Registration system, apparatus, architecture, and method for inductive energy communication systems

• US 9,793,959 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2015
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Advanced Wireless Innovations LLC
• Original Assignee: Advanced Wireless Innovations LLC
• Inventors: Pasternak, Shawn
• Primary Examiner(s): Gannon, Levi
• Application Number:
  US14/804,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20160028444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 307104
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/26 using coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

Registration system, apparatus, architecture, and method for to repeatably operatively align or register a second inductive energy communication device or apparatus on or near a first inductive energy communication device or apparatus. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Claims

1. An electronic device registration apparatus for repeatably positioning an electronic device first surface on an electric device surface, the electronic device including a second surface offset from its first surface and the electric device having an electric cord extending substantially planar to its surface, the registration apparatus including:

a base;

a fenestration extending through the base and sized to enable the electric cord to one of releasably and frictionally slide through the fenestration; and

an extension above the base and fenestration, the extension having a surface configured to abut the electronic device second surface.

2. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electric cord has a substantially uniform envelope along a section and the base fenestration is smaller than the electric cord uniform envelope but enables apparatus movement with overcomable fiction along the cord'"'"'s substantially uniform envelope section.

3. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electric cord has a substantially uniform envelope along a section and the base fenestration is formed from a releasable mechanism, the fenestration smaller than the electric cord uniform envelope when not released and larger than electric cord uniform envelope when released.

4. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic device second surface is substantially planar and the registration apparatus extension is substantially planar.

5. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic device first surface is substantially planar and the electric device surface is substantially planar.

6. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic device first surface is substantially planar, the electric device surface is substantially planar, and the electronic device substantially planar first surface is larger than the electric device substantially planar surface.

7. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 5, wherein the electronic device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to substantially planar first surface, the electric device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to its substantially planar surface, and the electric device communicates energy with the electronic device when their respective coils are operatively collocated.

8. The electronic device registration apparatus of claim 5, wherein the electronic device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to substantially planar first surface, the electric device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to its substantially planar surface, and the electric device is configured to provide energy to the electronic device when their respective coils are operatively collocated.

9. An electronic device registration system for an electronic device having a first surface and a second surface offset from its first surface, the system including:

an electric device having a surface and an electric cord extending substantially planar to its surface, the electronic device first surface to be repeatably positioned on the electric device surface; and

a registration apparatus including;

a base;

a fenestration extending through the base and sized to enable the electric cord to one of releasably and frictionally slide through the fenestration; and

an extension above the base and fenestration, the extension having a surface configured to abut the electronic device second surface.

10. The electronic device registration system of claim 9, wherein the electric cord has a substantially uniform envelope along a section and the base fenestration is smaller than the electric cord uniform envelope but enables apparatus movement with overcomable fiction along the cord'"'"'s substantially uniform envelope section.

11. The electronic device registration system of claim 9, wherein the electric cord has a substantially uniform envelope along a section and the base fenestration is formed from a releasable mechanism, the fenestration smaller than the electric cord uniform envelope when not released and larger than electric cord uniform envelope when released.

12. The electronic device registration system of claim 9, wherein the electronic device second surface is substantially planar and the registration apparatus extension is substantially planar.

13. The electronic device registration system of claim 9, wherein the electronic device first surface is substantially planar and the electric device surface is substantially planar.

14. The electronic device registration system of claim 9, wherein the electronic device first surface is substantially planar, the electric device surface is substantially planar, and the electronic device substantially planar first surface is larger than the electric device substantially planar surface.

15. The electronic device registration system of claim 13, wherein the electronic device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to substantially planar first surface, the electric device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to its substantially planar surface, and the electric device is configured to provide energy to the electronic device when their respective coils are operatively collocated.

16. A method of employing an electronic device registration apparatus to repeatably position an electronic device first surface on an electric device surface, the electronic device including a second surface offset from its first surface, the electric device having an electric cord extending substantially planar to its surface, including:

positioning the electronic device first surface at a desired location on the electric device surface; and

slidably abutting an extension of the electronic device registration apparatus to the electronic device second surface, the electronic device registration apparatus including a base, a fenestration extending through the base and sized to enable the electric cord to one of releasably and frictionally slide through the fenestration, and the extension above the base and fenestration, the extension having a surface configured to abut the electronic device second surface.

17. The method of employing an electronic device registration apparatus of claim 16, wherein the electric cord has a substantially uniform envelope along a section and the base fenestration is formed from a releasable mechanism, the fenestration smaller than the electric cord uniform envelope when not released and larger than electric cord uniform envelope when released.

18. The method of employing an electronic device registration apparatus of claim 16, wherein the electronic device first surface is substantially planar, the electric device surface is substantially planar, and the electronic device substantially planar first surface is larger than the electric device substantially planar surface.

19. The method of employing an electronic device registration apparatus of claim 18, wherein the electronic device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to substantially planar first surface, the electric device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to its substantially planar surface, and the method includes positioning the electronic device first surface at a desired location on the electric device surface to operatively collocate respective coils to enable energy communication between the coils.

20. The method of employing an electronic device registration apparatus of claim 18, wherein the electronic device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to substantially planar first surface, the electric device includes an induction coil substantially parallel and adjacent to its substantially planar surface, and the method includes positioning the electronic device first surface at a desired location on the electric device surface to operatively collocate respective coils to enable energy transfer from the electric device coil to the electronic device coil.