# US 11,077,840 B2 · Machine for augmentation, storage, and conservation of vehicle motive energy

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- Number: US 11,077,840 B2
- Document ID: US11077840B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/974,586
- Filed: 2018-05-08
- Published: 2018-11-22
- Granted: 2021-08-03
- Earliest claimed: 2007-01-16
- Applicants: Charles Hampton Perry
- Inventors: Charles Hampton Perry
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11077840B2

## CPC

- B60W 20/00: Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles {(hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L)}
- B60K 6/42: characterised by the architecture of the hybrid electric vehicle
- B60K 6/48: Parallel type
- B60K 7/0007: {the motor being electric}
- B60L 15/20: for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed
- B60L 50/16: with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
- H02K 1/27: Rotor cores with permanent magnets
- H02K 1/2795: the rotor consisting of two or more circumferentially positioned magnets
- H02K 7/006: {Structural association of a motor or generator with the drive train of a motor vehicle}
- H02K 7/14: Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans (with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06)
- H02K 7/1846: {structurally associated with wheels or associated parts (dynamos arranged in the wheel hub of cycles B62J6/12)}
- H02K 15/03: having permanent magnets
- H02K 15/14: Casings; Enclosures; Supports
- H02K 21/24: with magnets axially facing the armatures, e.g. hub-type cycle dynamos
- B60K 2007/0092: {the motor axle being coaxial to the wheel axle}
- B60L 2200/46: Vehicles with auxiliary ad-on propulsions, e.g. add-on electric motor kits for bicycles
- B60L 2220/44: Wheel Hub motors, i.e. integrated in the wheel hub
- B60L 2220/50: Structural details of electrical machines
- B60L 2240/421: Speed
- B60L 2240/423: Torque
- B60L 2240/441: Speed
- B60L 2240/443: Torque
- Y02T 10/62: Hybrid vehicles
- Y02T 10/64: Electric machine technologies in electromobility
- Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
- Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
- Y02T 10/72: Electric energy management in electromobility
- Y10S 903/902: Prime movers comprising electrical and internal combustion motors
- Y10T 29/49012: Rotor
- B60W: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT
- B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53})
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

A device for addition of motive force to a vehicle, with rotor-plate, rotor-arms, rotor permanent magnets, stator-plate, stator columns, stator electromagnets, and battery, cell, or other energy storage device. The device is retro-fittable on existing wheel assemblies, and installation coverts an internal combustion vehicle to a hybrid with electric propulsion.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A device for installation on a motor vehicle wheel-assembly comprising a wheel hub with a plurality of stud-bolts, said device comprising:
a rotor with a base and a plurality of rotor magnets positioned along or extending from the base;
wherein said rotor is attached to said wheel hub by means of the stud bolts and without modification of the wheel hub.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The device of claim 1, wherein the rotor rotates with rotation of the wheel hub.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The device of claim 1, further comprising a stator affixed to the wheel assembly.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The device of claim 3, said stator comprising a stator plate, and a stator ring affixed to the periphery of the stator plate.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The device of claim 4, further comprising a plurality of stator magnets positioned along the stator ring.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The device of claim 5, wherein the plurality of stator magnets are in close proximity to the rotor magnets, and the stator magnets are electromagnets.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The device of claim 6, wherein the interaction of the moving rotor magnets with the stationary stator magnets generates electric power.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The device of claim 6, wherein the interaction of the moving rotor magnets with the stationary stator magnets functions as an electric motor.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The device of claim 8, further comprising an electronic control device to activate and regulate the interaction of the magnets.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The device of claim 9, wherein each stator electromagnet has, when activated at a given moment, a north pole and a south pole, and, wherein the said one or more stator electromagnets are configured in the shape the letter C in such a way as to dispose the north and south poles of any given stator electromagnet proximal to its opposite pole on the same magnet, so configured that as the rotor rotates, relative to the stator, the said magnets of said rotor pass between both the north and south poles of each said stator electromagnet.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The device of claim 9, wherein rotary motion of the rotor may be induced or constrained by controlling the sequencing of activation of the electromagnetic stator-poles of the stator.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of rotor magnets are positioned on the end of arms extending from the base at an angle.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of rotor magnets are positioned on the end of arms extending orthogonally from the base.

### Claim 14

A method for conversion of an internal-combustion motor vehicle to a hybrid electrical propulsion vehicle, comprising:
installing a rotor with a base and a plurality of rotor magnets positioned along or extending from said rotor, on a wheel hub in a first wheel-assembly on said motor vehicle, wherein said rotor is installed without modification of the wheel hub; and
installing a stator in said first wheel-assembly, wherein said stator comprises a plurality of stator magnets;
wherein the plurality of stator magnets are in close proximity to the rotor magnets.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The method of claim 14, wherein said rotor is attached to said wheel hub by means of a plurality of stud-bolts on said wheel hub.

### Claim 16 (depends on 14)

The method of claim 14, wherein said stator is a rigidly attached to a hub plate in said first wheel-assembly.

### Claim 17 (depends on 14)

The method of claim 14, wherein the steps of installing a rotor and installing a stator are repeated on at least a second wheel-assembly on said motor vehicle.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, wherein the steps of installing a rotor and installing a stator are repeated on all wheel-assemblies on said motor vehicle.