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Definitions

• Electric charging contact device Charging contact device, charging station and autonomous vehicle
• the invention relates to an electrical Ladeumblevorrich device for the electrical charging of an electrical energy storage device of an autonomous vehicle, comprising a basic holder, a contact carrier with electrical contacts, which are designed to contact electrical counter contacts.
• the invention also relates to an associated charging station and an associated autonomous vehicle.
• WO 2017/008895 Al discloses an autonomous vehicle.
• the object of the invention is to create an electrical charging contact device, a charging station with such an electrical charging contact device and / or an autonomous vehicle with such an electrical charging contact device, such that an autonomous vehicle can be electrically charged to a charging station in a simple manner and with little expenditure of time can be coupled so that an electrical energy store of the autonomous vehicle can be charged at the charging station.
• an electrical charging contact device for the electrical charging of an electrical energy store, in particular an autonomous vehicle, having a base holder, a contact carrier with electrical contacts, which are designed to make contact with electrical mating contacts, and a bearing device, which is designed to mount the contact carrier so as to be adjustable relative to the base holder at least substantially parallel to the level of a floor.
• An autonomous vehicle generally has a chassis and wheels that are rotatably mounted on the chassis about their wheel rotation axes on, of which at least one wheel is driven.
• One or more of the wheels can be steered wheels.
• One or more of the wheels can be omnidirectional wheels, such as mecanum wheels.
• Such an autonomous vehicle generally also has a control device which is designed and set up to automatically drive and / or automatically steer the wheels in order to move and / or navigate the autonomous vehicle on a floor by means of the wheels.
• Autonomous vehicles are particularly characterized by the fact that they have no driver. Autonomous vehicles often have no seats. Since such autonomous vehicles are mostly operated independently, that is to say they are self-sufficient, these autonomous vehicles have at least one electrical energy store which has to be charged at intervals. However, even vehicles that are not autonomous vehicles, but are driven, driven and / or navigated by a driver, can have an electrical energy store, which also has to be charged at certain intervals.
• the electrical energy storage device is an electrical one like the rechargeable energy storage device and can accordingly comprise, for example, galvanic secondary cells and thus in particular be an accumulator. If necessary, however, it can also be, for example, a capacitor or a converter in general, to which energy in the form of electrical energy can be supplied, possibly converted into another form of energy for storage for a period of time and at a later point in time into electrical energy is converted back to then remove them.
• the vehicle Since the energy present in the electrical energy store is also consumed in this way, the vehicle must be driven to a charging station at certain intervals, at which charging station the vehicle's electrical energy store, in particular special of the autonomous vehicle can be recharged.
• Such a charging station is generally fixed and connected to an electrical network or closable, which provides electrical energy.
• the electrical charging contact device is designed to temporarily connect the charging station to the vehicle electrically in such a way that the electrical energy store of the vehicle can be charged electrically from the network. After a charging process, the electrical connection between the charging station and the vehicle is released again, so that the vehicle can move independently again.
• the charging contact apparatus For electrically coupling the electrical energy store of the vehicle to the charging station connected to the network has the charging contact apparatus electrical contacts, the electrical contacts with corresponding counter-currency rend usammen embryo charging Z.
• the charging contact device can optionally be provided at the charging station, where the electrical counter contacts are then seen on the vehicle. In this case, the electrical Jacobkon contacts of the vehicle are connected to the electrical energy storage of the vehicle.
• the charging contact device can be Stuff be provided, the electrical mating contacts are then provided at the charging station. In this case, the electrical contacts of the charging contact device of the vehicle are connected to the electrical energy store of the vehicle.
• the charging contact device has a basic holder.
• the basic holder has connecting means which are designed for the stationary attachment of the charging contact device to a floor, for example the vehicle floor.
• the connecting means can be formed in a simple embodiment by holes or bores in the base holder, via which the charging contact device can be screwed to the floor, for example by means of floor anchor screws.
• the basic holder has connecting means which, for fastening the charging contact device, are formed, for example, on an underbody of the vehicle.
• the connecting means can be formed in a simple embodiment by holes or bores in the base holder, via which the charging contact device can be screwed to the underbody of the vehicle, for example by means of screws.
• the contact carrier has the electrical contacts.
• the electrical contacts can include at least two load contacts, which are designed to transmit the electrical load energy from the network into the electrical energy store. To this extent, these load contacts are connected to the network.
• the electrical contacts can also include at least two control contacts, which are designed or set up to detect a correct coupling of the vehicle to the charging station.
• the tax con Cycles can also be designed or set up to transmit electrical control commands between the vehicle and the charging station unidirectionally or bidirectionally in order to be able to control or regulate, for example, a charging cycle of the electrical energy store.
• the contact carrier is adjustable in relation to the basic holder.
• the storage device is accordingly designed to support the contact carrier adjustable with respect to the basic holder.
• the bearing device is designed according to the invention to adjust the contact carrier at least substantially parallel to the level of a floor.
• the floor is defined on the one hand by the floor on which the charging contact device is fixed in its fixed arrangement to the charging station and / or on the other hand by the road or the floor on which the vehicle is moving. This applies in particular to the embodiment in which the charging contact device is arranged on the vehicle.
• an adjustability of the contact carrier which takes place at least substantially parallel to the level of a floor, in other words means that the contact carrier is at least essentially adjustable in a horizontal plane with respect to the basic holder.
• the bearing device can the contact carrier by means of at least one pivot bearing and / or by means of at least one
• the contact carrier may have a support plate which extends longitudinally in the charging approach direction of the autonomous vehicle to be electrically charged, the bearing device being designed to support the support plate in an adjustable manner transversely to its longitudinal extension relative to the basic holder.
• the electrical contacts are mounted against each other in an electrically insulated or fixed or movable manner, in particular fastened.
• the support plate can be designed so far to keep the electrical contacts in defined positions and distances to each other. The arrangement and the spacing of the electrical contacts to one another correlate with the arrangement and the spacing of the electrical counter-contacts.
• the charging approach is defined by the current essential direction of travel of the vehicle immediately before the vehicle is coupled to the charging station.
• the longitudinal extent of the support plate is also defined as its extent in the direction of the loading direction, that is, the momentary essential direction of travel of the vehicle immediately before coupling the vehicle to the charging station.
• the bearing device is designed to mount the support plate so that it can be adjusted transversely to its longitudinal extension relative to the basic holder, this means that the support plate is essentially perpendicular to the loading approach direction, i.e. the current essential direction of travel of the vehicle immediately before coupling the Vehicle can be adjusted to the charging station, to that extent also in the horizontal plane.
• the bearing device can have at least one linear guide, along which the contact carrier is adjustably mounted on a straight track relative to the basic holder.
• the linear guide can have two at a distance from each other, parallel, mutually extending guide tracks or guide strips, which on the base holder are fastened, wherein each guide track or guide strip has at least one guide roller or guide bushing running on the respective guide track or guide rail, to which guide rollers or guide bushes the contact carrier is mounted or fastened.
• the bearing device can in particular be designed to adjustably mount the contact carrier between a first stop position and a second stop position, the bearing device having a spring device which is formed from pre-positioning the contact carrier in a central position lying between the first stop position and the second stop position .
• the spring device may have at least one first spring element which is designed to move the contact carrier away from the first stop position by means of its spring tension, and may have at least one second spring element which is formed antagonistically to the at least one first spring element in order to support the contact carrier through its Fe der tension to move away from the second stop position, with the antagonistic acting at least one first spring element and at least one second spring element of the contact carrier can be deflected in its middle position between the first stop position and the second stop position.
• the contact carrier in particular the support plate of the contact carrier can additionally have an on ramp in all design variants, which in the landing direction of the
• Autonomous vehicle to be electrically charged is beveled to support the sliding of spring-loaded, electrical counter-contacts of the electrically charged au tonome vehicle onto the electrical contacts of the contact carrier.
• the start-up ramp can have an inclined surface which is designed to rise in the charging approach direction of the vehicle to be electrically charged. If the counter contacts are spring-loaded, then they are pushed against the spring preload in a vertical direction when the vehicle approaches or hits the charging station. The spring bias of the mating contacts can ensure or improve a good electrical transition to the contacts of the electrical charging contact device.
• the contact carrier in particular the support plate of the contact carrier, can have a first lateral contact strip and an opposite second lateral contact strip, by means of which contact strips a charging start-up movement of the autonomous vehicle to be electrically charged into a deflection movement of the contact carrier that takes place transversely to the approach direction , in particular the support plate of the contact carrier is implemented along the adjustment direction of the bearing device.
• the stop bars are thus used to start the centering device one of the two opposite slopes on the centering device in order to deflect the contact carrier, in particular the support plate of the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact device by a movement of the autonomous vehicle relative to the basic holder during an autonomous charging process of the autonomous vehicle .
• the electrical charging contact device can have a ramp arranged on the contact carrier, in particular on the support plate of the contact carrier, which is limited on the one hand by a first lateral contact strip and on the other hand by a second lateral contact strip, with the An - Run ramp is chamfered in the charging direction of the autonomous vehicle to be electrically charged in order to support a sliding on spring-biased, electrical mating contacts of the autonomous vehicle to be electrically charged onto the electrical contacts of the contact carrier.
• a charging station having an electrical charging contact device, as disclosed according to one or more of the embodiments described, the basic holder having connecting means for fixing the electrical charging contact device to a base and the charging station at least one to the electrical contacts of the electrical charging contact device has a connected connecting line which is designed to connect the connecting line and the electrical contacts to an electrical energy source.
• a charging station having a centering device which is designed during an autonomous charging process of an autonomous vehicle which has an electrical charging contact device, as disclosed according to one or more of the embodiments described, to the charging station, the contact carrier, in particular to deflect the support plate of the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact device by a movement of the autonomous vehicle relative to the base holder, such that the electrical contacts of the electrical charging contact device are aligned with the mating contacts of the charging station, so that in an end position of the autonomous vehicle at the charging station electrically contact the mating contacts of the charging station with the contacts of the electrical charging contact device of the autonomous vehicle for charging the electrical energy store of the autonomous vehicle.
• the centering device can have two opposite bevels which are designed to center the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact device of the autonomous vehicle relative to the charging station during an autonomous charging process of the autonomous vehicle to the charging station, in particular by starting up the bevels the first lateral run-up strip and / or the second lateral run-up strip of the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact V orraum.
• an in particular auto nomes vehicle having an electrical control device, a rechargeable electrical energy store and an electrical charging contact device, as disclosed according to one or more of the embodiments described, the electrical contacts of the electrical charging contact device to the electrical energy store its charge are shot, and the electrical control device is formed for autonomous charging of the autonomous vehicle to a charging station, as disclosed according to one or more of the described designs.
• the in particular autonomous vehicle can have a centering device which is designed during an autonomous charging process of the autonomous vehicle to a charging station, the contact carrier, in particular the support plate of the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact device by a movement of the autonomous vehicle deflect to the basic holder in such a way that the electrical contacts of the electrical charging contact device are aligned with the mating contacts of the autonomous vehicle, so that in an end position of the autonomous vehicle at the charging station, the mating contacts of the autonomous vehicle automatically with the contacts of the electrical charging contact device Contact the charging of the electrical energy storage of the autonomous vehicle electrically.
• the centering device can have two opposite bevels, which are designed to center the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact device relative to the autonomous vehicle during an autonomous charging process of the autonomous vehicle to the charging station, in particular by starting the bevels on the first lateral run-up strip and / or the second lateral run-up strip of the contact carrier of the electrical charging contact V orraum.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of an autonomous driving tool with a device according to the invention centering device and three different states of an inventive electrical charging contact device, which is stationary in connection with a charging station.
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an electric charging contact device according to the invention in a stand-alone position in a view from above
• 3 is a perspective view of the electrical charging contact device according to the invention shown in FIG. 2 alone in a view from below,
• FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the centering device according to the invention in isolation
• Fig. 5 is a schematic representation of an autonomous vehicle, which has an electrical charging contact device according to the invention, in connection with a charging station according to the invention, which has a centering device.
• Fig. 1 shows a first basic embodiment of the invention, in which an electrical charging contact device 1 is formed on a charging station 2 and a cooperating with the charging contact device 1 centering device 3 is formed on an autonomous vehicle 4.
• the autonomous vehicle 4 accordingly has a centering device 3 which is designed to drive the autonomous vehicle 4 to a charging station 2, a contact carrier 5, in particular a support plate 6 of the contact carrier 5, during an autonomous charging operation to deflect the electric charging contact device 1 by a movement of the autonomous vehicle 4 relative to a base holder 7 of the charging contact device 1 such that the electrical contacts 8 of the electric charging contact device 1 are aligned with the mating contacts 9 of the autonomous vehicle 4, so that in an end position of the auto nomen vehicle 4 at the charging station 2, the mating contacts 9 of the autonomous vehicle 4 automatically with the contacts 8 of the electrical charging contact device 1 for charging a Electrical contact electrical energy storage 10 of the autonomous vehicle 4.
• the centering device 3 has two opposite bevels 11.1, 11.2, which are designed to center the contact carrier 5 of the electrical charging contact device 1 relative to the autonomous vehicle 4 during an autonomous charging procedure of the autonomous vehicle 4 to the charging station 2, in particular by centering the run-up slopes 11.1, 11.2 on a first side run-up bar 12.1 and / or a second side run-up bar 12.2 of the contact carrier 5 of the electrical charging contact device 1.
• the charging station 2 has an electrical charging contact device 1 according to the invention, the basic holder 7 having connecting means 13 for the stationary attachment of the electrical charging contact device 1 to a floor and the charging station 2 at least one connecting line connected to the electrical contacts 8 of the electrical charging contact device 1 14 has, which is designed to close the connecting line 14 and the electrical contacts 8 to an electrical energy source 15th
• the electrical charging contact device 1 for the electrical charging of an electrical energy store 10 of the autonomous vehicle 4 has a basic holder 7, a contact carrier 5 with electrical contacts 8, which are designed to make contact with electrical mating contacts 9, and a bearing device 16, which is designed to support the contact carrier 5, relative to the base holder 7, at least essentially adjustable parallel to the plane of a floor (see in particular arrow direction P).
• the electrical charging contact device 1 is shown in detail in particular in FIGS. 2 and 3.
• the contact carrier 5 has the support plate 6, which extends longitudinally in the charging direction L of the autonomous vehicle 4 to be charged electrically, the bearing device 16 being designed to adjustably support the support plate 6 transversely to its longitudinal extension relative to the base holder 7.
• the La ger driving 16 has at least one linear guide 17, along which the contact carrier 5 is adjustably mounted relative to the base holder 7 on a straight path (arrow direction P).
• the linear guide 17 according to FIGS. 2 and 3 has two spaced-apart, parallel to each other extending guideways 18.1, 18.2, which are attached to the base holder 7, each guideway 18.1, 18.2 at least one on the respective guideway 18.1, 18.2 has a running guide roller, to which guide rollers the contact carrier 5 is mounted or fastened, for example by means of the guide roller housing 19 shown.
• the bearing device 16 is designed to move the contact carrier 5 between a first stop position (FIG.
• the bearing device 16 having a Fe der noise 20 (Fig. 2, Fig. 3), which is madebil det, the contact carrier 5 in a between the first An pre-position spring position and the second stop position lying central position (Fig. 1 center).
• the spring device 20 has, as in particular in FIG.
• first spring element 20.1 which is designed to move the contact carrier 5 by its spring tension away from the first stop position, and has at least one second spring element 20.2, which is formed antagonistically to the at least one first spring element 20.1 to move the contact carrier 5 by its spring tension away from the second stop position, the antagonistically acting at least one first spring element 20.1 and at least one second spring element 20.2 of the contact carrier 5 being deflectably held in its central position between the first stop position and the second stop position.
• the contact carrier 5, in particular the support plate 6 of the contact carrier Kon has a starting ramp 21 (FIG. 2), which is chamfered in the charging approach direction L of the autonomous vehicle 4 to be electrically charged, in order to allow spring-loaded, electrical mating contacts 9 of the autonomously charging vehicle to be charged 4 to support the electrical contacts 8 of the contact carrier 5.
• a starting ramp 21 (FIG. 2), which is chamfered in the charging approach direction L of the autonomous vehicle 4 to be electrically charged, in order to allow spring-loaded, electrical mating contacts 9 of the autonomously charging vehicle to be charged 4 to support the electrical contacts 8 of the contact carrier 5.
• the contact carrier 5, in particular the support plate 6 of the contact carrier 5, has a first lateral contact strip 12.1 and an opposite second lateral contact strip 12.2, through which contact strips 12.1, 12.2 a charging start movement (charging approach direction L) of the autonomous vehicle 4 to be charged in a transverse direction to the loading drive direction L deflection movement (arrow direction P) of the contact carrier 5, in particular the support plate 6 of the contact carrier 5 along the adjustment direction of the bearing device 16, is reversed.
• the start-up ramp 21 is on the one hand by the first side stop bar 12.1 and on the other hand by the second side Thrust bar 12.2 laterally limited, as can be seen in particular in FIG. 2.
• Fig. 4 shows a centering device 3 with the opposite bevels 11.1, 11.2 in isolation.
• the centering device 3 according to FIG. 4 can, depending on the basic embodiment, be formed either on the charging station 2 or on the autonomous vehicle 4.
• Centering device 3 is formed on the charging station 2.
• the charging contact device 1 and the centering device 3 are in the second basic embodiment according to FIG.
• the charging station 2 has the centering device 3, which is designed during an autonomous charging process of the autonomous vehicle 4, which has an electrical charging contact device 1 according to FIGS. 2 and 3, to the charging station 2, to deflect the contact carrier 5, in particular the support plate 6 of the contact carrier 5 of the electrical charging device 1 by a driving movement of the autonomous vehicle 4 relative to the base holder 7, such that the electrical contacts 8 of the electrical charging contact device 1 are aligned with the counter contacts 9 of the charging station 2 So that in an end position of the autonomous vehicle 4 at the charging station 2, the mating contacts 9 of the charging station 2 automatically contact the contacts 8 of the electrical charging contact device 1 of the autonomous vehicle 4 for charging the electrical energy store 10 of the autonomous vehicle 4.
• the centering device 3 can also have two opposite bevels 11.1, 11.2, which are designed during an autonomous charging procedure of the autonomous vehicle 4 to the charging station 2, the contact carrier 5 of the electrical charging contact device 1 of the autonomous one
• the autonomous vehicle 4 comprises an electrical control device 22, the rechargeable electrical energy storage device 10 and the electrical charging contact device 1, the electrical contacts 8 of the electrical charging contact device 1 being connected to the electrical energy storage device 10 for its charging, and the Electrical control device 22 is designed for autonomously charging the autonomous vehicle 4 to the charging station 2.

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