Title
Wireless Metal Detection and Surface Coverage Sensing for All-Surface Induction Heating.
Abstract
All-surface induction heating systems, typically comprising small-area coils, face a major challenge in detecting the presence of a metallic vessel and identifying its partial surface coverage over the coils to determine which of the coils to power up. The difficulty arises due to the fact that the user can heat vessels made of a wide variety of metals (and their alloys). To address this problem, we propose and demonstrate a new wireless detection methodology that allows for detecting the presence of metallic vessels together with uniquely sensing their surface coverages while also identifying their effective material type in all-surface induction heating systems. The proposed method is based on telemetrically measuring simultaneously inductance and resistance of the induction coil coupled with the vessel in the heating system. Here, variations in the inductance and resistance values for an all-surface heating coil loaded by vessels (made of stainless steel and aluminum) at different positions were systematically investigated at different frequencies. Results show that, independent of the metal material type, unique identification of the surface coverage is possible at all freqeuncies. Additionally, using the magnitude and phase information extracted from the coupled coil impedance, unique identification of the vessel effective material is also achievable, this time independent of its surface coverage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/s16030363
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
coils,metal detection,all-surface heating,electromagnetic induction,wireless sensing
Electromagnetic induction,Inductance,Heating system,Induction coil,Induction heating,Electrical impedance,Electronic engineering,Electromagnetic coil,Heating element,Acoustics,Engineering,Electrical engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
3.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Veli Tayfun Kilic121.11
Emre Unal272.73
Hilmi Demir394.21