Wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression

• US 10,217,561 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2015
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: South China University of Technology
• Original Assignee: South China University of Technology
• Inventors: Zhang, Xiuyin, Xue, Chengdai, Li, Bin
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bukhari, Aqeel
• Application Number:
  US15/529,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20170358392A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,165 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/28 Coils; Windings; Conductive connections
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/34 Special means for preventing or reducing unwanted electric or magnetic effects, e.g. no-load losses, reactive currents, harmonics, oscillations, leakage fields
• 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 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/22 Capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

A wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression, which includes one transmitting coil, one receiving coil and four loaded annular metal sheets, is provided. A first annular metal sheet and a second annular metal sheets of the four loaded annular metal sheets are loaded between the transmitting coil and a third and a fourth annular metal sheets of the four loaded annular metal sheets are loaded between the receiving coil to expand a variable distance range of a power transmission. The coil system enables the coils to worked in a state of magnetic and electric coupling. During a process of moving from a long distance to a short distance, a coupling coefficient between the coils changes gradually, but a low coupling degree is still maintained so that a phenomenon of frequency splitting is not produced, thereby maintaining a high-efficiency power transmission within the system.

Claims

1. A wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression, comprising:

a transmitting coil;

a receiving coil;

four loaded annular metal sheets, comprising a first annular metal sheet, a second annular metal sheet, a third annular metal sheet and a fourth annular metal sheet, wherein the first annular metal sheet and the second annular metal sheet are loaded between the transmitting coil and the third annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet are loaded between the receiving coil to expand a variable distance range of a power transmission,

wherein as magnetic coupling and electric coupling are able to be offset due to having opposite polarities, a total coupling strength is equal to a magnetic coupling strength minus an electric coupling strength, when the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are close and a distance therebetween decreases, inductive coupling between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil increases, and capacitive couplings between the first annular metal sheet and the third annular metal sheet, and between capacitive coupling between the second annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet also increase, thereby preventing a phenomenon of frequency splitting from being produced due to a coupling coefficient being too large, and maintaining a high-efficiency power transmission, and when the distance between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil is relatively far, the capacitive coupling decreases quickly and becomes quite small, and the total coupling strength, which mainly depends on the inductive coupling among spiral tubes, also reduces gradually with no phenomenon of frequency splitting appearing as the distance between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil increases.

2. The wireless power transfer coil system using the offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression according to claim 1, wherein a winding mode of the transmitting coil and the receiving coil, a loading mode of the first annular metal sheet, the second annular metal sheet, the third annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet, and a feeding mode of the transmitting coil and a feeding mode of the receiving coil together constitute a sufficient condition for an offset of magnetic and electric coupling,

wherein the transmitting coil is wound clockwisely and the receiving coil is wound counterclockwisely such that the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are wound oppositely, the first annular metal sheet loaded at the transmitting coil is wound opposite to the transmitting coil with an end thereof being connected to an end of the transmitting coil via a first wire, the second annular metal sheet loaded at the transmitting coil is wound opposite to the transmitting coil with an end thereof being connected to the transmitting coil via a second wire, the third annular metal sheet loaded at the receiving coil is wound opposite to the receiving coil with an end thereof being connected to the receiving coil via a third wire, and the fourth annular metal sheet loaded at the receiving coil is wound opposite to the receiving coil with an end thereof being connected to the receiving coil via a fourth wire, which together result in that an electric field vector and a magnetic field vector between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are opposite, thereby constituting a necessary condition for the offset of magnetic and electric coupling, and wherein the number of turns of the transmitting coil is an odd number, from up to down being a first turn and a last turn, respectively, the transmitting coil is wound clockwisely with two ends thereof being open and a turn in the middle being interrupted from the middle to serve as a feeding port of a high-frequency power source, and the number of turns of the receiving coil is an odd number, from up to down being a first turn and a last turn, respectively, the receiving coil is wound counterclockwisely with two ends being open and a turn in the middle being interrupted from the middle to serve as a feeding port for receiving power.

3. The wireless power transfer coil system using the offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression according to claim 1, wherein a resonance mode of the transmitting coil and receiving coil constitutes a basic condition for an offset of magnetic and electric coupling, and lengths of the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are consistent, both being a quarter wavelength of a working frequency.

4. The wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression according to claim 1, wherein an expansion of a transmission distance range depends on widths of the first annular metal sheet, the second annular metal sheet, the third annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet that are loaded, a coupling capacitance between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil is mainly constituted by a series connection of capacitances between the first annular metal sheet and the third annular metal sheet that are loaded, and between the second annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet that are loaded, the width of each annular metal sheet maintains consistent, an offset degree of the electric coupling to the magnetic coupling is directly adjusted through adjusting the widths and a mutual capacitance coefficient between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil, and as the total coupling is equal to the magnetic coupling minus the electric coupling, a total coupling coefficient changes gradually with the distance, so that the variable distance range is expanded.

5. The wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression according to claim 1, wherein the first annular metal sheet and the second annular metal sheet are mutually engaged with the transmitting coil, and the third annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet are mutually engaged with the receiving coil, so that volumes of the transmitting coil and the receiving coil do not increase greatly,

wherein two sides of an opening of the transmitting coil are respectively loaded with the first annular metal sheet and the second annular metal sheet, and the first and second annular metal sheets, each being a semi-circular ring of 180 degrees and having an inner diameter larger than the transmitting coil, are both on a same plane with the last turn of the transmitting coil, such that the first and second annular metal sheets do not contact with the transmitting coil, are not connected end-to-end,

wherein two sides of an opening of the receiving coil are respectively loaded with the third annular metal sheet and the fourth annular metal sheet, and the third and fourth annular metal sheets, each being a semi-circular ring of 180 degrees and having an inner diameter larger than the receiving coil, are both on a same plane with the last turn of the receiving coil, such that the third and fourth annular metal sheets do not contact with the receiving coil, are separated from each other, and are not connected end-to-end.