WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER

• US 20120217926A1
• Filed: 06/24/2011
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Yoon, Jung Ho, Lee, Kwang Du, Kim, Jeong Hoon, Yoon, Young Seok, Kim, Eung Ju, Hwang, Sang Hoon, Park, Chul Gyun
• Application Number:
  US13/168,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20120217926A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/266 One coil at each side, e.g. with primary and secondary coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a wireless power transfer system. The wireless power transfer system includes a wireless power transmitter receiving power input from the outside to generate a wireless power signal to be transmitted in wireless and transmitting the generated wireless power signal in wireless by a magnetic resonance manner using an LC serial-parallel resonance circuit; a wireless power receiver installed in a charging device to receive the wireless power signal transmitted from the wireless power transmitter by the magnetic resonance manner using the LC serial-parallel resonance circuit and output the received wireless power signal; and a charging circuit installed in the charging device to allow the power output from the wireless power receiver to charge an embedded battery, thereby making it possible to efficiently provide power in wireless.

Claims

1. A wireless power transfer system, comprising:

a wireless power transmitter receiving power input from the outside to generate a wireless power signal to be transmitted in wireless and transmitting the generated wireless power signal in wireless by a magnetic resonance manner using an LC serial-parallel resonance circuit;

a wireless power receiver installed in a charging device to receive the wireless power signal transmitted from the wireless power transmitter by the magnetic resonance manner using the LC serial-parallel resonance circuit and output the received wireless power signal; and

a charging circuit installed in the charging device to allow the power output from the wireless power receiver to charge an embedded battery.

2. The wireless power transfer system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the wireless power transmitter includes:

a frequency oscillator receiving external power to generate the wireless power signal to be transmitted;

a power amplifier amplifying and outputting the wireless power signal generated in the oscillator; and

a first resonance antenna including an LC serial-parallel resonance circuit and using a serial-parallel resonance frequency of the LC serial-parallel resonance circuit to transmit the wireless power signal by the magnetic resonance manner.

3. The wireless power transfer system as set forth in claim 2, wherein the first resonance antenna includes:

a first variable capacitor connected to the power amplifier in series to control capacitance in order to control impedance;

a second variable capacitor connected to the first variable capacitor in series to control capacitance in order to control power transfer efficiency; and

a first variable inductor connected to the second variable capacitor in parallel to control inductance in order to control power transfer efficiency.

4. The wireless power transfer system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the wireless power receiver includes:

a second resonance antenna including the LC serial-parallel resonance circuit and using the serial-parallel resonance frequency of the LC serial-parallel resonance circuit to receive the wireless power signal transmitted from the wireless power transmitter by the magnetic resonance manner and output the wireless power signal; and

a power signal converter connected to the charging circuit and converting the wireless power signal received in the second resonance antenna into a power signal according to a power supplying manner and providing the converted power signal to the charging circuit.

5. The wireless power transfer system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the second resonance antenna includes:

a third variable capacitor connected to the power signal converter in series to control capacitance in order to control impedance;

a fourth variable capacitor connected to the third variable capacitor in series to control capacitance in order to control power transfer efficiency; and

a second variable inductor connected to the fourth variable capacitor in parallel to control inductance in order to control the power transfer efficiency.

6. The wireless power transfer system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the wireless power receiver further includes a power switch disposed between the power signal converter and the charging circuit to block the power transmission received in the second resonance antenna.