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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120103741 | ULTRA SLIM POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND POWER ACQUISITION DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE An ultra slim power supply device for supplying power to an electric vehicle in a contactless manner includes at least one power supply track buried in a road. Each power supply track includes a plate-shaped magnetic core extending along the road, a plate or strip shape... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120012406 | Systems and Methods for Powering a Vehicle A system and method for powering of a vehicle is disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a powering assembly may a carrier having one or more structural elements, an axle coupled to the carrier, a wheel coupled to the axle and configured to ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110315496 | POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD A contactless power transfer system for a mobile asset is presented. The system includes a primary loop disposed adjacent to a location that is coupled to a power source. A secondary receiving coil is disposed on the mobile asset and coupled to a traction motor for rece... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110259694 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLE An electric vehicle can run with power supplied from a power supply facility on the outside of the vehicle. A resonator for power reception is disposed under a metallic under body and configured to receive power from a resonator for power transmission in the power suppl... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110253495 | PRODUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FOR TRANSFERRING ELECTRIC ENERGY TO A VEHICLE The invention is a system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle. The system includes an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring the energy to the vehicle. The electric conductor arrangement i... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110220445 | Fully automatic traffic system A fully automatic traffic system includes insertable individual system vehicles that are used for transporting persons and goods, are provided with their own drive system, their own steering mechanism, and at least one power take-off and guiding apparatus, and move alon... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110220446 | DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTRICAL ENERGY The invention relates to a device for inductively transmitting electrical energy to or from a mobile object (3) that is located on a roadway or rail, is at a standstill or in motion, and comprises a load and/or an energy store, comprising a floor inductor (5 | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110198176 | Transferring Electric Energy to a Vehicle The invention relates to a system for transferring electric energy to a track bound vehicle, in particular to a light rail vehicle, such as a tram, wherein the system comprises an electric conductor arrangement (12) for producing an electromagnetic field and for ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110184601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE IN MULTIPLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS A system and method for operating a vehicle in multiple zones is disclosed. In one aspect, there is a vehicle for transporting a load comprising an energy storage device configured to receive and store energy originating from at least one of a power source and a linear ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110163542 | HIGH POWER WIRELESS RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEM A high power wireless resonant energy transfer system transfers energy across an airgap.... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110114401 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE To stabilize the transmission characteristic of an electric power supply system for vehicle even when the vehicle being charged and powered by it shifts horizontally, a power transmitting antenna, which is arranged on the ground, and a power receiving antenna, which is ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110114400 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE To stabilize the transmission characteristic of an electric power supply system for vehicle even when the vehicle being charged and powered by it shifts horizontally, a power transmitting antenna, which is arranged on the ground, and a power receiving antenna, which is ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110031047 | IN-MOTION INDUCTIVE CHARGING SYSTEM HAVING A WHEEL-MOUNTED SECONDARY COIL An exemplary embodiment provides electrical energy to an electric vehicle travelling along a roadway enabled with electric energy transmitting modules. The electric energy is transmitted via a magnetic field for use by the electric vehicle via electric energy receiving ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100072815 | RECEPTION UNIT COMPRISING A RECEIVER COIL FOR THE CONTACTLESS TRANSFER OF ELECTRIC ENERGY AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF A reception unit is provided including a receiver coil for the contactless transfer of electric energy. The receiver coil includes a plurality of flux guiding elements (16a, 16b) that are made of a highly permeable material and that are desig... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20090057084 | ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM An energy recovery system including a device that produces a magnetic field adapted for mounting to a vehicle and a stationary conductor adapted for placing in or adjacent the path of the vehicle wherein the magnetic field induces current to flow through the conductor w... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090032350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING ENERGY FROM A RAILCAR A method and system of using one or more railcar linear electric generators to decelerate a vehicle such as a train consist. In one embodiment, the one of more electric generators are configured to capture deceleration energy and supply the energy to one or more power g... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090013899 | Transport System A transport system, including a rail system and carriages movably disposed thereon, the rails being encompassed by a primary conductor system to which at least one secondary coil, included by the carriage, is inductively coupled for the contactless transfer of electrica... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080236973 | Device for Transmitting Electrical Energy from the Track to the Vehicle of a Magnetic Levitation Railway A device for transmitting electrical energy from the track (2, 3) to the vehicle (1) of a magnetic leviation railway is described. According to the invention a contactless operating device is provided in that the track (2, 3) has mounted thereon at ... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080179154 | ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM An energy recovery system including a device that produces a magnetic field adapted for mounting to a vehicle and a stationary conductor adapted for placing in or adjacent the path of the vehicle wherein the magnetic field induces current to flow through the conductor w... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080170350 | NON-CONTACT ELECTRICITY FEEDING SYSTEM AND RUNNING VEHICLE SYSTEM USING THIS, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING LEAKAGE MAGNETIC FIELD A feeding line is connected to an AC source so that electricity is picked up from the feeding line in a non-contact manner by a pickup coil provided on the side of a moving body. A compensating current from a compensating power source in phase or in reverse phase with r... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080135378 | Sorting and Distributing System and Method For Transmitting Power and Data The invention relates to a sorting and distributing system and to a method for transmitting power and data in a sorting and distributing system, comprised of carriages (1), which are coupled to one other to form a train (2) and which can be displaced along... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080121481 | NON-CONTACT ELECTRICITY FEEDING FACILITY An object of the present invention is to provide a non-contact electricity feeding facility that feeds electricity to a rail guided vehicle in a non-contact manner, the facility enabling a temperature abnormality in a feeding cable to be reliably detected using a simple... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20070089956 | Transport system with inductive energy transfer A transport system, comprising:
| 04/26/2007 |
| 20060157313 | Line arrangement In order to transfer energy in a contactless and inductive manner, a primary circuit comprises two parallel lines (9) along which a vehicle comprising a secondary circuit travels. The two lines forming the primary circuit are arranged in the ground in such a way ... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20050178632 | Roadway-powered electric vehicle system having automatic guidance and demand-based dispatch features A roadway-powered electric vehicle (RPEV) system includes: (1) an all-electric vehicle; and (2) a roadway network over which the vehicle travels. The all-electric vehicle has one or more onboard energy storage elements or devices that can be rapidly charged or energized... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050098404 | Device for the contactless transfer of electrical energy A device is described with which electrical energy can be transferred from a power cable running along a stationary rail of a transport system to a moving element that can be driven along the rail. Each moving element has for this purpose a transfer head which works ind... | 05/12/2005 |
