Vehicle seat inductive charger and data transmitter
First Claim
1. A system for providing a user, while occupying a support structure cooperating with a vehicle, with at least electrical power wirelessly without the use of a conductive electrical connection between the user and the support structure or vehicle, the system comprising:
- an inductive power transfer sub-system including;
a) a support structure having a power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly comprising at least one primary transmitting coil, said support structure adapted to be mounted in cooperation with a vehicle,b) at least one primary drive circuit, cooperating with said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly,c) apparel having therein a power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly, comprising a secondary receiving coil and a secondary power conditioning circuit, said apparel adapted to be worn by a user,wherein said primary and secondary conductive coil assemblies transmit and receive electrical power when the user, while wearing said apparel, is occupying said support structure so as to mutually inductively connect said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly and said power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly to each other across an air gap therebetween using an alternating magnetic field,at least one power sink assembly adapted for wearing by the user, said at least one power sink assembly including at least one power sink and adapted for charging of said at least one power sink by said secondary power conditioning circuit upon said inductive connection between said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly and said power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly.
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Abstract
A system to inductively transfer power and transmit and receive data between a support structure associated with a vehicle and apparel worn by a user. The support structure has one or more primary inductive power coils. The apparel has one or more secondary inductive power coils. Primary circuitry cooperates with the primary inductive coils to energize at least one of the primary inductive coils. Secondary circuitry on the apparel cooperates with the secondary inductive power coil. An inductive data transmit and receive sub-system allows wireless inductive transmission of audio, text, images, video and other data between the support structure when occupied by the user, the vehicle data bus the support structure is conductively connected to, and devices located on the apparel.
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122 Claims
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1. A system for providing a user, while occupying a support structure cooperating with a vehicle, with at least electrical power wirelessly without the use of a conductive electrical connection between the user and the support structure or vehicle, the system comprising:
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an inductive power transfer sub-system including; a) a support structure having a power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly comprising at least one primary transmitting coil, said support structure adapted to be mounted in cooperation with a vehicle, b) at least one primary drive circuit, cooperating with said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly, c) apparel having therein a power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly, comprising a secondary receiving coil and a secondary power conditioning circuit, said apparel adapted to be worn by a user, wherein said primary and secondary conductive coil assemblies transmit and receive electrical power when the user, while wearing said apparel, is occupying said support structure so as to mutually inductively connect said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly and said power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly to each other across an air gap therebetween using an alternating magnetic field, at least one power sink assembly adapted for wearing by the user, said at least one power sink assembly including at least one power sink and adapted for charging of said at least one power sink by said secondary power conditioning circuit upon said inductive connection between said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly and said power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A system for providing a user, while occupying a support structure cooperating with a vehicle, with at least electrical power wirelessly without the use of a conductive electrical connection between the user and the support structure or vehicle, the system comprising:
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a data communication sub-system for data communication which includes communication data primary and secondary inductive coil assemblies having corresponding communication data primary and secondary inductive coils, and corresponding primary and secondary communication data drive and signal processing circuits for inductively connected data communication between said communication data primary and secondary inductive coils to transmit and receive data therebetween from the group of data comprising voice, text, numerical, location, tactical, images, video, said communication data primary inductive coil assembly mounted in cooperation with a support structure, said support structure adapted to be mounted in cooperation with a vehicle, said communication data secondary inductive coil assembly mounted in apparel having therein said secondary communication data drive and signal processing circuit, said apparel adapted to be worn by a user. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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62. A method for providing a user, while occupying a support structure cooperating with a vehicle, with at least electrical power wirelessly without the use of a conductive electrical connection between the user and the support structure or vehicle, the method comprising:
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a) providing an inductive power transfer sub-system including; a) a support structure having a power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly comprising at least one primary transmitting coil, said support structure adapted to be mounted in cooperation with a vehicle, b) at least one primary drive circuit, cooperating with said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly, c) apparel having therein a power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly, comprising a secondary receiving coil and a secondary power conditioning circuit, said apparel adapted to be worn by a user, wherein said primary and secondary conductive coil assemblies transmit and receive electrical power when the user, while wearing said apparel, is occupying said support structure so as to mutually inductively connect said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly and said power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly to each other across an air gap therebetween using an alternating magnetic field, and, b) providing at least one power sink assembly adapted for wearing by the user, said at least one power sink assembly including at least one power sink and adapted for charging of said at least one power sink by said secondary power conditioning circuit upon said inductive connection between said power transmitting primary conductive coil assembly and said power receiving secondary conductive coil assembly. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
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92. A method for providing a user, while occupying a support structure cooperating with a vehicle, with at least electrical power wirelessly without the use of a conductive electrical connection between the user and the support structure or vehicle, the method comprising:
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a) providing a data communication sub-system for data communication which includes communication data primary and secondary inductive coil assemblies having corresponding communication data primary and secondary inductive coils, and corresponding primary and secondary communication data drive and signal processing circuits for inductively connected data communication between said communication data primary and secondary inductive coils to transmit and receive data therebetween from the group of data comprising voice, text, numerical, location, tactical, images, video, said communication data primary inductive coil assembly mounted in cooperation with a support structure, said support structure adapted to be mounted in cooperation with a vehicle, b) providing apparel having said communication data secondary inductive coil assembly and said secondary communication data drive and signal processing circuit mounted therein, said apparel adapted to be worn by a user. - View Dependent Claims (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122)
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