Vehicle operated on electric highway
First Claim
1. A vehicle operated on highwaysincluding an electric motor, at least one energy storage means, and at least one coupler for physically coupling said vehicle with at least another one of said vehicle.
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Abstract
The vehicle operated in an electric highway system has an electric motor, at least one energy storage device, an on-board power pick up device, at least one coupler, at least one power meter, at least one on-board computer, an on-board part of a lateral location sensor, an on-board lateral position control mechanism, a longitudinal distance/speed sensor, and a longitudinal position control mechanism, and at least one communication device. The vehicle is able to operate and couple together with other vehicles automatically in the electrified lane of the electric highway system.
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20 Claims
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1. A vehicle operated on highways
including an electric motor, at least one energy storage means, and at least one coupler for physically coupling said vehicle with at least another one of said vehicle.
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16. A vehicle operated on highways
said highways include at least one electrified lane and a roadside subsystem wherein said roadside subsystem includes a pair of contact wires per said electrified lane, said vehicle includes a power pick up means assembly, said power pick up means includes at least a pair of sliding means, each of said sliding means slidably contacts one of said contact wires, each of said sliding means affixed to top of each of a pair of carriers made of a non-conductive material, at least two pairs of horns made of a non-conductive material each of which horn is affixed to each side of said carrier, said carriers are affixed to a support frame assembly, a pantograph beam assembly is affixed to said support frame assembly at one end and affixed to the roof of said vehicle at the other end, said two sliding means have a lateral gap such that even said contact wires fall lower than the normal level by accident, either of said contact wires will not touch both of said sliding means at the same time, and said two sliding means are generally of the same length, which is shorter than spacing between said two contact wires and thus either of the sliding means will not touch said two contact wires at the same time.
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