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GB2481588A
GB2481588A GB1010803.3A GB201010803A GB2481588A GB 2481588 A GB2481588 A GB 2481588A GB 201010803 A GB201010803 A GB 201010803A GB 2481588 A GB2481588 A GB 2481588A
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Ian Guy Hobday
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LIBERTY ELECTRIC CARS Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60H—ARRANGEMENTS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES
    • B60H1/00—Heating, cooling or ventilating [HVAC] devices
    • B60H1/00421—Driving arrangements for parts of a vehicle air-conditioning
    • B60H1/00428—Driving arrangements for parts of a vehicle air-conditioning electric
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R16/00—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for
    • B60R16/02—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements
    • B60R16/03—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L1/00—Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles
    • B60L1/02—Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles to electric heating circuits
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L8/00—Electric propulsion with power supply from forces of nature, e.g. sun or wind
    • H01L31/048—
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H10F—INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION
    • H10F19/00—Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one photovoltaic cell covered by group H10F10/00, e.g. photovoltaic modules
    • H10F19/80—Encapsulations or containers for integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, having photovoltaic cells
    • H01L27/301—
    • H01L31/0482—
    • H01L51/42—
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02S—GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
    • H02S20/00—Supporting structures for PV modules
    • H02S20/20—Supporting structures directly fixed to an immovable object
    • H02S20/22—Supporting structures directly fixed to an immovable object specially adapted for buildings
    • H02S20/23—Supporting structures directly fixed to an immovable object specially adapted for buildings specially adapted for roof structures
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H10K—ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES
    • H10K30/00—Organic devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H10K—ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES
    • H10K39/00—Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one organic radiation-sensitive element covered by group H10K30/00
    • H10K39/10—Organic photovoltaic [PV] modules; Arrays of single organic PV cells
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/50—Photovoltaic [PV] energy
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/60—Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
    • Y02T10/7072—Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/80—Technologies aiming to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions common to all road transportation technologies
    • Y02T10/88—Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/80—Technologies aiming to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions common to all road transportation technologies
    • Y02T10/90—Energy harvesting concepts as power supply for auxiliaries' energy consumption, e.g. photovoltaic sun-roof

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Abstract

The photovoltaic solar cells covering the entire roof of the car in a flexible format that cannot be damaged by car wash brushes, provide electricity which is either directed to batteries to be stored, or used by the cars peripheral systems. When directed to the batteries an extra 10 miles per day can be achieved (based on full sunlight summer day in UK). When directed to the cars peripheral systems, the electricity generated can run the air conditioning in a power saving mode for up to 2 hours without draining the main battery pack. This keeps the car cool in summer when parked, or can warm it up in winter when cold.

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PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS
Descripdon Car roof mounted photovoltaic cells for the production of electricity for replenishing batteries used to power an electric car OR to provide back up eleciricity to power peripheral systems in the car (e.g. air conditioningheating unit) when stationaiy. * * *
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Claims (4)

  1. Claims 1. The Car roof mounted photovoltaic cells covers the entire roof of the car in a flexible format that cannot be damaged by car wash brushes, pmvides electricity wbich is either directed to batteries to be stored, or used by the cars peripheral systems.
  2. 2. The sun light is turned into electricity and directed to the batteries where it can add an extra 10 miles per day of distance that the car can cover, based on full sunlight summer day in UK.
  3. 3. When the electricity generated by the sun light is directed to the cars peripheral systems, such electricity can run the air conditioning/heating unit in a power saving mode for up to 2 hours without draining the main battery pack
  4. 4. When air conditioning or heating unit is activated by the electricity generated by the photovoltaic cell, the car would be cool in summer when parked and warm in winter independently of the inain battery or energy source in the car. *S ***** * S * * S..S S.. *5SIS I.S*::r: INTELLECTUAL . ... PROPERTY OFFICE Application No: GB 1010803.3 Examiner: Gareth Lewis Claims searched: All Date of search: 25 October 2011 Patents Act 1977: Search Report under Section 17 Documents considered to be relevant: Category Relevant Identity of document and passage or figure of particular relevance to claims X 1-4 US2O1O/018785A1 (TOYOTA) See especially figures and paragraphs 24-26, 3 1-33, 39 X 1-4 GB2437946 A (FORD) See figures, abstract, pages 4-6 and 10 X 1 at least W02007/090966 Al (SNCF) See figures and english abstract.X 1 at least US3943726 A (MILLER) See abstract and figures X 1,3,4 at JP11034647 A least (DAIDO) See all figures and English abstracts from EPO/JPO and WPllThomson X 1 at least DE102007052554 Al (SCHURIG) See figures and English abstracts from EPO and WPllThomson X 1,4 at DE202005016758U1 least (SEMMLER) See figures and English abstracts from EPO and WPllThomson Categories: X Document indicating lack of novelty or inventive A Document indicating technological background and/or state step of the art.Y Document indicating lack of inventive step if P Document published on or after the declared priority date but combined with one or more other documents of before the filing date of this invention.same category.& Member of the same patent family E Patent document published on or after, but with priority date earlier than, the filing date of this application.Field of Search:Search of GB, EP, WO & US patent documents classified in the following areas of the UKCX: Worldwide search of patent documents classified in the following areas of the IPC HO1L The following online and other databases have been used in the preparation of this search report Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office www.ipo.gov.uk *.:r: INTELLECTUAL . ... PROPERTY OFFICE Online: EPODOC, WPI International Classification: Subclass Subgroup Valid From HO1L 0031/048 01/01/2006 B6OR 0016/03 01/01/2006 Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office www.ipo.gov.uk
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Citations (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US3943726A (en) * 1975-03-20 1976-03-16 Lawrence Peska Associates, Inc. Solar cooling system for an automobile
JPH1134647A (en) * 1997-07-15 1999-02-09 Daido Hoxan Inc Cooling and heating system for automobile
DE202005016758U1 (en) * 2005-10-26 2006-01-05 Semmler, Artur Vehicle, e.g. automobile, goods, vehicle, motor home, excavator, ship, aircraft, has photovoltaic system for supplying electricity to different devices, e.g. refrigeration boxes, fans, heaters, heated windscreens, air conditioning devices
WO2007090966A1 (en) * 2006-02-08 2007-08-16 Societe Nationale Des Chemins De Fer Francais Flexible solar panel, especially for a railway vehicle
GB2437946A (en) * 2006-05-11 2007-11-14 Ford Global Tech Llc Vehicle solar energy system
DE102007052554A1 (en) * 2007-10-29 2009-05-07 Joachim Schurig Solar roof-construction for car, has solar cells electrically connected with each other and embedded at upper side facing sun, and at lower side for forming solar foil in flexible plastic, where solar foil is placed on body of roof
US20100018785A1 (en) * 2008-07-02 2010-01-28 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Electric charging roof on an automobile

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3943726A (en) * 1975-03-20 1976-03-16 Lawrence Peska Associates, Inc. Solar cooling system for an automobile
JPH1134647A (en) * 1997-07-15 1999-02-09 Daido Hoxan Inc Cooling and heating system for automobile
DE202005016758U1 (en) * 2005-10-26 2006-01-05 Semmler, Artur Vehicle, e.g. automobile, goods, vehicle, motor home, excavator, ship, aircraft, has photovoltaic system for supplying electricity to different devices, e.g. refrigeration boxes, fans, heaters, heated windscreens, air conditioning devices
WO2007090966A1 (en) * 2006-02-08 2007-08-16 Societe Nationale Des Chemins De Fer Francais Flexible solar panel, especially for a railway vehicle
GB2437946A (en) * 2006-05-11 2007-11-14 Ford Global Tech Llc Vehicle solar energy system
DE102007052554A1 (en) * 2007-10-29 2009-05-07 Joachim Schurig Solar roof-construction for car, has solar cells electrically connected with each other and embedded at upper side facing sun, and at lower side for forming solar foil in flexible plastic, where solar foil is placed on body of roof
US20100018785A1 (en) * 2008-07-02 2010-01-28 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Electric charging roof on an automobile

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