Non-contact charger

• US 6,462,509 B1
• Filed: 12/26/2001
• Issued: 10/08/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Toko KK
• Inventors: Kojima, Hideki, Abe, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): TOATLEY, GREGORY J
• Application Number:
  US10/029,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20020079863A1
• Time in Patent Office: 286 Days
• Field of Search: 320/108, 320/107, 320/109, 336/DIG.2
• 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 50/10 using inductive coupling

Abstract

A non-contact charger wherein a battery-driven electronic device containing a secondary battery is provided in a power supply section and electrical power is supplied thereto by non-contact, the non-contact charger including: a primary side coil and a secondary side coil, the primary side coil supplying power to the secondary side coil by electromagnetic induction, the primary side and secondary side coils being provided to face each other with a case therebetween; the primary side coil containing a U-shaped magnetic core having a leg at each end thereof, and windings which are wound around the magnetic legs; and the secondary side coil containing a U-shaped magnetic core having a leg at each end thereof, and a winding which is wound around a common magnetic core of the U-shaped magnetic core; the cross-sectional area of the magnetic legs of the primary side coil being greater than the cross-sectional area of the magnetic legs of the secondary side coil.

Claims

1. A non-contact charger wherein a battery-driven electronic device containing a secondary battery is provided in a power supply section and electrical power is supplied thereto by non-contact, the non-contact charger comprising:

a primary side coil and a secondary side coil, the primary side coil supplying power to the secondary side coil by electromagnetic induction, the primary side and secondary side coils being provided to face each other with a case therebetween;

the primary side coil comprising a U-shaped magnetic core having a leg at each end thereof, and windings which are wound around the magnetic legs; and

the secondary side coil comprising a U-shaped magnetic core having a leg at each end thereof, and a winding which is wound around a common magnetic core of the U-shaped magnetic core;

the cross-sectional area of the magnetic legs of the primary side coil being greater than the cross-sectional area of the magnetic legs of the secondary side coil.

2. The non-contact charger according to claim 1, wherein, in the secondary side coil, the distance between the open ends of the magnetic legs of the magnetic core is greater than the common magnetic core.

3. The non-contact charger according to claim 1, wherein, in the primary side coil, the base section of the cross-sectional area of the magnetic legs of the magnetic core is wider than the tip section thereof.

4. The non-contact charger according to claim 1, wherein a braided wire is used as the material for the winding of at least one of the primary side coil and the secondary side coil.