Abstract: Improvements in a modular electric charging apparatus are disclosed. The modular electric charging apparatus provides a universal base system that can be used to install an electrical power system. The universal base system allows cabinets provided from different manufacturers to be connected by electrical wiring into their unique cabinets. A below grade structure of an open frame structure is used for setting and casting concrete around the open frame. The open frame is set at a level with a desired finished surface with a trench canal and the concrete can be poured into both sides of the open frame. The modular electric charging apparatus also uses a canal that extends from a base of the cabinet. The canal is easily cut to a length or multiple canals can be placed in series for extending the length. Buss bars are set and are secured in an insulated spacer within the canal for use in connecting to a plurality of above ground charging stations.

Abstract: A method for controlling a wireless power transmitter is provided herein. The method includes outputting a first power for detecting a change in a load impedance of the wireless power transmitter; detecting the change in the load impedance of the wireless power transmitter; outputting a second power for communicating with a wireless power receiver; receiving, from the wireless power receiver, a first signal within a preset time period after detecting the change in the load impedance; determining whether a reception intensity of the first signal is less than or equal to a threshold; and based on determining that the reception intensity of the first signal is less than or equal to the threshold, excluding the wireless power receiver from a wireless power network of the wireless power transmitter, the wireless power receiver being outside of the charging range of the wireless power transmitter.

Abstract: A battery-to-vehicle charging system includes: a vehicle including an on-board charger including a power factor correction circuit having a boost converter circuit, a first battery that is charged with a charge voltage output from the on-board charger, and a first controller controlling a charge process based on a type of a charge power source provided from the outside; and a mobile energy storage device including a second battery storing a direct current (DC) charge power to be provided to the first battery, and a second controller providing a determination signal for the type of the charge power source to the first controller, in which when the first controller receives the determination signal from the second controller and the charge power source is determined as a mobile energy storage device, the first controller controls the power factor correction circuit to operate as a boost converter.

Abstract: A magnetically-displacing charging station includes a front wall with an opening about its center, and a charging interface with a back wall, at least one support extension, a magnet, and a charging plug. The back wall is disposed behind the front wall and is larger than the opening. The at least one support extension extends through the opening with a proximal end connected to the back wall, and a distal end that extends out in front of the front wall and that retains the magnet and charging plug. The charging station further includes springs connected to the front wall at one end, and to the back wall at an opposite end. The springs provide a default position for the charging interface within the opening, and further provide for a displacement of the charging interface about the opening in response to magnetic or other forces.

Abstract: A power feed unit that includes multiple first terminal sections, a second terminal section, and a switch is disclosed. Each first terminal section includes a first power supply terminal directed to receive electric power from a battery, and a first communication terminal directed to perform a communication with the battery. The second terminal section includes a second power supply terminal directed to supply electric power to an electronic apparatus, and a second communication terminal directed to perform a communication with the electronic apparatus. The switch electrically couples one of the first communication terminals with the second communication terminal.

Abstract: An isolation charging control apparatus of a vehicle includes a first vehicle charging control apparatus receiving a control pilot signal for charging control from a charging station system and to receive power from the charging station system and a second vehicle charging control apparatus isolated from the first vehicle charging control apparatus and performing vehicle charging control, using a signal received from the first vehicle charging control apparatus.

Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a method that defines tiers of an integrated circuit having standard cells placed adjacent to each other in a multi-tier placement. The integrated circuit includes multi-tier nets connected with inter-tier connections. The method includes pairing inter-tier connections as inter-tier-connection pairs belonging to a same net. The method includes grouping standard cells in groups with or without inter-tier-connection pairs from the tiers. The method includes relating the standard cells with or without inter-tier-connection pairs within each group from the groups by generating a multi-tier fence boundary around physical locations of the standard cells with or without inter-tier-connection pairs.

Abstract: A connection device for charging a battery device on a vehicle has an alternating current (AC) interface for receiving an AC plug and a direct current (DC) interface for receiving a DC plug. The DC interface has a cover flap mounted movably between a closed position that covers the DC interface and an open position that exposes the DC interface. The direct current interface has a latching mechanism with a latching means on the cover flap. The latching means locks with a mating latching means of the cover flap when in the open position. The mating latching means has an actuating section with which the DC plug makes a contact thereby unlocking the latching means of the latching mechanism when the DC plug is received in the DC interface.

Abstract: Each reconfigurable hardware modeling circuit of a plurality of reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits in a reconfigurable hardware modeling device comprises: a model computation subsystem configurable either to model elements of a circuit design, or to serve as a testbench element, or both, and a network subsystem comprising: network circuitry and signal reduction circuitry, the signal reduction circuitry configurable to perform a signal reduction function, the signal reduction function combining a plurality of status signals into a single status signal, the plurality of status signals comprising status signals received from one or more reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits in the plurality of reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits. Alternatively or additionally, each network circuit of a plurality of network circuits in the reconfigurable hardware modeling device may comprise signal reduction circuitry configurable to perform the signal reduction function.

Abstract: A smart wearable device and a charger thereof includes the smart wearable device and a charging base configured to charge the smart wearable device. The charging base comprises an elastic case. An open slot for inserting the smart wearable device is formed in the elastic case. A power supply portion is disposed on the charging base. The power supply portion provides the smart wearable device with electrical energy for charging. The smart wearable device is fixed to the charging base by way of a close fit between slot walls on two sides of the open slot and an outer surface of the smart wearable device.

Abstract: A storage battery management system manages a state of a storage battery that is detachably mounted. The storage battery management system includes an activation signal generation unit configured to generate an activation signal for setting a mounted storage battery to an available state, a management unit configured to manage the mounted storage battery that has received the activation signal and identification information of the mounted storage battery in association with each other, an activation signal transmission line configured to electrically connect a storage battery management unit of the mounted storage battery and the activation signal generation unit with each other, and a signal transmission line configured to electrically connect the storage battery management unit and the management unit to each other.

Abstract: A supplementary charging system for an auxiliary battery of an eco-friendly vehicle includes: a main battery; an auxiliary battery having a voltage lower than a voltage of the main battery; a low voltage DC-DC converter (LDC) stepping down the voltage of the main battery and providing the stepped-down voltage to the auxiliary battery; and a controller configured to select, when a periodic charge time of the auxiliary battery arrives, either a constant voltage charging method or a constant current charging method as a charging method based on an aging state of the auxiliary battery, and control the LDC to charge the auxiliary battery with a constant voltage or a constant current based on the selected charging method for a predetermined reference time. The controller terminates the charging when a cumulative charge current amount is greater than or equal to a predetermined reference cumulative charge current amount.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method which comprises communicating a power capacity of a battery of a vehicle in a system comprising a battery and a battery control unit for controlling said battery. The method further comprises, in the battery control unit, receiving a request comprising a power profile describing a power transfer to or from the battery as a function of time, determining if the battery is capable of receiving or providing power corresponding to the requested power profile.

Abstract: A terminal structure satisfies the relationships of D1<T1<D2 and T1<T2=D2 where D1 is the length of a body part of a secondary battery, D2 is the total length of the secondary battery, T1 is a first inter-contact-terminal distance between a portion of a positive-electrode-side contact terminal and a portion of and a negative-electrode-side contact terminal when the secondary battery is not present between the positive-electrode-side contact terminal and the negative-electrode-side contact terminal, and T2 is a second inter-contact-terminal distance between the portion of the positive-electrode-side contact terminal and the portion of and the negative-electrode-side contact terminal when the secondary battery is held between the positive-electrode-side contact terminal and the negative-electrode-side contact terminal, the portion of the positive-electrode-side contact terminal and the portion of the negative-electrode-side contact terminal coming into contact with the positive electrode terminal an

Abstract: A charging station charges an electric vehicle. The charging station has: a housing, a number of first power electronics components and a number of second power electronics components, the second electronics components being different from the first power electronics components, wherein the first power electronics components and the second power electronics components are arranged spatially in the housing, and a first air cooling circuit and a second air cooling circuit separate from the first air cooling circuit. The air cooling circuits are arranged spatially in the housing. The first air cooling circuit serves to cool the number of first power electronics components. The second air cooling circuit serves to cool the number of second power electronics components. The charging station is designed such that a first protection class of at least one region of the first air cooling circuit is higher than a second protection class of the second air cooling circuit.

Abstract: A vehicle having an energy storage element including a drive inverter and a charging unit. The energy storage element further includes a first control apparatus, modules, an interconnection apparatus, and two first poles, the drive inverter is connected to said two first poles. Each modules of said modules has an energy storage unit. The interconnection apparatus has connections between the modules and first switches provided on the connections in order to allow different interconnections of the modules and different voltages at the first poles based on a state at the first switches. Different interconnections of the modules allow at least two interconnections from the group of interconnections. The first control apparatus is configured to actuate the interconnection apparatus based on a voltage setpoint value in order to influence the different voltages at the two first poles based on the voltage setpoint value.

Abstract: A junction box controller controls a junction box including a circuit for vehicle travel that supplies power from a battery for vehicle travel to an electrical component for vehicle travel and a charging circuit including a positive electrode charging relay and an negative electrode charging relay that are for use in coupling and decoupling the battery for vehicle travel to and from an external charging power source in a state in which the positive electrode charging relay and the negative electrode charging relay are coupled to the circuit for vehicle travel. The junction box controller includes a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the circuit for vehicle travel, and a controller that, when the temperature of the circuit for vehicle travel reaches or exceeds a preset threshold, controls and switches on either one of the positive electrode charging relay and the negative electrode charging relay.

Abstract: A defect prediction method for a device manufacturing process involving processing a portion of a design layout onto a substrate, the method including: identifying a hot spot from the portion of the design layout; determining a range of values of a processing parameter of the device manufacturing process for the hot spot, wherein when the processing parameter has a value outside the range, a defect is produced from the hot spot with the device manufacturing process; determining an actual value of the processing parameter; determining or predicting, using the actual value, existence, probability of existence, a characteristic, or a combination thereof, of a defect produced from the hot spot with the device manufacturing process.

Abstract: A method of operating a control device includes performing an open load test or a current leakage test. The open load test includes activating a first current and then a second current and sensing with the first current and the second current activated, respectively, a first voltage drop and a second voltage drop between charge distribution pins and charge sensing pins of the control device. Respective differences are calculated between the first voltage drop and the second voltage drop sensed with the first current and the second current activated, respectively. These differences are compared with respective thresholds and an open circuit condition is declared as a result of the differences calculated reaching these thresholds.

Abstract: A charging port cover and/or a fuel cap module for a motor vehicle for receiving or attaching at least one interface, which is used for charging and/or refueling a motor vehicle-side energy accumulator. The charging port cover and/or the fuel cap module also serves to fasten and mount at least one device having light sources. The at least one device illuminates both the charging port cover and/or the fuel cap module and a current charge level and/or a current fuel level of the motor vehicle-side energy accumulator. The charging port cover and/or the fuel cap module has a first opening and a second opening adjacent thereto. The first opening and the second opening are oriented such that emitted or deliverable light of the mounted at least one device can emerge from the first opening in a direction of an operator of the motor vehicle and from the second opening in a direction of the at least one interface for charging and/or refueling the motor vehicle-side energy accumulator.