Multilayer Coil Power Transmission Unit Reducing High Frequency Resistance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional power transmission devices experience efficiency decreases during wireless power transmission, necessitating improvements in power transmission units.

Innovation Solution

A power transmission unit is designed with a multilayer substrate configuration, featuring first and second coil pattern groups spirally formed around an axial line, with specific connections between coil patterns to enhance wireless power transfer efficiency, reducing high frequency resistance and proximity effects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If conventional single-layer coil design is used, then manufacturing is simpler, but power transmission efficiency decreases due to high frequency resistance and proximity effects

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower transmission efficiencyVSAvoidcoil structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The coil structure is divided into multiple layers (first layer and second layer) with each layer containing separate coil patterns. This segmentation allows current to be distributed across multiple paths, reducing proximity effects and high frequency resistance, thereby improving power transmission efficiency while managing structural complexity through systematic arrangement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention transitions from a single-layer planar coil design to a multi-layer three-dimensional structure. By stacking coil patterns on different layers and connecting them through conductive vias, the design adds the vertical dimension to the coil architecture, enabling current distribution in multiple spatial dimensions and reducing electromagnetic interference between adjacent conductors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If multi-layer coil pattern groups are used, then high frequency resistance and proximity effects are reduced, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower transmission stabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple coil patterns are merged into a unified multi-layer structure where first and second coil pattern groups are interconnected through conductive vias. This merging creates a cohesive electromagnetic system that functions as a single integrated unit, improving power transmission stability while allowing standardized manufacturing processes to be applied to the entire assembly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The coil patterns are arranged in a nested configuration where inner coil patterns and outer coil patterns are positioned concentrically around a central axis. This nested arrangement optimizes magnetic flux distribution and reduces leakage, improving transmission reliability while maintaining a compact form factor that simplifies integration into the overall device structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

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 configuration improves power transmission efficiency by reducing high frequency resistance and heat loss, allowing for effective wireless power transmission while simplifying manufacturing and reducing costs compared to traditional coil designs.

Implementation Method 1

The power transmission device wirelessly transmits electric power from the power transmission coil to a counterpart power receiving coil by electromagnetic induction

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS10930431B2Power transmission unit
Publication Date: 2021.02.23 YAZAKI CORP
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AI summary

In a power transmission unit, a first coil pattern group and a second coil pattern group are connected with each other with an upper layer outer pattern, located outside in an axial line direction and outside in the intersecting direction, connected with a lower layer inner pattern, located outside in the axial line direction and inside in the intersecting direction. Furthermore, the first coil pattern group and a second coil pattern group are connected with each other with a lower layer outer pattern, located inside in the axial line direction and outside in the intersecting direction, connected with an upper layer inner pattern, located inside in the axial line direction and inside in the intersecting direction.