MCM Japan started accepting orders for a wireless power feeding pad supporting a standard established by Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an industry group related to wireless power feeding.
The wireless power feeding pad, "Dragon," was developed by ConvenientPower HK Ltd of Hong Kong. It comes with the "Qi" mark, which indicates the compliance with the standard.
In addition to the Dragon, MCM Japan will sell a case in which Apple Inc's iPhone can be set to be charged on the pad. The case is an ODM product. And it started accepting orders from handset makers for such cases.
WPC is an organization established Dec 17, 2008. But this is the first time that a product supporting its standard will be released. The organization completed the formulation of the standard for smartphones, digital cameras and other devices with outputs of 5W or less July 23, 2010, and has been testing the compatibility of such devices with the standard.
MCM Japan joined WPC in June 2010 and entered into a distribution agreement with ConvenientPower, one of the major members of WPC.
ConvenientPower's wireless power feeding pad uses the "coil array method," which was developed by the company. In the method, multiple coils are arrayed so that a device can be charged in a wider area of the pad and two mobile devices can be charged at the same time.
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