For more than a year, several manufacturers of mobile terminals have been trying to induce us the idea that inductive charging is a technology that we will find in the future in most important smartphones, but for now none of them has managed to implement something really useful in your own terminal. With the idea of offering us a really useful system to charge our mobile terminals without keeping them "tied" to a charging pad, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), describes in a patent of the invention a system that would allow the charging of mobile terminals located in the vicinity of a device capable of charging them wirelessly.
Generally the patent relates to techniques and apparatus for providing useful amounts of power wirelessly to devices within a wireless charging environment. In one embodiment, the wireless charging environment can include various computing devices along the lines of a desktop computer, a laptop computer, net book computer, tablet computer, etc. In some cases, a wireless power supply will be able to be used to provide power wirelessly to various electronic devices such as and iPhone that includes a portable power supply for mobile operation. Apple's patent reveals that their new system may use a near field magnetic resonance (NFMR) power supply hidden within an iMac or future Mac Pro.
Using a magnetic resonance field, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), says that an energy source implemented in a iMac or Mac Pro would be able to charge an iDevice that is in its vicinity, at a reasonable distance. Practically, this would eliminate the need to place the mobile terminal on a charging pad to charge it, the obligation to follow this step being absolutely identical to that of connecting the terminal to a charging cable. Of course, the initiative of those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it would be really useful if it allowed charging at a long distance from the power source, but unfortunately the patent does not provide details about the distance.
Practically, the future is dedicated to systems that allow mobile terminals to be charged remotely, without placing them directly next to the power source, but it remains to be seen which will be the first company that will succeed in bringing something like this to the market.
