US 12,233,741 B2
Vehicle for container transport with electric motor and battery
Christophe Gaussin, Gandvaux (CH)
Assigned to Milestone Factory SA, Lausanne (CH)
Appl. No. 17/254,502
Filed by MILESTONE FACTORY SA, Lausanne (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/066442
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/243560, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18 55611 (FR), filed on Jun. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0122262 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. B60L 53/80 (2019.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/80 (2019.02) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0461 (2013.01); B60L 2200/36 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/14 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle for container transport comprising:
rolling means; and
a chassis being mounted on top of said rolling means, having lateral sides, and being comprised of at least one accommodation extending from at least one lateral side of said lateral sides so as to form a recess having an upper recess portion having an upper opening, a lower recess portion being opposite said upper recess portion, and a side recess portion being between said upper recess portion and said lower recess portion and having a side opening;
a battery being mounted in said recess so as to provide a self-contained electrical energy supply to an electric motor means connected to said rolling means for driving said rolling means and being comprised of at least one battery module,
wherein said at least one accommodation is comprised of means for lateral insertion and support of said at least one battery module; and
means for electrical interconnection with said at least one battery module within said recess,
wherein said means for lateral insertion and support of said at least one battery module is comprised of said side opening and a support base in said lower recess portion, said at least one battery module resting on said support base,
wherein said support base is comprised of abutment flanges having a lower portion permanently extending from a periphery of said lower recess portion of said recess and inside said lower recess portion of said recess and a side portion permanently extending from a periphery of said side recess portion of said recess and inside said side recess portion of said recess so as to ensure transverse and longitudinal immobilization of said at least one battery module, and
wherein said support base forms a bottom opening in said recess so as to pass a lifting means to said least one battery module through said bottom opening around said lower portion of said abutment flanges concurrent with said transverse and longitudinal immobilization on said lower recess portion of said at least one battery module by said side portion, said lifting means able to lift and pass said at least one battery module through said side opening over said side portion of said abutment flanges and through said upper opening.