# US 9,434,270 B1 · Methods and systems for electric vehicle (EV) charging, charging unit (CU) interfaces, auxiliary batteries, and remote access and user notifications > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,434,270 B1 - Document ID: US9434270B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 15/161,373 - Filed: 2016-05-23 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2011-04-22 - Applicants: Angel A. Penilla; Albert S. Penilla - Inventors: Angel A. Penilla; Albert S. Penilla - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9434270B1 ## CPC - B60L 53/14: Conductive energy transfer - B60L 53/305: {Communication interfaces} - B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment} - B60L 53/80: Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries - B60L 58/12: responding to state of charge [SoC] - B60L 58/21: having the same nominal voltage - G06Q 10/02: Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events - G06Q 10/027: {Changing the assignment of an existing reservation} - G06Q 10/20: Administration of product repair or maintenance - G06Q 20/18: involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals - G06Q 20/308: {using the Internet of Things} - G06Q 30/0265: {Vehicular advertisement} - G06Q 30/0643: {graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation} - G06Q 30/0645: Rental transactions; Leasing transactions - G06Q 50/06: Energy or water supply - G07F 15/005: {dispensed for the electrical charging of vehicles (electrical charging as such, B60L50/00)} - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences - H04W 4/024: Guidance services - B60L 55/00: Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements - B60L 2240/547: Voltage - B60L 2240/70: Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres - B60L 2250/16: by display - G01C 21/3679: {Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities (G01C21/3611 takes precedence)} - H02J 7/42: with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones - H04W 4/21: for social networking applications - 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 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 50/10: Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid - 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 - 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 - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - 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 Charge units for charging an electric vehicle and methods for cloud access and programming of data for charge units are provided. In one example, a charging unit is connectable to a charge source (e.g., electricity) and has an connector (cord) for coupling the charge unit to the electric vehicle. The charge unit includes a port for interfacing with and charging an auxiliary battery. A display has a graphical user interface (GUI) for providing charge status information of a main battery of a vehicle and/or the auxiliary battery when connected to the port of the charge unit. The charge unit further including a communications port for providing data of the charge unit to the cloud services, for access and control by a remote computer. An advertising system will serve ads to the charge units, vehicle displays and/or the remote computers while charging or after charging. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A charging unit for charging an electric vehicle, comprising: a connector of the charging unit for coupling the charging unit to the electric vehicle; a port for interfacing with and charging an auxiliary battery; a display having a graphical user interface (GUI) for providing charge status of a main battery of the electric vehicle and charge status of the auxiliary battery; and a communications port for interfacing with cloud services over the Internet, the communications port defined for providing data of the charge unit to the cloud services, the cloud services including one or more servers for enabling access of data and control of functions of the charge unit by a computer over the Internet; wherein the port provides electrical charge and exchanges data between the auxiliary battery and the charge unit; wherein the charge status of one or both of the main battery and the auxiliary battery, during charging and after completion of charging, is accessible for viewing from the display of the charging unit, a vehicle display, or a display of the computer; wherein the cloud services includes a database of users, the users being associated user accounts, each user account configured in association with data regarding a respective electric vehicle and any charge status of the respective electric vehicle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, wherein the communications port includes a network interface card (NIC) for communication with the Internet, the NIC providing for wired or wireless communication. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, wherein the connector for coupling the charge unit to the electric vehicle includes a cable for transferring charge and exchanging data, the exchange of data is with automobile electronics. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, wherein the data of the charge unit received by the cloud services is used to generate data that includes projected battery life data of the auxiliary battery. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, wherein the auxiliary battery is paired to the electric vehicle when connected to the electric vehicle, the auxiliary battery is configured for coupling to a connector of the electric vehicle to enable charge from the auxiliary battery to power the electric vehicle or transfer charge from the auxiliary battery to the main battery. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, wherein the cloud services provide one or more of charge statistics, charge unit location identifiers, charge unit locations having nearby consumer services, mapping services to charge units and services, or mapping services with discounts identified for selected charge units. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, wherein one of the servers is configured to receive an indication when the electric vehicle is operating using charge from the auxiliary battery; wherein one of the servers is configured to send a notification that the electric vehicle is operating using charge from the auxiliary battery, to a user account to enable viewing from the display of the vehicle display, or a display of the computer. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The charge unit of claim 1, further comprising, an interface of the vehicle configured as a junction that is switch connected to one or both of the main battery and the auxiliary battery. ### Claim 9 A system for charging vehicles, the system comprising, a charge unit; the charge unit includes an interface to an auxiliary battery; and a controller for interfacing the charge unit to a vehicle, the controller configured to obtain charge status data from the vehicle as the charge unit is connected to the vehicle and is configured to obtained charge status of the auxiliary battery when connected to the charge unit or when installed in the vehicle, the controller having access to cloud services over the Internet, the cloud services providing remote access to view the status or adjust charging settings at the charge unit from a remote computer, the cloud services further executing notifications logic to automatically send status notifications for a charging session to a predetermined account; wherein the controller provides status of the charge unit to the remote computer, the status includes identifying if the auxiliary battery is connected to the charge unit and a state of charge of the auxiliary battery when connected to the charge unit. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the status notifications include status indicators identifying a charging status of a battery of the vehicle or the auxiliary battery. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, further comprising, a display associated with the charging unit, the display providing a graphical user interface (GUI) and the GUI provides an interface to cloud services over the Internet. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the auxiliary battery is trackable when installed on the vehicle. ### Claim 13 A charging unit for charging an electric vehicle, comprising: a housing of the charge unit, the housing being connectable to an electric source at a point of installation; a connector of the charging unit for coupling the charging unit to the electric vehicle, the connector connects to a cable for transferring charge and exchanging data with automobile electronics; a dock integrated with the housing, the dock includes a port for interfacing with and charging an auxiliary battery, the dock further provides a holding location for the auxiliary battery on the housing; a display having a graphical user interface (GUI) for providing charge status of a main battery of the electric vehicle and charge status of the auxiliary battery; and a communications port for interfacing with cloud services over the Internet, the communications port defined for providing data of the charge unit to the cloud services, the cloud services including one or more servers for enabling access of data and control of functions of the charge unit by a computer over the Internet, and the communications port includes a network interface card (NIC) for communication with the Internet, the NIC providing for wired or wireless communication; wherein the port provides electrical charge and exchanges data between the auxiliary battery and the charge unit; wherein the charge status of one or both of the main battery and the auxiliary battery, during charging and after completion, is accessible for viewing from the display of the charging unit, a vehicle display, or a display of the computer; wherein the cloud services includes a database of users, the users being associated user accounts, each user account including data regarding a respective electric vehicle and any charge status of the respective electric vehicle. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The charge unit of claim 13, wherein the auxiliary battery is paired to the electric vehicle when connected to the electric vehicle, the auxiliary battery is configured for coupling to a connector of the electric vehicle to enable charge from the auxiliary battery to power the electric vehicle or transfer charge from the auxiliary battery to the main battery. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The charge unit of claim 13, wherein the cloud services provide one or more of charge statistics, charge unit location identifiers, charge unit locations having nearby consumer services, mapping services to charge units and services, or mapping services with discounts identified for selected charge units.