Wireless power receiver and wireless power transmission system

• US 8,970,069 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2011
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Urano, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barnett, Joel
• Application Number:
  US13/073,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20120248882A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104
• US Class Current: 307/104
• 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 50/12 of the resonant type

Abstract

Power is fed from a feeding coil to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. The receiving coil L3 and a capacitor C3 are connected in series to constitute a receiving coil circuit. A loading coil L4 electromagnetically coupled to the receiving coil L3 is connected to a load through a rectification circuit 142 to constitute a loading circuit. Placing the rectification circuit 142 on a first flat plate electrode 132 of the capacitor C3 allows heat generated from the rectification circuit 142 to escape to the first flat plate electrode 132.

Claims

1. A wireless power receiver including a receiving coil for wirelessly receiving AC power fed from a feeding coil by using a magnetic field resonance phenomenon between the feeding coil and the receiving coil, the receiver comprising:

a receiving coil circuit that includes a capacitor comprising first and second flat plate electrodes facing each other and the receiving coil; and

a loading circuit that includes a loading coil that is magnetically coupled to the receiving coil to receive the AC power from the receiving coil and a load to which the AC power is supplied from the loading coil,

a heating element included in the loading circuit being placed directly on one of the first and second flat plate electrodes, wherein

the receiving coil is wound around the capacitor, and

the capacitor is disposed at a center area substantially equidistant from the receiving coil wounding around the capacitor.

2. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein

the loading circuit further comprises a rectification circuit configured to rectify the AC power received by the loading coil and supplies the resultant power to the load, and

the heating element is the rectification circuit placed directly on the one of the first and second flat plate electrodes.

3. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein

the heating element is placed directly on the first flat plate electrode, and

the first flat plate electrode has a plurality of protrusions.

4. The wireless power receiver according to claim 3, wherein

the second flat plate electrode opposite to the first flat plate electrode has a plurality of protrusions, and

the protrusions of the first flat plate electrode and those of the second flat plate electrode are alternately arranged between the first flat plate electrode and the second flat plate electrode.

5. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein the loading coil is wound around the receiving coil.

6. The wireless power receiver according to claim 5, wherein an axial direction of the loading coil and opposing directions of the first flat plate electrode and the second flat plate electrode coincide with each other.

7. The wireless power receiver according to claim 5, wherein a wire of at least one of the receiving coil and loading coil has a rectangular shape in cross-section, the rectangular shape has longer sides and shorter sides, and the longer sides extend in a direction perpendicular to a direction of winding the wire.

8. The wireless power receiver according to claim 7, wherein a length of the longer sides is equal to a height of the capacitor.

9. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the receiving coil and loading coil has a rectangular shape in coil cross-section.

10. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein the receiving coil circuit resonates at a resonance frequency of the feeding coil.

11. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the wireless power receiver is packaged.

12. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein an axial direction of the receiving coil and opposing directions of the first flat plate electrode and the second flat plate electrode coincide with each other.

13. A wireless power transmission system comprising:

the wireless power receiver as claimed in claim 1;

the feeding coil; and

a power supply circuit that supplies the AC power to the feeding coil.

14. The wireless power transmission system according to claim 13, wherein the power supply circuit supplies the AC power from the feeding coil that does not substantially resonate with power feeding side circuit elements to the receiving coil.

15. The wireless power transmission system according to claim 13, wherein the feeding coil does not constitute a resonance circuit that resonates with power feeding side circuit elements at a resonance point corresponding to the resonance frequency of the receiving coil.

16. The wireless power transmission system according to claim 13, wherein no capacitor is inserted in series or in parallel to the feeding coil.

17. The wireless power transmission system according to claim 13, wherein the feeding coil is connected to the capacitor to constitute a circuit that resonates at the resonance frequency of the receiving coil.

18. The wireless power transmission system according to claim 13, wherein

the loading coil is wound around the receiving coil, and

a wire of at least one of the receiving coil and loading coil has a rectangular shape in cross-section, the rectangular shape has longer sides and shorter sides, and the longer sides extend in a direction perpendicular to a direction of winding the wire.