Method of Roadway Construction for Embedding EV Highway Charging Capability

Method of Roadway Construction for Embedding EV Highway Charging Capability     Dec. 29, 2012

Application of roadway composite (example, asphalt or concrete aggregate) with a strip of conductive impurity that is applied side to side as the composite is poured providing a back and forth ribbon like pattern on the final surface.  This conductive ribbon can be continuous on the road surface, or broken at intervals of example 1 mile.  A constant current induced in the ribbon will induce an electromagnetic field so that a vehicle travelling above the roadway can inductively leach charge while travelling.

Roadsurface with impure conductive ribbon inlaid. 

Methods include but not limited to:

* bulk asphalt laying with channeling by steam roller followed by impurity pouring or installation

* integrated roadway installer with integrated impurity deposition

* pre-manufactured impurity film applied prior to final surface pouring

Mark Wright.

Method and Apparatus for Detecting Water Turbidity and Pollution in Gas Environments (Smog, smoke, soot, etc.)

Using multiple barcodes, an image detector, and barcode detection can be a method to distinguish increasing degrees of turbidity in liquid or impinged clarity in the air or a gas chamber.

Turbid, polluted, or insufficiently treated water or liquid will decrease the clarity of the media.  The same occurs when smoke, soot, or other pollution impinges gaseous media.

Barcodes, 2D barcodes, QR codes are used through scanning to detect embedded data for tagging purposes.  The process of scanning and identifying the codes requires pattern recognition.  Thus regardless of the pattern, finer granularity will be harder to detect except in bright light conditions.  This affect can be taken advantage of by having two or more codes, either separately printed, or superimposed on one another such that the smallest pattern that can be easily discerned under a particular brightness of light will tell how clear the media is.

The following pictures show a representation of three patterns that are QR or 2D Barcodes that would be placed in the media for pattern recognition.

 Separate images.

 Superimposed images.

The size and pattern would be chosen so that differing ease of detection under controlled, calibrated, or known lighting conditions would indicate the clarity of the medium.  Detection of the smallest patterns would only occur under the clearest conditions.

-- Mark Wright.