FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION IN WIRELESS CHARGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED APPARATUSES AND METHODS

Foreign object detection for wireless power transmitters and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes an analog-to-digital converter to sample at least one of a coil voltage potential and a coil current representation of a transmit coil inductively coupled to a receive coil of a wireless power receiver with a distance between the transmit coil and the receive coil. The apparatus also includes a processing core to determine an expected reference Q-factor value responsive to the at least one of the sampled coil voltage potential and the sampled coil current representation. The expected reference Q-factor value indicates a Q-factor value expected at a predetermined reference wireless power transmitter inductively coupled to the wireless power receiver with a reference distance from a reference transmit coil of the predetermined reference wireless power transmitter to the receive coil of the wireless power receiver.