Conveyor arrangement for aerial vehicles
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsWojciech Potentas, Grzegorz Bem
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Abstract
A conveyor arrangement for airborne battery replacement between an aerial supply vehicle having a store of replacement batteries suitable to power electric aerial vehicles and an electric aerial vehicle powered by a set of replaceable batteries is disclosed. The conveyor arrangement is configured to convey batteries between the aerial supply vehicle and the electric aerial vehicle during flight to replace a replaceable battery from the set of the electric aerial vehicle by a replacement battery from the store of the aerial supply vehicle.
Claims20
A conveyor arrangement for airborne battery replacement between an aerial supply vehicle having a store of replacement batteries suitable to power electric aerial vehicles and an electric aerial vehicle powered by a set of replaceable batteries, wherein the conveyor arrangement is configured to convey batteries between the aerial supply vehicle and the electric aerial vehicle during flight to replace a replaceable battery from the set of the electric aerial vehicle by a replacement battery from the store of replacement batteries of the aerial supply vehicle,
- wherein the conveyor arrangement comprises a plurality of rollers subsequently arranged to form a flexible conveyor on which batteries can be conveyed, and
- wherein the conveyor arrangement is further configured to convey batteries on the conveyor by a conveyor unit movable on the plurality of rollers, wherein the conveyor unit comprises an interface arrangement configured to releasably couple a battery to be conveyed to the conveyor unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.