Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Coil for mobile device context-driven switching and wireless charging
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Application No.: US14911244Application Date: 2013-12-17
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Publication No.: US10263451B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Anand S. Konanur , Songnan Yang , Ulun Karacaoglu , Jiancheng Tao , Farid Adrangi
- Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- International Application: PCT/US2013/075594 WO 20131217
- International Announcement: WO2015/020683 WO 20150212
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; H01Q1/22 ; H01Q3/24 ; H01Q7/00 ; H02J7/00 ; H02J7/02 ; H04B5/00 ; H04W4/80 ; G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044 ; H02J50/10 ; H02J50/40 ; H02J17/00

Abstract:
Apparatus, system and method to provide switchable coils in a computing device, comprising: a plurality of electrically conductive coils to transfer electromagnetic energy; a sensor coupled to a processor, to select a coil from among the plurality of electrically conductive coils; a switch to energize the selected coil; and a switch controller coupled to the switch and to the processor. In some embodiments, the plurality of coils may comprise an inductive charging interface. Some embodiments may further include a communication interface between the processor to the plurality of electrically conductive coils, the plurality of coils comprising an interface for near-field communications (NFC). The antenna coils may be arranged to provide improved NFC coverage when the computing device is in a respective predetermined physical configuration. Sensors may be used to detect the configuration and switch NFC communications to use a preferred antenna coil for the detected configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160181857A1 COIL FOR MOBILE DEVICE CONTEXT-DRIVEN SWITCHING AND WIRELESS CHARGING Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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