Wireless energy transfer systems

US8618696B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WiTricity Corporation · US

Inventors

• Andre B. Kurs · Sharon, US
• Aristeidis Karalis · Boston, US
• Morris P. Kesler · Bedford, US
• Andrew J. Campanella · Waltham, US
• Katherine L. Hall · Westford, US
• Konrad J. Kulikowski · North Andover, US
• Qiang Li · Irvine, US
• Marin Soljacic · Belmont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S30/14
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wireless power supply includes a source magnetic resonator, connected to a power source and configured to exchange power wirelessly via a wireless power transfer signal with at least one device magnetic resonator integrated into at least one peripheral component of a computer and a processor configured to adjust the operating point of the wireless power supply wherein power is transferred non-radiatively from the wireless power supply to the at least one device magnetic resonator and wherein the power supply forms a part of the computer.