR SMARTPHONES

Hari Mohan Rai1 , Piyush Sisodiya1*, Ishu Agrawal2
1Hari Mohan Rai, Deptt. Of ECE, Krishna Engineering College, Ghaziabad, UP, India
1*Piyush
Sisodia, Student, Krishna Engineering college, Ghaziabad, UP, India
2Ishu Agrawal, , Deptt. Of ECE Krishna Engineering College, Ghaziabad, UP, India

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Abstract - This is special kind of charging system in which, systems in mobile phones will grow from 3.74 million in
there is no need of any kind of communication wire to connect 2012, to 27.63 million in 2016 [6]. According to Markets &
the power supply to charge it. The device can charge Markets consultancy company research the wireless power
smartphones or smart devices wirelessly in a short range of mobile phone manufacturers have already started
distance. This device depletes the use of cables, no need to sit incorporating wireless charging features in their flagship
around the phone and cable in a very specific position just to smartphones as early as 2013. Nokia (Lumia 830), Samsung
make it charge. Even we do not require electricity to charge (Galaxy S4), LG (Nexus 4) and HTC (Droid DNA) already
the phone. Our proposed method utilizes non-conventional incorporate wireless charging feature. Wireless charging in
source of energy (solar cell) to wirelessly charge the device. smartphones is estimated to become as abundant as Wi-Fi
Wireless charger increases life span of mobile in compare to and Bluetooth [7].
ordinary charger. The proposed device is environmental Harvesting Energy using renewable sources has been in the
friendly, user friendly and cost effective. We will use “receiver main concern of the research society in recent years [2].
pad” to make all mobile wireless compatible. The technology There are plentiful sources of renewable energy harvesting,
proposed by us is capable to charge any smart phone, and solar energy is one of the examples. However, solar cell
anywhere at any time. has a drawback of that it can only produce power when
sunlight is present. Solar energy harvesting module is used
Key Words: Wireless charger, Solar Cell, mutual inductance, to power a sensor mote [8]. In [9], vibrational energy
Wireless power Transfer harvesting is presented and gathering energy from
thermoelectric device attached to human is presented in
[10]. In [16], Wireless battery charging system using RF
1.INTRODUCTION energy harvesting is proposed. The energy of 60µW is
collected from TV towers, 4.1 km away, and is able to control
The appearance of renewable energy sources has given rise small electronic device [14]. Power can be transferred
to the technological evolution and development of societies. through free space by microwaves has been designed,
In 1890s, Nikola Tesla displayed the world that electricity developed and demonstrated by William C. [15]. In [11],
could be Ambient RF energy harvesting with two systems has been
studied. In the academia [13], [17], [18], prototypes for such
transferred wirelessly. He discovered Tesla coil that could RF harvesters have been developed and commercial
transmit electricity over the air. Today’s era Wireless power products have also been introduced by the industry [12].
transfer technology is growing very rapidly. Now a day
everyone is fed up with wires, cables and plugs which is Photovoltaic cells (PV) to convert light into electricity which
being used in electronics gadgets. Smart world requires is used in solar energized devices [19]. Outdoor and indoor
smart technology which do not utilizes wires and cables, it light sources can be used to produce energy by solar devices,
should run wirelessly and automatically. Hence wireless even though indoor insolation electric levels produce around
charging becoming the biggest boom of the market because 2 to 3 orders of magnitude less electricity per unit area than
of enormous application in smartphones, portable outdoor sources [20,21]. Solar devices can attain high energy
computers, Bluetooth headsets, tablets, cordless phones and densities when used in direct sun compared to other
game controllers [7]. sources, but it does not function without light (e.g., highly
shaded areas, ducts) [3]. We have used photovoltaic cell as
Technology of Wireless charging has various application not the source of electricity in our proposed device.
only in the electronic industry but in electrical, mechanical,
biomedical and many more. For Wireless power charging
Total Available Market (TAM) is very high because of large 1.1 Wireless Power Transfer
number of smartphones and is estimated to grow by more
than forty times in terms of revenue by 2018 [5]. Pike wireless power transfer is one of the greatest and
Research has predicted that the number of wireless power overgenerous achievement of mankind has always been.

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Beginning stages of this idea was widely considered as an  Transmitter coil, L: 0.674 μH
impracticality and thus
 Resistors:
turned out to be a failure and never brought up to the  R1: 1K
knowledge of the society. American scientist, Nikola Tesla of  R2: 10 K
the year 1856, used high electric fields to transfer energy by  R3: 94 ohm
ionizing the air in the environs, which ultimately is a bad  R4: 94 ohm
conductor, to plasma. Similarly, it can be detected in case of  R5: 10 K
lightning, where enormous quantity of energy is transmitted  Diodes:
at higher frequencies over a faraway distance by ionization of  D1: D4148
the surrounding the medium [1].
 D2: D4148
 Transistors:
2. WORKING PRINCIPLE  MOSFET, Q1: IRF540
 MOSFET, Q2: IRF540
The proposed device is mainly works on the principle of
mutual inductance. Power is transferred from transmitter to
receiver wirelessly based on the principle of “inductive Circuit Diagram
coupling”. Inductive coupling is nothing but phenomena of
mutual inductance. Mutual inductance is the occurrences in
which, when a current carrying conductor is positioned near
another conductor, voltage is induced in that conductor. This
is because, as the current is flowing in the conductor, a
magnetic flux is induced in it. This induced magnetic flux
links with another conductor and this flux induces voltage in
the second conductor.

2.1 Inductive coupling

The phenomena of Inductive coupling are based on mutual

inductance between two coil placed near to each other, it
happens due to the varying magnetic flux between two
inductive coils which transfer energy from the source to load.
Accordance to Faraday’s Law of electromagnetic induction
which states that the varying magnetic flux formed by one
coil will yield a varying magnetic flux in another induction
coil when placed parallel to each other. The working of the
system is similar to the working of a resonant transformer. It
contains a primary coil and secondary coil. It is tuned to a
specific frequency by a LC tank circuit. Being air core, these
transformers have low coupling coefficient. Maximum energy
is transferred through magnetic field. The electric fields are
limited within the capacitor. The coupling coefficient being
expressively low ( i.e k<0.1) plentiful of the energy from the
primary gets transferred to the secondary due to high
frequencies ( khz to Mhz)[1].

Table -1: Components used in the circuit

Transmitter Section Fig -1: Circuit diagram of the proposed circuit

 Solar panel 12volt,300ma ,1 watt
 Chargeable battery 12volt,1.5Ah ■ BATTERIES- Wireless charging is compatible with
the different kind of batteries. (No problem here or
 Capacitors, C: 6.8 nF difference to wired charging :)
 Radio Frequency Choke, L1: 8.6 μH ■ DEVICE MAINTENANCE- With wireless charging
 Radio Frequency Choke, L2: 8.6 μH there is no need for a USB port any longer.

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