NON-CONTACT CHARGING MODULE AND NON-CONTACT CHARGING INSTRUMENT

• US 20130181668A1
• Filed: 10/27/2011
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tabata, Kenichiro, Hidaka, Akio, Nishino, Tokuji
• Application Number:
  US13/876,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20130181668A1
• 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: 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 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction

Abstract

Provided are a non-contact charging module and a non-contact charging instrument such that the non-contact module can be made thin in a state where a sufficient cross-sectional area of a planar coil portion has been ensured and power transmission efficiency has been enhanced. The non-contact module comprises the planar coil portion (2) on which a plurality of conducting wires have been spirally wound, and a magnetic sheet provided so as to oppose a surface of a coil (21) of the planar coil portion (2), the plurality of conducting wires are respectively connected together at both ends, and the planar coil portion (2) has a part wound overlapped in multiple layers and another part wound in a single layer.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A non-contact charging module comprising:

a planar coil in which a conducting wire is wound;

a magnetic sheet including a flat portion on which a surface of the planar coil is mounted; and

a convex portion that is provided in the magnetic sheet and protrudes from the flat portion,

wherein an inner winding of the planar coil surrounds the convex portion.

11. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the conducting wire is wound around the convex portion.

12. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the height of the convex portion from the flat portion is the same as the wire diameter of the conducting wire.

13. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the magnetic sheet includes a different convex portion that protrudes from the flat portion, and

the different convex portion surrounds an outer winding of the planar coil.

14. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the convex portion provided in the magnetic sheet has the same size as the inner winding of the planar coil.

15. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the center of the convex portion provided in the magnetic sheet coincides with a central axis of the planar coil.

16. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the magnetic sheet includes a recess portion or a slit in the flat portion, and

the conducting wire that is overlapped with a wound portion of the planar coil and extends from the inner winding of the planar coil is accommodated in the recess portion or the slit

17. The non-contact charging module according to claim 16, wherein:

an outer appearance of the magnetic sheet is rectangular, and

the recess portion or the slit passes through the center of an arbitrary one side among sides of outer edges of the rectangular magnetic sheet from the inside of the flat portion of the magnetic sheet.

18. The non-contact charging module according to claim 17, wherein:

the recess portion or the slit is perpendicular to the arbitrary one side.

19. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

the planar coil is formed by winding a plurality of the conducting wires.

20. The non-contact charging module according to claim 19, wherein:

the planar coil is formed by winding the plurality of conducting wires in a state where the conducting wires are arranged in parallel on a surface of the magnetic sheet.

21. The non-contact charging module according to claim 10, wherein:

a first wound portion that is a portion of the planar coil is formed by winding the conducting wire in multiple layers; and

a second wound portion that is another portion of the planar coil is formed by winding the conducting wire in the number of layers smaller than that of the first wound portion.

22. The non-contact charging module according to claim 21, wherein:

an annular recess portion or slit formed so as to reduce thickness of the magnetic sheet is provided in a region of the magnetic sheet on which the first wound portion of the planar coil is mounted, and at least a portion of the first wound portion is accommodated in the annular recess portion or slit.

23. The non-contact charging module according to claim 21, wherein:

the planar coil is wound so that the first wound portion is disposed inside the second wound portion.

24. The non-contact charging module according to claim 21, wherein:

the magnetic sheet is provided with a circular recess portion in a portion thereof that is overlapped with the first wound portion, and a portion of the first wound portion that is wound to protrude more than the second wound portion is accommodated in the circular recess portion.