BATTERY CARRIER

• US 3,834,563 A
• Filed: 10/10/1972
• Issued: 09/10/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Figgie International, Inc. (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: John J. Teti
• Inventors: Teti, John J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Makay, Albert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/296,261
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 214/77R,77P,DIG.10,80,450,13R,83.24 104/34 105/51 180/68.5
• US Class Current: 414/546
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/04 of the electric storage means for propulsion exchanging batteries for electric propulsion of vehicles B60L53/80; for auxiliary purposes only B60R16/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/80 Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries
• CPC Class Codes: E21F 13/006 Equipment transport systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors

Abstract

A battery carrier for moving the batteries of mine tractors and the like into and out of a receiving compartment therefor includes pivoted arms having their free ends supporting the battery and power means for moving the arms and the battery carried thereby in an arcuate path with a minimum of vertical travel.

Claims

1. A battery carrier for a vehicle having a baTtery compartment therein, said carrier arranged to support and move a battery into and out of said compartment, said carrier consisting of a pair of upstanding support arms pivotally supported in said compartment at their lower ends, horizontally positioned booms pivotally attached to said upper ends of said support arms and means pivotally connected to said support arms inwardly of their ends for imparting arcuate motion thereto and arranged to move the upper ends of the arms and the booms thereon from a first position in said compartment to a second position outwardly of said compartment, suspension means on said booms for supporting said battery and means on said support arms for maintaining said booms in horizontal position and consisting of a pair of flexible tension members, each attached at one end to one of said booms and at its other end to said compartment and each engaged around one of said pivotal attachments at the upper ends of the support arms and around one of the pivotal supports at the lower ends of said support arms and in the path of the means pivotally connected to said support arms for moving the same so that pivoting of the support arms partially wraps and unwraps said flexible tension members around said pivotal attachments and pivotal supports and moves said flexible tension members at both ends thereof to control the horizontal position of said booms.

2. The battery carrier set forth in claim 1 and wherein the means pivotally connected to said support arms inwardly of their ends for moving the same are connected to said arms adjacent said pivotal supports of said arms in said compartment.

3. The battery carrier set forth in claim 1 and wherein said means pivotally connected to said support arms inwardly of their ends consists of piston and cylinder assemblies in said compartment and wherein said means connected to the support arms is offset with respect to the pivotal attachments and pivotal supports on said arms and wherein said flexible tension members are engaged over said offset means in oppositely disposed relation to their engagement over said pivotal attachments and pivotal supports.

4. The battery carrier set forth in claim 1 and wherein said suspension means on said booms for supporting said battery are located at one of the ends thereof so that weight of said battery keeps said flexible tension members in tension.