WIRELESS POWER FEEDER AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

• US 20120200169A1
• Filed: 02/08/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: URANO, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US13/369,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20120200169A1
• 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

Power is transmitted based on magnetic resonance from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3. An adjustment circuit 104 of a wireless power receiver 118 is supplied with a first AC power received by the receiving coil L3. An adjustment circuit 104 includes a DC circuit 106 and an AC circuit 150. The DC circuit 106 converts the first AC power into DC power. The AC circuit 150 converts the DC power into a second AC power. The adjustment circuit 104 outputs the DC power and second AC power simultaneously or selectively through separate channels.

Claims

1. A wireless power receiver that receives, at a receiving coil, AC power fed from a feeding coil by wireless based on a magnetic field coupling between the feeding coil and a receiving coil, the receiver comprising:

the receiving coil; and

an adjustment circuit that receives a first AC power received by the receiving coil, wherein

the adjustment circuit including;

a first conversion circuit that converts the first AC power into DC power; and

a second conversion circuit that converts the DC power into a second AC power of a predetermined frequency,

the adjustment circuit outputting the DC power and second AC power through separate channels.

2. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, further comprising a loading coil magnetically coupled to the receiving coil to receive the first AC power from the receiving coil, and wherein

the adjustment circuit receives the first AC power through the loading coil.

3. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein

the DC power output from the first conversion circuit is supplied to a DC connector installed in a wall surface of a house, and

the second AC power output from the second conversion circuit is supplied to an AC connector installed in the wall surface of the house.

4. The wireless power receiver according to claim 1, wherein

the second conversion circuit further includes:

a reference signal generation circuit that generates a reference signal at a reference frequency; and

a control signal generation circuit that receives an input signal including a frequency component lower than the reference frequency and generates a control signal representing a magnitude relation between a signal level of the reference signal and that of the input signal, and

the second conversion circuit generates the second AC power from the DC power according to the control signal.

5. The wireless power receiver according to claim 4, wherein

the control signal generation circuit changes a duty ratio of the control signal according to the magnitude relation between the signal level of the reference signal and that of the input signal.

6. A wireless power transmission system comprising:

the wireless power receiver as claimed in claim 1;

the feeding coil; and

a power transmission control circuit that supplies the feeding coil with AC power to make the feeding coil feed the AC power to the receiving coil.

7. The wireless power transmission system according to claim 6, wherein

the feeding coil is installed outdoors, and the receiving coil is installed indoors.

8. A wireless power transmission system for feeding power by wireless from a feeding coil to a receiving coil based on a magnetic field coupling between the feeding coil and receiving coil, the system comprising:

the feeding coil;

a plurality of the receiving coils;

a power transmission control circuit that supplies AC power to the feeding coil to make the feeding coil feed the AC power to the receiving coils;

a first conversion circuit that converts a first AC power received by each receiving coil into DC power; and

a second conversion circuit that converts the DC power into a second AC power of a predetermined frequency,

the receiving coils including a first receiving coil that outputs the DC power through the first conversion circuit and a second receiving coil that outputs the second AC power through both the first and second conversion circuits.