Pop up electrical apparatus with wireless charging component for electric vehicles

• US 9,862,284 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2016
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alan Kauffmann
• Original Assignee: Alan Kauffmann
• Inventors: Kauffmann, Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): DIAO, M BAYE
• Application Number:
  US15/017,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20160207406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 320109, 320108
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/124 Detection or removal of foreign bodies
• 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 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• 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

Abstract

An electrical supply apparatus including a containment unit with a bottom, at least one side wall forming an enclosure with an open top; a tower extendable and retractable from the containment unit and a charging unit attached to the tower which, in preferred embodiments, is a wireless charging component provided in a cover, for charging electric vehicles, and particularly to induce optimal current transfer to a receiving component without requiring a corresponding extension of the receiving component out of an electric vehicle and featuring a flexible bellows having an upper edge and a lower edge, wherein said upper edge is continuously affixed about said cover and a lower edge is continuously attached to a flange forming the bottom of the crown ring such that said bellows provides a watertight barrier preventing contaminants from entering an area under said cover.

Claims

1. An electrical supply apparatus with a safety system comprising:

a permanently installed, weatherproof containment unit, wherein the unit has

a bottom;

at least one side wall; and

an open top defining an opening having engaged therein a retainer ring with two seals;

a watertight extendable tower that has

at least one side wall,

a cover and,

at least one electrical module installed in an extendable tower;

wherein the extendable tower is extendable within the containment unit such that when said extendable tower is retracted in a closed position, said extendable tower is fully secured and enclosed within the containment unit and

when said extendable tower is extended in a use position, the electrical module is accessible to a user, wherein power is available at the electrical module when the extendable tower is in the use position, and wherein the electrical module includes a means to secure and contain electric vehicle charging components so that said components are available to a user when said electrical supply apparatus is in said use position but are unavailable and secured away from said user when said electrical supply apparatus is in said stored position;

a selectably elongatable bellows having a first end and a second end opposite the first end wherein the first end is engaged to the cover and the second end is engaged to the open top of the containment unit;

wherein the seals provide waterproof slidable engagement between the containment unit and the extendable tower;

further comprising at least one wireless charging component; and

further comprising a heater adapted to heat the cover.

2. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 1, wherein said extendable tower is adapted to be moved manually between said stored and use positions.

3. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a power assist operatively engaged with the extendable tower and adapted to move the extendable tower between said stored and use positions.

4. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a user access adapted to qualify said user;

and allow said user access to said electric vehicle charging components and electric power from said electrical supply apparatus after being qualified.

5. The electrical supply apparatus with a safety system of claim 1, wherein the wireless charging component is an induction antenna attached to the cover.

6. An electrical supply apparatus with a safety system comprising:

a permanently installed, weatherproof containment unit, wherein said unit has

a bottom,

at least one side wall, and

an open top defining an opening having engaged therein a retainer ring with two seals;

an extendable tower that has

at least one side wall,

a cover and,

a programmable logic control; and

at least one electrical module installed in the extendable tower;

wherein, said extendable tower is slideably extendable within said containment unit so that said extendable tower can be raised or lowered within said containment unit such that when said extendable tower is lowered and in a down position said extendable tower is fully secured and enclosed within said containment unit or said extendable tower can be raised to an up position so that said electrical module is accessible to a user;

wherein power is available at said electrical module when said extendable tower is in said up position;

wherein the seals provide waterproof slidable engagement between the containment unit and the extendable tower; and

a bellows.

7. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 6,

wherein said electric supply apparatus can provide both low voltage and high voltage electricity;

and

wherein the bellows is a selectably elongatable bellows having a first end and a second end opposite the first end wherein the first end is engaged to the cover and the second end is engaged to the open top of the containment unit.

8. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 7 further comprising at least one wireless charging component.

9. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 8 further comprising a heater adapted to heat the cover.

10. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 9, wherein said electrical supply apparatus further comprises:

a means to secure and contain electric vehicle charging components so that said components are available to a user when said electrical supply apparatus is in said up position but are unavailable and secured when said electrical supply apparatus is in said down position.

11. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a user access adapted to qualify said user;

and allow said user to access said electric vehicle charging components and electric power from said electrical supply apparatus after being qualified.

12. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a power assist, wherein a signal is sent to said programmable logic control to thereby move said tower.

13. The electrical supply apparatus of claim 8, wherein the wireless charging component is an induction antenna attached to the cover.

14. An electrical supply apparatus with a safety system comprising:

a permanently installed, weatherproof containment unit, wherein the unit has

a bottom;

at least one side wall; and

an open top;

an extendable tower that has

at least one side wall,

a cover and,

at least one electrical module installed in the extendable tower;

wherein the extendable tower is extendable within the containment unit such that when said extendable tower is retracted in a closed position, said extendable tower is fully secured and enclosed within the containment unit and

when said extendable tower is extended in a use position, the electrical module is accessible to a user, wherein power is available at the electrical module when the extendable tower is in the use position, and wherein the electrical module includes a means to secure and contain electric vehicle charging components so that said components are available to a user when said electrical supply apparatus is in said use position but are unavailable and secured away from said user when said electrical supply apparatus is in said stored position; and

wherein said extendable tower is moved via a power assist between said stored and use positions.

15. The electrical supply apparatus with a safety system of claim 14, further comprising at least one wireless charging component.

16. The electrical supply apparatus with a safety system of claim 15, wherein the wireless charging component is an induction antenna attached to the cover.

17. The electrical supply apparatus with a safety system of claim 16, further comprising:

a selectably elongatable bellows having a first end and a second end opposite the first end wherein the first end is engaged to the cover and the second end is engaged to the open top of the containment unit; and

a heater.