Contactless power supply system

• US 9,716,386 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2014
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HEADS Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: HEADS Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Honda, Keiichi, Imoto, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Rodas, Richard Isla
• Assistant Examiner(s): DIBENEDETTO, MICHAEL N
• Application Number:
  US14/416,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20150207332A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,238 Days
• Field of Search: 320108, 320109, 307104, 336180, 336183, 336223, 336232
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 7/003 for vehicles using stored power (e.g. charging stations)
• 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 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00308 Overvoltage protection
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

In a contactless power supply system 10 having a secondary coil 13 receiving electric power generated from a primary coil 12 to be connected to a high-frequency power source 11, and a resonance coil 14 arranged in direct contact with the secondary coil 13 in between the primary coil 12 and the secondary coil 13, respective planarly-viewed areas of the secondary and the resonance coils 13, 14 are equal to or smaller than a planarly-viewed area of the primary coil 12, the primary coil 12 is formed by planarly and spirally winding a first litz wire 25, the resonance coil 14 is formed by tandemly winding coils 27, 28 in a double layer, the coils 27, 28 being formed by planarly and spirally winding a second litz wire 26, and the secondary coil 13 is formed by parallelly arranging and planarly and spirally winding third litz wires 29, 29a.

Claims

1. A contactless power supply system, comprising:

a primary coil to be connected to a high-frequency power source;

a secondary coil to receive electric power generated from the primary coil;

a resonance coil arranged in direct contact with the secondary coil in between the primary coil and the secondary coil; and

a rectifier circuit to convert output generated in the secondary coil to direct current, wherein

respective planarly-viewed areas of the secondary coil and the resonance coil are equal to or smaller than a planarly-viewed area of the primary coil,

the primary coil is formed by planarly and spirally winding a first litz wire,

the resonance coil is formed by winding coils in series in a double layer,

the coils being formed by planarly and spirally winding a second litz wire,

in the case of the secondary coil, two third litz wires are parallelly arranged and planarly and spirally wound, and

the contactless power supply system is for charging a battery of a service vehicle moving inside a factory, the primary coil is to be arranged along a lane of the service vehicle, and the secondary coil and the resonance coil are to be mounted on the service vehicle.

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

the first litz wire of the primary coil, each wind of which adjacent to one another, is arranged at intervals.

3. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the primary coil, the secondary coil and the resonance coil are formed in an outlined rectangular shape with corner portions thereof having a roundish shape in planar view.

4. The contactless power supply system according to claim 1, whereinrespective dimensions of the primary coil, the secondary coil, and the resonance coil along a width of the lane are in the range of 350 to 600 mm in planar view, 2) a length of the primary coil along the lane is in the range of 350 to 800 mm in planar view, and 3) lengths of the secondary coil and the resonance coil along the lane are in the range of 350 to 650 mm in planar view.

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

a plurality of rod-like ferrite cores are provided on the back of the primary coil in a state of crossing a winding wire of the primary coil.

6. The contactless power supply system according to claim 5, wherein

an aluminum plate holding the primary coil and the rod-like ferrite cores and having a plate thickness of 3 to 10 mm is provided on the back of the rod-like ferrite cores.

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

a capacitor and a resistance are tandemly connected to the resonance coil,

a switching element circuit is parallelly connected to the resistance, and

by detecting output current and output voltage of the rectifier circuit by a controlling circuit, feedback control that changes a duty ratio of ons and offs of the switching element circuit is performed so as to control each of the output current and the output voltage of the rectifier circuit to be at a constant value or less.

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

respective planarly-viewed areas of the secondary coil and the resonance coil are smaller than a planarly-viewed area of the primary coil.