Locating an electric vehicle at a charging station
AssigneeProterra Inc.
InventorsJason HOM, Hayley CASHDOLLAR, Dustin GRACE
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Abstract
A method of locating an electric vehicle at a charging station having multiple chargers is includes, receiving at multiple fixed transceivers positioned at different locations in the charging station, signals from the electric vehicle as the electric vehicle moves in the charging station, and determining, at a controller, a current location of the electric vehicle in the charging station using the signals received by the multiple fixed transceivers.
Claims20
A method of locating an electric vehicle at a charging station having multiple chargers, comprising:
- receiving, at multiple fixed transceivers positioned at different locations in the charging station, signals from the electric vehicle as the electric vehicle moves in the charging station;
- determining, at a controller, a current location of the electric vehicle in the charging station using the signals received by the multiple fixed transceivers.
A method of assigning electric vehicles to chargers at a charging station, comprising:
- receiving, at multiple fixed transceivers positioned at different locations in the charging station, signals from each electric vehicle of multiple electric vehicles arriving at the charging station;
- determining, at a controller, the current location of each electric vehicle of the multiple electric vehicles based on the signals received from each electric vehicle;
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- routing each electric vehicle to a separate charger of multiple chargers in the charging station based at least on the signals received from each electric vehicle.
A charging station, comprising:
- multiple chargers configured to charge electric vehicles;
- multiple fixed transceivers positioned at different locations in the charging station, wherein each fixed transceiver is configured to receive signals from each electric vehicle of the multiple electric vehicles;
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- a charge controller, wherein the charge controller is configured to determine a current location of an electric vehicle of the multiple electric vehicles in the charging station based on the signals received by the multiple fixed transceivers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.