Wireless power transfer module for vehicles

• US 10,566,824 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2016
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amosense Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Amosense Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Jin, Byoung-Su
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhou, Zixuan
• Application Number:
  US15/747,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20180219400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,295 Days
• Field of Search: 320108, 307104
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/022 Encapsulation
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/366 made of ferromagnetic material
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

There is provided a wireless power transmission module for a vehicle that includes a housing providing an internal space and including an upper plate on which a portable device to be charged is placed, an antenna unit including a first wireless power transmission antenna operating in a magnetic induction method and a second wireless power transmission antenna operating in a magnetic resonance method, and a shielding unit including a first shielding sheet disposed in an area corresponding to the first wireless power transmission antenna and a second shielding sheet disposed in an area corresponding to the second wireless power transmission antenna. The antenna unit is placed inside the housing so that a first distance from the first wireless power transmission antenna to an outer surface of the upper plate is shorter than a second distance from the second wireless power transmission antenna to the outer surface of the upper plate.

Claims

1. A wireless power transmission module for a vehicle comprising:

a housing providing an internal space and including an upper plate on which a portable device to be charged is placed;

an antenna unit including a first wireless power transmission antenna operating in a magnetic induction method and a second wireless power transmission antenna operating in a magnetic resonance method; and

a shielding unit including a first shielding sheet disposed in an area corresponding to the first wireless power transmission antenna and a second shielding sheet disposed in an area corresponding to the second wireless power transmission antenna;

wherein the antenna unit is placed inside the housing so that a first distance from the first wireless power transmission antenna to an outer surface of the upper plate is shorter than a second distance from a second wireless power transmission antenna to an outer surface of the upper plate,

wherein the first distance is set so that a coupling coefficient k between a reception coil included in the portable device and the first wireless power transmission antenna is 0.7 or more, and the second distance is set so that a coupling coefficient k between the reception coil included in the portable device and the second wireless power transmission antenna is less than 0.2.

2. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first distance is 2 mm to 5 mm, and the second distance is 10 mm to 50 mm.

3. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first wireless transmission antenna includes a first antenna operating in a Qi standard method and a second antenna operating in a power matters alliance (PMA) standard method.

4. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first shielding sheet on which the first wireless power transmission antenna is disposed is a stepped surface having a height difference with respect to a surface the second shielding sheet on which the second wireless power transmission antenna is disposed.

5. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 4, wherein the surface of the first shielding sheet on which the first wireless power transmission antenna is disposed is higher by a predetermined height than the surface of the second shielding sheet on which the second wireless power transmission antenna is disposed.

6. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 4, wherein the first shielding sheet has a relatively smaller area than that of the second shielding sheet, and is stacked on a side of the second shielding sheet.

7. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 4, wherein the first shielding sheet is disposed inside the second shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet is formed with a receiving portion for receiving a part or all of an entire thickness of the first shielding sheet.

8. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first wireless power transmission antenna and the second wireless power transmission antenna is disposed on a first region and a second region, respectively which are located on opposite sides with respect to a virtual boundary line.

9. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 8, wherein the housing includes a seating surface on which the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet are seated, and the seating surface includes a first portion on which the first shielding sheet is disposed and a second portion on which the second shielding sheet is disposed, wherein a surface of the second portion forms a stepped surface having a height difference with respect to a surface of the first portion.

10. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 8, wherein the first shielding sheet is disposed in the first region, the second shielding sheet is disposed in the second region, and wherein the first shielding sheet has a relatively thicker thickness than that of the second shielding sheet.

11. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the upper plate includes a first upper plate disposed in an upper area of the first wireless power transmission antenna and a second upper plate disposed in an upper area of the second wireless power transmission antenna, wherein an outer surface of the first upper plate forms a stepped surface having a height difference with respect to an outer surface of the second upper plate.

12. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the antenna unit further includes a near field communication (NFC) antenna for short range data communication.

13. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 8, wherein the NFC antenna is disposed in an area corresponding to the second shielding sheet.

14. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first shielding sheet has a relatively higher permeability than that of the second shielding sheet in an operating frequency band of 100 kHz to 350 kHz, or when the first shielding sheet has the same permeability as the second shielding sheet, the permeability loss rate of the first shielding sheet is smaller than that of the second shielding sheet.

15. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the second shielding sheet has a relatively higher permeability than that of the first shielding sheet in the operating frequency band of 6.765 MHz to 6.795 MHz and at the operating frequency of 13.56 MHz, or when the second shielding sheet has the same permeability as the first shielding sheet, the permeability loss rate of the second shielding sheet is smaller than that of the first shielding sheet.

16. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first shielding sheet is made from a material having a magnetic permeability of 300 to 3500, a Tan Δ

(=μ

″

/μ

′

) of 0.05 or less, and a magnetic flux density of 0.25 T or more in the operating frequency band of 100 kHz to 350 kHz, wherein the second shielding sheet is made from a material having a magnetic permeability of 30 to 350, a Tan Δ

(=μ

″

/μ

′

) of 0.05 or less in the operating frequency band of 6.765 MHz to 6.795 MHz and at the operating frequency of 13.56 MHz and a magnetic flux density of 0.25 T or more in the operating frequency band of 6.765 MHz to 6.795 MHz (Here, μ

′

is the permeability and μ

″

is the permeability loss rate).

17. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 16, wherein the first shielding sheet is any one of a Mn—

Zn ferrite sheet having a permeability of 2000 to 3500 and Tan Δ

(=μ

″

/μ

′

) of 0.05 or less in the operating frequency band of 100 kHz to 350 kHz, and a Ni—

Zn ferrite sheet having a permeability of 300 to 1500 and Tan Δ

(=μ

″

/μ

′

) of 0.05 or less in the operating frequency band of 100 kHz to 350 kHz, wherein the second shielding sheet is any one of a Ni—

Zn ferrite sheet having a permeability of 100 to 350 and Tan Δ

(=μ

″

/μ

′

) of 0.05 or less in the operating frequency band of 6.765 MHz to 6.795 MHz and at the operating frequency of 13.56 MHz, and a metal polymer sheet having a permeability of 30 to 70 and Tan Δ

(=μ

″

/μ

′

) of 0.05 or less in the operating frequency band of 6.765 MHz to 6.795 MHz.

18. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet include at least one of a ribbon sheet including at least one of an amorphous alloy and a nanocrystalline alloy, a ferrite sheet and a metal polymer sheet.

19. The wireless power transmission module for the vehicle of claim 1, wherein any one of the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet includes a plurality of divided fine pieces.