A non-contact
electric power transmission circuit according to an embodiment of the invention includes an
electric power transmission circuit and an
electric power receiving circuit. The
electric power transmission circuit includes a
full bridge circuit and a resonant type
full bridge circuit. A direct-current power supply is used as an input of the
full bridge circuit, the full
bridge circuit includes two sets of switching elements, two switching elements being connected in series in each set of the switching elements, a drive circuit alternately feeds a pulse
signal to gates of the switching elements to perform switching of the direct-current input in the full
bridge circuit, and a serial resonant circuit of a
resonant capacitor and an
electric power transmission coil is connected to an output of the full
bridge circuit in the resonant type full bridge circuit. The electric power receiving circuit includes an electric power receiving coil and a rectifying and
smoothing circuit. The electric power receiving coil is electromagnetically coupled to the
electric power transmission coil, and the rectifying and
smoothing circuit rectifies an output of the electric power receiving coil. In the non-contact electric
power transmission circuit, a push-pull output PWM
control circuit is provided in the drive circuit that controls the full bridge circuit, and only one of the switching elements in each set of switching elements performs a regenerative operation. Therefore, a non-contact electric
power transmission circuit in which the resonant type full bridge circuit can be controlled by PWM control at a level similar to that of a phase shift operation can be provided.