Patent ID: 9626258
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B60L,G06F,H02J,H04B,Y02T

Claim:
1. A method of operating a wireless charging device in an electric vehicle, the wireless charging device configured to wirelessly receive power via a wireless field generated by a transmitter, the method comprising: detecting a system fault indicative of one or more faults in the wireless charging device in the electric vehicle or in the transmitter; mapping the detected system fault to a fault severity level from a plurality of fault severity levels, based on a type of the system fault detected, wherein a total number of types of detectable system faults is greater than a total number of the plurality of fault severity levels; determining whether to notify a user of the detected system fault based on the fault severity level; and recovering from the detected system fault without providing user notification for at least one fault severity level of the plurality of fault severity levels.