Wireless Energy Sharing Management

• US 20170331333A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 11/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brendan Edward Clark, Ronald Charles Krosky
• Original Assignee: Brendan Edward Clark, Ronald Charles Krosky
• Inventors: Clark, Brendan Edward, Krosky, Ronald Charles
• Application Number:
  US12/752,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20170331333A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/10 Control circuit supply, e.g. means for supplying power to the control circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/00 Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with the wireless energy are described. A method can comprise collecting a transferred energy from an energy source. The method can also comprise emitting a wireless energy, where the wireless energy includes at least a portion of the transferred energy.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a wireless detection component configured to detect a device capable of receiving wireless energy;

an amount component configured to identify at least a received energy amount of wireless energy received by the device and a supplied energy amount of wireless energy emitted by the device;

a regulator component configured to manage emission of the wireless energy in response to detection of the device according to an energy sharing ratio enforced with respect to at least the received energy amount, the energy sharing ratio is a ratio of the supplied amount of energy emitted by the device to other devices in relation to the received energy amount received by the device from other devices, the regulator component initiates emission to a device when its supplied energy amount is greater than the received energy amount according to the energy sharing ratio; and

a processor, that is operatively coupled to a computer-readable medium, configured to execute an instruction stored on the computer-readable medium, where the instruction is for implementation of the detection component, the amount component, the regulator component, or a combination thereof.

2. The system of claim 1, the energy sharing ratio is calculated as the supplied energy amount divided by the received energy amount.

3. The system of claim 2, where the energy sharing ratio is greater than one when satisfied.

4. The system of claim 1, where the energy sharing ratio changes based on a contextual factor.

5. The system of claim 4, where the energy sharing ratio is changed upon one or more of a number of emitters within range of the device, a battery level of the device, and a battery level of an emitter that emits the wireless energy.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a sharing component configured to count a credit associated with the device, where the credit is based upon a monetary payment, and where the credit offsets the supplied energy amount to satisfy the energy sharing ratio in lieu of additional wireless energy emitted by the device.

7. The system of claim 4, where the contextual factor includes a process running on the device at that time.

8. The system of claim 4, where the contextual factor includes at least one of an amount of energy available from at least one other energy source and a stability of the at least one other energy source, wherein the stability of the at least one other energy source is a proportion of energy source uptime against energy source downtime for the at least one other energy source.

9. A system comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium and a processor, the non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving an energy request from a requesting device, the requesting device being a mobile device having a wireless energy receiver;

comparing, in response to the energy request, energy provided by the requesting device to a requested energy amount associated with the energy request;

determining an energy sharing ratio is satisfied by the requesting device based on comparison of the energy provided by the requesting device against the requested energy amount;

selecting, in response to satisfaction of the energy sharing ratio, a providing device having sufficient energy to fulfill at least a portion of the energy request;

causing emission of a first wireless energy from the providing device in accordance with the energy sharing ratio;

causing collection of the first wireless energy from the providing device at an intermediary device, the providing device and the intermediary device are separated by a first distance, the intermediary device retains a portion of the first wireless energy for charging of the intermediary device; and

causing emission of a second wireless energy from the intermediary device for collection at the requesting device in response to the energy request, the intermediary device and the requesting device are separated by a second distance,

where the second wireless energy is less than the first wireless energy at least based on the portion of the first wireless energy that charged the intermediary device, and

where the second wireless energy includes at least a portion of the first wireless energy, and where a sum of the first distance and the second distance is beyond a maximum wireless energy transmission range of the providing device such that the requesting device cannot directly receive wireless energy from the providing device.

10. The system of claim 9,

where a primary wireless power cloud having a primary cloud area is produced from at least the first wireless energy, the first wireless energy can be received within the primary cloud area, and the providing device is a fixed emitter, and

where a secondary wireless power cloud having an added cloud area is produced from at least the second wireless energy, the added cloud area is not contained within the primary cloud area, the second wireless energy can be received within the added cloud area, and the intermediary device is a second mobile device.

11. The system of claim 9, where at least the first wireless energy is provided using induction.

12. The system of claim 10, where the primary wireless energy cloud is part of a wireless energy cloud network comprising a plurality of wireless power emitters having at least partially overlapping wireless energy transfer coverage.

13. The system of claim 11, where the second wireless energy is provided using a non-inductive technique.

14. The system of claim 9, where a rate of wireless energy transfer of the first wireless energy is based on an amount of energy available from at least one other energy source and a stability of the at least one other energy source, wherein the stability of the at least one other energy source is a range at which the at least one other energy source can provide energy.

15-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method, comprising:

executing instructions stored on non-transitory computer readable media using a processor, the instructions comprising;

detecting a device capable of receiving wireless energy;

identifying a received energy amount of wireless energy received by the device and a supplied energy amount of wireless energy emitted by the device;

determining that the device satisfies an energy sharing ratio calculated based on the supplied energy amount divided by the received energy amount, the energy sharing ratio is a ratio of the supplied energy amount emitted to other devices from the device and the received energy amount received by the device from other devices, the energy sharing ratio is greater than one when satisfied, the energy sharing ratio changes based on a contextual factor; and

causing emission of wireless energy to the device based on the determination that the device satisfies the energy sharing ratio.

27. The method of claim 26, the instructions further comprising:

determining that the device has sufficient energy to provide to other devices; and

causing wireless emission of stored device energy based on the determination that the device has sufficient energy to provide to other devices.

28. The method of claim 27, the instructions further comprising:

determining either that the energy sharing ratio is updated to permit additional reception by the device, or that the device does not have sufficient energy to provide to other devices; and

causing wireless emission of stored device energy to cease based on either the energy sharing ratio or the device not having sufficient energy.

29. The method of claim 26, the instructions further comprising:

determining that the device no longer satisfies an energy sharing ratio; and

assessing a bill to the device based on the received energy amount exceeding the energy sharing ratio.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising:

reducing the bill to the device based on a credit, the credit based on the supplied energy amount previously exceeding the energy sharing ratio.

31. The method of claim 26, the contextual factor includes a combination of an amount of energy available from at least one other energy source and a stability of the at least one other energy source, wherein the stability of the at least one other energy source is based on a number of loads drawn from the at least one other energy source.