Magnetic circuit, power-supplying device and power-receiving device for non-contact charging apparatus, and non-contact charging apparatus

• US 9,143,041 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2011
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Metals (Thailand) Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Metals (Thailand) Ltd.
• Inventors: Itabashi, Hiromitsu, Moriyama, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, Drew A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhou, Zixuan
• Application Number:
  US13/577,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20120319647A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,688 Days
• Field of Search: 320/108, 307/104
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2003/103 Magnetic circuits with permanent magnets
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 3/10 Composite arrangements of magnetic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33553 with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop

Abstract

A magnetic circuit for a non-contact charging apparatus comprising a coil, a coil yoke disposed on the rear surface side of the coil, and a magnetic attraction means disposed in a hole of the coil yoke with a magnetic gap in plane and/or thickness directions.

Claims

1. A magnetic circuit for a non-contact charging apparatus, comprising:

a coil;

a coil yoke disposed on the rear surface side of said coil; and

a magnetic attraction member,

wherein at least a part of said magnetic attraction member is disposed in a hole of said coil yoke when viewed in a plane direction, and

wherein a magnetic gap is interposed between the magnetic attraction member and the coil yoke in at least one of the plane direction and a thickness direction,

wherein a width of the magnetic gap is in a range such that magnetic saturation near the coil yoke is prevented to suppress decrease in permeability, thereby suppressing reduction of power transmission efficiency, and further the coil is not substantially influenced by magnetic flux generated from the magnetic attraction member.

2. The magnetic circuit for a non-contact charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said coil yoke has a doughnut plate shape having a center hole as said hole, and wherein said magnetic attraction member is coaxially disposed in the center hole of said coil yoke.

3. The magnetic circuit for a non-contact charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a front surface of said magnetic attraction member and a front surface of said coil extend to the same height.

4. The magnetic circuit for a non-contact charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said coil yoke is constituted by one or more roll-quenched, soft-magnetic alloy sheets each having a thickness of 100 μ

m or less, the total thickness of said soft-magnetic alloy sheets being 200 μ

m or less.

5. The magnetic circuit for a non-contact charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said magnetic attraction member comprises a disc-shaped permanent magnet and a circular, cap-shaped, magnetic yoke member having a recess receiving said disc-shaped permanent magnet, said disc-shaped permanent magnet being positioned on a front surface side of said circular, cap-shaped magnetic yoke member.

6. A power-supplying device for a non-contact charging apparatus, comprising the magnetic circuit recited in claim 1.

7. A power-receiving device for a non-contact charging apparatus, comprising the magnetic circuit recited in claim 1.

8. A non-contact charging apparatus comprising the power-supplying device recited in claim 6.

9. A non-contact charging apparatus comprising the power-receiving device recited in claim 7.

10. The magnetic circuit of claim 1, wherein the width of the magnetic gap is in the range of 0.1 to 15 mm.