Structural energy storage with carbon fiber for sport equipment sensor
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
InventorsJae Seung Lee, Paul Gilmore
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Abstract
A sport apparatus, including a handle, an action portion, a connection portion connecting the handle to the action portion, at least part of the connection portion including a structural battery, the structural battery including one or more energy storage devices, each of the one or more energy storage devices having at least one anode core of a continuous carbon fiber, an electrolyte arranged on the at least one continuous carbon fiber core, and a cathode layer coating arranged to the at least one continuous carbon fiber core on the electrolyte, and at least one sensor unit electrically connected to the energy storage devices, the at least one sensor unit providing signals related to use of the sport apparatus.
Claims7
A sport apparatus, comprising:
- a handle;
- an action portion;
- a connection portion connecting the handle to the action portion, at least part of the connection portion including a structural battery, the structural battery including one or more energy storage devices;
- each of the one or more energy storage devices having:
- at least one anode core of a continuous carbon fiber,
- an electrolyte arranged on the at least one continuous carbon fiber core, and
- a cathode layer arranged to the at least one continuous carbon fiber core on the electrolyte;
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- at least one sensor unit electrically connected to the one or more energy storage devices, the at least one sensor unit outputting signals related to use of the sport apparatus.
A sport apparatus, comprising:
- a handle;
- an action portion;
- a connection portion connecting the handle to the action portion, at least part of the connection portion including a structural battery, the structural battery including one or more energy storage devices, wherein
- each of the one or more energy storage devices having a laminate structure with:
- at least one anode core of a plurality of continuous carbon fibers,
- an electrolyte coating arranged on the plurality of continuous carbon fibers, and
- a cathode layer arranged on the electrolyte coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.