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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2009
Applicants:
Eric Sailor, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Colin J. Casey, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Inventors:
Eric Sailor, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Colin J. Casey, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Assignee:
International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC, Lisle, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 10/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An energy storage module () for an electric vehicle or hybrid electric vehicle (). Multiple low-voltage storage batteries () disposed on a tray () and connected in parallel circuit relationship form a low-voltage battery bank. A DC-to-DC converter () has an input connected to the low-voltage battery bank and an output connected to a high-voltage energy storage bank (). An AC-to-DC converter () is connected to the low-voltage battery bank for charging the low-voltage battery bank from a source of AC electricity ().