Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wearable devices configured to convert non-electrical energy into electrical energy and methods of using the same
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Application No.: US17807523Application Date: 2022-06-17
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Publication No.: US11621578B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Madison E. Wale , Bhumika Chhabra , Claudia A. Delaney , Elsie de la Garza Villarreal
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Perkins Coie LLP
- Main IPC: H01M10/46
- IPC: H01M10/46 ; H02J7/35 ; H02J7/00

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for in-use charging for wearable devices are described, in which the wearable device may include an energy harvesting unit coupled with a rechargeable battery unit. The energy harvesting unit may include one or more transducers configured to generate electrical energy from various types of non-electrical energy around the wearable device such that the wearable device may replenish the rechargeable battery unit while a person uses the wearable devices. Such non-electrical energy may include electromagnetic energy, light energy, thermal energy, kinetic energy, or the like. Additionally, the rechargeable battery unit may include two or more partitions such that one of the partitions may be detached when necessary (e.g., to replace with a fully charged partition) without disrupting operations of the wearable device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220320891A1 IN-USE CHARGING FOR WEARABLE DEVICES Public/Granted day:2022-10-06
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