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Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Klaas Wortel, Eindhoven, NL;

Johan Somberg, Wijchen, NL;

Tarik Naass, Best, NL;

Assignee:

NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01F 27/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/60 (2016.02); H02J 50/12 (2016.02);
Abstract

One example discloses an inductive power supply device, comprises: an inductive coupler including a resonant circuit having a first resonant state in response to an object at a first distance from the inductive power supply, and a second resonant state in response to the object at a second distance from the inductive power supply; a driver circuit coupled to send a first power-level to the inductive coupler when in a charge-object state and to send a second power-level to the inductive coupler when in a detect-object state, wherein the second power-level is less than the first power-level; and an object detector coupled to detect the first and second resonant states and place the driver circuit in the charge-object state in response to the first resonant state, and place the driver circuit in the detect-object state in response to the second resonant state.


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