POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT

• US 20090015197A1
• Filed: 07/11/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: ONISHI, Kota, SOGABE, Haruhiko
• Application Number:
  US12/171,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20090015197A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/60 responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0034 using reverse polarity correcting or protecting circuits mechanical means of polarity protection H02J7/0045
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007192 in response to temperature

Abstract

A power transmission device includes a resonant capacitor that forms a series resonant circuit with a primary coil, a first power transmission driver and a second power transmission driver that drive the primary coil, and a control IC that outputs driver control signals to the first and second power transmission drivers. The resonant capacitor, the first and second power transmission drivers, and the control IC are provided on a substrate. An output terminal that outputs the driver control signal to the first transmission driver is provided on a first side of the control IC, an output terminal that outputs the driver control signal to the second transmission driver is provided on a second side of the control IC, and an input terminal that receives a signal waveform at one of coil connection terminals through a waveform detection wiring pattern is disposed on a third side of the control IC. The resonant capacitor, the first power transmission driver, and the second power transmission driver are disposed between a first substrate side parallel to the first side of the control IC and the control IC, and the waveform detection wiring pattern extends in an area between a second substrate side and an extension of the third side of the control IC and is connected to one of the coil connection terminals.

Claims

1. A power transmission device that includes a primary coil and electromagnetically couples the primary coil with a secondary coil of a power reception device to supply power to a load of the power reception device, the power transmission device comprising:

coil connection terminals respectively connected to ends of the primary coil;

a resonant capacitor that forms a series resonant circuit with the primary coil;

a first power transmission driver and a second power transmission driver that drive the primary coil from the ends of the primary coil through the coil connection terminals; and

a control IC that outputs driver control signals to the first power transmission driver and the second power transmission driver,

the coil connection terminals, the resonant capacitor, the first power transmission driver, the second power transmission driver, and the control IC being provided on a substrate;

the control IC being formed in the shape of a quadrangle that has a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side, a first output terminal that outputs the driver control signal to the first transmission driver being provided adjacent to the first side, a second output terminal that outputs the driver control signal to the second transmission driver being provided adjacent to the second side crossing the first side, and an input terminal that receives a signal waveform at one of the coil connection terminals through a waveform detection wiring pattern being disposed adjacent to the third side opposite to the second side;

the resonant capacitor, the first power transmission driver, and the second power transmission driver being disposed between a first substrate side and the control IC, the first substrate side being parallel to the first side of the control IC; and

the waveform detection wiring pattern extending in an area between a second substrate side parallel to the third side of the control IC and an extension of the third side of the control IC and being connected to one of the coil connection terminals.

2. The power transmission device as defined in claim 1,

the resonant capacitor, the first power transmission driver, and the second power transmission driver being disposed at a position shifted to the control IC side of the extension of the third side of the control IC.

3. The power transmission device as defined in claim 1,

the waveform detection wiring pattern including a wide pattern that is formed along the first substrate side and connected to one of the coil connection terminals, and a narrow pattern that is formed along the first substrate side and connected to the input terminal provided on the third side of the control IC.

4. The power transmission device as defined in claim 3,

the power transmission device including power supply patterns provided on a non-mounting surface of the substrate, the non-mounting surface being a back surface of a mounting surface provided with the control IC,

the power supply patterns including:

a power ground power supply pattern connected to the first power transmission driver and the second power transmission driver; and

an analog ground power supply pattern and a digital ground power supply pattern connected to power supply terminals of the control IC; and

the power ground power supply pattern being connected to the analog ground power supply pattern and the digital ground power supply pattern only in an area of a ground terminal provided on a third substrate side parallel to the fourth side of the control IC.

5. The power transmission device as defined in claim 4,

the power ground power supply pattern being provided from a first area of the non-mounting surface that is the back surface opposite to a second area where the resonant capacitor, the first power transmission driver, and the second power transmission driver are provided, passing through a third area of the non-mounting surface that is the back surface opposite to a fourth area opposite to the narrow pattern across the control IC, and being connected to the ground terminal provided on the third substrate side.

6. The power transmission device as defined in claim 1,

the power transmission device including an oscillator that is provided on a mounting surface of the substrate and connected to a terminal provided on the first side of the control IC, the oscillator being provided between the first power transmission driver and the first side of the control IC and between the second power transmission driver and the first side of the control IC.

7. The power transmission device as defined in claim 6,

the oscillator being disposed at a first corner side of the control IC, the first corner side including a corner where the first side intersects the third side;

and

a power supply component disposed at a second corner side of the control IC, the second corner side including a corner where the second side intersects the fourth side.

8. The power transmission device as defined in claim 1,

the power transmission device further including a first thermistor that detects a temperature of the primary coil, and a second thermistor that detects an ambient temperature,

the control IC including a temperature detection circuit that calculates a difference between the temperature of the primary coil from the first thermistor and the ambient temperature from the second thermistor.

9. The power transmission device as defined in claim 1,

the power transmission device further including a first thermistor that detects a temperature of the primary coil, and a second thermistor that detects an ambient temperature,

the control IC including a temperature detection circuit that detects an abnormality of tan δ

of the resonant capacitor by calculating a difference between the temperature of the primary coil from the first thermistor and the ambient temperature from the second thermistor.

10. The power transmission device as defined in claim 8,

the control IC including a control circuit that stops power transmission using the first power transmission driver and the second power transmission driver when the temperature detection circuit has detected an abnormality in temperature.

11. An electronic instrument comprising the power transmission device as defined in claim 1.