INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURES FOR SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY ON BOARD MOTOR VEHICLES

• US 20080309159A1
• Filed: 05/09/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cefla Societa' Cooperativa
• Original Assignee: Cefla Societa' Cooperativa
• Inventors: Repetto, Piermario, Liotti, Luca, Pullini, Daniele, Carvignese, Cosimo, Finizio, Roberto, INNOCENTI, Gianfranco, Pizzi, Marco, Perlo, Pietro
• Granted Patent: US 7,960,856 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/00 Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/06 Lead-acid accumulators semi-lead accumulators H01M10/20
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/42 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells H01M10/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 44/28 Association of MHD generators with conventional generators nuclear power plants including a MHD generator G21D7/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

The system allows the generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit, a tank for fuel at least one distribution network or line for electric energy, electrical energy generation devices connected to the at least one distribution network or line, and a plurality of selectively activatable electrical utiliser devices or apparatus connected or connectable to the at least one distribution network or line. The electrical energy generator devices includes (at least) a microcombustor electricity generator matrix or battery connected to the fuel tank, and a supervision and control unit associated with this generator matrix or battery and coupled to the distribution network or line and arranged to control the operation of the generator matrix or battery in a predetermined manner as a function of the electrical power required or consumed by the network or line.

Claims

1. A system for generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit;

at least one tank for fuel;

at least one distribution network or line for electric energy;

electrical energy generation means connected to said at least one distribution network or line; and

a plurality of selectively activatable electrical utiliser devices or apparatus connected or connectable to said at least one distribution network or line;

said electrical energy generation means comprising;

at least one battery or matrix of microcombustor electricity generators connected to said at least one fuel tank, and

a supervision and control unit associated with said at least one battery or matrix of microcombustor electricity generators and coupled to the said at least one distribution network or line and arranged to control the operation of the said battery or matrix of generators in a predetermined manner as a function of the electrical power required or consumed by the said at least one line or network.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the motor vehicle includes a heater unit having a heat exchanger of the gas/air type, and said at least one battery or matrix of generators has an exhaust manifold selectively connectable in a controlled manner to said heat exchanger.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said propulsion unit is an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold or duct coupled to a magnetohydrodynamic effect electric generator the electricity output of which is coupled to said at least one distribution network or line.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said propulsion unit is an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold or duct in coupled to a high kinetic energy positive ion electricity generator obtained by masking with a grille the electrons produced by a combustion reaction, the electrical output of which is coupled to said at least one distribution network or line.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein said propulsion unit is an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold or duct coupled to an electricity generator operating in a detonation, impulsed or continuous regime, the electrical output of which is coupled to said at least one distribution network or line.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein said propulsion unit is an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold or duct coupled to an electricity generator of the magnetically suspended rotary type, operating by combustion in a deflagration or detonation regime, the electric output of which is coupled to said at least one distribution network or line.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein said propulsion unit is an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold or duct coupled to a magnetic micropiston electricity generator the electrical output of which is coupled to said at least one distribution network or line.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein said propulsion unit is an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold or duct coupled to an electricity generator operating in a confined combustion regime in which the control of the reagents is achieved in cavities which contribute to the selection of the chemical and physical reaction kinetics, the electrical output of which is coupled to said at least one distribution network or line.

9. A system according to claim 1, including an electric machine supplied with the electrical energy generated by said at least one battery or matrix of microcombustor electricity generators.

10. A system according to claim 1, wherein said battery or matrix of microcombustor generators comprises M×

N generators disposed in M rows and N columns with M and N equal or different from one another, groups of said generators being connected electrically together in parallel or in series.