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公开(公告)号：US20240250561A1
公开(公告)日：2024-07-25
申请号：US18624598
申请日：2024-04-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Adam L. Schwartz , Alireza Safaee , Stephen C. Terry , Zhiyuan Hu
Abstract: A wireless charging system having a power transmitter may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiver. Shield saturation, such as saturation of a ferrite structure, in the wireless power receiver may occur under some operating conditions. Saturation can lead to disruptive oscillations in power transfer. The power transmitting may include control circuitry for detecting and mitigating saturation.
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公开(公告)号：US11095162B1
公开(公告)日：2021-08-17
申请号：US16930162
申请日：2020-07-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Weiyun Chen , Stephen C. Terry
Abstract: A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device and wireless power receiving device may include control circuitry that measures operating parameters. During wireless power transmission operations, the wireless power receiving device may periodically send feedback to the wireless power transmitting device such as in-band wireless power adjustment commands requesting that the wireless power transmitting device adjust the amount of power being transmitted from the wireless power transmitting device to the wireless power receiving device. Faster estimates of desired adjustments to the amount of transmitted power can be made by the wireless power transmitting device using real-time measurements of wireless power transmitting device coil current and wireless power transmitting device coil voltage.
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公开(公告)号：US10938307B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-02
申请号：US16121205
申请日：2018-09-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yongxuan Hu , Weiyun Chen , Stephen C. Terry , Chi Kin Ho , Norah E. Nakibuuka
Abstract: This disclosure describes a system and a method to limit (i.e., regulate) the input power of a power converter as a function of the voltage and/or loading condition of a power-limited source such as a battery. In some embodiments, the power converter may comprise a transconductance amplifier that may produce a sink current to a current mirror, which in turn that may provide an adjusted current limit threshold to the power converter. The power converter may utilize the current limit threshold to perform cycle-by-cycle current limiting, thus regulating the input power drawn from the battery.
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公开(公告)号：US20190052102A1
公开(公告)日：2019-02-14
申请号：US15840172
申请日：2017-12-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Weiyun Chen , Stephen C. Terry , Yongxuan Hu
Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, system and non-transitory program storage device for protecting a power converter from overvoltage conditions in wireless power transfer. In some embodiments, the power converter may use a controllable current sink to discharge an output voltage of the power converter's receiver so as to maintain the output voltage below an overvoltage threshold. In some embodiments, a peak current of the current sink may be controlled as a function of the output voltage. In some embodiments, the current sink may be enabled and/or disabled according to a duty cycle and a frequency, wherein the frequency may be maintained beyond an audible range. In some embodiments, the power converter may bypass the receiver responsive to the output voltage exceeding a limit, thus effectively disabling the power transfer from a transmitter to the receiver.
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公开(公告)号：US12184111B2
公开(公告)日：2024-12-31
申请号：US18154383
申请日：2023-01-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ye Li , Antoin J. Russell , Stephen C. Terry , Adam L. Schwartz , Sumant Ranganathan , Gianpaolo Lisi
Abstract: A wireless power transmitter can include a coil, an inverter coupled to the coil, and control circuitry coupled to the inverter that, responsive to receiving a burst request pulse from a wireless power receiver, initiates inverter operation, driving the coil and powering the receiver. The control circuitry can operate inverter switches so bandwidth of the wireless power transfer signal falls within a specified range by: (a) extending a minimum on time of the switches, (b) modifying pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signals supplied to the switches to shape a coil current burst envelope, and/or (c) modifying PWM signal amplitude supplied to the switches. Modifying the PWM drive signals can include using a symmetrical PWM scheme in which the positive and negative pulses are symmetrical in width on a cycle-by-cycle basis or using a complementary PWM scheme in which the positive and negative pulse widths are complementary on a cycle-by-cycle basis.
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公开(公告)号：US12003121B2
公开(公告)日：2024-06-04
申请号：US17389124
申请日：2021-07-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Chad A. Bossetti , Christopher S. Graham , David W. Ritter , Todd K. Moyer , Steven G. Herbst , Shimon Elkayam , Nileshbhai J. Shah , Stephen C. Terry , Zaki Moussaoui
CPC classification number: H02J50/90 , G01D5/16 , G01D5/20 , G01D5/24 , H02J50/10 , H02J50/12 , H10N30/302
Abstract: A wireless charging mat and method of operating the same. The wireless charging mat includes a detection system configured to determine a location and an orientation of an electronic device on the wireless charging mat. The location and orientation are determined based on detected locations of one or more structural features of the electronic device. The wireless charging mat is operated according to the detected location and orientation.
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公开(公告)号：US20230327495A1
公开(公告)日：2023-10-12
申请号：US18336555
申请日：2023-06-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Adam L. Schwartz , Alireza Safaee , Stephen C. Terry , Zhiyuan Hu
Abstract: A wireless charging system having a power transmitter may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiver. Shield saturation, such as saturation of a ferrite structure, in the wireless power receiver may occur under some operating conditions. Saturation can lead to disruptive oscillations in power transfer. The power transmitting may include control circuitry for detecting and mitigating saturation.
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公开(公告)号：US11735962B2
公开(公告)日：2023-08-22
申请号：US17198116
申请日：2021-03-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Adam L. Schwartz , Alireza Safaee , Stephen C. Terry , Zhiyuan Hu
Abstract: A wireless charging system having a power transmitter may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiver. Shield saturation, such as saturation of a ferrite structure, in the wireless power receiver may occur under some operating conditions. Saturation can lead to disruptive oscillations in power transfer. The power transmitting may include control circuitry for detecting and mitigating saturation.
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公开(公告)号：US10998776B2
公开(公告)日：2021-05-04
申请号：US16748467
申请日：2020-01-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Weiyun Chen , Stephen C. Terry
Abstract: A wireless power receiving device has a coil that receives wireless power signals from a wireless power transmitting device and has a rectifier that produces direct-current power across rectifier output terminals using the received wireless power signals. A load in the wireless power receiving device receives a direct-current output voltage from the rectifier output terminals. In-band communications are supported in which an amplitude-shift keying communications scheme or other communications scheme is used by a data transmitter in the wireless power receiving device to transmit in-band data through the coil. In-band data is transmitted by modulating one or more transistors that are coupled to the coil and other wireless power receiving circuitry in series with one or more capacitors and is transmitted by modulating current flow through a ballast transistor or other adjustable load that is coupled across the rectifier output terminals.
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公开(公告)号：US10355514B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-16
申请号：US15485078
申请日：2017-04-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Stephen C. Terry , Nilay D. Jani , Bin Gu , Yongxuan Hu
Abstract: A wireless power transmitting device may transmit power wirelessly to a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device may be a portable electronic device with an array of wireless power receiving coils that receive wireless power from wireless power transmitting coils in the wireless power transmitting device. Each receiving coil in the array of wireless power receiving coils may be coupled to a respective rectifier. Control circuitry of the wireless power receiving device may be configured to determine which rectifiers to enable for synchronous rectification. The control circuitry may be configured to enable at least one rectifier based on the alternating-current voltages produced by each coil in the array of receiving coils. The control circuitry may also be configured to enable at least one rectifier based on the output current from each rectifier.
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