WIRELESS CHARGER WITH COIL POSITION ADJUSTABILITY

• US 20150097519A1
• Filed: 10/08/2013
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cyberpower Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Cyberpower Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: CHEN, Chih-Ming
• Application Number:
  US14/048,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20150097519A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/005 Mechanical details of housing or structure aiming to accommodate the power transfer means, e.g. mechanical integration of coils, antennas or transducers into emitting or receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters

Abstract

A wireless charger includes a base unit including a base member and a rack mounted at the base member for holding a mobile electronic device, a push-pull unit including a sliding seat mounted in the base member and slidable along a predetermined sliding path and automatically lockable to the base member at an adjusted position, and a power supply unit including a power-supplying coil mounted in the sliding seat and a circuit module mounted in the base member and electrically connected with the power-supplying coil for controlling the power-supplying coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field for enabling a power-receiving coil of a loaded mobile electronic device to take power from the electromagnetic field and to convert it back into electrical current for charging a battery in the mobile electronic device.

Claims

1. A wireless charger, comprising:

a base unit defining therein an accommodation chamber, said base unit comprising a base member, said base member defining a sliding space in a back side thereof;

a push-pull unit mounted in said accommodation chamber of said base unit, said push-pull unit comprising a sliding seat accommodated in said sliding space within said accommodation chamber and slidable in said sliding space along a predetermined path, said sliding seat defining a front mounting space in a front side thereof; and

a power supply unit mounted in said accommodation chamber of said base unit, said power supply unit comprising a power-supplying coil mounted in said front mounting space of said sliding seat of said push-pull unit and a circuit module mounted in said base member and electrically connected with said power-supplying coil for controlling said power-supplying coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field for inductive charging.

2. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein said base member comprises an extension plate obliquely upwardly extended from a rear top side thereof and surrounding said sliding space, and two guide rails mounted at said extension plate and respectively extended along two opposite lateral sides of said sliding space in a parallel manner;

said push-pull unit further comprises two sliding ways respectively located at two opposite lateral sides of said sliding seat and respectively slidably coupled to said guide rails of said base member of said base unit, and an operating knob extended from the center of a back side of said sliding seat and suspending outside said base unit for operation by a user to move said sliding seat along said guide rails.

3. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 2, wherein said base unit further comprises a back cover fixedly fastened to a back side of said base member to surround said accommodation chamber, said back cover comprising a longitudinal sliding slot extending along said sliding path for the passing of said operating knob and for guiding said operating knob to move along said sliding path.

4. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 3, wherein said back cover further comprises a plughole disposed at a bottom side relative to said longitudinal sliding slot;

said circuit module of said power supply unit comprises at least one circuit board adapted for controlling said power-supplying coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field for inductive charging, and a first electrical connector electrically mounted at said at least one circuit board and abutted to said plughole.

5. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 2, wherein said base member further comprises a plurality of position-limit grooves transversely formed in said guide rails and spaced along the length of said guide rails;

said push-pull unit further comprises a plurality of elastic clamping plates respectively and symmetrically located at the two opposite lateral sides of said sliding seat and respectively spaced along said sliding ways for selectively engaging said position-limit grooves at said guide rails, each said elastic clamping plate having one end thereof formed integral with one end of one respective opening in one respective said sliding way and an opposite end thereof terminating in a clamping portion for engaging one said position-limit groove at one respective said guide rail.

6. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 5, wherein said sliding seat comprises a plurality of transverse ribs respectively located at said sliding ways at opposing top and bottom sides relative to each said elastic clamping plate and respectively slidably stopped against said guide rails of said base member, and a plurality of raised portions respectively spaced along one side of each of said two sliding ways and respectively slidably stopped against said extension plats of said base member.

7. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 2, wherein said base member further comprises a raised platform located at an opposing front side of said extension plate;

said base unit further comprises a rack mounted at said raised platform of said base member, said rack defining a receiving space in a front side thereof for holding a mobile electronic device.

8. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 7, wherein said rack comprises a positioning portion fastened to said raised platform of said base member, two insertion holes disposed at two opposite lateral sides relative to said positioning portion, and two retaining lugs respectively disposed adjacent to said insertion holes;

said base member further comprises two retaining lugs protruded from a front side of said extension plate at two opposite lateral sides of said raised platform and respectively inserted through said insertion holes of said rack and respectively hooked up with the retaining lugs of said rack.

9. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 7, wherein said rack further comprises a plurality of hook lugs and locating lugs forwardly extended from the border area thereof for holding a mobile electronic device in said receiving space.

10. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein said base member further comprises a first through hole located at a top wall thereof below the elevation of said extension plate;

said circuit module of said power supply unit comprises at least one circuit board adapted for controlling said power-supplying coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field for inductive charging, and an electrical connector electrically mounted at said at least one circuit board and abutted to said first through hole for the connection of a mating electrical connector of an external mobile electronic device.

11. The wireless charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein said base member further comprises a second through hole located at the top wall thereof;

said circuit module further comprises a light-emitting device electrically connected to said at least one circuit board and controllable by said at least one circuit board to emit light, and a prism light guide adapted to guide emitted light from said light-emitting device to said second through hole of said base member.