Vehicle and contactless power transfer system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10367377-B2
Application number	US-201515301170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2015
Priority date	Apr 16, 2014
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a vehicle including a floor panel, a power reception device including a secondary side core and a power reception coil wound around the secondary side core, and being attached to a lower surface of the floor panel to receive electric power from a power transmission device in a contactless manner while being opposed to the power transmission device, and a shield provided to cover at least a portion of the floor panel positioned around the secondary side core.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A contactless power transfer system comprising:
a vehicle comprising:
a floor panel;
a power reception device including a secondary side core and a power reception coil wound around said secondary side core, and being attached to a lower surface of said floor panel to receive electric power from a power transmission device in a contactless manner while being opposed to said power transmission device; and
a shield provided to cover at least a portion of said floor panel positioned around said secondary side core,
said power reception device including a resin member sealing therein said secondary side core and said power reception coil,
said power reception coil being embedded within said resin member,
a flange being provided around said resin member, and
said power reception device being attached to said lower surface of said floor panel via said flange; and

a power transmission device including a primary side core and a power transmission coil wound around said primary side core,
one of said vehicle and said power transmission device further including a control unit configured to calculate a parameter relevant to power receiving efficiency of said power reception device,
in the vehicle width direction, a width dimension of said primary side core being larger than the width dimension of said secondary side core,
said shield including a first protruding part protruding to the left side in the vehicle width direction with respect to said secondary side core and a second protruding part protruding to the right side in the vehicle width direction with respect to said secondary side core,
an amount of protrusion of said first protruding part to the left side in the vehicle width direction with respect to said secondary side core and an amount of protrusion of said second protruding part to the right side in the vehicle width direction with respect to said secondary side core each being larger than the width dimension of said secondary side core in the vehicle width direction and smaller than the width dimension of said primary side core,
when said parameter as calculated is smaller than a predetermined threshold, said control unit stopping power transmission from said power transmission device to said power reception device.

2. A contactless power transfer system comprising:
a vehicle comprising:
a floor panel;
a power reception device including a secondary side core and a power reception coil wound around said secondary side core, and being attached to a lower surface of said floor panel to receive electric power from a power transmission device in a contactless manner while being opposed to said power transmission device; and
a shield provided to cover at least a portion of said floor panel positioned around said secondary side core,
said power reception device including a resin member sealing therein said secondary side core and said power reception coil,
said power reception coil being embedded within said resin member,
a flange being provided around said resin member, and
said power reception device being attached to said lower surface of said floor panel via said flange; and

a power transmission device including a primary side core and a power transmission coil wound around said primary side core,
one of said vehicle and said power transmission device further including a control unit configured to calculate a parameter relevant to power receiving efficiency of said power reception device,
in the vehicle width direction, a width dimension of said primary side core being larger than the width dimension of said secondary side core,
said shield including a third protruding part protruding to the front side in the vehicle longitudinal direction with respect to said secondary side core and a fourth protruding part protruding to the back side in the vehicle longitudinal direction with respect to said secondary side core,
an amount of protrusion of said third protruding part to the front side in the vehicle longitudinal direction with respect to said secondary side core and an amount of protrusion of said fourth protruding part to the back side in the vehicle longitudinal direction with respect to said secondary side core each being larger than a length dimension of said secondary side core in the vehicle longitudinal direction and smaller than the length dimension of said primary side core,
when said parameter as calculated is smaller than a predetermined threshold, said control unit stopping power transmission from said power transmission device to said power reception device.

3. A contactless power transfer system comprising a vehicle and a power transmission device,
said vehicle including
a floor panel,
a power reception device including a secondary side core and a power reception coil wound around said secondary side core, and being attached to a lower surface of said floor panel to receive electric power from said power transmission device in a contactless manner while being opposed to said power transmission device, and
a shield provided to cover a portion of said floor panel positioned around said secondary side core,
said power transmission device including a primary side core and a power transmission coil wound around said primary side core,
in a vehicle width direction, a width dimension of said primary side core being larger than the width dimension of said secondary side core,
in the vehicle width direction, the distance between a portion of said shield positioned on the leftmost side in the vehicle width direction and a portion of said shield positioned on the rightmost side in the vehicle width direction being larger than the width dimension of said primary side core,
said power reception device including a resin member sealing therein said secondary side core and said power reception coil,
said power reception coil being embedded within said resin member;
a flange being provided around said resin member, and
said power reception device being attached to said lower surface of said floor panel via said flange.

4. The contactless power transfer system according to claim 3 , wherein said shield is provided with a notch having a shape corresponding to said flange, and said flange is located inside the notch.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yuasa Hiroaki

Classifications

• H02J50/70

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

• H01F38/14

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

• B60L2270/147

  electro magnetic [EMI] · CPC title

• B60K1/04

  of the electric storage means for propulsion · CPC title

• B60L53/305

  Communication interfaces · CPC title