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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:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Nowi Energy B.v., Delft, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nexperia B.V., Nijmegen, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/00 (2016.01); G01R 19/165 (2006.01); G01R 27/26 (2006.01); H02J 50/20 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/001 (2020.01); G01R 19/16576 (2013.01); G01R 27/2605 (2013.01); H02J 50/20 (2016.02);
Abstract
An energy harvester (RF) to convert incident radio frequency, RF, energy associated with an RF signal to direct current energy comprises a rectifier () comprising a pre-storage capacitor (), wherein said rectifier is arranged to rectify said incoming RF energy (), storing the RF energy into the pre-storage capacitor (), followed by an energy transfer unit () comprising a storage output capacitor (), the value of the storage output capacitor () is higher than the value of the pre-storage capacitor (), the energy transfer unit is arranged to transfer said energy from the pre-storage capacitor into the storage output capacitor including a control unit ().