Self-charging electric vehicle and aircraft and wireless energy distributions system

• US 9,783,073 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2015
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paradigm Shift Solutions
• Original Assignee: Paradigm Shift Solutions
• Inventors: Mashinsky, Alex, Mashinsky, David, Mashinsky, Rena
• Primary Examiner(s): Pacheco, Alexis
• Application Number:
  US14/808,908
• Publication Number:
  US 20150328998A1
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 320104, 320108, 320109, 320137, 180 21, 191 10, 318 16, 307104
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/11 DC charging controlled by the charging station, e.g. mode 4
• 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: B60L 53/51 Photovoltaic means
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/52 Wind-driven generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/53 Batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/55 Capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

A system and method to provide fast charge and discharge of electrical power without wires between two elements configured to have resonant tuned coils and circuits. The coils are energized by a power source that includes super capacitors, fast charging batteries and oscillating power management system.

Claims

1. An electric device charging system, comprising:

a secondary resonant coil operatively connected to an electric device, which is tuned to have a resonant frequency that is substantially the same as a resonant frequency of a primary resonant coil located outside the electric device, wherein the primary resonant coil is operatively connected to a source of electrical power and the secondary resonant coil is wirelessly coupled to the primary resonant coil to receive the electric power from the primary resonant coil; and

a power management system (PMS) that is configured to receive the electric power from the secondary resonant coil, the PMS including a processor, a software module controllably coupled to the processor, a high speed charging energy storage device and a slow speed charging battery (SSCB);

wherein the software module includes;

a first set of instructions that instruct the PMS to control a first power transfer rate used to transfer the electric power to a first charge stored on the high speed charging energy storage device; and

a second set of instructions that instruct the PMS to control a second power transfer rate used to transfer the electric power to a second charge stored on the SSCB.

2. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein one of the first set of instructions and the second set of instructions are activated to transfer the electric power based upon a condition monitored by the PMS.

3. The electric device charging system of claim 2, wherein the condition is related to a level of the first charge.

4. The electric device charging system of claim 2, wherein the condition is related to a level of the second charge.

5. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the PMS further comprises a super capacitor (SC) and the electric power is routed to the SC prior to being routed to the SSCB.

6. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the PMS further comprises a super capacitor (SC) and the electric power is routed to the SC prior to being routed to the high speed charging energy storage device.

7. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the software, when executed by the processor, further causes the PMS to:

perform measurement and dynamic tuning of a parameter associated with the electric power.

8. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the parameter corresponds to an electric voltage.

9. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the parameter corresponds to amperage of electric current.

10. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the parameter corresponds to a cycle rate.

11. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the dynamic tuning is performed based upon an overall charge level that includes components from the first charge, and the second charge.

12. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the dynamic tuning is performed based upon at least one charge transfer rate.

13. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the dynamic tuning is performed based upon a distance between the primary resonant coil and the secondary resonant coil.

14. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the software, when executed by the processor, further causes the PMS to:

discharge into a load at least a portion of at least one of the first charge, and the second charge based on at least one characteristic of at least one of the high speed charging energy storage device and the SSCB.

15. The electric device charging system of claim 7, wherein the software, when executed by the processor, further causes the PMS to:

regulate a first rate of transfer of charge from the secondary resonant coil to the HSBC.

16. The electric device charging system of claim 15, wherein the PMS further comprises a super capacitor (SC) and the electric power is routed to the SC prior to being routed to the high speed charging energy storage device.

17. The electric device charging system of claim 15, wherein the software, when executed by the processor, further causes the PMS to:

regulate a second rate of transfer of charge from the high speed charging energy storage device to the SSCB.

18. The electric device charging system of claim 17, wherein the first and second rates of transfer of charge are performed to cause a larger amount of the electric power to be transferred in a fixed amount of time from the primary resonant coil into electric charge to be stored in the SSCB than would be possible by transferring the electric power directly from the primary resonant coil to the SSCB.

19. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the secondary resonant coil is configured using ferrite and movable physical elements to create directional electric and magnetic fields (EMF) to optimize the reception of the EMF based an allowable time for a transfer of electric power to occur from the primary resonant coil to the secondary resonant coil.

20. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the secondary resonant coil is configured using ferrite and movable physical elements to create directional electric and magnetic fields (EMF) to optimize the reception of the EMF based a road condition at the time of transfer.

21. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the secondary resonant coil is configured using ferrite and movable physical elements to create directional electric and magnetic fields (EMF) to optimize the reception of the EMF based a distance between the primary and secondary resonant coils at the time of transfer.

22. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the PMS manages an overall charging cycle of the electric device charging system.

23. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the software, when executed by the processor, further causes the PMS to:

wirelessly communicate control information to a charging station PMS that is associated with the primary resonant coil.

24. The electric device charging system of claim 23, wherein the control information causes the charging station PMS to increase a third power transfer rate used to transfer the electric power into the primary resonant coil for subsequent transfer via the wireless coupling of the electric power from the primary resonant coil to the secondary resonant coil.

25. The electric device charging system of claim 23, wherein the control information causes the charging station PMS to decrease a third power transfer rate used to transfer the electric power into the primary resonant coil for subsequent transfer via the wireless coupling of the electric power from the primary resonant coil to the secondary resonant coil.

26. The electric device charging system of claim 23, wherein the control information causes the charging station PMS to start transferring the electric power into the primary resonant coil for subsequent transfer via the wireless coupling from the primary resonant coil to the secondary resonant coil.

27. The electric device charging system of claim 23, wherein the control information causes the charging station PMS to stop transferring the electric power into the primary resonant coil for subsequent transfer via the wireless coupling from the primary resonant coil to the secondary resonant coil.

28. The electric device charging system of claim 23, wherein the control information is provided to based upon at least one measured power transfer rate.

29. The electric device charging system of claim 23, wherein the control information is provided to based upon at least one measured power absorption rate.

30. The electric device charging system of claim 29, wherein the at least one measured power absorption rate relates to a rate of power abortion by the high speed charging energy storage device.

31. The electric device charging system of claim 29, wherein the at least one measured power absorption rate relates to a rate of power absorption abortion by the SSCB.

32. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the electric device corresponds to an electric vehicle.

33. The electric device charging system of claim 1, wherein the high speed charging energy storage device is selected from the group consisting of high speed charging battery (HSCB) and a super capacitator (SC).