Wireless Transmission Resonant Capacitor Spacing for Heat Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional wireless power supply systems face challenges in heat resistance performance, particularly when high power is applied to resonant capacitor groups, leading to inadequate thermal management.

Innovation Solution

A wireless transmission device is designed with a resonant power storage element module that includes a substrate with litz wire and stranded wire connections, where the distance between adjacent capacitor elements on the substrate is optimized to reduce heat accumulation, and a housing reinforcement pillar with high thermal conductivity is used to enhance heat dissipation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Power

If high power is applied to the resonant capacitor group, then the power transmission capability is improved, but the heat resistance performance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower transmission capabilityVSAvoidheat resistance performance
Core Design Contradiction:
PowerVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by creating asymmetric spacing between capacitor elements based on their connection to different wire types. Capacitor elements connected to the second electric wire (higher heat generation) are spaced farther apart than those connected to the first electric wire (lower heat generation). This localized differentiation in spacing addresses the thermal management needs of specific high-heat regions while maintaining overall compactness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the physical parameter of spacing distance between capacitor elements to manage heat distribution. By varying the spacing parameter selectively in different regions of the capacitor group, the design optimizes heat dissipation without compromising the overall power transmission capability or requiring fundamental changes to the resonant circuit operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Volume of moving object

If capacitor elements are arranged closely together, then the device compactness is improved, but the heat accumulation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice compactnessVSAvoidheat accumulation
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements local quality by applying different spacing strategies to different regions of the capacitor group. Rather than uniformly increasing spacing throughout the entire device (which would compromise compactness), the invention selectively increases spacing only in regions where heat generation is highest, thereby maintaining overall compactness while addressing localized heat accumulation problems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs asymmetry by creating non-uniform spacing patterns among capacitor elements. The asymmetric arrangement, where certain elements are spaced farther apart based on their thermal characteristics, allows the design to optimize heat dissipation in critical areas while maintaining close spacing in lower-heat regions, thus balancing compactness and thermal management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #4Asymmetry

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 suppresses heat accumulation and temperature rise in the resonant capacitor modules, thereby improving the heat resistance performance of the wireless transmission device.

Implementation Method 1

a coil configured to generate a magnetic field

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 2

capable of accumulating electric power, and configured to constitute a resonance circuit corresponding to a power transmission frequency in cooperation with the coil

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectResonance: Resonance

Implementation Method 3

a second electric wire that is larger in an amount of heat generation than that of the first electric wire at a time of energization

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectJoule heating: Joule Heating

Data Source

PatentUS10056788B2Wireless transmission device
Publication Date: 2018.08.21 YAZAKI CORP
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AI summary

A wireless transmission device includes a coil that generates a magnetic field, and a resonant power storage element module electrically connected with the coil, capable of accumulating electric power, and constitutes a resonance circuit corresponding to a power transmission frequency in cooperation with the coil when transmitting the electric power via the coil. The resonant power storage element module includes a substrate with which a first electric wire and a second electric wire larger in an amount of heat generation than the first electric wire at the time of energization are connected, and a plurality of power storage elements mounted on the substrate. A distance between the power storage elements adjacent to each other on a side of a connection portion connected with the second electric wire in the substrate is larger than that on a side of a connection portion connected with the first electric wire in the substrate.