Coil unit and wireless power transmission device

• US 10,002,708 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Chiyo, Noritaka, Nishiyama, Tetsuya, Terasaki, Yasuhiro, Suzuki, Mitsunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Cox, Cassandra
• Application Number:
  US14/661,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20150279556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,189 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/36 Temperature of vehicle components or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/126 Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/288 Shielding
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/346 Preventing or reducing leakage fields using magnetic shields H01F27/36; using auxiliary windings H01F27/38
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/36 Electric or magnetic shields or screens movable for varying inductance H01F21/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/363 made of electrically conductive material
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A coil unit includes a non-magnetic conductive plate which is disposed in an arrangement direction of first and second coils have reverse winding direction to each other, and a magnetic body. The magnetic body includes a first portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of one side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction of the first and second coils, and a second portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the other side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction of the first and second coils. When viewing from the arrangement direction of the first and second coils, the first and second portions are positioned on a side of the conductive plate where is opposite to a side which faces the first and second coils.

Claims

1. A coil unit which wirelessly transmits power from a transmission side to a power receiving side, comprising:

first and second coils in which directions of magnetic fields generated when a current flows are reversed to each other, and are apposed;

a non-magnetic conductive plate which is disposed along an arrangement direction of the first and second coils, axes of the first and second coils being perpendicular to the arrangement direction, the first and second coils forming a magnetic path that is interlinked with both of the first and second coils; and

a magnetic body that allows magnetic fluxes to pass through,

wherein the magnetic body includes a first portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of one side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction, and a second portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the other side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction, and

wherein when viewing from the arrangement direction, the first and second portions are positioned on a side of the conductive plate where is opposite to a side which faces the first and second coils.

2. The coil unit according to claim 1,

wherein the magnetic body further includes a third portion which is positioned between the first portion and the second portion, and

wherein imaginary component values of permeability of the first and second portions are smaller than an imaginary component value of permeability of the third portion.

3. The coil unit according to claim 1 further comprising:

a magnetic core which is disposed along the arrangement direction and between the first and second coils and the conductive plate.

4. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil unit and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

first and second transmission coils in which directions of magnetic fields generated when a current flows are reversed to each other, and are apposed;

the transmission coil unit that includes a magnetic core which is disposed along an arrangement direction of the first and second transmission coils; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 1,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil unit and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

5. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

the transmission coil in which a winding wire is wound on a magnetic core; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 1,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

6. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil unit and a power receiving coil facing each other, comprising:

the transmission coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to to claim 3; and

the power receiving coil,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil unit and the power receiving coil, an outline of the conductive plate of the transmission coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

7. The coil unit according to claim 2 further comprising:

a magnetic core which is disposed along the arrangement direction and between the first and second coils and the conductive plate.

8. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil unit and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

first and second transmission coils in which directions of magnetic fields generated when a current flows are reversed to each other, and are apposed;

the transmission coil unit that includes a magnetic core which is disposed along an arrangement direction of the first and second transmission coils; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 2,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil unit and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

9. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil unit and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

first and second transmission coils in which directions of magnetic fields generated when a current flows are reversed to each other, and are apposed;

the transmission coil unit that includes a magnetic core which is disposed along an arrangement direction of the first and second transmission coils; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 3,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil unit and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

10. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil unit and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

first and second transmission coils in which directions of magnetic fields generated when a current flows are reversed to each other, and are apposed;

the transmission coil unit that includes a magnetic core which is disposed along an arrangement direction of the first and second transmission coils; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 7,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil unit and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

11. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

the transmission coil in which a winding wire is wound on a magnetic core; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 2,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

12. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

the transmission coil in which a winding wire is wound on a magnetic core; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 3,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

13. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil and a power receiving coil unit facing each other, comprising:

the transmission coil in which a winding wire is wound on a magnetic core; and

the power receiving coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to claim 7,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil and the power receiving coil unit, an outline of the conductive plate of the power receiving coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.

14. A wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits power by a transmission coil unit and a power receiving coil facing each other, comprising:

the transmission coil unit which is configured with the coil unit according to to claim 7; and

the power receiving coil,

wherein when viewing from a facing direction of the transmission coil unit and the power receiving coil, an outline of the conductive plate of the transmission coil unit is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the magnetic core.