POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM

• US 20140055089A1
• Filed: 05/19/2011
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Shinji, Horiuchi, Satoru
• Application Number:
  US14/009,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20140055089A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• 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 53/36 by positioning the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/38 specially adapted for charging by inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/006 with special arrangement or spacing of turns of the winding(s), e.g. to produce desired self-resonance
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2876 Cooling cooling transformers and inductances in general H01F27/08
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/363 made of electrically conductive material
• 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 50/12 of the resonant type
• 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

Abstract

A power reception device comprising: a shield including a main surface portion and a circumferential wall portion connected to a circumferential edge of the main surface portion, and having an opening in a position opposite to the main surface portion; a lid portion formed to cover the opening; a mounted resonant portion arranged within the shield, and resonating, through an electromagnetic field, with a facility-side resonant portion provided in an external facility; and a holding portion connecting the lid portion and the main surface portion, and supporting the mounted resonant portion.

Claims

1. A power reception device, comprising:

a shield including a main surface portion and a circumferential wall portion connected to a circumferential edge of said main surface portion, and having an opening in a position opposite to said main surface portion;

a lid portion formed to cover said opening;

a mounted resonant portion arranged within said shield, and resonating, through an electromagnetic field, with a facility-side resonant provided in an external facility; and

a holding portion connecting said lid portion and said main surface portion, and supporting said mounted resonant portion.

2. The power reception device according to claim 1, wherein

said facility-side resonant portion includes a first resonant coil,

said mounted resonant portion includes a second resonant coil,

said second resonant coil is held by said holding portion, and

an area of a portion where said second resonant coil is in contact with said holding portion is smaller than an area of a portion where said second resonant coil is not in contact with said holding portion.

3. The power reception device according to claim 1, wherein

said facility-side resonant portion includes a first resonant coil,

said mounted resonant portion includes a second resonant coil,

said holding portion includes a plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly along said second resonant coil, and

said second resonant coil is supported by said plurality of support shaft portions.

4. The power reception device according to claim 3, wherein

said lid portion is made of a first resin material,

said support shaft portions are made of a second resin material, and

a dielectric tangent of said second resin material is smaller than a dielectric tangent of said first resin material.

5. The power reception device according to claim 3, wherein

said lid portion is made of a first resin material,

said support shaft portions are made of a second resin material, and

a strength of said first resin material is higher than a strength of said second resin material.

6. The power reception device according to claim 3, wherein

said holding portion includes the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly along an inner circumference of said second resonant coil and supporting said second resonant coil, and a first wall portion formed to connect inner circumferential portions of the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly, and the first wall portion extending in an arrangement direction of the support shaft portions,

the power reception device further comprising:

second wall portion arranged between an inner circumferential surface of said shield and said second resonant coil; and

a cooling medium supply portion for supplying a cooling medium to a path formed between said first wall portion and said second wall portion.

7. The power reception device according to claim 3, wherein

said holding portion the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly along an outer circumference of said second resonant coil and supporting said second resonant coil, and a third wall portion formed to connect outer circumferential portions of the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly, and the third wall portion extending in an arrangement direction of the support shaft portions,

the power reception device further comprising:

fourth wall portion arranged inside said third wall portion and spaced apart from said third wall portion; and

a cooling medium supply portion for supplying a cooling medium to a path formed between said third wall portion and said fourth wall portion.

8. A power transmission device, comprising:

a shield including a main surface portion and a circumferential wall portion connected to a circumferential edge of said main surface portion, and having an opening in a position opposite to said main surface portion;

a lid portion formed to cover said opening;

a facility-side resonant portion arranged within said shield, and resonating, through an electromagnetic field, with a mounted resonant portion mounted on a vehicle; and

holding portion connecting said lid portion and said main surface portion, and supporting said facility-side resonant portion.

9. The power transmission device according to claim 8, wherein

said facility-side resonant portion includes a first resonant coil,

said mounted resonant portion includes a second resonant coil, and

an area of a portion where said first resonant coil is in contact with said holding portion is smaller than an area of a portion where said first resonant coil is not in contact with said holding portion.

10. The power transmission device according to claim 8, wherein

said facility-side resonant portion includes a first resonant coil,

said mounted resonant portion includes a second resonant coil,

said holding portion includes a plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly along said first resonant coil, and

said first resonant coil is supported by said plurality of support shaft portions.

11. The power transmission device according to claim 10, wherein

said lid portion is made of a first resin material,

said support shaft portions are made of a second resin material, and

a dielectric tangent of said second resin material is smaller than a dielectric tangent of said first resin material.

12. The power transmission device according to claim 10, wherein

said lid portion is made of a first resin material,

said support shaft portions are made of a second resin material, and

a strength of said first resin material is higher than a strength of said second resin material.

13. The power transmission device according to claim 10, wherein

said holding portion includes the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly along an inner circumference of said first resonant coil and supporting said first resonant coil, and a first wall portion formed to connect inner sides of the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly, and the first wall portion extending in an arrangement direction of the support shaft portions,

the power transmission device further comprising:

a second wall portion arranged between an inner circumferential surface of said shield and said facility-side resonant portion; and

a cooling medium supply portion for supplying a cooling medium to a path formed between said first wall portion and said second wall portion.

14. The power transmission device according to claim 10, wherein

said holding portion includes the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly along an outer circumference of said first resonant coil and supporting said first resonant coil, and a third wall portion formed to connect outer sides of the plurality of support shaft portions arranged annularly, and the third wall portion extending in an arrangement direction of the support shaft portions,

the power transmission device further comprising:

a fourth wall portion extending between an inner circumferential surface of said shield and said third wall portion; and

a cooling medium supply portion for supplying a cooling medium to a path formed between said third wall portion and said fourth wall portion.

15. A power transfer system, comprising:

a power transmission device having a facility-side resonant portion, a facility-side shield containing said facility-side resonant portion therein and having a first opening, a first lid member formed to close said first opening, and a first holding portion arranged within said facility-side shield and supporting said facility-side resonant portion; and

a vehicle-side resonant portion having a vehicle-side resonant portion resonating with said facility-side resonant portion through an electromagnetic field, a vehicle-side shield containing said vehicle-side resonant portion therein and having a second opening, a second lid member formed to close said second opening, and a second holding portion arranged within said vehicle-side shield and supporting said vehicle-side resonant portion, wherein

said facility-side shield includes a bottom surface portion and a first circumferential wall portion formed to rise from an outer circumferential edge of said bottom surface portion, and said first holding portion is provided to support said bottom surface portion and said first lid member,

said vehicle-side shield includes a top plate portion and a second circumferential wall portion formed to hang down from an outer circumferential edge of said top plate portion, and

said second holding portion is provided to support said top plate portion and said second lid member.

16. The power transfer system according to claim 15, wherein

said first lid member is formed to have a thickness larger than a thickness of said second lid member.

17. The power transfer system according to claim 15, wherein

said facility-side resonant portion includes a first resonant coil,

said vehicle-side resonant portion includes a second resonant coil,

said first holding portion includes a plurality of first support shaft portions arranged along said first resonant coil and supporting said first resonant coil,

said second holding portion includes a plurality of second support shaft portions arranged along said second resonant coil and supporting said second resonant coil, and

a cross-sectional area of said first support shaft portions is larger than a cross-sectional area of said second support shaft portions.