An energy recovery system for a vehicle including a battery assembly with a battery providing input electricity, and an amplifier receiving the input electricity and providing amplified input electricity, and a wheel assembly in contact with road deformations to provide output electricity to the battery assembly. The tire assembly having a tire assembly with a tire, and a plurality of electroactive modules affixed to the tire to provide the output electricity when the vehicle goes over the road deformations, and a rim assembly with a rim affixed to the tire, and a dual slip ring connector affixed to the rim transmitting the amplified input electricity from the amplifier to the plurality of electroactive modules and the output electricity from the plurality of electroactive modules to the battery, while the vehicle is in motion.
TIRE ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM
2018-11-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | H02N Elektrische Maschinen, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR / B60G VEHICLE SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENTS , Radaufhängungen und Federungen für Fahrzeuge / B60K Anordnung oder Einbau von Antriebseinheiten oder von Kraft- bzw. Drehmomentübertragungen in Fahrzeugen , ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES / B60L PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES , Antrieb von elektrisch angetriebenen Fahrzeugen |