US Patent Issued to OMRON on June 24 for "Contactless power feeding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,354, issued on June 24, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Contactless power feeding apparatus" was invented by Goro Nakao (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroaki Ota (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Kenichi Tabata (Kyoto, Japan), Atsushi Nomura (Kyoto, Japan), Daiki Ando (Kyoto, Japan), Ken Onozaka (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Kawai (Kyoto, Japan) and Mitsunori Sugiura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitting apparatus included in the contactless power feeding apparatus includes a power supply circuit that supplies AC power having a predetermined drive frequency to a transmission coil for supplying power to a po...