Issues and initiatives for practical use of wireless power transmission technologies in Japan

Author

Shoki, Hiroki

Author_Institution

Corp. R&D Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

2011

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

90

Abstract

Broadband wireless Forum (BWF) in Japan was established under the guidance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, to enhance future wireless technologies with collaboration of industry, government and academia. Wireless power transmission technology is one of important technologies which will create new business area in the near future. From this background, Wireless Power Transmission Working Group (WPT-WG) was formed in BWF to discuss several problems concerning the commercialization of WPT technologies. In this paper, issues and initiatives of WPT-WG are presented.

Keywords

inductive power transmission; BWF; Japan; Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; WPT-WG; broadband wireless forum; wireless power transmission working group; Coils; Consumer electronics; Electromagnetic coupling; Guidelines; Magnetic resonance; Power transmission; Wireless communication; Broadband Wireless Forum; electromagnetic coupling; magnetic resonant; wireless power transmission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on Innovative Wireless Power Transmission: Technologies, Systems, and Applications (IMWS), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Uji, Kyoto

ISSN

2157-362X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-214-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS.2011.5877097

Filename

5877097