公开(公告)号：US20180309314A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：US15495127

申请日：2017-04-24

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Mark WHITE, II ,  Cody WHEELAND ,  William Henry VON NOVAK, III ,  Joseph MAALOUF

IPC: H02J7/02 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J50/40 ,  H02J50/80

CPC classification number: H02J7/025 ,  H02J7/0029 ,  H02J7/0031 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J50/40 ,  H02J50/80

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, devices, systems, apparatus, media, and other implementations, including a method for wireless power transfer that includes operating a wireless power receiver in a default protection state in which charging or powering of a load coupled to the wireless power receiver is inhibited except upon detection of one or more safety charging conditions for safely charging the wireless power receiver, determining that a safety charging condition, of the one or more safety charging conditions, is met, and operating the wireless power receiver in a charging state at least in part in response to determining that the safety charging condition, of the one or more safety conditions, is met, with the wireless power receiver powering or charging the load while in the charging state and receiving power.

公开(公告)号：US20190134408A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16162154

申请日：2018-10-16

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： William Henry VON NOVAK, III ,  Cody WHEELAND

IPC: A61N1/378 ,  H01L35/32

Abstract: Charging a medical implant is performed through the use of an external thermionic implant charging unit placed on the skin of the patient, proximate to the location where a subcutaneous thermionic implant is located. A voltage input can cause the thermionic implant charging unit to enter a warming or cooling phase in which the voltage creates a temperature gradient across a thermoelectric heat pump of the charging unit, causing the charging unit to respectively warm or cool the patient's skin. The thermionic implant can similarly have a thermoelectric heat pump, and the warming or cooling of the skin caused by the charging unit can create a temperature gradient across the thermoelectric heat pump of the thermionic implant, causing its thermoelectric heat pump to create a voltage. This voltage can be used to charge a battery of (and/or directly power) the thermionic implant.