Wireless power transmitting device and wireless power receiving device

• US 9,203,153 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2011
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Kenichirou, Oodachi, Noriaki, Kudo, Hiroki, Shoki, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ly, Xuan
• Application Number:
  US13/235,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20120161532A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,534 Days
• Field of Search: 307/37, 307/104, 307/108, 307/109, 307/112, 307/113, 307/129
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

Abstract

A loop antenna includes: a pair of first linear elements, a feed point connected with each of the first linear elements, a first variable impedance element, one end of which is connected with one end of the first linear elements, a second variable impedance element, one end and the other end of which are electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of the first linear elements, and a second linear element, one end and the other end of which are electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of the first linear elements. A self-resonance coil receives power fed to the feed point of the loop antenna and transmits the received power to a receiving self-resonance coil.

Claims

1. A wireless power transmitting device comprising:

a loop antenna including;

(A) a pair of first linear elements,

(B) a feed point connected with one end of each of the first linear elements,

(C) a first variable impedance element, one end of which is connected with the other end of one of the first linear elements,

(D) a second variable impedance element, one end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the other of the first linear elements,

(E) a second linear element, one end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the other of the first linear elements; and

a self-resonance coil configured to receive, through electromagnetic coupling to the loop antenna, power fed to the feed point of the loop antenna, and to transmit the received power to a receiving self-resonance coil through magnetic resonance; and

a controller which sets an initial value of the first variable impedance element to a value different from a maximum value and a minimum value of the first variable impendence element and sets an initial value of the second variable impedance element to a value different from a maximum value and a minimum value of the second variable impedance element.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the first variable impedance element is a capacitance value variable capacitor or a capacitance value variable inductor, and

the second variable impedance element is a capacitance value variable capacitor or a capacitance value variable inductor.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller sets the initial values of the first variable impedance element and the second variable impedance element to midpoints of variable ranges of the first variable impedance element and the second variable impedance element, respectively.

3. A wireless power receiving device comprising:

a self-resonance coil configured to receive power from a transmitting self-resonance coil through magnetic resonance; and

a loop antenna including;

(A) a load,

(B) a third variable impedance element, one end of which is connected with one end of the load,

(C) a fourth variable impedance element, one end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the third variable impedance element and the other end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the load, and

(D) a linear element, one end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the third variable impedance element and the other end of which is electrically connected with the other end of the load; and

a controller which sets an initial value of the third variable impedance element to a value different from a maximum value and a minimum value of the third variable impendence element, and sets an initial value of the fourth variable impedance element to a value different from a maximum value and a minimum value of the fourth variable impedance element,

wherein the loop antenna is electromagnetically coupled to the self-resonance coil to receive the power and outputs the power through the load.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein

the third variable impedance element is a capacitance value variable capacitor or a capacitance value variable inductor, and

the fourth variable impedance element is a capacitance value variable capacitor or a capacitance value variable inductor.

6. The device according to claim 3, wherein the controller sets the initial values of the third variable impedance element and the fourth variable impedance element to midpoints of variable ranges of the third variable impedance element and the fourth variable impedance element, respectively.