Unmanned aerial vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11498677-B2
Application number	US-202017122612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2020
Priority date	Dec 5, 2016
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

The present invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle, including: a fuselage; a battery accommodation cavity, disposed on the fuselage; a battery pack, including at least two battery blocks and mounted inside the battery accommodation cavity; a battery circuit board, electrically connected to the battery blocks in the battery pack; and a functional module, electrically connected to the battery circuit board, the battery blocks in the battery pack supplying power to the functional module via the battery circuit board at the same time. By using the solution of the present invention, endurance of the unmanned aerial vehicle is increased.

First claim

We claim:

1. An unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising:
a fuselage having a battery accommodation cavity;
the battery accommodation cavity comprises at least two openings, the unmanned aerial vehicle further comprising:
a battery pack comprising at least two battery blocks and configured to be detachably connected inside the battery accommodation cavity;
a battery circuit board electrically connected to the battery blocks in the battery pack; and
a functional module electrically connected to the battery circuit board;
wherein the battery blocks in the battery pack supply power to the functional module at the same time via the battery circuit board; and
wherein one of the at least two battery blocks are disposed at one of the openings.

2. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the battery accommodation cavity is disposed at at least one of the following locations on the fuselage: an inner portion, a side portion, a bottom portion or a top portion.

3. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein each battery block comprises a battery housing, a battery disposed inside the battery housing, an adapter board and a protection board;
the adapter board is electrically connected to the battery and is configured to monitor a performance status of the battery and feed back a monitoring result to a flight control board in the functional module; and
the protection board is disposed on an outer side of the battery and is configured to protect the battery.

4. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the adapter boards of the battery blocks in the battery pack are sequentially connected to form a series structure and an adapter board of one battery block in the battery pack is electrically connected to the battery circuit board.

5. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the adapter boards of the battery blocks in the battery pack are respectively connected to the battery circuit board and the battery blocks in the battery pack form a parallel structure via the battery circuit board.

6. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the battery circuit board comprises at least two inner power supply loops and the inner power supply loops are configured to allocate a total voltage on the battery circuit board; and
the functional module comprises at least two electronic boards and each of the at least two inner power supply loops is electrically connected to at least one electronic board.

7. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two battery blocks are evenly distributed around the center of the fuselage.

8. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the fuselage comprises a fuselage body and multiple arms spaced on an outer periphery of the fuselage body, the battery accommodation cavity is disposed inside the fuselage body, each opening of the battery accommodation cavity is located between two neighboring arms and at least two battery blocks are detachably connected at each opening of the battery accommodation cavity.

9. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 8 , wherein the battery accommodation cavity runs through the fuselage body on a plane of the fuselage body in a first direction and a second direction, the first direction being perpendicular to the second direction.

10. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the battery circuit board is a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA).

Assignees

• Autel Robotics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Luo Dongdong
• Ni Feng
• Lv hang
• Su Wenbing

Classifications

• B64U2201/10

  autonomous, i.e. by navigating independently from ground or air stations, e.g. by using inertial navigation systems [INS] · CPC title

• Y02T50/60

  Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft · CPC title

• B60L50/66

  Arrangements of batteries · CPC title

• Y02T10/70

  Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries · CPC title

• B64C2201/042

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic