Ihi Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Takahiko Murayama

Jun Araki

Toshio Nakamura

Yuji Maekawa

Yuji Takatsu

Katsuya Arai

Miki Sakai

Daigoro Yokozeki

Rie Sakai

Shinya Takada

Kazushige Doke

Takeya Mukaigaito

Takuo Nishihara

A wireless power-supplying system according to the present disclosure includes a power-transmitting device and a power-receiving device. The power-transmitting device includes a power-transmitting coil to which AC power of a certain frequency is input from a power supply and a controller which controls a frequency. The power-receiving device includes a power-receiving coil magnetically coupled with the power-transmitting coil with a certain coupling coefficient and a power-receiving side series element connected to the power-receiving coil in series and having imaginary impedance jZ. The imaginary impedance is defined so that impedance when a power-receiving side is seen from the power supply is independent of the coupling coefficient when the frequency and the coupling coefficient are predetermined values. The controller changes the frequency according to at least one of power-transmitting status information of the power-transmitting device and power-receiving status information of the power-receiving device when the coupling coefficient changes.

Wireless power-supplying system

A wireless power supply system includes a power transmitter having a power-transmitting coil to which AC power of a frequency is input from a power source; and a power receiver having a power-receiving coil magnetically coupled to the power-transmitting coil at a coupling coefficient, and a first power-receiving-side series element coupled in series to the power-receiving coil and having imaginary impedance, in which the frequency, the coupling coefficient and the imaginary impedance are determined on the basis of satisfying a predetermined relationship.

Wireless power supply system and power receiver

A wireless power supply system includes a power transmitter and a power receiver. The power transmitter includes a power-transmitting coil to which AC power of a frequency is input from a power source. The power receiver includes a power-receiving coil magnetically coupled to the power-transmitting coil at a coupling coefficient, and a first power-receiving-side series element coupled in series to the power-receiving coil and having imaginary impedance jZ. In this wireless power supply system, the frequency and the imaginary impedance are determined so that impedance of a power-receiving side seen from the power source is independent of the coupling coefficient when the coupling coefficient changes.

A wireless power-supplying system includes a power-transmitting device that transmits power in a wireless manner and a power-receiving device that receives the power and supplies the received power to a load, the power-receiving device includes a switch that switches the connection to the load and a load circuit that is supplied with the power when the switch is in an open state, and the wireless power-supplying system includes a control unit that performs a position determining process of determining whether the power-transmitting device and the power-receiving device have a positional relationship in which power is suppliable to the load on the basis of at least one of power, voltage, and current in at least one of the power-transmitting device and the power-receiving device when the power is supplied to the load circuit.

Wireless power-supplying system, power-receiving device, and power-transmitting device

A wireless power supply device and a wireless power supply system of the present disclosure include a rectifier circuit to be connected to a commercial power source, a conversion unit which is connected to the rectifier circuit, a resonance circuit which is connected to the conversion unit and transmits power toward a power-receiving device wirelessly, a communication unit which receives, from the power-receiving device, information relating to power supply to a load supplied with power, and a control unit which is connected to the communication unit and the conversion unit and controls the conversion unit based on the information so that the value of power supply impedance of the load falls within a predetermined range.

Power-supplying device and wireless power supply system

When a voltage across an element of a voltage converter or an inverter circuit has reached an upper limit of a withstanding voltage of the element and it is determined that received power of a power-receiving device has not reached a target value, an instruction for changing at least one of inductance and capacitance of an element which is disposed from a receiving-side pad to a filter circuit in the power-receiving device is transmitted from a power-transmitting device to the power-receiving device so as to satisfy a condition that the received power approaches a target value.

Power-transmitting device and wireless power-supplying system

A power-supplying device and a wireless power supply system of the present disclosure include an inverter circuit configured to convert direct current power into alternating current (AC) power, a resonance circuit configured to wirelessly transmit power toward a power-receiving device based on the AC power, and a control unit configured to control the inverter circuit at a switching frequency based on state information of predetermined elements.

A power-supplying device including an inverter circuit, a resonance circuit connected to the inverter circuit and configured to transfer alternating current power to a power-receiving device in a wireless manner, and a switching control unit that adjusts a parameter of respective switching signals that control ON and OFF of respective switching elements constituting the inverter circuit so that an inter-terminal voltage of a specific element constituting the inverter circuit or the resonance circuit does not exceed a predetermined limit value.

Power-supplying device, and wireless power-supplying system

A power-supplying device for wirelessly transmitting alternating current (AC) power to a power-receiving device includes a voltage converter, an inverter circuit connected to the voltage converter, a communication unit configured to receive an output value of a rectification circuit provided in the power-receiving device from the power-receiving device, and a switching control unit configured to control the inverter circuit so that the inverter circuit converts direct current (DC) power into AC power and control whether the voltage converter steps up an input voltage or not based on whether an output value of the voltage converter or the output value of the rectification circuit reaches a specific value.

Power supplying device and wireless power-supplying system

The power transmission system includes a power transmitting device that transmits AC power and a power receiving device that receives the AC power. The power receiving device includes a rectifier that converts the received AC power into DC power, a DC converter that performs DC conversion on the DC power output from the rectifier, and a power-receiving side controller that calculates, based on an input voltage of the DC converter, a current command value making input impedance of the DC converter equal to a preset value and controls the DC converter so that an input current of the DC converter equals the current command value.

Power transmission system

The power transmission system includes a power transmitting device that transmits AC power and a power receiving device that receives the AC power. The power transmitting device includes AC converters, a power-transmitting side resonance coil, and a power-transmitting side controller. The power receiving device includes a power-receiving side resonance coil, a rectifier, a DC converter, a power-receiving side controller, and a power-source circuit.

An information communication terminal () that includes: a speech recognition module () for recognizing speech information to identify a plurality of words in the recognized speech information; a storage medium () for storing keyword extraction condition setting data () in which a condition for extracting a keyword is set; a keyword extraction module () for reading the keyword extraction condition setting data () to extract a plurality of keywords from the plurality of words; a related information acquisition module () for acquiring related information related to a plurality of keywords; and a related information output module () for providing related information to a monitor ().

Information communication terminal, information communication system, information communication method, and storage medium for storing an information communication program thereof for recognizing speech information

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Tokyo, Japan

Takahiko Murayama