公开(公告)号：US11318859B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US15943581

申请日：2018-04-02

申请人： Asylon, Inc.

发明人： Damon C. Henry ,  Adam I. Mohamed ,  Brent McLaughlin ,  David Dones

IPC分类号： B60L53/80 ,  B64F1/00 ,  B64F1/20 ,  B60L53/36 ,  B60L53/35 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D45/08 ,  B64F1/12 ,  B64F1/36 ,  G05D1/06 ,  G05D1/00

摘要： A reconfigurable system capable of autonomously exchanging material from unmanned vehicles of various types and sizes. The system comprises an environmental enclosure, a landing area, a universal mechanical system to load and unload material from the unmanned vehicle, and a central processor that manages the aforementioned tasks. The landing area may comprise a one or more visible or non-visible markers/emitters capable of generating composite images to assist in landing the unmanned vehicle upon the reconfigurable, autonomous system.

公开(公告)号：US20220118865A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17427997

申请日：2020-01-17

申请人： Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

发明人： Alexander EWALD ,  Bernhard HOESS ,  Manfred HOLZMANN

IPC分类号： B60L53/16 ,  B60L53/35

摘要： A motor vehicle has an electrical contact-making unit, which is fixed to the vehicle, for making electrical contact with an external charging cable. The contact-making unit includes electrical contacts and a movable cover which can be moved between a protective position, in which the cover covers the electrical contacts and thereby protects them against soiling and/or water, and a charging position, in which the electrical contacts are accessible from the area surrounding the vehicle. The cover here is cuboidal and in the protective position it at least partially surrounds the electrical contacts. In the charging position, the cover is located next to the electrical contacts, wherein the cover can be moved between the charging position and the protective position in a manner operated by external force.

公开(公告)号：US20220097544A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17487361

申请日：2021-09-28

申请人： SINTOKOGIO, LTD.

发明人： Yoshikane TANAAMI ,  Koji ITO

IPC分类号： B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/16 ,  H01R13/66

摘要： The present invention reduces the possibility that a connector for charging cannot be appropriately inserted into a power feeding port of an electric automobile.
The information processing device identifies a position of a power feeding port provided in an electric automobile and controls an arm portion, on the basis of a result of identification, so as to move a connector to a position facing the power feeding port. The information processing device controls the arm portion so as to insert the connector into the power feeding port. At this time, the information processing device controls the arm portion, on the basis of a value detected by a force sensor, so that a force along a direction other than an insertion direction in which the connector is inserted and/or a torque have/has a magnitude not greater than a threshold.

公开(公告)号：US11267583B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16758183

申请日：2018-09-28

申请人： Menachem Fehler

发明人： Menachem Fehler

IPC分类号： B64F1/36 ,  B60L53/66 ,  B60L58/12 ,  B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/80

摘要： An apparatus (1) for changing a power source of a drone, the apparatus (1) comprises an adaptor (2) for securing a power source (3) to a drone and comprising a first energy connection for supplying energy from the power source (3) and a second energy connection for supplying energy to a drone, wherein one of the first and second energy connections comprises a pair of energy links (20, 21) which are movable between a first position (FIG. 5) to facilitate energy supply and secure the power source (3) to the drone and a second position (FIG. 4) to interrupt energy supply and enable the power source (3) to be removed from the drone.

公开(公告)号：US11267357B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16661489

申请日：2019-10-23

申请人： TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： Masaaki Sato ,  Satoshi Kondo

IPC分类号： B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/16

摘要： A charging system includes: a plurality of charging devices, each including a device main body having one or more charging cables connected to the main body, the charging cables being equipped with respective charging plugs; and one or more arm mechanisms each being configured to grasp any one of the charging plugs of the charging devices and automatically insert and remove the grasped charging plug to and from a charging port of a vehicle located in a charging space. Further, a number of arm mechanisms is smaller than a number of charging cables.

公开(公告)号：US20220014038A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-13

申请号：US17484166

申请日：2021-09-24

申请人： GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

发明人： Alan B. Martin ,  Matthew C. Kirklin ,  Charles E. Freese, V ,  Margarita M. Mann ,  William H. Pettit

IPC分类号： H02J7/34 ,  B60L53/35 ,  H01M10/44 ,  B60L53/54 ,  B60L53/30 ,  B60L53/12 ,  B60L53/14 ,  B62D65/10 ,  B62D65/12

摘要： Presented are mobile charging stations for recharging electrified vehicles, methods for making/using such mobile charging stations, and parking facilities equipped with such mobile charging stations. A mobile charging station includes a frame with multiple drive wheels and a prime mover operable to drive the wheels to propel the charging station. A hydrogen storage container and fuel cell are mounted to the frame. The fuel cell oxidizes hydrogen received from the storage container to generate electrical current. An electrical coupling mechanism connects the fuel cell to a traction battery pack of an electric-drive vehicle. A resident or remote controller is programmed to receive charge requests to recharge vehicles, and responsively determines path plan data for the mobile charging station. The controller commands the prime mover to propel the mobile charging station from the charger's origin to a charger destination, and enables the fuel cell to transmit electrical current to the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11220190B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-11

申请号：US16762329

申请日：2018-10-05

申请人： VOLKSWAGEN AG ,  KUKA AG

发明人： Daniel Schütz ,  Stephan Herold ,  Norbert Settele

IPC分类号： B60L53/00 ,  B60L53/57 ,  B60L53/302 ,  B60L53/30 ,  B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/31

摘要： A mobile charging station for the electric charging of electric transportation vehicles having at least one battery unit, at least one charging interface for charging the battery unit, at least one second interface for charging an electric transportation vehicle from the battery unit, a method or mechanism for automated navigation of the mobile charging station and a method or mechanism for receiving a charging request. A method for charging an electric transportation vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11214160B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-04

申请号：US16809821

申请日：2020-03-05

申请人： GM Cruise Holdings LLC

发明人： Adam Mandel-Senft ,  Michael Frank Schmidt ,  Robert Tweedy ,  Kyle Vogt ,  Divya Thakur

IPC分类号： B60L53/00 ,  B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/10 ,  B60L53/16 ,  B60L53/68 ,  B60L53/53 ,  B60L53/30

摘要： The present disclosure provides a method comprising, subsequent to arrival of a vehicle at a charging station, establishing communications between a vehicle side autonomous charging system associated with the vehicle and a charging station side autonomous charging system associated with the charging station; receiving by the charging station side autonomous charging system at least one signal from the vehicle side autonomous charging system, wherein the at least one signal is indicative of a location of a charging port of the vehicle; and using the received at least one signal to guide a robotic extension arm of the charging station to a location proximate the vehicle charging port.

公开(公告)号：US20210387539A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-16

申请号：US17286988

申请日：2019-10-31

申请人： HIRSCHMANN AUTOMOTIVE GMBH ,  BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT

发明人： Marco WEISS ,  Werner JAEGER ,  Bernhard HOESS ,  Manfred HOLZMANN ,  Alexander EWALD

IPC分类号： B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/16 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H01R24/38 ,  H01R13/453 ,  B25J15/00

摘要： A device (1) for conductive charging, having a vehicle unit (2) that is fixedly mounted on a vehicle, and a stationary, but moveably mounted robot unit (3), wherein: the vehicle unit (2) can be operatively connected to the robot unit (3) in order to carry out the charging process; the two units (2, 3) each have a housing (4, 10) in which associated contact elements (5, 11) are disposed; in the robot unit (3), the contact elements (5) are recessed in the housing (4) of the robot unit (3); the contact elements (11) in the housing (10) of the vehicle unit (2) are fixed in place; and the vehicle unit (2) has a centering cone (24) and the robot unit (3) has a mating cone (25), or vice versa, as centering means which can be mutually operatively connected, characterised in that the tapering angles of the centering cone (24) and of the mating cone (25) are different.

公开(公告)号：US20210380008A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-09

申请号：US17410085

申请日：2021-08-24

申请人： GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

发明人： Alan B. Martin ,  Matthew C. Kirklin ,  Margarita M. Mann ,  William H. Pettit ,  Charles E. Freese, V

IPC分类号： B60L53/60 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H01M8/04828 ,  B60L53/35 ,  B60L53/54 ,  B60L53/10

摘要： A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell generator, a rechargeable energy storage circuit, an auxiliary load, a converter circuit, and a switch circuit. The fuel cell generator is operable to generate electrical power in a stack output signal. The auxiliary load is powered by the rechargeable energy storage circuit while in a first mode, and powered by a local signal while in a second mode. The converter circuit is operable to convert the stack output signal into a plurality of recharge signals while in the first mode and in the second mode, and convert the stack output signal into the local signal while in the second mode. The switch circuit is operable switch the plurality of recharge signals to one or more electric vehicles, and switch the local signal to the auxiliary load while in the second mode.