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Patent No.:

US 11148542 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2019

Charge control system for mobile energy storage fleet

Applicant:

Uatc, Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard Brian Donnelly, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Sean Jeffrey Kelly, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Justin Wayne Ho, San Francisco, CA (US);

James Lee Epifano, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

UATC, LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Dority & Manning, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

Mary Cheung

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/36 (2019.01); B60L 53/38 (2019.01); B60L 53/64 (2019.01); B60L 55/00 (2019.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); B60L 53/68 (2019.01); B60W 20/13 (2016.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/02 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/36 (2019.02); B60L 53/38 (2019.02); B60L 53/64 (2019.02); B60L 53/665 (2019.02); B60L 53/68 (2019.02); B60L 55/00 (2019.02); B60L 58/12 (2019.02); B60W 20/13 (2016.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); H02J 7/0021 (2013.01); H02J 7/025 (2013.01); B60L 2240/62 (2013.01); B60L 2240/70 (2013.01); B60L 2260/32 (2013.01); H02J 7/00045 (2020.01); Y02E 60/00 (2013.01); Y02T 10/70 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7072 (2013.01); Y02T 10/72 (2013.01); Y02T 90/12 (2013.01); Y02T 90/14 (2013.01); Y02T 90/16 (2013.01); Y02T 90/167 (2013.01); Y04S 10/126 (2013.01); Y04S 30/14 (2013.01); Y04S 50/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

Vehicle control systems can include one or more location sensors, an energy storage device, one or more charge sensors and one or more vehicle computing devices. The location sensor(s) can determine a current location of a vehicle, while the charge sensor(s) can determine a current state of charge of an energy storage device that can be located onboard the vehicle to provide operating power for one or more vehicle systems. The vehicle computing device(s) can communicate the current location of the vehicle and current state of charge of the energy storage device to a remote computing device, receive from the remote computing device a charging control signal determined, at least in part, from the current location of the vehicle and the current state of charge of the energy storage device, and control charging of the energy storage device in accordance with the charging control signal.

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