No point of contact charging system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-RE48193-E
Application number	US-200513750494-A
Country	US
Kind code	E1
Filing date	Apr 11, 2005
Priority date	Mar 21, 2005
Publication date	Sep 1, 2020
Grant date	Sep 1, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a non-contact charging system. The non-contact charging system detects a portable terminal, a battery pack or a foreign object that is placed on the pad of a non-contact charger, and effectively monitors and controls its charging state through the detection, thus preventing such a foreign object placed on the pad from being heated by induction heating, and further causes anions to be generated during the charging of the portable terminal or the battery pack, thus sterilizing bacteria on a terminal and keeping ambient air thereof fresh.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-contact charging system having a battery pack (B) charged by an induced electromotive force generated from a non-contact charger (A) supplied with power, wherein the non-contact charger (A) comprises: an electromagnetic wave filter ( 100 ) connected to a power input terminal to block electromagnetic waves caused by Alternating Current (AC) power; a primary rectification circuit ( 110 ) for rectifying the AC power, to Direct Current (DC) power, a flyback converter ( 110 ′) for storing power transferred from the primary rectification circuit ( 110 ) while a contained transistor is turned on, and applying an input voltage to a gate driver ( 160 ), a central processing unit ( 180 ) and applying a driving voltage to a series resonance type converter ( 120 ) when the contained transistor is turned off; a current detection unit ( 170 ) interposed between the flyback converter ( 110 ′) and the series resonance type converter ( 120 ) to detect a variation in current resulting from an approach of the battery pack (B) to a non-contact charging pad, and outputting a comparison current depending on the variation in current; the central processing unit ( 180 ) for detecting the approach of the battery pack (B) using the comparison current output from the current detection unit ( 170 ), controlling the gate drive ( 160 ) according not only to whether the battery pack (B) approaches but also to the current of a temperature protection circuit unit ( 183 ) to stop the switching of the gate drive ( 160 ) when abnormal operation occurs or the temperature of a foreign object placed on the non-contact charging pad exceeds a predetermined temperature; the gate driver ( 160 ) for outputting gate signals under the control of the central processing unit ( 180 ); the series resonance type converter ( 120 ) for adjusting the waveforms of voltage and current applied to a primary core unit ( 130 ) in response to the gate signals input from the gate driver ( 160 ); and the primary core unit ( 130 ) switched by the series resonance type converter ( 120 ) to generate the induced electromotive force,
wherein the battery pack (B) comprises:
a secondary core unit ( 210 ) configured to induce power through the primary core unit ( 130 ); a secondary rectification circuit unit ( 200 ) coupled to a coil (Scoil 1 ) of the secondary core unit ( 120 ) to rectify the induced power; a charging control unit ( 230 ) comprising a charging adjustment circuit ( 230 a) for supplying a fuel gauge ( 230 b) with power rectified by the secondary rectification circuit ( 200 ), and applying voltage to a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) control unit in response to the output of the secondary rectification circuit ( 200 ), and the fuel gauge ( 210 b) for supplying a battery BAT through a protection circuit ( 240 ) with power supplied from the charging adjustment circuit ( 230 a), and generating charging state information and periodically records the information while monitoring the charging state of the battery BAT; and a protection circuit unit ( 240 ) coupled between the charging control unit ( 230 ) and the battery (BAT) to control whether to perform charging or discharging depending on a charged state of the battery (BAT), and
a shield plate ( 260 ) having a film shape, interposed between the secondary core unit ( 210 ) of the battery pack (B) and a battery case ( 250 ), the protection circuit unit ( 240 ) being surrounded by a shield member ( 241 ).

2. The non-contact charging system according to claim 1 , wherein the gate driver ( 160 ) allows two switching devices, which are provided in the series resonance type converter ( 120 ), to be alternately turned on in response to the gate signals output under control of the central processing unit ( 180 ), thus adjusting the waveforms of the input voltage and current through charging and discharging parallel capacitors coupled to respective switching devices.

3. The non-contact charging system according to claim 1 , wherein the current detection unit ( 170 ) is connected to both ends of a resistor connected to an output terminal of the flyback converter ( 110 ′) and an input terminal of the series resonance type converter ( 120 ), comprises a differential amplifier ( 171 ) to which signals output from both ends of the resistor are inputted, and a comparator/low frequency filter ( 172 ) which is coupled to an output terminal of the differential amplifier ( 171 ), and detects the variation in current by comparing the output voltage of the differential amplifier ( 171 ) with a predetermined reference voltage, filters out the comparison current depending on variation in current, and outputs the comparison current.

4. The non-contact charging system according to claim 1 , wherein the central processing unit ( 180 ) is configured to process information fed back from a dust and odor sensor ( 181 ) and switch an operation mode of the ion generation unit ( 182 ).

5. The non-contact charging system according to claim 1 , wherein the primary core unit ( 130 ) is configured such that coils (Pcoil 1 and Pcoil 2 ) are wound around a plate core member ( 131 ) in which a central opening ( 132 ) is formed.

6. The non-contact charging system according to claim 5 , wherein the plate core member ( 131 ) is formed in a polygonal shape, a circular shape, or elliptical shape, and is configured such that pieces of amorphous metal or ferrite material are attached thereto.

7. The non-contact charging system according to claim 5 , wherein the coils (Pcoil 1 and Pcoil 2 ) are wound around the plate core member ( 131 ) in series or in parallel.

8. The non-contact charging system according to claim 1 , wherein the charging control unit ( 230 ) is formed by integrating circuits optimized to perform both a charging control function of controlling the charging and discharging of the battery (BAT) using the power rectified by the secondary rectification circuit ( 200 ), and a fuel gauge function of generating the charge state information and periodically recording the generated information while monitoring the charging state of the battery (B).

9. The non-contact charging system according to claim 1 , wherein the foreign object detection unit ( 220 ) detects instantaneous power at the same time that the battery pack (B) containing the secondary core unit ( 210 ) is placed on the wireless charger (A) and allows a no load state to be maintained by maintaining a switch (Q 3 ) in an OFF state for a certain period of time, and allows the no load state to be switched into a load state by maintaining the switch (Q 3 ) in an ON state after the no load state has been maintained for the period of time, thereby informing the primary coil through load modulation that the battery pack (B) containing the secondary core unit ( 210 ) has been placed on the non-contact charger (A) and, at the same time, applying power to a charging control unit ( 230 ).

10. An electronic device for use with a wireless power transmitter having a primary coil for transmitting wireless power, the electronic device comprising:
a secondary coil configured to receive wireless power via an electromagnetic field induced by the primary coil of the wireless power transmitter; a rectification unit coupled to the secondary coil and configured to rectify the wireless power to generate rectified power; a shielding that is interposed between the wireless power receiving coil and a battery of the electronic device, wherein the shielding is configured to reduce interference to the electronic device caused by the electromagnetic field that would otherwise exist without the shielding; and a control unit that controls a switch for transferring the rectified power to a power system of the e

Assignees

• Hanrim Postech Co Ltd
• Ge Hybrid Tech Llc

Inventors

• Cho Ki-Young

Classifications

• H02J7/42

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

• H02J50/12 Primary

  of the resonant type · CPC title

• H02J7/00 Primary

  Circuit arrangements for charging or discharging batteries or for supplying loads from batteries · CPC title

• H02J50/60 Primary

  responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings · CPC title

• A61L2/02

  using physical processes · CPC title