Rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply

• US 9,979,315 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2013
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2013
• 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): Berthane, Adolf
• Assistant Examiner(s): Iliya, Bart
• Application Number:
  US15/030,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20160254759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,649 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0058 by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/14 Arrangements for reducing ripples from dc input or output
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/06 using discharge tubes without control electrode or semiconductor devices without control electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/219 in a bridge configuration
• 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

A rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply that rectifies an alternating voltage at a high frequency exceeding 2 MHz, the rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply including a bridge rectifier circuit that rectifies the alternating voltage inputted from a reception antenna for power transmission, a matching functional circuit that matches a resonance condition to that of the reception antenna for power transmission, and a smoothing functional circuit that smooths the voltage rectified by the bridge rectifier circuit into a direct voltage, in which the rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply causes the bridge rectifier circuit to perform partial resonant switching in a switching operation at the time of rectification by using the matching functional circuit and the smoothing functional circuit.

Claims

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

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

a pair of output terminals;

an inductor having one end connected to one of the pair of input terminals to which an alternating voltage at a frequency exceeding 2 MHz is to be inputted from the reception antenna for power transmission;

a bridge rectifier circuit having parasitic capacitance, the bridge rectifier circuit being connected to the other end of the inductor and the other of the pair of input terminals; and

a smoothing capacitor having one end connected to one of the pair of output terminals and another end connected to the other of the pair of output terminals, between the bridge rectifier circuit and the pair of output terminals, and

wherein the inductor, the parasitic capacitance, and the smoothing capacitor cause said bridge rectifier circuit to perform partial resonant switching in a switching operation at a time of rectification of the bridge rectifier circuit.

2. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein said bridge rectifier circuit is 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 bridge rectifier circuit is configured using field effect transistors.

5. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein the inductor matches the resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to magnetic-field resonance.

6. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein the inductor matches the resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to electromagnetic induction.

7. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 1, wherein the inductor causes the resonance condition to be variable.

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

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

a pair of output terminals;

an inductor having one end connected to one of the pair of input terminals to which an alternating voltage at a frequency exceeding 2 MHz is to be inputted from the reception antenna for power transmission;

a bridge rectifier circuit having parasitic capacitance, the bridge rectifier circuit being connected to other end of the inductor and the other of the pair of input terminals;

a smoothing capacitor having one end connected to one of the pair of output terminals and another end connected to the other of the pair of output terminals, between the bridge rectifier circuit and the pair of output terminals; and

a second capacitor connected in parallel to each element of the bridge rectifier circuit, and

wherein the inductor, the parasitic capacitance, the second capacitor, and the smoothing capacitor cause the bridge rectifier circuit to perform partial resonant switching in a switching operation at a time of rectification of the bridge rectifier circuit.

9. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 8, wherein said bridge rectifier circuit is configured using diodes.

10. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 9, wherein said diodes are ones other than diodes for high frequency.

11. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 8, wherein said bridge rectifier circuit is configured using field effect transistors.

12. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 8, wherein the inductor matches the resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to magnetic-field resonance.

13. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 8, wherein the inductor matches the resonance condition to that of said reception antenna for power transmission according to electromagnetic induction.

14. The rectifying circuit for high-frequency power supply according to claim 8, wherein the inductor causes the resonance condition to be variable.