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A fluid storage and supply device comprising a cryogenic reservoir for storing liquefied fluid, a withdrawing circuit comprising a first withdrawing pipe having a first upstream end connected to the upper part of the reservoir and a second downstream end intended to be connected to a user member, the first withdrawing pipe comprising a first heating heat exchanger situated outside the reservoir and a second heating heat exchanger situated inside the reservoir, the withdrawing circuit comprising a set of valve(s) configured to ensure the passage of a flow of fluid circulating from the first end towards the second end by passing through the first heat exchanger and then through the second heat exchanger or by passing solely through the first heat exchanger without passing through the second heat exchanger, characterized in that the device further comprises a system for pressurizing the reservoir comprising a pressurizing pipe separate from the withdrawing circuit and comprising two ends respectively connected to the upper and lower parts of the reservoir, a vaporizing heat exchanger and a set of valve(s) configured to allow the withdrawal of liquid from the reservoir, the heating thereof in the vaporizing heat exchanger and the reintroduction thereof into the reservoir.

A control system for pre-conditioning a refuse vehicle includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a scheduled deployment time of the refuse vehicle. The processing circuitry is also configured to perform a first pre-conditioning operation by operating a charging system to charge batteries of the refuse vehicle at a first charge rate over a first time interval, and a second charge rate over a second time interval to fully charge the batteries by the scheduled deployment time. The charging system is configured to provide direct current (DC) electrical energy to the batteries for charging. The processing circuitry is also configured to perform multiple other pre-conditioning operations at least partially simultaneously with performing the first pre-conditioning operation.

The invention relates to a cryogenic fluid transfer device comprising a first tank storing a cryogenic fluid, a second cryogenic receiving tank, a fluid transfer circuit connecting the tanks and comprising a first pipe that connects the upper parts of the first and second tanks and has a first valve, a second pipe that connects the lower part of the first tank to the second cryogenic tank and has a pump, the pump and the first valve being configured to place the upper parts of the first and second tanks in fluidic communication, the first pipe comprising a bypass portion equipped with a heater and a set of one or more valves configured to make it possible to modify the temperature of the flow of gas transferred from the second cryogenic tank to the first tank via the first pipe.

To suppress concentration of charging for a plurality of electric vehicles (EV) and achieve leveling. An electric vehicle charging management device 10 that manages charging for a plurality of EVs 40, the electric vehicle charging management device including: a charging time zone information creation unit 121 that creates charging time zone information 1007 indicating a charging schedule for each of the plurality of EVs 40 by using delivery course information 1001 and vehicle information 1003; a power consumption amount calculation unit 122 that calculates time zone-based power consumption amount information 1008 indicating a power consumption amount including an execution charging amount in each of the plurality of time zones; and a charging time zone information change unit 123 that changes the charging time zone information 1007 by changing charging for a changing target electric EV in a maximum time zone that is a time zone having the largest power consumption amount among the plurality of time zones.

A cover assembly for the truck bed of a pick-up type vehicle, said assembly comprising a motorised rollable curtain (1) formed by a plurality of adjacent transverse panels (2), which are continuously connected along their transverse length by hinge joints (3), and an end slat (4), said curtain (1) coupled at one end to a transverse rotatable shaft to allow winding and unwinding thereon, wherein the end slat (4) comprises one or more electric elements (16, 17, 18, 19) connected to a stationary electric element, i.e., a smart-AI control circuit board (9) mounted on the housing box (7), in such a manner that the electric elements (16, 17, 18, 19) are continuously powered during operation of the cover assembly.

The application discloses a wind power blade transportation anti-overturning control method, which comprises the following steps: S1, determining a vehicle dangerous overturning line and inputting vehicle structure parameters; S2, reading sensor information in real time; S3, judging a vehicle running state; S4, calculating related parameters of a limit overturning state of the vehicle in a horizontal state, a low-speed running or parking state of the vehicle; S5, calculating related parameters of the limit overturning state of the vehicle in a high-speed running state; and S6, judging according to the values of five transportation danger coefficients respectively: when all the transportation danger coefficients η are less than or equal to 90%, the wind power blade transportation vehicle is in normal work, and the steps S2 to S6 are circularly performed; otherwise, a display issues a warning. The application also provides a calculation method of the transportation danger coefficient in the wind power blade transportation anti-overturning control. The application can help a driver to comprehensively understand a vehicle working condition, further improve the accuracy of a vehicle safety state judgment, and reduce the overturning phenomenon in the existing wind power blade transportation.

A battery replacement device for vehicles includes a battery module, a first floating structure and a fixing device, the fixing device is used to fix the battery module on the longitudinal beam of the vehicle, the fixing device includes a fixing substrate, the first floating structure is provided between the battery module and the fixing substrate, and the first floating structure is used to alleviate a vibration amplitude of the battery module.

A fixing device for a vehicle configured to connect the vehicle's cabin unit and loading unit of loading cargo at the rear of the cabin unit includes a coil transmitting an electromagnetic force to a drive pulley, an assembly module including a drive pulley and mechanically fixing the cabin unit and the loading unit together through a driving force of the drive pulley via the coil when the loading unit moves and aligns with the cabin unit, and a magnetic module enclosing the assembly module on an external side of the assembly module and magnetically fixing the cabin unit and the loading unit together by changing a magnetic circuit through a rotation force of a magnetic body while the cabin unit and the loading unit are mechanically connected to each other.

A fleet and trolley system, a first method of charging a work machine, and a second method of charging a fleet of work machines are disclosed. The fleet and trolley system includes a trolley network, at least one zero-emission work machine, and a controller. The controller manages a scheduled usage of the trolley network, a power draw, and a distribution of the power draw by the work machine. The first method includes monitoring states of the work machine, scheduling a usage of the trolley network, and supplying electric power to the work machine. The second method includes monitoring states of a fleet, monitoring states of the trolley network, scheduling usages of the trolley network, and supplying electric power to one or more machines of the fleet. Advantageously, the disclosed system and methods may improve an efficiency, productivity, and longevity of a fleet of zero-emission work machines.

The invention relates to a variable topology heat management method for overcharge of a vehicle pile cooperative heavy truck, and solves the problem that refrigeration of a cooling unit matched with a current vehicle cannot meet high-rate overcharge of a battery. Comprising two three-way valves, a compensation water tank, a water supplementing stop valve, an exhaust stop valve and a liquid cooling socket, the battery cooling system is divided into an on-vehicle liquid cooling loop and an off-vehicle liquid cooling loop by controlling the states of the two three-way valves, a first opening of each three-way valve is connected with a cooling unit, a second opening of each three-way valve is connected with a battery, and a third opening of each three-way valve is connected with the liquid cooling socket, cooling liquid flows back to the cooling unit after flowing through the three-way valve I; after the three-way valve II is arranged behind the water outlet of the cooling unit, the cooling liquid flows through the three-way valve II after flowing out of the cooling unit; the compensation water tank is arranged at the highest point of the whole cooling system, the water supplementing stop valve is arranged in the water supplementing loop, and the exhaust stop valve is arranged in the exhaust pipeline. And the liquid cooling socket is arranged between the two three-way valves. According to the invention, high-rate charging of the vehicle can be realized.

A fire fighting vehicle includes an energy storage system coupled to the chassis and a charging assembly configured to interface with a charging plug. The energy storage system includes battery cells. The charging assembly includes a housing, a charging port disposed within the housing and electrically coupled to the battery cells, a retainer positioned proximate the charging port, a first actuator, and a second actuator. The charging port is configured to engage with a charging interface of the charging plug. The retainer is configured to engage with a retaining interface of the charging plug to secure the charging interface within the charging port. The first actuator is positioned to release the retaining interface from engagement with the retainer by repositioning the retaining interface into a release position. The second actuator is positioned to eject the charging plug from the charging assembly when the retaining interface is in the release position.

This disclosure discloses various technologies for sending electrical power from various energy storage stations to various nano-grid systems, when the energy storage stations and the nano-grid systems are not electrically wired to each other in order to enable such sending and when the nano-grid systems currently need a specific amount of the electrical power or are forecasted to need the specific amount of the electrical power by a specific time / date.

The present disclosure relates to a battery electric dump truck, comprising a frame, a dump body pivotably mounted on the frame, a power unit comprising a battery, the power unit providing electrical energy to at least one electrical propulsion motor of the battery electric dump truck, and a radiator unit, wherein the radiator unit comprises two radiator columns spaced apart from each other, with an installation opening for the power unit being arranged between the radiator columns.

The invention is directed to a truck axle comprising two hub carriers connected by an axle bridge structure. Each hub carrier comprises a stator of a direct drive electric motor and carries a rotary assembly comprising a rim flange to support a rim for a single tyre. The hub carrier comprises a first part which is laterally positioned within the rim and a second part which is laterally positioned next to the rim. The rotary assembly is comprised of a wheel hub shaft which is laterally positioned within the rim and tyre combination and a second part which is laterally positioned next to the rim and tyre combination. The second part of the hub carrier comprises the stator and the second part of the rotary assembly comprises a rotor of the electric motor.

An electrified fire fighting vehicle includes a chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a body coupled to the chassis rearward of the cab, a front axle coupled to the chassis, a rear axle coupled to the chassis, an energy storage system coupled to the chassis and positioned rearward of the cab, a pump system positioned between the cab and the body, and an electromagnetic device. The electromagnetic device is electrically coupled to the energy storage system. The electromagnetic device is coupled to (i) the pump system and (ii) at least one of the front axle or the rear axle. The electromagnetic device is configured to receive electrical power from the energy storage system and provide a mechanical output to selectively drive (i) the pump system and (ii) the at least one of the front axle or the rear axle.

Provided herein is an electric drive machine including a battery having a state of charge ranging from a depleted state to a full state; a resistor grid electrically coupled to the battery; and a control circuit comprising one or more processors and a memory structured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the control circuit to: determine the state of charge of the battery; determine a target state of charge of the battery according to an anticipated charge event; and control a flow of electrical current from the battery to the resistor grid, to modify the state of charge of the battery to the target state of charge, prior to the anticipated charge event.

A control unit for a heavy duty vehicle. The vehicle includes an electric machine connected to first and second driven wheels via an differential. The control unit includes a first wheel slip control module associated with the first driven wheel, and a second wheel slip control module associated with the second driven wheel, where each wheel slip control module is arranged to determine an obtainable torque by the respective wheel based on a current wheel state, wherein the control unit is arranged to determine a required torque to satisfy a requested acceleration profile by the vehicle, and to request a torque from the electrical machine corresponding to the smallest torque out of the obtainable torques for each driven wheel and the required torque.

A three-wheeled vehicle includes a vehicle frame supported by a single wheel engaging the ground in the front and two wheels engaging the ground in the rear. The operator area of the vehicle may include seating for a driver and a passenger, one in front of the other. The three-wheeled vehicle is uniquely designed so that it can be easily modified by addition or removal of additional structures after it is purchased. The vehicle is ultra-narrow but achieves stability by unique mechanisms.

Proposed is a hydrogen management system in which location information, pressure information, temperature information, collision information, hydrogen concentration information, and flow rate information are transmitted from sensors mounted in a manifold of each of a plurality of tube trailers (T1, T2, . . . ), and the hydrogen consumption amount, the remaining hydrogen amount, the number of users, etc. are transmitted from the plurality of hydrogen charging stations (S1, S2, . . . ) so that current hydrogen storage and demand amounts are predicted, thereby managing an entire hydrogen cycle, including hydrogen production, in an integrated manner.

A hybrid drive system (200) for a work machine (100) includes a drive system (202). The drive system (202) includes an engine (204) that generates a first energy supply. The drive system (202) also includes a generator (206) mechanically coupled with the engine (204) to drive the generator (206). The drive system (202) further includes a battery system (208) that generates a second energy supply. The drive system (202) includes a motor generator unit (210) mechanically coupled with the generator (206) to drive the generator (206). The motor generator unit (210) is driven by the battery system (208). The hybrid drive system (200) also includes a controller (216) communicably coupled with the drive system (202). The controller (216) is configured to control the drive system (202) to direct, towards one or more traction motors (110, 112) of the work machine (100), a portion of at least one of the first energy supply via the generator (206) and the second energy supply via the motor generator unit (210) and the generator (206).

The invention relates to a rim for a vehicle wheel, having an inner and an outer rim flange 29,21, an inner and an outer rim shoulder 28, 22, a rim well 23 with well base 24, inner well flank 26 and an outer well flank 24, a transition section 27 and an inner hump 30 with a hump peak. The rim is having specific material thickness in the area of the transition section 27. In order to improve wheels in terms of weight minimization and noise development, the transition section 27 comprises at least one stiffening section 35 with a radi- ally offset wall section, the maximum radial offset H1 of which to the adjoining transition section is greater than the material thick- ness T in the transition section 27. The stiffening section 35 has a diameter Dz, Dw, being equal or greater than the diameter DT on the well base 24 and smaller than diameter DH of the hump peak 31.

Even when a motor is connected to a PTO shaft to make a vehicle hybrid, it is possible to drive a mounted equipment. A motor drive device 100 for outputting motor drive force for a hybrid vehicle includes a motor 21; a first output shaft 22 configured to be connected to a PTO shaft for extracting engine drive force from the hybrid vehicle; a power transmission mechanism 23 connecting the motor and the first output shaft; a second output shaft 24 configured to be connected to a drive source 11 for a mounted equipment on the hybrid vehicle; and a switching mechanism 25 configured to selectively connect the first output shaft to the second output shaft.

The invention relates to a method for operating a mobile tank system (1) for a fuel gas, in particular for hydrogen or natural gas, comprising at least one pressurized gas container (2) in which the fuel gas is stored under pressure, and a control unit (3) with the aid of which sensor data from at least one sensor (4) installed in the tank system (1) are read and evaluated. According to the invention, in phases in which the tank system (1) is out of operation, the control unit (3) is temporarily activated via an implemented wake-up function and used to carry out a leakage test.

The present invention relates to an electrically powered road vehicle (1), comprising: - at least two rear drive wheels (2), a rear axle (11) and a rear differential (10); - a rear electric propulsion system (4), comprising a reversible electric machine (6), at least one battery (7) operatively connected to the electric machine (6), a transmission box (8) connected to the electric machine (6), and a drive shaft (9) connecting the transmission box (8) to the rear differential (10), wherein the battery (7) is arranged in front of the rear axle (11), wherein the electric machine (6), the transmission box (8) and the drive shaft (9) are arranged raised and cantilevered to the rear of the rear axle (11), with the electric machine (6) oriented longitudinally, the transmission box (8) oriented transversely and the drive shaft (9) oriented longitudinally or substantially longitudinally, such that the electric machine (6) - transmission box (8) - drive shaft (9) assembly has a substantially U-shaped configuration.

A control device (100) and a method (200, 220) for controlling a vehicle (1) are provided. The vehicle comprises an energy storage device (3), an electric motor (2) and at least one service brake (10) configured to brake a vehicle wheel (7, 8). The method (200, 220) comprises the step of applying a braking force by activating the service brake (10) if it is predicted that the energy storage device (3) will not have sufficient capacity for a required regenerative braking power during an upcoming braking event. The service brake (10) is activated while the electric motor (2) applies a propulsion force or in a plurality of consecutive braking phases (20) in which the propulsion force of the electric motor (2) is temporarily interrupted, the braking phases (20) being separated by vehicle 10 acceleration phases (22) during which a propulsion force is applied by the electric motor (2).

The present application relates to a method of opening a wireless connection between a remote control device and a controller on a materials handling vehicle. A system includes a remote control device usable by an operator interacting with a materials handling vehicle. The remote control device includes a wireless communication system including a wireless transmitter and a rechargeable power source. The system further includes a receiver at the vehicle for receiving transmissions from the wireless transmitter, a controller at the vehicle communicably coupled to the receiver, the controller responsive to receipt of a request from the remote control device, and a charging station at the vehicle for charging the rechargeable power source of the remote control device.

The invention relates to a current collector (3) for an electric or hybrid electric drive road vehicle (1) for feeding traction energy from a bipolar overhead line system. The invention relates to a road vehicle (1), comprising an erectable support rod (6) which is rotatably supported on the vehicle side by means of a base joint (7) on the road vehicle (1) and which supports, on the contact line side, two contact pivots (11) which are each rotatably connected by means of a pivot joint (10). At least one sliding plate (15) extending in the vehicle transverse direction (Y) is elastically supported on each contact swing arm (11). Wherein each slide plate (15) has, in each case, a contact surface (16), which faces upward in the vehicle height direction (Z), for sliding contact with the contact line (4). According to the invention, an electrically conductive, flexurally elastic sheet-like structure (19) having a longitudinal extension (L) and a transverse extension (B) is provided on at least one slide plate (15) of each contact swing arm (11), said sheet-like structure being arranged such that the longitudinal extension (L) thereof extends along the slide plate (15) in the vehicle transverse direction (Y), and the transverse extension (B) of the guide rail extends upwards beyond the contact surface (16) in the height direction (Z) of the vehicle by an overlength (S). This provides a current collector (1) which generates less arcs and thus has higher usability.

An electric traction axle / beam, e-axle / e-beam, for a vehicle comprising at least one electric machine, a pair of drive shafts each connected to a respective wheel of the vehicle and a transmission chain operatively connecting the electric machine to the pair of drive shafts,the transmission chain comprising a first transfer system, a second transfer system, and a differential unit operationally interposed in series between them,the drive shafts being coaxial to a longitudinal axis of the axle, the electric machine being subtended by a parallel and separate axis of the longitudinal axis.

The present disclosure relates to a computer system including processing circuitry configured to control a cruise control system of a vehicle, the vehicle including a power system configured to provide propulsion power to the vehicle, and an accelerator pedal, wherein the processing circuitry being further configured to: obtain a target speed; on the basis of the target speed, determine a minimal allowed speed to which the vehicle is allowed to reduce; and in response to determining that the accelerator pedal has been depressed, temporarily adjust the minimal allowed speed until a criterion is fulfilled.

A system and method for controlling a fuel storage system configured to store a liquid fuel in a fuel storage container of a vehicle powered by the liquid fuel are provided. The control system comprises processing circuitry configured to obtain a request for a shutdown of the vehicle, obtain measurements of a pressure in the fuel storage container, estimate an expected start time for the vehicle that is shut down, and, responsive to detecting that the pressure in the fuel storage container is at or above a boil-off threshold pressure, allow the pressure in the fuel storage container to remain at or above the boil-off threshold pressure or enable venting of the fuel storage container to reduce the pressure in the fuel storage container in dependence on whether or not the expected start time is within a time threshold interval.