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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Aira, Inc., Chandler, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Mohammad Ali Saket Tokaldani, Vancouver, CA;

Eric Heindel Goodchild, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Aira, Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/00 (2016.01); H02J 50/12 (2016.01); H02J 50/40 (2016.01); H02J 50/60 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/60 (2016.02); H02J 50/005 (2020.01); H02J 50/12 (2016.02); H02J 50/402 (2020.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A wireless charging device has a resonant circuit including one or more power transmitting coils in a charging surface of the charging device, a driver circuit configured to provide a charging current to the resonant circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an average transmitted power using samples of current and voltage captured from the resonant circuit, and determine that a foreign object is located on or near the charging surface when the average transmitted power exceeds a measurement of received power provided by a receiving device and parasitic losses associated with the wireless charging device. In one example, each sample of current is obtained by measuring a current flowing in the resonant circuit, and each of sample of voltage is obtained by measuring a voltage across the one or more power transmitting coils.


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