Power supplying system

• US 9,443,651 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2013
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Kagami, Kazuyoshi, Horiuchi, Satoru, Tanaka, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford
• Assistant Examiner(s): VU, TOAN T
• Application Number:
  US14/027,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20140015341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/147 electro magnetic [EMI]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/39 with position-responsive activation of primary coils
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a power supplying system able to supply electric power with high efficiency from a power supplying section to a power receiving section by suppressing a reduction of transmission efficiency caused by a gap between central axes of a power supplying coil and a power receiving coil. Two power supplying helical coils are provided. When a power receiving coil is arranged opposite to the power supplying helical coils with a gap in an axis direction thereof, electric power is transmitted from the power supplying helical coils by electromagnetic resonance. A CPU detects one closest to the power receiving coil of two power supplying helical coils as an adjacent coil, and controls on/off of the switches so as to supply the electric power to only the adjacent coil.

Claims

1. A power supplying system comprising:

a plurality of power supplying coils to which electric power is supplied;

a power receiving coil to which electric power from the power supplying coils is transmitted by electromagnetic resonance with the power supplying coils when the power receiving coil is arranged opposite to and separated from the power supplying coils in a central axis direction thereof;

a position detecting device configured to detect one power supplying coil closest to the power receiving coil among the plurality of power supplying coils as an adjacent coil;

a first power supplying device configured to supply the electric power to only the adjacent coil detected by the position detecting device among the plurality of power supplying coils;

a second power supplying device configured to supply the electric power sequentially to the plurality of power supplying coils; and

a reflective wave detecting device configured to detect reflective waves of the electric power reflected by each of the power supplying coils,

wherein the position detecting device detects the power supplying coil having the smallest reflective wave detected by the reflective wave detecting device as the adjacent coil among the plurality of power supplying coils while the second power supplying device supplies the electric power.

2. The power supplying system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the power supplying coils and the power receiving coil are formed in a circular helical shape, and

wherein the plurality of power supplying coils are partially overlapped with each other.

3. The power supplying system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the power supplying coils and the power receiving coil are formed in a rectangular spiral shape, and

wherein the plurality of power supplying coils are separated from each other in the same plane.