Wireless power receiver, charging arrangement and method for operating a wireless power receiver

• US 10,193,376 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2016
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ams AG (Ams-Osram AG)
• Original Assignee: ams AG (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Mazooji, Mohammad R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Diao, M Baye
• Application Number:
  US15/387,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20170179755A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 320108, 307104, 455 411, 455573
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0701 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/20 using microwaves or radio frequency waves
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/26 using coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/45 Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

A wireless power receiver (11) comprises an antenna (13), a capacitor (14) having a first terminal permanently connected to a first terminal (16) of the antenna (13) and a second terminal permanently connected to a second terminal (17) of the antenna (13), a first charge switch (18), a rectifier (15) having a first input (19) coupled to the antenna (13) via the first charge switch (18) and having a first output (22), and a communicator unit (35) with a first terminal coupled to the antenna (13).

Claims

1. A wireless power receiver, comprising:

an antenna;

a capacitor having a first terminal permanently connected to a first terminal of the antenna and a second terminal permanently connected to a second terminal of the antenna;

a first charge switch;

a rectifier having a first input coupled to the antenna via the first charge switch and having a first output; and

a communicator unit with a first terminal coupled to the antenna,

wherein the communicator unit comprises an amplifier circuit having a first output amplifier and a first input amplifier, and

wherein an output of the first output amplifier and an input of the first input amplifier are coupled to the first terminal of the communicator unit.

2. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein the rectifier comprises a first diode coupling the first input of the rectifier to the first output of the rectifier.

3. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, comprising a resistor having a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the antenna and a second terminal coupled to the second terminal of the antenna.

4. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein the wireless power receiver is configured for a passive load-modulation-amplitude method.

5. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, comprising a matching network arranged between the first terminal of the communicator unit and the antenna.

6. A charging arrangement, comprising:

a wireless power receiver according to claim 1; and

a power transmitting unit having a further antenna.

7. A wireless power receiver, comprising:

an antenna;

a capacitor having a first terminal permanently connected to a first terminal of the antenna and a second terminal permanently connected to a second terminal of the antenna;

a first charge switch;

a rectifier having a first input coupled to the antenna via the first charge switch and having a first output;

a communicator unit with a first terminal coupled to the antenna; and

a first communicator switch coupling the first terminal of the communicator unit to the antenna.

8. The wireless power receiver according to claim 7, wherein the wireless power receiver is designed

to set the first charge switch in a conducting state and the first communicator switch in a non-conducting state in a charging phase and

to set the first charge switch in a non-conducting state and the first communicator switch in a conducting state in an amplifier communication phase.

9. A wireless power receiver, comprising:

an antenna;

a capacitor having a first terminal permanently connected to a first terminal of the antenna and a second terminal permanently connected to a second terminal of the antenna;

a first charge switch;

a rectifier having a first input coupled to the antenna via the first charge switch and having a first output; and

a communicator unit with a first terminal coupled to the antenna,

wherein the wireless power receiver comprises a first bypass switch,

wherein the communicator unit comprises a communicator circuit, and

wherein the first bypass switch couples the antenna to a first bypass terminal of the communicator circuit.

10. The wireless power receiver according to claim 9, wherein the wireless power receiver is designed

to set the first bypass switch in a non-conducting state and the first communicator switch in a conducting state in an amplifier communication phase, and

to set the first bypass switch in a conducting state and the first communicator switch in a non-conducting state in a bypass communication phase.

11. The wireless power receiver according to claim 10, wherein a battery voltage of a battery of the wireless power receiver is higher than a predetermined threshold value in the amplifier communication phase and the battery voltage is equal or lower than the predetermined threshold value in the bypass communication phase.

12. The wireless power receiver according to claim 10, wherein the wireless power receiver is designed

to set the first bypass switch and the first communicator switch in a non-conducting state and the first charge switch in a conducting state in a charging phase, and

to set the first charge switch in a non-conducting state in the bypass communication phase and the amplifier communication phase.

13. The wireless power receiver according to claim 9, wherein the wireless power receiver is configured for an active-load-modulation method.

14. A method for operation of a wireless power receiver, wherein a first charge switch is arranged between an antenna and a rectifier and is set in a conducting state in a charging phase and in a non-conducting state in an amplifier communication phase,

wherein the wireless power receiver comprises the first charge switch, the rectifier, the antenna, a communicator unit coupled to the antenna and a capacitor having a first terminal permanently connected to a first terminal of the antenna and a second terminal permanently connected to a second terminal of the antenna,

wherein the communicator unit comprises an amplifier circuit having a first output amplifier and a first input amplifier, and

wherein an output of the first output amplifier and an input of the first input amplifier are coupled to the first terminal of the communicator unit.

15. A wireless power receiver, comprising:

an antenna;

a capacitor having a first terminal permanently connected to a first terminal of the antenna and a second terminal permanently connected to a second terminal of the antenna;

a first charge switch;

a rectifier having a first input coupled to the antenna via the first charge switch and having a first output;

a power management unit having an input coupled to the first output of the rectifier;

a battery coupled to a first output of the power management unit;

a first communicator switch; and

a communicator unit with a first terminal coupled via the first communicator switch to the antenna.