US 12,145,467 B2
Battery storage system for electric refuse vehicle
Joshua D. Rocholl, Rochester, MN (US); Derek A. Wente, Austin, WI (US); John T. Kellander, Oronoco, MN (US); Cody D. Clifton, Mapleton, MN (US); Vincent Hoover, Byron, MN (US); Zachary L. Klein, Rochester, MN (US); Clinton T. Weckwerth, Pine Island, MN (US); Skylar A. Wachter, Dodge Center, MN (US); Chad Smith, Omro, WI (US); and Neil Dekarske, Oshkosh, WI (US)
Assigned to Oshkosh Corporation, Oshkosh, WI (US)
Filed by Oshkosh Corporation, Oshkosh, WI (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/362,373.
Application 17/362,373 is a continuation of application No. 17/007,622, filed on Aug. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,148,550.
Application 17/007,622 is a continuation of application No. 16/851,149, filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/842,934, filed on May 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0323437 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. B60L 53/80 (2019.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01); B65F 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/80 (2019.02) [B60L 50/64 (2019.02); B60L 50/66 (2019.02); B65F 3/00 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0416 (2013.01); B60K 2001/045 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0461 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refuse vehicle comprising:
a chassis;
a body assembly coupled to the chassis, the body assembly defining a refuse compartment; and
a plurality of battery cells positioned within a modular housing and detachably coupled to the modular housing so that the plurality of battery cells are removable from and insertable into the modular housing through an end of the modular housing without removing the modular housing from the body assembly, the modular housing extending over a top roof panel of the body assembly directly above a pair of rear tractive elements of the refuse vehicle and coupled with a lateral side of the body assembly through a linkage, wherein lateral sides of the modular housing are directly viewable by a technician on a ground surface at a position laterally outwards of the lateral sides of the modular housing without requiring movement of a housing component.