CN212182604U

CN212182604U - Charging docking assembly, charging device and charging station system

Info

Publication number: CN212182604U
Application number: CN202020204570.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马妙武; 熊建
Original assignee: Shanghai Congyuan Machinery Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Shanke robot Co.,Ltd.
Priority date: 2020-02-25
Filing date: 2020-02-25
Publication date: 2020-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 2030-02-25

Abstract

The utility model discloses a butt joint subassembly, charging device and charging station system charge. This butt joint subassembly that charges includes main part, control panel and charging terminal, and this charging terminal is including charging terminal part and contact, and wherein, this main part is equipped with the control panel and holds chamber and this charging terminal part, and this control panel is installed and is held the intracavity in this control panel, and this contact sets up in this charging terminal part with the power consumption end contact charging who treats charging device. The utility model discloses a charging device's electric part is integrated on a subassembly, is convenient for assemble and maintain.

Description

Charging docking assembly, charging device and charging station system

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an artificial intelligence field, concretely relates to butt joint subassembly and charging device and charging station charge.

Background

Automatic working apparatuses, such as automatic mowers, automatic cleaners and the like, which are limited to work within a certain working area and on which an energy storage unit, a control unit and a drive unit are generally equipped, are beginning to appear on the market in recent years, and can autonomously work within a limited area, thereby reducing the labor burden of human beings. Such an automatic working device is required to be automatically returned to a charging station for charging before the energy is exhausted, and whether the automatic working device can be accurately and reliably returned to the charging station for charging is one of important aspects in the technical aspect, and various types of charging station systems are also appeared in the market. However, these charging devices or the electrical parts of the charging stations are often located on different components, respectively, so that the assembly and maintenance of the charging stations is extremely inconvenient.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at providing a butt joint subassembly and charging device charge to solve the problem that exists among the above-mentioned prior art.

In order to solve the above problem, according to the utility model discloses an aspect provides a butt joint subassembly charges, the butt joint subassembly that charges includes main part, control panel and charging terminal, charging terminal includes charging terminal part and contact, wherein, the main part be equipped with the control panel installation department with charging terminal part, the control panel install in the control panel installation department, the contact set up in charging terminal part with treat charging device's power consumption end contact charge.

According to the utility model discloses a charging device is provided to another aspect, charging device includes cavity, opening and foretell butt joint subassembly that charges, the butt joint subassembly that charges set up in the cavity, the opening with the cavity intercommunication is in order to supply charging terminal or the supply is waited charging device's charging terminal and is passed.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a charging device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the charging device of fig. 1;

fig. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a charging device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which a shielding part is removed;

fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of a charging dock assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a charging docking assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings so that the objects, features and advantages of the invention can be more clearly understood. It should be understood that the embodiments shown in the drawings are not intended as limitations on the scope of the invention, but are merely illustrative of the true spirit of the technical solution of the invention.

In the following description, for the purposes of illustrating various disclosed embodiments, certain specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the various disclosed embodiments. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the embodiments may be practiced without one or more of the specific details. In other instances, well-known devices, structures and techniques associated with this application may not be shown or described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the description of the embodiments.

Reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

In the following description, for the sake of clarity, the structure and operation of the present invention will be described with the aid of directional terms, but the terms "front", "rear", "left", "right", "outer", "inner", "outer", "inward", "upper", "lower", etc. should be understood as words of convenience and not as words of limitation.

The utility model relates to a charging device, including bottom plate portion and erectting portion, bottom plate portion is used for berthing such as the charging device of treating of robot mowers, and erectting portion structure is for upwards protruding from bottom plate portion, and wherein erectting portion is provided with the butt joint subassembly that charges, and the butt joint subassembly that charges includes the charging terminal, and the charging terminal is held the cooperation with the power consumption of treating charging device in order to charge for treating charging device. By integrating the electrical part of the charging device on one component, assembly and maintenance are facilitated.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a charging device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the charging device of fig. 1. As shown in fig. 1-2, the charging device 100 includes a floor part 10 and an upright part 20, the floor part 10 extending in a horizontal direction and being used to stop a device to be charged (not shown) such as a lawn mowing robot, the upright part 20 being configured to extend upward from the floor part 10 and being provided with a charging dock assembly 30. The bottom plate 10 and the upright portion 20 may be integrally formed or may be formed of two detachable parts. Wherein the charging docking assembly 30 includes a charging terminal 311, the charging terminal 311 is configured to form an electrical connection with a charging terminal (a power using terminal) of a device to be charged, such as a lawn mowing robot, to charge a battery pack of the device to be charged, such as a lawn mowing robot. The charging terminal 311 may have various types of charging interfaces, such as a tongue-shaped charging interface, a spring-plate-shaped charging interface, a pin-shaped charging interface, and the like.

Furthermore, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that, in another embodiment, the charging device of the present invention may also include only a bottom plate portion, the charging docking assembly is disposed in the bottom plate portion, and the charging terminal is disposed beyond the upper surface of the bottom plate portion.

As shown in fig. 1-2, the charging device 100 of the present invention may further include a shielding portion 40, where the shielding portion 40 is disposed above the bottom plate portion 10 and used for shielding a device to be charged, such as a mowing robot, parked on the bottom plate portion 10. Preferably, the size of the shielding part is matched with that of the bottom plate part, so that the device to be charged, such as a mowing robot, which is parked on the bottom plate part for charging, can be completely shielded.

Specifically, in the embodiment shown in fig. 1-2, the shielding portion includes a plate-shaped body 41 and two columns 42 extending downward from the bottom surface of the plate-shaped body 41, preferably, two columns 42 extending downward from the bottom surface of the plate-shaped body 41. Correspondingly, the surface of the bottom plate 10 is provided with a first mounting hole 11, two sides of the upright part 20 are provided with second mounting holes 21, the first mounting hole 11 and the second mounting holes 21 are aligned in the vertical direction, and the column 41 of the shielding part 40 is inserted into the first mounting hole 11 of the bottom plate 10 after penetrating into the second mounting hole 21 of the upright part 20, so as to fixedly connect the shielding part 40 with the bottom plate 10 and the upright part 20.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 1-2, the bottom plate 10 extends upward to form a first protrusion 12, the first mounting hole 11 is formed on the first protrusion 12, and the two sides of the upright portion 20 extend to form a second protrusion 22, and then the second protrusion 22 is formed with a second mounting hole 21, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are preferably cylindrical, and a plurality of grooves and protrusions are preferably formed on the outer circumferential wall surrounding the first protrusion and the second protrusion.

Although the first mounting hole 11 and the second mounting hole 21 are provided in the present embodiment, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the second mounting hole 21 of the upright portion may not be provided, only the first mounting hole 11 of the horizontal portion 10 may be provided, only the second mounting hole 21 of the upright portion 20 may be provided, and the first mounting hole 11 of the bottom plate portion 10 may not be provided, thereby fixedly connecting the shielding portion 40 to only the bottom plate portion 10 or the upright portion 20.

Fig. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the charging device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which the shielding portion 40 is removed. As shown in fig. 3, the standing part 20 includes a first case 20A and a second case 20B that are detachable, and the first case 20A and the second case 20B are engaged and form a chamber accommodating the charging dock assembly 30 therein. Wherein the first housing 20A has a through hole 23, and a charging terminal 311 in the charging dock assembly 30 is fitted into the through hole 23 and protruded from the inside of the through hole 23 to form an electrical connection with a charging terminal (power using terminal) of a device to be charged such as a lawn mowing robot, and the charging dock assembly 30 may be fixed to the first housing 20A by screws, for example. In the present embodiment, the charging terminal 311 is a male shape, and correspondingly, the charging terminal on the device to be charged is a female shape, so as to cooperate with each other for charging. However, it is understood by those skilled in the art that the charging terminal 311 may be concave, and the charging terminal on the device to be charged is convex, and the charging is performed by inserting the convex charging terminal on the device to be charged into the concave charging terminal of the present invention.

It should be noted that the first housing and the second housing of the present invention may not be detachable, and in another embodiment, the charging docking assembly of the present invention may be disposed in the shielding portion, and the charging terminal may be disposed from the lower surface of the shielding portion toward the bottom plate portion.

A charging dock assembly 30 according to one embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 4-5.

Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the charging docking assembly 30 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the charging docking assembly 30 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 4 to 5, the charging dock assembly 30 includes a main body portion 31, a charging terminal 311, a control board 32, and a signal terminal 34. The charging terminal 311 includes a charging terminal portion 311A and a charging contact piece 33. The main body portion 31 has a substantially rectangular structure and has relatively wide first and second surfaces which are oppositely disposed, the first surface integrally projects forward of the charging terminal portion 311A, the second surface is recessed inward to form a control board accommodating chamber 312, and the control board accommodating chamber 312 is configured to accommodate the control board 32 and is preferably encapsulated with potting adhesive.

The bottom of control panel accommodation cavity 312 is formed with along the recess 313 of horizontal extension, form in the recess 313 along the charging contact piece slot 314 that the direction of perpendicular to recess 313 extends, charging contact piece slot 314 extends along the main part of charging terminal part 311A for when charging contact piece 33 is installed on charging terminal part 331A, the end of charging contact piece 33 can extend to and accommodate in the cavity 312, correspondingly, be equipped with the jack 321 that corresponds with charging contact piece slot 314 on the control panel 32, the end of charging contact piece 33 stretches into the jack 321, thereby make the end of charging contact piece 33 can extend to the opposite side from one side of control panel 32.

As shown in fig. 4-5, the charging docking assembly of the present invention comprises a pair of charging contacts 33, one of the charging contacts is used as a positive contact, the other charging contact is used as a negative contact, correspondingly, the bottom of the control board accommodating cavity 312 is provided with a pair of charging contacts slots 314, the charging contacts slots 314 extend from the bottom of the control board accommodating cavity bottom (in the groove 314) along the extending direction of the charging terminal 331A for a certain distance in the charging terminal, that is, the charging contacts slots 314 can have a certain depth along the extending direction of the charging terminal, and the positive and negative contacts are installed at the charging terminal at intervals and pass through the charging contacts slots 314 to be connected with the control board 32.

Screw mounting portions 315 may be provided at four corners of the main body portion 31 to mount the main body portion 31 and thus the entire charging dock assembly 30 on the first housing 20A. The charging contact 33 includes two charging contacts, each charging contact 33 has a bent portion 331 at a front end thereof as shown in fig. 4, a width of a distal end of the charging contact 33 is reduced to be engaged with the insertion hole 321 of the control board 32, and the distal end of the charging contact 33 is inserted into the insertion hole 321 of the control board 32 through the slot 314 to be connected with the control board 32.

It should be noted that although the control board accommodating cavity is provided in the main body part and the control board is mounted in the control board accommodating cavity in the embodiment, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the control board accommodating cavity is only one embodiment of the control board mounting part, and other forms of control board mounting parts, such as a control board mounting surface, a control board mounting groove, a control board mounting step, etc., may be provided in the main body part. One method of assembling the charging dock assembly is described below. When the charging docking assembly 30 is assembled, the charging contact 33 is inserted into the slot 314 from the bottom to the top (the direction shown in the cross-sectional view of fig. 5) and fixed, wherein the charging contact 33 and the slot 314 are provided with fixing structures which are matched with each other; then the control board 33 is assembled into the control board accommodating cavity 312 so that the end of the charging contact piece 33 extends from one side of the control board 32 to the other side of the control board 32, and the charging contact piece 33 is welded with the control board 32; finally, the control board 32 is encapsulated, and only the plug connectors (not shown) on the control board 32 are exposed, so that the charging docking assembly 30 is assembled.

When the assembled charging unit 30 is mounted on the upright portion 20, the main body portion 31 of the charging unit 30 is fixed to the first housing 20A by, for example, screwing, and the second housing 20B is then snap-fitted to the first housing 20A, thereby completing the assembly of the charging device 100.

To sum up, the utility model discloses a charging device's electric part is integrated on an subassembly, is convenient for assemble and maintain. It should be noted that although the charging dock assembly 30 is provided in the upright portion 20 in the above embodiment, in other embodiments, the charging dock assembly may be provided in the floor portion 10, and in this case, the charging terminal (charging end) of the device to be charged is provided below the robot to be charged, for example, with reference to the device to be charged such as a mowing robot which is parked on the floor portion.

Furthermore, the utility model provides a charging device can be the charging station, treats that charging device can be intelligent mowing robot, intelligent machine of sweeping the floor, intelligent snow breaker or swimming pool intelligence cleaner etc..

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, but it should be understood that various changes and modifications can be made by those skilled in the art after reading the above teaching of the present invention. Such equivalents are intended to fall within the scope of the claims appended hereto.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a butt joint subassembly charges, its characterized in that, the butt joint subassembly that charges includes main part, control panel and charging terminal, charging terminal includes charging terminal part and the contact of charging, wherein, the main part be equipped with the control panel installation department with charging terminal part, the control panel install in the control panel installation department, the contact set up in charging terminal part with wait that charging device's power consumption contacts to charge.

2. The charging docking assembly of claim 1, wherein the control board mounting portion is a control board receiving cavity provided with an opening to receive the control board.

3. The charging dock assembly of claim 2, wherein the main body portion has first and second opposing surfaces, the control board receiving cavity is disposed on the first surface, and the charging terminal portion is disposed on the second surface.

4. The charging dock assembly of claim 3, wherein the charging terminal portion integrally extends from the second surface of the main body portion in a direction away from the first surface to form a convex charging terminal portion.

5. The charging docking assembly of claim 4, wherein a charging contact slot is formed at a bottom of the control board receiving cavity, the charging contact comprises a positive contact and a negative contact, and the positive contact and the negative contact are mounted to the charging terminal portion at an interval and connected to the control board through the charging contact slot.

6. The charging docking assembly of claim 5, wherein the charging contact slot is formed to extend a distance in the charging terminal part from the bottom of the control board mounting groove along the extending direction of the charging terminal part.

7. The charging docking assembly of claim 6, wherein the control board is provided with a receptacle, the charging contacts include a front end disposed at a front portion of the charging terminal portion and a tip end passing through the charging contact receptacle and protruding into the receptacle, such that the tip end of the charging contacts can extend from one side of the control board to the other.

8. The charging docking assembly of claim 1, further comprising signal terminals in signal communication with the control board.

9. A charging device comprising a chamber, an opening disposed in the chamber, and a charging docking assembly according to any of claims 1-8, the opening communicating with the chamber for passage of the charging terminal or a charging terminal of a device to be charged.

10. A charging device as claimed in claim 9, comprising a base plate portion for docking a device to be charged and an upright portion configured to project upwardly from the base plate portion, wherein the upright portion is provided with the cavity in which the charging docking assembly is mounted.

11. A charging arrangement as claimed in claim 10, in which the upstands comprise first and second housings which cooperate with one another and define internally the chamber in which the charging docking assembly is housed.

12. A charging arrangement as claimed in claim 11, in which the first and second housings are releasably snap-fitted to one another to form the chamber.

13. The charging device of claim 9, wherein the charging device is a charging station, and the device to be charged is an intelligent mowing robot, an intelligent sweeper, an intelligent snow remover or an intelligent swimming pool cleaner.

14. A charging station system, characterized in that the charging station system comprises the charging device of claim 9 and an intelligent mowing robot, an intelligent sweeper, an intelligent snow remover or an intelligent swimming pool cleaner.