Abstract:
A power receiving unit includes a secondary resonant coil for receiving electric power from a primary resonant coil using magnetic resonance or electric field resonance, a secondary coil capable of changing a number of turns or a pitch of a winding for receiving the electric power from the secondary resonant coil using electromagnetic induction, a rectification circuit, and a controller. The electric power received by the secondary coil is rectified by the rectification circuit, and transmitted to a DC-DC converter for supplying the electric power to a load circuit. The controller changes the number of turns or the pitch of the winding of the secondary coil such that an input voltage of the DC-DC converter does not exceed an upper limit, based on a magnitude of the electric power received from the primary resonant coil.
Abstract:
A wireless power transfer system includes a plurality of power sources and at least one power receiver, in which power transfer from the power sources to the power receiver is performed in wireless by using magnetic field resonance or electric field resonance. In the system, one of the plurality of power sources is designated as a master power source and the other one or more power sources are designated as slave power sources. In addition, the master power source controls the plurality of power sources and the at least one power receiver to perform the power transfer. This allows the system to perform the power transfer in an optimum state.
Abstract:
A rechargeable battery includes: a battery body including a cylindrical outer peripheral side surface; and a power receiving coil wound in at most a single layer around the outer peripheral side surface, and electrically connected to the battery body. The power receiving coil is helically wound around the outer peripheral side surface while forming a space from which the outer peripheral side surface is exposed.
Abstract:
A power transmission device includes a first coil and a second coil. The first coil emits a first electromagnetic wave. The second coil is arranged at a position where a center axis of the first coil and a center axis of the second coil are not overlapped to each other and emits a second electromagnetic wave having a strength distribution with a polarity opposite to a polarity of a strength distribution of the first electromagnetic wave.