Assemblage for inductive energy transfer to an electrically drivable vehicle

• US 20140117929A1
• Filed: 10/24/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: LANG, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/061,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20140117929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/126 Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 19/30 Frame parts shaped to receive other cycle parts or accessories axle suspensions B62K25/00
• CPC Class Codes: B62M 6/80 Accessories, e.g. power sources; Arrangements thereof
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

An assemblage for inductive energy transfer to an electrically drivable vehicle is proposed, which assemblage encompasses a secondary coil and a first signal processing unit. The first signal processing unit is configured to process energy received from the secondary coil, and the assemblage is configured to dispose the secondary coil and a tubular frame portion of the vehicle coaxially with one another, coupling of the secondary coil and the tubular frame section with good thermal conductivity being achieved.

Claims

1. An assemblage for providing inductive energy transfer to an electrically drivable vehicle, comprising:

an assemblage arrangement, including;

a primary coil;

a secondary coil; and

a first signal processing unit configured to process the energy received from the secondary coil;

wherein the assemblage arrangement is configured to dispose the secondary coil and a tubular frame portion of the vehicle coaxially with one another, and in that context to couple them to one another with good thermal conductivity, the mutual magnetic coupling between the primary coil and the secondary coil being configured adjustably by varying their spacing from one another along the tubular frame portion.

2. The assemblage of claim 1, wherein the secondary coil is configured to be disposed inside the tubular frame section.

3. The assemblage of claim 1, wherein the assemblage arrangement is configured to dispose the primary coil and the tubular frame portion of the vehicle coaxially with one another, and in that context to couple them to one another with good thermal conductivity.

4. The assemblage of claim 3, wherein the primary coil is configured to be disposed outside the tubular frame portion, and the secondary coil is configured to be disposed outside or inside the tubular frame portion.

5. The assemblage of claim 1, wherein the assemblage encompasses a Hall sensor or another magnetic field sensor that is configured to measure a magnetic field at the tubular frame portion of the vehicle.

6. The assemblage of claim 1, further comprising:

a heat sink made of metal foam for thermal coupling, wherein at least one of a temperature sensor, a Hall sensor, and a power semiconductor is embedded, via a cooling paste in the metal foam, in the metal foam.

7. The assemblage of claim 1, wherein at least one the following is satisfied:

(i) the vehicle is a two-wheeled vehicle, and (ii) the tubular frame portion is in the form of a round tube.

8. The assemblage of claim 3, wherein the primary coil is configured to be reversibly connected for a charging operation to the secondary coil, by at least one of a plug connection and a snap/latch connection.

9. The assemblage of claim 3, further comprising:

a second signal processing unit, encompassing a frequency converter and a rectifier, is coupled to the primary coil, the signal processing units encompassing power semiconductors that are configured to be connected with good thermal conductivity to the tubular frame portion.

10. An electrically drivable vehicle, comprising:

an energy reservoir, disposed in a tubular frame portion of the vehicle; and

an assemblage for providing inductive energy transfer to an electrically drivable vehicle, including an assemblage arrangement, including;

a primary coil;

a secondary coil; and

a first signal processing unit configured to process the energy received from the secondary coil;

wherein the assemblage arrangement is configured to dispose the secondary coil and a tubular frame portion of the vehicle coaxially with one another, and in that context to couple them to one another with good thermal conductivity, the mutual magnetic coupling between the primary coil and the secondary coil being configured adjustably by varying their spacing from one another along the tubular frame portion.

11. A method for providing inductive energy transfer between a transmitting unit and a receiving unit, the method comprising:

using an assemblage for providing inductive energy transfer to an electrically drivable vehicle, including;

an assemblage arrangement, including;

a primary coil associated with the transmitting unit;

a secondary coil associated with the receiving unit;

a first signal processing unit configured to process the energy received from the secondary coil, wherein the assemblage arrangement is configured to dispose the secondary coil and a tubular frame portion of the vehicle coaxially with one another, and in that context to couple them to one another with good thermal conductivity, the mutual magnetic coupling between the primary coil and the secondary coil being configured adjustably by varying their spacing from one another along the tubular frame portion;

a heat sink, for thermal coupling, made of metal foam, into which at least one of a temperature sensor and a Hall sensor is embedded;

wherein energy transfer between the transmitting unit and receiving unit is regulated as a function of signals of the at least one of the temperature sensor and the Hall sensor.