PORTABLE DEVICE USING A COMMON ANTENNA FOR BOTH NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION AND WIRELESS CHARGING

• US 20150065041A1
• Filed: 04/02/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Maxwave Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Maxwave Company Limited
• Inventors: Ahn, Dong Sik
• Application Number:
  US14/389,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20150065041A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/20 using microwaves or radio frequency waves
• 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: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

Provided is a portable device using a common antenna for both near field communication and wireless charging. The portable device includes: a common antenna part transmitting and receiving near field communication and wireless charging signals; an NFC signal judgment module connected to the common antenna part and sensing a signal applied from the common antenna part or a Tx signal generated from an NFC performing part to thereby judge whether or not the signal applied from the common antenna part or the Tx signal is the near field communication signal; an NFC performing part connected to the NFC signal judgment module and performing near field communication according to a control signal transferred from the NFC signal judgment module; and a battery part connected to the NFC signal judgment module and being wirelessly charged according to the control signal transferred from the NFC signal judgment module.

Claims

1. A portable device using a common antenna for both near field communication (NFC) and wireless charging, the portable device comprising:

a common antenna part transmitting and receiving near field communication and wireless charging signals;

an NFC signal judgment module connected to the common antenna part and sensing a signal applied from the common antenna part or a Tx signal generated from an NFC performing part to thereby judge whether or not the signal applied from the common antenna part or the Tx signal is a near field communication signal;

the NFC performing part connected to the NFC signal judgment module and performing near field communication according to a control signal transferred from the NFC signal judgment module; and

a battery part connected to the NFC signal judgment module and being wirelessly charged according to the control signal transferred from the NFC signal judgment module.

2. The portable device of claim 1, wherein the NFC signal judgment module includes:

a signal matching part converting antenna impedance transferred through the common antenna part into an impedance which is suitable for both near field communication and wireless charging and transferring a sensed near field communication signal to the NFC performing part or a signal controlling part;

a signal converting part including a RF/DC converter converting a wireless signal transferred from the signal matching part into a direct current voltage and a regulator uniformly supplying the direct current voltage converted by the RF/DC converter;

the signal controlling part judging whether or not a signal transferred thereto is a near field communication signal;

a first switch controlling an operation of the NFC performing part depending on a signal of the signal controlling part; and

a second switch controlling an operation of the battery part depending on the signal of the signal controlling part.

3. The portable device of claim 2, wherein the signal matching part includes:

an NFC signal matcher converting the antenna impedance transferred from the common antenna part into the impedance which is suitable for near field communication and transferring a near field communication signal to the NFC performing part;

a wireless charging signal matcher converting the antenna impedance transferred from the common antenna part into the impedance which is suitable for the wireless charging; and

a selection switch transferring a near field communication signal transferred from the NFC signal matcher or a wireless charging signal transferred from the wireless charging signal matcher to the signal converting part.

4. The portable device of claim 3, wherein the selection switch transfers the signal to a selected one of the NFC signal matcher or the wireless charging signal matcher depending on a signal transferred from the signal controlling part.

5. The portable device of claim 2, wherein the regulator supplies the direct current voltage transferred from the RF/DC converter to the battery part through the signal controlling part or the second switch.

6. The portable device of claim 2, wherein the signal controlling part includes:

a signal demodulator demodulating a wireless signal transferred from the signal matching part to obtain digital information;

an identification (ID) storage part storing a unique ID for near field communication; and

a signal judgment device comparing the demodulated signal transferred from the signal demodulator with the unique ID stored in the ID storage part or sensing the Tx signal by the near field communication transferred from the NFC performing part to thereby judge whether or not the demodulated signal or the Tx signal is a near field communication signal.