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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Jimmie Doyle Felps, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Jimmie Doyle Felps, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A battery supervisor system having an integral smart winch controller is provided for a vehicle equipped with an electric winch system and especially for off-road vehicles such as all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs), utility-task-vehicles (UTVs). and extreme-terrain-vehicles (XTVs) which are generally equipped with small batteries. The purpose of this invention is to prevent over discharge of the vehicle battery to a point where it would be difficult or impossible to start the vehicle engine and to prevent damage to the electric winch system, either of which has the potential of stranding an operator in a remote area. The battery supervisor monitors the state-of-charge of the vehicle's battery to automatically control the power to the winch and the vehicle's accessory loads. In addition, the smart winch controller takes a unique approach to protecting the winch by controlling the short term pulse (or pulses) of energy delivered to the winch and by forcing a fixed off time for the winch system to cool down, in lieu of trying to determine if components in the winch system are experiencing excessive temperatures and then turning the winch off.