Magnetic field shielding unit and multi-functional complex module including same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10327365-B2
Application number	US-201615778008-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 23, 2016
Priority date	Nov 23, 2015
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

A magnetic field shielding unit according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a first shielding sheet having a first magnetic field shielding layer formed of fragments of an Fe-based alloy to enhance an antenna characteristic for wireless charging in order to enhance flexibility and reduce an eddy current; and a second shielding sheet having a second magnetic field shielding layer formed of fragments of ferrite to enhance an antenna characteristic for short range communication in order to enhance the flexibility of the shielding unit. According to the present disclosure, the shielding unit is complexly configured to enhance all of the characteristics of different types of antennas operating in different frequency bands so that the shielding unit can significantly enhance the transmission/reception distance and efficiency of a signal and can be implemented to be very slim; the flexibility of the shielding is enhanced, which makes it possible to prevent additional micro-cracks of a magnetic material and fragmentation thereof, thus preventing a magnetic material and fragmentation thereof, thus preventing a magnetic permeability decrease in the operating frequency band of an antenna in advance; and the shielding unit can adhere firmly to an object having a step so that it is possible to solve a problem of separation of th shielding unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A magnetic field shielding unit comprising:
a first shielding sheet, for improving characteristics of a wireless power transmission antenna, including a first magnetic field shielding layer formed of fragments of shredded Fe-based alloy to improve a flexibility of the shielding unit and to reduce generation of eddy currents; and
a second shielding sheet, for improving characteristics of a short distance communication antenna, including a second magnetic field shielding layer formed of fragments of shredded ferrite to improve the flexibility of the shielding unit and a receiving portion to receive a partial or an entire thickness of the first shielding sheet;
wherein a value according to following Equation 1 for an average diameter of fragments of Fe-based alloy and an average diameter of fragments of ferrite is 3 to 35:
Average diameter of fragments of ferrite (μm)/Average diameter of fragments of Fe-based alloy (μm).

2. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the receiving portion is a receiving recess recessed from a surface of the second shielding sheet to a predetermined depth, or a through hole penetrating the second shielding sheet.

3. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic field shielding layer includes a dielectric filling at least a part of gaps between adjacent Fe-based alloy fragments.

4. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the first shielding sheet unit includes a first magnetic field shielding layers, and a dielectric layer is interposed between adjacent the first magnetic field shielding layers to adhere the magnetic field shielding layers to each other.

5. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein fragments of Fe-based alloy have an average diameter of 0.5 μm to 700 μm.

6. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the number of Fe-based alloy fragments of which diameters are less than 500 μm is 60% or more of the total number of Fe-based alloy fragments.

7. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic field shielding layer has a thickness of 15 μm to 50 μm.

8. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 4 , wherein the first shielding sheet includes 2 to 12 of the first magnetic field shield layers.

9. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the second shielding sheet has a quality index value of 20 or more at an operating frequency of 13.56 MHz according to following Equation 2:
A quality index value=a real part of complex permeability at a predetermined frequency (μ′)÷an imaginary part of complex permeability at a predetermined frequency (μ″).

10. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the second magnetic field shielding layer has a thickness of 30 μm to 600 μm.

11. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the average diameter of a single fragment of the ferrite fragments is 100 μm to 2100 μm.

12. The magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , wherein the value according to the Equation 1 is 3 to 25.

13. A multifunctional integrated module comprising;
an antenna unit including a short distance communication antenna and a wireless power transmission antenna; and
a magnetic field shielding unit of claim 1 , which is disposed on one side of the antenna unit to improve antenna characteristics and condense a magnetic flux toward the antenna unit.

14. The multifunctional integrated module of claim 13 , wherein the wireless power transmission antenna is formed inside the short distance communication antenna, and the first shielding sheet of the magnetic field shielding unit corresponds to the wireless power transmission antenna.

15. The multifunctional integrated module of claim 13 , wherein the antenna unit further includes a magnetic security transmission (MST) antenna, and the first shielding sheet of the magnetic field shielding unit corresponds to the magnetic security transmission antenna.

16. A portable device comprising a multifunctional integrated module of claim 13 as a receiving module.

Assignees

• Amosense Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jang Kil Jae
• Lee Dong Hoon

Classifications

• H02J50/70 Primary

  involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields · CPC title

• H02J7/42

  with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones · CPC title

• H01Q1/526

  Electromagnetic shields · CPC title

• H01F1/15366

  using a binder · CPC title

• H01F38/14

  Inductive couplings {(for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10)} · CPC title