Patent ID: 11897349
Assignee: DRIV AUTOMOTIVE INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a first hitch provided on a first vehicle and configured to connect to a second hitch provided on a second vehicle;
a first soft hitch module disposed in the first vehicle; and
a second soft hitch module disposed in the second vehicle, wherein the first soft hitch module and the second soft hitch module communicate with each other, each of the first and second soft hitch comprising a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable memory comprising instructions that are executable by the processor, wherein the instructions include:
transmitting, by the second soft hitch module, a charge request signal when an electrical charge of the second vehicle is less than a threshold;
receiving, by the first soft hitch module, the charge request signal;
transmitting, by the first soft hitch module, a charge verification signal to the second soft hitch module when the first vehicle and the second vehicle are disconnected and moving within a threshold distance;
positioning the first hitch relative to the second hitch to allow the first hitch to be connected to the second hitch when the first and second vehicles are moving;
determining whether the first hitch is connected to the second hitch;
performing, by the first soft hitch module, a charging control operation based on the determination of whether the first hitch is connected to the second hitch when the first and second vehicles are moving.