DEVICE FOR THE INDUCTIVE TRANSFER OF ELECTRIC ENERGY

• US 20130313895A1
• Filed: 11/09/2011
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Conductix-Wampfler GmbH (Delachaux Group SA)
• Original Assignee: Conductix-Wampfler GmbH (Delachaux Group SA)
• Inventors: Green, Andrew, Asselin, Pascal
• Application Number:
  US13/993,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20130313895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/9.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/12 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/10 by alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/12 by confirmation, e.g. of the input
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• 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 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/36 by positioning the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/38 specially adapted for charging by inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• 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: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00047 with provisions for charging different types of batteries
• 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 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of 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 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

A device for the inductive transfer of electric energy from a stationary unit having a current supply device and a primary inductance connected thereto, to a vehicle which is adjacent to the stationary unit and has a secondary inductance. The vehicle has an emitter device for sending a data signal in the secondary inductance and the stationary unit includes a capturing device for capturing a data signal emitted by the primary inductance. The current supply device is activated by the capturing device in accordance with the content of the captured data signal for injecting the primary inductance. The emitting device includes a memory with a vehicle-specific code and the data signal which it produces contains the code. The capturing device includes a memory with an authorisation code and a comparison device such that the activation of the current supply device is triggered only if the comparison device identifies the authorisation code in the captured data signal.

Claims

1. Device for inductive transfer of electric energy from a stationary unit with a current supply device and a primary inductance connected thereto, to a vehicle with a secondary inductance, standing adjacent to the stationary unit wherein the vehicle has an emitting device connected to the secondary inductance and set up for the supply of a data signal to the secondary inductance, and the stationary unit has a capturing device, connected to the primary inductance and set up to capture a data signal from the primary inductance, and wherein the current supply device can be activated by the capturing device, as a function of the content of the captured data signal, for the energizing of the primary inductance.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the emitting device has a memory with a vehicle-specific code, and the produced data signal contains the vehicle-specific code.

3. Device according to claim 1, wherein the capturing device has a memory with an authorization code and a comparison device, and the activation of the current supply device is triggered by the capturing device only if the comparison device determines the presence of the authorization code in the captured data signal.

4. Device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission of a data signal by the emitting device can be triggered either manually by the vehicle user or automatically, as a function of a position of the vehicle relative to the stationary unit as detected by a vehicle sensor system, or is triggered by the speed of the vehicle.

5. Device according to claim 3, wherein transmission of a data signal by the emitting device is periodically continued after triggering, and with absence of the capturing of a data signal containing the authorization code beyond a predetermined time interval, a deactivation of the current supply device by the capturing device takes place.

6. Device according to claim 2, wherein transmission of a data signal containing the vehicle-specific code can be ended by the emitting device either manually by the vehicle operator, or automatically, as a function of the position of the vehicle relative to the stationary unit as detected by a vehicle sensor system or by the course of the inductive energy transfer or after the duration of a predetermined maximum time has ended.