CHARGING AC ADAPTOR

• US 20120170323A1
• Filed: 01/04/2012
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: IIDA, Jun, HATANO, Hiroyuki, UTSUNOMIYA, Kimitake
• Application Number:
  US13/343,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20120170323A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/16
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2804 Printed windings
• 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: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge

Abstract

A charging AC adaptor includes: a first diode bridge connected to an AC terminal; a chopper controller connected to the first diode bridge; an insulating air core transformer connected to the chopper controller; a second diode bridge connected to a secondary side of the insulating air core transformer; a DC output terminal connected to the second diode bridge; and a common connection cable connected to the DC output terminal. The charging AC adaptor is connectable to a portable device via the common connection cable.

Claims

1. A charging AC adaptor comprising:

a first diode bridge connected to an AC terminal;

a chopper controller connected to the first diode bridge;

an insulating air core transformer connected to the chopper controller;

a second diode bridge connected to a secondary side of the insulating air core transformer;

a DC output terminal connected to the second diode bridge; and

a common connection cable connected to the DC output terminal,

wherein the charging AC adaptor is connectable to a portable device via the common connection cable.

2. The charging AC adaptor of claim 1, wherein the insulating air core transformer includes:

a board;

a primary coil and a secondary coil which are arranged on a front surface of the board and are formed of a pattern of conductive layers having a spiral shape of a plurality of winding turns; and

a primary coil and a secondary coil which are arranged on a rear surface opposite the front surface of the board and are formed of a pattern of conductive layers having a spiral shape of a plurality of winding turns.

3. The charging AC adaptor of claim 2, wherein the insulating air core transformer constitutes a double tuned circuit by connecting resonance capacitors to the primary coils and the secondary coils, respectively.

4. The charging AC adaptor of claim 3, wherein the insulating air core transformer has a magnetic coupling coefficient of 0.8 or more and an unloaded Q value of 50 or more.

5. The charging AC adaptor of claim 2, wherein the chopper controller controls a tuning by detecting a primary side resonance frequency and a secondary side resonance frequency of the insulating air core transformer.

6. The charging AC adaptor of claim 1, wherein a voltage obtained by bridge-rectifying an AC voltage of the AC terminal by means of the first diode bridge is converted into a low voltage in the chopper controller.

7. The charging AC adaptor of claim 1, wherein the charging AC adaptor determines an input DC voltage of the portable device and supplies a supply voltage adjusted to the input DC voltage to the portable device, so that a shape of the common connection cable having no voltage dependency can be standardized to allow the charging AC adaptor to be used in common for various kinds of portable devices.

8. The charging AC adaptor of claim 1, wherein, when the portable device is connected to the charging AC adaptor, the portable device transmits feedback information including detection information of the input voltage to the charging AC adaptor via the common connection cable and the charging AC adaptor receives the feedback information via the DC output terminal and transmits the received feedback information to the chopper controller via the insulating air core transformer.