Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Sungkyunkwan University

Hongik University Industry-academia Cooperation Foundation

Youngho Ryu

Jaeseok Park

Sungku Yeo

Jaehyun Park

Chongmin Lee

Beomwoo Gu

Sungbum Park

Daehyun Kim

Kyungmin Lee

Kangho Byun

Sangwook Lee

Hyunseok Shin

Hyoseok Han

Sanghyuk Wi

Cheonyong Lim

Taewan Kim

Jeongman Lee

Bohwan Choi

Jaesun Shin

SeongOok Park

Jaehyuck Shin

Seogyong Jeong

Byeongguk Choi

Junhyeong Park

Taedong Goh

Jungkyu Han

Jinsu Choi

Jinsoo Choi

Seunghyun Lee

Seongjin Park

Dongin Kim

Kyungwoo Lee

Songcheol Hong

Youngjun Park

Keumsu Song

Shashishekara Parampalli Adiga

Sangyun Kim

Dowon Kim

Kangyoon Lee

Kiyoung Kim

Jinbong Lee

Rao Shahid Aziz

Seunghun Wang

Arijit Guha

Hamed Abbasizadeh

Junhan Lim

Gwanghyeon Jeong

Yeeun Chi

Manohar Gottapu

Jeonghae Lee

Bohee Choi

An electronic device may include: a battery, a resonant circuit including a receiving coil, at least one capacitor and at least one switch, a rectifier circuit; a DC/DC converter, a charge control circuit; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to check the voltage outputted from the rectifier circuit, control the at least one switch so that the receiving coil and the at least one capacitor form a serial resonant circuit, if the voltage output from the rectifier circuit is greater than or equal to a threshold voltage, and control the at least one switch so that the receiving coil and the at least one capacitor form a parallel resonant circuit, if the voltage output from the rectifier circuit is less than the threshold voltage.

Electronic device wirelessly receiving power, and operating method therefor

A wireless power transmission device is provided. The wireless power transmission device includes a transmission coil including a first member, which has one end and the other end forming a first angle with a plane, and a second member, which is arranged on the plane and is connected to each of the one end and the other end of the first member, an impedance sensor for outputting a voltage value corresponding to an impedance change amount of a resonance circuit, which includes the transmission coil, a magnetic body having a side surface that is dented, the dented side surface facing a portion of the transmission coil, a motor for moving the magnetic body, memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the wireless power transmission device to receive the output voltage value from the impedance sensor, calculate the difference value between a reference voltage value and the received voltage value, determine control information about the motor on the basis of the calculated difference value, and drive the motor through the determined control information so as to control the distance between the magnetic body and the portion of the transmission coil.

Wireless power transmission device and operating method therefor

A sensor module may be mounted in an electronic device including a rotating body rotatably arranged inside a housing. The sensor module may include a stator fixed in the housing; an energy harvester including a rotor mounted in the rotating body, at a position to at least partially face the stator; and a sensor arranged inside the rotating body together with the rotor, wherein, as the rotating body rotates, the rotor may be configured to rotate about the stator and generate an induced current and supply same to the sensor. The sensor may be configured to detect, using power based on the induced current, environmental information of the inside of the rotating body or operating state information of the rotating body.

Self-charging sensor module and electronic device comprising same

A wireless power transmission device includes power transmission coils for transmitting power to a wireless power reception device; inverters for applying alternating current power to the coils; a communication module using a frequency different from that of the power transmitted from the coils; and a processor. The processor controls the inverters such that first power is sequentially applied to the coils respectively, receives a communication signal from the reception device through the communication module while the first power is being sequentially applied, identifies a first coil corresponding to a position of the reception device based on of a reception time point of the communication signal and time points at which the first power starts to be applied to the coils, and controls a first inverter corresponding to the first coil such that second power for charging the reception device is applied to the first coil.

Electronic device for transmitting wireless power having a plurality of power transmission coils and operating method therefor to identify position of a wireless power reception device

Disclosed is an electronic device including a plurality of sensing coils for sensing an external device; a power transmitting coil for transmitting power to the external device; and a processor configured to: sequentially apply, to the power transmitting coil, powers having magnitudes respectively set to correspond to the plurality of sensing coils, and during a period in which power corresponding to each sensing coil of the plurality of sensing coils among the powers is applied, identify induction voltages respectively induced in the plurality of sensing coils, and sense the external device located on a wireless power transmitting device, on the basis of the identified induction voltages.

Electronic device for transmitting wireless power and operating method therefor

The disclosure provides a wireless power transmitting apparatus and a method for wirelessly transmitting power by the wireless power transmitting apparatus. The wireless power transmitting apparatus according to an example embodiment comprises: a power amplifier; a coil connected to the power amplifier and configured to generate an electromagnetic field based on power received from the power amplifier; an impedance sensing circuit connected between the power amplifier and the coil; at least one auxiliary coil electromagnetically coupled to the coil; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: identify a change in impedance, from a signal sensed through the impedance sensing circuit, and adjust an operation setting of the at least one auxiliary coil based on the identified change in impedance.

Wireless power transmitting apparatus and method for wirelessly transmitting power by wireless power transmitting apparatus

A display module may comprise: at least one first antenna configured to receive an image signal corresponding to the display module, from among a plurality of display modules configured to display an entire image, which displays at least a part of the entire image, a second antenna configured to receive a trigger signal corresponding to the image signal, a signal generation circuit configured to generate a plurality of control signals for controlling the image signal from the trigger signal received through the second antenna, and a display panel configured to display the image signal received from the first antenna on the basis of the plurality of generated control signals.

Display module, and method for transmitting control signal for display module

According to various embodiments, an electronic device attachable to and detachable from a side of a cooking vessel that is heated based on a magnetic field generated from an induction cooktop includes: a magnetic harvester circuit configured to generate electric energy based on the magnetic field generated from the induction cooktop based on the electronic device being attached to the side of the cooking vessel; a temperature sensor configured to be driven based on the electric energy and configured to detect a temperature; and a communication circuit configured to transmit the temperature to the induction cooktop.

Electronic device for detecting temperature of cooking vessel heated by induction cooktop and method of operating same

Disclosed is a coil including a first conductor disposed on a first plane, a second conductor disposed on a second plane different from the first plane, and including a first end electrically connected to a first end of the first conductor, and a second end positioned near a second end of the first conductor, and a third conductor disposed on the first plane, and including a first end electrically connected to the second end of the second conductor, and a second end positioned near the first end of the second conductor, wherein a pattern of the first conductor connecting the first end of the first conductor from the second end of the first conductor is in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction when the first plane is viewed from a first side, and wherein a pattern of the third conductor connecting the second end of the third conductor from the first end of the third conductor is in a direction opposite to the direction of the pattern of the first conductor when the first plane is viewed from the first side.

Coil including structure for minimizing influence thereon by metal material and resonant circuit including same

The disclosure provides a variable wireless power transmitter including a plurality of resonators and a method of controlling the variable wireless power transmitter. A wireless power transmitter of the disclosure may include: a housing; a power amplifier disposed inside the housing; a first resonator including at least one coil and fixed to a first portion of the housing; a second resonator including at least one coil, rotatably disposed at a second portion of the housing, and configured to form a variable angle with the first resonator; a sensor configured to sense a shape change based on rotation of the second resonator; a controller configured to: identify a shape change of the first resonator and the second resonator based on a signal sensed by the sensor, identify whether impedance is matched for the first resonator or the second resonator based on the identification of the shape change, and generate a control signal for impedance matching for the first resonator or the second resonator based on identifying that the impedance is not matched; and a matching circuit including at least one coil and at least one capacitor, electrically coupled between the power amplifier and the first resonator, and configured to perform impedance matching based on the control signal received from the controller.

Variable wireless power transmitter including plural resonators and method of controlling the wireless power transmitter

An example wireless power transmitter may include a transistor configured to output an amplified signal, a first capacitor coupled to the transistor in parallel, a first LC resonant circuit coupled to the transistor in parallel, a third capacitor having a first end coupled to an output terminal of the transistor and the first LC resonant circuit, a feeding coil coupled to a second end of the third capacitor in series, and having at least a part configured to form a second LC resonant circuit with the third capacitor, and a transmission resonator including a transmission coil and a fourth capacitor coupled to the transmission coil in series. At least a part of the transmission coil may be magnetically coupled with the feeding coil, and at least a part of power received from the feeding coil may be output to an outside through the transmission resonator.

Wireless power transmitter including miniaturized inverter for reducing harmonics

Disclosed is an annular resonator including a conductor formed on a surface of an annular shaped structure and having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, and a capacitor having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, wherein a radius of curvature of a first side facing a center portion of the annular shaped structure is smaller than a radius of curvature of a second side facing an outer periphery of the annular shaped structure, and wherein the first end and the second end of the conductor are electrically connected to the first end and the second end of the capacitor, respectively.

Annular resonator and wireless power transmission device including annular resonator

According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a battery, a resonance circuit, a rectifier, a DC/DC converter, a charger, a switch, an overvoltage protection circuit configured to perform an overvoltage protection operation or to stop the overvoltage protection operation based on the voltage at the output terminal of the rectifier, a control circuit, and a communication circuit, and the control circuit may be configured to: based on a periodic repetition of a performance of the overvoltage protection operation and a stop of the overvoltage protection while the switch is in an off state, identify a first period during which the overvoltage protection operation is stopped, based on the first period, identify an expected voltage at an output terminal of the rectifier, to be expected, wherein the expected voltage is a voltage if the switch is in an on state, based on the expected voltage, identify whether an occurrence of an overvoltage is expected if the switch is in the on state, and control the communication circuit to transmit a communication signal including information about whether the occurrence of the overvoltage is expected.

Electronic device to wirelessly receive power and operating method thereof

A detection coil includes a first sub coil disposed on a first PCB, the first sub coil includes a first part, and a second part that is disposed under the first part and that includes: one end connected to one end of the first part and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction the first part is wound. The detection coil includes a second sub coil disposed on a second PCB and including a third part and a fourth part disposed under the third part. The fourth part includes one end connected to one end of the third part, and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction the third part is wound. The first and second parts have polygonal shapes symmetrical to each other. The third and fourth parts have polygonal shapes symmetrical to each other. The first and second sub coils are arranged to partially overlap each other.

Coil for foreign object detection and wireless power transmitter comprising the same

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a receiving circuit for outputting an AC power received wirelessly; and a rectifier circuit for rectifying the AC power being output from the power receiving circuit. The rectifier circuit comprises a forward rectifier circuit and a reverse rectifier circuit. A first terminal of the forward rectifier circuit is connected to the receiving circuit and the reverse rectifier circuit, a second terminal of the forward rectifier circuit is connected to an output terminal, and the forward rectifier circuit comprises first transistors for rectifying the AC power during a first period. A first terminal of the reverse rectifier circuit is connected to the receiving circuit and the forward rectifier circuit, a second terminal of the reverse rectifier circuit is connected to a ground, and the reverse rectifier circuit can comprise second transistors for preventing the AC power from being transmitted to the forward rectifier circuit during a second period.

Electronic device for receiving power wirelessly and method for operating same

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Youngho Ryu