WIRELESS CHARGING CIRCUIT AND CHARGING BOARD THEREOF

• US 20180212452A1
• Filed: 01/26/2017
• Published: 07/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dexin Corporation, Dexin Electronic Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Dexin Corporation, Dexin Electronic Ltd.
• Inventors: CHOU, PAI-YANG
• Granted Patent: US 10,250,065 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/24 active element in amplifier being semiconductor device H03B5/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/0115 comprising only inductors and capacitors H03H7/075, H03H7/09, H03H7/12, H03H7/13 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/175 Series LC in series path H03H7/1783 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/42 Networks for transforming balanced signals into unbalanced signals and vice versa, e.g. baluns

Abstract

A wireless charging circuit coupled to an oscillation unit. The wireless charging circuit includes a balun unit, a higher-order filter unit and a differential unit. The balun unit is coupled to the oscillation unit. The higher-order filter unit is coupled to the balun unit. The differential unit is coupled to the higher-order filter unit. The differential unit is coupled to a transmission coil. The oscillation unit issues a differential signal to the balun unit, and then the balun unit converts the differential signal into a converted signal to be transmitted to the higher-order filter unit. The higher-order filter unit filters the converted signal to output a filtered signal to the differential unit. The differential unit converts the filtered signal into a differential output signal to be outputted by the transmission coil.

Claims

1. A wireless charging circuit coupled to an oscillation unit configured to generate a differential signal, said wireless charging circuit comprising:

a balun unit coupled to said oscillation unit;

a higher-order filter unit coupled to said balun unit; and

a differential unit coupled to said higher-order filter unit and a transmission coil;

wherein said oscillation unit transmits said differential signal to said balun unit, said balun unit converts said differential signal into a converted signal to be transmitted to said higher-order filter unit, said higher-order filter unit filters said converted signal to output a filtered signal to said differential unit, and said differential unit converts said filtered signal into a differential output signal to be outputted by said transmission coil.

2. The wireless charging circuit of claim 1, wherein said balun unit is a center-tapped transformer having a primary side coupled to said oscillation unit and a secondary side coupled to said higher-order filter unit, wherein a center tap on primary side of said center-tapped transformer is coupled to a first inductor and a first capacitor, said first inductor being coupled to a voltage source and said first capacitor.

3. The wireless charging circuit of claim 2, wherein said differential signal is inputted at both ends on said primary side of said center-tapped transformer, said converted signal is outputted at one end on said secondary side of said center-tapped transformer and enters said higher-order filter unit, the winding turns ratio of said center-tapped transformer is 1:

1, and the voltage from said voltage source is stepped up by said center-tapped transformer to twice the voltage from said voltage source.

4. The wireless charging circuit of claim 2, wherein said first capacitor of said balun unit is coupled to the ground so as to eliminate the capacitive reactance of said first capacitor, said balun unit has a high inductance value, said higher-order filter unit has a low inductance value, and said higher-order filter unit is configured to filter a noise at a frequency multiplied by N, N being an integer larger than or equal to 2.

5. The wireless charging circuit of claim 2, wherein said higher-order filter unit comprises a second capacitor, a second inductor, a third capacitor, a third inductor, a tunable inductor and a fourth capacitor, said second capacitor being coupled to said secondary side and said second inductor of said center-tapped transformer, said third capacitor being coupled between said second inductor and said third inductor, said third inductor being coupled to a center tap of said tunable inductor, a first end of said tunable inductor being coupled to said fourth capacitor and said higher-order filter unit, and a second end of said tunable inductor being coupled to the ground and said higher-order filter unit.

6. The wireless charging circuit of claim 1, wherein said higher-order filter unit conducts higher-order attenuation and filtering on said converted signal, said higher-order filter unit comprising a plurality of band-pass filters and one or more low-pass filters, said low-pass filters being coupled between two adjacent ones of said plurality of band-pass filters, and said wireless charging circuit being configured to operate at a wireless resonant frequency within a range from 30 MHz to 1000 MHz.

7. The wireless charging circuit of claim 5, wherein said higher-order filter unit conducts higher-order attenuation and filtering on said converted signal, said higher-order filter unit comprising a plurality of band-pass filters and one or more low-pass filters, said low-pass filters being coupled between two adjacent ones of said plurality of band-pass filters, and said wireless charging circuit being configured to operate at a wireless resonant frequency within a range from 30 MHz to 1000 MHz.

8. The wireless charging circuit of claim 5, wherein said differential unit comprises a fifth capacitor, a sixth capacitor, a seventh capacitor and an eighth capacitor, said fifth capacitor being coupled to said fourth capacitor, said seventh capacitor and said tunable inductor, said sixth capacitor being coupled to said fifth capacitor and said transmission coil, said seventh capacitor being coupled to said tunable inductor, said eighth capacitor and the ground, and said eighth capacitor being coupled to said seventh capacitor and said transmission coil.

9. The wireless charging circuit of claim 7, wherein said fourth capacitor is coupled to the ground so as to eliminate the capacitive reactance of said fourth capacitor, said fifth capacitor, said sixth capacitor, said seventh capacitor and said eighth capacitor, and said tunable inductor is coupled to the ground so as to eliminate the inductive reactance of said tunable inductor.

10. The wireless charging circuit of claim 2, wherein said center-tapped transformer is an iron core transformer, a magnetic core transformer, a nickel-zinc ferrite transformer or a manganese-zinc ferrite transformer, and the winding turns ratio of said center-tapped transformer is 1:

1.

11. The wireless charging circuit of claim 1, wherein said oscillation unit comprises a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch and a plurality of resistors, a base of said first switch and a base of said third switch being coupled to a controller, respectively, an emitter of said first switch being coupled to a gate of said second switch, an emitter of said third switch being coupled to a gate of said fourth switch, a source of said second switch and a source of said fourth switch being coupled to the ground, respectively, a drain of said second switch and a drain of said fourth switch being coupled to said balun unit, respectively, said first switch and said third switch being bipolar junction transistors, and said third switch and said fourth switch are metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors.

12. A wireless charging board, comprising:

a wireless charging circuit of claim 1; and

an oscillation unit coupled to a balun unit of said wireless charging circuit and configured to generate a differential signal to be transmitted to said balun unit.