Apparatus and method for implementing a differential drive amplifier and a coil arrangement

• US 9,350,303 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2012
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Mayo, Gabriel I., Tseng, Ryan
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bukhari, Aqeel
• Application Number:
  US13/474,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20120228959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,468 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/2176 Class E amplifiers

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments are directed to differentially driving a load. An apparatus includes a differential drive amplifier including a switching device coupled with a first output node and a second output node. The first output node and the second output node drive a load network including primary coils. The differential drive amplifier also includes a drive circuit configured to drive the switching device. The drive circuit may be configured to provide a drive signal to the switching device to alter a conductive state of the switching device to produce a first output signal at the first output node and a second output signal at the second output node. The first and second output signals may be substantially equal in magnitude but opposite in polarity relative to a reference voltage.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a first coil having a planar spiral configuration with a spacing between turns of the first coil increasing from an outer edge of the first coil toward a center of the first coil; and

a second coil having a planar spiral configuration with a spacing between turns of the second coil increasing from an outer edge of the second coil toward a center of the second coil, wherein the first coil and the second coil are configured to transfer wireless power via a magnetic field to one or more receive coils.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second coil is substantially located on a common plane with the first coil.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first coil and the second coil are located so that the first coil and the second coil form a symmetric structure, the symmetric structure is substantially symmetric about an axis when viewed from above the planar spiral configuration of the first coil and the second coil.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein input signals to the first coil and the second coil are configured to be input from an outer edge of the planar spiral configuration of the first coil and the second coil.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first coil is physically connected to the second coil at the center point of the first coil and the center point of the second coil to generate a single coil arrangement.

6. A method, comprising:

driving with electrical current a first coil having a planar spiral configuration witha spacing between turns of the first coil increasing from an outer edge of the first coil toward a center of the first coil; and

driving with electrical current a second coil having a planar spiral configuration with a spacing between turns of the second coil increasing from an outer edge of the second coil toward a center of the second coil, wherein the first coil and the second coil are configured to transfer wireless power via a magnetic field to one or more receive coils.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second coil is substantially located on a common plane with the first coil.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the first coil and the second coil are located so that the first coil and the second coil form a symmetric structure, the symmetric structure is substantially symmetric about an axis when viewed from above the planar spiral configuration of the first coil and the second coil.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein input signals to the first coil and the second coil are configured to be input from an outer edge of the planar spiral configuration of the first coil and the second coil.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the first coil is physically connected to the second coil at the center point of the first coil and the center point of the second coil to generate a single coil arrangement.