A charging station for an electric vehicle, including payment processing over a communications network, is disclosed. The charging station includes a housing having an elongated shape emulating a parking bumper, including an elongated planar element disposed at an acute angle to a floor and designed to provide a barrier to wheels of the electric vehicle, an inductive charging element, a sensor for detecting a location of the electric vehicle in relation to the planar element of the charging station, a radio frequency receiver for receiving a signal including a unique identifier associated with the electric vehicle, a network interface controller configured for transmitting the unique identifier to a server and for receiving confirmation of payment for inductive charging provided to the electric vehicle and a processor configured for activating the inductive charging element to provide inductive charging to the electric vehicle responsive to receiving the confirmation of payment.
Parking lot bumper inductive charger with automatic payment processing
2020-11-17
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | H02J CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER , Schaltungsanordnungen oder Systeme für die Abgabe oder Verteilung elektrischer Leistung / B60L PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES , Antrieb von elektrisch angetriebenen Fahrzeugen / G07F Selbstkassierende und ähnliche Geräte , COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS |
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