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Wireless battery charger IC operates across a 1.2-cm air gap

The LTC4120 combines a wireless power receiver with a constant-current/constant-voltage battery charger. It functions as the receive circuit component in a complete wireless power transfer system comprised of transmit circuitry, transmit coil, receive coil and receive circuitry. It enables battery powered devices to be recharged without connectors.

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The wireless battery charger works with a discrete resonant transmitter reference design or with advanced off-the-shelf transmitters, such as the device from PowerbyProxi. The unit accepts a rectified 4.2 to 40-V input from the receive coil to power a CC/CV 400-mA battery charger that includes programmable charge current, a programmable 3.5 to 11-V battery float voltage with ±1% accuracy, battery preconditioning with half-hour timeout, bad-battery fault detection, NTC thermal protection, charge status, and a two-hour safety termination timer.

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