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| 20080197712 | Power transmission control device, power transmission device, electronic instrument, and non-contact power transmission system - A power transmission control device provided in a power transmission device of a non-contact power transmission system includes an amplitude detection circuit that detects amplitude information that relates to an induced voltage signal of a primary coil, an A/D conversion circuit that performs A/D conversion of the amplitude information, and a control circuit. The A/D conversion circuit performs A/D conversion of a detected voltage detected by the amplitude detection circuit at a conversion timing and determines digital data relating to a reference threshold voltage, the conversion timing being a timing after a given period has expired from a timing when the detected voltage has exceeded a provisional voltage. The control circuit performs at least one of data detection that detects data that has been transmitted from a power reception device by means of load modulation, foreign object detection, and detachment detection using the digital data relating to the reference threshold voltage. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080197802 | Power transmission control device, power reception control device, non-contact power transmission system, power transmission device, power reception device, and electronic instrument - A power reception device transmits authentication information (e.g., start code, manufacturer ID, product ID, rated power information, and resonance characteristic information) to a power transmission device before starting normal power transmission by a non-contact power transmission system. The power transmission device performs instrument authentication based on the received authentication information, and regulates the maximum transmission power is regulated to conform to a power-reception-device side rated power. The power transmission device then performs normal power transmission. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080197804 | Power transmission control device, power reception control device, non-contact power transmission system, power transmission device, power reception device, and electronic instrument - A power transmission device performs power-saving power transmission that transmits a small amount of power as compared with normal power transmission when the power transmission device has detected that a battery of a load has been fully charged so that the operation of a charge control device (charge control IC) of the load is maintained, thereby enabling recharging due to a charge management function of the charge control device. Since the load state of a power reception device increases when recharging has started, the power transmission device detects an increase in the load state and changes power transmission from power-saving power transmission to normal power transmission. When the power reception device has been removed during power-saving power transmission, the power transmission device detects that the power reception device has been removed, and stops continuous power transmission so that unnecessary power consumption does not occur. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080197883 | Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument - An integrated circuit device includes a first predriver that drives an N-type power MOS transistor of an external driver including the N-type power MOS transistor and a P-type power MOS transistor, a second predriver that drives the P-type power MOS transistor, a low-potential-side power supply pad, a first output pad, a second output pad, and a high-potential-side power supply pad. The low-potential-side power supply pad, the first output pad, the second output pad, and the high-potential-side power supply pad are disposed along a first direction. The first predriver is disposed in a second direction with respect to the low-potential-side power supply pad and the first output pad, the second direction being a direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and the second predriver is disposed in the second direction with respect to the second output pad and the high-potential-side power supply pad. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080200119 | Power reception control device, power transmission control device, non-contact power transmission system, power reception device, power transmission device, and electronic instrument - A power-receiving-side control circuit of a power reception device performs intermittent load modulation by causing an NMOS transistor to be turned ON/OFF during normal power transmission. A power-transmission-side control circuit included in a power transmission control device of a power transmission device monitors, an intermittent change in the load of the power reception device during normal power transmission. The power-transmission-side control circuit determines that a foreign object has been inserted between a primary coil and a secondary coil and stops power transmission when an intermittent change in load cannot be detected. The amount of power supplied to the load may be compulsorily reduced when the load state of the load is heavy. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201586 | Integrated circult device and electronic instrument - An integrated circuit device includes a digital power supply regulation circuit, an analog power supply regulation circuit, a control logic circuit, an analog circuit, and a power supply wiring region. A digital power supply line which supplies a digital power supply voltage and an analog power supply line which supplies an analog power supply voltage are provided in the power supply wiring region. The digital power supply regulation circuit, the analog circuit, and the analog power supply regulation circuit are disposed in a first direction with respect to the control logic circuit. The power supply wiring region is formed along a second direction in a region between the control logic circuit and the digital power supply regulation circuit, the analog circuit, and the analog power supply regulation circuit. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080290736 | Power transmission device and electronic instrument - A control IC for first and second transmission drivers that drive a primary coil includes an output terminal connected to the first transmission driver on a first side, an output terminal connected to the second transmission driver on a second side, and an input terminal to which a waveform of a coil connection terminal is input through a waveform detection wiring pattern on a third side. The control IC is disposed in a center area of a board at a position shifted in a first direction with respect to a centerline. The coil connection terminal and a resonant capacitor are disposed in first and second row positions on the end of the board. The first transmission driver is disposed at a position shifted in the first direction with respect to the first side of the control IC. The second transmission driver is disposed at a position opposite to the second side of the control IC. The waveform detection wiring pattern extends from the third side of the control IC to the coil connection terminal through an area shifted in a second direction with respect to the centerline. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090001932 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A power-transmission-side control circuit causes a power transmission device to perform temporary power transmission when a switch provided in a power-transmission-side instrument has been turned ON, and performs ID authentication based on ID authentication information. The power-transmission-side control circuit detects the presence or absence of a foreign object during normal power transmission by monitoring a change in induced voltage in a primary coil, causes the power transmission device to stop temporary power transmission when the ID authentication information from the power reception device has not been received within a given period of time, causes the power transmission device to stop temporary power transmission when the ID authentication has failed, and causes the power transmission device to stop normal power transmission when removal, a metal foreign object, a takeover state, or a full-charge state has been detected after normal power transmission has started. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090009006 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, AND WAVEFORM MONITORING CIRCUIT - A power transmission device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a waveform monitoring circuit that generates and outputs a waveform-monitoring induced voltage signal based on a coil end signal of a primary coil, and a power transmission control device that controls a power transmission driver that drives the primary coil, the power transmission control device receiving the waveform-monitoring induced voltage signal and detecting a change in waveform of the induced voltage signal to detect a power-reception-side load state. The waveform monitoring circuit includes a first rectifier circuit having a limiter function, the first rectifier circuit including a current-limiting resistor provided between a coil end node where the coil end signal of the primary coil is generated and a monitoring node where the waveform-monitoring induced voltage signal is generated, performing a limiter operation that clamps the induced voltage signal at a high-potential-side power supply voltage, and subjecting the induced voltage signal to half-wave rectification. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090015197 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A power transmission device includes a resonant capacitor that forms a series resonant circuit with a primary coil, a first power transmission driver and a second power transmission driver that drive the primary coil, and a control IC that outputs driver control signals to the first and second power transmission drivers. The resonant capacitor, the first and second power transmission drivers, and the control IC are provided on a substrate. An output terminal that outputs the driver control signal to the first transmission driver is provided on a first side of the control IC, an output terminal that outputs the driver control signal to the second transmission driver is provided on a second side of the control IC, and an input terminal that receives a signal waveform at one of coil connection terminals through a waveform detection wiring pattern is disposed on a third side of the control IC. The resonant capacitor, the first power transmission driver, and the second power transmission driver are disposed between a first substrate side parallel to the first side of the control IC and the control IC, and the waveform detection wiring pattern extends in an area between a second substrate side and an extension of the third side of the control IC and is connected to one of the coil connection terminals. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090021219 | POWER RECEPTION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, CHARGE CONTROL DEVICE, BATTERY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A power reception control device provided in a power reception device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-reception-side control circuit that controls an operation of the power reception device, and a power supply control signal output terminal that supplies a power supply control signal to a charge control device, the power supply control signal controlling power supply to a battery. The power-reception-side control circuit controls a timing at which the power supply control signal (ICUTX) is output from the power supply control signal output terminal. The operation of the charge control device is compulsorily controlled using the power supply control signal (ICUTX). | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090079387 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, POWER-TRANSMITTING-SIDE DEVICE, AND NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A power transmission control device provided in a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to a power receiving device, an actuator control circuit that controls the operation of an actuator that moves the position of a primary coil in an XY plane, a relative position detection signal generation circuit that generates a relative position detection signal relating to the primary coil and a secondary coil based on a coil end voltage or a coil current of the primary coil, and a primary coil position control circuit that causes the actuator control circuit to move the position of the primary coil in the XY plane so that the relative positional relationship between the primary coil and the secondary coil indicated by the relative position detection signal is within an allowable range. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090127936 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, AND NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A power transmission control device provided in a power transmitting device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a driver control circuit that controls a power transmitting driver that drives a primary coil, a load state detection circuit that detects a power-receiving-side load state, and a control circuit that controls the driver control circuit. The control circuit performs a foreign object detection process based on load state detection information from the load state detection circuit after receiving ID authentication information from a power receiving device, and starts normal power transmission to the power receiving device after performing the foreign object detection process. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090133942 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, AND NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A power transmission control device provided in a power transmitting device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a driver control circuit that controls a power transmitting driver that drives a primary coil, a load state detection circuit that detects a power-receiving-side load state, and a control circuit that controls the power transmission control device. The control circuit acquires a reference value used to determine a power-receiving-side load state after starting normal power transmission in a reference value acquisition period, the reference value acquisition period being a period after receiving ID authentication information from the power receiving device, but before starting the normal power transmission. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090174264 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, AND POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A power transmission control device provided in a power transmitting device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to a power receiving device, the power-transmitting-side control circuit causing the power transmitting device to perform intermittent temporary power transmission, detecting a response from the power receiving device that has received the power due to the temporary power transmission to automatically detect installation of a power-receiving-side instrument that includes the power receiving device in an area in which power transmitted via non-contact power transmission can be received, and causing the power transmitting device to perform continuous normal power transmission to the power receiving device when the installation of the power-receiving-side instrument has been detected. A foreign object detection process may also be performed in combination. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090174364 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A power transmission control device used for a non-contact power transmission system includes an operation mode switching terminal that receives an operation mode switch control signal that switches a mode between an automatic mode and a switch mode, a power transmitting device starting normal power transmission in the automatic mode after installation of a power-receiving-side instrument that includes a power receiving device in an area in which power transmitted via non-contact power transmission can be received has been automatically detected, the normal power transmission supplying power to a load of the power-receiving-side instrument, and the power transmitting device starting the normal power transmission in the switch mode after an operation trigger switch has been turned ON, an operation trigger terminal that receives an operation trigger signal that occurs due to an operation of the operation trigger switch, and a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to the power receiving device and changes an operation mode of the power transmitting device based on the operation mode switch control signal. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090175060 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, AND WAVEFORM MONITOR CIRCUIT - A power transmission control device includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls an operation of a power transmitting device, a driver control circuit that controls operations of a first power transmitting driver and a second power transmitting driver, and a waveform detection circuit that performs a waveform detection process based on a monitor signal from a waveform monitor circuit. The first power transmitting driver drives a first node of a primary coil directly, and the second power transmitting driver drives a second node of the primary coil through a capacitor. A switch circuit is provided in the waveform monitor circuit, the switch circuit being situated in a signal path between the primary coil and a low-level power supply potential. The power-transmitting-side control circuit causes the switch circuit to be turned ON/OFF using a switch control signal. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090302800 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL APPARATUS, POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND DATA DETERMINATION METHOD - A power transmission control apparatus is a power transmission control apparatus provided in a power transmission apparatus included in a contactless power transmission system where power is transmitted from the power transmission apparatus to a power reception apparatus by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil and a secondary coil. The power transmission control apparatus includes: a signal detection circuit that detects a signal induced by the primary coil; and a power transmission control circuit that determines a value of transmission data transmitted from the power reception apparatus by a load modulation, on the basis of an output signal of the signal detection circuit. The power transmission control circuit obtains detection data by detecting the transmission data on the basis of the output signal of the signal detection circuit at every drive clock cycle of the primary coil. If a value of the detection value is identical n-times continuously, where n=m+α≦p, the m is an integer equal to or larger than 0, the α is an integer equal to or larger than 1, and the p is an integer equal to or larger than 1, the power transmission control circuit determines that the value of the transmission data transmitted by the power reception apparatus is the value of the detection data. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090322280 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A power transmission control device included in a contactless power transmission system in which power is transmitted from a power transmission device to a power receiving device by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil and a secondary coil and the power is supplied to a load of the power receiving device, includes a controller controlling the power transmission control device, and a load condition detection circuit detecting a load condition on a power receiving side. The controller determines the load condition on the power receiving side based on threshold information received from the power receiving device and load condition detection information from the load condition detection circuit. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090322281 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER TRANSMISSION, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER RECEIVING - A power transmission control device included in a contactless power transmission system that transmits power by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil and a secondary coil from a power transmission device to a power receiving device so as to supply the power to a load of the power receiving device includes: a controller that controls the power transmission device. The controller includes: a negotiation processing section that performs a negotiation process of contactless power transmission; and a setup processing section that performs a setup process of the contactless power transmission based on a result of the negotiation process. In the device, normal power transmission from the power transmission device to the power receiving device is started after the setup process. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090325651 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEPTION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A power transmission control device is provided in a contactless power transmission system that supplies electric power to a load of a power reception device such that a primary coil and a secondary coil are electromagnetically coupled to each other so as to transmit the electric power to the power reception device from the power transmission device. The power transmission control device includes a controller that controls the power transmission control device, and a storage section that stores information about a power transmitting side coil. The controller performs a collation process for collating the information about the power transmitting side coil with information about a power receiving side coil received from the power reception device, and determines whether or not the information about the power transmitting side coil is compatible with the information about the power receiving side coil. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100013319 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a power transmission control device included in a power transmission device in a contactless power transmission system that transmits power from the power transmission device to a power receiving device by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil to a secondary coil to supply the power to a load of the power receiving device. The power transmission control device includes a controller controlling the power transmission control device, a host interface communicating with a power transmission-side host, and a register section accessible from the power transmission-side host via the host interface. The controller shifts into a communication mode that executes communication between the power transmission-side host and a power receiving-side host, when the power transmission-side host writes, via the host interface, a communication request command that requests the communication between the hosts in the register section. Then, the controller transmits the communication request command to the power receiving device. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100013320 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A power transmission control device provided in a power transmission device included in a contactless power transmission system that transmits power by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil and a secondary coil from the power transmission device to a power receiving device so as to supply the power to a load on the power receiving device. The power transmission control device includes a controller that controls the power transmission control device, and a register section. The resister section includes a power receiving side information register that stores power receiving side information received from the power receiving device, and a power transmission side information register that stores power transmission side information The controller performs at least one of: an authentication processing of the power receiving device; a power transmission control of the contactless power transmission; and a communication processing between the power transmission device and the power receiving device based on the power receiving side information stored in the power receiving side information register and the power transmission side information stored in the power transmission side register. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100013321 | POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A power receiving control device provided to a power receiving device included in a contactless power transmission system that transmits electric power from a power transmission device to the power receiving device by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil and a secondary coil so as to feed the electric power to a load serving as a power feeding object from a voltage output node of the power receiving device, which includes a rectifying circuit and a regulator; and transmits a load modulation signal to the power transmission device by load modulation performed by a load modulation section included in the power receiving device, in a period of the power feeding to the load as the power feeding object, includes a power receiving side control circuit controlling an operation of the power receiving device; and a power supply control signal output terminal for outputting a power supply control signal by which the power feeding to the load is temporarily stopped In the device, the power receiving side control circuit turns on a switch circuit provided between an input node and an output node of the regulator, based on detection of lowering of power feeding capability to the load, so as to put a bypass path, which directly connecting the input node and the output node of the regulator, in an ON state; turns off the switch circuit so as to forcibly put the bypass path in an OFF state, in a case where the power feeding to the load is temporarily stopped in a period during which the bypass path is formed, at one of timing at which a voltage level of the power supply control signal outputted from the power supply control signal output terminal is switched from a non-active level to an active level so as to temporarily stop the power feeding to the load and timing before the power feeding to the load is temporarily stopped; and turns on the switch circuit after releasing the temporary stop of the power feeding to the load so as to return the bypass path to the ON state. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100013322 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A power transmission control device provided in a power transmission device included in a contactless power transmission system in which power is transmitted from the power transmission device to a power receiving device by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil and a secondary coil and the power is supplied to a load of the power receiving device includes a controller controlling the power transmission control device. The controller includes a communication condition setting section setting, by exchanging information with the power receiving device, a communication condition that is at least one of a communication method between the power transmission device and the power receiving device and a communication parameter, and a communication processing section performing a communication processing between the power transmission device and the power receiving device by using the set communication condition. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100026236 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD - A power transmission control device provided to a power transmission device of a contactless power transmission system includes a controller including an authentication process section and a command process section. The authentication process section performs an authentication process on a power receiving device before normal power transmission from the power transmission device to the power receiving device starts. If an event proceeding to a communication mode in which the power transmission device and the power receiving device communicate with occurs, after the normal power transmission starts, the command process section proceeds to a command branch phase without proceeding to a phase of the authentication process, and performs a command process on the communication mode in the command branch phase. | 02-04-2010 |
