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- Patent Title: Metallic foreign object detector, wireless power transmitting device, wireless power receiving device, and wireless power transmission system
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Application No.: US16469063Application Date: 2017-12-20
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Publication No.: US10862349B2Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Narutoshi Fukuzawa , Kazunori Oshima , Akira Gotani , Kazuki Kondo
- Applicant: TDK Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2016-253819 20161227
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/045745 WO 20171220
- International Announcement: WO2018/123769 WO 20180705
- Main IPC: H02J50/60
- IPC: H02J50/60 ; H02J50/12 ; H02J50/40 ; G01V3/10 ; H01F38/14

Abstract:
A metallic foreign object detector, used in a wireless power transmission system that transmits power using an alternating magnetic field, includes antenna coils that generate a vibration signal by receiving a magnetic field or current, one or more capacitors that constitute a resonance circuit together with each of the antenna coils, and a detection part that detects a metallic foreign object by sequentially using the antenna coils. The detection part has detection modes that detect the presence/absence of the metallic foreign object based on changes in mutually different characteristics of the resonance circuit. The detection part selects one mode from the detection modes in accordance with at least one of the power feeding state of the wireless power transmission system and the position of each of the plurality of antenna coils and performs the detection of the metallic foreign object in the selected detection mode.
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