Battery charging system for vehicles

• US 3,169,733 A
• Filed: 10/01/1959
• Issued: 02/16/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur M. Barrett Jr
• Original Assignee: Arthur M. Barrett Jr
• Inventors: Barrett, Arthur M. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US03/843,878
• Time in Patent Office: 1,965 Days
• US Class Current: 246/30
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/04 of the electric storage means for propulsion exchanging batteries for electric propulsion of vehicles B60L53/80; for auxiliary purposes only B60R16/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/53 in combination with an external power supply, e.g. from overhead contact lines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/32 by charging in short intervals along the itinerary, e.g. during short stops
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0225 involving docking at a fixed facility, e.g. base station or loading bay parking aids B62D15/027
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0261 using magnetic plots
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0289 with means for avoiding collisions between vehicles vehicle fittings for automatically controlling speed including means for detecting potential obstacles B60K31/0008; avoiding obstacles by action on the steering system B62D; radar, sonar, lidar systems designed for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 5/04 Partially-enclosed installations, e.g. in ducts and adapted for sliding or rolling current collection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0029 with safety or protection devices or circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• 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 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Claims

1. A BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM FOR A BATTERY-POWERED VEHICLE WHICH IS ADAPTED TO FOLLOW A PATH AND IN WHICH SYSTEM AN AUTOMATIC BLOCK SIGNAL SYSTEM IS PROVIDED ALONG SAID PATH TO STOP ONE OF SAID VEHICLES AT A LOCATION TO PREVENT THE VEHICLE FROM TOO CLOSELY FOLLOWING ANOTHER VEHICLE ALONG SAID PATH, SAID SYSTEM COMPRISING A BATTERY CHARGING STATION DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID PATH AND ADAPTED TO PROVIDE A SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF ELECTRICAL TERMINALS, BATTERY CHARGING MEANS, ELECTRICAL TERMINALS CARRIED BY SAID VEHICLE EACH ONE OF SAID TERMINALS HAVING A RETRACTED POSITION AND AN EXTENDED POSITION, MEANS FOR ACTUATING THE VEHICLE TERMINALS TO THE RETRACTED AND EXTENDED POSITIONS, AND WHEN THE VEHICLE ARRIVES AT SAID BATTERY CHARGING STATION, ADAPTED TO ACTUATE THE VEHICLE TERMINALS TO THE EXTENDED POSITION TO ENGAGE WITH THE FIRST MENTIONED TERMINALS TO PROVIDE, UPON STOPPING OF THE VEHICLE, A CONDUCTIVE PATH INCLUDING SAID BATTERY CHARGING MEANS, THE BATTERY OF THE VEHICLE, AND THE SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY.