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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120126614 | AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM The main electric power source is connected to a lower-voltage side of a DC/DC converter by a first switch, and an electrical double-layer capacitor and a regulator circuit is connected to a higher-voltage side of the DC/DC converter. In addition, permanent magnets are ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120104845 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRICAL NETWORK, IN PARTICULAR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE A method for operating an electrical network, in particular of a hybrid motor vehicle, the network having at least one electrical accumulator, in particular a high-voltage accumulator, at least one electric machine, and at least one inverter controlling the electric mac... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120104846 | Power Controller for Recreational Vehicles and Travel Trailers and Method for Use of Same A power controller for electrically connecting recreational vehicles and travel trailers to a power pedestal including a primary circuit and a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) circuit, and a method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the power c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083955 | FRONT-AND REAR-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE One embodiment provides a vehicle including: a first drive system configured to drive first wheels; and a second drive system configured to drive second wheels, wherein the first drive system includes: an electric motor; a motor controller; an engagement/disengagement u... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068532 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND VEHICLE A relay that is electrically connected/disconnected to/from a battery in parallel with a smoothing capacitor on an inverter side with respect to a system main relay is provided. Thus, when the system is turned off, the battery and electrode buses are electrically discon... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120049621 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS A vehicle carries a battery package as its power source. Each of plural battery modules in the battery package has a memory device for memorizing identification information that proves authenticity of each of the battery modules. A battery control unit in the vehicle ha... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120043810 | Method and system for eliminating fuel consumption during dynamic braking of electric drive machines A drive system (100, 100a-c) for an electric drive machine (102, 102a-c) having an engine (104, 104a-c), a generator (106, 106a-c), a motor (108, 108a-c), final driv... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120043809 | Auxiliary Device Using Primary Inverter Feeds An electric machine system includes an electric motor, an auxiliary device configured to receive filtered electric power, and a filter. The filter is configured to receive electric power and to pass filtered electric power to the auxiliary device at a frequency not used... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120031687 | AUXILIARY POWER UNIT HAVING SELF-CONTAINED ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION An enclosure (10) contains an APU (12) and an electrical distribution system (14) to form a self-contained module that can be mounted at any suitable location on a truck's exterior, eliminating significant portions of the wire/cable routing that wou... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032505 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME Converters are connected in parallel with each other to a pair of electric power lines. When required electric power required by a drive force generation unit is not more than a threshold value, a converter ECU causes a voltage converting operation of one of the convert... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120019061 | BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE A battery block composed of a plurality of battery cells and a voltage detecting circuit (state detecting circuit) for detecting a voltage between terminals of each battery cell are included, and a flexible printed circuit board, in which a voltage detecting line for el... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013185 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM The largest possible compartment space is secured in a fuel cell hybrid vehicle. A reactor unit, a voltage-increase control unit 61b and a condenser unit included in an FC converter are integrated so that they do not superpose on each other in the thicknes... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013308 | INTERCONNECTION HOUSING FOR MOTOR VEHICLE An interconnection housing for a motor vehicle, including connection terminals for a battery and connection terminals for an inverter. The housing includes connection terminals for an external electric power supply and outlets for connection to an AC electric motor, suc... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110316298 | Energy efficient banner towing system & method A moving vehicle based energy-efficient banner system includes a moving vehicle and a banner structure associated with the moving vehicle configured for securing and maintaining attention of responders in a vicinity of the moving vehicle and banner structure and for der... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316334 | WIRELESS POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM A wireless power supply system has a power sending resonance coil, a power receiving resonance coil, and a relay resonance coil. The power sending resonance coil has a predetermined resonance frequency characteristic, and transmits power wirelessly. The power receiving ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311842 | ELECTRIC CELL ARRANGEMENT An electric cell arrangement includes a plurality of secondary batteries connected in series with each other. With a combination of secondary batteries of different types, the electric cell arrangement provides a range of operating voltage and a capacity that is better ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309674 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE POWER CONTROL DEVICE A power control system includes a vehicle having a first battery and a second battery separate from the first battery; a power converter provided at a building, the power converter converting power charged in the first battery and supplying the converted power to electr... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304201 | Regulating Device of General Automobile Performance A regulating device for general automobile utilizes automobile batteries, the plug of the lighter, or the DC output of the engine to obtain power. It has a voltage recognition circuit; when voltage is ≧12.9V, the circuit is started up; when the voltage is ≦12.8V, th... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304203 | Power Conversion Installment Kit for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle A power conversion system for HEV, which comprising: a battery pack and inverter power conversion module for generating DC voltage; the inverter power conversion module is used to convert DC voltage into DC high voltage required for driving the motor of HEV; while the p... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304202 | BATTERY DISCONNECTION IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES Systems and methods for disconnection of battery power from vehicular components in an electric vehicle upon the occurrence of a crash event are described. In an embodiment of an electric vehicle, upon detection of a crash event, an appropriate signal is transmitted thr... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298422 | ENERGY TRANSFER WITH VEHICLES A method, computer-readable medium, system, and apparatus for improving energy transfer with a vehicle are disclosed.... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291474 | Vehicle Control System with Proximity Switch and Method Thereof A control system for controlling a position of a window and method thereof are provided. The control system includes a cover at least partially adapted to have a trough, the cover having a interior side and an exterior side, and a first proximity sensor adjacent to the ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291475 | VEHICULAR ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS Vehicular electrical systems are provided. The vehicular electrical systems include a first direct current (DC) voltage supply, a second DC voltage supply coupled to the first DC voltage supply, a first direct current-to-direct current (DC/DC) power converter coupled to... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285201 | Redundant Parallel Operation of Motor Vehicle Electrical System Generators In a method for controlling a group of at least two electrical generators which supply a motor vehicle electrical system, each individual generator of the group provides a generator workload value, which indicates a workload of the individual generator, to each other on... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110278920 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLIED TO ON-VEHICLE ELECTRICAL LOADS A power control apparatus is applied to a vehicle provided with a receiving port connected with an external power supply device placed outside the vehicle and on-vehicle electrical loads including a second battery which stores power supplied from the external power supp... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110278919 | CANCEL SWITCH A cancel switch is intended for use with a vehicle equipped with an audiovisual system having a compulsory switching unit which compulsorily switches a video on a monitor screen to a still image or a navigation screen during a running condition of the vehicle. The cance... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110270489 | Vehicle Electrical System A vehicle electrical system for a motor vehicle having a vehicle electrical system with electrical consumers connected to it. The vehicle electrical system also has electrical energy generation devices and at least one energy accumulator connected to it. The energy accu... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110260530 | VEHICULAR ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, AND AUTOMOTIVE PROPULSION SYSTEMS Vehicular electrical systems are provided. The vehicular electrical systems include a source device including an electrical component, a load device, and a cable assembly interconnecting the source device and the load device. The cable assembly includes a conductive cor... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110260529 | ON-DEMAND ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL STRATEGY A motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine configured to generate engine power, and a transmission operatively connected to the internal combustion engine and configured to transmit the engine power for driving the vehicle. The vehicle additionally includes ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110260531 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE A power supply apparatus for a vehicle is provided which supplies electric power to a power supply unit and charges electric power from the power supply unit via a power port. The vehicle includes a plurality of power inverter circuits which are connected to a common st... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110246013 | VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM WITH FUEL CELL AUXILIARY POWER UNIT (APU) A power distribution system comprises at least one fuel cell that is selectively operated in response to conditions to provide power to electrical loads and/or to charge an electrical storage device such as a vehicle battery. One form of an alternator can be selectively... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110227410 | MICRO-HYBRID SYSTEM PROVIDED FOR SUPPLYING POWER TO AN ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF AN AUTOMOBILE Described is a micro-hybrid system for an automobile including: 1)a rotating electrical machine (i.e., a starter/alternator); 2) at least one power converter connectable to an electricity distribution network of the automobile, this network including a power storage uni... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221268 | Power Converter and In-Car Electrical System Downsizing, cost reduction, and a low inductance of an input/output circuit are to be achieved with a power converter in which a multilayer board having a power semiconductor module 500 and busbars 11, 12 is modularized. The positive busbar 11 and t... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110204715 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE A power supply control device includes a body block having a power supply control circuit and a housing accommodating the power supply control circuit, a power side cable, and a vehicle side cable. At least one of the power side cable and the vehicle side cable has a ho... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208383 | ELECTRIC POWERED VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME A power supply system includes a main power storage device and a plurality of sub power storage devices. A converter is connected to a selected one of the sub power storage devices to perform voltage conversion bidirectionally between the selected sub power storage devi... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110204716 | OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM In an operation control system, when a selection manipulation for blinking one of turn lamps is inputted using an in-vehicle combination switch, a frequency signal corresponding to the selection manipulation is outputted from a signal oscillation section to a signal tra... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110198921 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLE A power supply device includes: a first line, a second line, and a third line, each having a different electric potential from one another; a battery circuit in which a fuel cell stack and an electric storage device are connected in series; and a first DC-DC converter, ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110198920 | Vehicle power supply apparatus A first power supply system is constituted by an alternator and a main battery while a second power supply system is constituted by electrical equipment and a sub-battery. Further, a switch is provided between the first power supply system and the second power supply sy... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193409 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE A power supply device is provided for a vehicle having an idling-stop function, the power supply device including a boosting converter circuit with small loss that compensates for a voltage drop of a battery during starting of the engine and performing a protection func... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187184 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLE A path for charging a main battery from an external power source is established by turning on a first relay and a second relay. This charging path is provided independently of an electric path between a motor generator for generating a vehicle driving force and the main... | 08/04/2011 |
