Patent ID: 11878595
Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of sharing power between electrical vehicles comprising:
providing a transmission line extending between a first vehicle and a second vehicle along a first section and further extending beyond the first vehicle along a second section and beyond the second vehicle along a third section; and
transferring power from the first vehicle to the second vehicle along the transmission line such that the first vehicle comprises a first voltage source and a second voltage source and the second vehicle comprises a third voltage source and a fourth voltage source, the first, second, third, and fourth voltage sources being operably coupled to the transmission line, the step of transferring power is spatially directed from the first vehicle to the second vehicle by choosing a phase angle between the second voltage source of the first vehicle and the third voltage source of the second vehicle to facilitate transfer of the electric power along the first section and by choosing a phase angle between the first voltage source and the second voltage source to minimize transfer of the electric power along the second section and a phase angle between the third voltage source and the fourth voltage source to minimize transfer of the electric power along the third section.