Rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply

• US 9,742,307 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubshi Electric Engineering Company Limited (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubshi Electric Engineering Company Limited (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Akuzawa, Yoshiyuki, Sakai, Kiyohide, Ezoe, Toshihiro, Ito, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhane, Adolf
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE III, HENRY E
• Application Number:
  US15/031,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20160248339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/05 using capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/20 using microwaves or radio frequency waves
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/06 using discharge tubes without control electrode or semiconductor devices without control electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/217 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

Disclosed is a rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply that rectifies an alternating voltage at a high frequency equal to or higher than 2 MHz, the rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply including a current doubler rectifier circuit that rectifies the alternating voltage inputted from a reception antenna for power transmission 10, a partial resonant circuit that causes the current doubler rectifier circuit to perform partial resonant switching in a switching operation at the time of rectification, a matching functional circuit that has a function of matching a resonance condition to that of the reception antenna for power transmission 10, and a function of matching the resonance condition to that of the partial resonant circuit, and a smoothing functional circuit that smooths the voltage rectified by the current doubler rectifier circuit into a direct voltage.

Claims

1. A rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply comprising:

a pair of input terminals connected to a reception antenna for power transmission;

a first inductor whose one terminal is connected to a terminal, to which an alternating voltage at a high frequency equal to or higher than 2 MHz is inputted from the reception antenna for power transmission, the terminal being one of the pair of input terminals;

a first capacitor whose one end is connected to an other end of the first inductor and whose other end is connected to the other of the pair of input terminals;

a second inductor whose one end is connected to the other end of the first inductor and whose other end is connected to the other of the pair of input terminals;

a first rectifying element, having first parasitic capacitance, whose one end is connected to one end of the second inductor;

a second rectifying element, having second parasitic capacitance, whose one end is connected to the other of the pair of input terminals and whose other end is connected to an other end of the first rectifying element;

a third inductor whose one end is connected to the other end of the first rectifying element; and

a second capacitor whose one end is connected to an other end of the third inductor and whose other end is connected to the other of the pair of input terminals,

wherein the second and third inductors, the first and second parasitic capacitances, and the first capacitor cause the first and second rectifying elements to perform partial resonant switching in a switching operation at a time of rectification of the first and second rectifying elements.

2. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said first and second rectifying elements are configured using diodes.

3. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 2, wherein said diodes are ones other than diodes for high frequency.

4. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said first and second rectifying elements are configured using field effect transistors.

5. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said first and second rectifying elements are configured using diodes and field effect transistors.

6. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said first inductor and said first capacitor match a resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to magnetic-field resonance.

7. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said first inductor and said first capacitor match a resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to electric-field resonance.

8. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein first inductor and said first capacitor match a resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to electromagnetic induction.

9. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said first inductor and said first capacitor have a variable resonance condition.