Invention Grant
- 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.: US16469498Application Date: 2017-12-20
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Publication No.: US11152821B2Publication Date: 2021-10-19
- Inventor: Kazunori Oshima , Akira Gotani , Kazuki Kondo , Narutoshi Fukuzawa
- 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: JPJP2016-253816 20161227
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/045742 WO 20171220
- International Announcement: WO2018/123766 WO 20180705
- Main IPC: H02J50/60
- IPC: H02J50/60 ; H02J50/12 ; G01V3/10 ; H02J7/02 ; H02M7/06 ; H02M7/5387

Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to suppress deterioration in detection accuracy during power feeding in the detection of the metallic foreign object using the antenna coil. A metallic foreign object detector includes: an antenna coil; a capacitor that constitutes a resonance circuit RC together with the antenna coil; a power supply that applies voltage to the resonance circuit to generate a vibration signal in the resonance circuit; a determination circuit that determines the presence/absence of a metallic foreign object based on the waveform of the vibration signal; a resonance capacitor switch inserted into the resonance circuit; and a control circuit that controls the open/close state of the resonance capacitor switch. The control circuit brings the resonance capacitor switch into a closed state responding to the power supply starting application of voltage to the resonance circuit.
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