WIRELESS CHARGING DEVICE AND SYSTEM WITH SUPPRESSED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIVERGENCE AND ENHANCED CHARGING EFFICIENCY

• US 20160322849A1
• Filed: 09/22/2015
• Published: 11/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JTouch Corporation
• Original Assignee: JTouch Corporation
• Inventors: Yeh, Chun-Ting, Yeh, Yu-Chou, Yeh, Tsung-Her, Wu, Chen-Chi, Huang, Hsueh-Jung, Cheng, Bo-Ruei, Hu, Chih-Ming, Tsui, Chiu-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US14/860,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20160322849A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/04 Regulation of charging current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

A wireless charging device includes a casing, a transmitter coil assembly and a shielding structure. The casing includes a main body with an accommodation space and an entrance. At least one power-receiving device is accommodated within the accommodation space. The transmitter coil assembly is disposed within the main body, and emits an electromagnetic wave with at least one specified frequency for wirelessly charging the at least one power-receiving device. Each transmitter coil assembly includes at least one antenna for receiving an AC signal so as to emit the electromagnetic wave. The shielding structure is attached on an outer surface of the main body or disposed within the main body. The shielding structure at least shields the antenna of the transmitter coil assembly so as to block divergence of the electromagnetic wave.

Claims

1. A wireless charging device for wirelessly charging at least one power-receiving device, the wireless charging device comprising:

a casing comprising a main body, wherein the main body has an accommodation space and an entrance, and the at least one power-receiving device is accommodated within the accommodation space;

at least one transmitter coil assembly disposed within the main body, and emitting an electromagnetic wave with at least one specified frequency for wirelessly charging the at least one power-receiving device, wherein each transmitter coil assembly comprises at least one antenna for receiving an AC signal so as to emit the electromagnetic wave; and

a shielding structure attached on an outer surface of the main body or disposed within the main body, wherein the shielding structure at least shields the antenna of the transmitter coil assembly so as to block divergence of the electromagnetic wave.

2. The wireless charging device according to claim 1, wherein each transmitter coil assembly comprises a flexible substrate, an oscillation starting antenna and a resonant antenna, wherein the oscillation starting antenna and the resonant antenna are disposed on two opposite surfaces of the flexible substrate, the oscillation starting antenna receives the AC signal, at least one capacitor is connected between a first end and a second end of the resonant antenna, and the electromagnetic wave is emitted in response to a coupling effect of the resonant antenna and the oscillation starting antenna.

3. The wireless charging device according to claim 2, wherein each transmitter coil assembly further comprises:

a first protective layer covering the oscillation starting antenna; and

a second protective layer covering the resonant antenna,

wherein the shielding structure is attached on an outer surface of the first protective layer, or the shielding structure is arranged between the first protective layer and the oscillation starting antenna.

4. The wireless charging device according to claim 2, wherein the flexible substrate is an adhesive layer made of light curable adhesive material, thermally curable adhesive material, a mixture of curable adhesive material and magnetic material, vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer gel, polyimide gel, rubbery gel, polyolefin gel or moisture curable polyurethane gel.

5. The wireless charging device according to claim 2, wherein the oscillation starting antenna is fixed on a first surface of the flexible substrate through a first adhesive layer, and the resonant antenna is fixed on a second surface of the flexible substrate through a second adhesive layer, wherein each of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer is made of light curable adhesive material, thermally curable adhesive material, a mixture of curable adhesive material and magnetic material, vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer gel, polyimide gel, rubbery gel, polyolefin gel or moisture curable polyurethane gel.

6. The wireless charging device according to claim 2, wherein the main body is a hollow cylinder with a bottom plate and a lateral wall, wherein the resonant antenna of the transmitter coil assembly is spirally wound within the lateral wall, and the oscillation starting antenna of the transmitter coil assembly is disposed within the bottom plate.

7. The wireless charging device according to claim 1, wherein the casing further comprises a covering member, and the entrance of the main body is covered by the covering member.

8. The wireless charging device according to claim 7, wherein the shielding structure comprises:

a first shielding part attached on the outer surface of the main body for sheltering the transmitter coil assembly; and

a second shielding part attached on an outer surface of the covering member.

9. The wireless charging device according to claim 7, wherein the main body is a hollow cylinder or a hollow box with a bottom plate and a lateral wall, the covering member is pivotally connected with the main body, and the at least one transmitter coil assembly is disposed within the lateral wall of the main body.

10. The wireless charging device according to claim 9, further comprising another two transmitter coil assemblies disposed within the bottom plate of the main body and the covering member, respectively.

11. The wireless charging device according to claim 7, wherein the main body further comprises a lateral wall and a bottom plate, wherein the lateral wall and the bottom plate of the main body are collaboratively formed as a U-shaped groove structure, wherein the at least one transmitter coil assembly is disposed within the lateral wall and/or the bottom plate, and the main body is covered by the covering member.

12. The wireless charging device according to claim 1, further comprising a protective layer, wherein the protective layer covers at least a part of the shielding structure.

13. The wireless charging device according to claim 1, wherein the shielding structure is a metal mesh, a magnetically-permeable film, or a combination of the metal mesh and the magnetically-permeable film.

14. The wireless charging device according to claim 13, wherein a pattern of the metal mesh comprises plural mesh units, wherein every two adjacent metal lines that are not crisscrossed with each other are separated by a distance, and the distance is shorter than a wavelength of the electromagnetic wave.

15. The wireless charging device according to claim 1, further comprising at least one transmitter module, wherein the at least one transmitter module is electrically connected with the corresponding transmitter coil assembly, wherein each transmitter module comprises:

a converting circuit electrically connected with a power source for converting an electric energy from the power source;

an oscillator electrically connected with the converting circuit for adjustably outputting the AC signal with the specified frequency;

a power amplifier connected with the oscillator and the converting circuit for amplifying the AC signal; and

a filtering circuit connected with the power amplifier for filtering the AC signal and outputting the filtered AC signal to the corresponding transmitter coil assembly.

16. A wireless charging system, comprising:

a wireless charging device comprising;

a casing comprising a main body, wherein the main body has an accommodation space and an entrance;

at least one transmitter coil assembly disposed within the main body, and emitting an electromagnetic wave with at least one specified frequency, wherein each transmitter coil assembly comprises at least one antenna for receiving an AC signal so as to emit the electromagnetic wave; and

a shielding structure attached on an outer surface of the main body or disposed within the main body, wherein the shielding structure at least shields the antenna of the transmitter coil assembly so as to block divergence of the electromagnetic wave; and

at least one power-receiving device accommodated within the accommodation space of the casing, wherein each power-receiving device comprises a receiver coil assembly, and the receiver coil assembly receives an electric energy from the wireless charging device in response to a coupling effect of the receiver coil assembly and the corresponding transmitter coil assembly.

17. The wireless charging system according to claim 16, wherein each transmitter coil assembly of the wireless charging device comprises a flexible substrate, an oscillation starting antenna and a resonant antenna, wherein the oscillation starting antenna and the resonant antenna are disposed on two opposite surfaces of the flexible substrate, the oscillation starting antenna receives the AC signal, at least one capacitor is connected between a first end and a second end of the resonant antenna, and the electromagnetic wave is emitted in response to a coupling effect of the resonant antenna and the oscillation starting antenna.

18. The wireless charging system according to claim 17, wherein the receiver coil assembly of the power-receiving device and the transmitter coil assembly of the wireless charging device have the same structures.

19. The wireless charging system according to claim 16, wherein each power-receiving device further comprises a receiver module, wherein the receiver module is connected with the corresponding receiver coil assembly for converting the electric energy that is received by the receiver coil assembly, and the receiver module comprises:

a filtering circuit electrically connected with the receiver coil assembly for filtering an AC signal from the receiver coil assembly;

a rectifying circuit electrically connected with the filtering circuit for converting the AC signal into a rectified DC voltage;

a voltage stabilizer electrically connected with the rectifying circuit for stabilizing the rectified DC voltage to a stabilized DC voltage with a rated voltage value; and

a DC voltage adjusting circuit electrically connected with the voltage stabilizer and a load for adjusting the stabilized DC voltage to a regulated DC voltage and providing the regulated DC voltage to the load.

20. The wireless charging system according to claim 16, wherein the wireless charging device further comprises a controller, wherein the power-receiving device is wirelessly charged by the wireless charging device under control of the controller according to magnetic resonance or magnetic induction.