公开(公告)号：US20250112506A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18478383

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.

Inventor： John Kenneth Hooker ,  Craig Benjamin Williams ,  Hieu Manh Vu

IPC: H02J50/90 ,  H02J50/10

Abstract: An apparatus and method of locating a wireless power transmitter in which a variable load coupled to a wireless power receiver configured to receive a wireless power signal from the wireless power transmitter is controllably varied to maintain a harvested voltage of the wireless power signal within a predetermined range. By doing so, power supplied to a wirelessly powered appliance coupled to the wireless power receiver is maintained within an operational envelope of the wirelessly powered appliance.

公开(公告)号：US20210307135A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

申请号：US16834503

申请日：2020-03-30

Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.

Inventor： John Kenneth Hooker ,  Adam Baron Jones ,  Hieu Manh Vu

IPC: H05B6/68 ,  H05B6/64 ,  A47J37/06 ,  A23L5/10 ,  A23L5/30 ,  A47J36/32 ,  A23L3/365

Abstract: A microwave cooking appliance and method for operating the same perform an adaptive thermal sensing cycle in which a temperature sensor is used to develop a temperature profile for food being heated or cooked at an intermediate point in the cycle, such that a duration and output level for a subsequent stage of the cycle may be determined at least in part based upon the temperature profile.

公开(公告)号：US20250118999A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18481544

申请日：2023-10-05

Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Craig Benjamin Williams ,  John Kenneth Hooker ,  Hieu Manh Vu

IPC: H02J50/90 ,  H02J50/00

Abstract: An apparatus and method selectively resume an interrupted operation of a wirelessly powered appliance after an unintentional power loss. An interrupted operation may be selectively resumed, for example, based upon one or more of a detected movement (or lack of detected movement) of the wirelessly powered appliance, a detected temperature of and/or in the wirelessly powered appliance, and a detected fault in a wireless power transmitter and/or wireless power system that supplies power to the wirelessly powered appliance.

公开(公告)号：US20240190281A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18078920

申请日：2022-12-09

Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.

Inventor： John Kenneth Hooker ,  Hieu Manh Vu ,  Isabelle Catlett

IPC: B60L53/62 ,  G01R31/327 ,  H01H9/56 ,  H01H47/00

CPC classification number: B60L53/62 ,  G01R31/3274 ,  H01H9/563 ,  H01H47/002

Abstract: An Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) powered apparatus includes an input power receptacle capable of receiving the plug of an EVSE device to power the apparatus using power supplied by the EVSE device, and a user-actuatable control that may be used to transition the EVSE device from a connected but not charging state to a charging state after the plug has been inserted into the input power receptacle to cause the EVSE device to transition to the charging state and supply power through the plug. In some instances, one or more output power receptacles may be provided to enable various external electrically-powered devices to be plugged into the apparatus and powered by the EVSE device, while in other instances, the apparatus itself may be an appliance, tool, or other high power device, such that the apparatus is powered directly from the EVSE device.