Patent Grant
9979232
The embodiment relates to a wireless power transmission technology.
A wireless power transmission or a wireless energy transfer refers to a technology of wirelessly transferring electric energy to desired devices. In the 1800's, an electric motor or a transformer employing the principle of electromagnetic induction has been extensively used and then a method for transmitting electrical energy by irradiating electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves or lasers, has been suggested. Actually, electrical toothbrushes or electrical razors, which are frequently used in daily life, are charged based on the principle of electromagnetic induction. The electromagnetic induction refers to a phenomenon in which a voltage is induced so that a current flows when a magnetic field is varied around a conductor. Although the commercialization of the electromagnetic induction technology has been rapidly progressed around small-size devices, the power transmission distance thereof is short.
Until now, the long-distance transmission using the electromagnetic induction, the resonance and the short-wavelength radio frequency has been used as the wireless energy transfer scheme.
Recently, an energy transfer scheme has been extensively used based on the electromagnetic induction or the resonance among wireless power transmission schemes.
According to the conventional energy transfers scheme based on the electromagnetic induction or the resonance, since a coil generally has a spiral structure or a helical structure, there is a limitation when increasing the power transmission efficiency.
As a related art, there is Korea Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-2012-0116799.
The embodiment provides a wireless power device capable of improving power transmission efficiency.
According to the embodiment, a wireless power device includes a coil to wirelessly transmit or receive power. The coil has a meander pattern.
According to the embodiment, a wireless power device includes a first coil and a second coil connected with the first coil. The first and second coils have a meander pattern. The first and second coils wirelessly transmit or receive power.
As described above, according to the embodiment, the quality factor can be increased by reducing the resistance component through the structure of the coil having the meander pattern.
According to the embodiment, the power transmission efficiency can be significantly improved by concentrating the intensity of the magnetic field on a predetermined part through the structure of the coil having the meander pattern.
Meanwhile, any other various effects will be directly and implicitly described below in the description of the embodiment.
In the description of the embodiments, it will be understood that, when a layer (or film), a region, a pattern, or a structure is referred to as being “on” or “under” another substrate, another layer (or film), another region, another pad, or another pattern, it can be “directly” or “indirectly” over the other substrate, layer (or film), region, pad, or pattern, or one or more intervening layers may also be present. Such a position of the layer has been described with reference to the drawings.
Hereinafter, the embodiment will be described with reference to accompanying drawings. The thickness and size of each layer shown in the drawings may be exaggerated, omitted or schematically drawn for the purpose of convenience or clarity. In addition, the size of elements does not utterly reflect an actual size.
The embodiment to be described below can be easily realized by those skilled in the art.
Referring to
The power supply device 100 according to the embodiment may be included in the wireless power transmitter 200.
The wireless power transmitter 200 may include a transmission induction coil 210 and a transmission resonant coil 220.
The wireless power receiver 300 may include a reception resonant coil 310, a reception induction coil 320 and a rectifying circuit 330.
Both terminals of the power supply device 100 are connected to both terminals of the transmission induction coil 210.
The transmission resonant coil 220 may be spaced apart from the transmission induction coil 210 by a predetermined distance.
The reception resonant coil 310 may be spaced apart from the reception induction coil 320 by a predetermined distance.
Both terminals of the reception induction coil 320 are connected to both terminals of the rectifying circuit 330, and the load 400 is connected to both terminals of the rectifying circuit 330. According to an embodiment, the load 400 may be included in the wireless power receiver 300.
The power generated from the power supply device 100 is transmitted to the wireless power transmitter 200. The power received in the wireless power transmitter 200 is transmitted to the wireless power receiver 300 that makes resonance with the wireless power transmitter 200 due to a resonance phenomenon, that is, has the resonance frequency the same as that of the wireless power transmitter 200.
Hereinafter, the power transmission process will be described in more detail.
The power supply device 100 generates AC power having a predetermined frequency and transmits the AC power to the wireless power transmitter 200.
The transmission induction coil 210 and the transmission resonant coil 220 are inductively coupled with each other. In other words, if AC current flows through the transmission induction coil 210 due to the power received from the power supply apparatus 100, the AC current is induced to the transmission resonant coil 220 physically spaced apart from the transmission induction coil 210 due to the electromagnetic induction.
Thereafter, the power received in the transmission resonant coil 220 is transmitted to the wireless power receiver 300, which makes a resonance circuit with the wireless power transmitter 200, through resonance.
Power can be transmitted between two LC circuits, which are impedance-matched with each other, that is, between the wireless power transmitter 200 and the wireless power receiver 300 through resonance. The power transmitted through the resonance can be farther transmitted with higher efficiency when comparing with the power transmitted through the electromagnetic induction.
The reception resonant coil 310 receives power from the transmission resonant coil 220 through the resonance. The AC current flows through the reception resonant coil 310 due to the received power. The power received in the reception resonant coil 310 is transmitted to the reception induction coil 320, which is inductively coupled with the reception resonant coil 310, due to the electromagnetic induction. The power received in the reception induction coil 320 is rectified by the rectifying circuit 330 and transmitted to the load 400.
According to the embodiment, the transmission induction coil 210, the transmission resonant coil 220, the reception resonant coil 310, and the reception induction coil 320 may have the shape such as a circular shape, an oval shape, or a square shape, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.
The transmission resonant coil 220 of the wireless power transmitter 200 may transmit power to the reception resonant coil 310 of the wireless power receiver 300 through a magnetic field.
In detail, the transmission resonant coil 220 and the reception resonant coil 310 are coupled with each other through resonance to operate at a resonance frequency.
As the transmission resonant coil 220 and the reception resonant coil 310 are coupled with each other through resonance, the power transmission efficiency between the wireless power transmitter 200 and the wireless power receiver 300 can be significantly improved.
According to the embodiment, if the wireless power transmission system performs power transmission based on the electromagnetic induction scheme, the wireless power transmitter 200 does not include the transmission resonant coil 220, and the wireless power receiver 300 does not include the reception resonant coil 310.
A quality factor and a coupling coefficient are important in the wireless power transmission. That is, as the quality factor and the coupling coefficient have greater values, the power transmission efficiency may be more improved.
The quality factor may refer to an index of energy that may be stored in the vicinity of the wireless power transmitter 200 or the wireless power receiver 300.
The quality factor may vary according to the operating frequency w as well as a shape, a dimension and a material of a coil. The quality factor may be expressed as an equation, Q=ω*L/R. In the above equation, L refers to the inductance of thee coil and R refers to resistance corresponding to the quantity of power loss caused in the coil.
The quality factor may have a value of 0 to infinity. As the quality factor has a greater value, the power transmission efficiency between the wireless power transmitter 200 and the wireless power receiver 300 may be more improved.
The coupling coefficient represents the degree of inductive magnetic coupling between a transmission coil and a reception coil, and has a value of 0 to 1.
The coupling coefficient may vary according to the relative position and the distance between the transmission coil and the reception coil.
As shown in
The transmission induction coil 210 may have an equivalent circuit in which both terminals of the inductor L1 are connected with both terminals of the capacitor C1. In other words, the transmission induction coil 210 may have an equivalent circuit in which the inductor L1 and the capacitor C1 are connected with each other in parallel.
The capacitor C1 may include a variable capacitor, and the impedance matching may be performed as the capacitance of the capacitor C1 is adjusted. The equivalent circuits of the transmission resonant coil 220, the reception resonant coil 310, and the reception induction coil 320 may have the same as the circuit shown in
As shown in
As shown in
The rectifying circuit 330 may convert AC power transferred from the reception induction coil 320 into DC power and may transfer the DC power to the load 400.
The rectifying circuit 330 may include a rectifier and a smoothing circuit. According to the embodiment, the rectifier may include a silicon rectifier and may be equivalent to a diode D1 as shown in
The rectifier may convert AC power transferred from the reception induction coil 320 into DC power.
The smoothing circuit may remove AC components included in the DC power converted by the rectifier to output a smoothed DC power. According to an embodiment, as shown in
The load 400 may be an arbitrary rechargeable battery or a device requiring the DC power. For example, the load 400 may refer to a battery.
The wireless power receiver 300 may be installed in an electronic appliance, such as a cellular phone, a laptop computer or a mouse, requiring the power. Accordingly, the reception resonant coil 310 and the reception induction coil 320 may have the shapes appropriate for the shape of the electronic appliance.
The wireless power transmitter 200 may exchange information with the wireless power receiver 300 through in-band or out-of-band communication.
The in-band communication may refer to the communication for exchanging information between the wireless power transmitter 200 and the wireless power receiver 300 by using a signal having a frequency used in the wireless power transmission. The wireless power receiver 300 may further include a switch and may receive the power transmitted from the wireless power transmitter 200 through a switching operation of the switch or not. Thus, the wireless power transmitter 200 detects the quantity of power consumed in the wireless power transmitter 200, so that the wireless power transmitter 200 may recognize an on or off signal of the switch included therein.
In detail, the wireless power receiver 300 may change the quantity of power dissipated in a resistor by using the resistor and a switch, so that the power consumed in the wireless power transmitter 200 may be changed. The wireless power transmitter 200 may sense a change of the dissipated power to obtain information about a state of the wireless power receiver 300. The switch and the resistor may be connected in series to each other. The information about a state of the wireless power receiver 300 may include information about a current charged quantity and/or the change of charged quantity of the wireless power receiver 300.
In more detail, when the switch is opened, the power dissipated in the resistor is 0 (zero) and the power consumed in the wireless power transmitter 200 is also reduced.
If the switch is shorted, the power dissipated in the resistor is more than 0 and the power consumed in the wireless power transmitter 200 is increased. While the wireless power receiver repeats the above operation, the wireless power transmitter 200 may detect the power consumed in the wireless power transmitter 200 and may perform digital communication with the wireless power receiver 300.
The wireless power transmitter 200 receives the information about the state of the wireless power receiver 300 according to the above operation, so that the wireless power transmitter 200 may transmit the power appropriate to the reception state of the wireless power receiver 300.
To the contrary, the wireless power transmitter 200 may include a resistor and a switch to transmit the information about the state of the wireless power transmitter 200 to the wireless power receiver 300. According to one embodiment, the information about the state of the wireless power transmitter 200 may include information about the maximum quantity of power to be supplied from the wireless power transmitter 200, the number of wireless power receivers 300 receiving the power from the wireless power transmitter 200 and the quantity of available power of the wireless power transmitter 200.
The out-of-band communication refers to the communication performed through a specific frequency band other than the resonance frequency band in order to exchange information necessary for the power transmission. The wireless power transmitter 200 and the wireless power receiver 300 can be equipped with out-of-band communication modules to exchange information necessary for the power transmission. The out-of-band communication module may be installed in the power supply device. In one embodiment, the out-of-band communication module may use a short-distance communication technology, such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, WLAN or NFC, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.
Hereinafter, wireless power devices according to various embodiments will be described with reference to
The description of the wireless power device according to the first embodiment will be made below with reference to
Referring to
The coil 510 may wirelessly transmit or receive power.
According to the embodiment, when the coil 510 performs power transmission/reception by using an electromagnetic induction scheme, the coil 510 may correspond to the transmission induction coil 210 or the reception induction coil 320 described with reference to
According to the embodiment, when the coil 510 performs power transmission/reception by using a resonance scheme, the coil 510 may correspond to the transmission resonant coil 220 or the reception resonant coil 320 described with reference to
The coil 510 may include a first coil 511 and a second coil 513. The first coil 511 and the second coil 513 may be connected with each other in series. In other words, one terminal of the first coil 511 is connected with the one terminal of the capacitor 520, and an opposite terminal of the first coil 511 is connected with one terminal of the second coil 513. An opposite terminal of the second coil 513 is connected with the opposite terminal of the capacitor 520.
In
According to the embodiment, at least one of the first and second coils 511 and 513 may have a meander pattern. The meander pattern may have a winding or crooked structure in which one conductive line is wound, but the embodiment is not limited thereto. In other words, the meander pattern may refer to various patterns including a pattern in which one conductive line has the repeated S-shape structure.
When a current flows through the first and second coils 511 and 513 having the meander pattern, a strong magnetic field may be formed in the coil 510. As shown in
Hereinafter, the distribution of the magnetic field formed around the coil 510 will be made in detail with reference to
Referring to
The simulation results of
Referring to
Hereinafter, a wireless power device according to a second embodiment will be described with reference to
Referring to
Since the capacitor 520 is the same as that described with reference to
The coil 510 may be connected with the capacitor 520 in parallel.
The coil 510 may wirelessly transmit or receive power.
According to the embodiment, when the coil 510 performs power transmission/reception by using an electromagnetic induction scheme, the coil 510 may correspond to the transmission induction coil 210 or the reception induction coil 320 described with reference to
According to the embodiment, when the coil 510 performs power transmission/reception by using a resonance scheme, the coil 510 may correspond to the transmission resonant coil 220 or the reception resonant coil 320 described with reference to
The coil 510 may include the first and second coils 511 and 513. The first and second coils 511 and 513 may be connected with each other in parallel, and each of the first and second coils 511 and 513 may be connected with the capacitor 520 in parallel. In other words, the one terminal of the first coil 511 may be connected with the one terminal of the second coil 513, and the opposite terminal of the first coil 511 may be connected with the opposite terminal of the second coil 513. The one terminal of the capacitor 520 is connected with the one terminal of the first coil 511 and the one terminal of the second coil 513, and the opposite terminal of the capacitor 520 may be connected with the opposite terminal of the first coil 511 and the opposite terminal of the second coil 513.
The first and second coils 511 and 513 have a meander pattern as described with reference to
Referring to
In this case, magnetic fields, which are horizontally directed, are superimposed on each other at an area A between the first and second coils 511 and 513 so that a strong magnetic field can be formed. If the wireless power device 500 according to the second embodiment wirelessly receives power, and the wireless power receiver 300 (
The above effects will be further examined by making reference to the simulation results of
The simulation results of
As shown in
Further, in the wireless power device 500 according to the second embodiment, since two coils having the meander pattern are connected with each other in parallel, the resistance components of the coils have the effects the same as those of a parallel-connection structure thereof, so that a quality factor (Q) can be greatly improved.
In detail, the quality factor Q may be calculated through an equation Q=ω*L/R in which w refers to a frequency used in the wireless power transmission, R refers to a resistance component of the coil, and L refers to the inductance of the coil. As the value of R is decreased, the quality factor Q can be improved.
Hereinafter, the wireless power device according to a third embodiment will be described with reference to
A wireless power device shown in
Referring to
Since the capacitor 520 is the same as that described with reference to
The coil 510 may wirelessly transmit or receive power.
According to the embodiment, when the coil 510 performs power transmission/reception by using an electromagnetic induction scheme, the coil 510 may correspond to the transmission induction coil 210 or the reception induction coil 320 described with reference to
According to the embodiment, when the coil 510 performs power transmission/reception by using a resonance scheme, the coil 510 may correspond to the transmission resonant coil 220 or the reception resonant coil 320 described with reference to
The coil 510 may include the first coil 511 and the second coil 513, and the first and second coils 511 and 513 may be connected with each other in parallel. In other words, the one terminal of the first coil 511 may be connected with the one terminal of the second coil 513, and the opposite terminal of the first coil 511 may be connected with the opposite terminal of the second coil 513. The first coil 511 may include first and second sub-coils 511a and 511b. The first and second sub-coils 511a and 511b may have a closed-loop structure. For example, the first and second sub-coils 511a and 511b may have an oval structure or a circular structure. The first and second sub-coils 511a and 511b may be connected with each other in parallel.
The second coil 513 may include a first sub-coil 513a and a second sub-coil 513b. The first and second sub-coils 513a and 513b may have a closed-loop structure. For example, the first and second sub-coils may have an oval structure or a circular structure. The first and second sub-coils 513a and 513b may be connected with each other in parallel.
The second coil 13 may be provided around the first coil 511. In other words, the second coil 513 may surround the first coil 511, and have the same shape as that of the first coil 511, have different diameter with each other, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.
For example, the first sub-coil 511a of the first coil 511 may be symmetrical to the second sub-coil 511b of the first coil 511 about a virtual horizontal line. For example, the first sub-coil 513a of the second coil 513 may be symmetrical to the second sub-coil 513b of the second coil 513 about the virtual horizontal line.
For example, the first sub-coil 511a of the first coil 511 may have substantially the same spacing as that of the first sub-coil 513a of the second coil 513, but the embodiment is not limited thereto. For example, the second sub-coil 511b of the first coil 511 may have substantially the same spacing as that of the second sub-coil 513b of the second coil 513, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.
For example, the first sub-coil 511a of the first coil 511 may be connected with the first sub-coil 513a of the second coil 513 in parallel. For example, the second sub-coil 511b of the first coil 511 may be connected with the second sub-coil 513b of the second coil 513 in parallel.
The first and second coils 511 and 513 of the coil 510, that is, each of the first sub-coil 511a, the first sub coil 513a, the second sub-coil 511b, and the second sub-coil 513b may have a meander pattern.
The curvature radius of the second coil 513 may be greater than the curvature radius of the first coil 511. For example, the curvature radius of the first sub-coil 513a of the second coil 513 may be greater than the curvature radius of the first sub-coil 511a of the first coil 511. For example, the curvature radius of the second sub-coil 513b of the second coil 513 may be greater than the curvature radius of the second sub-coil 511b of the first coil 511.
In the wireless power device 500 according to the third embodiment shown in
When current flows through the first and second coils 511 and 513 having the meander pattern, a strong magnetic field may be formed in a horizontal direction between the first and second coils 511 and 513, identically to the direction of the magnetic field shown in
Further, in the wireless power device 500 according to the third embodiment, since at least two coils having the meander pattern are connected with each other in parallel, the resistance components of the coils have the effects the same as those of a parallel-connection structure thereof, so that the quality factor Q can be greatly improved.
The embodiment is applicable to the wireless power transmitter or a wireless power receiver.
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