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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jerald Polestico Guillermo, Aukland, NZ;
Previn D. Nair, Aukland, NZ;
Mikhal S. De Jesus, Aukland, NZ;
Antoin J. Russell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A wireless power transmitting device transmits wireless power signals to a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device has a wireless power receiving coil in a resonant circuit that resonates at a wireless power receiving circuit resonant frequency. The wireless power transmitting device has coils. The coils are supplied with a drive signal in bursts to detect external objects. Measurement circuitry includes an oscillator for supplying the drive signals and a peak detector and analog-to-digital converter for gathering measurements on the coils to which the drive signals have been supplied. Rate-based-filtering is applied to output signals from the analog-to-digital converter to distinguish between temperature drift effects and object placement effects. The frequency of the drive signals is slightly greater than the wireless power receiving circuit resonant frequency.