Wireless power receiver and wireless power transferring method

• US 9,246,400 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nera Innovations Limited (Atlantic IP Services Limited)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Bae, Su Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): BARNIE, REXFORD N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Willoughby, Terrence
• Application Number:
  US13/803,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20130241303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,048 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/04 Regulation of charging current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/02 Conversion of ac power input into dc power output without possibility of reversal

Abstract

Disclosed is a wireless power receiver to transfer power wirelessly received from a wireless power transmitter to a load. The wireless power receiver includes a first reception induction coil coupled with a reception resonant coil to receive AC power; a first rectifying diode to rectify the AC power received through the first reception induction coil; a second reception induction coil connected to the first reception induction coil and coupled with the reception resonant coil to receive the AC power; and a second rectifying diode to rectify the AC power received through the second reception induction coil, wherein the wireless power receiver changes a transferring path of the power provided to the load according to a polarity variation of the AC power received through the first and second reception induction coils.

Claims

1. A wireless power receiver to transfer power wirelessly received from a wireless power transmitter to a load, the wireless power receiver comprising:

a first reception induction coil coupled with a reception resonant coil to receive a positive AC power from the reception resonant coil;

a first rectifying diode to rectify the positive AC power received through the first reception induction coil;

a second reception induction coil connected to the first reception induction coil and coupled with the reception resonant coil to receive a negative AC power from the reception resonant coil; and

a second rectifying diode to rectify the negative AC power received through the second reception induction coil,

wherein the wireless power receiver changes a transferring path of the power provided to the load according to a polarity variation of the AC power received through the first and second reception induction coils.

2. The wireless power receiver of claim 1, wherein either the first rectifying diode or the second rectifying diode rectifies the AC power according to the polarity variation of the AC power.

3. The wireless power receiver of claim 2, wherein the first rectifying diode is turned on to transfer the power to the load when a polarity of the AC power is positive, and the second rectifying diode is turned on to transfer the power to the load when the polarity of the AC power is negative.

4. The wireless power receiver of claim 3, wherein the wireless power receiver transfers the power to the load through a first loop and a second loop,

wherein the first loop is a power transferring path extending through the first reception induction coil, the first rectifying diode and the load, and

the second loop is a power transferring path extending through the second reception induction coil, the second rectifying diode and the load.

5. The wireless power receiver of claim 4, wherein one terminal of the first reception induction coil is connected to one terminal of the second reception induction coil.

6. The wireless power receiver of claim 5, wherein the first and second reception induction coils are wound in a same direction.

7. The wireless power receiver of claim 6, wherein the first rectifying diode includes a first anode connected to an opposite terminal of the first reception induction coil and a first cathode connected to the one terminal of the load,

the second rectifying diode includes a second cathode connected to the first cathode and a second anode connected to an opposite terminal of the second reception induction coil,

the one terminal of the first reception induction coil and the one terminal of the second reception induction coil are connected to an opposite terminal of the load, and

the opposite terminal of the load is grounded.