COIL STRUCTURE OF WIRELESS POWER TRANSMITTER

• US 20200135391A1
• Filed: 06/28/2017
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KWON, Taewook, KWAK, Bongsik, SEO, Jeongkyo, CHAE, Beomseok, KWON, Jaesoon, KIM, Sungkyu
• Granted Patent: US 11,049,648 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2027/2809 on stacked layers
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2804 Printed windings
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/38 Auxiliary core members; Auxiliary coils or windings
• 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 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/402 the two or more transmitting or the two or more receiving devices being integrated in the same unit, e.g. power mats with several coils or antennas with several sub-antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a resonator transmitting power in a resonant mode includes: a first coil having a wire group including three wires arranged in line and alternately extended in first direction and second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a second coil including three sub-coils and ferrite plates, and the first coil may be stacked adjacent to the second coil, and the first coil may correspond to a resonance coil driven in the resonance mode and the second coil may correspond to an induction coil driven in an induction mode, respectively.

Claims

1. A resonator transmitting power in a resonance mode, the resonator comprising:

a first coil having a wire group including three wires arranged in line and alternately extended in first direction and second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and

a second coil including three sub-coils and ferrite plates,

wherein the first coil is stacked adjacent to the second coil, and the first coil corresponds to a resonance coil driven in the resonance mode and the second coil corresponds to an induction coil driven in an induction mode, respectively.

2. The resonator of claim 1, wherein a width of each of the three wires is 0.5 to 1.5 mm.

3. The resonator of claim 2, wherein the first coil is configured in a rectangular shape having a space therein.

4. The resonator of claim 3, wherein a total length of the first coil is 92 to 94 mm and a total width is 74 to 76 mm.

5. The resonator of claim 4, wherein the wire group is sequentially extended from a center of the first coil with 16 to 18 mm in the first direction, 16 to 18 mm in the second direction, 37 to 39 mm in the first direction, 33 to 35 mm in the second direction, 51.5 to 53.5 mm in the second direction, 50 to 52 mm in the second direction, 66 to 68 mm in the first direction, 58 to 60 mm in the second direction, 75 to 77 mm in the first direction, 67 mm in the second direction, 84 to 86 mm in the first direction, 70 to 72 mm in the second direction, 88 to 90 mm in the first direction, 74 to 76 mm in the second direction, 92 to 94 mm in the first direction, and 74 to 76 mm in the second direction and connected to a terminal of the first coil.

6. The resonator of claim 1, wherein when the three sub-coils have first to third sub-coils,

the first sub-coil is arranged in line neighboring to the second sub-coil in the first direction and the first and second sub coils are stacked on the ferrite plate, and

wherein the third sub-coil is stacked between the first and second sub-coils.

7. The resonator of claim 6, wherein the first to third sub-coils have a square-shaped frame with rounded corners, and

wherein the square-shaped frame has a through hole having a rectangular shape with rounded corners at center.

8. The resonator of claim 7, wherein the first and second sub-coils are configured to have the same size and configured to have a different size from the third sub-coil.

9. The resonator of claim 8, wherein the number of turns of wires of the first and second sub-coils is 11 and the number of wire of the third sub-coil is 12, and wherein thicknesses of the first to third sub-coils is 0.6 to 1.6 mm.

10. The resonator of claim 9, wherein a length of the first and second sub-coils in the first direction is 43 to 45 mm and the length in the second direction is 48 to 50 mm, and

wherein the length of the through-hole of the first and second sub-coils in the first direction is 21 to 23 mm and the length in the second direction is 25 to 27 mm.

11. The resonator of claim 10, wherein the length of the third sub-coil in the first direction is 49 to 51 mm and the length in the second direction is 45 to 47 mm, and

wherein the length of the through-hole of the third sub-coil in the first direction is 25 to 27 mm and the length in the second direction is 20 to 22 mm.

12. The resonator of claim 11, wherein the length of the ferrite plate in the first direction is 92 to 94 mm and the length in the second direction is 52 to 54 mm.

13. The resonator of claim 6, wherein when the first coil is stacked on the third sub-coil included in the second coil, a distance from an upper surface of the ferrite plate up to the upper surface of the first coil is 2.85 to 4.85 mm and the distance from the upper surface of the third sub-coil up to the upper surface of the first coil is 0.55 to 2.55 mm.

14. The resonator of claim 13, wherein the second coil is positioned 10 to 12 mm away from both outsides of the first coil in a plane.

15. A wireless power transmitter transmitting power to a wireless power receiver, the wireless power transmitter comprising:

a power supply unit supplying the power to the wireless power transmitter;

a matching circuit performing impedance matching;

a resonator transmitting the power to the wireless power receiver; and

a control unit performing out-of-band communication,

wherein the resonator includes

a first coil having a wire group including three wires arranged in line and alternately extended in first direction and second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and

a second coil including three sub-coils and ferrite plates, and

wherein the first coil is stacked adjacent to the second coil, and the first coil corresponds to a resonance coil driven in the resonance mode and the second coil corresponds to an induction coil driven in an induction mode, respectively.