Non-contact power transmission device

• US 7,782,633 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2005
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hokushin Denki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hokushin Denki Company Limited
• Inventors: Yamauchi, Yukinaga, Hirase, Hidekazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhane; Adolf
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mehari; Yemane
• Application Number:
  US11/660,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20070252441A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,824 Days
• Field of Search: 363/21.01, 363/21.02
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/01 Resonant DC/DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33571 Half-bridge at primary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/4815 Resonant converters H02M7/4811 and H02M7/4826 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

A non-contact power transmission device, which is capable of efficiently reducing the device size and reducing unnecessary radiation of a harmonic component from a primary side coil, is provided. The non-contact power transmission device which includes a primary side unit and a secondary side unit which house a primary side and a secondary side of a coupling transformer individually and can be separated from each other, a capacitor C₁ which resonates with a primary side coil L₁ is connected to the primary side coil L₁ in series so that a primary side series resonance circuit is formed, an L-shaped resonance circuit which has a coil L₃ and a capacitor C₇ resonating with the coil L₃ is inserted between the primary side series resonance circuit and a driving circuit, and the L-shaped resonance circuit is connected to the primary side series resonance circuit in series.

Claims

1. A non-contact power transmission device, comprising:

a primary side unit including a primary side series resonance circuit having a primary side coil and a first capacitor resonating with the primary side coil, a driving circuit for the primary side series resonance circuit, and an L-shaped resonance circuit connected to the primary side series resonance circuit and the driving circuit and having a first coil and a second capacitor resonating with the first coil, and

a secondary side unit formed separately from the primary side unit, said secondary side unit being arranged to be housed in the primary side unit to transfer power from the primary side unit to the secondary side unit and to be separated therefrom and including a secondary side series resonance circuit having a secondary side coil and a second capacitor resonating with the secondary side coil,

wherein the first coil of the L-shaped resonance circuit has an inductance configured to adjust a current value flowing through the primary side coil, and the second capacitor has a capacity set such that a resonance frequency of the second capacitor with respect to the first coil is lower than a driving frequency of the driving circuit.

2. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the L-shaped resonance circuit composes a filter.

3. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 1, wherein a resonance frequency of the primary side series resonance circuit is adjusted to the driving frequency of the driving circuit.

4. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 1, wherein a resonance frequency of the secondary side series resonance circuit is adjusted to the driving frequency of the driving circuit.

5. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 1, wherein in the primary side series resonance circuit, a third capacitor is connected to the primary side coil in parallel.

6. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the L-shaped resonance circuit composes an impedance matching circuit.

7. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the second capacitor is connected parallel to the primary side series resonance circuit, and the first coil is arranged between the driving circuit and the primary side coil.

8. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 2, wherein a resonance frequency of the L-shaped resonance circuit is made to be lower than the driving frequency of the driving circuit by 5% to 25%.

9. The non-contact power transmission device according to claim 7, wherein the driving circuit comprises an inverter and two phase oscillator for operating the inverter.