Lg Electronics Inc.

Research Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam University

Sungwoo Bae

Chungill Lee

Soongkeun Lee

Seonwook Park

Jaejung Yun

Jeongtae Kim

Younggeun Lee

A home appliance is disclosed, including a first circuit unit including a converter configured to convert an Alternating Current (AC) power into a Direct Current (DC) power, a first coil, a first modulator/demodulator configured to wirelessly transmit the DC power generated by the converter using the first coil, and a first controller configured to control the first modulator/demodulator, and a second circuit including a second coil configured to receive a wireless power transmitted by the first circuit unit, a second modulator/demodulator configured to convert the wireless power received from the second coil, a rectifier configured to rectify an AC power generated by the second modulator/demodulator, and a second controller configured to control operation of the second modulator/demodulator, wherein the first modulator/demodulator and the second modulator/demodulator perform bidirectional time-division data communication.

Home appliance

Growing community of inventors

Daegu, South Korea

Sungwoo Bae