US 12,283,704 B2
Secondary battery unit and humanoid robot
Masayuki Kamon, Kobe (JP); So Yukizaki, Kobe (JP); Junichi Karasuyama, Kobe (JP); and Yuki Tanaka, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kobe (JP)
Appl. No. 17/638,209
Filed by KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kobe (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 2, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/033231
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/045086, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-159762 (JP), filed on Sep. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0294062 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/244 (2021.01); B25J 19/00 (2006.01); H01M 50/258 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/244 (2021.01) [B25J 19/007 (2013.01); H01M 50/258 (2021.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A humanoid robot comprising:
a body having one or more projecting parts projecting in a sideward direction of the humanoid robot;
a first secondary battery module disposed in at least one of a front part or a back part of the body of a humanoid robot;
a second secondary battery module disposed around the body in a direction intersecting with a front-and-rear direction of the body; and
a base coupling the first secondary battery module to the second secondary battery module, wherein
the base is detachably attached to the body, together with the first secondary battery module and the second secondary battery module; and
the second secondary battery module is fitted in hollow portions of the body adjacent to and disposed around the one or more projecting parts such that the second secondary battery module does not project from the hollow portions of the body and thereby does not interfere with operation of the humanoid robot.