Power generation necklaces that mitigate energy absorption in the human body

• US 10,505,394 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2018
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tectus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tectus Corporation
• Inventors: Miller, Gregory David, Lemoff, Brian Elliot, Pang, Hawk Yin, Wiemer, Michael West
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Curtis J
• Application Number:
  US15/959,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20190326781A1
• Time in Patent Office: 598 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An augmented reality system including a necklace and a contact lens display can be used to project information from the contact lens display onto the retina of the wearer'"'"'s eye. In one example, the necklace generates a time-varying magnetic field (TVMF) that provides energy and information to the contact lens display via inductive coupling. The necklace can be configured to minimize the amount of energy absorbed by the body of the wearer while maintaining power transfer to the contact lens display. In one example, the necklace includes multiple conductive coils generating constructively interfering TVMs to effectively transmit energy while reducing the amount of energy absorbed by the human body. In another example, the necklace includes a parasitic coil generating a destructively interfering TVMF and a magnetic shield to effectively transmit energy while reducing the amount of energy absorbed by the human body.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a necklace comprising;

a driver circuit comprising a first signal generator to generate a first alternating current (AC) electrical signal and a second signal generator to generate a second AC electrical signal having a same frequency as the first AC electrical signal; and

a plurality of conductive loops extending along a band of the necklace and including a first conductive loop and a second conductive loop concentric with the first conductive loop, the first conductive loop being driven by the first AC signal and the second conductive loop being driven by the second AC signal to provide wireless power to a remote device via inductive coupling.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the necklace comprises

a first inductor coupled in series with the first conductive loop, the first inductor and the first conductive loop having a first combined inductance;

and

a second inductor coupled in series with the second conductive loop, the second inductor and the second conductive loop having a second combined inductance that is the same as the first combined inductance.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote device is a contact lens display configured to inductively couple to at least one of the first conductive loop and the second conductive loop and to receive the wireless power via the inductive coupling.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first conductive loop is spaced apart from and smaller than the second conductive loop.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the first conductive loop is one of a square, a circle, a triangle, a rectangle, an oval, a segment of an annulus, or a half rectangular annulus.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the second conductive loop is one of a square, a rectangle, a circle, a half annulus, a segment of an annulus, or a half rectangular annulus.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the necklace further comprises:

a first capacitor coupled in series with the first signal generator and the first conductive loop; and

a second capacitor coupled in series with the second signal generator and the second conductive loop.

8. A system comprising

a necklace comprising:

a driver circuit to generate at least one alternating current (AC) electrical signal; and

a plurality of conductive loops extending along a band of the necklace and including a first conductive loop and a second conductive loop concentric with the first conductive loop, the first conductive loop driven by the AC electrical signal to provide wireless power to a remote device via inductive coupling; and

the second conductive loop comprising a parasitic loop inductively coupled to the first conducive loop.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the second conductive loop is adapted to mitigate an amount of electromagnetic energy from the first conductive loop which is absorbed by a wearer of the necklace.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein

the second conductive coil generates a magnetic field destructively opposing a magnetic field generated by the first conductive loop.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the first conductive loop has a different length than the second conductive loop.

12. The system of claim 8, further comprising a variable capacitor coupled to the parasitic loop.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the second conductive loop comprises copper.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the band of the necklace includes a surface configured to be placed against a wearer of the necklace when the necklace is worn, and the surface of the band is closer to the second conductive loop than the first conductive loop.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the second conductive loop extends along a length of the first conductive loop and also overlaps with the first conductive loop along the length of the first conductive loop.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a loop of ceramic ferrimagnetic material located between the first conductive loop and the second conductive loop.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the loop of ceramic ferrimagnetic material comprises a ferrite ring.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the second conductive loop has a first width, and the loop of ceramic ferrimagnetic material has a second width that is wider than the first width.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the second conductive loop is embedded within the loop of ceramic ferrimagnetic material.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the loop of ceramic ferrimagnetic material is one of a square, a rectangle, a circle, a half annulus, a segment of an annulus, or a half rectangular annulus.