WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

• US 20120019075A1
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: CHO, In-Kui, YUN, Je-Hoon, MOON, Jung-Ick, KIM, Seong-Min
• Application Number:
  US13/186,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20120019075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/104
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49071 by winding or coiling

Abstract

A wireless power transfer apparatus includes: a transmitting coil into which a current having a predetermined frequency is introduced; a receiving coil configured to supply a current induced by electromagnetic induction to a load; and a transmission-side resonant coil and a reception-side resonant coil positioned between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil, configured to provide the current flowing in the transmitting coil to the receiving coil through electromagnetic induction, and spaced a predetermined distance from each other. Each of the resonant coils has a spiral structure.

Claims

1. A wireless power transfer apparatus comprising:

a transmitting coil into which a current having a predetermined frequency is introduced;

a receiving coil configured to supply a current induced by electromagnetic induction to a load; and

a transmission-side resonant coil and a reception-side resonant coil positioned between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil, configured to provide the current flowing in the transmitting coil to the receiving coil through electromagnetic induction, and spaced a predetermined distance from each other,

wherein each of the resonant coils has a spiral structure.

2. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 1, wherein the resonant coil comprises a conducting plate having a predetermined line width and line thickness, and is constructed in a circular spiral structure.

3. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 1, wherein the resonant coil comprises a conducting plate having a predetermined line width and line thickness, and is constructed in a rectangular spiral structure.

4. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a predetermined dielectric material inserted between the conducting plates having a spiral structure.

5. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 2, wherein the resonant coil is constructed by stacking two or more spiral layers in a helical shape and coupling the spiral layers.

6. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 5, wherein the resonant coil comprises a predetermined dielectric material inserted between the two or more spiral layers.

7. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 5, wherein each of the two or more spiral layers is rotated (wound) in the opposite direction of the rotation direction (winding direction) of another spiral layer which is directly contacted.

8. The wireless power transfer apparatus of claim 7, wherein the two or more spiral layers are coupled in such a manner that when the induced currents are passed in the respective spiral layers, the currents flow in the same direction.

9. A method for manufacturing a resonant coil forming a wireless power transfer apparatus, comprising:

winding a conducting plate having a predetermined line width and line thickness in a spiral shape;

stacking two or more spiral layers in a helical shape such that each of the spiral layers is wound in the opposite direction of the winding direction of another spiral layer which is directly contacted; and

coupling the respective spiral layers through a conducting plate such that magnetic fields generated by the currents induced between the spiral layers complement each other.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the spiral shape comprises a rectangular shape.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the spiral shape comprises a circular shape.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein a predetermined dielectric material is inserted between the conducting plates forming the spiral layers.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein a predetermined dielectric material is inserted between the spiral layers.

14. A method for tuning a resonant frequency in a resonant coil forming a wireless power transfer apparatus, the method comprising:

a plurality of spiral layers constructed by winding conducting plates having a predetermined line width and line thickness in a spiral shape and stacked in a helical shape such that the winding direction of each of the spiral layers is set in the opposite direction of the winding direction of another spiral layer which is directly contacted; and

a conducting plate coupling the spiral layers such that magnetic fields generated by currents induced between the spiral layers complement each other.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the spiral layers is moved by a distance corresponding to a predetermined resonant frequency in a one-axis direction.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the conducting plate has a line width corresponding to a predetermined resonant frequency.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein a predetermined dielectric material is inserted between the spiral layers and between the conducting plates forming the spiral layers, and

a distance between the conducting plates which form the spiral layers and between which the dielectric material is inserted is controlled to a distance corresponding to a predetermined resonant frequency.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein one of the spiral layers is coupled to a capacitor having a value corresponding to a predetermined resonant frequency.