Power-feeding device

• US 10,381,885 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2018
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishio, Tsuyoshi, Ohashi, Osamu, Asaoka, Noriaki, Koizumi, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Borroto, Alfonso Perez
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yeshaw, Esayas
• Application Number:
  US15/949,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20180226837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• 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 53/38 specially adapted for charging by inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• 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 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

To minimize excessively high output or increases in magnetic-flux leakage by controlling power feeding on the power-feeding side if an unforeseen situation occurs. This power-feeding device (100) feeds power to an external power-receiving device (150) in a contactless manner. A power-feeding coil (103) uses electromagnetic power to feed electrical power to a power-receiving coil (154) in the power-receiving device (150). While power is being fed from said power-feeding coil (103), a power-feeding-side control unit (107) determines the amount of displacement of the power-feeding coil (103) and, on the basis of the determined displacement amount, controls the amount of electrical power being fed.

Claims

1. A power supply apparatus comprising:

a power supply coil that supplies power to an external power receiving coil in a wireless manner using an electromagnetic force; and

a controller that controls an amount of power supply that changes a magnetic coupling between the power supply coil and the power receiving coil based on an amount of displacement of a position of the power supply coil with respect to the power receiving coil when vibration is added to the power supply apparatus when power is supplied from the power supply coil,

wherein, when the amount of displacement during power supplying from the power supply coil is equal to or greater than a threshold, the controller reduces the amount of power supply that changes the magnetic coupling between the power supply coil and the power receiving coil, the amount of power supply being lower than a case where the amount of displacement during power supplying from the power supply coil is less than the threshold.

2. The power supply apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor that detects a displacement of the power supply coil, wherein the controller calculates the amount of the displacement from an accumulation of displacements detected by the sensor for a predetermined time.

3. The power supply apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the sensor detects an acceleration of the power supply coil as the displacement.

4. The power supply apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the sensor detects an angular velocity of the power supply coil as the displacement.

5. The power supply apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the displacement is caused by vibration added to the power supply side during power supply due to an earthquake.