US 11,972,653 B2
Lock, vehicle parking system, and vehicle parking method
Shengwei Yang, Beijing (CN); Qi Zhang, Beijing (CN); Dong Wang, Beijing (CN); Jinlong Zheng, Beijing (CN); Lihong Yang, Beijing (CN); Sa Li, Beijing (CN); Xingjun Shu, Beijing (CN); Yajun Guo, Beijing (CN); Yafeng Wang, Beijing (CN); Jianye Tang, Beijing (CN); Gaowei Chen, Beijing (CN); Yanchao Zhang, Beijing (CN); Desheng Xiang, Beijing (CN); and Xi Chen, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN); and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/051,302
Filed by BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN); and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Mar. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/078929
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 28, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/215920, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910336043.X (CN), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0248851 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
Int. Cl. G07C 9/00 (2020.01); E05B 15/10 (2006.01); E05B 47/00 (2006.01); G07B 15/06 (2011.01); E05B 71/00 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 9/00896 (2013.01) [E05B 15/102 (2013.01); E05B 47/0001 (2013.01); G07B 15/063 (2013.01); E05B 2047/0058 (2013.01); E05B 71/00 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle lock, comprising: a vehicle-locking device, a vehicle lock switch, a vehicle lock controller, a vehicle lock communication circuit, and a battery, wherein
the battery is connected to the vehicle lock switch, the vehicle lock controller, and the vehicle lock communication circuit, and is configured to supply electrical energy to the vehicle lock switch, the vehicle lock controller, and the vehicle lock communication circuit;
the vehicle lock communication circuit is connected to the vehicle lock controller, and configured to transmit a vehicle-locking instruction or a vehicle-unlocking instruction to the vehicle lock controller when receiving the vehicle-locking instruction or the vehicle-unlocking instruction from a second device located outside the vehicle lock; and
the vehicle lock controller is connected to the vehicle lock switch, the vehicle lock switch is connected to the vehicle-locking device, and the vehicle lock controller is configured to control, when receiving the vehicle-locking instruction or the vehicle-unlocking instruction, the vehicle-locking device to perform a vehicle locking operation or an unlocking operation through the vehicle lock switch;
wherein the vehicle-locking device comprises a shell, a lock pin, and a movable lock bolt, the shell is of an unclosed ring shape, the lock bolt is also of an unclosed ring shape, at least a part of the lock bolt is movable in the shell, the lock bolt can be enclosed with the lock shell to form a closed ring shape, the lock bolt is provided with a first groove and a second groove; and the vehicle lock switch is connected to the lock pin and configured to control the lock pin to be in a first state or a second state;
when the vehicle lock switch controls the lock pin to be in the first state, an end of the lock pin proximate to the lock bolt is located in the first groove, and the vehicle lock is in a locked state; and
when the vehicle lock switch controls the lock pin to be in the second state, the end of the lock pin proximate to the lock bolt is located in the second groove, and the vehicle lock is in an unlocked state.