Antenna Unit With Varying Line Widths For Wireless Power Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless power transmission antennas face challenges in minimizing heat generation while maintaining efficiency and adhering to specifications, as increasing the cross-sectional area to reduce resistance leads to increased size and potential performance degradation of other antennas, and flexible printed circuit board structures face limitations in reducing resistance.

Innovation Solution

An antenna unit with a circuit board featuring a first antenna pattern with varying line widths and a second antenna pattern with conductors of different line widths connected in parallel, allowing for reduced resistance and heat generation while maintaining inductance and diameter specifications, and a shielding unit to manage the magnetic field.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If the cross-sectional area of the antenna pattern is increased to reduce resistance value, then heat generation is minimized, but the overall antenna size and thickness increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat generationVSAvoidantenna size
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by varying the line width of the conductor at different positions within the antenna pattern. The line width is increased at specific locations where resistance reduction is most beneficial for minimizing heat generation, while maintaining smaller dimensions in other areas to control overall antenna size. This localized optimization allows the antenna to reduce heat generation without proportionally increasing its overall volume.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of energy

If the number of winding turns is reduced to decrease resistance value, then heat generation is minimized, but the inductance decreases below required levels

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat generationVSAvoidinductance
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs parameter changes by modifying the line width parameter of the conductor instead of changing the number of winding turns. By increasing the line width at strategic positions, the resistance value is reduced to minimize heat generation while maintaining the same number of winding turns, thereby preserving the required inductance level. This approach changes the physical dimension parameter (line width) rather than the topological parameter (number of turns).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of energy

If the antenna pattern size is increased to reduce resistance value, then heat generation is minimized, but the performance of other combined antennas degrades

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat generationVSAvoidantenna performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by concentrating the increased line width modifications specifically within the wireless power transmission antenna pattern, rather than uniformly increasing the size of all antenna structures. This localized approach reduces resistance and heat generation in the WPT antenna while maintaining the compact overall size needed to preserve the performance of other combined antennas such as NFC and MST antennas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

4Loss of energy

If the line width is increased to reduce resistance value, then heat generation is minimized, but the manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat generationVSAvoidantenna structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements local quality by applying different line widths to different segments of the conductor trace. The manufacturing process uses variable line width patterns that are wider in regions where resistance reduction is prioritized and narrower in other regions. This approach reduces overall resistance and heat generation while maintaining a manageable manufacturing complexity through standardized PCB fabrication techniques that can accommodate variable trace widths.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution effectively minimizes heat generation during wireless power transmission, enhances design flexibility, and improves transmission efficiency by adjusting line widths and using a shielding unit to manage the magnetic field.

Implementation Method 1

the heat generated during the wireless power transmission is proportional to a resistance value of a conductor such as a coil or the like constituting an antenna pattern

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectrical Resistance: Electrical Resistance

Implementation Method 2

heat generation during wireless charging has increased

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectJoule Heating: Joule Heating

Implementation Method 3

wireless power transmission (a magnetic induction, or a magnetic resonance) antenna

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic Induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 4

a shielding unit to manage the magnetic field

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic Field: Magnetic Field

Data Source

PatentUS10658740B2Antenna unit and wireless power transmission module including same
Publication Date: 2020.05.19 AMOTECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are an antenna unit and a wireless power transmission module. There is provided an antenna unit that includes a circuit board, and a first antenna pattern formed on a surface of the circuit board for wireless power transmission and formed of a single conductor including a plurality of windings. The single conductor has a different line width depending on position. There is provided a wireless power transmission module that includes any one of the antenna units, and a shielding unit disposed on one surface of the antenna unit and configured to shield a magnetic field.