Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitive wireless charging for wireless earbuds
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Application No.: US16114148Application Date: 2018-08-27
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Publication No.: US10750268B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Zhigang Dang , Michael B. Nussbaum
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04R1/10
- IPC: H04R1/10 ; H02J50/05 ; H02J7/02 ; H04R1/02 ; H02J7/00

Abstract:
A case for a pair of earbuds including a housing having first and second cavities formed within the housing, the first cavity configured to receive a first earbud in the pair of earbuds and the second cavity configured to receive a second earbud in the pair of earbuds; a lid attached to the housing; a first pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the first cavity; a second pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the second cavity; and charging circuitry coupled to the first and second pairs of electrodes, the charging circuitry including a high frequency inverter configured to receive a DC power signal and output a high frequency AC signal to each of the first and second pairs of electrodes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200068285A1 CAPACITIVE WIRELESS CHARGING FOR WIRELESS EARBUDS Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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