1031 results about "Battery storage" patented technology

Methods and systems are provided for optimizing the control of energy supply and demand. An energy control unit includes one or more algorithms for scheduling the control of energy consumption devices on the basis of variables relating to forecast energy supply and demand. Devices for which energy consumption can be scheduled or deferred are activated during periods of cheapest energy usage. Battery storage and alternative energy sources (e.g., photovoltaic cells) are activated to sell energy to the power grid during periods that are determined to correspond to favorable cost conditions.

Methods and systems are provided for optimizing the control of energy supply and demand. An energy control unit includes one or more algorithms for scheduling the control of energy consumption devices on the basis of variables relating to forecast energy supply and demand. Devices for which energy consumption can be scheduled or deferred are activated during periods of cheapest energy usage. Battery storage and alternative energy sources (e.g., photovoltaic cells) are activated to sell energy to the power grid during periods that are determined to correspond to favorable cost conditions.

A method of monitoring energy consumption includes steps of establishing an energy budget for a future time period, receiving device information for a plurality of electrical devices and associating the device information with the energy budget, periodically measuring electrical usage from the plurality of electrical devices, projecting future energy consumption for the future time period based on the measured electrical usage, comparing the projected future energy consumption to the energy budget, and if the projected future energy consumption deviates from the energy budget, automatically generating an alert. The projected future energy consumption can take into account various factors such as energy available from non-grid sources; weather forecasts; battery storage; and historical data. A system employing the method can automatically control devices to bring predicted consumption within the budget.

Prior battery-powered electric locomotives have used multiple diesel engines to charge the batteries and have not been commercially accepted. The present invention provides a yard switcher which combines battery storage with a gas microturbine generator to provide an effective fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly locomotive. locomotive.

Systems and methods are herein disclosed for efficiently and cost-effectively balancing the voltages across batteries and / or cells in an energy storage system. A controller monitors the battery voltages and instructs regulator circuits to balance voltages between any batteries or sets of batteries having imbalanced voltages. Regulator circuits implementing a modified Ćuk converter can be utilized. Regulator circuits can have two capacitive circuits, one inductive circuit, and two switches. Two capacitors, an inductor, and two field effect transistors can be used in each regulator circuit.

The object of the present invention is to provide a nonwoven fabric for separators of non-aqueous electrolyte batteries which is superior in adhesion to electrodes, causes no breakage of the separator and neither slippage nor space between electrode and the separator at the time of fabrication of battery, provides superior battery processability such as rollability with electrodes, causes no internal short-circuit due to contact between electrodes caused by shrinking or burning of the nonwoven fabric even when electrodes generate heat owing to external short-circuit, whereby ignition of the battery can be inhibited, has no pin holes and is superior in retention of electrolyte and penetration of electrolyte, and which can give non-aqueous electrolyte batteries superior in capacity, battery characteristics and battery storage characteristics. Specifically, the nonwoven fabric for separators of non-aqueous electrolyte batteries according to the present invention has a thickness non-uniformity index (Rpy) of 1000 mV or less or a center surface average roughness SRa of 6 mum or less in whole wavelength region as measured using a tracer method three-dimensional surface roughness meter.

A control system for a hybrid vehicle controls the various operating modes of the hybrid vehicle. Operating modes of the hybrid vehicle include an electric-only power mode, a series hybrid mode, a series hybrid dual-power mode, and a parallel hybrid tri-power mode. The control system selects one of the operating modes for the hybrid vehicle based on one or more inputs and comparisons. Examples of inputs for the control system include a gear-mode, a present battery storage capacity, a present velocity of the hybrid vehicle, and the previous operating mode of the hybrid power system. The control system may also take into account whether a user has selected the electric-only power mode. The control system may also control the operations of one or more components of the hybrid vehicle while operating in one of the operating modes.

The invention discloses a battery automatic replacement system of a small-sized multi-rotor-wing unmanned aerial vehicle. The battery automatic replacement system comprises a multi-track trolley, a battery storage disk, an unmanned aerial vehicle landing gear, a landing gear fixing plate, a landing gear fixing plate support, a battery storage disk support and a mechanical arm, wherein the landing gear fixing plate is arranged above the multi-track trolley, and is fixedly connected with the multi-track trolley through the landing gear fixing plate support; the unmanned aerial vehicle landing gear is arranged above the landing gear fixing plate; a battery inlet matched with the size of a battery is formed in the center of the fixing plate; the battery storage disk is arranged below the landing gear fixing plate, and is fixedly connected with the multi-track trolley through the battery storage disk support; and the mechanical arm is arranged below the battery storage disk. The battery automatic replacement system adopts a turntable type battery storage bin, so that five times of battery replacement can be performed at most through one step; and the battery automatic replacement system adopts a blind plugging type battery installation mode to achieve effects of convenience, fastness and high efficiency.

The invention provides an electric car chassis battery charging and replacing station. The electric car chassis battery charging and replacing station comprises a car centering device, a battery lifting and replacing device, a track-type laneway stacking machine, a battery storage frame, a battery carrying device and a battery charging device. The battery carrying device is moved among the battery lifting and replacing device, the track-type laneway stacking machine and the battery storage frame by the movement of the track-type laneway stacking machine, so that a battery can be transported without a conveying line, thereby guaranteeing the electric car chassis battery charging and replacing station to have higher space utilization rate. In addition, the invention further provides a battery replacing method.

A power generation system and a method for storing electrical energy are provided. The method includes generating a first AC voltage from a wind turbine generator and converting the first AC voltage to a first DC voltage, utilizing a rectifier. The method further includes routing the first DC voltage through a DC voltage bus to an inverter of the power converter, and converting the first DC voltage to a second AC voltage utilizing the inverter and outputting the second AC voltage to an electrical grid in response to a first control signal from a power converter controller. The method further includes receiving the first DC voltage from the DC voltage bus at a DC-DC converter operably coupled to the DC voltage bus, and storing electrical energy from the first DC voltage in a battery storage unit utilizing the DC-DC converter in response to a second control signal.

An electrically-powered scooter including a front wheel, a rear wheel and a frame assembly. A handlebar assembly and a seat assembly are supported by the frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a left frame rail and a right frame rail spaced laterally from one another and extending between the handle bar assembly and the seat assembly. A battery support extends between the left and the right frame rails at a position intermediate the handle bar assembly and the seat assembly. A battery is supported by the battery support. In one arrangement, the battery support includes an enclosure defining a battery storage chamber. The enclosure includes a guide member configured to engage a guide recess of the battery to guide the battery into the battery storage chamber. In another arrangement, the battery may include a recharging port, an axis of which defines an oblique angle with an axis of the battery.

The battery pack instead of the size AA battery is loaded in a battery storage of an electronic device. The battery pack includes a battery casing, a plurality of size AAA batteries, a battery holder, a circuit board, and an induction coil electromagnetically connected to a primary coil of a battery charger cradle. The size AAA batteries are accommodated in the battery casing in a spaced-apart manner where a distance between longitudinal axes of the size AAA batteries is larger than a distance between longitudinal axes of the size AA batteries loaded in the battery storage, and a storage space is defined between the adjacent size AAA batteries. With an electronic component, mounted on the circuit board, being disposed in the storage space, the battery pack accommodates the size AAA batteries, the battery holder, the circuit board, and the induction coil in a mutually layered state in the battery casing.

The pocketable body warmer includes: a metallic exterior casing with a metal plate being formed to a tube having a closed bottom end and an open opposite end; a plastic-made interior casing with an outer contour being formed to be inserted in the metallic exterior casing, the interior casing being provided with a battery storage portion; a battery loaded in the interior casing; and a heater thermally connected to the metallic exterior casing for heating the metallic exterior casing.

The invention discloses a frequency layering coordination control method suitable for a isolating microgrid including diesel generator and battery storage. A frequency control system comprises a central decision layer and a local decision layer, primary frequency modulation and secondary frequency modulation of the system can be realized, wherein a diesel generator in the local decision layer is taken as a main regulating unit for the primary frequency modulation; a PI (proportional-integral) controller in a dead zone of the central decision layer and distributed battery storage in the local decision layer form an auxiliary primary frequency modulation unit; and the two layers coordinate with each other to modulate the frequency once. When the frequency is stable at upper limit or lower limit of the primary frequency modulation dead zone, the secondary frequency modulation is started. The secondary frequency modulation is finished by coordination of the secondary frequency modulation module in the central decision layer and a microsource in the local decision layer; the spinning reserve or pitch peak reserve of the diesel generator is regulated by resetting active power reference value of the distributed battery storage, regulating power of the new energy, starting / stopping the diesel generator and controlling the load and so on, so as to lead the frequency of the system to recover the rated frequency. With the adoption of the frequency layering coordination control method, response characteristics of different microsources can be coordinated and utilized completely to modulate the frequency of the system, thereby simple, quick and stable control of the isolated microgrid is realized. The method has the advantages of strong robustness and flexibility, and with the adoption of the method, requirements of long-term safe and stable operation of the isolated microgrid system can be met.

The invention discloses a system and a method for quickly replacing electric bus batteries. The batteries are arranged above battery replacing robots instead of being arranged at an original position, so that the robots can acquire the charged batteries from above without turning around, and then the batteries can be replaced by the battery replacing robot on the sides as same as those of the battery replacing robot, so that occupied space of the batteries is saved, a turning mechanism of the battery replacing robot is omitted, equipment structure is simplified, and reliability and replacing efficiency of equipment are further improved. The system comprises charging storage rack units with the charged batteries thereon, at least one lifting battery replacing robot on the side as same as that of the corresponding charging storage rack unit is arranged and matched with the corresponding charging storage rack unit, each lifting battery replacing robot moves along the length direction of the corresponding charging storage rack unit, and is used for taking the batteries needing to be replaced down from an electric bus, lifting the batteries needing to be replaced to a battery storage position on the corresponding charging storage rack, taking the charged batteries and descending to a battery replacing position to complete battery replacement of the electric bus.

A cooling system for hybrid vehicles is provided with a battery case with a battery storage room for receiving a battery, a motor control unit for controlling an electric motor and a DC-DC converter for converting a voltage of the battery. The cooling system includes a blower for drawing an air existing in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, an introduction duct through which the air is introduced into the battery storage room to cool the battery, a first supply duct through which the air is supplied from the battery storage room to the DC-DC converter to cool the latter, a second supply duct through which the air is supplied from the battery storage room to the motor control unit to cool the latter, and an air distributor means for distributing the air flowing out of the battery storage room to the first supply duct and the second supply duct.

The invention discloses a method, equipment, a system and a distribution for quickly changing a power battery. The system comprises a hardware part and a software part, wherein the hardware part comprises a general parking platform, two multifunctional manipulators, two battery storage platforms, two stacking equipment, video acquiring equipment and other auxiliary equipment; and the software part comprises a vehicle type parameter database, a vehicle type identification system, an image data processing system, a programmable logic controller (PLC) control system and other auxiliary systems. An operation process is that after a vehicle of which batteries are to be changed is parked on the general parking platform, the video acquiring equipment acquires the real-time vehicle image data, the image data processing system acquires the accurate position of a battery compartment, the PLC control system controls the multifunctional manipulator 1 to take away the power leakage batteries when the multifunctional manipulator 1 operates below the battery compartment, meanwhile, the battery charging manipulator 2 takes and conveys the fully charged batteries from the battery storage platforms to a part below the battery compartment of the vehicle, and the batteries are lifted to be installed in the battery compartment. The vehicle is driven down from the parking platform, so that the battery charging is completed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of electric automobile charging and electrical changing and particularly relates to modular extensible electrical changing station equipment and a charging rack. Through the modular extensible electrical changing station equipment and the charging rack, the problems that an existing electrical changing station is large in occupied area, low in modular degree and poor in extensibility. In order to achieve the purpose, the electrical changing station equipment provided by the invention comprises the charging rack and a battery transfer device. The charging rack comprises at least one battery storage module capable of achieving battery storage and charging. The battery transfer device can pass through the battery storage module. Through the technical scheme, the extensible electrical changing station equipment integrating power battery moving, storage and charging can be achieved.

A battery pack, instead of size AA batteries, is loaded in a battery storage compartment of an electronic device. The battery pack includes a battery casing, a plurality of size AAA batteries, a battery holder, a circuit board, and an induction coil electromagnetically connected to a primary coil of a battery charger cradle. The size AAA batteries are accommodated in the battery casing in a spaced-apart manner where a distance between longitudinal axes of the size AAA batteries is larger than a distance between longitudinal axes of the size AA batteries loaded in the battery storage compartment, and a storage space is defined between the adjacent size AAA batteries. With an electronic component, mounted on the circuit board, being disposed in the storage space, the battery pack accommodates the size AAA batteries, the battery holder, the circuit board, and the induction coil in a mutually layered state in the battery casing.

Systems and methods for providing and managing high-availability power infrastructures with flexible load prioritization are described. In one embodiment, a system comprises a switch control and monitoring center that monitors and controls a distributed array of remotely controllable switches to optimize power distribution in a high-availability infrastructure according to priority levels. The high-availability comprises an electric battery storage and / or auxiliary generation equipment. In another embodiment a software package performs power quality analysis, ranking, and optimization, thus enabling the assessment of overall local and grid power demand trends. Load priority adjustments may be made in real-time.

A backpack for convenient charging, the backpack comprising: a backpack body with a battery storage space to accommodate a storage battery unit; at least one strap connected to the backpack body, where at least one strap has a fixture for fixing a product to be charged and a power cable output port proximal to the fixture; wherein the backpack body further includes at least one cable passage leading from the battery storage space to the power cable output port to accommodate at least one power cable each with a first end and a second end, wherein at least one of the first end and the second end of the at least one power cable is connected to the storage battery unit to be charged.

The invention provides a power battery replacing system and a power battery replacing method for an electric vehicle. The replacing system comprises hoisting equipment, hoisting support points, replacing equipment and a battery storage platform, wherein the hoisting equipment is a hydraulic hoisting actuator, an electric hoisting actuator or an electro-hydraulic combined hoisting actuator, and is used for fixedly supporting the electric vehicle to a suitable height from the ground, wherein the suitable height meets requirements on the minimum distance of the replacing equipment from the ground; the hoisting support points are rigid components and are symmetrically and vertically arranged on the two sides of the central axis of the electric vehicle, and during hoisting, the body of the electric vehicle is directly supported by the hoisting support points so as to ensure that the vehicle body is stable in a battery replacing process; the replacing equipment removes the power battery arranged below a body chassis from the electric vehicle, downwards moves the battery to separate the battery from the body and stores the battery on the battery storage platform for charging; and the battery storage platform has a frame structure or a multilayer frame structure and is used for providing functions of storing the power battery storage and charging the power battery.

The invention provides an intelligent charging and exchanging cabinet for shared batteries and a charging and exchanging management control method. The intelligent charging and exchanging cabinet comprises a battery charging and exchanging cabinet, a charging and exchanging management control system and a lithium battery, wherein the battery charging and exchanging cabinet comprises a plurality ofbattery storage cabinets; electric control door locks are arranged on cabinet doors of the battery storage cabinets; the rear part of each battery storage cabinet is provided with a charging plug anda positioning block; the lithium battery is provided with a positioning groove and charging jacks; the positioning groove and the charging jacks on the lithium battery are adaptive to the positioningblock and the charging plug at the rear part of each battery storage cabinet. The charging and exchanging management control system comprises a system controller, a human-computer interface, a monitor, a GPRS / LTE (General Packet Radio Service / Long Term Evolution) mobile internet-of-things wireless communication module, a battery BMS system, an electronic door-lock unit, a door-magnetism detectionunit and a two-dimension code scanning unit. The intelligent charging and exchanging cabinet and the charging and exchanging management control method provided by the invention have the advantages that the lithium-battery sharing mode exchange can be carried out on two-wheel electric vehicles used by take-out deliverymen and express deliverymen, and a new business mode for internet-of-things shared batteries is provided.

The present invention relates to a battery apparatus used as a power source for a mobile phone unit and other electronic equipment, in which in a storage portion formed by overlapping a battery storage and a lid, a battery unit containing a power-generating element is stored. The battery apparatus according to the present invention includes: the battery unit containing a power-generating element, the battery storage having the storage portion in which the battery unit is stored, and the lid that closes the end of an opening of the storage portion of the battery storage, wherein a first fixing element for enabling the lid to be engaged with the battery storage and fixing the lid to the battery storage is provided. According to the present invention, the lid is fixed to the battery storage through the first fixing element, so that with a simple structure the battery storage and the lid can be reliably fixed to be integrated, and by forming a thin lid a capacity of the storage portion increases to the extent of reduced thickness, whereby a capacity of the battery unit increases corresponding to the increase in capacity of the storage portion and the amount of power can be increased.

Systems and methods are herein disclosed for efficiently and cost-effectively balancing the voltages across batteries and / or cells in an energy storage system. A controller monitors the battery voltages and instructs regulator circuits to balance voltages between any batteries or sets of batteries having imbalanced voltages. Regulator circuits implementing a modified Ćuk converter can be utilized. Regulator circuits can have two capacitive circuits, one inductive circuit, and two switches. Two capacitors, an inductor, and two field effect transistors can be used in each regulator circuit.

The invention discloses a paid recovery device for waste batteries. The paid recovery device comprises a waste battery inlet, battery recovery boxes (104, 105 and 106), a step motor B and drive unit (202), and a singlechip (3), wherein the waste battery inlet is connected with the battery recovery boxes (104, 105 and 106) through a pipeline A; a waste battery detection device is mounted on the pipeline A; the step motor B and drive unit (202) is in drive connection with a new battery storage box and a pipeline B of an outlet; and the singlechip (3) is in signal connection with the waste battery detection device, the step motor B and drive unit (202), a coin receiving and identifying device (201) and a display screen. The paid recovery device is convenient to operate and can intelligently achieve paid recovery of the waste batteries so as to increase the recovery rate of the waste batteries and fulfill the purpose of preventing and controlling battery pollution to the environment.

A machine for preparing and dispensing drinks by extraction under pressure of a food substance contained in a capsule which can function in a standalone mode in order to deliver several drinks successively. The machine includes an extraction module for receiving a capsule, a heat insulated water reservoir for supplying the extraction module, a pump and an electrical power supply that includes a low voltage electrical accumulator configured to supply the pump. The reservoir has a heating device that includes an electrical element powered by the accumulator.

A cooling system for hybrid vehicles is provided with a battery case with a battery storage room for receiving a battery, a motor control unit for controlling an electric motor and a DC-DC converter for converting a voltage of the battery. The cooling system includes a blower for drawing an air existing in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, an introduction duct through which the air is introduced into the battery storage room to cool the battery, a first supply duct through which the air is supplied from the battery storage room to the DC-DC converter to cool the latter, a second supply duct through which the air is supplied from the battery storage room to the motor control unit to cool the latter, and an air distributor means for distributing the air flowing out of the battery storage room to the first supply duct and the second supply duct.

The present invention provides battery storing device (100) that can easily suppress temperature increase in a battery and a battery storing section in high-temperature using environment, without damaging excellent heat retaining function of the battery that is required for low-temperature using environment. Battery storing device (100) has battery storing box body (2), battery storing section (30) in the box body, and battery group (1) stored in battery storing section (30). Battery storing box body (2) is made of heat insulating material and has a heat retaining function of battery group (1). Battery storing device (100) further has lid body (3), opening / closing lid body (6) for opening and closing opening (5) for releasing the heat retaining function, magnetic material (7) disposed at an end of opening / closing lid body (6), electromagnet (8), and electromagnet (9).