Wireless Power Coil Shielding for Metal Debris Heat Suppression

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless power transmission systems, metal foreign substances between power transmission and reception coils can generate heat, posing safety risks, especially during high-output non-contact charging of electric vehicles, as conventional removal methods are inadequate for all types of foreign substances and may not completely prevent heat generation.

Innovation Solution

A power transmission device with a magnetically shielded space created by a power transmission-side cancel coil outside the power transmission coil, a moving member, and a moving mechanism that relocates metal foreign substances from the power transmission coil area into the magnetically shielded space to prevent heat generation during high-output power transmission.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Power

If high-output non-contact power transmission is performed, then power transmission efficiency is improved, but metal foreign substances generate heat causing safety risks

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower transmission outputVSAvoidheat generation from metal foreign substances
Core Design Contradiction:
PowerVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts metal foreign substances from the harmful high magnetic flux density area by using a wiper to move them from the power transmission coil area to a peripheral area with lower flux density. This separates the foreign substances from the source of harmful heating while maintaining high-output power transmission capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a wiper as an intermediary mechanism that physically transports metal foreign substances away from the power transmission coil. This mediator enables the removal of harmful substances without interrupting the high-output power transmission process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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

Effectively suppresses heat generation from metal foreign substances in the peripheral area of the power transmission device, enabling safe and continuous high-output non-contact power transmission by relocating foreign substances outside the magnetically shielded area.

Implementation Method 1

a magnetically shielded space created by a power transmission-side cancel coil arranged outside the power transmission coil

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic field cancellation: Magnetic Field

Implementation Method 2

a power transmission coil

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS11804736B2Power transmission device, power reception device, wireless power transmission system, and method for driving power transmission device
Publication Date: 2023.10.31 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A power transmission device includes a power transmission coil, a magnetically shielded space created by a power transmission-side cancel coil arranged outside the power transmission coil, a moving member configured to move a metal foreign substance, and a moving mechanism configured to move a part or all of an upper surface of the moving member from an area outside the magnetically shielded space into the magnetically shielded space.