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US 12,179,621 B2Granted
Electric vehicle port
AssigneeArcher Aviation Inc.
InventorsYoung-Joon Suh, Erik Saetre, Julien Thiebaud, Nicolas Rousseau, Julien Montousse, Niki James Smart
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Abstract
A port for electric vehicles includes an off-loading zone for off-loading one or more passengers from an electric vehicle; a loading zone for loading one or more passengers onto the electric vehicle; and a charging zone for charging the electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is moving from the off-loading zone to the loading zone.
Claims18
A port for electric vehicles comprising:
- a plurality of lanes, each lane comprising:
- an off-loading zone for off-loading one or more passengers from an electric vehicle;
- a loading zone for loading one or more passengers onto the electric vehicle;
- and
- a charging zone for charging the electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is moving from the off-loading zone to the loading zone,
- wherein each lane of the plurality of lanes corresponds to a different amount of required charging of electric vehicles such that a particular electric vehicle is routed to a particular lane of the plurality of lanes based on a required amount of charging of the particular electric vehicle.
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A method for off-loading and loading passengers of electric vehicles comprising:
- determining a required amount of charging for an electric vehicle;
- selecting a charging lane of a plurality of charging lanes of a port based on the required amount of charging for the electric vehicle, wherein each lane of the plurality of charging lanes comprises an off-loading zone, a charging zone, and a loading zone;
- routing the electric vehicle to an off-loading zone of the selected lane and off-loading at least one arriving passenger;
- moving the electric vehicle through a charging zone of the selected lane toward a loading zone of the selected lane and charging the electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is moving toward the loading zone of the selected lane;
- and
- loading at least one departing passenger on the electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is located in the loading zone of the selected lane.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.