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Kafe 바로가기국가/구분 | United States(US) Patent 등록 |
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출원번호 | US-0595186 (2015-01-12) |
등록번호 | US-9177305 (2015-11-03) |
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인용정보 | 피인용 횟수 : 1 인용 특허 : 214 |
Electric vehicles that use replaceable and exchangeable batteries, applications for communicating with a service that provides access to kiosks of batteries, and methods and systems for finding charged batteries, reserving batteries, and paying for use of the batteries, are disclosed. One example is
Electric vehicles that use replaceable and exchangeable batteries, applications for communicating with a service that provides access to kiosks of batteries, and methods and systems for finding charged batteries, reserving batteries, and paying for use of the batteries, are disclosed. One example is an electric vehicle having an electric motor and at least two receptacle slots formed in the electric vehicle. The receptacle slots having at least one connection to the electric motor and at least two batteries configured for hand-insertion into the receptacle slots to enable electrical engagement of the batteries with the at least one connection when disposed in the receptacle slots and each of the batteries are further configured for hand-removal out of the receptacle slots. The vehicle further includes wireless communication circuitry configured for wireless communication between the electric vehicle and a device when linked for wireless communication with an application of the device. A computer on-board the electric vehicle is interfaced with the wireless communications circuitry and is configured to interface with the batteries via the connection to the receptacle slots to access a level of charge of the batteries present in the receptacle slots to enable data regarding the level of charge to be accessed by the application. A display panel of the electric vehicle is configured to display information regarding the level of charge of the batteries in the receptacle slots.
1. An electric vehicle having an electric motor, comprising, a receptacle slot integrated in the electric vehicle, the receptacle slot providing a connection for providing power to the electric motor;a battery configured for sliding into the receptacle slot to enable electrical engagement of the bat
1. An electric vehicle having an electric motor, comprising, a receptacle slot integrated in the electric vehicle, the receptacle slot providing a connection for providing power to the electric motor;a battery configured for sliding into the receptacle slot to enable electrical engagement of the battery with the connection when in the receptacle slot, and the battery is further configured for sliding out of the receptacle slot to remove the battery from electrical engagement with the connection, the battery configured to store and supply charge to power the electric motor of the electric vehicle, the battery being replaceable by sliding the battery out of the receptacle slot and sliding in another battery into the receptacle slot to further supply charge to power the electric motor of the electric vehicle with said another battery, wherein the battery and said another battery each have a respective portion that is accessible for enabling its hand-removal and hand-insertion out of and into the receptacle slot;a communications module for enabling wireless communication between the electric vehicle when linked for communication with an application of a device;a computer on-board the electric vehicle, the computer is interfaced with the communications module and is configured to interface with the connection of the receptacle slot to obtain a level of charge of the battery present in the receptacle slot to enable communication of data regarding the level of charge to the application; anda display panel of the electric vehicle, the display panel configured to display information regarding the level of charge of the battery in the receptacle slot. 2. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is one of a two-wheel vehicle, or a three-wheel vehicle, or a four-wheel vehicle, or a motorcycle, or a car, or a truck, or a pickup, or a utility car, or a delivery vehicle, or an industrial vehicle. 3. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the communications module is configured to process radio communication, or Wi-Fi™ communication, or Bluetooth™ communication, or a near field communication (NFC), or a combination of two or more thereof. 4. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the battery includes memory for storing information regarding the level of charge of the battery, or data regarding a number of prior charges of the battery, or data indicative of a heath of the battery, or data associated with a radio frequency communication identifier (RFID), or data from a combination of two or more thereof. 5. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the battery forms electrical engagement in the receptacle slot when the battery is inserted and seated in the receptacle slot, wherein the electrical engagement is one of direct contact between terminals or wireless charge contact. 6. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the application of the device when linked with the electric vehicle provides for display of the level of charge of the battery and operational data of the electric vehicle on one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of the application. 7. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the application of the device when linked with the electric vehicle provides for display of the level of charge of the battery and options for identifying locations for obtaining one or more batteries for replacing or exchanging the battery;wherein each of the locations have a kiosk of replacement batteries, the kiosks being associated with a network of kiosks having the replacement batteries that are pre-configured only for the electric vehicle;wherein the identified locations being selected by a server relative to a current location of the electric vehicle. 8. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the application of the device when linked with the electric vehicle provides for display of the level of charge of the battery and options for identifying kiosk locations for obtaining or reserving one or more batteries for replacing the battery;wherein the identified kiosk locations being selected by a server relative to a current geo-location of the electric vehicle. 9. The electric vehicle of claim 1, further comprising, an energy recovery system for capturing energy from braking functions of the electric vehicle, the energy recovery system configured to replenish at least some charge of the battery during use of the electric vehicle;wherein data regarding an amount of energy captured by the energy recovery system is accessible from at least one user interface display rendered by the application. 10. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the battery has memory that stores data that comprises the level of charge, the computer of the electric vehicle is configured to interface with the device or at least one computing device that enables interfacing with a computer of a kiosk that is defined to store one or more replacement batteries that can be used to replace the battery of the electric vehicle, the kiosk has a plurality of slots for holding the replacement batteries. 11. The electric vehicle of claim 10, wherein the computer of the kiosk is configured to supply availability of the one or more replacement batteries and enable reservation of one or more of the replacement batteries present at the kiosk, the kiosk and other available kiosks being mapped on at least one screen of the application or mapped by an online mapping application interfaced with the application. 12. An electric vehicle having an electric motor, comprising, at least two receptacle slots formed in the electric vehicle, the receptacle slots having at least one connection for providing power to the electric motor;at least two batteries configured for hand-insertion into the receptacle slots to enable electrical engagement of the batteries with the at least one connection when disposed in the receptacle slots and each of the batteries are further configured for hand-removal out of the receptacle slots, each of the batteries configured to store and supply charge to power the electric motor of the electric vehicle, wherein the batteries are exchangeable with other batteries by hand-removal and hand-insertion of batteries out of and into the receptacle slots, wherein each of said batteries has a portion that is accessible to enable its hand-removal and hand-insertion;wireless communication circuitry configured for wireless communication between the electric vehicle and a device when linked for wireless communication with an application of the device, the application having options specific to the electric vehicle and therefore designed to link with the electric vehicle;a computer on-board the electric vehicle, the computer is interfaced with the wireless communications circuitry and is configured to interface with the batteries via the connection to the receptacle slots to access a level of charge of the batteries present in the receptacle slots to enable data regarding the level of charge to be accessed by the application; anda display panel of the electric vehicle, the display panel configured to display information regarding the level of charge of the batteries in the receptacle slots. 13. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electrical engagement is by way of electrical terminals on the batteries and the receptacle slots, or by way of a wireless charge connection between the batteries and the receptacle slots, wherein the electric engagement is made upon the hand-insertion of the batteries into the receptacle slots. 14. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein each of the batteries has memory that stores data that comprises the level of charge;wherein the application is preconfigured to interface with a computer of a kiosk or server having communication access to the kiosk, the kiosk is defined to store one or more replacement batteries that can be used to replace at least one of the batteries of the electric vehicle;wherein the kiosk has a plurality of slots for holding and charging the replacement batteries. 15. The electric vehicle of claim 12, further comprising, the electric vehicle or the application of the device is configured to interface with,a kiosk defined to store one or more replacement batteries that can be used to replace at least one of the batteries of the electric vehicle, wherein the kiosk is part of a system that has geographically distributed kiosks linked by one or more servers, the one or more servers providing information exchange for obtaining replacement batteries for the electric vehicle via the application. 16. The electric vehicle of claim 12, further comprising, an energy recovery system for recovering energy from braking functions of the electric vehicle, the energy recovery system configured to replenish at least some charge of the battery during use of the electric vehicle. 17. The electric vehicle of claim 14, wherein the server or computer of the kiosk is configured to supply availability of the one or more replacement batteries and enable reservation of one or more of the replacement batteries present at the kiosk or another kiosk;wherein communication to the computer of the kiosk is from the wireless communication circuitry of the vehicle, or wireless communication of the device, or via the application communicating with a server that has access to the kiosk and other kiosks of a network of kiosks. 18. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is one of a two-wheel vehicle, or a three-wheel vehicle, or a four-wheel vehicle, or a motorcycle, or a car, or a truck, or a pickup, or a utility car, or a delivery vehicle, or an industrial vehicle;wherein the application is configured for communication with a server that communicates with a network of kiosks where each kiosk has a plurality of batteries, the network of kiosks being accessible using a user account via the application to enable communication with the server, the application enabling reserving of one or more batteries from at least one kiosk of the network of kiosks. 19. A method for processing information regarding at least one battery of an electric vehicle having an electric motor, the at least one battery being replaceable by hand-removal and hand-insertion out of and into slot receptacles of the electric vehicle, comprising, communicating, by a computer of the electric vehicle, with at least one battery when in one of the slot receptacles, the communicating returning data that identifies a level of charge in the battery;communicating, by the computer of the electric vehicle, with a device having an application that is configured to link with the electric vehicle, the computer of the electric vehicle configured to provide data to the application regarding the identified level of charge,wherein the application is configured for communication with a server that manages communication with a plurality of kiosks having batteries for replacement of the at least one battery in the slot receptacles of the electric vehicle,wherein the server is configured to enable instruction to a control system of a kiosk of the plurality of kiosks, the instruction includes data indicative of a reservation for at least one battery that is available at the kiosk for use in the electric vehicle;wherein the application or the computer of the electric vehicle is configured to interface with the control system of the kiosk to control dispensing or release of the least one battery when the electric vehicle is present at the kiosk;wherein the least one battery has a portion that is accessible to enable its hand-removal and hand-insertion out of and into at least one of the slot receptacles of the electric vehicle. 20. The method of claim 19, wherein the application, being in communication with the server, is configured to render a map finding geo-locations of one or more of the plurality of kiosks;wherein the application processes and communicates instructions for the reservation of the at least one battery;wherein the electric vehicle is relatable to a user account, the user account used for accessing the application, the user account is managed at least in part by the server to enable the finding of the kiosks, the reserving, and payment for the at least one battery when obtained for replacement or exchange of at least one of the batteries in the slot receptacles of the electric vehicle;wherein the electric vehicle is one of a two-wheel vehicle, or a three-wheel vehicle, or a four-wheel vehicle, or a motorcycle, or a car, or a truck, or a pickup, or a utility car, or a delivery vehicle, or an industrial vehicle. 21. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the application is preconfigured to interface with a computer of a kiosk or server having communication access to the kiosk, the kiosk is defined to store one or more replacement batteries that can be used to replace at least one of the batteries of the electric vehicle, wherein the kiosk has a plurality of slots for holding and charging the replacement batteries;wherein the server or computer of the kiosk is configured to supply availability of the one or more replacement batteries and enable reservation of one or more of the replacement batteries present at the kiosk or another kiosk of a network of kiosks;wherein communication to the computer of the kiosk is from the wireless communication circuitry of the vehicle, or wireless communication of the device, or via the application communicating with a server that has access to the kiosk and other kiosks of the network of kiosks. 22. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle having the receptacle slot disposed substantially between a front wheel and a rear wheel and below a seat location of the two-wheel vehicle. 23. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle having the receptacle slot disposed substantially behind a front wheel of the two-wheel vehicle, below a seat location of the two-wheel vehicle and in an approximate middle section of the two-wheel vehicle, such that the receptacle slot is one of a plurality of receptacle slots, and each of the receptacle slots is integrated as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle. 24. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the receptacle slot is defined as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle, the battery has one of a tubular form factor or a cylinder form factor or an elongated form factor. 25. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the receptacle slot is defined as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle, such that the battery is accessible from a top location of the two-wheel vehicle that is substantially between a front wheel and a rear wheel, the top location defined substantially under a seat location of the two-wheel vehicle. 26. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the receptacle slot is defined as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle, wherein the receptacle slot is one of a plurality of receptacle slots and at least two slots of the plurality of slots are arranged side-by-side, such that the battery and another battery are individually and selectively hand-insertable into and hand-removable out of respective ones of the slots in a vertical orientation, wherein the plurality of slots are integrated into a structure of the two-wheel vehicle. 27. The electric vehicle of claim 1, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the receptacle slot is defined as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle, wherein the receptacle slot is one of at least two receptacle slots, each receptacle slot having a same form factor for receiving the battery or other batteries having a respective similar form factor that enables sliding said battery and other batteries into and out of the receptacle slots, wherein the respective similar form factor of said battery and said other batteries is an elongated form factor. 28. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle having the at least two receptacle slots disposed substantially between a front wheel and a rear wheel and below a seat location of the two-wheel vehicle. 29. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle having the at least two receptacle slots disposed substantially behind a front wheel of the two-wheel vehicle, below a seat location of the two-wheel vehicle and in an approximate middle section of the two-wheel vehicle, such that each of the receptacle slots is integrated as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle. 30. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the at least two receptacle slots is defined as a compartment on the two-wheel vehicle, and the at least two batteries have a tubular form factor or a cylinder form factor or an elongated form factor. 31. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the at least two receptacle slots are defined as compartments on the two-wheel vehicle, such that the at least two batteries are accessible from a top location of the two-wheel vehicle that is substantially between a front wheel and a rear wheel, the top location defined substantially at a seat location of the two-wheel vehicle. 32. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the at least two receptacle slots are defined as compartments on the two-wheel vehicle, wherein the at least two receptacle slots are arranged side-by-side in a vertical orientation, wherein the plurality of slots are integrated into a structure of the two-wheel vehicle. 33. The electric vehicle of claim 12, wherein the electric vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle and the at least two receptacle slots are defined as compartments on the two-wheel vehicle, each receptacle slot having a same form factor for receiving the at least two batteries having a respective similar form factor that enables sliding said batteries into and out of the receptacle slots, wherein the respective similar form factor of said batteries is a tubular-like form factor or elongated form factor.
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