“Apple’s engineering teams have been researching and developing various inductive charging systems for some time now,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published yet another one of Apple’s inductive charging and because of that we’ve now opened a new ‘Inductive, Wireless Charging’ archive to better keep track of Apple’s work going forward,” Purcher reports. “The archive covers multiple styled charging pads, coils, docks and beyond.”
“The most important work on a wireless charging system dates back to 2012 when Apple introduced us to a Near Field Magnetic Resonance Power system,” Purcher reports. “In contrast Apple’s weirdest inductive charging invention involved a strange-looking charging tower. Today’s invention covers an inductive charging dock that could be used for an Apple Pencil as well as other future devices including a kitchen appliance.”
Read more, and see Apple’s patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple certainly got inductive charging right with Apple Watch, so hopes are high for future implementations.
This could be used for the Apple refrigerator/toaster that Apple management keeps denying
cuz Apple can’t figure a way to make the fridge, or the convince toast bakers to make their toast “Thinner”….
Well, somebody didn’t get the joke.
An Apple refrigerator would be cool.
I like my Apples at room temperature.
And an Apple toaster would be hot!
It should be doing so now. There is just no way that device deserved having the pencil charge the way it is charging now. Production in that form was a bad decision.Worst will now be an induction charging pencil for 199, 249… whatever. The pencil should come with the pad anyway. how could anyone in upper management plug that pencil in for charging and not see that was a bad look and a problem with space. plugged in, that pad on a desk, the pen sticks you in the stomach or chest.
Where is Forestal? Weird hair cut but maybe his vision is better.
Scott Forstall. (I sort of wish he’d return to Apple too, hopefully a bit wiser and just as creative).
The first inductive power device, aka wireless power transmitter:
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