SCALABLE HARVESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD

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Patent No.: US None
App. No.: 16/253,918

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Abstract

A scalable energy harvesting system comprising at least one charging control device, at least one energy storage device responsive to the charging control device, at least one energy harvesting device operatively coupled to the charging control device, and a plurality of bus based power connectors operatively coupled to the charging control device.

Claims (38)

1 - 23 . (canceled)

24 . A system, comprising:

at least one charging control device;

an energy storage device; and

a plurality of energy harvesting devices operatively coupled to the charging control device, wherein the charging control device selects a first energy harvesting device to provide current to the energy storage device and a second energy harvesting device to provide current to a load.

25 . The system of claim 24 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine load requirements of the load and to select a second energy harvesting device to provide current to the load as a function of the load requirements of the load.

26 . The system of claim 25 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine load requirements of the load and to select a third energy harvesting device to provide current to the load as a function of the load requirements of the load.

27 . The system of claim 25 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine load requirements of the load and to select a third energy harvesting device to provide current to the energy storage device as a function of the load requirements of the load.

28 . The system of claim 24 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine load requirements of the load and to select a second plurality of energy harvesting devices to provide current to the load as a function of the load requirements of the load.

29 . The system of claim 24 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine load requirements of the load and to select a second energy harvesting device to provide current to the energy storage device as a function of the load requirements of the load.

30 . The system of claim 24 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine load requirements of the load and to select a second plurality of energy harvesting devices to provide current to the energy storage device as a function of the load requirements of the load.

31 . The system of claim 24 wherein the charging control device is configured to determine energy storage requirements of the energy storage device and to select a second energy harvesting devices to provide current to the energy storage device as a function of the energy storage requirements of the energy storage device.

32 . The system of claim 31 wherein selecting the second energy harvesting devices to provide the current to the energy storage device as the function of the energy storage requirements of the energy storage device comprises determining an energy harvesting device of the plurality of energy harvesting devices that has an output that is closest to the energy storage requirements of the energy storage device.

33 . The system of claim 29 wherein selecting the second energy harvesting device to provide the current to the energy storage device as a function of the load requirements of the load comprises determining an energy harvesting device of the plurality of energy harvesting devices that has an output that is not required to meet the load requirements of the load.

34 . The system of claim 25 wherein selecting the second energy harvesting device to provide the current to the load as the function of the load requirements of the load comprises determining an energy harvesting device of the plurality of energy harvesting devices that has an output that is closest to an output that is needed to meet the load requirements of the load.

35 . In a system having at least one charging control device, an energy storage device and a plurality of energy harvesting devices operatively coupled to the charging control device, a method comprising:

selecting a first energy harvesting device with the charging control device to provide current to the energy storage device; and

selecting and a second energy harvesting device with the charging control device to provide current to a load.

36 . The method of claim 35 further comprising: