Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Atsushi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Kanno

Hiromu Matsumoto

A power transmitting and receiving system includes a power receiving device including a power receiving coil, and a power transmission device including power transmission coils arranged in a line, a power transmission circuit, and control circuitry. The control circuitry switches an electrical connection between the power transmission circuit and each power transmission coil, detects a relative position between the power receiving coil and each power transmission coil, selects adjacent power transmission coils based on the relative position, and causes the power transmission circuit to supply AC power to the selected power transmission coils. In an array direction of the power transmission coils, width Dwt of each power transmission coil is shorter than width Dwr of the power receiving coil. In a direction perpendicular to the array direction, width Dlt of each power transmission coil is equal to or longer than width Dlr of the power receiving coil.

Power transmission device and wireless power transmission system

A power transmission device includes power transmission coils arranged in a line, a power transmission circuit connected to the power transmission coils, and control circuitry that switches an electrical connection between the power transmission circuit and each power transmission coil, detects a relative position between the power receiving coil and each power transmission coil, selects two or more power transmission coils adjacent to each other based on the detected relative position, and causes the power transmission circuit to supply the AC power to the selected two or more power transmission coils. In a direction perpendicular to an array direction of the power transmission coils, width Dlt of each power transmission coil is equal to or longer than width Dlr of the power receiving coil. In the array direction, width Dwt of each power transmission coil is shorter than width Dwr of the power receiving coil and satisfies 0.2≤Dwt/Dwr.

A power transmission device includes power transmission coils arranged in a line, a power transmission circuit connected to the power transmission coils, and control circuitry that switches an electrical connection between the power transmission circuit and each power transmission coil, detects a relative position between the power receiving coil and each power transmission coil, selects two or more power transmission coils adjacent to each other based on the detected relative position, and causes the power transmission circuit to supply the AC power to the selected two or more power transmission coils. In an array direction of the power transmission coils, a width Dwt of each power transmission coil is shorter than a width Dwr of the power receiving coil. In a direction perpendicular to the array direction, a width Dlt of each power transmission coil is equal to or longer than a width Dlr of the power receiving coil.

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Kyoto, Japan

Atsushi Yamamoto