# US 9,517,701 B2 · Distributed battery management system for remote repletion of electric vehicles > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,517,701 B2 - Document ID: US9517701B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/784,138 - Filed: 2013-03-04 - Published: 2014-09-04 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2013-03-04 - Assignees: Talino Ev Management Systems Inc. - Applicants: Talino Ev Management Systems Inc. - Inventors: Enrique Abreu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9517701B2 ## CPC - B60L 53/64: Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates - B60L 2240/622: by satellite navigation - B60L 2240/70: Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres - B60L 2250/10: by alarm - 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 30/12: Remote or cooperative charging - Y04S 30/14: Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing - 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 - 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 An apparatus for providing transportation includes an electric vehicle having a battery, an electric motor, a transceiver, and a battery manager. The battery manager includes a controller configured to control flow of charge between said battery and the electric motor at least in part in response to information received by the transceiver. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus for providing transportation, said apparatus comprising an electric vehicle, said electric vehicle comprising a battery, an electric motor, a transceiver, and a battery manager, said battery manager comprising a controller configured to control flow of charge between said battery and said electric motor at least in part in response to information received by said transceiver from a clearinghouse for communicating with transceivers associated with a plurality of electric vehicles, wherein said controller is configured to receive, via said transceiver, information representative of a charge ration and to control operation of said battery based on a difference between said charge ration and accumulated charge drawn since receiving said information representative of said charge ration, and wherein said electric vehicle is an all-electric vehicle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said controller is configured to halt flow of charge between said battery and said electric motor at least in part in response to information received by said transceiver. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said controller is configured to receive, via said transceiver, information representative of a charge ration and to halt flow of charge from said battery when said charge ration and an accumulated charge drawn since receiving said information representative of said ration are equal. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said controller is configured to receive, via said transceiver, information representative of a charge ration and to provide a warning when a difference between said charge ration and an accumulated charge drawn since receiving said information representative of said charge ration reaches a pre-selected value. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said controller is configured to receive instructions, via said transceiver, to immediately exercise control over flow of charge between said battery and said motor. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a GPS unit in communication with said controller. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said controller is configured to exercise control over flow of charge between said battery and said motor based at least in part on information provided by said GPS unit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said GPS unit is configured to provide information representing a location of a repletion station for providing an opportunity to cause additional information to be provided to said controller via said transceiver. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising said clearinghouse for communicating with transceivers associated with a plurality of electric vehicles. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9, wherein said clearinghouse is configured to receive information from a plurality of repletion stations, said information being representative of a charge ration. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said information received by said transceiver comprises information indicative of a maximum elapsed time. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said information received by said transceiver, comprises information indicative of a maximum elapsed time and information indicative of a maximum allotted charge. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said controller is configured to track time usage and charge usage and to disable charge flow from said battery in response to detecting that said charge usage has reached a first pre-defined value and that said time usage has reached a second pre-defined value. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The apparatus of claim 13, wherein said controller is configured to track time usage and to begin to track charge usage when said time usage has reached a first pre-defined value. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said controller is configured to disable charge flow from said battery in response to detecting that said charge usage has reached a second pre-defined value. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said electric vehicle is an electric motorcycle. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said clearinghouse the clearinghouse is configured to receive information from a plurality of repletion stations, said information being representative of a charge ration. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said clearinghouse is in communication with a plurality of repletion stations. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said controller is configured to control flow of charge between said battery and said electric motor at least in part in response to information being received by said transceiver. ### Claim 20 A method for managing usage of a battery in an electric vehicle, said method comprising receiving, from a remote repletion site, information indicative of a usage ration for said battery; during operation of said electric vehicle, causing said usage ration to traverse a trajectory through a battery usage space; detecting that said usage point has reached a designated point in said usage space; and disabling charge flow from said battery to a motor of said electric vehicle. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The method of claim 20, wherein causing said usage ration to traverse a trajectory comprises traversing a path parallel to a time-usage axis followed by traversing a path parallel to a charge-usage axis. ### Claim 22 (depends on 20) The method of claim 20, wherein receiving information indicative of a usage ration for said battery comprises receiving, from said remote repletion site, information indicating that a user has paid for a usage ration.