COIL STRUCTURE FOR WIRELESS CHARGING AND WIRELESS CHARGING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME

• US 20130099729A1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: YOON, Jung Ho, LEE, Kwang Du, LEE, Hyun Seok, KIM, Eung Ju, JUNG, Sam Ki, YOON, Young Seok
• Application Number:
  US13/352,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20130099729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 5/003 Printed circuit coils
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/005 Mechanical details of housing or structure aiming to accommodate the power transfer means, e.g. mechanical integration of coils, antennas or transducers into emitting or receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00712 the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters

Abstract

The wireless charging apparatus according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit performing a general control of a wireless charging process; a driving unit connected to the control unit to generate a wireless power signal to be transmitted according to the control of the control unit; a transmission coil unit connected to the driving unit as a coil structure in a dumbbel form and transmitting wireless power according to the wireless power signal, the turn loop having a major-axis side of which one side is longer than the other side and at least one area is formed in a form depressed inwardly; and a sensing unit connected between the transmission coil unit and the control unit to detect whether the wireless charging receiver is positioned corresponding to the transmission coil unit and transfer the detected state to the control unit.

Claims

1. A coil structure for wireless charging, comprising:

a turn loop formed of a single coil, the turn loop having a major-axis side of which one side is longer than the other side, and

wherein at least one area of the major-axis side is formed in a form depressed inwardly.

2. The coil structure as set forth in claim 1, wherein the coil structure forms a flat loop in a form in which a depressed area d of the one area is formed inwardly by a step e.

3. The coil structure as set forth in claim 2, wherein the depressed area d is depressed inwardly by the step e in an arc form or an angled form.

4. The coil structure as set forth in claim 1, wherein the coil structure is formed in a dumbbell shape in which a middle portion of the major-axis side is depressed inwardly.

5. A wireless charging apparatus, comprising:

a control unit performing a general control of a wireless charging process;

a driving unit connected to the control unit to generate a wireless power signal to be transmitted according to the control of the control unit;

a transmission coil unit connected to the driving unit as a coil structure in a turn loop form formed of a single coil and transmitting wireless power according to the wireless power signal, the turn loop form having a major-axis side of which one side is longer than the other side and at least one area is formed in a form depressed inwardly; and

a sensing unit connected between the transmission coil unit and the control unit to detect whether the wireless charging receiver is positioned corresponding to the transmission coil unit and transfer the detected state to the control unit.

6. The wireless charging apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein the transmission coil unit forms a flat loop in a form in which a depressed area d of the one area is formed inwardly by a step e.

7. The wireless charging apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein the depressed area d is depressed inwardly by the step e in an arc form or an angled form.

8. The wireless charging apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein the driving unit includes a single driving circuit and amplifier for the transmission coil unit.

9. The wireless charging apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein the coil structure of the transmission coil unit forms a loop in a dumbbell shape in which a middle area of the major-axis side is depressed inwardly.

10. The wireless charging apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein as a coupling coefficient K regarding the transmission coil unit is large, a value of inductance L of the transmission coil unit required to transmit the wireless power is small and as the inductance L is small, the number of turn loops of the transmission coil unit is small.