Vehicle
AssigneeiOLS GmbH
InventorsKarl Salzmann, Knud Ball
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Abstract
A vehicle, particularly motor vehicle, having a plurality of wheels that form unsprung structural component parts rotatable around wheel axles and a vehicle body forming a sprung structural component part. An energy generation device is arranged in the vehicle body by which a movement of the vehicle body or of parts of the vehicle body can be converted into electrical energy supplied to a storage battery. The energy generation device is an energy absorption converter and has a cylindrical coil winding which surrounds an interior space in which an axially magnetized permanent magnet is arranged such that it can be driven so as to be coaxially movable by the movement of the vehicle body or of a part of the vehicle body.
Claims19
A vehicle comprising:
- a wheel rotatable around a wheel axle configured as an unsprung structural component part;
- a vehicle body configured as a sprung structural component part;
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- an energy generation device arranged in the vehicle body, wherein movement of at least a part of the vehicle body is converted into electrical energy supplied to a storage battery,
- wherein the energy generation device is an energy absorption converter having:
- a cylindrical coil winding having a longitudinal axis that defines an interior space;
- an axially magnetized permanent magnet arranged in the interior space and driven to be coaxially movable in the cylindrical coil winding by movements of the sprung and the unsprung parts of the vehicle relative to one another, wherein an axis of magnetization of the axially magnetized permanent magnet is coaxial to the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical coil;
- wherein the movements of sprung parts and unsprung parts of the vehicle relative to one another are increased by one or more gear units, and
- wherein the increased movements are transmitted to the permanent magnet via an axially-springing spring element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.