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US 9,853,488 B2Granted
Systems and methods for electric vehicle charging and power management
AssigneeCharge Fusion Technologies, LLC
InventorsCarson C. K. Fincham, Jeffrey R. Amroziak
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Abstract
Systems and methods for charging electric vehicles and for quantitative and qualitative load balancing of electrical demand are provided.
Claims15
An electrical charging system, comprising:
- a vehicle sensor;
- a communication device;
- a processor in communication with the vehicle sensor and the communication device;
- and
- a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- (a) receive, from the vehicle sensor, information indicative of a presence of a vehicle in a parking space;
- (b) receive, from the communication device, information indicative of one or more charging preferences corresponding to a desired charging of the vehicle, wherein the one or more charging preferences are defined by an operator of the vehicle;
- (c) determine a first value of a dynamic attribute of an electric charge provider;
- (d) determine, based at least on the one or more charging preferences and the first value of the dynamic attribute, a charging schedule for the vehicle;
- (e) initiate a charging of the vehicle in accordance with the charging schedule;
- (f) retrieve a second value of the at least one dynamic attribute;
- and
- (g) repeat (d) and (e), utilizing the retrieved second value of the dynamic attribute as the first value of the dynamic attribute.
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An electrical charging system, comprising:
- a vehicle sensor;
- a communication device;
- a processor in communication with the vehicle sensor and the communication device;
- and
- a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- receive, from the vehicle sensor, information indicative of a presence of a vehicle in a parking space;
- receive, from the communication device, information indicative of one or more charging preferences corresponding to a desired charging of the vehicle, wherein the one or more charging preferences are defined by an operator of the vehicle via utilization of a user interface of a handheld wireless mobile device and wherein the one or more charging preferences comprise a preference that specifies that the vehicle needs to be charged to allow travel of a corresponding distance by a certain time;
- determine, based at least on the one or more charging preferences, a charging schedule for the vehicle, the charging being dependent upon a predetermined threshold of a parameter external to the vehicle and wherein the external parameter changes between a current time and the certain time;
- and
- initiate a wireless charging, in accordance with the charging schedule, of the vehicle.
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An electrical charging system, comprising:
- a vehicle sensor;
- a communication device;
- a processor in communication with the vehicle sensor and the communication device;
- and
- a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- receive, from the vehicle sensor, information indicative of a presence of a vehicle in a parking space;
- receive, from the communication device, information indicative of one or more charging preferences corresponding to a desired charging of the vehicle, wherein the one or more charging preferences are defined by an operator of the vehicle;
- determine, based at least on the one or more charging preferences and at least one current value of a dynamic attribute of an electric charge provider, a charging schedule for the vehicle;
- and
- cause a charging, in accordance with the charging schedule, of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.