Disclosure of Invention
The application provides a shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet and a power exchange system, which are used for solving the technical problems that the operation of the existing shared vehicle power exchange method is more complicated and the power exchange efficiency is lower.
In a first aspect, the present application provides a shared electric vehicle power transfer cabinet, comprising:
the power supply system comprises a signal scanner, a communication module, a bin gate switch, a controller and a plurality of power change bins, wherein the controller is respectively in communication connection with the signal scanner, the communication module and the bin gate switch;
the communication module is used for acquiring a battery swapping instruction issued by the server and sending the battery swapping instruction to the controller, wherein the battery swapping instruction is generated by the server according to a battery swapping request sent by the shared electric vehicle;
the controller is used for controlling the signal scanner to perform signal scanning operation on the battery to be replaced within a preset range when the battery replacement instruction is obtained;
the controller is further used for controlling the bin gate switch of the target power change bin to be switched to an open state when the detected signal meets the preset condition, wherein the target power change bin is any one of the plurality of power change bins and is provided with the power change bin with available batteries.
In one possible design, the signal scanner is used for scanning a bluetooth signal broadcast by a battery to be replaced within a preset range.
In a possible design, the signal scanner is configured to detect an intensity of a bluetooth signal broadcast by a battery to be replaced within a preset range, and send the intensity of the bluetooth signal to the controller.
In a possible design, the controller is further configured to control a door switch of a target power change bin to switch to an open state when detecting that the intensity of the bluetooth signal is greater than a preset threshold.
In a possible design, the controller is further configured to select, according to the number of the bluetooth signals scanned by the signal scanner, a target power switching bin corresponding to the number of the bluetooth signals from among the plurality of power switching bins.
In a possible design, the controller is further configured to control the communication module to send the identification information of the target charging bin to a terminal device of a user.
In one possible design, the shared electric vehicle power transfer cabinet further includes an energy module communicatively coupled with the controller;
the controller is further used for controlling the energy module to charge the battery in the target power conversion bin if the situation that the bin gate switch of the target power conversion bin is switched from the open state to the closed state is detected.
In a second aspect, the present application provides a shared electric vehicle power exchange system, including a shared electric vehicle, a server, and the shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet according to the first aspect, wherein the server is communicatively connected to the shared electric vehicle and the shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet, respectively;
the shared electric vehicle is used for sending a power change request to the server when the shared electric vehicle moves to a preset area around the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet, and a battery to be changed in the shared electric vehicle is used for broadcasting signals;
the server is used for sending a power change instruction to the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet after receiving the power change request;
the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet is used for performing signal scanning operation on a battery to be changed within a preset range after acquiring a power change instruction issued by the server, and controlling a door switch of a target power change bin to be switched to an open state when a signal is detected to meet a preset condition, wherein the target power change bin is a power change cabinet in which an available battery is placed in any one of the plurality of power change cabinets.
In one possible design, the shared electric vehicle swapping system further includes a terminal device;
the terminal equipment is used for displaying the current available shared electric vehicle power change cabinet on the display interface according to the triggering operation of the user.
In one possible design, the shared electric vehicle includes a global positioning system and/or a bluetooth scanning module;
the shared electric vehicle is also used for detecting whether the shared electric vehicle moves to a preset area around the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet or not at present by using a global positioning system and/or a Bluetooth scanning module.
The application provides a sharing electric vehicle trades electric cabinet and trades electric system, including signal scanner, communication module, door switch, controller and a plurality of storehouse of trading electricity, the controller respectively with signal scanner, communication module and door switch communication connection. The communication module can acquire a battery replacement instruction issued by the server and send the battery replacement instruction to the controller, so that the controller can control the signal scanner to perform signal scanning operation on the battery to be replaced within a preset range according to the battery replacement instruction. And when the controller detects that the signal meets the preset condition, controlling the bin gate switch of the target power change bin to be switched to an open state. Therefore, when a user walks to a preset position near the electricity changing cabinet, the electricity changing bin with available batteries placed can be automatically opened, the user can quickly and conveniently realize electricity changing operation of sharing the electric vehicle, complex operation is not needed, and user experience is improved.
Detailed Description
Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The following description refers to the accompanying drawings in which the same numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with the present application. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the present application, as detailed in the appended claims.
The terms referred to in this application are explained first:
sharing an electric vehicle power exchange cabinet: the electric vehicle power supply system comprises a plurality of power conversion bins, and batteries of a shared electric vehicle are placed in each power conversion bin. The borrowing and returning of the batteries are completed by controlling the opening of each bin gate. The user can take out full charge battery from trading the battery cabinet, realizes sharing electric vehicle battery's change fast like this to guarantee sharing electric vehicle's continuation of the journey.
The application provides a shared electric vehicle power changing cabinet and a power changing system, aiming at the technical problems that the operation of the existing shared vehicle power changing method is more complicated and the power changing efficiency is lower.
The shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet and the power exchange system provided by the application can be applied to any electric vehicle battery exchange scene.
The existing method for exchanging batteries of shared electric vehicles generally requires a user to scan an identification code on an exchange cabinet through a mobile phone at the exchange cabinet, locate an empty exchange bin and place a battery which needs to be replaced currently. And opening a bin door of the battery replacing bin provided with the available batteries, and taking the available batteries to complete the battery replacing service. However, when the method is used for battery replacement operation, the operation is complicated, the battery replacement efficiency is low, and the user experience is poor.
In the process of solving the technical problem, the inventor finds, through research, that, in order to improve the efficiency of the battery swapping operation, a user may first initiate a battery swapping request to a server on a terminal device, and the server may send a battery swapping instruction to a battery swapping cabinet according to the battery swapping request. After the battery replacement cabinet acquires the battery replacement instruction, whether a signal sent by a battery to be replaced exists in a preset range or not can be detected, if yes, a target battery replacement bin with the available battery is automatically selected, and a bin door of the target battery replacement bin is controlled to be opened, so that a user can directly take out the available battery and place the battery to be replaced in the target battery replacement bin, and the battery replacement operation is completed.
The following describes the technical solutions of the present application and how to solve the above technical problems with specific embodiments. The following several specific embodiments may be combined with each other, and details of the same or similar concepts or processes may not be repeated in some embodiments. Embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a shared electric vehicle power transformation cabinet according to an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 1, the shared electric vehicle power transformation cabinet includes: the system comprises a signal scanner 11, a communication module 12, a door switch 13, a controller 14 and a plurality of power change cabins, wherein the controller 14 is respectively in communication connection with the signal scanner 11, the communication module 12 and the door switch 13;
the communication module 12 is configured to obtain a battery swapping instruction issued by a server, and send the battery swapping instruction to the controller 14, where the battery swapping instruction is generated by the server according to a battery swapping request sent by a shared electric vehicle;
the controller 14 is configured to control the signal scanner 11 to perform a signal scanning operation on a battery to be replaced within a preset range when the battery replacement instruction is obtained;
the controller 14 is further configured to control the door switch 13 of the target power change bin to switch to an open state when the detected signal meets a preset condition, where the target power change bin is a power change bin in which an available battery is placed in any one of the plurality of power change bins.
In this embodiment, the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet may specifically include a signal scanner 11, a communication module 12, a door switch 13, a controller 14, and a plurality of power change bays. The controller 14 is in communication connection with the signal scanner 11, the communication module 12, and the door switches 13 of the plurality of power change bins.
When a user needs to perform a battery replacement operation, the user can initiate a battery replacement request to the server by triggering a preset battery replacement button on the shared electric vehicle when the user moves to the vicinity of the shared vehicle battery replacement cabinet. Optionally, the user may also send a battery swapping request to the server through the terminal device. When initiating a power change request, a user can simultaneously select a shared electric vehicle power change cabinet needing power change operation. After receiving the power swapping request, the server may send a power swapping instruction to the shared electric vehicle power swapping cabinet selected by the user according to the power swapping request. Correspondingly, the communication module 12 in the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet can obtain the power change instruction issued by the server. After acquiring the power swapping instruction, the communication module 12 may send the power swapping instruction to the controller 14.
After the user initiates the power change request, the server may feed back the position information and the navigation information of the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet selected by the user to the terminal device of the user, so that the user travels to the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet. When the user drives to the vicinity of the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet, the battery to be replaced in the shared electric vehicle can be taken out, and at the moment, the battery to be replaced can send out a broadcast signal. Accordingly, after acquiring the battery replacement instruction, the controller 14 may control the signal scanner 11 to perform signal scanning on the battery to be replaced within the preset range.
The signal scanner 11 may send the scanning result to the controller 14 for data processing, and the controller 14 may determine whether the signal broadcasted by the current battery to be replaced satisfies a preset condition according to the scanning result of the signal scanner 11. If the current changing bin is satisfied, any current changing bin with available batteries placed therein can be selected from the multiple current changing bins to serve as a target current changing bin, and the bin gate switch 13 of the target current changing bin is controlled to be switched to an open state.
The shared electric vehicle power change cabinet provided by the embodiment comprises a signal scanner 11, a communication module 12, a door switch 13, a controller 14 and a plurality of power change cabins, wherein the controller 14 is in communication connection with the signal scanner 11, the communication module 12 and the door switch 13 respectively. The communication module 12 may obtain a battery swapping instruction issued by the server, and send the battery swapping instruction to the controller 14, so that the controller 14 may control the signal scanner 11 to perform signal scanning operation on a battery to be replaced within a preset range according to the battery swapping instruction. When the controller 14 detects that the signal satisfies a preset condition, the door switch 13 of the control target power change cabin is switched to an open state. Therefore, when a user walks to a preset position near the electricity changing cabinet, the electricity changing bin with available batteries placed can be automatically opened, the user can quickly and conveniently realize electricity changing operation of sharing the electric vehicle, complex operation is not needed, and user experience is improved.
Further, on the basis of the first embodiment, the signal scanner 11 is configured to scan a bluetooth signal broadcasted by a battery to be replaced within a preset range.
In this embodiment, when the user takes out the battery to be replaced, the battery to be replaced may specifically broadcast the bluetooth signal. Accordingly, the signal scanner 11 disposed in the shared electric vehicle power distribution cabinet can specifically scan the bluetooth signal broadcasted by the battery to be replaced within the preset range. The preset range may be the maximum range that the signal scanner 11 can scan, or may be a range that the operation and maintenance staff set according to actual needs, and the present application does not limit the range.
Further, on the basis of the first embodiment, the signal scanner 11 is configured to detect the strength of a bluetooth signal broadcasted by a battery to be replaced within a preset range, and send the strength of the bluetooth signal to the controller 14.
In this embodiment, the intensity of the signal that can be scanned by the signal scanner 11 can be indicative of the distance of the scanned object from the signal scanner 11. Therefore, the signal scanner 11 can detect the intensity of the bluetooth signal broadcasted by the battery to be replaced within the preset range, and send the intensity of the bluetooth signal to the controller 14. So that the controller 14 identifies the distance between the battery to be replaced and the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet according to the intensity of the bluetooth signal. Therefore, when a user arrives near the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet, the opening of the target power change bin door is realized, the operation flow of the user is further simplified, and the power change efficiency is improved.
Further, on the basis of the first embodiment, the controller 14 is further configured to control the door switch 13 of the target power change cabin to be switched to the open state when detecting that the intensity of the bluetooth signal is greater than a preset threshold value.
In this embodiment, a threshold may be preset, and when it is detected that the intensity of the bluetooth signal is greater than the preset threshold, that is, the distance between the battery to be replaced and the power distribution cabinet of the shared electric vehicle is less than the preset distance threshold, the controller 14 may control the door switch 13 of the target power distribution cabinet to switch to the open state.
The sharing electric vehicle cabinet that trades that this embodiment provided, bluetooth signal intensity through treating the battery broadcast that trades detects, when the intensity that detects the bluetooth signal is greater than this predetermined threshold value, the door switch 13 of control target storehouse of trading switches into the on-state, thereby the user is moving to sharing electric vehicle cabinet that trades, the target of placing available battery trades the storehouse and has opened, the user can directly take out available battery, and will treat to change the battery and put into this target storehouse of trading, realize the change of battery, the flow of trading the operation has been simplified, the user need not to carry out loaded down with trivial details ground operation and can accomplish and trade the electric operation, improve and trade electric efficiency, and improve user experience.
Further, on the basis of the first embodiment, the controller 14 is further configured to select, according to the number of the bluetooth signals scanned by the signal scanner 11, a target swap bin corresponding to the number of the bluetooth signals from the plurality of swap bins.
In this embodiment, there may be a plurality of electric vehicles coming to the vicinity of the shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet at the same time for power exchange operation, and therefore, in order to meet the power exchange requirements of the plurality of shared electric vehicles, the controller 14 may further obtain the number of bluetooth signals currently scanned by the signal scanner 11. According to the number, a target power change bin corresponding to the number of the Bluetooth signals is selected from a plurality of power change bins in which available batteries are currently placed.
For example, if the number of currently detected bluetooth signals is three, the controller 14 may select three power conversion bins as the target power conversion bin from among the plurality of power conversion bins currently having available batteries placed therein, and further control the opening and closing states of the bin gate of the target power conversion bin according to the signal strength.
Further, on the basis of the first embodiment, the controller 14 is further configured to control the communication module 12 to send the identification information of the target charging bin to a terminal device of a user.
In this embodiment, when the number of the simultaneously opened power change bins is large, the user may not be able to accurately locate the position of the power change bin that needs to be used currently. Therefore, in order to further improve the power conversion efficiency of the user, the controller 14 may further control the communication module 12 to send the identification information of the target power conversion bin to the terminal device of the user, so that the user can accurately position the power conversion bin that needs to be used currently.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a shared electric vehicle power transformation cabinet according to another embodiment of the present application, and on the basis of the first embodiment, the shared electric vehicle power transformation cabinet further includes an energy module, and the energy module 15 is communicatively connected to the controller 14;
the controller 14 is further configured to control the energy module 15 to perform a charging operation on the battery in the target power conversion bin if it is detected that the bin gate switch 13 of the target power conversion bin is switched from the open state to the closed state.
In this embodiment, after the battery replacement operation is completed, the battery placed in the target battery replacement bin is the battery to be replaced and replaced by the user, and in order to enable the shared electric vehicle battery replacement cabinet to meet the battery replacement requirements of more users, the shared electric vehicle battery replacement cabinet can also perform a charging operation on the battery in the target battery replacement bin.
Specifically, the shared electric vehicle power distribution cabinet further comprises an energy module 15, and the energy module 15 is in communication connection with the controller 14. The controller 14 is also used for detecting whether the state of the door switch 13 of the target power change cabin is changed. When the door switch 13 of the target power change bin is detected to be switched from the open state to the closed state, it is represented that the user completes the power change operation, and therefore, the energy module 15 can be controlled to perform the charging operation on the battery in the target power change bin.
The sharing electric vehicle power changing cabinet provided by the embodiment determines the number of the target power changing bins according to the number of the Bluetooth signals, so that the requirement that a plurality of sharing electric vehicles simultaneously change power can be met. In addition, the identification information of the target power change cabin is sent to the terminal equipment of the user, so that the user can accurately position the power change cabin which needs to be used currently, and the user experience is improved.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a shared electric vehicle 21 battery swapping system provided in the second embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 3, the shared electric vehicle 21 battery swapping system includes: the shared electric vehicle 21, the server 22, and the shared electric vehicle power distribution cabinet 23 according to the first embodiment. Wherein the server 22 is in communication connection with the shared electric vehicle 21 and the shared electric vehicle power distribution cabinet 23, respectively;
the shared electric vehicle 21 is configured to send a power change request to the server 22 when moving to a preset area around the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23, where a battery to be changed in the shared electric vehicle 21 is used for broadcasting a signal;
the server 22 is configured to send a battery replacement instruction to the shared electric vehicle battery replacement cabinet 23 after receiving the battery replacement request;
the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 is configured to perform signal scanning operation on a battery to be changed within a preset range after acquiring a power change instruction issued by the server 22, and control a door switch of a target power change bin to be switched to an open state when detecting that a signal meets a preset condition, where the target power change bin is a power change cabinet in which an available battery is placed in any one of the plurality of power change cabinets.
In the present embodiment, the shared electric vehicle power exchanging cabinet 23 can be specifically applied to the shared electric vehicle 21 power exchanging system. The shared electric vehicle 21 power conversion system specifically comprises a shared electric vehicle 21, a server 22 and a shared electric vehicle power conversion cabinet 23, wherein the server 22 is respectively connected with the shared electric vehicle 21 and the shared electric vehicle power conversion cabinet 23 in a communication manner, so that information interaction can be respectively carried out with the shared electric vehicle 21 and the shared electric vehicle power conversion cabinet 23.
Specifically, when the shared electric vehicle 21 moves into a preset area around the shared electric vehicle power changing cabinet 23, a power changing request may be initiated to the server 22 according to a trigger operation of the user, and optionally, the user may also send the power changing request to the server 22 through the terminal device. When initiating a power swapping request, a user may select the shared electric vehicle power swapping cabinet 23 that needs to perform a power swapping operation at the same time. After receiving the power swapping request, the server 22 may send a power swapping instruction to the shared electric vehicle power swapping cabinet 23 selected by the user according to the power swapping request. When the user takes out the battery to be replaced in the shared electric vehicle 21, the battery to be replaced may send out a broadcast signal at this time.
After the shared electric vehicle 21 obtains the battery replacement instruction, the signal scanner may be controlled to perform signal scanning on the battery to be replaced within the preset range. The signal scanner in the shared electric vehicle 21 may send the scanning result to the controller for data processing, and the controller may determine whether the signal broadcasted by the current battery to be replaced satisfies a preset condition according to the scanning result of the signal scanner. If the current changing bin is satisfied, any current changing bin with available batteries placed therein can be selected from the multiple current changing bins to serve as a target current changing bin, and a bin gate switch of the target current changing bin is controlled to be switched to an open state.
The shared electric vehicle 21 power exchange system provided by the embodiment includes a shared electric vehicle 21, a server 22 and a shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet 23, and the server 22 is respectively connected to the shared electric vehicle 21 and the shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet 23 in a communication manner. And sending a power change instruction to the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 through the server 22, and performing signal scanning on the battery to be changed in the preset range by the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 according to the power change instruction. And when the detected signal meets the preset condition, controlling a bin gate switch of the target power change bin to be switched to an open state. Therefore, when a user walks to a preset position near the electricity changing cabinet, the electricity changing bin with available batteries placed can be automatically opened, the user can quickly and conveniently realize electricity changing operation of the shared electric vehicle 21, complex operation is not needed, and user experience is improved.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of another shared electric vehicle 21 battery replacement system provided in an embodiment of the present application, and on the basis of the second embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the shared electric vehicle 21 battery replacement system further includes a terminal device 24, and the terminal device 24 is respectively connected to the server 22 and the shared electric vehicle battery replacement cabinet 23 in a communication manner;
the terminal device 24 is used for displaying the currently available shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 on the display interface according to the triggering operation of the user.
In this embodiment, when the user triggers a power change request through the terminal device 24, the terminal device 24 may display the currently available shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 on the display interface according to the triggering operation of the user. The user can select the shared electric vehicle power exchange cabinet 23 which needs to perform power exchange operation at present according to actual requirements. After the user selects the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 that needs to be subjected to the power change operation, in order to further improve the power change efficiency of the user, the terminal device 24 may further determine a navigation route according to the current location and the location of the shared electric vehicle power change cabinet 23 that the user selects to be subjected to the power change operation, and display the navigation route on the display interface, so that the user can quickly move to the location of the shared electric vehicle 21 and complete the power change operation.
The terminal device 24 may be a wireless terminal or a wired terminal. A wireless terminal may refer to a device that provides voice and/or other traffic data connectivity to a user, a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem. A wireless terminal, which may be a mobile terminal such as a mobile telephone (or "cellular" telephone) and a computer having a mobile terminal, for example, a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included, or vehicle-mounted mobile device, may communicate with one or more core Network devices via a Radio Access Network (RAN), and may exchange language and/or data with the RAN. For another example, the Wireless terminal may also be a Personal Communication Service (PCS) phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and other devices. A wireless Terminal may also be referred to as a system, a Subscriber Unit (Subscriber Unit), a Subscriber Station (Subscriber Station), a Mobile Station (Mobile), a Remote Station (Remote Station), a Remote Terminal (Remote Terminal), an Access Terminal (Access Terminal), a User Terminal (User Terminal), a User Agent (User Agent), and a User Device or User Equipment (User Equipment), which are not limited herein. Optionally, the terminal device 24 may also be a smart watch, a tablet computer, or the like.
Further, on the basis of the second embodiment, the shared electric vehicle 21 includes a global positioning system and/or a bluetooth scanning module;
the shared electric vehicle 21 is further configured to detect whether the shared electric vehicle is currently moving to a preset area around the shared electric vehicle power distribution cabinet 23 by using a global positioning system and/or a bluetooth scanning module.
In this embodiment, the shared electric vehicle 21 may be provided with a global positioning system and/or a bluetooth scanning module, so that the shared electric vehicle 21 may perform a positioning operation through the global positioning system and/or the bluetooth scanning module to determine whether to move to a preset area around the shared electric vehicle power distribution cabinet 23 currently. So that the user can quickly find the shared electric vehicle charging cabinet 23.
Other embodiments of the present application will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the application and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the application being indicated by the following claims.
It will be understood that the present application is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the application is limited only by the appended claims.