Height-Adjustable Battery Rail Structure for EV Battery Swapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electric vehicle (EV) batteries are difficult to remove and transport due to their considerable weight, making maintenance and swapping processes strenuous and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A height-adjustable displacement structure with rails that aligns with vehicle rails to create a pathway for easy removal and transportation of EV batteries, allowing for automated or manual swapping with a fully charged battery, facilitated by powered wheels and anchoring systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If EV batteries are removed and transported manually, then the batteries can be swapped, but the process becomes strenuous and time-consuming due to considerable weight
Solution Approach 1:
The displacement structure serves as an intermediary device between the battery compartment and storage area. It includes a platform with height adjustment mechanism and rails that align with vehicle rails, creating a continuous pathway. The battery is guided along this pathway from the vehicle to the storage compartment, eliminating manual lifting and reducing the time and effort required for battery swapping operations.
2Ease of operation
If a height-adjustable displacement structure is used to create a pathway for battery removal, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The displacement structure incorporates a height adjustment mechanism that dynamically adapts the platform height to match the vehicle battery compartment height. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the structure to accommodate different vehicle heights and configurations, improving ease of operation while managing complexity through automated or semi-automated height matching rather than multiple fixed-height platforms.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatuses, systems, and methods relate to technology to determine a first height of first rails within a first storage compartment of a displacement structure. The technology determines that a first battery in a battery compartment of a vehicle is to be removed, where the battery compartment includes vehicle rails having a vehicle height. The technology adjusts the first height of the first rails to align the first rails with the vehicle rails by adjusting the first height to match the vehicle height so that the first rails and the vehicle rails form a first pathway. The technology guides the first battery into the first storage compartment from the battery compartment along the first pathway when the first rails are aligned with the vehicle rails.