WIRELESS DESKTOP IT ENVIRONMENT

• US 20110049996A1
• Filed: 08/25/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Original Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Inventors: Karalis, Aristeidis, Soljacic, Marin, Moffatt, Robert, Kurs, Andre B., Joannopoulos, John D., Fisher, Peter H.
• Application Number:
  US12/862,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20110049996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/104
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/20 AC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/126 Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/04 Resonant antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/0037 for power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4902 Electromagnet, transformer or inductor

Abstract

Described herein are embodiments of a wireless power transmitting system for transmitting power to a high-Q magnetic resonator that includes a desktop component and a high-Q magnetic resonator, formed of an inductive loop and a capacitor, said magnetic resonator integrated into the desktop component.

Claims

1. A wireless power transmitting system for transmitting power to a high-Q magnetic resonator, comprising:

a desktop component; and

a high-Q magnetic resonator, formed of an inductive loop and a capacitor, said magnetic resonator integrated into the desktop component.

2. A system as in claim 1, wherein said inductive loop is integrated into the desktop component with a plane of the loop having an orientation which is parallel to a plane of a desktop.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein said desktop component has a base which holds the desktop component in a substantially upright position.

4. A system as in claim 3, wherein said desktop component is a display, and said base is a base which holds up the display.

5. A system as in claim 4, wherein said inductive loop of said magnetic resonator is integrated as part of said base.

6. A system as in claim 5, wherein said base has a round outer shape, and said inductive loop is coaxial to said round outer shape.

7. A system as in claim 1, further comprising an additional magnetic resonator configured as a charging pad, which is tuned to be substantially resonant with the transmitting magnetic resonator.

8. A system as in claim 7, wherein said charging pad has electrical contacts which couple to an electronic device.

9. A system as in claim 7, wherein said charging pad transfers power via evanescent tail coupling.

10. A system as in claim 9, wherein said charging pad both transfers power via evanescent tail coupling and also has a connection for an external device.

11. A system as in claim 3, wherein said base of said desktop component has a position which is unchanged during operation.

12. A system as in claim 1, wherein a dipole moment of said resonator is unchanged during operation of said desktop device.

13. A wireless power transmitting system for transmitting power to a high-Q magnetic resonator, comprising:

a desktop component having a part which is substantially unmoved during operation; and

a high-Q magnetic resonator, formed of an inductive loop and a capacitor, said magnetic resonator integrated into the desktop component in a way that prevents said resonator from moving during operation of said desktop component.

14. A system as in claim 13, further comprising a power source for said desktop component, producing a magnetic near-field from said resonator.

15. A system as in claim 14, wherein said resonator maintains the same dipole moment orientation.

16. A system as in claim 15, wherein said desktop component is a display, and said base is a base which holds up the display.

17. A system as in claim 16, wherein said inductive loop of said magnetic resonator is integrated as part of said base.

18. A system as in claim 17, wherein said base has a round outer shape, and said inductive loop is coaxial to said round outer shape.

19. A system as in claim 13, further comprising an additional magnetic resonator configured as a charging pad, which is tuned to be substantially resonant with the transmitting magnetic resonator.

20. A system as in claim 19, wherein said charging pad has electrical contacts which couple to an electronic device.

21. A method, comprising:

operating a first high-Q magnetic resonator, formed of an inductive loop and a capacitor, said magnetic resonator which is integrated into a desktop component to provide electrical power wirelessly to desktop items comprising additional high-Q magnetic resonators that are usable along with said first magnetic resonator, and which are physically separate from said first magnetic resonator.

22. A method as in claim 21, further comprising operating said inductive loop with a plane of the loop having an orientation which is always parallel to a plane of a desktop.

23. A method as in claim 21, wherein said desktop component has a base, and further comprising using said base to hold the desktop component in an upright position.

24. A method as in claim 23, wherein said desktop component is a display, and said base is a base which holds up the display.

25. A method as in claim 24, wherein said inductive loop of said magnetic resonator is integrated as part of said base.

26. A method as in claim 25, wherein said base has a round outer shape, and said inductive loop is coaxial to said round outer shape.

27. A method as in claim 21, further comprising an additional magnetic resonator configured as a charging pad, which is tuned to be substantially resonant with the first high-Q magnetic resonator.

28. A method as in claim 27, wherein said charging pad has electrical contacts which couple to an electronic device.

29. A method as in claim 27, wherein said charging pad transfers power via evanescent tail coupling.

30. A method as in claim 29, wherein said charging pad both transfers power via evanescent tail coupling-and also has a connection for an external device.

31. A method as in claim 23, further maintaining said base of said desktop component in a position which is unchanged during operation.

32. A method for transferring power to a high-Q magnetic resonator, comprising:

operating a first high-Q magnetic resonator, formed of an inductive loop and a capacitor, said magnetic resonator which is integrated into a desktop component to provide electrical power wirelessly to desktop items that comprise additional high-Q magnetic resonators and are physically separate from said first magnetic resonator, said operating comprising transmitting electrical power parallel to a surface of a desktop that holds said desktop component.

33. A method as in claim 32, wherein said operating comprises continuously transmitting said electrical power.