Battery Swapping Platform With Rotating Rails for Precise Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing battery swapping stations face challenges in precisely mounting batteries on vehicles due to the limited mobility and adaptability of mobile battery swapping apparatuses.
Innovation Solution
The battery swapping platform incorporates a guide rail system with rotatable platforms and a translation drive assembly, allowing the mobile battery swapping apparatus to move along multiple directions and adapt to various battery compartment positions, enhancing precision in battery mounting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed guide rail system is used for the mobile battery swapping apparatus, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the apparatus cannot adapt to multiple battery compartment positions with relative precision
Solution Approach 1:
The guide rail system is divided into multiple segments (first guide rail segment and second guide rail segment) that can be independently positioned and oriented. Each segment can be adjusted to different positions along the first direction and rotated to different angles, allowing the mobile battery swapping apparatus to access various battery compartment positions while maintaining manageable structural complexity through modular design
Solution Approach 2:
The guide rail system transitions from a fixed configuration to a dynamic one where the first and second guide rail segments can be independently adjusted along the first direction and rotated around vertical axes. This dynamic capability enables the system to adapt to multiple battery compartment positions while the control system manages the complexity through automated positioning
2Manufacturing precision
If the mobile battery swapping apparatus has limited mobility, then the device complexity is reduced, but the mounting precision for various vehicle types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile battery swapping apparatus gains mobility in multiple dimensions by being able to move along the guide rail in the first direction and perpendicular to it in the second direction, as well as rotate around vertical axes. This multi-dimensional mobility enables precise positioning for mounting batteries on various vehicle types while the control system manages the complexity through coordinated motion control
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present application provide a battery swapping platform and a battery swapping station. The battery swapping platform may comprise: a guide rail extending along a first direction and used for moving a mobile battery swapping apparatus along the first direction, wherein the guide rail may comprise a first guide rail segment and a second guide rail segment; a first platform that may be rotatable and used for fixing the first guide rail segment; a second platform that may be used for fixing the second guide rail segment, may be provided on the first platform, and rotatable with the first platform; and a translation drive assembly for driving the second platform to move along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction relative to the first platform, so as to move the mobile battery swapping apparatus along the second direction.