US 11,752,890 B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for charging personal mobility vehicles via docks
Yannik Harpin, Montreal, CA (US); Alexander Timothy Dixon, San Anselmo, CA (US); Marie-Pierre Gendron, Mercier (CA); Carl Germain, Quebec (CA); Rochus Emanuel Jacob, San Francisco, CA (US); Kelly Erin Johnson, Oakland, CA (US); Carlos Henrique Petzl Lorenz, Montreal, CA (US); Nicholaus Ian Lubinski, Fairfax, CA (US); Timothy Rex Martin, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Paul Merrill, San Francisco, CA (US); Cyril Francis Meyer, III, San Francisco, CA (US); Jacqueline Tandler, San Francisco, CA (US); and Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/457,795.
Prior Publication US 2020/0406772 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. B60L 53/31 (2019.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/68 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/31 (2019.02) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); B60L 53/68 (2019.02); B60L 2200/12 (2013.01); B60L 2200/24 (2013.01); B60L 2270/36 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a mount component that is mountable to a structural component of a personal mobility vehicle, wherein the mount component is mountable to any of at least one type of bicycle at a first position and at least one type of scooter at a second position, and wherein a docking point of a dock is configured to be interfaceable with any of the at least one type of bike at the first position and the at least one type of scooter at the second position;
a dock interface component that is adapted to securely interface with the dock via a gravity-based interaction between the dock interface component and the dock, wherein the dock comprises a communication component that is configured to send one or more messages regarding the personal mobility vehicle to a server managing a fleet of different types of vehicles including the personal mobility vehicle, and wherein the communication component of the dock is further configured to receive instructions from the server based on the one or more messages sent by the dock; and
an electrical component of the dock interface component configured to receive power from a charging component on the dock that is connected to a power source, wherein the electrical component receives the power based on the gravity-based interaction securely interfacing the dock interface component with the dock.