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Recharging of a pool of batteries

  • US 9,401,611 B2
  • Filed: 07/26/2012
  • Issued: 07/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Method for recharging a pool of batteries from a recharging device comprising several recharging terminals supplied electrically from at least one energy production source and a central unit which comprises software and hardware means for controlling the recharging device to implement the method for recharging a pool of batteries, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

  • a. Estimation of future production of energy, comprising a predicted energy Epredicted and a predicted power Ppredicted(t) as a function of time t, in a course of a reference period by at least one energy production source;

    b. Estimation of an energy need Σ

    i Ei(t) for the recharging of the batteries connected to the recharging device, where Ei(t) represents the energy of a battery i, i varying from 1 to the number n of batteries to recharge;

    c. Computation of a dummy power Pdummy and a dummy energy Edummy which are respectively less than or equal to the predicted power and the predicted energy and able to address all or part of the energy needed in a dummy period which is or is not distinct from the reference period;

    d. Scheduling time of rechargings of each of the batteries connected to the recharging device over the dummy period and within a dummy power curve defined during a previous step instead of the predicted power; and

    e. recharging the batteries connected to the recharging device according to a temporal scheduling determined by the previous steps.

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