WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM

• US 20160094048A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nera Innovations Limited (Atlantic IP Services Limited)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: BAE, Su Ho
• Granted Patent: US 10,141,769 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed is a wireless power transfer system-charger for wireless power transmission. The wireless power transfer system-charger includes: a power converting unit to convert a DC signal into an AC signal; a control unit to control the power converting unit with a first or second operating frequency; and an induction-type antenna system and a resonance-type antenna system connected in parallel to each other, wherein power is transmitted through the induction-type antenna system or the resonance-type antenna system according to a control of the control unit.

Claims

1. A wireless power transfer system-charger for wireless power transmission, the wireless power transfer system-charger comprising:

a power converting unit to convert a DC signal into an AC signal;

a control unit to control the power converting unit with a first or second operating frequency; and

an induction-type antenna system and a resonance-type antenna system connected in parallel to each other,

wherein power is transmitted through the induction-type antenna system or the resonance-type antenna system according to a control of the control unit.

2. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 1, wherein the induction-type antenna system includes an induction coil and a parasitic capacitor formed by the induction coil, and

the resonance-type antenna system is operated at an operating frequency which is determined by the induction coil and the parasitic capacitor connected in parallel to the induction coil.

3. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 1, wherein the resonance-type antenna system has impedance higher than the induction-type antenna system at the first operating frequency, and

the induction-type antenna system has impedance higher than the resonance-type antenna system at the second operating frequency.

4. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 1, wherein the power converting unit includes:

a first high-frequency filtering unit connected between a first node and a second node;

a second high-frequency filtering unit connected between the first node and a third node;

a first power converting switch unit connected among the second node, a fifth node and a sixth node; and

a second power converting switch unit connected among the third node, the fifth node and a seventh node, and

the induction-type antenna system and the resonance-type antenna system are connected between the sixth and seventh nodes.

5. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 4, wherein the power converting unit provides

a first signal transmission path including the second node, the sixth node, seventh node and the fifth node according to a first switch control signal from the control unit, and

a second signal transmission path including the third node, the seventh node, the sixth node and the fifth node according to a second switch control signal from the control unit.

6. A wireless power transfer system-charger for wireless power transmission, the wireless power transfer system-charger comprising:

a power converting unit to convert DC signals on a first node and a fifth node into AC signals and output the AC signals to a sixth node and a seventh node;

a control unit to control the power converting unit; and

a transmission antenna system connected between the sixth nod and the seventh node,

wherein the power converting unit comprises;

a first high-frequency filtering unit connected between the first node and a second node;

a second high-frequency filtering unit connected between the first node and a third node;

a first power converting switch unit including a first switch connected between the second node and the sixth node, and a second switch connected between the sixth node and the fifth node; and

a second power converting switch unit including a third switch connected between the third node and the seventh node, and a fourth switch connected between the seventh node and the fifth node.

7. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 6, wherein the first high-frequency filtering unit includes a fifth inductor and the second high-frequency filtering unit includes a sixth inductor.

8. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 6, wherein the transmission antenna system includes an induction-type antenna system and a resonance-type antenna system connected in parallel to the induction-type antenna system.

9. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 8, wherein the control unit controls the first and fourth switches to be switched into a same phase, the second and third switches to be switched into a same phase, and the first and second switches to be switched into opposite phases based on a first operating frequency.

10. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 9, wherein the first operating frequency is in a range of 100 kHz to 350 kHz, and

power is transmitted from the induction-type antenna system in a magnetic induction scheme.

11. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 8, wherein the control unit controls the first and third switches to be maintained in a turn-on state, and controls the second and third switches to be switched into mutually opposite phases.

12. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 11,

wherein the second operating frequency is equal to 6.78 MHz, and

power is transmitted from the resonance-type antenna system in a magnetic resonance scheme.

13. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 8, wherein the induction-type antenna system includes an induction coil and an induction matching unit, and the induction matching unit includes:

a first capacitor connected between one end of the induction coil and an eighth node;

a second capacitor connected between a ninth node which is an opposite end of the induction coil and the eighth node;

a second inductor connected between the sixth node and the eighth node; and

a third inductor connected between the seventh node and the ninth node.

14. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 13, wherein the resonance-type antenna system includes a resonant coil and a resonance matching unit, and

the resonance matching unit includes:

a third capacitor connected in parallel to the resonant coil connected between a tenth node and an eleventh node;

a fourth capacitor connected between the sixth node and the tenth node; and

a fifth capacitor connected between the seventh node and the eleventh node.

15. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 14, wherein the second inductor has an inductance value equal to an inductance value of the third inductor.

16. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 14, wherein the first capacitor has capacitance equal to capacitance of the second capacitor.

17. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 15, wherein the fourth capacitor has capacitance equal to capacitance of the fifth capacitor.

18. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 14, wherein the induction coil has inductance greater than inductance of the resonant coil.

19. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 17, wherein the third capacitor has capacitance less than capacitance of the fourth capacitor, and the fourth capacitor has capacitance less than capacitance of the first capacitor.

20. The wireless power transfer system-charger of claim 7, wherein the fifth and sixth inductors have inductance in range of 0.1 uH to 5 uH.