SS-L wireless power transfer compensation circuit

• US 10,266,060 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2016
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Elshaer, Mohamed, Altunyurt, Nevin, Kautz, Richard William, Malek, Hadi
• Primary Examiner(s): Parihar, Suchin
• Application Number:
  US15/047,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20170240056A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 320108
• 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: 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: H03H 7/38 Impedance-matching networks
• 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 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A secondary side wireless power transfer compensation circuit includes a secondary coil, a capacitor in series with the secondary coil, and an inductor in parallel with the secondary coil and capacitor. The inductor has an impedance matching a reflected impedance of a load electrically connected thereacross such that the secondary coil achieves resonance with a primary coil coupled therewith at a predetermined frequency that depends on the impedance.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

an inductor in parallel with a load and a series connected secondary coil and capacitor, and having an impedance such that the secondary coil achieves resonance at a predetermined frequency with a primary coil during wireless power transfer, the primary coil forming a portion of a primary charge circuit including a capacitor in series with the primary coil and the impedance being such that an input impedance to the primary charge circuit is inductive at the predetermined frequency.

2. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the input impedance is inductive over a range of frequencies including the predetermined frequency and capacitive for frequencies adjacent to and on both sides of the range.

3. The circuit of claim 2, wherein the range includes 81 to 90 kHz.

4. The circuit of claim 1, wherein a capacitance of the capacitor is based on the impedance.

5. A secondary side wireless power transfer compensation circuit comprising:

a secondary coil;

a capacitor in series with the secondary coil; and

an inductor in parallel with the secondary coil and capacitor, and having an impedance matching a reflected impedance of a load in parallel with the inductor such that the secondary coil achieves resonance with a primary coil coupled therewith at a predetermined frequency that depends on the impedance.

6. The circuit of claim 5, wherein the primary coil forms a portion of a primary charge circuit including a capacitor in series with the primary coil and wherein the impedance is such that an input impedance to the primary charge circuit is inductive.

7. The circuit of claim 6, wherein the input impedance is inductive over a range of frequencies including the predetermined frequency and capacitive for frequencies adjacent to and on both sides of the range.

8. The circuit of claim 7, wherein the range includes 81 to 90 kHz.

9. The circuit of claim 5, wherein a capacitance of the capacitor is based on the impedance.

10. A vehicle comprising:

a secondary coil, a capacitor, and an inductor arranged such that, during wireless power transfer from a primary coil to the secondary coil, the secondary coil, capacitor, and inductor form a portion of a SS-L compensation network;

a traction battery configured to receive power from the secondary coil; and

an electric machine configured to receive power from the traction battery.

11. The vehicle of claim 10, wherein the capacitor is in series with the secondary coil and wherein the inductor is in parallel with the capacitor and secondary coil.

12. The vehicle of claim 10, wherein the inductor has an impedance matching a reflected impedance of a load electrically connected across the inductor such that the secondary coil achieves resonance with the primary coil during the wireless power transfer at a predetermined frequency that depends on the impedance.

13. The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the predetermined frequency falls within a range of 81 to 90 kHz.

14. The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the primary coil forms a portion of a primary charge circuit including a capacitor in series with the primary coil and wherein the impedance is such that an input impedance to the primary charge circuit is inductive.

15. The vehicle of claim 14, wherein the input impedance is inductive over a range of frequencies and capacitive for frequencies adjacent to and on both sides of the range.

16. The vehicle of claim 10, wherein a capacitance of the capacitor is based on an impedance of the inductor.