POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, POWER-TRANSMITTING-SIDE DEVICE, AND NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

• US 20090079387A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Katsuya, KATO, Hiroshi, SUZUKI, Kuniharu, YAMAZAKI, Manabu, YODA, Kentaro, ONISHI, Kota, SOGABE, Haruhiko, KONDO, Yoichiro, JIN, Mikimoto
• Application Number:
  US12/237,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20090079387A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/60 responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• 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 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00047 with provisions for charging different types of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction

Abstract

A power transmission control device provided in a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to a power receiving device, an actuator control circuit that controls the operation of an actuator that moves the position of a primary coil in an XY plane, a relative position detection signal generation circuit that generates a relative position detection signal relating to the primary coil and a secondary coil based on a coil end voltage or a coil current of the primary coil, and a primary coil position control circuit that causes the actuator control circuit to move the position of the primary coil in the XY plane so that the relative positional relationship between the primary coil and the secondary coil indicated by the relative position detection signal is within an allowable range.

Claims

1. A power transmission control device that controls power transmission of a power transmitting device of a non-contact power transmission system, the non-contact power transmission system transmitting power from the power transmitting device to a power receiving device via non-contact power transmission through a primary coil and a secondary coil that are electromagnetically coupled, the power transmission control device comprising:

a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to the power receiving device;

an actuator control circuit that controls the operation of an actuator, the actuator moving the position of the primary coil in an XY plane;

a relative position detection signal generation circuit that generates a relative position detection signal relating to the primary coil and the secondary coil based on a coil end voltage or a coil current of the primary coil; and

a primary coil position control circuit that causes the actuator control circuit to move the position of the primary coil in the XY plane so that the relative positional relationship between the primary coil and the secondary coil indicated by the relative position detection signal is within an allowable range.

2. The power transmission control device as defined in claim 1,

the secondary coil being a secondary coil provided with a magnetic material;

and

the primary coil position control circuit causing the actuator control circuit to move the position of the primary coil in the XY plane according to a given scan pattern when the inductance of the primary coil has increased due to approach of the secondary coil provided with the magnetic material so that the coil end voltage or the coil current when driving the primary coil at a given frequency has decreased and reached a first threshold value.

3. The power transmission control device as defined in claim 2,

the primary coil position control circuit causing the actuator control circuit to stop moving the primary coil when the coil end voltage or the coil current has further decreased and reached a second threshold value due to the movement of the position of the primary coil.

4. The power transmission control device as defined in claim 2,

the power-transmitting-side control circuit intermittently driving the primary coil using a drive signal having a given frequency in order to detect the approach of the secondary coil, and continuously driving the primary coil when the primary coil is scanned.

5. A power transmitting device comprising:

the power transmission control device as defined in claim 1; and

the primary coil.

6. A power-transmitting-side device of a non-contact power transmission system, the power-transmitting-side device comprising:

the power transmitting device as defined in claim 5;

an actuator, the operation of the actuator being controlled by the actuator control circuit; and

an XY stage on which the primary coil is placed, the XY stage being driven by the actuator.

7. A non-contact power transmission system comprising:

the power-transmitting-side device as defined in claim 6; and

a power receiving device that receives power transmitted from the power transmitting device of the power-transmitting-side device through a secondary coil.