Mobile emergency charging device for a battery of a motor vehicle, emergency charging method, and motor vehicle with a lifting mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10903679-B2
Application number	US-201916237908-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 2, 2019
Priority date	Feb 5, 2018
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

A mobile emergency charging device for a battery of a motor vehicle that is designed to charge the battery in a recuperation operation. The mobile emergency charging device has at least one fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, and at least one drive roller for driving a wheel of the motor vehicle. This at least one drive roller is connected at least indirectly to an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and, by way of this connection, the drive roller is set into a rotational movement when the internal combustion engine is running.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile emergency charging device for a battery of a motor vehicle that is designed to charge the battery in a recuperation operation, comprising:
at least one fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, and at least one drive roller for driving a wheel of the motor vehicle;
the at least one drive roller is connected at least indirectly to an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and is set into a rotational movement by way of this connection when the internal combustion engine is running;
the drive roller can be positioned beneath one of the wheels of the motor vehicle in such a way that, by the rotating drive roller, when the internal combustion engine of the mobile emergency charging device is running, the wheel in question is set into a rotational movement, and the battery is thereby charged in the recuperation operation of the motor vehicle.

2. The mobile emergency charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile emergency charging device has a rotatably mounted bearing roller, wherein the respective rotational axes of the bearing roller and the drive roller extend parallel to each other, so that, in the recuperation operation, the pertinent wheel of the motor vehicle is arranged in part between the drive roller and the bearing roller and rolls at these rollers.

3. The mobile emergency charging device according to claim 2 , wherein the distance between the rotational axes can be varied for different wheel diameters.

4. The mobile emergency charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the internal combustion engine and the fuel tank are integrated in the drive roller.

5. The mobile emergency charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel tank can be exchanged.

6. The mobile emergency charging device according to claim 1 , wherein a gearing is intermediately connected between the drive roller and the output shaft of the internal combustion engine.

7. An emergency charging method for a battery of a motor vehicle by a mobile emergency charging device according to claim 1 , in which a drive roller of the mobile emergency charging device is positioned beneath one of the wheels of the motor vehicle, the wheel in question is set into a rotational movement by means of the rotating drive roller when the internal combustion engine of the mobile emergency charging device is running, and the battery is thereby charged in the recuperation operation of the motor vehicle.

8. The emergency charging method according to claim 7 , wherein,
when a state of charge the battery has dropped below a lower charge limit, a control unit of the motor vehicle alerts a user of the motor vehicle with a predetermined warning signal to position the mobile emergency charging device.

9. The emergency charging method according to claim 7 , wherein an active chassis system of the motor vehicle lifts the wheel in question far enough that the mobile emergency charging device can be positioned below the wheel, wherein, after the mobile emergency charging device has been positioned, the active chassis system lowers the wheel in question onto the drive roller of the mobile emergency charging device.

10. A motor vehicle having a battery, which is designed for the purpose of charging the battery in a recuperation operation,
wherein the motor vehicle has a lifting mechanism, which is designed to increase the distance between at least one wheel of the motor vehicle and an undersurface far enough that a mobile emergency charging device can be positioned between the at least one wheel and the undersurface,
wherein the mobile emergency charging device comprises at least one fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, and at least one drive roller for driving the at least one wheel of the motor vehicle,
wherein the at least one drive roller is connected at least indirectly to an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and is set into a rotational movement by way of this connection when the internal combustion engine is running,
wherein, when the mobile emergency charging device is positioned between the at least one wheel and the undersurface and when the internal combustion engine of the mobile emergency charging device is running, the wheel in question is set into a rotational movement by the rotational movement of the drive roller, and the battery is thereby charged in the recuperation operation of the motor vehicle.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Schmalzrieth Sven
• Idelevitch Vladimir
• Ottinger Andreas

Classifications

• H02J2105/37

  exchanging power with electric vehicles [EV] or with hybrid electric vehicles [HEV] · CPC title

• H02J7/70

  characterised by the mechanical construction · CPC title

• B60K25/08

  from a ground wheel, e.g. engaging the wheel tread or rim · CPC title

• G01M17/0072

  the wheels of the vehicle co-operating with rotatable rolls (G01M17/022, G01M17/045, G01M17/065 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60L7/20

  Braking by supplying regenerated power to the prime mover of vehicles comprising engine-driven generators · CPC title