Coil unit, wireless power feeding device, wireless power receiving device, and wireless power transmission device

• US 9,935,500 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2016
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Saen, Tsunehiro, Nishiyama, Tetsuya, Suzuki, Mitsunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barnett, Joel
• Application Number:
  US15/049,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20160261146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/363 made of electrically conductive material
• 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 50/12 of the resonant type

Abstract

A coil unit, a wireless power feeding device, a wireless power receiving device, and a wireless power transmission device are provided that can reduce high induced voltage on the metal part. A coil unit includes a power transmission coil, reactance circuits and that each form a resonant circuit together with the power transmission coil, and a metal part disposed on the same side as the back side of the power transmission coil. A ratio between a first reactance value of the first reactance circuit and a second reactance value of the second reactance circuit is set based on the ratio of the mean distance between the winding and the metal part in a part of the winding from the other end to the central portion to the mean distance between the winding and the metal part in a part of the winding from one end to the central portion.

Claims

1. A coil unit comprising:

a power transmission coil;

a reactance circuit that forms a resonant circuit together with the power transmission coil; and

a metal part disposed on a same side as a back side of the power transmission coil,

wherein the reactance circuit has a first reactance circuit connected to one end of a winding of the power transmission coil, and a second reactance circuit connected to another end of the winding of the power transmission coil,

a ratio of a second reactance value of the second reactance circuit to a first reactance value of the first reactance circuit is set based on a ratio of a mean distance between the winding and the metal part in a part of the winding from the one end to a central portion to a mean distance between the winding and the metal part in a part of the winding from the other end to the central portion, and

a ratio M of the second reactance value to the first reactance value is set so as to satisfy Equations (1) and (2) below;

M=(1+α

)/(1−

α

) 

 

Equation (1)

α

={(n−

1)/(n+1)}·

(f/f₀)² 

 

Equation (2)

where n denotes the ratio of the mean distance between the winding and the metal part in the part of the winding from the other end to the central portion to the mean distance between the winding and the metal part in the part of the winding from the one end to the central portion, f denotes a frequency of an alternating current that passes through the power transmission coil during power transmission, and f₀ denotes a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit.

2. The coil unit according to claim 1, wherein the winding of the power transmission coil is wound continuously in a layered manner.

3. A wireless power feeding device comprising

a power feeding coil unit,

wherein the power feeding coil unit is the coil unit according to claim 1.

4. A wireless power receiving device comprising

a power receiving coil unit,

wherein the power receiving coil unit is the coil unit according to claim 1.

5. A wireless power transmission device comprising:

a wireless power feeding device having a power feeding coil unit; and

a wireless power receiving device having a power receiving coil unit,

wherein at least one of the power feeding coil unit and the power receiving coil unit is the coil unit according to claim 1.