Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic tuning in wireless energy transfer systems
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Application No.: US16197619Application Date: 2018-11-21
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Publication No.: US10651688B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Curt Karnstedt , Christopher Buenrostro
- Applicant: WiTricity Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Watertown
- Assignee: WiTricity Corporation
- Current Assignee: WiTricity Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Watertown
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H02J50/12
- IPC: H02J50/12 ; H02J50/60 ; H02J50/90 ; H02J7/02 ; H03H7/40 ; H04B5/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically tuning circuit elements. One aspect includes a variable capacitance device. The device includes a first capacitor, a first switch, a second capacitor, a second switch, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to adjust respective capacitances of the first and second capacitors by causing a first control signal to be applied to the first-switch control terminal for a duration of time in response to detecting a zero voltage condition across the first switch, and by causing a second control signal to be applied to the second-switch control terminal for the duration of time in response to detecting a zero voltage condition across the second switch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190109495A1 DYNAMIC TUNING IN WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2019-04-11
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