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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Wilhelmus Gerardus Maria Ettes, Leeuwarden, NL;
Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring, Eindhoven, NL;
Klaas Jacob Lulofs, Eindhoven, NL;
Eddy Gerrit Veltman, Steenbergen, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A wireless power transfer system includes a power receiver and a power transmitter providing power using an inductive power signal. The power transmitter includes a resonance circuit having capacitive and inductive impedances, and a driver configured to generate a drive signal for the resonance circuit. A frequency modification circuit is configured to control the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit by slowing a state change for the capacitive and/or inductive impedance for a fractional time interval of at least some cycles of the drive signal, The frequency modification circuit is configured to align at least one of a start time and an end time for the fractional time interval to transitions of a timing signal. In the power transmitter, the driver is configured to generate the timing signal to have transitions synchronized to the drive signal. The slowing may be by impeding current flow between the capacitive and inductive impedances.