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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
May. 01, 2019
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A charging station facility is provided having one or more charging stations for wirelessly transmitting electric energy to a vehicle. Each charging station includes a base unit which is designed to generate an electromagnetic charging field during a charging process in order to transmit electric energy to the vehicle and a transmitting and/or receiving unit which is designed to receive a request signal from a transmission unit of a vehicle or to transmit the request signal to a receiving unit of the vehicle. The request signal lies in any range of a plurality of different frequency ranges. The receiving unit is additionally designed to ascertain a signal strength of the received request signal. The charging station facility additionally includes a control and communication unit which is designed to transmit a message to a control unit of the vehicle and to a control unit of the receiving unit of the charging station selected for the charging process, wherein the message includes information on which selected frequency range the request signal is to be transmitted.