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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Liang Chen, Auckland, NZ;
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/90 (2016.01); H02J 7/02 (2016.01); H02J 50/12 (2016.01); H01F 38/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/90 (2016.02); H01F 38/14 (2013.01); H02J 7/025 (2013.01); H02J 50/12 (2016.02);
Abstract
An inductive power transmittercomprising: a plurality of transmitter coils; a controllerconfigured to selectively energise the coilsin order to couple a receiver, the coilsselected being dependent on an orientation of the receiver, a power transfer optimisation algorithm, or a lookup table.