NONCONTACT CHARGER SYSTEM

• US 20120146580A1
• Filed: 09/17/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitamura, Hiroyasu
• Application Number:
  US13/390,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20120146580A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/102 by measuring amplitude
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• 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 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00045 Authentication, i.e. circuits for checking compatibility between one component, e.g. a battery or a battery charger, and another component, e.g. a power source
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A noncontact charger includes a charger having a power transmitting planar coil that transmits high-frequency charging power and a charged device including a power receiving planar coil magnetically coupled to the power transmitting planar coil to receive the charging power, wherein the charger includes a primary authentication planar coil which transmits high-frequency authenticating power for authenticating the charged device and receives a high-frequency authenticating signal for authenticating the charged device, a secondary authentication planar coil is magnetically coupled to the primary authentication planar coil to receive the authenticating power and output the authenticating signal generated from the authenticating power to the primary authentication planar coil, and a space between the power transmitting planar coil and the power receiving planar coil overlaps with a space between the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil.

Claims

1. A noncontact charger system comprising:

a charger including a power transmitting planar coil that transmits high-frequency charging power; and

a charged device including a power receiving planar coil which is magnetically coupled to the power transmitting planar coil to receive the high-frequency charging power in a state in which the power receiving planar coil opposes the power transmitting planar coil to form a predetermined gap, wherein

the charger includes a primary authentication planar coil which transmits high-frequency authenticating power for authenticating the charged device and which receives a high-frequency authenticating signal for authenticating the charged device,

the charged device includes a secondary authentication planar coil which is magnetically coupled to the primary authentication planar coil to receive the high-frequency authenticating power and output the high-frequency authenticating signal generated from the high-frequency authenticating power, to the primary authentication planar coil, and

a space between the power transmitting planar coil and the power receiving planar coil overlaps with a space between the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil.

2. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

in the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil, there are arranged windings which are wound with a smaller number of turns than the turns of respective windings of the power transmitting planar coil and the power receiving planar coil and which are wound at uniform winding intervals.

3. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

in the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil, there are arranged windings which have winding intervals that become smaller outward from centers of the planar coils.

4. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

in the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil, there are arranged windings which have winding intervals that become smaller toward centers of the planar coils as well as outward.

5. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil have a same surface area and a same shape.

6. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil has a same shape as the secondary authentication planar coil but has a larger surface area than the secondary authentication planar coil.

7. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

respective central axes of the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil do not coincide with respective central axes of the power transmitting planar coil and the power receiving planar coil.

8. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil are each constituted by a square planar coil.

9. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil are each constituted by a plurality of planar coils with a same winding direction, and

each of the plurality of planar coils of the secondary authentication planar coil is provided at a position corresponding to each of the plurality of planar coils of the primary authentication planar coil.

10. The noncontact charger system according to claim 9, wherein

respective central axes of the plurality of planar coils respectively constituting the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil do not coincide with respective central axes of the power transmitting planar coil and the power receiving planar coil.

11. The noncontact charger system according to claim 9, comprising:

in correspondence with each of the plurality of planar coils constituting the primary authentication planar coil, a high-frequency authenticating power generating units which authenticate the charged device based on the high-frequency authenticating signal received at each of the planar coils; and

in correspondence with each of the plurality of planar coils constituting the secondary authentication coil, a high-frequency authenticating signal generating units which generate the high-frequency authenticating signal from the high-frequency authenticating power.

12. The noncontact charger system according to claim 9, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil are each constituted by connecting each of the plurality of planar coils in series.

13. The noncontact charger system according to claim 9, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil are each constituted by connecting each of the plurality of planar coils in parallel.

14. The noncontact charger system according to claim 9, wherein

each of the plurality of planar coils is constituted by a square planar coil.

15. The noncontact charger system according to claim 9, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil respectively include:

the plurality of planar coils; and

windings which enclose the plurality of planar coils and which have a same winding direction as that of each of the plurality of planar coils.

16. The noncontact charger system according to claim 1, wherein

the primary authentication planar coil and the secondary authentication planar coil are each constituted by two planar coils which have winding directions that differ from each other and which have central axes that do not coincide with respective central axes of the power transmitting planar coil and the power receiving planar coil, and

each of the two planar coils of the secondary authentication planar coil is provided at a position corresponding to each of the two planar coils of the primary authentication planar coil.