Apple could have canceled the Apple Automobile undertaking, nevertheless it continues to be granted patents associated to automobiles. The newest (quantity US 11964584 B2) is for an “Accent Energy Pack” for an electrical automotive.
Concerning the patent
The patent relates typically to electrical charging and particularly to make use of of an adjunct energy pack to enhance charging charges and lengthen operational vary in a transferring object akin to a automobile. Within the patent, Apple notes {that a} power-storing machine within the type of a battery can be utilized in electrical or hybrid-electric transferring objects to generate driving pressure, both alone or together with an inside combustion engine. In a fully-electric transferring object, the battery should be externally charged. In some examples, the exterior cost is equipped utilizing gear that converts alternating present (AC) electrical energy equipped from a 100 volt (V) to 120V outlet, akin to an outlet present in a house or workplace equipped utilizing an electrical energy grid, to direct present (DC) that’s equipped to the battery within the transferring object.
Nonetheless, the charging charge utilizing a 100V to 120V AC supply will be sluggish, including from 1-to-5 miles of vary per hour of charging time to vary. To assist longer journeys (akin to 50, 100, or 200 miles), an prolonged cost time for the battery is required.
In different examples, a house or workplace will be fitted with a 200V to 240V outlet to enhance charging charges to 10 to 60 miles added vary per hour of charging time, however this could price 1000’s of {dollars} to put in. What’s extra, Apple says that not one of the 100V to 240V AC vitality conversion gear serves to increase the general vary of the transferring object.
Apple’s patent is for a “energy ecosystem” that includes an influence interface on an electrical automotive. It additionally includes an adjunct energy pack is that may be charged at a house or workplace, provide cost to the automobile energy interface, be secured to the automobile, and ship accent sensor data captured by the accent sensor to on the automobile or the house/workplace charging system.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “An influence ecosystem is disclosed that features a premises energy interface related to a premises, a transferring object energy interface related to a transferring object, and an adjunct energy pack comprising an adjunct sensor. The accent energy pack is configured to obtain {an electrical} cost from the premises energy interface, provide {an electrical} cost to the transferring object energy interface, and be releasably secured to the transferring object. The accent energy pack is configured to ship accent sensor data captured by the accent sensor to a minimum of one of many premises or the transferring object.”
