Logistics drones and drone logistics stations with automatic battery recharging and swapping capabilities

Abstract

This invention relates to a logistics drone, comprising: a flight body, a frame-shaped landing gear, a frame-shaped shelf, and a shelf quick-release mechanism. The shelf quick-release mechanism has several spring-loaded components and several latching components arranged in combination. Each spring-loaded component is disposed on the frame-shaped landing gear, and each latching component is disposed on the frame-shaped shelf. The frame-shaped shelf is provided with a flight power battery. A first power transmission interface and a second power transmission interface are arranged between the frame-shaped shelf and the frame-shaped landing gear. The frame-shaped shelf is also provided with a first battery charging interface. The frame-shaped landing gear is attached to the flight body, with the frame-shaped landing gear positioned below the flight body. The frame-shaped shelf is attached to the inside of the frame-shaped landing gear by the latching components. This provides a logistics drone with the function of quickly loading and unloading a shelf that also provides power supply functionality.

Claims

1. A logistics drone, comprising: a flight body, a frame-type landing gear, a frame-type shelf, and a shelf quick-release mechanism, the shelf quick-release mechanism having a plurality of spring-loaded fasteners and a plurality of latching components, each spring-loaded fastener being disposed on the frame-type landing gear, and each latching component being disposed on the frame-type shelf; the frame-type shelf is provided with a flight power battery, a first power transmission interface and a second power transmission interface are provided between the frame-type shelf and the frame-type landing gear, and the frame-type shelf is also provided with a first battery charging interface; the spring-loaded fastener has a latching fitting, a spring fastener, and a spring, the latching fitting is horizontally engaged with the frame-type landing gear by a plug-in portion, the plug-in portion extends horizontally outward to form a fitting portion, the spring fastener is horizontally disposed inside the plug-in portion, the front end of the spring fastener is a slanted tongue, the slanted tongue has a latching top surface and an inward pushing slope, and the spring fastener is pushed by the spring to protrude the slanted tongue to the fitting portion; The latching assembly has a connecting member, an unlocking member, and a latching member. The connecting member is vertically connected to the frame-shaped rack via a connecting portion, which extends vertically upward to form a shaft portion. The unlocking member is fitted onto the shaft portion and has the freedom to slide up and down on the shaft portion. The latching member has an umbrella-shaped profile and is connected to the top of the shaft portion. The cavity of the latching member can accommodate the upper half of the unlocking member, and the lower half of the unlocking member has an unlocking ramp. The frame-shaped tripod is connected to the aircraft body, and the frame-shaped tripod is positioned below the aircraft body. The frame-type shelving unit utilizes various snap-fit ​​components to fasten into various fitting parts. When each snap-fit ​​component rises through each angled tongue, it can establish a fastening relationship with each spring-loaded fastener, allowing the frame-type shelving unit to be attached to the inside of the frame-type legs. After each release component rises through each angled tongue, it descends to allow the upper part of each release component to be placed in the cavity of the snap-fit ​​component. Each release component then descends together with each snap-fit ​​component through each angled tongue, releasing the fastening relationship between each snap-fit ​​component and each spring-loaded fastener, thereby detaching the frame-type shelving unit from the frame-type legs.

2. The logistics drone as described in claim 1, wherein, Each of these snap-fit ​​fittings is an existing component of the frame-type leg, and the fitting part is hollow.

3. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) logistics station with automatic battery charging and swapping capabilities, comprising: a cargo warehouse, a rack loading and unloading device, at least one cargo pushing device, at least one charging device, and at least one logistics UAV; the cargo warehouse has an aisle, several cargo bays, at least one charging bay, a skylight, and a pushing device, each cargo bay and the charging bay being located on the side of the aisle, and the skylight being located above the aisle; the pushing device is located at the top of the cargo warehouse for pushing the logistics UAV parked at the top of the cargo warehouse to the skylight; The logistics drone includes: a flight body, a frame-type landing gear, a frame-type shelf, and a shelf quick-release mechanism. The shelf quick-release mechanism has several spring-loaded components and several latching components, each spring-loaded component being mounted on the frame-type landing gear and each latching component being mounted on the frame-type shelf. The frame-type shelf is equipped with a flight power battery. A first power transmission interface and a second power transmission interface are provided between the frame-type shelf and the frame-type landing gear. The frame-type shelf is also equipped with a first battery charging interface. The spring-loaded component has a latching fitting, a spring-loaded component, and a spring. The latching fitting is horizontally engaged with the frame-type landing gear via a plug-in portion. The plug-in portion extends horizontally outward to form a fitting portion. The spring-loaded component is horizontally disposed inside the plug-in portion. The front end of the spring-loaded component is a slanted tongue portion. The slanted tongue portion has a latching top surface and an inward pushing slope surface. The spring-loaded component uses the spring to push the slanted tongue portion to protrude into the fitting portion. The latching assembly has a connecting member, a releasing member, and a inserting member. The connecting member is vertically connected to the frame-shaped rack via a connecting portion, which extends vertically upward to form a shaft portion. The releasing member is fitted onto the shaft portion and has the freedom to slide up and down on the shaft portion. The inserting member has an umbrella-shaped profile and is connected to the top of the shaft portion. The cavity of the inserting member can accommodate the upper half of the releasing member, and the lower half of the releasing member has a release ramp. The frame-shaped rack is connected to the aircraft body, with the frame-shaped rack positioned below the aircraft body. The frame-shaped rack is latched to the connecting portions by the latching assemblies, causing the inserting members to engage with the spring-loaded fasteners, thus connecting the frame-shaped rack inside the frame-shaped rack. The releasing members are used to release the engagement between the inserting members and the spring-loaded fasteners, thus detaching the frame-shaped rack from the frame-shaped rack. The rack loading and unloading device has a loading and unloading platform for two-dimensional movement of shuttle and lifting installed in the aisle. The loading and unloading platform pushes the frame rack off or onto the frame frame at the skylight. The loading and unloading platform has a fixed base and a transverse slide. The transverse slide moves the frame rack out or into the charging compartment. The goods pushing device pushes the goods on the frame rack to the goods compartment, or pushes the goods in the goods compartment to the frame rack. The charging device has a rack support fork for lifting installed in the charging compartment, and a second battery charging interface installed in the charging compartment in conjunction with the first battery charging interface.

4. A drone logistics station with automatically rechargeable and replaceable batteries as described in claim 3, wherein, The top surface of the transverse slide is provided with several interlocking parts, and the frame rack is equipped with several positioning fittings. Each interlocking part can be inserted into the positioning fitting, thereby positioning the frame rack on the loading and unloading platform.

5. A drone logistics station with automatically rechargeable and replaceable batteries as described in claim 4, wherein, Each of the positioning fittings is an existing component of the frame-shaped shelf, and each of the snap-fit ​​fittings is an existing component of the frame-shaped leg. The fitting part is hollow.

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