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US 9,853,503 B2Granted
Wireless power feeding system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshinobu Umeda
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Abstract
In a case where a power transmission device operating as a master disappears, a wireless power feeding system selects a power transmission device to operate as a master instead based on predetermined priority levels.
Claims6
A device comprising:
- a determining unit configured to determine whether a power transmission device having predetermined authority exists among a plurality of power transmission devices based on information acquired from the plurality of power transmission devices, wherein the predetermined authority is authority to determine to which power reception device each of the plurality of power transmission devices transmits power;
- a selecting unit configured to select a power transmission device to which the predetermined authority is to be assigned among the plurality of power transmission devices, in a case where the determining unit determines that the power transmission device having the predetermined authority does not exist;
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- a notifying unit configured to notify the plurality of power transmission devices of information of the selected power transmission device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.