Wireless power transmission device for closed space

• US 9,866,071 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2015
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Original Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Inventors: Niizuma, Motonao
• Primary Examiner(s): Hiltunen, Thomas J
• Application Number:
  US14/594,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20150123487A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 19/0045 Contactless power transmission, e.g. by magnetic induction
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 21/02 Glove-boxes, i.e. chambers in which manipulations are performed by the human hands in gloves built into the chamber walls glove- boxes for removal of dirt B08B15/026; glove-boxes shielded against radiation G21F7/04; Gloves therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• 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

Abstract

A wireless power transmission device includes an inner retainer fixed to an inner surface of a wall and supporting a power-receiving coil in proximity to a power transmission wall, and an outer retainer fixed to an outer surface of the wall and supporting a power-supplying coil in proximity to the power transmission wall, wherein the electric power is wirelessly transmitted between the power-supplying coil and the power-receiving coil.

Claims

1. A wireless power transmission device for a closed space configured to supply electric power into the closed space surrounded by a wall, a part or all of which is a power transmission wall formed of a material through which an electromagnetic field passes, the wireless power transmission device for the closed space comprising:

an inner retainer fixed to an inner surface of the wall and supporting a power-receiving coil in proximity to the power transmission wall; and

an outer retainer fixed to an outer surface of the wall and supporting a power-supplying coil in proximity to the power transmission wall, wherein

the inner retainer comprises;

an inner coil supporting member;

an inner surface fixing member; and

a flexible or elastic first connecting portion which connects the inner coil supporting member with the inner surface fixing member,

the outer retainer comprises;

an outer coil supporting member;

an outer surface fixing member; and

a flexible or elastic second connecting portion which connects the outer coil supporting member with the outer surface fixing member, and

the electric power is wirelessly transmitted between the power-supplying coil and the power-receiving coil.

2. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 1, wherein

gaps are formed between a power-receiving surface of the power-receiving coil and the inner surface of the power transmission wall and between a power-supplying surface of the power-supplying coil and the outer surface of the power transmission wall, and

the power transmission wall deformed by pressurization or depressurization of the closed space does not come in contact with the power-receiving surface and the power-supplying surface.

3. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 1, wherein one or both of the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member is a magnet and is fixed to the wall by attraction of the magnet.

4. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 2, wherein one or both of the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member is a magnet and is fixed to the wall by attraction of the magnet.

5. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 1, wherein one or both of the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member is a vacuum cup and is fixed to the wall by suction of the vacuum.

6. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 2, wherein one or both of the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member is a vacuum cup and is fixed to the wall by suction of the vacuum.

7. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 1, wherein each of the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member is a magnet, and the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member are fixed to the wall by mutual attraction of the magnets through the wall.

8. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 2, wherein each of the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface fixing member is a magnet, and the inner surface fixing member and the outer surface member are fixed to the wall by mutual attraction of the magnets through the wall.

9. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 1, further comprising:

a power-supplying circuit installed outside the closed space and configured to supply the electric power to the power-supplying coil;

a power-receiving circuit installed inside the closed space configured to receive the electric power from the power-receiving coil; and

a transmission efficiency detecting device configured to detect transmission efficiency of the electric power transmitted from the power-supplying circuit to the power-receiving circuit.

10. The wireless power transmission device for the closed space according to claim 9, wherein the transmission efficiency detecting device has:

a power-receiving calculator configured to calculate amount of received electric energy of the power-receiving circuit;

a power-receiving transmitter configured to transmit the amount of received electric energy;

a power-supplying receiver configured to receive the amount of received electric energy; and

a power-supplying calculator configured to calculate amount of feeding electric energy of the power-supplying circuit and calculate the transmission efficiency of the transmitted electric power.