Patents by Inventor Srikanth Lakshmikanthan

Srikanth Lakshmikanthan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250118998
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a wireless charging receive coil configured to transduce, into an alternating current (AC) power signal, a magnetic field generated by a wireless charging transmit coil of an external device; an active rectifier configured to convert the AC signal received at an AC side of the active rectifier into a direct current (DC) power signal output at a DC side of the active rectifier, the active rectifier comprising a plurality of switches; a first modulation capacitor connected to an upper rail of the AC side; a second modulation capacitor connected to a lower rail of the AC side; and a controller configured to adjust an impedance of the computing device to communicate with the external device by at least controlling the plurality of switches to cause the first modulation capacitor and the second modulation capacitor to charge during separate time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Zhenxue Xu, Shuo Wang, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Yirui Yang
  • Publication number: 20240371565
    Abstract: A wireless charging receiver that includes a first coil, a second coil, and a nanocrystalline sheet is disclosed. The first coil is configured to be located within a recess in the nanocrystalline sheet and is positioned between the second coil and the nanocrystalline sheet. The first coil includes first and second terminals and the second coil includes third and fourth terminals. The first terminal is connected to the third terminal and the second terminal is connected to the fourth terminal to electrically connect the first coil to the second coil. The first coil may be formed of a flexible printed circuit board having a continuous trace or may be formed of litz wire. The first coil may be a hybrid coil with a first portion formed of a flexible printed circuit board having a continuous trace and with a second portion formed of litz wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Li Wang, Liyu Yang, Stefano Saggini, Liang Jia, Yanchao Li, Zhenxue Xu, Haoquan Zhang, Mauricio Antonio Alvarado Ortega, Giulia Segatti, Pingsheng Wu, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Qi Tian, Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Yung-Chih Chen, Yi Lin Chen, Wei Chen Tu
  • Patent number: 12125631
    Abstract: Shielded electrical transformers and power converters using those transformers are disclosed. In some implementations, a shielded electrical transformer includes a magnetic core, a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding. The transformer includes a first shielding winding that has a same voltage potential direction as the primary winding and is connected in series with the primary winding to carry current that passes through the primary winding. The transformer also includes a second shielding winding that has a voltage potential direction opposite the primary winding and is connected from primary ground to a floating terminal. The first secondary winding, the second secondary winding, the first shielding winding, and the second shielding winding can each have an approximately equal number of turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Douglas Osterhout, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20240204576
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a wearable device having a wireless power receiving system that may inductively receive or transmit power. The wireless power receiving system includes a receiver coil having a profile that follows a contour of a bottom cover of the wearable device. A transmitter coil from a wireless charging device has a complementary profile that mates with the profile defined by the receiver coil. In one example, the wireless power receiving system includes a shielding, and a receiver coil attached to the shielding. The receiver coil further includes an inner wall and an outer wall connected by a top surface of a coil body. The inner wall defines a center opening in the receiver coil, wherein the receiver coil is conical in shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Qi Tian, Liang Jia, Tressa Christie Scott, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 12008176
    Abstract: An example active stylus includes a core comprising: a main cylinder having a first end, a second end; a first supplemental cylinder disposed at the first end of the main cylinder and having a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the main cylinder; a second supplemental cylinder disposed between the first supplemental cylinder and the second end of the main cylinder and having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the main cylinder; and a wireless charging receive coil configured to transduce flux of a magnetic field generated by a wireless charging transmit coil into electrical current, wherein the wireless charging receive coil is positioned around a longitudinal axis of the main cylinder of the core and between the first supplemental cylinder and the second supplemental cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liyu Yang
  • Publication number: 20240128805
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for wireless charging using time-division multiplexing. In some implementations, a wireless charger is configured to concurrently charge multiple devices by providing power wirelessly to individual devices in different time periods. The wireless charger can perform time-division multiplexing by selectively directing the output of a single driver circuit to different power transfer coil segments at different times. The wireless charging sessions of multiple devices can be maintained by repeating a pattern of activating different power transfer coil segments one by one in successive time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11949251
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a wearable device having a wireless power receiving system that may inductively receive or transmit power. The wireless power receiving system includes a receiver coil having a profile that follows a contour of a bottom cover of the wearable device. A transmitter coil from a wireless charging device has a complementary profile that mates with the profile defined by the receiver coil. In one example, the wireless power receiving system includes a shielding, and a receiver coil attached to the shielding. The receiver coil further includes an inner wall and an outer wall connected by a top surface of a coil body. The inner wall defines a center opening in the receiver coil, wherein the receiver coil is conical in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Qi Tian, Liang Jia, Tressa Christie Scott, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11923696
    Abstract: This document describes a passive adapter for wireless charging of an electronic device and associated methods and systems. The described passive adapter includes two coils connected by a capacitor and separated by a core material that prevents mutual coupling between the coils. These two coils may have differing sizes, such that one coil can size-match to a transmitter coil of an existing wireless charger and the second coil can size-match to a smaller (or larger) receiver coil in a wireless-power receiver to charge a battery of the wireless-power receiver. In aspects, these two coils may be separated by a distance that enables the passive adapter to act as a passive repeater by bridging a space between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Srenik Suresh Mehta, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11916478
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device that includes a power storage device, an electrical load, and a first regulated power converter including components configured to generate, during a first time period and using electrical energy received from a power source external to the device, a first power signal to charge the power storage device. A second regulated power converter includes components configured to determine a charging current at which to charge the power storage device, determine a total amount of current flowing to the power storage device that includes current sourced by the second power converter less current sinked by the electrical load, and generate, during a second time period that is non-overlapping with the first time period, using electrical energy from the power source and based on determined the total amount of current, a second power signal to charge the power storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liang Jia, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11881730
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for wireless charging using time-division multiplexing. In some implementations, a wireless charger is configured to concurrently charge multiple devices by providing power wirelessly to individual devices in different time periods. The wireless charger can perform time-division multiplexing by selectively directing the output of a single driver circuit to different power transfer coil segments at different times. The wireless charging sessions of multiple devices can be maintained by repeating a pattern of activating different power transfer coil segments one by one in successive time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20230221813
    Abstract: An example active stylus includes a core comprising: a main cylinder having a first end, a second end; a first supplemental cylinder disposed at the first end of the main cylinder and having a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the main cylinder; a second supplemental cylinder disposed between the first supplemental cylinder and the second end of the main cylinder and having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the main cylinder; and a wireless charging receive coil configured to transduce flux of a magnetic field generated by a wireless charging transmit coil into electrical current, wherein the wireless charging receive coil is positioned around a longitudinal axis of the main cylinder of the core and between the first supplemental cylinder and the second supplemental cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liyu Yang
  • Publication number: 20230179010
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device having a first power storage device and a second power storage device connected in series. A first power converter may generate, using electrical energy sourced from the first power storage device and the second power storage device, a first power signal to power a first set of components. A second power converter may generate, using electrical energy sourced from the first power storage device and not the second power storage device, a second power signal to power a second set of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20230105296
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for wireless charging using time-division multiplexing. In some implementations, a wireless charger is configured to concurrently charge multiple devices by providing power wirelessly to individual devices in different time periods. The wireless charger can perform time-division multiplexing by selectively directing the output of a single driver circuit to different power transfer coil segments at different times. The wireless charging sessions of multiple devices can be maintained by repeating a pattern of activating different power transfer coil segments one by one in successive time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20220302734
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device that includes a power storage device, an electrical load, and a first regulated power converter including components configured to generate, during a first time period and using electrical energy received from a power source external to the device, a first power signal to charge the power storage device. A second regulated power converter includes components configured to determine a charging current at which to charge the power storage device, determine a total amount of current flowing to the power storage device that includes current sourced by the second power converter less current sinked by the electrical load, and generate, during a second time period that is non-overlapping with the first time period, using electrical energy from the power source and based on determined the total amount of current, a second power signal to charge the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liang Jia, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11417461
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at reducing inductive-charging power loss. In aspects, a mobile device includes a multi-layer flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) coil that forms a receiver coil having a Litz-wire structure. The FPCB coil includes a multi-trace bundle, having traces systematically routed throughout the different layers of the FPCB coil to reduce eddy current losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liyu Yang, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Li Wang, Qi Tian, YungChih Chen, Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Stefano Saggini, Mario Ursino, Ruben Specogna
  • Patent number: 11342796
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for safely controlling wireless charging in the presence of a foreign object are presented. A method includes determining a power difference between a power transmitted by a wireless charger and a power received by an electronic device, determining a level of misalignment of the electronic device with respect to the wireless charger; estimating an amount of power difference due to the level of misalignment of the electronic device with respect to the wireless charger, adjusting a power difference threshold for the wireless charger based on the estimated amount of power difference, and controlling operation of the wireless charger based on the power difference and the adjusted power difference threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Qi Tian, Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Liyu Yang, Jae-won Hwang, Rahul Apte, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Srenik Suresh Mehta, Robert Thomas Shone
  • Publication number: 20220139615
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at reducing inductive-charging power loss. In aspects, a mobile device includes a multi-layer flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) coil that forms a receiver coil having a Litz-wire structure. The FPCB coil includes a multi-trace bundle, having traces systematically routed throughout the different layers of the FPCB coil to reduce eddy current losses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liyu Yang, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Li Wang, Qi Tian, YungChih Chen, Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Stefano Saggini, Mario Ursino, Ruben Specogna
  • Publication number: 20220115918
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a wearable device having a wireless power receiving system that may inductively receive or transmit power. The wireless power receiving system includes a receiver coil having a profile that follows a contour of a bottom cover of the wearable device. A transmitter coil from a wireless charging device has a complementary profile that mates with the profile defined by the receiver coil. In one example, the wireless power receiving system includes a shielding, and a receiver coil attached to the shielding. The receiver coil further includes an inner wall and an outer wall connected by a top surface of a coil body. The inner wall defines a center opening in the receiver coil, wherein the receiver coil is conical in shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Qi Tian, Liang Jia, Tressa Christie Scott, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20220029530
    Abstract: An example power adapter includes a rectifier configured to convert an input alternating current (AC) power signal on an AC bus into an input direct current (DC) power signal on an input DC bus; a split differential mode (DM) choke connected to the input DC bus, wherein the split DM choke comprises a first DM choke on a high side of the input DC bus and a second DM choke on a low side of the input DC bus; and a switched mode power converter configured to output, using the input DC power signal, an output DC power signal on an output DC bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yiming Li, Shuo Wang, Honggang Sheng, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20210366647
    Abstract: Shielded electrical transformers and power converters using those transformers are disclosed. In some implementations, a shielded electrical transformer includes a magnetic core, a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding. The transformer includes a first shielding winding that has a same voltage potential direction as the primary winding and is connected in series with the primary winding to carry current that passes through the primary winding. The transformer also includes a second shielding winding that has a voltage potential direction opposite the primary winding and is connected from primary ground to a floating terminal. The first secondary winding, the second secondary winding, the first shielding winding, and the second shielding winding can each have an approximately equal number of turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Douglas Osterhout, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan