Non-contact power supply system

• US 9,627,129 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2012
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Abe, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Gannon, Levi
• Application Number:
  US14/344,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20140361633A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,818 Days
• Field of Search: 307104
• 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 50/005 Mechanical details of housing or structure aiming to accommodate the power transfer means, e.g. mechanical integration of coils, antennas or transducers into emitting or receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/402 the two or more transmitting or the two or more receiving devices being integrated in the same unit, e.g. power mats with several coils or antennas with several sub-antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00045 Authentication, i.e. circuits for checking compatibility between one component, e.g. a battery or a battery charger, and another component, e.g. a power source

Abstract

In the present invention, it is possible to activate an electrical device, such as a flat-screen television or a photo frame, while the electrical device is located in a housing space (41) of a movable assembly (30). The degree of freedom in selecting the electrical device to be placed in the movable assembly (30) can be thus increased. Moreover, since a sliding door (movable assembly (30)) is moveable by sliding, the position of the sliding door, and thus of the electrical device, can be altered as a user desires.

Claims

1. A contactless power supply system comprising:

a power supplying device including a primary coil and supplies high frequency current to the primary coil to generate an alternating magnetic flux; and

a movable device including secondary coils that generate inductive voltage with the alternating magnetic flux, wherein

the power supplying device is fixed when set,

the movable device includes at least one accommodation area in which at least one electric device selected by a user is arranged,

the movable device is held by at least one guide rail to be slidable within a fixed range,

the movable device is coupled in a removable manner to the at least one guide rail, and

the movable device is configured to be movable relative to the power supplying device and be able to supply power to the at least one electric device through at least one of the secondary coils,

the secondary coils are arranged in a moving direction of the movable device relative to the power supplying device,

when the primary coil includes a side having length A in the moving direction of the movable device relative to the power supplying device, the secondary coil includes a side having length C in the moving direction, an interval of the two secondary coils is distance B, and the movable device includes a side having length D in the moving direction,

A, B, and C are set to satisfy A>

B+2C, and

A are further set to satisfy A<

D.

2. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device includes at least one accommodation area that accommodates the at least one electric device.

3. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device includes a shelf on which the at least one electric device may be set.

4. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power supplying device includes a resonance capacitor connected in series or in parallel to the primary coil.

5. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device includes a resonance capacitor connected in series or in parallel to the secondary coil.

6. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the movable device has one or more specifications.

7. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device includes an open/close body that is movable between a close position to partitioning two sections and an open position allowing for passage of an object.

8. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the guide rail is arranged on a wall, a ceiling, or a floor.

9. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device includes a cart.

10. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, further comprising:

rectifying circuits that respectively rectifies outputs of the secondary coils, and

one or more voltage stabilizing circuits that converts voltages from the rectifying circuits to a voltage that is the same as a commercial voltage and supplies the converted voltage to the electric device.

11. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a high frequency inverter that generates the high frequency current supplied to the primary coil,

wherein the high frequency inverter is of a resonance type.

12. The contactless power supply system according to claim 11, wherein the high frequency inverter is of a single-transistor voltage resonance type.

13. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one electric device is a contactless power supplying device that supplies power in a contactless manner to another electric device.

14. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power supplying device includes a core of a magnetic body arranged in the primary coil.

15. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device includes cores of a magnetic bodies arranged in the secondary coils.

16. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the movable device is coupled to a flexible structural object.