Apparatus, systems, and methods for charging personal mobility vehicles via docks

US11752890B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lyft, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Yannik Harpin · Montréal, CA
• Alexander Timothy Dixon · San Anselmo, US
• Marie-Pierre Gendron · Mercier, CA
• Carl Germain · Keyano, CA
• Rochus Emanuel Jacob · New York, US
• Kelly Erin Johnson · San Francisco, US
• Carlos Henrique Petzl Lorenz · Aliso Viejo, US
• Nicholaus Ian Lubinski · San Francisco, US
• Timothy Rex Martin · San Francisco, US
• Christopher Paul Merrill · San Francisco, US
• Cyril Francis Meyer, III · San Francisco, US
• Jacqueline Benesch Tandler · New York, US
• Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 2019
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2023
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T90/16
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The disclosed apparatus may include a collar for charging a personal mobility vehicle via a dock. In some embodiments, the collar may be fitted with a charging connector that interfaces with a dock that charges the personal mobility vehicle when the personal mobility vehicle is docked. In one embodiment, the collar and a corresponding receiving element in the dock may be shaped such that the collar fits securely in the receiving element without requiring mechanical action by the collar or receiving element and only requiring a user to push the personal mobility vehicle straight into the dock. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.