# US 2025/0158445 A1 · Systems and methods for charging electric vehicles utilizing a touch-sensitive interface

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- Number: US 2025/0158445 A1
- Document ID: US20250158445A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/021,077
- Filed: 2025-01-14
- Published: 2025-05-15
- Earliest claimed: 2008-07-11
- Assignees: Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC
- Applicants: Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC
- Inventors: Jeffrey R. Ambroziak; Carson C.K. Fincham
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250158445A1

## CPC

- H02J 7/1446: {in response to parameters of a vehicle}
- B60L 3/12: Recording operating variables {; Monitoring of operating variables}
- B60L 8/003: {Converting light into electric energy, e.g. by using photo-voltaic systems}
- B60L 53/126: Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
- B60L 53/14: Conductive energy transfer
- B60L 53/305: {Communication interfaces}
- B60L 53/64: Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
- B60L 53/65: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
- B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment}
- B60L 55/00: Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
- G06Q 30/0283: Price estimation or determination
- G06Q 30/04: Billing or invoicing
- G06Q 50/06: Energy or water supply
- B60L 2200/26: Rail vehicles
- B60L 2210/40: DC to AC converters
- B60L 2240/72: Charging station selection relying on external data
- B60L 2240/80: Time limits
- B60L 2250/10: by alarm
- B60L 2250/16: by display
- B60L 2260/52: drive range estimation, e.g. of estimation of available travel distance
- B60L 2260/54: Energy consumption estimation
- B60L 2260/58: Departure time prediction
- B60L 2270/32: of electricity
- Y02E 60/00: Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
- 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
- Y02T 10/92: Energy efficient charging or discharging systems for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors specially adapted for vehicles
- Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations
- Y02T 90/14: Plug-in electric vehicles
- Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
- Y02T 90/167: Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
- Y04S 10/126: the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
- Y04S 30/14: Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing
- Y04S 50/12: Billing, invoicing, buying or selling transactions or other related activities, e.g. cost or usage evaluation
- Y04S 50/14: Marketing, i.e. market research and analysis, surveying, promotions, advertising, buyer profiling, customer management or rewards
- H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
- 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
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS

## Abstract

Systems and methods for charging electric vehicles and for quantitative and qualitative load balancing of electrical demand are provided.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
retrieve from a memory storage device one or more electric charge parameters describing one or more electric charge parameters of a True Electric Car (TEC);
display via a user interface of a mobile device at least one of the one or more electric charge parameters wherein the user interface is adapted to display the one or more electric charge parameters as a vehicle charge indicator element comprising a first portion indicative of an amount of charge residing in a battery of the TEC and a second portion indicative of an uncharged capacity of the battery of the TEC and wherein the vehicle charge indicator element further comprises a slider by which an amount of charge may be specified;
receive an amount of charge specified by the slider;
commence charging of the TEC in accordance with the received amount of charge;
display via the user interface a visual indicia for selecting a mode of operation of the TEC the selected mode of operation operating to determine and maintain an interior temperature of the TEC suitable for a pet located within the TEC;
receive an indication from an operator of the TEC of an activation of the selected mode of operation of the TEC;
operate a climate control mechanism of the TEC while the TEC is in a parked state and in accordance with the selected mode of operation for a duration of time until the amount of charge residing in the battery reaches a predetermined level; and
send an alert to the operator of the TEC indicative of the charge residing in the battery having reached the predetermined level.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the processor is further caused to:
receive, in response to the alert and from the operator of the TEC, an instruction defining an attribute of the selected mode of operation of the TEC; and
operate the climate control mechanism of the TEC in accordance with the received instruction.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a Smartphone.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the amount of charge is displayed as a distance of travel.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface is adapted to display a webpage.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface is adapted to enable a selection of a future time at which charging of the TEC is to be performed wherein the selection is stored on the memory storage device.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the TEC is charged, at least in part, via inductive charging.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a touch screen display of the TEC.

### Claim 9

A method for operating a True Electric Car (TEC), comprising:
receiving, via a user interface, one or more electric charge parameters of the TEC;
displaying the received one or more requested electric charge parameters via the user interface wherein the user interface is adapted to display the one or more requested electric charge parameters as a vehicle charge indicator element comprising a first portion indicative of an amount of charge residing in a battery of the TEC a second portion indicative of an uncharged capacity of the battery of the TEC and a third portion comprising a slider by which an amount of charge may be specified;
receiving, via the slider, an indication of a desired amount of charge for the battery of the TEC;
commencing, in response the receiving of the indication of the desired amount of charge via the slider, a charging of the TEC;
receiving a selection of a mode of operation of the TEC that is defined by a stored temperature at which the A/C is to be set to maintain the interior of the TEC while the TEC remains in a parked state;
displaying via the user interface an indication of a status of a selected mode of operation of the TEC the selected mode of operation operating to maintain an interior temperature of the TEC suitable for a pet located within the TEC;
operating an A/C mechanism of the TEC in accordance with the selected mode of operation for a duration of time until it is determined that the amount of charge residing in the battery has reached a predetermined level; and
sending an alert to an operator of the TEC indicative of the amount of charge residing in the battery having reached the predetermined level.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the user interface is output via a Smartphone.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the displaying of the indication of the status of the selected mode of operation of the TEC comprises outputting an image representing a pet.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the interface is output via a display screen of the TEC.

### Claim 13

A method for operating a pet-safe mode of a True Electric Car (TEC), comprising:
receiving, via a user interface, a request to active a pet-safe mode of the TEC, wherein the pet-safe mode of operation of the TEC is defined by a stored temperature at which the A/C is to be set to maintain the interior of the TEC while the TEC remains in a parked state;
operating, by utilizing electrical energy stored in a travel battery of the TEC, an A/C mechanism of the TEC in accordance with the selected pet-safe mode of operation for a duration of time until it is determined that the amount of charge residing in the travel battery has reached a predetermined level;
displaying via the user interface, and during the operating, an indication of a status of the selected pet-safe mode of operation of the TEC, wherein the indication comprises an image representing a pet; and
sending an alert to an operator of the TEC indicative of the amount of charge residing in the travel battery having reached the predetermined level.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The method of claim 13, wherein the user interface is output via a Smartphone.

### Claim 15 (depends on 13)

The method of claim 13, wherein the interface is output via a display screen of the TEC.

### Claim 16 (depends on 13)

The method of claim 13, further comprising:
receiving, in response to the alert and from the operator of the TEC, an instruction defining an attribute of the operation of the A/C mechanism of the TEC.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The method of claim 16, further comprising:
operating the A/C mechanism of the TEC in accordance with the received instruction.