CN218569101U

CN218569101U - Automatic storage system of new energy battery

Info

Publication number: CN218569101U
Application number: CN202222587838.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 彭润林; 王雄
Original assignee: Beier Engineering Guangzhou Co ltd
Current assignee: Beier Engineering Guangzhou Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-09-28
Filing date: 2022-09-28
Publication date: 2023-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 2032-09-28

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic storage system of new energy batteries, which relates to the technical field of new energy battery changing stations and comprises a storage rack, a plurality of storage units and a plurality of storage units, wherein the storage rack is provided with a plurality of storage units; the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the power battery to the outside; the stacking mechanism is arranged between the storage rack and the conveying mechanism; the stacking mechanism comprises a fire-fighting unit, the fire-fighting unit and the stacking mechanism move synchronously and are used for carrying out thermal runaway management on the storage unit; the stacking mechanism comprises a transverse moving mechanism and a lifting and carrying mechanism. According to the utility model discloses a new forms of energy battery automatic storage system, stacking mechanism can realize multi-direction removal through lateral shifting mechanism and lift moving mechanism, and the moving range increase can move the different storage unit and get and put power battery, and the power battery memory space is more. And the fire-fighting unit moves along with the stacking mechanism, so that thermal runaway management can be performed on the storage unit at any position, the safety of the storage system is improved, and potential safety hazards are reduced.

Description

Automatic storage system of new energy battery

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a new forms of energy trade power station technical field, in particular to new energy battery automatic storage system.

Background

With the rapid development of new energy vehicles, the main part of new energy is power batteries, and aiming at the structure of the power batteries, the industry is divided into a battery replacing structure and an assembly structure, and the new energy vehicles supporting the battery replacing structure need to be replaced to a specific battery replacing station for replacing the power batteries. And can store multiunit power battery in trading the power station simultaneously and promote the power changing efficiency who trades the power station, just can get into storage system after the power battery of car is dismantled and carry out the energy supplementation to promote the power battery quantity that the single day of trading the power station can supply to change.

The battery storage bin in the existing battery replacement station is generally divided into two arrangement forms. The other one is that set up the buttress machine of fixed battery stand and walking, and battery stand itself does not set up power unit, only relies on the buttress machine to transport the battery, but this kind of arrangement space occupation is big, and corresponding cost is also than higher, and conveying efficiency and trade the electric efficiency lower. The other type is that a battery frame and a lifter are respectively arranged, but the battery frame is provided with an independent power mechanism, and the lifter is also provided with another independent power mechanism, so that the installation structure is complex, and the arrangement cost is high.

The Chinese utility model ZL 202122874127.4 discloses a battery storage bin which comprises a lifter, wherein one end of the lifter is connected with a battery storage rack, and a fire box is arranged at the bottom of the battery storage rack; the multi-layer storage unit is arranged in the battery storage rack and comprises a cavity for accommodating a battery; the fire control unit is arranged in the fire-fighting box and comprises a cache space for accommodating a battery out of thermal control.

The fire unit of above-mentioned structure rigidity, can't carry out effectual thermal runaway management to whole storage system. And the elevator can only lift in fixed direction and move the power battery between the battery storage rack and the storage unit on two sides, and the number of the storable units is small.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at solving the fire unit rigidity of "storage system that exists among the prior art at least, can't carry out effectual thermal runaway management to whole storage system. And the elevator can only lift in fixed direction and move the power battery between the battery storage rack and the storage unit on two sides, and the number of the storable units is small. "to the technical problem. Therefore, the utility model provides a new energy battery automatic storage system, fire control unit and lift synchronous motion can carry out the thermal runaway management to optional position storage unit, improves the security to lift home range increases, and storage system deposits more power battery, promotes the storage space.

According to the utility model discloses a new energy battery automatic storage system of some embodiments, include:

a storage rack provided with a plurality of storage units;

the conveying mechanism is arranged on one side of the storage rack and used for conveying the power battery to the outside; and (c) a second step of,

the stacking mechanism is arranged between the storage rack and the conveying mechanism and used for moving the power battery between the conveying mechanism and the storage rack;

the stacking mechanism comprises a fire-fighting unit, and the fire-fighting unit and the stacking mechanism move synchronously and are used for carrying out thermal runaway management on the storage unit;

the stacking mechanism comprises a transverse moving mechanism and a lifting carrying mechanism, the transverse moving mechanism is used for guiding the stacking mechanism to the designated position of the storage rack, and the lifting carrying mechanism is used for extending into the storage unit to carry the power battery.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the lateral movement mechanism comprises a movement track and a movement base, the movement base being moved along the movement track by a drive mechanism; the movable base is provided with the fire fighting unit and the lifting and carrying mechanism.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, the storage frame set up in remove orbital both sides, conveying mechanism is located remove orbital one side.

According to the utility model discloses a some embodiments, remove orbital both ends and be provided with hydraulic buffer gear respectively, work as remove the base and follow it removes to remove the track when removing orbital both ends end, hydraulic buffer gear with the end face contact and the buffering of removing the base remove the impact of base.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the lifting and carrying mechanism comprises a gantry and a lifting tray, the bottom of the gantry is fixedly connected to the movable base, and the lifting tray is lifted along a vertical direction of the gantry by a driving mechanism; the battery lifting mechanism is arranged in the lifting tray and is in sliding connection with the lifting tray, and the battery lifting mechanism stretches into the storage unit through the driving of the driving mechanism to move the power battery.

According to the utility model discloses a some embodiments, the lift tray is provided with infrared sensor, infrared sensor is used for detecting storage unit's space occupation condition.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, the lift tray with be provided with urgent braking mechanism between the portal frame, urgent braking mechanism is used for preventing the lift tray tenesmus.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a battery tray is provided in the storage unit, respectively.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the fire fighting unit comprises an aerosol fire extinguishing medium or a carbon dioxide fire extinguishing medium.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, conveying mechanism is provided with the transportation area, the transportation area is used for bearing power battery's warehouse entry and warehouse exit.

According to the utility model discloses a new energy battery automatic storage system of some embodiments has following beneficial effect at least: the stacking mechanism can move in multiple directions through the transverse moving mechanism and the lifting moving mechanism, the moving range is enlarged, the stacking mechanism can move to different storage units to pick and place power batteries, and the storage capacity of the power batteries is more. And the fire fighting unit moves along with the stacking mechanism, so that thermal runaway management can be performed on the storage unit at any position, the safety of a storage system is improved, and potential safety hazards are reduced.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an automatic storage system for a new energy battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a first partial schematic view of an automatic storage system for new energy batteries according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a second partial schematic view of the automatic storage system for new energy batteries according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion a of fig. 3.

Reference numerals:

a storage rack 100, a storage unit 110, a battery tray 120, a conveying mechanism 200, a conveyor belt 210,

A fire fighting unit 310, a transverse moving mechanism 320, a moving track 321, a moving base 322, a hydraulic buffer mechanism 323,

A lifting and carrying mechanism 330, a portal frame 331, a lifting tray 332 and a battery lifting mechanism 333.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship referred to in the description of the orientation, such as the upper, lower, front, rear, left, right, top, bottom, etc., is the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, a plurality of means are one or more, a plurality of means are two or more, and the terms greater than, less than, exceeding, etc. are understood as not including the number, and the terms greater than, less than, within, etc. are understood as including the number. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present invention, unless there is an explicit limitation, the terms such as setting, installing, connecting, etc. should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meaning of the terms in the present invention by combining the specific contents of the technical solution.

The following describes an automatic storage system for a new energy battery according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to fig. 1 to 4.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the automatic storage system for new energy batteries includes three parts, namely a storage rack 100, a conveying mechanism 200 and a stacking mechanism. The storage rack 100 is provided with a plurality of storage units 110 for storing power batteries, each storage unit 110 can store a group of power batteries, and the side wall of the inner cavity of each storage unit 110 on the storage rack 100 is provided with fireproof materials, so that each storage unit 110 is independently spaced. The conveying mechanism 200 is provided at one side of the storage rack 100 for conveying the power battery to the outside. Specifically, a stacking mechanism is provided between the storage rack 100 and the conveying mechanism 200, the stacking mechanism serving to move the power cells between the conveying mechanism and the storage rack 100. The stacking mechanism takes out the power batteries from the storage unit 110 and then puts the power batteries to the conveying mechanism 200, or carries the power batteries from the conveying mechanism 200 to the storage unit 110 for storage or energy supplement.

The stacking mechanism includes a fire fighting unit 310, and the fire fighting unit 310 and the stacking mechanism move synchronously for performing thermal runaway management on the storage unit 110. Different with traditional bottom setting fire unit 310's structure, the utility model discloses a fire unit 310 can carry out thermal runaway management to the storage unit 110 of all positions of storage frame 100 along with stacking mechanism synchronous motion to every storage unit 110 adopts independent divided space, can put out the flame that corresponds storage unit 110 faster in thermal runaway management's processing process, and fire extinguishing efficiency is higher, reduces the potential safety hazard.

The stacking mechanism includes a lateral moving mechanism 320 and a lifting and carrying mechanism 330, the lateral moving mechanism 320 is used for guiding the stacking mechanism to a designated position of the storage shelf 100, and the lifting and carrying mechanism 330 is used for extending into the storage unit 110 to carry the power battery. Different with current single direction of motion's lift, the utility model discloses a stacking mechanism can realize the removal of level and vertical direction to can install more storage frame 100 in storage system, thereby deposit more power battery, because fire unit 310 is along with stacking mechanism synchronous motion, under the circumstances of the storage capacity increase of guaranteeing storage system, the security also can obtain guaranteeing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the storage units 110 are respectively provided with battery trays 120 therein. The carrying carrier of the power battery is realized through the battery tray 120, each storage unit 110 is correspondingly provided with the battery tray 120, the power battery is transferred by moving the battery tray 120 through the stacking mechanism, and the situations of collision and scratch of the appearance of the power battery and the like can be effectively avoided.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1-3, the fire fighting unit 310 includes an aerosol fire extinguishing medium or a carbon dioxide fire extinguishing medium. Because the storage unit 110 is arranged in a separated space, the fire fighting unit 310 can effectively block oxygen in the storage unit 110 by adopting aerosol or carbon dioxide for fire fighting, and the fire fighting efficiency is higher. When the storage unit at any position is in thermal runaway, the storage system positions the thermal runaway storage unit 110 through a temperature sensor or a thermal imaging structure and the like, and then drives the stacking mechanism to bring the fire fighting unit 310 to the storage unit 110 at the specified position to extinguish the fire.

It should be understood that the use of aerosol medium or carbon dioxide medium for the fire fighting unit 310 is not the only embodiment, and in other embodiments, dry powder extinguishing medium or foam extinguishing medium may be used depending on the actual production. The utility model discloses the medium kind of putting out a fire to fire unit 310 differs one from another and has been repeated, should understand, does not deviate from the utility model discloses under the prerequisite of basic concept, the medium kind of putting out a fire of fire unit 310 changes in a flexible way, all should regard as to be in the utility model discloses within the scope of protection of injecing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1-3, the conveying mechanism 200 is provided with a conveying belt 210, and the conveying belt 210 is used for loading and unloading power batteries. Particularly, the transportation by the conveyer belt 210 is more stable, and the conveyer belt 210 structure can better bear the weight due to the heavy weight of the power battery. The structure of the conveyor belt 210 is well known to those skilled in the art and will not be described in detail in this embodiment.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1-3, the lateral moving mechanism 320 includes a moving rail 321 and a moving base 322, and the moving base 322 is moved along the moving rail 321 by a driving mechanism. The movable base 322 is provided with a fire fighting unit 310 and a lifting/lowering/carrying mechanism 330. The movable rail 321 is a single rail or a double rail, in this embodiment, the movable rail 321 is a single rail, and the movable base 322 is slidably connected to the movable rail 321. The moving base 322 is driven to slide along the moving rail 321 by a driving mechanism of the moving base 322. Because the stacking mechanism needs to bear the movement of the power battery, the movement stability and the load-carrying capacity of the stacking mechanism are ensured. The moving base 322 slides in contact with the moving rail 321 using driving wheels, similar to the moving structure between a train and a rail. The structure of the moving base 322 moving along the moving track 321 is well known to those skilled in the art, and will not be described in detail in this embodiment.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 to 3, the storage rack 100 is disposed on both sides of the moving rail 321, and the conveying mechanism 200 is located on one side of the moving rail 321. By arranging the storage shelves 100 on both sides of the movable rail 321, the storage capacity of the storage system can be greatly improved, and the storage capacity of the storage system can be improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the two ends of the moving rail 321 are respectively provided with a hydraulic buffer mechanism 323, and when the moving base 322 moves to the end of the two ends of the moving rail 321 along the moving rail 321, the hydraulic buffer mechanism 323 contacts with the end surface of the moving base 322 and buffers the impact of the moving base 322. The hydraulic buffer mechanism 323 can effectively absorb the kinetic energy of the stacking mechanism when the power battery is transported to the tail end and stops moving. And two hydraulic buffer mechanisms 323 are provided at both ends, which can prevent the stacking mechanism from being separated from the moving rail 321 during transportation.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the lifting and carrying mechanism 330 includes a gantry 331 and a lifting tray 332, the bottom of the gantry 331 is fixedly connected to the movable base 322, and the lifting tray 332 is lifted and lowered along the vertical direction of the gantry 331 by a driving mechanism. In this embodiment, the lifting movement of the lifting tray 332 is performed by a cable-type structure, and the lifting tray 332 is lifted by a wire rope. Because the weight of the power battery reaches about five hundred kilograms, the lifting of the lifting tray 332 is realized by adopting a sling structure, so that the stability of the lifting process of the power battery can be ensured, and the driving mechanism of the surface lifting tray 332 is overloaded. The hoist structure of the sling type is similar to the hoist structure of an elevator, is well known to those skilled in the art, and is not described in this embodiment.

A battery lifting mechanism 333 is arranged in the lifting tray 332, the battery lifting mechanism 333 is connected with the lifting tray 332 in a sliding manner, and the battery lifting mechanism 333 is driven by a driving mechanism to extend into the storage unit 110 to move a power battery. The battery lifting mechanism 333 is a mechanism that can move in the horizontal direction, and the battery lifting mechanism 333 is driven by a driving mechanism to extend into the storage unit 110 from the lifting tray 332 to transport the power battery into the lifting tray 332. The battery lifting mechanism 333 can only move in the horizontal direction, when the tray of the battery lifting mechanism 333 extends into the lower part of the battery tray 120 of the storage unit 110, the lifting tray 332 rises upwards, so that the tray of the battery lifting mechanism 333 lifts the battery tray 120, and then the tray is reset into the lifting tray 332, and the stacking mechanism carries the power battery to the conveying mechanism 200.

In a further embodiment, the lifting tray 332 is provided with an infrared sensor (not shown in the drawings) for detecting the occupancy of the space of the storage unit 110. Specifically, the infrared sensor can emit an infrared signal to the storage unit 110 during the process of lifting the lifting tray 332, and when the infrared sensor reaches the position of the battery tray 120 of the storage unit 110, if the reflection time of the infrared sensor is longer than a preset time, the storage unit 110 is free of the battery tray 120 and the power battery.

It should be understood that the use of the infrared sensor to detect the space usage of the storage unit 110 is not the only implementation, and in other embodiments, the use of the storage unit may be recorded in a program according to actual production or a weight sensor may be disposed in the storage unit 110 to determine the space usage of the storage unit 110. The utility model discloses occupation detection structure to storage unit 110's space is not repeated one and is repeated, should understand, does not deviate from the utility model discloses under the prerequisite of basic design, storage unit 110's space is occupied and is detected the nimble transform of structure, all should regard as to be in the utility model discloses within the scope of protection injectd.

In a further embodiment, an emergency brake mechanism (not shown in the figures) is provided between the lifting tray 332 and the gantry 331, for preventing the lifting tray 332 from falling down. The emergency braking mechanism has the same structure as the elevator emergency braking mechanism, and particularly, the emergency braking mechanism is a technical scheme well known to those skilled in the art and is not described in the embodiment.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. An automatic storage system for a new energy battery is characterized by comprising:

a storage rack (100), the storage rack (100) being provided with a plurality of storage units (110);

the conveying mechanism (200) is arranged on one side of the storage rack (100) and is used for conveying the power battery to the outside; and the number of the first and second groups,

a stacking mechanism provided between the storage rack (100) and the conveying mechanism (200) for moving the power battery between the conveying mechanism (200) and the storage rack (100);

wherein the stacking mechanism comprises a fire fighting unit (310), the fire fighting unit (310) moving in synchronism with the stacking mechanism for thermal runaway management of the storage unit (110);

the stacking mechanism comprises a transverse moving mechanism (320) and a lifting and carrying mechanism (330), wherein the transverse moving mechanism (320) is used for guiding the stacking mechanism to a designated position of the storage rack (100), and the lifting and carrying mechanism (330) is used for extending into the storage unit (110) to carry the power battery.

2. The automatic storage system of new energy batteries according to claim 1, characterized in that the lateral movement mechanism (320) comprises a movement track (321) and a movement base (322), the movement base (322) is moved along the movement track (321) by a driving mechanism; the movable base (322) is provided with the fire fighting unit (310) and the lifting and carrying mechanism (330).

3. The automatic storage system of new energy batteries according to claim 2, characterized in that the storage shelves (100) are disposed at both sides of the moving rail (321), and the conveying mechanism (200) is located at one side of the moving rail (321).

4. The automatic storage system for the new energy battery according to claim 2, wherein the two ends of the moving rail (321) are respectively provided with a hydraulic buffer mechanism (323), and when the moving base (322) moves to the ends of the two ends of the moving rail (321) along the moving rail (321), the hydraulic buffer mechanism (323) contacts with the end surface of the moving base (322) and buffers the impact of the moving base (322).

5. The automatic storage system for the new energy battery as claimed in claim 2, wherein the lifting and carrying mechanism (330) comprises a gantry (331) and a lifting tray (332), the bottom of the gantry (331) is fixedly connected with the moving base (322), and the lifting tray (332) is lifted and lowered along the vertical direction of the gantry (331) through a driving mechanism;

be provided with battery lifting mechanism (333) in lift tray (332), battery lifting mechanism (333) with lift tray (332) sliding connection, battery lifting mechanism (333) stretch into through the actuating mechanism drive the power of motion battery is moved in storage unit (110).

6. The automatic new energy battery storage system according to claim 5, characterized in that the lifting tray (332) is provided with an infrared sensor for detecting the occupation of the space of the storage unit (110).

7. The automatic new energy battery storage system according to claim 5, characterized in that an emergency braking mechanism is arranged between the lifting tray (332) and the gantry (331), and the emergency braking mechanism is used for preventing the lifting tray (332) from falling down.

8. The automatic new energy battery storage system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein battery trays (120) are respectively disposed in the storage units (110).

9. The automatic new energy battery storage system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the fire fighting unit (310) comprises an aerosol fire extinguishing medium or a carbon dioxide fire extinguishing medium.

10. The automatic storage system of new energy batteries according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the conveying mechanism (200) is provided with a conveyor belt (210), and the conveyor belt (210) is used for carrying power batteries to enter and exit.