Wireless charging device

• US 10,355,500 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung-Bum, Kim, Do-Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, Robert J
• Application Number:
  US15/003,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20160211696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 320108
• 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: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction

Abstract

A wireless charging device for wirelessly transmitting electric power to an electronic device includes a housing, a system board within the housing and including a power amplifier, a shield-can within the housing with a separation distance between a top of the housing and a top of the shield can, a transmission resonator between the top of the housing and the top of the shield-can for simultaneously generating a vertical magnetic field and a horizontal magnetic field, and a sheet provided between the shield-can and the transmission resonator for shielding the system board and the transmission resonator from each other'"'"'s electromagnetic fields, wherein the electromagnetic fields comprise the vertical magnetic field and the horizontal magnetic field generated by the transmission resonator and an electromagnetic field generated by the system board.

Claims

1. A wireless charging device for wirelessly transmitting electric power to an electronic device, the wireless charging device comprising:

a housing;

a shield-can provided within the housing, with a separation distance between a top of the housing and a top of the shield-can;

a system board provided within the housing and comprising a power amplifier;

a transmission resonator provided between the top of the housing and the top of the shield-can and configured to simultaneously generate a vertical magnetic field and a horizontal magnetic field; and

a metal sheet provided between the shield-can and the transmission resonator and configured to control at least one from among an intensity and a direction of at least one from among the vertical magnetic field and the horizontal magnetic field,

wherein the transmission resonator is positioned in a horizontal direction within the housing, with respect to the top of the housing,

the separation distance comprises a first separation distance between the top of the shield-can and the metal sheet, a second separation distance between the metal sheet and the transmission resonator, and a third separation distance between the transmission resonator and the top of the housing, and

the at least one from among the intensity and the direction of the at least one from among the vertical magnetic field and the horizontal magnetic field is changed by varying at least one from among the first separation distance, the second separation distance, and the third separation distance.

2. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the housing is a rectangular housing or a cylindrical housing.

3. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is configured to be positioned on the top of the housing, to be charged.

4. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is configured to be positioned near a side surface of the housing, to be charged.

5. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein a first electronic device is configured to be positioned on the top of the housing, to be charged, and

a second electronic device is configured to be positioned near a side surface of the housing, to be charged.

6. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a wearable device.

7. The wireless charging device of claim 6, wherein the wearable device is any one of a Head-Mounted Device (HMD), electronic clothes, an electronic bracelet, an electronic necklace, an electronic appcessory, an electronic tattoo, and a smart watch.

8. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the top of the housing is an inclined surface.

9. The wireless charging device of claim 8, wherein the electronic device is configured to be positioned on the inclined surface, to be charged.

10. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein a groove having one from among a V shape and a U shape is formed on the top of the housing.

11. The wireless charging device of claim 10, wherein the electronic device is a wearable device configured to be positioned in the groove, to be charged.

12. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein a shield member is provided around an outer circumference of the transmission resonator.

13. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein, when the metal sheet is removed, the shield-can is configured to shield the system board from a first electromagnetic field from the transmission resonator and the transmission resonator from a second electromagnetic field from the system board.

14. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the transmission resonator comprises a printed circuit board having a coiled or a patterned current path.

15. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the system board comprises a double layer arrangement with one layer of the system board inside the shield-can and a second layer of the system board outside the shield-can.

16. The wireless charging device of claim 1, wherein the power amplifier is a switching power amplifier of Class-E or Class-D.

17. A wireless charging device for wirelessly transmitting electric power to an electronic device, the wireless charging device comprising:

a housing;

a shield-can provided within the housing, with a separation distance between a top of the housing and a top of the shield-can;

a system board provided within the housing and comprising a power amplifier; and

a transmission resonator provided between the top of the housing and the top of the shield-can configured to simultaneously generate a vertical magnetic field and a horizontal magnetic field,

wherein the transmission resonator is positioned in a horizontal direction within the housing, with respect to the top of the housing,

wherein the separation distance comprises a first separation distance and a second separation distance, the first separation distance is between the top of the shield-can and the transmission resonator, and the second separation distance is between the top of the housing and the transmission resonator, and

wherein at least one from among an intensity and a direction of at least one from among the vertical magnetic field and the horizontal magnetic field is changed by varying at least one from among the first separation distance and the second separation distance.

18. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the housing has a cylindrical shape or a rectangular shape.

19. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the shield-can is configured to shield the system board from the vertical magnetic field and the horizontal magnetic field generated by the transmission resonator and shield the transmission resonator from an electromagnetic field generated by the system board.

20. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the electronic device is configured to be positioned on the top of the housing, to be charged.

21. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the electronic device is configured to be positioned near a side surface of the housing, to be charged.

22. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein a first electronic device is configured to be positioned on the top of the housing, to be charged, and

a second electronic device is configured to be positioned near a side surface of the housing, to be charged.

23. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the electronic device is a wearable device.

24. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein a shield member is provided around an outer circumference of the transmission resonator.

25. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the system board comprises a double layer arrangement with one layer of the system board inside the shield-can and a second layer of the system board outside the shield-can.

26. The wireless charging device of claim 17, wherein the power amplifier is a switching power amplifier of Class-E or Class-D.