Communication and control system and method regarding electric vehicle for wireless electric vehicle electrical energy transfer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10093194-B2
Application number	US-201314086903-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2013
Priority date	Sep 30, 2013
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically receiving electric vehicle prospective use information associated with aspects indicating one or more future travel plans involving prospective use of an electric vehicle, the electric vehicle including one or more wireless electrical energy transfer receiving devices and one or more electrical energy storage devices; and electronically obtaining electrical energy transfer aspect information regarding wireless electrical energy transfer from one or more wireless electrical energy transfer imparting stations to the one or more wireless electrical energy transfer receiving devices of the electric vehicle for storage by the one or more electrical energy storage devices of the electric vehicle. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
one or more wireless energy transfer stations; and
at least one processor component configured to perform operations including at least:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone;
obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations;
providing wireless energy transfer guidance information to at least in part provide guidance for wireless energy transfer from at least one of the one or more wireless energy transfer stations to the one or more electric vehicles based at least in part on the electric vehicle planned use information and the wireless energy transfer information; and
controlling the at least one of the one or more wireless energy transfer stations for wireless energy transfer to the one or more electric vehicles in accordance with the wireless energy transfer guidance information.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with action by one or more vehicle users.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with one or more data calls to one or more electronic calendaring systems.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with one or more electronic audio recordings.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with the wearable device or smartphone and through one or more vehicle use logs.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with the wearable device or smartphone obtained through one or more electronic user interfaces.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring audio data associated with the wearable device or smartphone.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned consecutive use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with the wearable device or smartphone.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor component is further configured to perform an operation comprising:
receiving one or more user preferences of location for wireless energy transfer.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the receiving one or more user preferences of location for wireless energy transfer comprises:
receiving one or more user preferences of location for wireless energy transfer along one or more routes of travel.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations comprises:
receiving information regarding unavailability of the one or more wireless energy transfer stations.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with a wearable device or smartphone comprises:
receiving electric vehicle planned use information associated with planned use of one or more electric vehicles at least partly through monitoring data associated with one or more driving habits of one or more users of the one or more electric vehicles.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations comprises:
obtaining wireless energy transfer information from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations comprises:
obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding one or more schedules for wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations comprises:
obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding one or more charging appointments reserved for wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations comprises:
obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding availability of wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations comprises:
obtaining wireless energy transfer information regarding one or more charging plans for wireless energy transfer from the one or more wireless energy transfer stations.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the providing wireless energy transfer guidance information to at least in part provide guidance for wireless energy transfer from at least one of

Assignees

• Elwha Llc

Inventors

• Hyde Roderick A
• Kare Jordin T
• Lord Richard T
• Lord Robert W
• Tegreene Clarence T
• Wood Jr Lowell L

Classifications

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title

• Y02T90/122

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02E60/721

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B60L2240/72

  Charging station selection relying on external data · CPC title

• B60L11/1831

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic