Patent ID: 11874423
Assignee: WITRICITY CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus configured for foreign object detection, living object detection, vehicle detection, vehicle type detection, and vehicle position detection, the apparatus comprising:
a housing of a ground-based wireless power transfer structure including a plurality of compartments located serially along a perimeter of the housing; and
a multi-purpose detection circuit having:
a plurality of inductive sense circuits, wherein each of the plurality of inductive sense circuits includes at least one inductive sense element forming an array of inductive sense elements; and
a plurality of capacitive sense circuits, wherein each of the plurality of capacitive sense circuits includes at least one capacitive sense element forming an arrangement of capacitive sense elements surrounding the array of inductive sense elements,
wherein the arrangement of capacitive sense elements is integrated into the housing with each capacitive sense element being subdivided into smaller elements and tailored to fit into respective compartments of the plurality of compartments of the housing.