Electronic unit and power feeding system

• US 9,722,451 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2012
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Akiyoshi, Koichi, Uramoto, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Mohammed
• Application Number:
  US14/366,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20140333259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,692 Days
• Field of Search: 320108
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/05 using capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/60 responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

An electronic unit includes: an electricity reception section configured to receive power transmitted using one of a magnetic field and an electric field; a secondary battery; a charging section configured to charge the secondary battery based on incoming power received by the electricity reception section; a load configured to perform predetermined operation based on supplied power; a first power supply path running from one of a side of the electricity reception section and a side of the secondary battery to a side of the load via the charging section; and a second power supply path running from the electricity reception section side to the load side around the charging section.

Claims

1. An electronic unit, comprising:

an electricity reception section configured to receive power transmitted based on one of a magnetic field or an electric field;

a secondary battery;

a charging section configured to charge the secondary battery based on the received power;

a load configured to operate based on the received power;

a first power supply path configured to connect the electricity reception section and the secondary battery to the load via the charging section; and

a second power supply path configured to bypass the charging section to connect the electricity reception section to the load side, and

wherein the received power is supplied to the load through one of the first power supply path or the second power supply path based on a magnitude of the load.

2. The electronic unit according to claim 1, wherein each of the first power supply path and the second power supply path comprises a rectifier element.

3. The electronic unit according to claim 2, wherein the first power supply path further comprises a transistor connected in parallel to the rectifier element.

4. The electronic unit according to claim 3, wherein on the first power supply path, based on a determination that the received power is supplied to the load, the transistor is turned off and the rectifier element is turned on.

5. The electronic unit according to claim 3, wherein on the first power supply path, based on an absence of the supply of the received power to the load and a determination that a part of charged power stored in the secondary battery is supplied to the load to start the load, the transistor is turned on and the rectifier element is turned off.

6. The electronic unit according to claim 2, wherein the rectifier element is arranged in a direction along which the received power is supplied to the load side.

7. The electronic unit according to claim 1, wherein the second power supply path is valid based on a determination that the charging section is in an Under Voltage Lock Out (UVLO) mode,

wherein based on the magnitude of the load in the UVLO mode, an input voltage of the charging section is decreased to less than a determined threshold value.

8. The electronic unit according to claim 7, wherein based on the determination that the charging section is in the UVLO mode, supply of the received power to the load through the first power supply path is suspended.

9. The electronic unit according to claim 8, wherein based on the determination that the charging section is in the UVLO mode, the received power is supplied to the load through the second power supply path, and

a part of charged power stored in the secondary battery is supplied to the load through the first power supply path.

10. The electronic unit according to claim 1, wherein the first power supply path and the second power supply path are provided in the charging section.

12. The electronic unit according to claim 1, wherein the electricity reception section includes an electricity reception coil configured to receive the received power transmitted based on one of the magnetic field or the electric field.

11. A power feeding system, comprising:

one or more electronic units; and

a power feeding unit configured to transmit power based on one of a magnetic field or an electric field to each of the one or more electronic units,

wherein each of the one or more electronic units includes;

an electricity reception section configured to receive power transmitted from the power feeding unit;

a secondary battery;

a charging section configured to charge the secondary battery based on the received power;

a load configured to operate based on the received power;

a first power supply path configured to connect the electricity reception section and the secondary battery to the load via the charging section; and

a second power supply path configured to bypass the charging section to connect the electricity reception section to the load, and

wherein the received power is supplied to the load through one of the first power supply path or the second power supply path based on a magnitude of the load.