ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLYING APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMITTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20100219695A1
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Published: 09/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujimaki, Kenichi, Komiyama, Shinji, Mita, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/708,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20100219695A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/104
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/04 Resonant antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an electric power supplying apparatus, including: a resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance; and an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance with one another, and output a resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to the resonance circuit.

Claims

1. An electric power supplying apparatus, comprising:

a resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance; and

an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance with one another, and output a resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to said resonance circuit.

2. The electric power supplying apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

an inductor through which said resonance circuit and said electric power synthesizing circuit are coupled to each other.

3. The electric power supplying apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

a plurality of frequency generators configured to generate the electric signals composed of the plurality of frequency components in the neighborhood frequency band, and output the electric powers of the electric signals thus generated to said electric power synthesizing circuit.

4. The electric power supplying apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a frequency generator configured to generate an electric signal composed of a frequency component in the neighborhood frequency band, and output an electric power of the electric signal thus generated to said electric power synthesizing circuit; and

a modulation signal creating circuit configured to create a modulation signal in accordance with which the electric signal generated from said frequency generator is modulated,

wherein said electric power synthesizing circuit synthesizes the electric powers of the electric signals composed of the plurality of frequency components created in accordance with the electric power of the electric signal outputted from said frequency generator, and the modulation signal created by said modulation signal creating circuit.

5. The electric power supplying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the neighborhood frequency band is a frequency band between a low frequency band side and a high frequency band side each obtained by reducing a maximum gain in a critical coupling state caused by a magnetic field resonance between said resonance circuit and a resonance circuit in an electric power receiving apparatus by a predetermined gain.

6. An electric power transmitting system, comprising:

an electric power supplying apparatus including

a resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance, and

an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance with one another, and output a resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to said resonance circuit; and

an electric power receiving apparatus including

a resonance circuit configured to receive an electric power through a magnetic field resonance with said resonance circuit of said electric power supply apparatus.

7. An electric power transmitting system, comprising:

an electric power supplying apparatus including

a first resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance,

a plurality of frequency generators configured to generate electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance,

an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of the electric signals composed of the plurality of frequency components generated from said plurality of frequency generators, respectively, and output the resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to said first resonance circuit,

a receiving portion configured to receive frequency information representing a frequency component(s) which is (are) determined to be unnecessary of the plurality of frequency components generated from said plurality of frequency generators, respectively, and

a frequency generator controlling portion configured to carry out control in such a way that the frequency generator(s) which generates (generate) the electric signal(s) composed of the frequency component(s) which is (are) determined to be unnecessary of said plurality of frequency generators is (are) stopped in accordance with the frequency information; and

an electric power receiving apparatus including

a second resonance circuit configured to receive an electric power from said electric power supplying apparatus through the magnetic field resonance,

a frequency information creating portion configured to determine the frequency component(s) to become unnecessary in accordance with levels of the frequency components in the electric signal outputted from said second resonance circuit, thereby creating the frequency information, and

a transmitting portion configured to transmit the frequency information created by the frequency information creating portion to said electric power supplying apparatus.