POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM

• US 20110234012A1
• Filed: 09/10/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YI, Kang-hyun, YANG, Joon-hyun, AGARWAL, Pankaj, CHOI, Sung-jin
• Application Number:
  US12/879,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20110234012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/104
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence

Abstract

A wireless power transceiving system includes a power transmitting apparatus which converts power into a resonance wave and transmits the resonance wave, and a power receiving apparatus which receives the transmitted resonance wave and converts the resonance wave into DC power using a series resonant rectifier circuit which is impedance matched with impedance of the power receiving apparatus at a frequency of the resonance wave.

Claims

1. A wireless power transceiving system comprising:

a power transmitting apparatus which converts power into a resonance wave and transmits the resonance wave; and

a power receiving apparatus which receives the transmitted resonance wave and converts the resonance wave into direct current (DC) power using a series resonant rectifier circuit which is impedance matched with impedance generated in the power receiving apparatus by parasitic components at a frequency of the resonance wave.

2. The wireless power transceiving system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power receiving apparatus comprises a reception resonator which receives the transmitted resonance wave, and

wherein the series resonant rectifier circuit comprises:

a rectifier which rectifies the resonance wave into the DC power; and

a capacitive element which is connected in series between the reception resonator and the rectifier and adjusts the impedance of the power receiving apparatus.

3. The wireless power transceiving system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the rectifier comprises a full wave rectifier.

4. The wireless power transceiving system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the rectifier comprises:

a first diode having an anode connected to the capacitive element and a cathode connected to a first output node;

a second diode having a cathode connected to the capacitive element and an anode connected to a second output node;

a third diode having an anode connected to the reception resonator and a cathode connected to the first output node; and

a fourth diode having a cathode connected to the reception resonator and an anode connected to the second output node.

5. The wireless power transceiving system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the power receiving apparatus further comprises a smoothing circuit which is connected in parallel to the first output node and the second output node.

6. The wireless power transceiving system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the power receiving apparatus further comprises an adjuster which adjusts a capacitance value of the capacitive element to adjust the impedance of the power receiving apparatus according to a size of a load connected in parallel to the first output node and the second output node.

7. The wireless power transceiving system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power transmitting apparatus comprises:

a power supply unit which supplies power; and

a transmission resonator which converts the supplied power into the resonance wave and transmits the resonance wave to the power receiving apparatus.

8. A power receiving apparatus comprising:

a reception resonator which receives a resonance wave transmitted from an external source;

a rectifier which converts the received resonance wave into direct current (DC) power;

a load unit which consumes the DC power; and

a capacitive element which is connected in series between the reception resonator and the rectifier and adjusts impedance of the power receiving apparatus.

9. The power receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the rectifier comprises a full wave rectifier.

10. The power receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the rectifier comprises:

a first diode having an anode connected to the capacitive element and a cathode connected to a first output node;

a second diode having a cathode connected to the capacitive element and an anode connected to a second output node;

a third diode having an anode connected to the reception resonator and a cathode connected to the first output node; and

a fourth diode having a cathode connected to the reception resonator and an anode connected to the second output node.

11. The power receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a smoothing circuit which is connected in parallel to the first output node and the second output node.

12. The power receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising an adjuster which measures a load size of the load unit and adjusts a capacitance value of the capacitive element to adjust the impedance of the power receiving apparatus according to the measured load size.

13. The power receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the capacitive element comprises at least one of a capacitor, a variable capacitor, and a circuit in which a plurality of groups each including a variable capacitor and a switch element connected to each other in parallel is connected to one another in series.

14. The power receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the power receiving apparatus comprises at least one of a remote controller and three-dimensional glasses which communicate wirelessly with a display apparatus.

15. An apparatus comprising:

a first device which converts electric power into a resonance wave and wirelessly transmits the resonance wave; and

a second device which receives the transmitted resonance wave and converts the resonance wave into direct circuit (DC) power, wherein the second device is impedance matched with impedance generated in the second device by parasitic components at a frequency of the resonance wave.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein the second device comprises:

a capacitive element which is connected in series with the reception resonator and adjusts the impedance of the power receiving apparatus;

a first diode having an anode connected to the capacitive element and a cathode connected to a first output node;

a second diode having a cathode connected to the capacitive element and an anode connected to a second output node;

a third diode having an anode connected to the reception resonator and a cathode connected to the first output node; and

a fourth diode having a cathode connected to the reception resonator and an anode connected to the second output node,

wherein the first, second, third, and fourth diodes generate the parasitic components at the frequency of the resonance wave, and

a capacitive value of the capacitive element is specified to compensate the impedance generated in the second device by the parasitic components.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the capacitive element comprises capacitors connected in parallel to one another and each connected in series to a corresponding switch element.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the second device further comprises:

an adjuster which adjusts the capacitance value of the capacitive element by turning on and off the capacitors by closing and opening the corresponding switching elements to regulate the impedance of the second device.