183results about "Air flow to electrical conversion" patented technology

A drone detection system includes a plurality of base stations, which are distributed over a geographic area that includes a facility. Each base station is configured to emit radio signals that are monitored for reflection data, which is generated when the radio signals reflect from an object. A server is configured to process the reflection data to identify a drone in proximity to the facility. The processing is configured to process the reflection data over time to identify trajectory metrics for the identified drone. The trajectory metrics are configured to predict a path of the drone and determine if the drone constitutes a threat to the facility. An alert is processed by the server when the drone is determined to constitute a threat to the facility. A data center is configured to receive and store processed reflection data that has been processed by the server.

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable storage medium for adaptive / dynamic thermal management of an electrical power system having variable electric loads, and components thereof. Thermal management may be driven at least partially by predicted / modeled thermal performance of the component to be managed, which may be calculated or modified using direct or indirect measurements. Embodiments may include adaptive thermal management of at least one of an energy storage system and an electric energy supply. Applications of this disclosure may include adaptive thermal management method for electric vehicles and non-mobility applications, particularly having variable electrical loads, which may impact performance or life of the application.

An energy harvesting device is provided, one embodiment of which includes a housing, a blade, and a power generation unit, which may include a power generation motor and a piezoelectric power generation portion. In an energy harvesting device according to one embodiment, electrical energy can be generated using rotation of a slip flow generated during driving of a motor vehicle through a blade. Pressure and impacts generated during rotation of the blades can additionally generate electrical energy. When the blade rotates at a high speed as the driving speed of the motor vehicle increases, it is possible to reduce pressure and impact, thereby preventing damage to the blade or the piezoelectric element, and thus improving durability thereof.

Provided is a three-type self-power generation system for charging an electric vehicle battery. The three-type self-power generation system includes: a fixed panel formed on an outer ceiling surface of an electric vehicle while supported by a support column; one or more first power generators which are formed in a space between the outer ceiling surface of the electric vehicle and the fixed panel and generate electricity using wind power to charge a battery of the electric vehicle; one or more second power generators which are formed on a lower surface of the vehicle and generate electricity using a rotational force to charge the battery of the electric vehicle while the vehicle travels; and one or more third power generators which are formed on a flat surface of the fixed panel and generate electricity using sunlight to charge the battery of the electric vehicle.

The present disclosure provides a battery system and a controlling method of the same. The battery system includes a plurality of rechargeable battery packs, and includes a first battery pack that is rechargeable, a second battery pack that is rechargeable independently of the first battery pack, a first switching element that switches the first battery pack between at least a charging node and a discharging node, a second switching element that switches the second battery pack between at least the charging node and the discharging node, and a controller that controls switching states of the first switching element and the second switching element based on usage states and states of charge of the first battery pack and the second battery pack, and thus it is possible to effectively charge a high capacity and high output battery pack.

The invention belongs to the field of intelligent charging, and particularly discloses a wind, light, storage and charging new energy automobile internet-of-things intelligent charging device which comprises a wind energy and light energy collection module, an energy storage module, a charging module, a user terminal module and a safety guarantee module. A deep neural network method based on a residual error network structure is used for monitoring the temperature of a battery pack of an automobile battery and an energy storage module in real time, automatic power off is achieved when abnormal high temperature occurs, misjudgment is reduced, the safety problem caused by overheating is effectively prevented, and personnel and property safety is guaranteed; the RGB color algorithm model and the YCbCr color algorithm model are used to segment the fire area and detect the center position of the fire, so that the fire area can be identified and segmented more accurately, the judgment accuracy is improved, and accurate target guidance is provided for subsequent actions such as fire extinguishment.

In an embodiment, an energy harvesting device includes a housing, a first power generation unit, and a second power generation unit. In an energy harvesting device according to an embodiment, electrical energy may be generated by rotating blades by an airflow generated during travel of a moving vehicle. Electric energy may be additionally generated by pressure and impact forces generated during rotation of the blades. When the blades rotate at a high speed as the driving speed of the moving vehicle increases, the pressure and impact force can be reduced, thereby avoiding damage to the blades or the piezoelectric element, thereby improving durability thereof.

The construction in the form of a rotating cylinder (7) which lacks wings is central to this system / model for the production of electricity. Other system components are speed carriers (4), transport track (possibly inside a transport casing) and surrounding medium. The design is equipped with functions that adapt the production of electricity to the characteristics of other system components. Functions of that kind can change, increase or decrease the "speed wind" exposed surfaces (8) of the rotating device (1), speed of rotation and also speed of movement of the speed carrier, so that the power generating system is adapted to changing parameters of the mobile power generating system.

A system for harvesting kinetic wind energy for a vehicle includes a turbine drivingly connected to a motor / generator. The turbine is configured to be driven by the force of air encountered during operation of the vehicle and / or from wind when parked, and to drive the motor / generator to generate electrical power.

The vehicle (1) has a drive unit (2) configured to move the vehicle (1) and a cooling unit (3) configured to cool the drive unit (2). A duct (4) is arranged to capture an airflow striking a front portion of the vehicle (1) and to cool the cooling unit (3) by means of the airflow. The airflow moves in the duct (4) in a first direction. A wind-powered electric generator (5) is configured to produce power. A control circuit (6) is connected to a shutter (7) and configured to control the effective cross-sectional area of ​​the duct (4) based on at least the electrical power produced by the electric generator (5) and the speed of the vehicle (1). The control circuit (6) is configured to decrease the effective cross-sectional area of ​​the duct (4) so ​​that the electrical power generated by the electric generator (5) does not exceed a maximum power.The control circuit (6) is configured to block the rotation of at least one blade when the airflow velocity in the duct (4) is less than a minimum threshold velocity.

A computer, encompassing the programming for: Forecasting, in a vehicle at a multitude of locations, a quantity of electricity generation associated with each location; wherein the amount of electricity generated is based on data that the computer receives from one or more sensors; and wherein the sensors measure data in real time at the vehicle's location; Select one of the locations based on at least the projected electricity generation volumes; Determine that a movement threshold has been reached; and Moving the vehicle to the selected location after the movement threshold is reached, the determination of whether a movement threshold has been reached includes the following: Determining the electricity generation difference between a current location and the selected location; and Determining the energy required to move the vehicle to the selected location; The threshold of motion is reached when the difference is greater than the required energy.

The vehicle includes a driver compartment, a passenger compartment, an electric propulsion system, a power storage device that is rechargeable via at least one of kinetic energy, solar energy, wind energy, or direct input energy. The vehicle may also include a solar charging system, a computer-controlled outward-facing display, and a mining computer adapted to mine cryptocurrency using power from the power storage device. A cryptocurrency mining computer may be used to mine cryptocurrency, which may be part of a payment ecosystem that includes a transport device. The blockchain may be used to track cryptocurrency ledgers. Cryptocurrency may be earned by passengers and drivers during ride, and power from the power storage unit may be used to power the mining computer.

A effective method to attach vertical axis wind turbines to electric Vehicles, Ships, Boats and charge the Vehicles while driving for efficient and effective use because we know the direction of the wind, is to partially shield the wind turbine. The method consists of the wind turbine and a partial shield which is in front between the turbine and the wind. The partial shield can have different forms and size as long as it shields the part of the wind turbine where the blade is not facing the wind direction to reduce drag, and only allow the part of the wind turbine where the blade is open facing the wind to experience the full force of the. The method can operate inside the hood or above the hood or in front of the hood of the vehicles. That way the method will be compatible with different vehicle types.

A system (100) for dual-source sustainable energy production in a vehicle (105) is disclosed A slidable solar panel (110) placed on a rooftop of the vehicle convert solar energy into electrical energy. The slidable solar panel includes a plurality of wheels (145) drag the slidable solar panel over a boot space of the vehicle for ensuring standard roof functionality. A plurality of wind fans (115) including a plurality of wind blades (120) capture the wind energy for converting into mechanical energy and at least two generators (130a, 130b) convert the mechanical energy into electrical energy. An energy storage unit (135) store electricity produced from the slidable solar panel and the plurality of wind fans to extend the driving range. A solar inverter (140) converts electrical energy stored into alternating current for use by the vehicle.

This invention relates to an airbine system designed to enhance the power generation and battery efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs). The airbine integrates into the vehicle, utilizing the kinetic energy of moving air to drive its powerhouse / generator group. The internal components of the powerhouse are designed with significant mass to act as a flywheel, enabling continuous electricity generation even during short periods of vehicle inactivity, such as at traffic lights or passenger pickups. This system ensures that the EV's batteries remain charged, extending the driving range and reducing reliance on external charging infrastructure. The airbine also features optimized airflow management through adjustable blades, maximizing energy capture. Additionally, the system integrates with regenerative braking technology to further enhance energy efficiency. By maintaining a consistent battery charge, the airbine system improves overall performance, sustainability, and convenience for EV users.

A vehicle has a drive device to move the vehicle and a cooling device to cool the drive device. A duct is arranged to catch air flow striking a front of the vehicle and cool the cooling device with the air flow. A wind power electricity generator is configured to produce power. A control circuit connected to a blanking plate controls the value of the useful cross-section of the duct at least according to an electric power produced by the electricity generator and a speed of the vehicle. The control circuit reduces the useful cross-section of the duct so that the electric power generated by the electricity generator does not exceed a maximum power. The control circuit prevents rotation of the at least one blade when a speed of the air flow in the duct is lower than a threshold minimum speed.

An electric or Hybrid vehicle is provided, the electric or Hybrid vehicle including: a battery configured to provide motive power to the vehicle; one or more electrical systems controlling one or more operations of the vehicle; a turbine configured to be exposed to fluid flow while the vehicle is in motion; a generator coupled to the turbine and configured to generate electricity in response to rotation of the turbine; and a control system configured to selectively control flow of electricity from the generator to the battery for charging the battery and to the one or more electrical systems for powering the one or more electrical systems.

Provided is a vehicle, in which, in a front-side cover 102 that forms an outer surface which is more forward than a windshield of the vehicle, formed are: a front opening 107 facing an outer space in front; and an upper opening 108 positioned behind and above the front opening 107 and facing an outer space above. The inside of the front-side cover 102 is provided with an inner cover 112 forming a passage 113 for guiding wind that enters from the front opening 107 to the upper opening 108. A rotor blade 9 for wind power generation is disposed within the inner cover 112. A front end 108a of the upper opening 108 is positioned further upward than a rear end 108b thereof. The area of an outlet 113b of the passage 113 is greater than the area of an inlet 113a thereof. The inner cover 112 has an arcuate portion 114c that hides a region above the rotational axis of the rotor blade 9 when seen from the front opening 107. The center angle of the arcuate portion 114c is set to a range of 90-180 degrees. As a result, a rotor blade for wind power generation installed in a vehicle can be efficiently rotated.

Motor vehicle, with at least one air inlet (3) through which air can be introduced into a flow channel (6) of the motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is moving forward, and with at least one wind turbine (9) arranged in the flow channel (6), which has at least one wind wheel (12) driven by the air introduced into the flow channel (6) via the air inlet (3) and flowing through the flow channel (6), and a generator (13) driven by the wind wheel (12), by means of which electrical energy can be provided by driving the generator (13), characterized by: - at least one blower wheel (14) arranged in the flow channel (6) downstream of the wind turbine (12), by means of which the air flowing through the flow channel (6) is to be conveyed to at least one axial compressor (15) arranged downstream of the blower wheel (14) by driving the blower wheel (14), by means of which the air is to be compressed by driving the axial compressor (15), and - at least one additional electric machine (16) provided in addition to the generator (13), common to the blower wheel (14) and the axial compressor (15), by means of which the blower wheel (14) and the axial compressor (15) can be driven, and - a turbine (18) arranged outside the flow channel (6) and provided in addition to the wind turbine (9), - a branch line (19) by means of which a portion of the air introduced into the flow channel (6) via the air inlet (3) can be diverted from the flow channel (6) downstream of the wind turbine (12) and upstream of the blower wheel (14) and directed to the turbine (18), which can be driven by means of the diverted portion of the air, and - a second generator (20) arranged outside the flow channel (6), provided in addition to the generator (13) and in addition to the electric machine (16), and driven by the turbine (18), by means of which electrical energy can be provided by driving the second generator (20), and a return line (22) by means of which the diverted part of the air can be discharged from the turbine (18) and introduced into the flow channel (6), and wherein at least one Venturi nozzle (23) is arranged in the flow channel (6) downstream of the axial compressor (15), which can be flowed through at least by the air compressed by means of the axial compressor (15), and wherein the Venturi nozzle (23) can be supplied with the part of the air flowing through the return line (22) via the return line (22) and is thus permeable to that part of the air.

This wind power generation device includes a plurality of rotary blades 15 around a rotation axis. Each rotary blade 15 includes a front blade surface 16 parallel to the rotation axis and curved so as to protrude frontward in a rotation direction, and a rear blade surface 17 located on the back side of the front blade surface 16, being parallel to the rotation axis, being curved so as to be concave frontward in the rotation direction, and having a smaller curve depth than the front blade surface 16. The front blade surface 16 includes a first curved surface 19 forming a part far from the rotation axis and formed frontward in the rotation direction from an outer end 21 of the rotary blade 15, and a second curved surface 20 forming a part close to the rotation axis L1 and formed rearward in the rotation direction from a crest 18 of the front blade surface 16 so as to connect to an inner end 22, a surface length thereof in a plan view being smaller than that of the first curved surface 19. The first curved surface 19 has recesses 23 at positions closer to the outer end 21 than to the crest 18 of the front blade surface 16. Thus, a rotary blade that rotates by receiving a fluid and can improve rotation efficiency, is provided.

A method and stand-alone composite power station having multiple power sources including one or more photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, and / or generators, detached from a utility grid. The composite power station supplies power to the composite energy storage arrangement for supplying power to equipment, vehicles, and / or power consumers. The power station includes a composite energy storage arrangement having at least one stationary element and at least one mobile element. A composite power import processing arrangement supplies power to at least one of the stationary element and the mobile element under allocation control of a composite power import allocation arrangement, and a composite power export processing arrangement supplies power from at least one stationary element and mobile element under allocation control of a composite power export allocation arrangement for downstream use by a vehicle, equipment, and / or power consumer.

To provide three types of self-power generation systems for charging an electric vehicle battery, which enables charging the electric vehicle battery pack through one or more power generation apparatuses using eco-friendly energy.SOLUTION: There are provided three types of self-power generation systems for charging an electric vehicle battery. Such a present invention configures three types of self-power generation apparatuses using that generate electric power by using sunlight, wind power, and rotational force of a wheel to eliminate various inconveniences occurring when a battery pack is charged in a charging facility, as well as, to reduce a cost for charging the battery pack through the charging facility.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A Smart Electric Vehicle (SEV) which works by free clean energy provided it by Smart Wind Generator (SWG) which depends completely on wind energy, with using a small fan, to produce the wanted power under the impact of the wind speed power as the opposite power of Electric Vehicle Speed (EVS) on the road, to keep Electric Vehicle's Batteries (EVBs), on a good charging, without needing of electric grid. This SWG is configured to be a small generator (about 3.5 kg) with light and small fan, to generate the wanted power as a self-charger for SEV. This SWG is never used as an assistant charger, but it is the entire tool that will be used to convert the old system of charging electric vehicle to a self-charging system. Also, this invention is very simple, very easy to manufacture and to install in the SEVs, as a self-charger.

A vehicle including a vehicle body having a front portion defining a first forward projection area, and a wind turbine system. The wind turbine system includes an airflow capture inlet, a flow consolidating conduit, an air driven rotor assembly, and an electric generator. The airflow capture inlet has an inlet upstream end, an inlet downstream end, an air entry window, and a flow directing floor. The air entry window and the flow directing floor each extends from the inlet upstream end to the inlet downstream end. The air entry window defines a second forward projection area that is at least 10% of the first forward projection area. The flow directing floor is sloped upwardly. The flow consolidating conduit is close sided. The air driven rotor assembly is downstream of a consolidating conduit downstream end. The air driven rotor assembly includes an air driven rotor connected to the electric generator.

An airflow charging system and vehicle include a turbine, a driveline pulley and a driving belt, a main charging pulley and a charging belt, a processor, and a memory. The turbine is configured to rotate the driveline pulley, and the driveline pulley is operably connected to an electric motor. The main charging pulley is operably connected to the electric motor, and rotation of the main charging pulley is configured to charge a battery. The battery provides power to the electric motor. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to receive a first signal indicating that the vehicle is in motion, operate the electric motor to rotate the turbine, receive a second signal from the vehicle indicating a vehicle speed, and, if the vehicle speed is greater than or equal to a predetermined speed, stop operating the electric motor.

A vehicle including a vehicle body having a front portion defining a first forward projection area, and a wind turbine system. The wind turbine system includes an airflow capture inlet, a flow consolidating conduit, an air driven rotor assembly, and an electric generator. The airflow capture inlet has an inlet upstream end, an inlet downstream end, an air entry window, and a flow directing floor. The air entry window and the flow directing floor each extends from the inlet upstream end to the inlet downstream end. The air entry window defines a second forward projection area that is at least 10% of the first forward projection area. The flow directing floor is sloped upwardly. The flow consolidating conduit is close sided. The air driven rotor assembly is downstream of a consolidating conduit downstream end. The air driven rotor assembly includes an air driven rotor connected to the electric generator.

The invention relates to the technical field of new energy automobiles, in particular to a long-endurance automobile with a multifunctional power generation air inlet channel, which comprises an automobile body and a wind energy collecting device arranged on the automobile body, the wind energy collecting device comprises a power generation pipeline, one end of the power generation pipeline is connected with an air inlet, and the other end of the power generation pipeline is connected with an air outlet; a plurality of wind power generation modules are arranged in the power generation pipeline in the length direction at intervals. When the running speed of an automobile is increased, stronger airflow enters the power generation pipeline to drive the wind driven generator at the front end to rotate at a high speed to generate power, all the wind driven generator sets rotate at a high speed to generate power, wind power generation efficiency superposition is achieved, and generated electric energy can be orderly and efficiently connected into an automobile power system. An automobile battery is charged or the automobile is directly driven during driving; wind power formed by rotation of all the wind driven generators in the power generation pipeline is uniformly blown from the front end to the rear end of the power generation pipeline, the air flow superposition effect is achieved and sprayed out from an air outlet of the power generation pipeline, and air resistance generated when an automobile advances can be effectively reduced.

A vehicle including a vehicle body having a front portion defining a first forward projection area, and a wind turbine system. The wind turbine system includes an airflow capture inlet, a flow consolidating conduit, an air driven rotor assembly, and an electric generator. The airflow capture inlet has an inlet upstream end, an inlet downstream end, an air entry window, and a flow directing floor. The air entry window and the flow directing floor each extends from the inlet upstream end to the inlet downstream end. The air entry window defines a second forward projection area that is at least 10% of the first forward projection area. The flow directing floor is sloped upwardly. The flow consolidating conduit is close sided. The air driven rotor assembly is downstream of a consolidating conduit downstream end. The air driven rotor assembly includes an air driven rotor connected to the electric generator.

A wind power generation device and a wind power balancing system comprise a sliding device, the sliding device is composed of a pressing disc, a sliding disc and sliding balls, the pressing disc is provided with at least three first sliding ways, the sliding disc is provided with at least three second sliding ways, cavities between the second sliding ways and the first sliding ways are triangular, and the sliding balls are arranged in the cavities. A sliding ball is clamped between the second sliding way and the first sliding way, and in the initial state, the sliding ball is located at the bottom of the triangle. The sliding balls change between the first sliding way and the second sliding way along with the different rotating speeds of the pressing disc, and the sliding balls change at the starting end and the terminal end to change the position of the sliding disc.