Energy transmission device

• US 7,667,352 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2006
• Issued: 02/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Komma, Thomas, Drechsler, Eberhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleming; Fritz M
• Application Number:
  US11/920,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20090045681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,463 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104
• US Class Current: 307/104
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/1236 adapted to induce current in a coil to supply power to a device and electrical heating devices powered in this way

Abstract

The invention relates to an energy transmission device having a primary coil for transmitting to a detachable secondary coil electromagnetic energy by induction with the electromagnetic energy being characterized by an energy transmission frequency and sensing component for detecting at least one characteristic variable of a detachable secondary end including the secondary coil. The sensing component is adapted to detect information on the presence of a detachable secondary end in an especially reliable manner. For this purpose, the sensing component couples a measuring voltage having a measuring frequency that is different from the energy transmission frequency into the secondary coil.

Claims

1. An energy transmission device comprising:

a.) a primary side including a primary coil;

b.) a detachable secondary component including a secondary coil, the primary coil being operable to inductively transmit electromagnetic energy to the secondary coil with such transmitted electromagnetic energy being characterized by an energy transmission frequency; and

c.) a sensing means provided to the primary side for detecting at least one characteristic value of the detachable secondary component, the sensing means coupling a measurement voltage with a measurement frequency transmitted from the primary side to the secondary side that differs from the energy transmission frequency transmitted into the secondary coil by the primary coil.

2. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1 and further comprising at least one condenser for expanding at least one coil into an electromagnetic resonant circuit.

3. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 2, wherein a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit corresponds at least essentially to the measurement frequency.

4. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1 and further comprising a primary-side resonant circuit and a secondary-side resonant circuit.

5. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the measurement frequency is coupled inductively into the primary coil.

6. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1 and further comprising a switching means for selectively activating or deactivating an energy transmission depending on the sensed characteristic value.

7. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1 and further comprising a means for detecting a primary-side working current.

8. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensing means detects a characteristic value produced by an impedance of the secondary coil at the measurement frequency.

9. The energy transmission device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the characteristic value relates to suitability of the secondary component to receive electromagnetic energy from the primary coil.