WIRELESS CHARGING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE

• US 20110187321A1
• Filed: 09/11/2009
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Hirayama, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US13/063,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20110187321A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/126 Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/62 in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/66 Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• 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
• 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: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A control signal is superimposed on an AC power at the time of charging the battery of an electric car in a non-contact manner by electric power outputted from a feeding apparatus. A feeding apparatus 11 includes a carrier oscillator 21 for outputting an AC power, an ASK modulator 22 for superimposing a control signal on the AC power outputted from the carrier oscillator 21 according to the ASK modulation method, a power amplifier 23 for amplifying the AC power modulated by the ASK modulator 22, and a first resonance coil 24 for outputting the AC power amplified by the power amplifier 23. A charging apparatus 12 to be provided on an electric car includes a second resonance coil 31 for receiving the AC power transmitted from the first resonance coil 24, an ASK demodulator 34 for demodulating the received AC power to thereby extract the control signal, and a rectifier 33 which rectifiers the received AC power to obtain a DC power and supplies the DC power to a battery 35.

Claims

1. A wireless charging system for a vehicle which transmits electric power outputted from a feeding apparatus to a vehicle side in a non-contact manner to thereby charge a battery mounted on the vehicle, wherein the feeding apparatus includes:

an electric power output section which outputs AC power;

a modulation section which superimposes a control signal on the AC power outputted from the electric power output section by using a predetermined modulation method;

an electric power amplifying section which amplifies the AC power modulated by the modulation section; and

a first communication terminal which transmits the AC power amplified by the electric power amplifying section, and

wherein the vehicle includes;

a second communication terminal which receives the AC power transmitted from the first communication terminal;

a demodulation section which demodulates the AC power received by the second communication terminal to thereby extract the control signal; and

a rectifying section which rectifies the AC power and supplies a DC power obtained by rectifying the AC power to the battery.

2. The wireless charging system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes distributing section which distributes the AC power received by the second communication terminal into an AC power of a large power and an AC power of a small power,

the demodulation section extracts the control signal from the AC power of the small power, and the rectifying section rectifies the AC power of the large power.

3. The wireless charging system for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the DC power obtained by rectifying the AC power of the large power is used as electric power for driving the demodulation section.

4. The wireless charging system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the first communication terminal has a transmission/reception function for transmitting the AC power and receiving the signal transmitted from the second communication terminal,

the second communication terminal has transmission/reception function for receiving the AC power and transmitting the signal to the first communication terminal,

the feeding apparatus includes a transmission/reception switch section for switching the first communication terminal in a transmission mode or a reception mode,

the vehicle includes a reception/transmission switch section for switching the second communication terminal in a reception mode or a transmission mode,

in a case of transmitting the AC power to the second communication terminal from the first communication terminal, the transmission/reception switch section is set to the transmission mode and the reception/transmission switch section is set to the reception mode,

in a case of transmitting the signal to the first communication terminal from the second communication terminal, the transmission/reception switch section is set to the reception mode and the reception/transmission switch section is set to the transmission mode, and the second communication terminal transmits the control signal by using an attenuated signal of the AC power as a carrier.

5. The wireless charging system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes a vehicle side transmission section which transmits the control signal to the feeding apparatus,

the feeding apparatus includes a feeding side reception section which receives the control signal transmitted from the vehicle side,

the vehicle side transmission section includes an oscillation section which oscillates a carrier signal having a frequency different from a frequency of the AC signal, and the vehicle side transmission section superimposes the control signal on the carrier signal outputted from the oscillation section by using the predetermined modulation method and transmits the carrier signal to the feeding side reception section.

6. The wireless charging system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle side transmission section includes carrier signal generation section which separates and extracts the carrier signal from the AC power received by the second communication terminal and changes a frequency of the carrier signal into another frequency, and the vehicle side transmission section superimposes the control signal on the carrier signal generated by the carrier signal generation section by using the predetermined modulation method and transmits the carrier signal to the feeding side reception section.

7. The wireless charging system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle side transmission section separates and extracts the carrier signal from the AC power received by the second communication terminal and superimposes the control signal on the extracted carrier signal by using a frequency modulation method and transmits the carrier signal to the feeding side reception section.