Wireless power supply system

• US 9,735,587 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2015
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Original Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Inventors: Niizuma, Motonao
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pacheco, Rafael
• Application Number:
  US14/709,835
• Publication Number:
  US 20150249348A1
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/36 by positioning the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• 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 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• 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: H02J 7/0049 Detection of fully charged condition
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A wireless power supply system includes a power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a power-receiving device having a power-receiving coil and wirelessly supplies electric power from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil, and the power-supplying device and the power-receiving device communicate with each other using an acoustic signal.

Claims

1. A wireless power supply system comprising:

a power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a first cover covering the power-supplying coil;

a power-receiving device having a power-receiving coil and a second cover covering the power-receiving coil, electric power being wirelessly supplied from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil; and

a plurality of receivers and a plurality of transmitters configured to perform communication between the power-supplying device and the power-receiving device using an acoustic signal,

wherein the plurality of receivers are arranged at equal intervals on one of the first cover and the second cover along an outer circumference of the one of the first cover and the second cover, and

the plurality of transmitters are arranged at equal intervals on the other of the first cover and the second cover along an outer circumference of the other of the first cover and the second cover.

2. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of transmitters includes a transmission diaphragm installed in a part of the other of the first cover and the second cover, and a sealing material having flexibility and installed in a boundary between the other of the first cover and the second cover and the transmission diaphragm, and the acoustic signal is transmitted using the transmission diaphragm.

3. The wireless power supply system according to claim 2, wherein the transmission diaphragm has a shape causing the acoustic signal to have directionality.

4. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of receivers includes a reception diaphragm installed in a part of the one of the first cover and the second cover, and a sealing material having flexibility and installed in a boundary between the one of the first cover and the second cover and the reception diaphragm, and the acoustic signal is received using the reception diaphragm.

5. The wireless power supply system according to claim 2, wherein each of the plurality of receivers includes a reception diaphragm installed in a part of the one of the first cover and the second cover, and a sealing material having flexibility and installed in a boundary between the one of the first cover and the second cover and the reception diaphragm, and the acoustic signal is received using the reception diaphragm.

6. The wireless power supply system according to claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of receivers includes a reception diaphragm installed in a part of the one of the first cover and the second cover, and a sealing material having flexibility and installed in a boundary between the one of the first cover and the second cover and the reception diaphragm, and the acoustic signal is received using the reception diaphragm.

7. The wireless power supply system according to claim 1,

wherein the power-receiving device periodically transmits the acoustic signal during wireless supply of electric power, and

wherein the power-supplying device stops the supply of electric power when the periodic acoustic signal is not received during wireless supply of electric power.

8. The wireless power supply system according to claim 7, wherein the power-receiving device stops the periodic transmission of the acoustic signal when the wireless supply of electric power is not necessary.

9. A wireless power supply system that includes a power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a power-receiving device having a power-receiving coil and that wirelessly supplies electric power from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil,

wherein the power-supplying device and the power-receiving device communicate with each other using an acoustic signal, and

wherein a transmission diaphragm is installed in a part of at either or both of the cover covering the power-supplying coil and the cover covering the power-receiving coil, a sealing material having flexibility is installed in a boundary between the cover and the transmission diaphragm, and the acoustic signal is transmitted using the transmission diaphragm.

10. A wireless power supply system that includes a power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a power-receiving device having a power-receiving coil and that wirelessly supplies electric power from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil,

wherein the power-supplying device and the power-receiving device communicate with each other using an acoustic signal,

wherein the power-receiving device periodically transmits the acoustic signal during wireless supply of electric power, and

wherein the power-supplying device stops the supply of electric power when the periodic acoustic signal is not received during wireless supply of electric power.