Drive Inverter Shared By Different Motors In A Vehicle
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1. A vehicle comprising:
- two or more electric motors, one of said two or more motors used for locomotion of said vehicle and all others of said two or more motors used for other than locomotion of said vehicle with only one of said two or more motors in use at a given time; and
at least one drive inverter unit for providing power to said two or more motors but only to that one of said two or more motors that is in use at said given time.
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Abstract
The drive inverter units that power the traction motors and steering motors of a manned or unmanned vehicle such as a mobile robot or automated guided vehicles (AGVs), industrial trucks or remote controlled vehicles that are equipped with a robot arm or other actuated mechanisms are also used to power the axes of the robot arms or other additional high power actuators (e.g. a lift table). The traction and steering motors can be disconnected from the drive and the motors of a robot arm or actuator can be connected to the drive and vice versa. The prerequisite is that driving and robot arm/actuator motion do not take place at the same time.
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1. A vehicle comprising:
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two or more electric motors, one of said two or more motors used for locomotion of said vehicle and all others of said two or more motors used for other than locomotion of said vehicle with only one of said two or more motors in use at a given time; and at least one drive inverter unit for providing power to said two or more motors but only to that one of said two or more motors that is in use at said given time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A vehicle comprising:
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a multiplicity of electric motors, a predetermined number of which are used to provide locomotion to said vehicle and all others of said multiplicity of electric motors used for other than locomotion of said vehicle; and a multiplicity of drive inverter units each for providing power to an associated one of said predetermined number of electric motors used to provide locomotion to said vehicle and to an associated one or more of said all others of said multiplicity of electric motors used for other than locomotion of said vehicle but at a given time each of said multiplicity of drive inverter units providing power only to either said associated one of said predetermined number of locomotion providing electric motors or to one of said associated one or more of said all other motors used for other than locomotion.
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17. A method for electrically powering a vehicle having two or more electric motors with only one of said two or more motors in use at a given time and at least one drive inverter unit, said method comprising:
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using one of said two or more motors for traction for said vehicle; using all others of said two or more motors for other than traction of said vehicle; and sharing between said two or more electric motors said at least one drive inverter unit for delivering electric power to said two or more motors but said at least one drive inverter unit only delivering at a given time electric power to that one of said two or more motors that is in use at said given time.
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