Machine for augmentation, storage, and conservation of vehicle motive energy

• US 20080169140A1
• Filed: 01/11/2008
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Charles Hampton Perry
• Original Assignee: Charles Hampton Perry
• Inventors: Perry, Charles Hampton
• Application Number:
  US12/008,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20080169140A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/65.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 17/356 having fluid or electric motor, for driving one or more wheels disposition of motor in, or adjacent to, traction wheel B60K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2007/0038 the motor moving together with the wheel axle
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2007/0092 the motor axle being coaxial to the wheel axle
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 7/0007 the motor being electric
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/44 Wheel Hub motors, i.e. integrated in the wheel hub
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/50 Structural details of electrical machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/27 Rotor cores with permanent magnets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/12 with stationary armatures and rotating magnets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/14 Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors

Abstract

A machine for addition of motive force to a vehicle, with rotor plate, rotor arms, rotor permanent magnets, stator plate, stator columns, stator electro magnets, and battery, cell, or other energy storage device.

Claims

1. A machine for addition of motive force to a vehicle as a part of an internal combustion engine-electric motor hybrid drive system for a vehicle comprising:

a rotor plate;

a rotor arm;

a rotor permanent magnet;

a stator plate;

a stator arm;

a stator ring or mount;

a stator electro magnets; and

a battery, cell, or other energy storage device.

3. A device as in claim 1 wherein one or more wheel assemblies are converted to electrical motors.

4. A device as in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein one or more wheel assemblies are converted to electrical energy generators.

5. A device as in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the said wheel assemblies may use vehicle momentum to generate electrical energy

6. A device as in claim 4 wherein drag from the said process of generating electrical energy is or may be exploited to provide vehicle deceleration and braking.

7. A device as in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the said rotor comprises two or more permanent magnets of alternating polarity.

8. A device as in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the said stator comprises one or more electromagnets having variable or phased polarity.

9. A device as in claim 8 wherein the said one or more stator electromagnet(s) are essentially configured in the shape the letter C or the letter U so as to locate each of the two poles of any given stator magnate alongside its opposite pole.

10. A device as in claim 1 or claim 2 or claim 8, or claim 9 wherein the said permanent magnets of the said rotor are so configured as to pass between both poles of the said stator electromagnet(s).

11. A device as in claim 8 wherein is also comprised one or more rotor position sensors, the information from which is used to govern polarity of the said electromagnets.

12. A device as in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein is also comprised a means of sensing and concurrently or alternatively, measuring, rotor velocity.

15. An apparatus described in claim 9, in which the one or more C-magnets comprise non-ferromagnetic electromagnets.

16. An apparatus described in claim 9, in which the one or more C-magnets comprise ferromagnetic electromagnets.

17. An apparatus described in claim 1 or claim 2 in which the electric motor is activated by an electronic motor/engine control and attached to a battery pack

2. A retro-fitable electric traction motor, hybrid conversion kit and device for automobiles, comprising:

one or more rotor plates;

one or more rotor arms;

one or more rotor permanent magnets;

one or more stator plates;

one or more one or more stator arms

one or more stator ring or mounts;

one or more stator electro magnets; and

one or more batteries, cells, or other energy storage devices.

13. A device as in claim l or claim 2 wherein is also comprised an means of automated activation of the said electrical motor, optimized as desired to meet energy, and, alternatively or concurrently, energy savings requirements.

14. An apparatus comprising a clamshell electric motor, consisting of a rotor plate and stator plate which together form a DC brushless motor, installed integrally with the existing rear wheel/spindle of a motor vehicle, wherein the stator plate is mounted between a brake assembly and backing plate of the said motor vehicle and wherein the rotor plate and stator plate are held in place by the same mounting bolts, nuts or other connective devices with which the vehicle was originally equipped.

18. A method to convert front wheel drive automobile to plug-in hybrid by installation of the said clamshell electric motor of claim 14.

19. A retro-fitable electric traction motor, hybrid conversion kit and device for automobiles, comprising:

one or more rotor plates;

one or more rotor arms;

one or more rotor permanent magnets;

one or more stator plates;

one or more one or more stator arms

one or more stator ring or mounts;

one or more stator electro magnets; and

one or more batteries, cells, or other energy storage devices,

wherein one or more wheel assemblies are converted to electrical motors,

wherein one or more wheel assemblies are, or are so configured that they may be, converted to electrical energy generators,

wherein the said wheel assemblies may draw upon vehicle momentum to generate electrical energy,

wherein drag resulting from the said generation of electrical energy is exploited to provide vehicle deceleration and braking,

wherein the said rotor comprises two or more permanent magnets of alternating polarity,

wherein the said stator comprises one or more electromagnets having variable or phased polarity,

wherein the said one or more stator electromagnet(s) are essentially configured in the shape the letter C or the letter U so as to locate each of the two poles of any given stator magnate alongside its opposite pole,

wherein the said permanent magnets of the said rotor are so configured as to pass between both poles of the said one or more stator electromagnet(s),

wherein is also comprised one or more rotor position sensors, the information from which is used to govern polarity of the said electromagnets,

wherein is also comprised a means of sensing, and, concurrently or alternatively, measuring, rotor velocity,

wherein is also comprised an means of automated activation of the said electrical motor, optimized as desired to meet energy, and, alternatively or concurrently, energy savings requirements,

wherein the said device comprises a clamshell electric motor, having of a rotor plate and stator plate which together form a DC brushless motor, installed integrally with the existing wheel or spindle of a motor vehicle, wherein the stator plate is mounted between a brake assembly and backing plate of the said motor vehicle and wherein the rotor plate and stator plate are held in place by the same mounting bolts, nuts or other connective devices with which the vehicle was originally equipped,

wherein the C-magnets comprise non-ferromagnetic electromagnets,

and, wherein the electric motor is activated by an electronic motor/engine control and attached to a battery pack.