US 12,107,436 B1
Wireless-power transfer apparatus, wireless-power transfer system, method and program
Yuta Nakamoto, Tokyo (JP); Naoki Hasegawa, Tokyo (JP); HoYu Lin, Tokyo (JP); Takafumi Fujii, Tokyo (JP); Sachiko Takeuchi, Tokyo (JP); and Yoshichika Ota, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SoftBank Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/706,413
Filed by SoftBank Corp., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 21, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/039398
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 1, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/085054, PCT Pub. Date May 19, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-182632 (JP), filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Int. Cl. H02J 50/40 (2016.01); H02J 50/20 (2016.01); H02J 50/80 (2016.01); H02J 50/90 (2016.01); H04B 7/0408 (2017.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H01Q 3/36 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 50/20 (2016.02) [H02J 50/402 (2020.01); H02J 50/80 (2016.02); H02J 50/90 (2016.02); H04B 7/0408 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H01Q 3/36 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless-power transfer apparatus for wirelessly transmitting power to plural terminal apparatuses, comprising:
a radio processing section for transmitting a signal for wireless power transfer to each of the plural terminal apparatuses via plural beams, by a beamforming for forming the plural beams against the plural terminal apparatuses simultaneously or at staggered times;
an information acquisition section for acquiring terminal information including location information of a current location of the terminal apparatus for each of the plural terminal apparatuses; and
a control section for controlling the beamforming so that the signal for wireless power transfer is received at a predetermined reception power in each of the plural terminal apparatuses, based on the terminal information of each of the plural terminal apparatuses, and
wherein the control section switches between a beamforming for long distance in which the plural beams are formed in a time-division manner and a beamforming for short distance in which the plural beams are simultaneously formed, based on a distance from the wireless-power transfer apparatus to each of the plural terminal apparatuses;
wherein the radio processing section comprises:
an array antenna in which plural antenna elements are disposed two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally, and
plural signal generation sections that are provided to correspond to the plural antenna elements and generate the signal for wireless power transfer, and
wherein the radio processing section changes a phase or both of a phase and an amplitude of the signal for wireless power transfer that is respectively supplied to the plural antenna elements, based on beam-forming control information from the control section.