MOUNTING SUPPORT FOR THE BATTERY BOX IN THE CARRIAGE OF BATTERY DRIVEN VEHICLES

• US 3,838,745 A
• Filed: 12/22/1972
• Issued: 10/01/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Friedhelm Kappei
• Original Assignee: Friedhelm Kappei
• Inventors: Kappei, Friedhelm
• Primary Examiner(s): Schonberg, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Milton L.
• Application Number:
  US05/317,747
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.5,65,60 105/51,50 104/34 312/348,341,333
• US Class Current: 180/68.5
• 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: 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 driven vehicle is provided with a pair of guide rails and with a battery box having rollers on its underside for movement along the guide rails. Arresting recesses are provided in the guide rails to receive the rollers of the battery box only when the battery box is fully inserted to its normal rest position.

Claims

1. Apparatus for supporting a battery box in a carriage of a battery driven vehicle, said apparatus comprising a pair of parallel guiding rails positioned in the carriage of the battery driven vehicle, a plurality of rollers positioned between a bottom portion of the battery box and the guiding rails to support the battery box on the guiding rails, and a corresponding plurality of arresting recesses positioned along a pair of parallel axes in the direction of insertion of the battery box into the carriage of the battery driven vehicle and in the guiding rails themselves or in the bottom portion of the battery box, the arresting recesses positioned along one of said axes being spaced from one another differently than those positioned along the other of those axes so that the rollers are received by the arresting recesses only when the battery box has been fully inserted to a rest position in the carriage of the battery driven vehicle.

2. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the arresting recesses are provided in the guiding rails and the rollers are supported on the bottom portion of the battery box.

3. Apparatus as in claim 2 wherein the arresting recesses and the rollers are nonsymmetrical relative to the axis of displacement of the battery box on the guiding rails.

4. Apparatus as in claim 2 wherein at least some of the arresting recesses or the rollers are located in different tracks.

5. Apparatus as in claim 2 including a pair of guiding rails mounted in a battery carrying car and provided with a plurality of arresting recesses for receiving the rollers of the battery box only when the battery box has been fully inserted to a rest position in the battery carrying car.