US 12,128,781 B2
Vessel automatic berthing wireless charging integrated system and operating method thereof
Min-Long Tsai, New Taipei (TW); Han-Chun Kao, New Taipei (TW); Hung-Hsi Lin, New Taipei (TW); Ta-Hsiu Tseng, New Taipei (TW); Bing-Xian Chen, New Taipei (TW); Cheng-Hsien Hsueh, New Taipei (TW); and Yi-Hsin Chan, New Taipei (TW)
Assigned to SHIP AND OCEAN INDUSTRIES R&DCENTER, New Taipei (TW)
Filed by SHIP AND OCEAN INDUSTRIES R&D CENTER, New Taipei (TW)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/548,382.
Claims priority of application No. 110145903 (TW), filed on Dec. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0173935 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 53/38 (2019.01); B60L 53/36 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/38 (2019.02) [B60L 53/36 (2019.02); B60L 2200/32 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vessel automatic berthing wireless charging integrated system, comprising:
a charging barge, comprising:
a power;
a distribution board, connected with the power;
a locking module control system, connected with the distribution board;
wherein the locking module control system comprises:
a controller;
a wireless communication module, connected with the controller;
a bow berthing module, connected with the controller;
wherein the bow berthing module comprises:
a base, connected with the controller;
a rotatable arm, connected with the base;
a gripper, configured at end of the rotatable arm;
wherein the gripper further comprises a guiding structure and a locking structure;
a side berthing module, connected with the controller;
wherein the side berthing module comprises:
a wireless power supplying module, connected with the distribution board; and
at least one vessel, comprising:
an automatic pilot system;
a vessel controlling system, connected with the automatic pilot system and communicated with the wireless communication module;
a wireless power receiving unit, connected with the vessel controlling system and detachably matched with the wireless power supplying module;
wherein the bow berthing module moors the vessel and the guiding structure of the bow berthing module straightly aligns bow direction of the vessel and then the wireless power supplying module of the side berthing module matches with the wireless power receiving module, charging the vessel.