Wireless power supply system

• US 9,283,894 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2011
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shimokawa, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): CAVALLARI, DANIEL J
• Application Number:
  US13/227,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20110316334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,650 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/07 by electrically powered actuators
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/03 for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/46 for ICE-powered road vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/50 using additional energy repeaters between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment

Abstract

A wireless power supply system has a power sending resonance coil, a power receiving resonance coil, and a relay resonance coil. The power sending resonance coil has a predetermined resonance frequency characteristic, and transmits power wirelessly. The power receiving resonance coil has the same resonance frequency characteristic as the power sending resonance coil, and receives power wirelessly with a magnetic field resonance mode generated by synchronization of the resonance frequency. The relay resonance coil has the same resonance frequency characteristic as the power sending resonance coil and the power receiving resonance coil, and relay power from the power sending resonance coil to the power receiving resonance coil wirelessly with the magnetic field resonance mode generated by synchronization of the resonance frequency with them.

Claims

1. A wireless power supply system comprising:

a power sending resonance coil that has an air coil and a capacitor connected serially to the air coil, and transmits power as a first magnetic field wirelessly, the power sending resonance coil having a first resonant frequency within a predetermined range;

one or more relay resonance coils that resonate at a second resonant frequency within the predetermined range;

a power receiving resonance coil that resonates at a third resonant frequency within the predetermined range, the power receiving resonance coil being placed in a position where the power receiving resonance coil does not receive power directly from the power sending resonance coil; and

a posture control apparatus that controls a direction of a coil axis of at least one of the power sending resonance coil, the power receiving resonance coil and the relay resonance coil, the direction of the coil axis being changed by the posture control apparatus,

wherein the one or more relay resonance coils relay power from the power sending resonance coil to the power receiving coil using a second magnetic field inducted by the first magnetic field,

the second magnetic field inducts a third magnetic field in the power receiving coil, and

the power receiving coil receives power using the third magnetic field.

2. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power sending resonance coil and the power receiving resonance coil are placed such that their coil axes are in a crossed, parallel or twisted positional relationship.

3. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power receiving resonance coil and the relay resonance coil are provided in an electric door mirror of a car operated by the posture control apparatus, and the power sending resonance coil is provided in a car body of the car.

4. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power receiving resonance coil is provided in each of a plurality of electric devices, and the power sending resonance coil is provided in a table on which the plurality of electric devices can be placed, or in a ceiling, floor or wall of a room in which the plurality of electric devices exist.

5. The wireless power supply system according to claim 4, wherein a first power receiving resonance coil in a first electric device among the plurality of electric devices relays power to a second power receiving resonance coil in a second electric device among the plurality of electric devices.

6. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power sending resonance coil and the relay resonance coil are provided in a car body of a car, and the power receiving resonance coil is provided in a car-exterior imaging apparatus installed on an exterior of the car.

7. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power sending resonance coil, the power receiving resonance coil and the relay resonance coil includes a capacitor.