Conductix-wampfler Gmbh

Wampfler Aktiengesellschaft

Conductix-wampfler Ag

Andrew Green

Mathias Wechlin

Pascal Asselin

Frank Böhler

Wolfgang Schnurbusch

Roland Winterhalter

Benjamin Rhein

Keith Thompson

Veit Pfättisch

A coil unit for an electric vehicle for the inductive transfer of electrical energy between the coil unit and a stationary charging station. The coil unit includes at least one coil and a flux guide unit for guiding a magnetic flux occurring during operation of the coil. Also disclosed is an electric vehicle having a coil unit for the inductive transfer of electrical energy between a secondary coil of the coil unit and a primary coil of a charging station. The disclosed coil solves the problem of allowing the safe use of the inductive electrical energy transfer in electric vehicles, in particular motor vehicles, by proposing a coil unit, in which the flux guide unit has material weakenings, and an electric vehicle having such a coil unit.

Coil unit and electric vehicle

An apparatus for inductively transmitting electrical energy from a stationary unit to a mobile unit which is located adjacent to the stationary unit. The apparatus has a coil and a flux guide unit for guiding a magnetic flux occurring during operation of the apparatus with at least one ferromagnetic body, which consists of a multiplicity of individual elements. The flux guide unit has the basic shape of a plate and is arranged on one side of the coil perpendicular to the winding axis thereof in such a way that it covers the cross-sectional area of the coil at least partially. The ferromagnetic body includes individual elements with anisotropic magnetic permeability and has, overall, anisotropic magnetic permeability. In a viewing plane perpendicular to the winding axis of the coil, the individual elements of the ferromagnetic body are aligned with respect to the coil in those regions in which a ferromagnetic body with anisotropic permeability covers winding sections of the coil, in such a way that the preferred direction of magnetic permeability, in which the magnetic permeability has its greatest magnitude in the viewing plane, is at least approximately perpendicular to the winding sections of the coil.

Apparatus for inductively transmitting electrical energy

A device for inductive transfer of electric energy from a stationary unit including at least one primary inductance to a vehicle that is adjacent to the unit and has at least one secondary inductance. The stationary unit has a device for detecting the presence of an electrically conductive object in a predetermined area that borders the primary inductance. The area can be between the primary and secondary inductance during the inductive energy transfer. The device has at least one measuring inductance, a measuring unit for measuring the impedance of the measuring inductance and an evaluation unit connected to the measuring unit. Preferably, the device is equipped with a plurality of measuring inductances which form a regular two-dimensional arrangement extending approximately in one plane, the plane lying perpendicular to the main direction of the magnetic field that is generated by the primary inductance during operation.

Device for inductive transmission of electrical energy

The invention relates to a device for the inductive transfer of electric energy from a stationary unit that has at least two similar primary inductances (-) to a vehicle () standing adjacent to said unit. The primary inductances (-) of the stationary unit can be supplied with electrical current independently of one another and the current supply can be individually activated or deactivated by a central control unit (). Preferably, the device is equipped with a uniform two-dimensional arrangement (-A-A) of a plurality of primary inductances that are similar to one another and are in the form of a rectangular matrix (-). Either a dedicated output of a central current supply unit or a dedicated current supply unit (-) is assigned to each primary inductance. Preferably, the vehicle has several secondary inductances that are similar to one another, the dimensions and arrangement of said inductances being designed in such a way that several pairs of secondary and primary inductances overlap at any one time in at least one position of the vehicle (A,B,C).

Device for the inductive transfer of electrical energy

Apparatus for power transmission and for inductive communication with a track or rail-guided moving object, with a power transmission line which extends along an envisaged path of movement of the object&#x2014;with which a current collector can make contact&#x2014;for supplying power to moving loads, a separate data line, at least one communication inductance on the object coupleable magnetically to the data line, and with a communication device which is connected to the communication inductance. The communication device has a modem which operates on the basis of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing method at a data rate of at least 50 MBit/s. One end of the data line is connected to a communication device connected to a central control unit and containing a modem of the same type as the communication device in the moving object.

Apparatus for power transmission and for inductive communication

The invention relates to a device for the inductive transfer of electric energy from a stationary unit comprising at least one primary inductance to a vehicle that is adjacent to said unit and has at least one second inductance. The stationary unit or the vehicle has a device for detecting the presence of an object in a predetermined area that covers at least the area lying between the primary inductance and the second inductance during the inductive energy transfer. The detection device has at least one contactless sensor and an evaluation unit that is connected to the sensor. At least the sensor of the detection device is integrated into or mounted on the same housing as the primary or secondary coil of the energy transfer device. The sensor can be an ultrasonic sensor, radar sensor, infra-red sensor or an electric image sensor.

The invention relates to a device for inductively transmitting electrical energy to displaceable consumers (F-F) that can be moved along a track, having a primary conductor arrangement () divided into route segments (-) that are electrically separated from each other, and extending along the track, wherein individual route segments (-) are each associated with at least one current source (-) for imprinting a continuous current into each of the route segments (-), and to a corresponding method. The aim of the invention is to supply the displaceable consumers in an energy-saving manner with electric energy matched to demand, and to allow short reaction times when operating the device. This aim is achieved by providing the device with a means () for determining the total power of the displaceable consumers (F-F) present in each of the individual route segments (-) and with a means () for actuating the current sources (-) for applying the electrical continuous current corresponding to the total power required for each route segment (-), or by determining, according to the method, the required total power of the displaceable consumers (F-F) present in each route segment and applying an electrical continuous current to each route segment (-) by means of the associated current source (-), said current corresponding to the total power required therein.

Device and method for inductively transmitting electric energy to displaceable consumers

Device for inductive power supply and guidance of a moving object, with a primary inductance element extending as a conductive loop along a path provided for the object. A secondary inductance element is arranged on the object and can be coupled magnetically with the primary inductance element for power transmission. Several receiver inductance elements are arranged on the object and output measurement signals dependent on the magnetic field of the primary inductance element. An evaluation device determines a measure for the position of the object with reference to the conductive loop from the measurement signals. A regular arrangement of receiver inductance elements is provided, which extends on the object at least perpendicular to its direction of motion. The receiver inductance elements are simultaneously also connected to a data receiver device, which contains a way for extracting a data signal from the output voltage of at least one of the receiver inductance elements. At least one data line, which exhibits inductive coupling with at least one of the receiver inductance elements sufficient for transmitting a data signal while the object is moving, is arranged along the path provided for the object.

Device for inductively supplying power and guiding a mobile object

A device for inductively transmitting electrical energy to at least one mobile load, with at least one primary conductor that extends along a designated path of the load in the form of a conductor loop and from which a secondary conductor arranged on the load is able to draw electrical energy. At least two conductor loops are provided that are electrically separated from one another and respectively assigned to different segments of the path. The conductor loops are arranged relative to one another so that electrical energy intended for the load can be transmitted from a first conductor loop to at least a second conductor loop due to inductive coupling between the conductor loops. A section of the second conductor loop that is inductively coupled contains a larger number of windings than that of the first conductor loop. The second conductor loop includes of a series of partial loops that extend parallel to one another.

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Malsburg-Marzell, Germany

Andrew Green