Apple wants to charge your iPhone wirelessly – El Financiero

Apple Inc. is working with partners in the US and Asia to develop a new technology wireless charging that can be used on their mobile phones as early as next year, according to people familiar with the plans.

Apple is exploring breakthrough technologies that would allow iPhones and iPads be recharged from a farthest distance that the mouse chargers used with current smart phones, people who asked not to be identified because the details are private said. The iPhone maker is looking to overcome the technical barriers that include loss of energy in the distance, and the decision to apply the technology still being evaluated, they said.

iPhones and iPads generates more than three quarters of Apple’s revenue, new technologies can give their devices a margin and help the company to sell products at a higher value in a slow market. Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Corp. and Google Inc. are among the rivals have already launched smart phones that are loaded wirelessly, but require still be close to the charging base.

The efficiency of energy transfer decreases to the extent that the distance between the transmitter and receiver increases, which means that the batteries recharged take longer.

Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for Apple, declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg News.

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT In 2010 recorded a
patent application which outlined the concept of using a personal computer iMac as a center for wireless recharging from a distance of about a meter for which used a technique called near-field magnetic resonance imaging . Currently Apple uses a similar technique, called induction to charge your Watch a few millimeters from the power source.

Another patent developed by Apple was a method of making aluminum housings allow for phones radio waves passing through them, a technique that minimizes the problem of metal interference signals are transmitted.

Previously Apple has downplayed any interest in charging technology still requires be plugged into an outlet because such methods are inconvenient.

Semiconductor makers Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. are among those who have developed or are developing wireless technology and models for refills.

Broadcom offers a chip that supports three main models of wireless recharging, while Qualcomm supports two of these technologies and last year said it had developed a method to avoid the problem of interference during recharging, the connect a power antenna to the phone shell.