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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
May. 16, 2024
Ample, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Juan Spiniak Irarrazaval, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenji Bowers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ample, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a battery-exchange service station includes receiving data corresponding to a vehicle to be serviced; automatically adjusting a size of a service platform according to the vehicle, the service platform disposed over a service cavity configured to receive a service robot; automatically presenting one or more visual indicators to guide the vehicle onto the service platform such that the vehicle's front tires are at a target position; automatically detecting a position of the vehicle's front tires with lasers and light sensors, each laser located at a predetermined position relative to the target position for the front tires; automatically updating at least one of the visual indicator(s) based on a detected position of the vehicle's front tires; and while the detected position is at the target position, automatically exchanging one or more depleted batteries in the vehicle, with the service robot, with one or more charged batteries.