Coil

• US 8,207,807 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2011
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumida Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sumida Corporation
• Inventors: Kikuchi, Shuichi, Kuroda, Morihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): MAI, ANH T
• Application Number:
  US13/032,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20120025940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: 336/200, 336/223, 336/232, 336188-189, 336182-183
• US Class Current: 336/188
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2828 Construction of conductive connections, of leads
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2871 Pancake coils
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10

Abstract

A coil is formed by coaxially winding a second winding so as to be in intimate contact with an outer circumferential portion of a first winding wound about a winding shaft axis. In the first winding, one side of a winding wire is wound from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side, the other side of the winding wire is drawn forth from the inner circumferential side to the outer circumferential side, while crossing the one side of the winding wire, and a thickness in a direction of the winding shaft axis in crossing portions of the one side of the winding wire and the other side of the winding wire is equal to a thickness in other portions.

Claims

1. A coil comprising:

a first winding which is composed of a single wire or a plurality of wires, and is wound about a winding shaft axis; and

a second winding which is composed of a single wire or a plurality of wires, and which is wound coaxially with the first winding so as to be in intimate contact with an outer circumferential portion of the first winding, wherein

at least in the first winding among the first winding and the second winding, one side of a winding wire is wound from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side, the other side of the winding wire is drawn forth from the inner circumferential side to the outer circumferential side, while crossing the one side of the winding wire, and a thickness in crossing portions of the one side of the winding wire and the other side of the winding wire in a direction of the winding shaft axis is equal to a thickness in other portions.

2. The coil according to claim 1, wherein the other side of the winding wire is drawn forth to the outer circumferential side so as to form a spiral curve so that the crossing portions of the one side of the winding wire and the other side of the winding wire shift in a circumferential direction towards the outer circumferential side.

3. The coil according to claim 2, wherein the one side of the winding wire and the other side of the winding wire in the first winding are drawn forth to the outer circumferential side of the second winding so as to form respective spiral curves, while crossing the second winding, and in the second winding, a thickness in a direction of the winding shaft axis in each of the crossing portions of the one side of the winding wire in the first winding, the other side of the winding wire in the first winding, and the second winding is equal to a thickness in other portions.

4. The coil according to claim 1, wherein the other side of the winding wire in the first winding is wound in a state in which two wires are arranged side by side in a diametrical direction, while at portions where the one side of the winding wire and the other side of the winding wire do not cross, the one side of the winding wire in the first winding is wound in a state in which the two wires are piled up in the direction of the winding shaft axis, and at portions where the one side of the winding wire and the other side of the winding wire cross, the one side of the winding wire in the first winding is wound in a state in which the two wires are arranged side by side in the diametrical direction.

5. The coil according to claim 1, wherein the coil is used for contactless power transmission.

6. The coil according to claim 1, wherein at least either one of the first winding and the second winding is composed of a plurality of wires and is also composed of a self-fusing wire.

7. The coil according to claim 1, wherein the coil is composed as an air-core coil.

8. The coil according to claim 1, wherein an outer contour shape and a shape of each corner of an air-core portion of an air-core coil are rounded rectangular shapes.

9. The coil according to claim 1, wherein an outer contour shape and a shape of an air-core portion of an air-core coil are elliptical shapes.