US 11,840,156 B2
Battery locking/unlocking system, electric vehicle battery swapping control system and control method thereof
Zhihao Chen, Shanghai (CN); Chunhua Huang, Shanghai (CN); and Danliang Qiu, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to SHANGHAI DIANBA NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shanghai (CN); and AULTON NEW ENERGY AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY GROUP, Shanghai (CN)
Appl. No. 16/768,087
Filed by SHANGHAI DIANBA NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shanghai (CN); and AULTON NEW ENERGY AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY GROUP, Shanghai (CN)
PCT Filed Feb. 12, 2018, PCT No. PCT/CN2018/076365
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/104880, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 6, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201711244224.7 (CN), filed on Nov. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0317081 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. H01M 50/202 (2021.01); H01M 50/264 (2021.01); B60L 53/80 (2019.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60S 5/06 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/80 (2019.02) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60S 5/06 (2013.01); H01M 50/202 (2021.01); H01M 50/264 (2021.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
 
1. A battery locking/unlocking system, used for a connection between a battery and a fixing base, the battery being provided with a plurality of lock shafts, the fixing base being internally provided with a plurality of lock seats, the lock seats being provided with lock slots for snapping the lock shafts, the lock slots being internally provided with lock tongues, characterized in the battery locking/unlocking system comprises:
a battery swapping device, used for moving the battery;
a lock shaft detection unit, located in the lock slots and used for detecting the locations of the lock shafts in the lock slots and generating location signals;
a lock tongue control unit, used for controlling the lock tongues to fall into the lock slots or retract to the outsides of the lock slots; and
a data exchange unit, separately communicating with the battery swapping device and the lock shaft detection unit;
the lock shaft detection unit sends the location signals to the data exchange unit; the data exchange unit sends the location signals to the battery swapping device, and the battery swapping device adjusts the location of the battery according to the location signals; the battery swapping device further generates a locking stopping instruction or an unlocking instruction according to the location signals and sends the locking stopping instruction or the unlocking instruction to the lock tongue control unit, the lock tongue control unit controls the lock tongues to fall into the lock slots when receiving the locking stopping instruction or controls the lock tongues to retract to the outsides of the lock slots when receiving the unlocking instruction.