Non-contact power supply system and non-contact power supply method

• US 9,571,162 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2011
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chugoku Electric Power Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Chugoku Electric Power Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Masaoka, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Amrany, Adi
• Application Number:
  US14/342,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20140239734A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,985 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

A wireless power transfer system includes a transmission device that performs power supply by wireless power transfer to a power receiving device, a position acquiring section that acquires a current position of the power receiving device, and a control section that performs control to authorize the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is in a preset area and to not authorize the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is outside the preset area.

Claims

1. A wireless power transfer system comprising:

a transmission device that supplies power by wireless power transfer to a power receiving device;

a position acquiring section that acquires a current position of the power receiving device;

an authentication section that performs authentication of the power receiving device based on authentication information that is transmitted from the power receiving device; and

a control section that;

authorizes the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is within a predetermined three-dimensional area without performing the authentication,

authorizes the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is outside the three-dimensional area and the authentication has succeeded, and

prohibits the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is outside the three-dimensional area and the authentication has not succeeded.

2. The wireless power transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the position acquiring section comprises a plurality of antennas arranged adjacent to each other, and

the position acquiring section:

receives a positioning signal from the power receiving device with the antennas,

determines a direction α

of the power receiving device from the position acquiring section based on a phase difference Δ

θ

of the positioning signal received with each of the plurality of antennas, and

acquires a current position of the power receiving device based on the determined direction α

.

3. The wireless power transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the power receiving device comprises a GPS, and

the position acquiring section obtains a current position of the power receiving device that the power receiving device has acquired with the GPS and transmitted to the position acquiring section.

4. The wireless power transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the control section authorizes the power supply in a case where the transmission device corresponds to specifications relating to receiving power of the power receiving device.

5. A wireless power transfer method for supplying power by wireless power transfer to a power receiving device, the method comprising:

acquiring a current position of the power receiving device,

performing authentication of the power receiving device based on authentication information that is transmitted from the power receiving device,

authorizing the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is within a predetermined three-dimensional area without performing the authentication,

authorizing the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is outside the three-dimensional area and the authentication has succeeded, and

prohibiting the power supply in a case where the power receiving device is outside the three-dimensional area and the authentication has not succeeded.