MCM Japan to Release ConvenientPower Wireless Power Feeding Pad Supporting New Wireless Power Consortium Standard

MCM Japan announced that it is accepting orders for a wireless power feeding pad, said to be the first commercial product supporting the standard established by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an industry group related to wireless power feeding.

The wireless power feeding pad, known as the "Dragon," was developed by ConvenientPower HK Ltd. of Hong Kong, a co-founder of the WPC. The Dragon 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.

Established in December of 2008, the WPC completed the formulation of the standard for smartphones, digital cameras and other devices with outputs of 5W or less at the end of July of 2010, and has been testing the compatibility of such devices with the standard.

ConvenientPower’s wireless power feeding pad uses what the company calls the "coil array method" in which 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.