Portable Battery Event Data Logging for Electric Scooters
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing use of combustion engine scooters and motorbikes in densely populated cities leads to high levels of air pollution, negatively impacting human health, and existing solutions for monitoring and maintaining these vehicles are inadequate, particularly in terms of remote data collection and energy management for electric vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A system of collection, charging, and distribution machines that can receive, charge, and manage portable electrical energy storage devices, providing vehicle event data through a network that includes sensors and communication systems to monitor and report on vehicle conditions, enabling efficient energy management and pollution reduction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If combustion engine scooters and motorbikes are used for personal transportation, then accessibility and affordability are improved, but air pollution levels increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the harmful combustion engine into a beneficial electric powertrain, transforming the source of pollution into a clean energy system. Electric scooters and motorbikes powered by electric motors eliminate tailpipe emissions while maintaining the accessibility and affordability of personal transportation, directly addressing the contradiction between ease of operation and harmful emissions.
2Duration of action of moving object
If factory emission standards are exceeded due to vehicle aging and modification, then vehicle usage duration increases, but pollution control effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous monitoring systems with sensors that track vehicle conditions, emissions, and performance in real-time. This feedback mechanism enables the system to detect when emission standards are approaching limits and can alert owners or automatically adjust parameters to maintain compliance, allowing extended vehicle usage while preserving pollution control effectiveness.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If portable electrical energy storage devices are used in electric vehicles, then pollution is reduced, but charging infrastructure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated charging systems where the energy storage devices and charging infrastructure communicate autonomously. The system automatically identifies compatible charging stations, initiates charging sequences, manages power flow, and handles authentication without requiring complex user intervention or centralized control, thereby reducing infrastructure complexity while maintaining pollution reduction benefits.
4Reliability
If vehicle event data is collected and monitored remotely, then maintenance reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple functions into unified components: the vehicle's existing control units and sensors serve dual purposes for both vehicle operation and event data collection. The same communication systems used for basic vehicle functions are leveraged for remote monitoring and data transmission, eliminating the need for separate dedicated monitoring hardware and reducing overall system complexity while improving maintenance reliability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system allows for convenient and efficient charging of electric vehicles, reduces air pollution by promoting the use of electric scooters and motorbikes, and provides users with critical vehicle event data for maintenance and safety, enhancing both environmental and health outcomes.
Implementation Method 1
A system of collection, charging, and distribution machines that can receive, charge, and manage portable electrical energy storage devices
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AI summary
Detected events such as impacts, accidents, breakdowns, and types of driving behaviors based on feedback from tilt, gravity, accelerometers and/or shock sensors within a portable electrical power storage device such as a battery and/or within a vehicle (e.g., an electric scooter) are communicated to the user's mobile device, dashboard display and/or backend systems over wired and/or wireless communication channels. The communication of the events and types of events are logged and automatically aggregated from multiple vehicles for further analysis to determine various potential system-wide safety issues and to track event history on an individual per-user or individual per-scooter basis or individual per-battery basis. Such event data may also be transferred accordingly via the battery exchange process at the online exchange machine through a memory device attached to the battery that stores the event data.