Wireless power transfer system and a load apparatus in the same wireless power transfer system

• US 8,531,059 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2009
• Issued: 09/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Katsuei, Takaki, Taku
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO
• Application Number:
  US12/619,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20100164295A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,394 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104, 307/149, 307/151, 320/108
• US Class Current: 307/104
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries

Abstract

In wireless power transfer with applying magnetic resonance therein, for suppressing deterioration of transfer efficiency, with lessening fluctuation of the resonance frequency when a distance between coils is close to, coils are so position that a supply-side power supply coil 101 and a load-side power supply coil 102 are inserted between a supply-side magnetic resonance coil 1 and a load-side magnetic resonance coil 2.

Claims

1. A wireless power transfer system, comprising:

a supply-side power supply coil;

a supply-side magnetic resonance coil;

a load-side power supply coil; and

a load-side magnetic resonance coil, wherein said supply-side magnetic resonance coil is excited with electromagnetic induction, by supplying transmission electric powers of frequencies equal to magnetic resonance frequencies of said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil to said supply-side power supply coil by means of an oscillator, thereby transferring an electric power from said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, wirelessly, with applying a magnetic resonance phenomenon between said supply-side magnetic resonance phenomenon between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, so as to output the transmission electric power transferred to said load-side magnetic resonance coil by said load-side power supply coil with the electromagnetic induction, and wherein

a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side power supply coil is shorter than a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, and is longer than a distance between said load-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil.

2. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 1, wherein

a distance between said supply-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil is shorter than the distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil.

3. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 1, further comprising a first load-side power supply coil and a second load-side power supply coil, wherein said coils are so disposed that a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said first load-side power supply coil is shorter than the distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, and is a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said second load-side power supply coil is longer than that.

4. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 3, further comprising a power synthesizer circuit, which is configured to receive an electric power by composing the transferred electric powers to be outputted to said first load-side power supply coil and said second load-side power supply coil.

5. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 3, further comprising an exchanger circuit, which is configured to detect the transferring voltages outputted to said first load-side power supply coil and said second load-side power supply coil, thereby taking an electric power from the power supply coil having higher voltage.

6. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 3, further comprising a rectifier circuit, which is configured to convert a transferring power having a frequency equal to a magnetic resonance frequency, which is outputted from said load-side power supply coil, into a DC power, and said rectifier circuit is a synchronization rectifier circuit, which is built up with MOS transistors.

7. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 6, wherein

said rectifier circuit has such structure that said load-side power supply coil has at least a turn number equal to or greater than 3 turns, and on said coil are provided with a first tap and a second tap, wherein to said first tap is connected a source of a first MOS transistor, a gate of which is connected to a coil end on a side of said first tap and a drain of which is connected to a first DC voltage output terminal through a first inductor, and to said second tap is connected a source of a second MOD transistor, as well as, a second DC voltage output terminal, a gate of which is connected to a coil end on a side of said second tap and a drain of which is connected to a junction point between the drain of said first MOS transistor and said first inductor, and a capacitor is added between said first DC voltage output terminal and said second DC voltage output terminal.

8. The wireless power transfer system, as described in the claim 1, wherein

said supply-side power supply coil and said supply-side magnetic resonance coil are provided on a charger, and

said load-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil are provided on an equipment mounting a rechargeable battery thereon.

9. A wireless power transfer system, comprising:

a supply-side power supply coil;

a supply-side magnetic resonance coil;

a load-side power supply coil; and

a load-side magnetic resonance coil, wherein

said supply-side magnetic resonance coil is excited with electromagnetic induction, by supplying transmission electric powers of frequencies equal to magnetic resonance frequencies of said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil to said supply-side power supply coil by means of an oscillator, thereby transferring an electric power from supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, wirelessly, with applying a magnetic resonance phenomenon between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, so as to output the transmission electric power transferred to said load-side magnetic resonance coil by said load-side power supply coil with the electromagnetic induction, and wherein

a distance between said supply-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil is shorter than a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, and is longer than a distance between said load-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil.

10. A load apparatus in a wireless power transfer system, comprising:

a power supply apparatus having a supply-side power supply coil and a supply-side magnetic resonance coil; and

a load apparatus having a load-side power supply coil and a load-side magnetic resonance coil, wherein

said supply-side magnetic resonance coil is excited with electromagnetic induction, by supplying transmission electric powers of frequencies equal to magnetic resonance frequencies of said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil to said supply-side power supply coil by means of an oscillator, thereby transferring an electric power from said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, wirelessly, with applying a magnetic resonance phenomenon between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, so as to output the transmission electric power transferred to said load-side magnetic resonance coil by said load-side power supply coil with the electromagnetic induction, wherein

a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side power supply coil is shorter than a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, and is longer than a distance between said load-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil.

11. A load apparatus in a wireless power transfer system, comprising:

a power supply apparatus having a supply-side power supply coil and a supply-side magnetic resonance coil; and

a load apparatus having a load-side power supply coil and a load-side magnetic resonance coil, wherein

said supply-side magnetic resonance coil is excited with electromagnetic induction, by supplying transmission electric powers of frequencies equal to magnetic resonance frequencies of said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil to said supply-side power supply coil by means of an oscillator, thereby transferring an electric power from said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said-load side magnetic resonance coil, wirelessly, with applying a magnetic resonance phenomenon between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, so as to output the transmission electric power transferred to said load-side magnetic resonance coil by said load-side power supply coil with the electromagnetic induction, wherein

a distance between said supply-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil is shorter than a distance between said supply-side magnetic resonance coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil, and is longer than a distance between said load-side power supply coil and said load-side magnetic resonance coil.