Device For Charging A Vehicle

• US 20170253130A1
• Filed: 09/08/2015
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Bartz, Stephan, Saeger, Peter, Lex, Gerhard
• Application Number:
  US15/509,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20170253130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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: B60L 53/34 Plug-like or socket-like devices specially adapted for contactless inductive charging of electric vehicles positioning means for charging devices using inductive energy transfer B60L53/38
• 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

The present disclosure relates to electric vehicles and the teachings thereof may be embodied in devices and methods for inductively charging an electric vehicle. A device for inductively charging a vehicle may include: a primary coil for transmitting electrical power via a transmission region to a secondary coil during a charging process; the secondary coil associated with a vehicle disposed above the primary coil; and a dome disposed above the primary coil for removing foreign bodies entering the transmission region.

Claims

1. A device for inductively charging a vehicle, the device comprising:

a primary coil for transmitting electrical power via a transmission region to a secondary coil during a charging process;

the secondary coil associated with a vehicle disposed above the primary coil; and

a dome disposed above the primary coil for removing foreign bodies entering the transmission region.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a top surface of the dome has a friction-reducing coating or has a friction-reducing surface treatment.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising mechanical shock stimulation or vibration stimulation of the dome.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising magnetic flux conductors disposed in the dome.