Electric power supplying device, of a wireless electric power transmission apparatus and method for supplying electric power

• US 9,899,874 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2013
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nera Innovations Limited (Atlantic IP Services Limited)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Bae, Su Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Evans, James
• Application Number:
  US14/390,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20150102683A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,786 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type

Abstract

A power supply device for a wireless power transmitting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a power supply unit to supply DC power, an AC power generating unit to generate AC power by using the DC power, and a harmonic component reduction unit to reduce a magnitude of power for a harmonic frequency component in the generated AC power.

Claims

1. A wireless power transmitter comprising:

a power supply device including a power supply unit;

an AC power generating unit to convert a DC power supplied from the power supply unit into an AC power;

a DC-DC converter to convert the DC power supplied from the power supply unit into DC power having a predetermined magnitude, and to transmit the converted DC power to the AC power generating unit;

a harmonic component reduction unit to reduce a magnitude of power for a harmonic frequency component in the generated AC power; and

a wireless power transmitting apparatus including a transmission coil unit,

wherein the harmonic component reduction unit comprises a power consumption preventing unit and a current variation adjusting unit,

wherein the power consumption preventing unit includes an inductor,

wherein the current variation adjusting unit includes an inductor,

wherein the power consumption preventing unit is arranged between the AC power generating unit and the transmission coil unit, and

wherein the current variation adjusting unit is arranged between the DC-DC converter and the AC power generating unit.

2. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the transmission coil unit comprises a transmission induction coil unit.

3. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 2, wherein the transmission induction coil unit comprises a capacitor and a transmission induction coil.

4. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 2, wherein the inductor of the power consumption prevention unit is arranged between the AC power generating unit and the capacitor of the transmission induction coil unit.

5. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 4, wherein the inductor of the power consumption prevention unit, the capacitor of the transmission induction coil unit, and the transmission induction coil of the transmission induction coil unit are arranged in series, and

wherein the capacitor of the transmission induction coil unit is arranged between the inductor of the power consumption prevention unit and the transmission induction coil of the transmission induction coil unit.

6. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the transmission coil unit includes a transmission resonance coil unit including a capacitor and a transmission resonance coil.

7. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the power consumption preventing unit reduces the magnitude of the power for the harmonic frequency component by increasing an input impedance measured when the wireless power transmitting apparatus is seen from the power supply device, and

wherein the harmonic component reduction unit comprises a current variation adjusting unit to reduce the magnitude of the power for the harmonic frequency component by adjusting a variation of current applied from the power supply unit to the AC power generating unit.

8. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the power supply device further comprises MOSFETs to convert the DC power into the AC power and a driver to apply AC power signals having equal magnitudes and phases opposite to each other to the MOSFETs.

9. The wireless power transmitter according to claim 8, wherein the power supply device further comprises an oscillator to apply an AC power signal having a predetermined frequency to the driver.