Receiving device with coil of electric line for receiving a magnetic field and for producing electric energy by magnetic induction and with magnetizable material

• US 9,899,845 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2014
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ENRX IPT GmbH
• Original Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Inventors: Anders, Dominik, Wechsler, Simon, Czainski, Robert, Garcia, Federico
• Primary Examiner(s): Wells, Kenneth B
• Application Number:
  US14/783,226
• Publication Number:
  US 20160072304A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,414 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 7/003 for vehicles using stored power (e.g. charging stations)
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/36 Electric or magnetic shields or screens movable for varying inductance H01F21/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/361 made of combinations of electrically conductive material and ferromagnetic material
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 41/02 for manufacturing cores, coils, or magnets H01F41/14 takes precedence; for dynamo-electric machines H02K15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/40 The network being an on-board power network, i.e. within a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• 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 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A receiving device for receiving a magnetic field and for producing electric energy by magnetic induction. The receiving device includes at least one coil of at least one electric line. The magnetic field induces an electric voltage in the at least one coil during operation. The receiving device and the at least one coil are adapted to receive the magnetic field from a receiving side of the receiving device. The receiving device includes a field shaping arrangement including magnetizable material adapted to shape magnetic field lines of the magnetic field. The field shaping arrangement is placed behind the at least one coil. A depth of the field shaping arrangement varies. A method of manufacturing a receiving device and an arrangement including the receiving device.

Claims

1. A receiving device configured to receive a magnetic field and to produce electric energy by magnetic induction, wherein

the receiving device comprises at least one coil of at least one electric line and wherein the magnetic field induces an electric voltage in the at least one coil during operation,

the receiving device and the at least one coil are adapted to receive the magnetic field from a receiving side of the receiving device,

the receiving device comprises a field shaping arrangement comprising magnetizable material adapted to shape magnetic field lines of the magnetic field,

the field shaping arrangement is placed behind the at least one coil, if viewed from the receiving side of the receiving device,

a depth, to be measured in a direction from the receiving side of the receiving device to a side of the receiving device opposite to the receiving side, of the field shaping arrangement varies, wherein a depth of the magnetizable material is larger at locations, if viewed from the receiving side, behind regions of the at least one coil where the electromagnetic field produced by electric currents through the at least one coil is larger compared to locations behind regions of the at least one coil where the electromagnetic field produced by electric currents through the at least one coil is smaller.

2. The receiving device of claim 1, wherein the field shaping arrangement is formed by a plurality of field shaping elements made of the magnetizable material.

3. The receiving device of claim 2, wherein the field shaping elements have equally large depths and wherein the depth of the field shaping arrangement varies, because different numbers of the field shaping elements are stacked upon each other in the direction from the receiving side to the side opposite to the receiving side.

4. The receiving device of claim 1, wherein variations of the depth of the field shaping arrangement are compensated by at least one compensating element made of non-magnetizable material.

5. The receiving device of claim 4, wherein the variations of the depth are compensated so that a depth of a combined arrangement consisting of the field shaping arrangement and of the at least one compensating element is constant.

6. A method of manufacturing a receiving device configured to receive a magnetic field and to produce electric energy by magnetic induction, wherein

at least one coil of at least one electric line is provided, wherein the at least one coil comprises an inductance, so that the magnetic field induces an electric voltage in the at least one coil during operation of the receiving device,

the coil is arranged to receive the magnetic field from a receiving side of the receiving device,

a field shaping arrangement, comprising magnetizable material adapted to shape magnetic field lines of the magnetic field, is placed behind the at least one coil, if viewed from the receiving side of the receiving device,

so that a depth, to be measured in a direction from the receiving side of the receiving device to a side of the receiving device opposite to the receiving side, of the field shaping arrangement varies, wherein a depth of the magnetizable material is designed to be larger at locations, if viewed from the receiving side, behind regions of the at least one coil where the electromagnetic field produced by electric currents through the at least one coil is larger compared to locations behind regions of the at least one coil where the electromagnetic field produced by electric currents through the at least one coil is smaller.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the field shaping arrangement is formed by a plurality of field shaping elements made of the magnetizable material.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein field shaping elements are used which have equally large depths and wherein the depth of the field shaping arrangement is varied by stacking different numbers of the field shaping elements upon each other in the direction extending from the receiving side to the side opposite to the receiving side.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein variations of the depth of the field shaping arrangement are compensated by at least one compensating element made of non-magnetizable material.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the variations of the depth are compensated so that a depth of a combined arrangement consisting of the field shaping arrangement and of the at least one compensating element is constant.