Battery-Powered Mobile Charging Vehicle With Floating Battery Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional movable power stations rely on diesel engines, which generate emissions, noise, and require hazardous material handling, posing environmental and operational challenges.
Innovation Solution
A movable charging vehicle equipped with a platform supporting charging modules, a battery module with electrical batteries, a power converter module to convert DC to AC, and a power distribution unit with a power outlet, all integrated with a floating battery support structure to dampen shocks and vibrations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If a diesel engine is used in a movable power station, then high-capacity electricity generation is achieved, but emissions and noise are generated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the diesel engine component from the movable power station system, replacing it with an electric motor driven by battery modules. This separation eliminates the source of emissions and noise while preserving the electricity generation function through an alternative power source architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical diesel engine system with an electrical power system consisting of battery modules and an electric motor. This substitution transitions from a combustion-based mechanical system to an electrochemical-electrical system, thereby eliminating emissions and noise while maintaining power output capability.
2Power
If a diesel engine is used in a movable power station, then electricity generation is achieved, but refuelling and hazardous material handling are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the fuel storage and handling subsystem from the power station design by eliminating the diesel engine. The battery modules serve as the energy storage medium, which do not require refuelling operations or hazardous material handling, thereby simplifying operational procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the energy storage parameter from chemical fuel (diesel) to electrochemical energy (batteries). This parameter change fundamentally alters the operational characteristics, eliminating the need for refuelling and hazardous material handling while maintaining the ability to generate electricity.
3Device complexity
If electrical batteries are mounted directly on the platform, then structural simplicity is achieved, but shocks and vibrations damage the batteries
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a floating support structure as an intermediary element between the platform and the battery modules. This mediator absorbs and isolates shocks and vibrations from the platform, protecting the batteries while adding only moderate structural complexity. The floating design allows the batteries to remain suspended on dampers rather than being rigidly mounted.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements protective damping elements in advance before shocks and vibrations can reach the batteries. The floating support structure with dampers is pre-configured to cushion and absorb mechanical impacts and vibrations, preventing direct transmission to the battery modules and ensuring their reliability during transport and operation.
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
The solution provides a quiet, emission-free, and environmentally friendly power source that can be easily transported and deployed, offering high continuous output power and prolonged electricity supply.
Implementation Method 1
The lower damping element is arranged to prevent or dampen shocks and vibrations from the platform and from the lower support member to the one or more batteries
Implementation Method 2
The floating battery support structure comprises one or more lower damping elements provided between the lower support member and the one or more electrical batteries
Implementation Method 3
the compression members are arranged to compress the one or more lower damping elements towards or against the one or more electrical batteries and the one or more upper damping elements towards or against the one or more electrical batteries
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AI summary
The invention relates to a movable charging vehicle (10) comprising a platform (9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19), a battery module comprising one or more electrical batteries (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45) and a power converter module comprising at least one converter device (20, 21) electrically connected to the one or more electrical batteries (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45) of the battery module. The at least one converter device of the power converter module is configured to convert direct current from the one or electrical batteries (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45) to alternating current. The power distribution unit (30) comprises a power outlet (33) electrically connected to at least one converter device (20, 21) of power converter module (20, 21), and configured to output alternating current from the movable charging vehicle (10).