Efficient power transmitting terminal, contactless power transmission device and power transmission method

• US 10,186,908 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2016
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ningbo Weie Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ningbo Weie Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Su, Hengyi
• Primary Examiner(s): Borroto, Alfonso Perez
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yeshaw, Esayas
• Application Number:
  US15/202,719
• Publication Number:
  US 20170040844A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type

Abstract

An efficient power transmitting terminal, a contactless power transmission device and a power transmission method are disclosed herein. By adjusting the equivalent output impedance of the DC-AC voltage converter through a soft-switching control circuit composed of an inductor or an inductor and a capacitor, the equivalent output impedance is maintained at inductive impedance. According to the feature of current of inductive impedance lagging behind the voltage, the voltage of the switching device in the DC-AC voltage converter reduces to zero before switching-on, to achieve zero-voltage switching-on.

Claims

1. An efficient power transmitting terminal, transmitting energy to its isolated power receiving terminal, comprising:

a DC-AC voltage converter configured to receive a DC voltage to output an AC voltage with a preset frequency, the DC-AC voltage converter comprising a first switching tube and a second switching tube connected in series;

a power transmitting portion, comprising a primary transmitter coil, wherein the primary transmitter coil receives the AC voltage to generate an alternating magnetic field, to transmit energy to the power receiving terminal; and

a soft-switching control circuit, connected between the DC-AC voltage converter and the power transmitting portion, and configured to adjust an equivalent output impedance of the DC-AC voltage converter, so that the equivalent output impedance is inductive impedance;

wherein the preset frequency is consistent with a system operating frequency at the power transmitting terminal and the power receiving terminal;

wherein the soft-switching control circuit consists of a first inductor, and two ends of the first inductor are connected to a common connection point of the first and the second switching tubes and the power transmitting portion respectively; and

an inductance value of the first inductor and a dead-time between the first and second switching tubes are adjusted to achieve a zero-voltage switching-on of the first and second switching tubes.

2. The power transmitting terminal according to claim 1, wherein the power transmitting portion further comprises a primary resonant capacitor, a resonant frequency of the primary resonant capacitor and the primary transmitter coil is the preset frequency.

4. A contactless power transmission device, comprising:

a power transmitting terminal of claim 1; and

a power receiving terminal;

wherein the power transmitting terminal and the power receiving terminal are isolated; and

wherein the power receiving terminal comprises a secondary receiving coil and a rectifying and filtering circuit, the secondary receiving coil induces an alternating magnetic field generating from the primary transmitter coil to obtain a corresponding alternating voltage, the rectifying and filtering circuit converts the alternating voltage to an appropriate DC voltage to supply an output load.

5. A contactless power transmission device, comprising:

a power transmitting terminal of claim 2; and

a power receiving terminal;

wherein the power transmitting terminal and the power receiving terminal are isolated; and

wherein the power receiving terminal comprises a secondary receiving coil and a rectifying and filtering circuit, the secondary receiving coil induces an alternating magnetic field generating from the primary transmitter coil to obtain a corresponding alternating voltage, the rectifying and filtering circuit converts the alternating voltage to an appropriate DC voltage to supply an output load.

3. A contactless power transmission method, transmitting energy through a power transmitting terminal and an isolated power receiving terminal, comprising:

receiving a DC voltage via a DC-AC voltage converter to output an AC voltage with a preset frequency, wherein the preset frequency is consistent with a system operating frequency of the power transmitting terminal and the power receiving terminal, the DC-AC voltage converter comprising a first switching tube and a second switching tube connected in series;

adjusting an equivalent output impedance of the DC-AC voltage converter, so that the equivalent output impedance is an inductive impedance;

receiving the AC voltage to generate an alternating magnetic field, to transmit energy to the power receiving terminal; and

inducing the alternating magnetic field to obtain a corresponding alternating voltage, to convert the alternating voltage to an appropriate DC voltage to supply an output load;

wherein the soft-switching control circuit is used to adjust and control the equivalent output impedance of the DC-AC voltage converter;

the soft-switching control circuit consists of a first inductor, and two ends of the first inductor are connected to a common connection point of the first and the second switching tubes and the power transmitting portion respectively; and

an inductance value of the first inductor and a dead-time between the first and second switching tubes are adjusted to achieve a zero-voltage switching-on of the first and second switching tubes.