Electronic apparatus

• US 10,411,762 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2015
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Fukaya, Yudai
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleming, Fritz M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dhillon, Jagdeep S
• Application Number:
  US14/855,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20160087688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• Field of Search: 307104, 307 91, 307 101, 307 80, 307 64, 307 66, 307 43, 307 86, 320108, 320109, 320110, 320137, 320139
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• 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: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes an antenna that wirelessly receives power; a power control unit that accumulates or supplies power received by the antenna by inputting power; a communication unit that communicates with a power supply apparatus via the antenna; a switching unit that switches between a path from the antenna to the power control unit and a path from the antenna to the communication unit; and a driving unit that operates with power received by the antenna and drive the switching unit, wherein an input impedance of the driving unit viewed from the antenna is higher than an input impedance of the power control unit viewed from the antenna or an input impedance of the communication unit viewed from the antenna.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an antenna that wirelessly receives power;

a power control unit that accumulates or supplies power received by the antenna;

a communication unit that communicates with a power supply apparatus via the antenna;

a switching unit that selectively activates one of a path from the antenna to the power control unit and a path from the antenna to the communication unit; and

a driving unit that drives the switching unit,

wherein the driving unit is connected to the antenna via a conversion element that converts an impedance,

wherein the driving unit includes;

a rectifier circuit connected to the conversion element; and

a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage value after rectification by the rectifier circuit,

wherein the driving unit conducts a second switch connected to an input of the power control unit in a case where the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit exceeds a second threshold larger than a first threshold, and the driving unit outputs a signal to conduct a first switch connected to an input of the communication unit in a case where the voltage detected by the voltage detection falls within a range from the first threshold to the second threshold.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second threshold has a hysteresis characteristic, and is changed depending on whether the detected voltage rises or lowers across the second threshold.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an input impedance in a case where the signal received by the antenna is input to the driving unit is lower than an input impedance in a case where the signal received by the antenna is input to the communication unit in a case where the first switch viewed from the antenna is non-conductive or the input impedance in a case where the signal received by the antenna input to the power control unit in a case where the second switch viewed from the antenna is non-conductive.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the driving unit includes the conversion element, and the conversion element increases an impedance with respect to an AC amplitude input from the antenna.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the rectifier circuit includes a circuit that rectifies an input voltage to a voltage higher than the input voltage.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the conversion element includes one of a capacitor, a coil, and a resistor.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a power supply unit that supplies power in addition to power received by the antenna,

wherein the driving unit operates with power supplied from the power supply unit.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the driving unit outputs, to the communication unit, power different from power input by the communication unit from the antenna.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a resonance circuit with respect to the antenna,

wherein an arrangement of the resonance circuit is changed by switching between the paths by the switching unit.