Power reception device, electronic apparatus, and non-contact power transmission system

• US 8,084,991 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2009
• Issued: 12/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 138 East LCD Advancements Limited (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Yoda, Kentaro, Okada, Hirofumi, Kamijo, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Riley, Shawn
• Application Number:
  US12/434,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20090278666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 320/109, 320/108, 320/115, 455/573
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/60 responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00045 Authentication, i.e. circuits for checking compatibility between one component, e.g. a battery or a battery charger, and another component, e.g. a power source
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13095 PIN / Access code, authentication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A power reception device includes a first resistance element having one end electrically connected to one end of a secondary coil which is able to be electromagnetically coupled to a primary coil of a power transmission devices a second resistance element having one end electrically connected to the other end of the first resistance element and having the other end supplied with a reference voltage, a power reception control device that obtains a frequency of an alternating current (AC) voltage induced on the secondary coil based on a voltage division signal output from the other end of the first resistance element and varies a magnitude of a load of the power reception device in accordance with the frequency, and a variable resistance element that has resistance varied in accordance with temperature and is connected to the first resistance element or the second resistance element in parallel.

Claims

1. A power reception device, comprising:

a first resistance element having one end electrically connected to one end of a secondary coil capable of being electromagnetically coupled to a primary coil of a power transmission device;

a second resistance element having one end electrically connected to an other end of the first resistance element and having an other end being supplied with a reference voltage; and

a power reception control device that obtains a frequency of an alternating current (AC) voltage induced in the secondary coil based on a voltage division signal output from the other end of the first resistance element, and that varies a magnitude of a load of the power reception device in accordance with the frequency,

a variable resistance element that varies a resistance in accordance with temperature being connected in parallel to the first resistance element or the second resistance element.

2. The power reception device according to claim 1,

the variable resistance element having a negative temperature coefficient, is the variable resistance element being connected to the second resistance element in parallel.

3. The power reception device according to claim 1,

the variable resistance element having a positive temperature coefficient, the variable resistance element being connected to the first resistance element in parallel.

4. The power reception device according to claim 1,

the power reception control device having a comparator circuit that compares a voltage of the voltage division signal with a given threshold voltage, and that generates a synchronous clock such that the synchronous clock presents a high level while the voltage of the voltage division signal is higher than the given threshold voltage and presents a low level while the voltage of the voltage division signal is lower than the given threshold voltage, and the power reception control device varies the magnitude of the load of the power reception device in accordance with the synchronous clock.

5. The power reception device according to claim 4,

the synchronous clock always presenting a low level when the temperature of the variable resistance element is higher than a predetermined temperature, and the power reception control device being not able to vary the magnitude of the load of the power reception device at all.

6. The power reception device according to claim 5,

wherein when the synchronous clock always presents a low level, the power reception control device stops supplying of power to the load of the power reception device.

7. The power reception device according to claim 5,

the load of the power reception device including a battery, and a charge control device that performs control of charging of the battery,

the power reception control device transmitting a stop signal that stops the control of charging of the charge control device to the charge control device.

8. The power reception device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a mechanical relay switch circuit provided between the one end of the secondary coil and an other end of the secondary coil,

the power reception control device controlling the mechanical relay switch circuit so as to make a short circuit between the one end of the secondary coil and the other end of the secondary coil after the power reception control device stops supplying of power to the load of the power reception device or after the power reception control device transmits the signal to the charge control device.

9. The power reception device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a fuse element provided between the secondary coil and the load of the power reception device.

10. The power reception device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a rectification circuit that converts an alternating current (AC) voltage induced on the secondary coil to a direct current (DC) voltage, and that has a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal,

the first input terminal being connected to the one end of the secondary coil, the second input terminal being connected to an other end of the secondary coil, the secondary output terminal being supplied with the reference voltage, and a difference between a potential of the first output terminal and a potential of the second output terminal presenting the DC voltage.

11. The power reception device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a load modulation section having a load modulation resistance element and a switching element, the load modulation resistance element and the switching element being serially connected to each other,

the power reception control device controlling the switching element to vary the magnitude of the load of the power reception device.

12. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

the power reception device according to claim 1.

13. A non-contact power transmission system, comprising:

the power reception device according to claim 1; and

the power transmission device according to claim 1,

the transmission device having the primary coil, and a transmission control circuit that stops driving of the primary coil when the transmission device detects that the magnitude of the load of the power reception device is less than a given range.

14. A power transmission device that performs transmission of electric power to the power reception device according to claim 1, comprising:

a transmission control circuit that stops driving of the primary coil when a magnitude of the power reception device is less than a given range.