Power reception device, power transmission device, and power transmission system

• US 9,780,839 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2015
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Goma, Shinji, Tsubaki, Nobuhito, Kato, Noboru, Suesada, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Cavallari, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Evans, James
• Application Number:
  US14/719,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20150256228A1
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• 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 50/05 using capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/20 using microwaves or radio frequency waves
• 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: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An active electrode and a passive electrode are electrically field-coupled with an active electrode and a passive electrode provided in a power transmission device, respectively. Power in a high frequency voltage excited on the active electrode and the passive electrode is supplied to a mobile unit via a step-down transformer, a rectification smoothing circuit, and a DC-DC converter. A CPU turns off switches when wireless communication is carried out. The passive electrode functions as a booster antenna that is magnetically field-coupled with an antenna coil. A high frequency signal outputted from an RF circuit is transmitted via the antenna coil and the passive electrode, and a high frequency signal transmitted from the power transmission circuit is inputted, via the passive electrode and the antenna coil, to the RF circuit.

Claims

1. A power reception device comprising:

a feeding coil for wireless data communication;

a wireless communication circuit that includes a wireless IC chip and a feeding circuit configured to transmit and receive high frequency signals via the feeding coil;

a first electrode configured to be electrically field-coupled with a power transmission device;

a conductor member configured as a booster antenna magnetically field-coupled with the feeding coil during wireless data communication with the power transmission device and configured as a second electrode electrically field-coupled with the power transmission device when power is received from the power transmission device; and

a power supply circuit coupled to the first electrode and the conductor member and configured to supply power to a load when the first electrode and the conductor member are electric field-coupled to the power transmission device.

2. The power reception device according to claim 1, wherein the power supply circuit includes a step-down transformer configured to step down an AC voltage excited when the first electrode and the conductor member are electric field-coupled to the power transmission device and a rectification circuit configured to rectify a stepped-down AC voltage.

3. The power reception device according to claim 1, further comprising at least one switch coupled between the power supply circuit and at least one of the first electrode and the conductor member.

4. The power reception device according to claim 3, wherein the at least one switch is open during wireless data communication with the power transmission device and is closed when the first electrode and the conductor member are electric field-coupled to the power transmission device.

5. The power reception device according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode comprises a smaller surface area than a surface area of the conductor member.

6. The power reception device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a power reception surface that opposes the power transmission device when the power reception device is positioned on the power transmission device,

wherein the conductor member is disposed in the power reception device a same distance or a farther distance from the power reception surface than the first electrode, and the feeding coil is disposed in the power reception device such that a portion of the conductor member is disposed between the power reception surface and at least a portion of the feeding coil.

7. The power reception device according to claim 1, wherein the conductor member is disposed in the power reception device so as to surround the first electrode.

8. The power reception device according to claim 6, wherein the feeding coil is a planar coil with a coil opening disposed in the power reception device so as to oppose the power reception surface, and the power reception device further includes a magnetic member disposed on a surface of the feeding coil that is farther from the power reception surface than the feeding coil.

9. A power transmission system comprising:

a power transmission device configured to transmit an AC voltage by electric field coupling; and

a power reception device configure to receive an AC voltage transmitted from the power transmission device by electric field coupling, the power reception device including;

a feeding coil for wireless data communication;

a wireless communication circuit that includes a wireless IC chip and a feeding circuit configured to transmit and receive high frequency signals via the feeding coil;

a first electrode configured to be electrically field-coupled with the power transmission device;

a conductor member configured as a booster antenna magnetically field-coupled with the feeding coil during wireless data communication with the power transmission device and configured as a second electrode electrically field-coupled with the power transmission device when power is received from the power transmission device; and

a power supply circuit coupled to the first electrode and the conductor member and configured to supply power to a load when the first electrode and the conductor member are electric field-coupled to the power transmission device.

10. The power transmission system according to claim 9, wherein the power reception device further comprises at least one switch coupled between the power supply circuit and at least one of the first electrode and the conductor member.

11. The power transmission system according to claim 10, wherein the at least one switch is open during wireless data communication with the power transmission device and is closed when the first electrode and the conductor member are electric field-coupled to the power transmission device.