Power transmission unit of wireless power feeding device

• US 10,447,091 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2018
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Denso PS Corporation (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Denso PS Corporation (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Takeda, Shigeru, Sugino, Masayoshi, Suzuki, Takaomi, Masamura, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yeshaw, Esayas G
• Application Number:
  US15/867,189
• Publication Number:
  US 20180205267A1
• Time in Patent Office: 643 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00712 the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/10 Efficient use of energy, e.g. using compressed air or pressurized fluid as energy carrier

Abstract

A power transmission unit of a wireless power feeding device supplies power to two or more moving bodies wirelessly by using magnetic field resonance. The power transmission unit includes a power transmission coil, a high frequency generation unit, capacitor circuit groups, and a control unit. The capacitor circuit groups have series capacitors connected in series with the power transmission coil and parallel capacitors connected in parallel to the switching elements for generating a high frequency, and the capacitor circuit groups are set together with the power transmission coil so as to have different impedances to each other. The control unit that controls a switch for connecting and disconnecting the capacitor circuit groups according to the number of the moving bodies to which electrical power is supplied from the power transmission coil.

Claims

1. A power transmission unit of a wireless power feeding device disposed on a structural surface of a facility for wirelessly supplying electrical power using magnetic field resonance to two or more moving bodies moving on the structural surface, the power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device comprising:

a power transmission coil opposing a power receiving coil disposed in the moving body;

a high frequency generation unit having switching elements and generating a high frequency power to be supplied to the power transmission coil;

two or more sets of capacitor circuit groups having series capacitors connected in series with the power transmission coil and parallel capacitors connected in parallel with the switching elements, the capacitor circuit groups are disposed according to the number of the moving bodies and are set together with the power transmission coil so as to have different impedances to each other; and

a control unit that controls a switch for connecting and disconnecting the capacitor circuit groups according to the number of the moving bodies to which electrical power is supplied from the power transmission coil.

2. The power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device according to claim 1, wherein,

the power transmission unit further includes a current sensor for detecting a current flowing from a main power source to the power transmission coil;

and

the control unit controls the switch according to the current flowing from the main power source to the power transmission coil detected by the current sensor.

3. The power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device according to claim 1, wherein,

the power transmission unit further includes a storage unit disposed in the moving body and stores specification of the moving body;

and

a reading unit that reads the specification of the moving body stored in the storage unit;

wherein,

the control unit controls the switch according to the specification of the moving body read from the storage unit by the reading unit.

4. The power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device according to claim 1, wherein,

the control unit controls the switch according to a length of the power transmission coil.

5. The power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device according to claim 1, wherein,

a capacitance Cc of the series capacitors and a capacitance CI of the parallel capacitors are determined based on the following equation,

6. The power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device according to claim 1, wherein,

the capacitor circuit groups are electrically detachable from the high frequency generation unit.

7. The power transmission unit of the wireless power feeding device according to claim 1, wherein,

the switching elements of the high frequency generation unit are two MOSFETs connected to the main power source via choke coils and driven in mutually opposite phases;

drains of the two MOSFETs are connected to the power transmission coil via the series capacitors and the parallel capacitors;

the parallel capacitors are connected to each of the two MOSFETs; and

the control unit controls the switch that connects and disconnects between the capacitor circuit groups including the series capacitors and the parallel capacitors connected to each of the two MOSFETs.