US 12,351,053 B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for charging personal mobility vehicles via docks
Yannik Harpin, Montreal (CA); 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); Nicholaus Ian Lubinski, Fairfax, CA (US); Timothy Rex Martin, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Paul Merrill, San Francisco, CA (US); Cyril Francis Meyer, 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 Jul. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/359,778.
Application 18/359,778 is a continuation of application No. 16/457,795, filed on Jun. 28, 2019, granted, now 11,752,890.
Prior Publication US 2023/0373331 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
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)] 20 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; and
a dock interface component that is adapted to securely interface with the dock via an interaction between the dock interface component and the dock, wherein a bottom surface of the dock interface component has a notch;
wherein the bottom surface of the dock interface component is configured to slide up a ramp of the dock when the personal mobility vehicle is pushed toward the dock, and when the dock interface component moves past an end of the ramp, gravity pulls the dock interface component downward, causing the notch of the dock interface component to mate with a protrusion of the dock, and
wherein a front wheel of the personal mobility vehicle is lifted off and raised out of contact with a surface when the dock interface component is securely interfaced with the dock.