Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
  • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
  • B60L53/10—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles characterised by the energy transfer between the charging station and the vehicle
  • B60L53/14—Conductive energy transfer
  • B60L53/16—Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
  • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
  • B60L53/30—Constructional details of charging stations
  • B60L53/35—Means for automatic or assisted adjustment of the relative position of charging devices and vehicles
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
  • Y02T10/60—Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
  • Y02T10/70—Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
  • Y02T10/60—Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
  • Y02T10/7072—Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T90/00—Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
  • Y02T90/10—Technologies relating to charging of electric vehicles
  • Y02T90/14—Plug-in electric vehicles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to an electric vehicle equipped with an adapter for recharging an electric battery.
• a vehicle according to the invention has an electrical outlet for an electric battery of said vehicle, which is configured to allow the tip of the power supply gun to always be placed in a satisfactory position facing said outlet, to ensure that the battery is recharged systematically.
• the invention relates to a vehicle comprising an electric battery and an electrical outlet intended to supply said battery with electricity, said outlet being placed in a bodywork element delimiting said vehicle so as to be accessible from the outside. of said vehicle.
• the socket comprises guide means intended to route a tip of an electrical power gun in the correct position opposite said socket, so that said tip can systematically enter a zone of reception of said socket in order to ensure electrical recharging of the battery.
• the reception zone comprises several parallel channels intended to be occupied by tubular and rectilinear rods of the tip of the supply gun, to ensure the recharging of the battery.
• These guide means are placed around the reception zone, and are preferably constituted by hollows and/or bumps placed on said socket.
• these guide means consist of projecting elements such as for example flat walls, the orientation of which allows them to route the tip of the feed gun towards the zone for receiving the socket.
• the term “systematically” should be interpreted as “every time”.
• the tip is an electrical connector, and the penetration of the tip into the reception zone makes it possible to ensure electrical contact between said tip and said reception zone.
• the guide means consist of a wall forming a funnel, said wall delimiting a flared end opening and a reduced end opening placed around the zone for receiving the taken, said flared end opening being placed further outboard of the vehicle than is the reduced end opening.
• the section of the wall delimiting the reduced end opening surrounds the reception area without leaving space with said reception area.
• the tip will always be ideally placed in front of the reception area before being pushed into it, without the risk of being slightly off-center in relation to it.
• the section of the wall delimiting the reduced end opening is in contact with a secondary wall delimiting the reception zone. Thanks to this interaction between the section of the wall forming a funnel and the secondary wall of the socket surrounding the reception area, the mouthpiece will be, systematically and repeatedly, always well placed in front of the reception area.
• the wall forming the funnel has inclined faces connecting the flared end opening and the reduced end opening, said inclined faces leading to two receiving walls placed at the same level as the reduced end opening and covering two magnetized zones of the socket and placed on either side of the reception zone, said inclined faces being intended to guide the movement of two end magnets of the tip of the feed gun to route them to the two receiving walls.
• both receiving walls each form a housing intended to receive a magnet from the end piece.
• the two magnets are each placed at one end of a movable rod of the end piece and therefore have movable positions relative to the end piece.
• the two receiving walls are placed in the same plane, corresponding to a plane in which the reduced end opening is inscribed.
• the two receiving walls each have a circular outline to accommodate a cylindrical magnet of the tip of the feed gun.
• the wall forming a funnel comprises two flat stops placed at the level of the flared end opening and aligned along a vertical axis, said two stops being intended to block the stroke of two movable rods of the tip of the feed gun and around which springs are threaded.
• the wall forming a funnel is an attached adapter capable of being fixed on the electrical socket of the vehicle, without modifying the structure of said vehicle.
• an adapter adapted to the vehicle in question in order to then fix it to the electrical outlet of the vehicle without having to modify the structure of the vehicle at the level of the outlet.
• Another object of the invention is a method for recharging a battery of a vehicle according to the invention, by means of a supply gun comprising a tip surrounded by two first movable rods around which are wound two springs and by two second movable rods each ending in a magnet.
• the method comprises the following steps:
• a vehicle according to the invention has the advantage of having an electric battery that can be recharged satisfactorily and repeatedly at each recharging operation. It also has the advantage of having an electric battery that can be recharged with an electricity supply gun controlled by a robot, because even if the gun is not ideally placed in front of the electrical outlet, the adapter allows said gun to be systematically inserted in the reception area of the vehicle's electrical socket.
• FIG. 1 represents a perspective view of a vehicle according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of an area showing an electricity supply gun and a socket of a vehicle according to the invention, said gun being set back from said socket,
• FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of the area of Figure 2, said gun being connected to the socket,
• FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of a vehicle socket according to the invention
• FIG. 5 shows an enlarged perspective view of a power supply gun and an electrical outlet of a vehicle according to the invention
• FIG. 6 shows a front view of a wall forming a funnel and intended to be fixed on an electrical socket of a vehicle according to the invention
• FIG. 7 represents a perspective view of the wall of figure 6
• FIG. 8 shows a side view of the part of Figures 6 and 7,
• FIG. 9 shows a top view of the part of figures 6, 7 and 8.
• a vehicle 1 is an electric or hybrid vehicle comprising an electric battery and can for example be a utility vehicle.
• the vehicle illustrated in Figure 1 has a cockpit 2 at the rear of which extends a loading platform 3, intended to store goods or various objects.
• the cockpit 2 comprises a driver's seat and at least one passenger seat placed next to said driver's seat.
• a first side door 4 provides access to the driver's seat and a second side door (not visible in the figures) provides access to said at least one passenger seat.
• this vehicle 1 has an electric current socket 10 connected to the electric battery of said vehicle 1, in which is intended to be plugged a tip 11 of a gun 12 power supply to ensure electrical recharging of the battery.
• This electrical outlet 10 is placed in a bodywork element 13 of the vehicle, which is located at the rear of the first side door 4. This electrical outlet 10 is flush with an outer surface of this bodywork element 13, so as to be accessible from the exterior of said vehicle 1.
• the power supply gun 12 is electrically connected to a reserve 14 of electric current which is external to the vehicle 1.
• the supply gun 12 with its tip 11 is routed in front of the electrical outlet 10 of the vehicle.
• the tip 11 plays the role of an electrical connector intended to be plugged into the electrical socket 10 of the vehicle 1 to establish electrical contact and ensure the charging of the battery.
• the feed gun 12 schematically comprises a main body 16, preferably cylindrical in shape, and extended by the tip 11 which is itself advantageously cylindrical in shape and whose diameter is substantially equal to that of the main body 16.
• Two first movable rods 17, 18 extend on either side of the main body 16, being parallel to a longitudinal axis of said main body 16. These two first rods 17, 18 are therefore arranged around said body 16 being diametrically opposed. They are each mounted to move in translation on a first support 19 projecting from the main body 16, and a spiral spring 20 is inserted between said first projecting support 19 and an enlarged end 30 of the rod 17, 18, intended to bear against a stop 21, 22 of the socket 10. When said ends 30 bear against the stops 21, 22 of the socket, the first rods 17, 18 move relative to the main body 16 along a longitudinal axis of this body 16, by compressing the spring 20. The first two rods 17, 18 are aligned in a vertical plane.
• two second movable rods 23, 24 extend on either side of the main body 16, being parallel to a longitudinal axis of said main body 16. These two second rods 23, 24 are therefore arranged around said body 16 being diametrically opposed. These two second rods 23, 24 are aligned in a horizontal plane. They are each mounted to move in translation on a second support 25 projecting from the main body 16, and each have one end terminating in a magnet 26. These second rods 23, 24 can move along a longitudinal axis of the main body 16 in both directions, by means of a motorization 27 carried by each of said second rods 23, 24.
• a method of connecting the tip 11 of the power supply gun 12 in the reception zone 15 of the electrical outlet 10 follows the following steps: a step of routing the electrical power gun 12 in front of the outlet 10 of the vehicle, -a step of bringing the magnets 16 of the second rods 23, 24 into contact with two magnetized zones of the electrical socket 10 of the vehicle 1, by means of the movement of the two second rods 23, 24,
• a vehicle 1 In order to prevent any incorrect positioning of the power supply gun 12 with respect to the electrical outlet 10, a vehicle 1 according to the invention comprises an adapter 50 intended to be fixed on the electrical outlet 10 of the vehicle, and configured to guide the tip 11 of the power supply gun 12 towards the reception area 15 of said socket 10.
• this adapter 50 comprises a wall 51 forming a funnel, said wall 51 defining a flared end opening 52 and a reduced end opening 53, the dimensions of said opening of reduced end 53 being lower than those of the flared end opening 52.
• This wall 51 forming the funnel has inclined faces 54, 55 connecting the flared end opening 52 and the reduced end opening 53 , said inclined faces 54, 55 opening onto two receiving walls 56, 57, placed at the same level as the reduced end opening 53.
• the reduced end opening 53 is inscribed in a vertical plane
• the two receiving walls 56, 57 are inscribed substantially in the same plane.
• These two receiving walls 56, 57 each have a circular contour and each delimits a cylindrical housing.
• the wall 51 of the adapter 50 comprises the two stops 21, 22 each having a face 35 flush with a vertical plane in which is inscribed the flared end opening 52
• the adapter 50 is fixed to the vehicle 1 for example by screwing, so as to cover the electrical outlet 10 of said vehicle 1.
• This adapter 50 is arranged on the vehicle so that:
• the reduced end opening 53 is placed around the reception zone 15 of the socket 10 by tightly enclosing said reception zone 15, in other words without creating space with said reception zone 15,
• the flared end opening 52 levels off an outer surface of the bodywork element 13 of the vehicle in which the electrical outlet 10 is placed, and the reduced end opening 53 is placed further towards the inside of the vehicle than only is the flared end opening 52.
• a method for recharging a battery of a vehicle 1 according to the invention comprises the following steps:
• the inclined faces 54, 55 of the adapter 50 make it possible to guide the magnets 26 until they reach the receiving faces 56, 57, the guiding of these magnets 26 making it possible to place them in the correct position the charging nozzle 12 facing the electrical socket 10 of the vehicle, so that the connection tip 11 can be introduced systematically into the reception area 15 of said socket 10.

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