US 12,187,155 B2
Battery swap station
Tolunay Kayaarasi, Istanbul (TR)
Assigned to T.C. PIRI REIS UNIVERSITESI, Istanbul (TR)
Appl. No. 17/640,348
Filed by T.C. PIRI REIS UNIVERSITESI, Istanbul (TR)
PCT Filed Nov. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/TR2019/050975
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 4, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/061060, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019/14788 (TR), filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0332211 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B60L 53/80 (2019.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/35 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/80 (2019.02) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); H02J 7/007 (2013.01); H02J 7/35 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0455 (2013.01); H02J 2300/22 (2020.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operating method for swap stations for switching power batteries of electric vehicles, comprising the following steps of:
S2001, when a vehicle enters a swap station, placing the vehicle into a mechatronically correct position by a main programmable logic controller (PLC),
S2002, identifying a number plate of the vehicle through a number plate reading system,
S2003, opening a bonnet or a cap of the vehicle, wherein the step of opening is scanned optically,
S2004, directing a battery label scanner and a battery removal robot by the main PLC,
S2005, scanning a vehicle battery via a barcode or a radio frequency identification (RFID),
S2006, switching a replacement control to a transport and control unit for performing a status and stock check of the vehicle battery through the main PLC and recording data sent,
S2007, giving instruction by the transport and control unit to a battery replacement and automation unit to move and disassemble,
S2008, taking a removed battery on an empty battery conveyor belt and transporting the removed battery to an empty battery storage,
S2009, informing the main PLC by the transport and controlling unit and the battery replacement and automation unit on a transport process,
S2010, giving a command by the main PLC to scan a full battery in a full battery storage via an RFID system or a barcode system and giving a loading command to the transport and control unit,
S2011, giving a first instruction by the transport and control unit to the battery replacement and automation unit to retrieve, transport and install the full battery from the full battery storage,
S2012, giving a second instruction by the transport and control unit to bring the full battery to the vehicle through a full battery conveyor belt,
S2013, completing an installation of the full battery to the vehicle and manually closing a universal bonnet of the vehicle after the installation is completed and optically verifying the universal bonnet of the vehicle is closed,
S2014, the main PLC warns a station management on the empty battery storage by a rack occupancy alarm, and
S2015, the main PLC warns the station management on the full battery storage by the rack occupancy alarm.