Mobile communication device with wireless communications unit and wireless power receiver

• US 9,866,280 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2015
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Khripkov, Alexander Nikolaevich, Kim, Do-won, Pavlov, Konstantin Alexandrovich, Makurin, Mikhail Nikolaevich, Arkhipenkov, Vladimir Yakovlevich
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson, Stephen W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stables, David M
• Application Number:
  US14/717,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20150341086A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• Field of Search: 307104, 320108, 320137, 455 411
• 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
• 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: H04B 5/26 using coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

A mobile communication device having a wireless power receiver and wireless communications unit, in which inductors of the communications unit and the power receiver are in close proximity to each other, is provided. The mobile communication device includes a wireless communications unit including a first inductor configured to transmit and receive data via inductive coupling, and a wireless power receiver. The wireless power receiver includes a second inductor which is disposed above the first inductor and receives power via inductive coupling, a ferrite shield disposed between the first inductor and the second inductor, and a compensator disposed between the first inductor and the ferrite shield. Compensator is adapted to compensate for variations in the inductance of the first inductor caused by the ferrite shield.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device comprising:

a wireless communications device configured to transmit and receive data using a first inductor;

a wireless power receiver configured to receive power wirelessly using a second inductor disposed above the first inductor;

a shield for magnetic shielding configured to be disposed between the first inductor and the second inductor; and

a compensator configured to;

be disposed between the first inductor and the shield, and

compensate for inductance of the first inductor,

wherein the compensator compensates the inductance of the first inductor to an initial value by generating a magnetic field having a direction opposite to a magnetic field generated by the first inductor.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the first inductor and the second inductor are formed in a plate.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 1,

wherein the shield has an internal space where a magnetic field generated from the first inductor is passed, and

wherein an internal space in the shield is located corresponding to the first inductor.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 3, wherein dimensions of the internal space in the shield are smaller than outer dimensions of the first inductor, and larger than internal dimensions of the first inductor.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 1,

wherein the compensator has an internal space where a magnetic field generated from the first inductor is passed, and

wherein the internal space in the compensator is located corresponding to the first inductor.

6. The mobile communication device of claim 5, wherein dimensions of the internal space in the compensator is a maximum size which completely isolates the mobile communication device from a magnetic field of the second inductor.

7. The mobile communication device of claim 5, wherein distances between edges of the internal space in the compensator and external edges of the first inductor are determined based on a condition of constancy of the first inductor.

8. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein dimensions of the compensator are larger than dimensions of the shield.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the compensator is formed of a copper foil having a thickness of 10-50 μ

m.

10. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the compensator is made of a conductive material.

11. The mobile communication device of claim 10, wherein the conductive material is copper or aluminum.

12. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising a battery, wherein the first inductor is mounted on the battery.

13. The mobile communication device of claim 12, further comprising:

a sheet configured to;

be disposed between the battery and the first inductor, and

prevent a change of magnetic field of the first inductor by the battery.

14. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising:

a removable lid,

wherein the wireless power receiver, the shield and the compensator are mounted on the inner surface of the removable lid.

15. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communications device and the wireless power receiver are adapted to operate at a different frequency.

16. The mobile communication device of claim 15, wherein the wireless communications device is adapted to operate at a frequency of 13.56 Megahertz (MHz), and the wireless power receiver is adapted to operate at a frequency of 6.78 MHz.

17. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communications device performs a communication based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.