CN100418806C - Personalized device for driving characteristics of electric scooter - Google Patents

Abstract

A personalized device for the running characteristics of electric vehicle is composed of a personal selector, a characteristic driver consisting of a drive unit and a characteristic control unit, and a personalized characteristic setting unit. The characteristic control unit can be used for storing a plurality of groups of characteristic values at the same time, and converting the characteristic values into a driving signal to be sent to the driving unit. The personal selector locks one of the characteristic value groups, the size of the characteristic value group is adjusted through the personalized characteristic setting device, the characteristic control unit is matched to convert the characteristic value group into the driving signal, and the driving unit can drive the electric scooter to reflect the motion characteristic of the personalized walker. Therefore, most users can easily select and adjust the personalized driving characteristics, the personal riding comfort is effectively improved, and the market universality of the electric scooter is realized.

Description

Personalization device for driving characteristics of electric scooter

technical field

The invention relates to a personalization device, in particular to personalization of driving characteristics of an electric scooter.

Background technique

In recent years, the development of domestic electric vehicle technology has become increasingly mature, and the consumer market and product potential of electric vehicles have been highly valued by the industry. The functions and shapes of electric vehicles are very diverse and eye-catching, while riding with low pollution, no need to take a driver's license, no need to wear a helmet, and slow riding speed are the main consumption incentives. Electric vehicles have multiple functions such as leisure, fitness and transportation, and are mainly divided into electric bicycles, electric scooters, electric scooters, and electric recreational vehicles.

Among them, the consumer groups of electric scooters are mainly the elderly and disabled people over 40 years old. Due to the slow speed, easy driving control, high driving safety, and the ability to achieve leisure and transportation functions, the elderly and disabled people It is quite convenient and practical.

The electric scooter uses a rechargeable battery (such as a lead-acid battery) as a power source, and cooperates with a drive unit through a controller to drive the vehicle body to move. Among them, the maximum forward speed, maximum reverse speed, climbing ability, battery life, brake control and other driving characteristic parameters are stored in the controller by default. The controller will send a driving signal to the drive unit, and the drive unit will The driving characteristic parameters set in the controller are reflected on the motion state of the vehicle body. There are many types of electric scooters on the market, and the product specifications and designs are different, and the driving characteristics presented are also different. Such users usually need to continuously test ride and test drive in order to purchase an electric scooter that is comfortable to drive and easy to operate.

On the other hand, since the driving characteristic parameters stored in the controller of the electric scooter are built-in and fixed, a predetermined vehicle body motion state and traveling characteristics are generated. However, for users, personal driving habits are closely related to driving comfort and vary from person to person. There is no doubt that the established driving characteristics provided by the controller cannot satisfy all users with different driving habits and comfort levels at the same time. That is to say, users cannot adjust the driving characteristic parameters in the controller by themselves according to their personal driving preferences and comfort requirements. Usually, they can only be forced to adapt to the driving characteristic design provided by the car factory, so it is very easy to cause driving instability. In the case of smooth driving or poor driving comfort, this violates the meaning that electric scooters can be used for leisure and fitness.

Therefore, in order to avoid the situation that the above-mentioned users have to endure unsuitable driving characteristics, users usually prefer electric scooters of certain brands. Preference is restricted, and its utilization value is relatively reduced.

Contents of the invention

Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a user can easily select and adjust personalized driving characteristics according to personal driving habits and comfort preferences, so as to produce excellent personal riding comfort, and then effectively improve the overall A personalization device for the driving characteristics of the electric scooter that is widely used in the market.

Therefore, the driving characteristic personalization device of the electric scooter of the present invention includes a person selector capable of sending a person selection signal, a characteristic driver, and a personalized characteristic setter. The characteristic driver has a driving unit for driving and responding to the state of driving motion, and a characteristic control unit electrically connected to the personal selector and the driving unit. The characteristic control unit can receive the personal selection signal of the personal selector, and has a micro-processing chip, and the micro-processing chip has a storage element, and the storage element has a plurality of storage blocks for storing multiple groups of characteristic values. . The personal selection signal can correspond to one of the storage blocks for access, and the micro-processing chip converts the set characteristic value group in the storage block into a driving signal and sends it to the driving unit to drive the response The state of driving. The personalized characteristic setter can be connected to the characteristic control unit of the characteristic driver, can read the set characteristic value group in the storage block, and adjust the characteristics in the characteristic value group according to personal preference value size.

The effect of the present invention is to use the personalized characteristic setter to adjust the characteristic value group in the characteristic control unit according to personal preferences, so that the electric scooter can reflect the personalized driving motion characteristics. And with this characteristic control unit, it can store multiple sets of characteristic value groups, so that most users can easily select and adjust their own personalized driving characteristics, resulting in excellent personal riding comfort, thereby effectively improving the overall performance of the electric scooter. market versatility.

The aforementioned and other technical contents, features and effects of the present invention will be clearly understood in the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment with reference to the drawings.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a preferred embodiment of the driving characteristic personalization device of the electric scooter of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a configuration flowchart of this preferred embodiment; And

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of the preferred embodiment.

Detailed ways

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , a preferred embodiment of the driving characteristic personalization device 2 of the electric scooter of the present invention is shown, including a person selector 21 , a characteristic driver 22 , and a personalization characteristic setter 23 .

The personal selector 21 is set at the reversing front 3 of the electric scooter, and has four tangent positions a, b, c, d, representing that the electric scooter can present a , B, C, D four driving motion characteristics. That is to say, by switching the personal selector 21 to different tangent point positions a, b, c, d, it is possible to select a personalized driving motion characteristic. In this embodiment, the personal selector 21 is a slide switch. And when the tangent point positions a, b, c, d of the personal selector 21 are selected, a personal selection signal is sent to the characteristic control unit 222 immediately. The function of the personal selector 21 is similar to a general switch (four-stage switch), and the contact points are switched by sliding contact, but because the switch mode has been widely used in various industries , and is not the focus of this application, and can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art, so its detailed structure will not be repeated here.

The characteristic driver 22 is arranged inside the body 4 of the electric scooter, and is electrically connected with the personal selector 21 . The characteristic driver 22 has a driving unit 221 for driving and reflecting the driving state of the electric scooter, and a characteristic control unit 222 electrically connected to the personal selector 21 and the driving unit 221 . The characteristic driver 22 is electrically connected to the personal selector 21 , and has a driving unit 221 , and a characteristic control unit 222 electrically connected to the driving unit 221 .

It should be noted here that, in this preferred embodiment, the drive unit 221 is a forward and reverse loop controller of a brushed motor, which sends a drive signal to drive the electric scooter to respond to an appropriate driving motion state, and the characteristic control unit 222 has a micro-processing chip (MCU) 223, which can be used to receive and read the personal selection signal of the personal selector 21. In this embodiment, the micro-processing chip 223 adopts a model of MICROCHIP 18LF452 , but in actual implementation Other types of microprocessors can also be used, and are not limited to the description of this embodiment.

In this preferred embodiment, there is also a storage element 224 in the microprocessing chip 223, which is made of a flash memory (EEPROM), and has four memory elements that provide four sets of characteristic value groups respectively. Storage blocks 225a, 225b, 225c, 225d. The personal selection signal can correspondingly set one of the storage blocks 225a, 225b, 225c, 225d of the storage element 224 for subsequent access. For example, when the personal selector 21 is located at the cut point b, the storage block 225b is set for subsequent access. The microprocessor chip 223 converts the set characteristic value groups in the storage blocks 225a, 225b, 225c, and 225d into a drive signal, and sends it to the drive unit 221 to drive the car body 4 according to the set The group of characteristic values reflects the state of vehicle movement.

The personalized characteristic setting device 23 is placed outside the body 4 of the electric scooter, and is electrically connected with the characteristic control unit 222 in a detachable manner. It should be noted here that the personalized characteristic setter 23 is a kind of characteristic modification device, through which the personalized characteristic setter 23 can read one of the storage blocks 225a, 225b, 225c, 225d set The characteristic value group in the characteristic value group, and change and adjust the characteristic value size in the characteristic value group according to personal preference, and then write and store in the storage element 224 .

Among them, each characteristic value group can contain sixteen kinds of characteristic values, respectively representing the forward maximum speed (Forward Max), the reverse maximum speed (ReverseMax), the forward acceleration (ForwardAcc), the forward deceleration (Forward Dec), the reverse acceleration ( Reverse Acc), Reverse Deceleration (Reverse Dec), Forward Brake Effect (Forward Brake), Reverse Brake Effect (Reverse Brake), Reverse Control (polarity), Current Limit (Current Limit), Automatic Power Saving Time Limit (Power Down ), brake time (Hold Tim.), electric door invalid interval (Throttle Band), compensation (Compensation), climbing factor (Hold Factor), and electric door time (Throttle Tim.). The value presented by each characteristic value is a dimensionless value, and the specific program uses this value as a control reference for subsequent conversion.

Based on the above-mentioned structure, the use of the driving characteristic personalization device 2 of the electric scooter of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 . When the user A wants to ride the electric scooter, he only needs to switch the personal selector 21 to the tangential position a, and then turn on the power (key-on). At this time, after receiving the personal selection signal sent by the personal selector 21, the characteristic control unit 222 of the characteristic driver 22 locks the storage block 225a of the storage element 224 for access, and the storage block 225a The characteristic value group in is converted into a driving signal and sent to the driving unit 221, so that the electric scooter exhibits personalized driving characteristics that meet user A's preference when driving.

If user A wants to further modify the previously set personalized driving characteristics, then the personalized characteristic setting device 23 is inserted into the car body 4 of the electric scooter so that it can be controlled with the characteristic of the characteristic driver 22. The unit 222 is electrically connected. At this time, the personalized characteristic setter 23 can read the characteristic value group data in the storage block 225a, and display the read characteristic value in the screen window of the personalized characteristic setter 23 The item name (for example: Forward Max) and its numerical value (for example: 120), the user selects the characteristic value to be adjusted, and adjusts the numerical value according to personal preference, and the modified characteristic value will be stored in the storage In the storage block 225a of the device 224 .

After the modification is completed, user A removes the personalized characteristic setter 23 so that it is no longer electrically connected to the characteristic control unit 222; in addition, the microprocessing chip 223 will be based on the characteristic in the storage block 225a value group, and convert and transmit the drive signal to the drive unit 221, and the drive unit 221 is based on the modified new characteristic value group, so that when the user directly drives the electric scooter, it can present The personalized driving characteristics in line with user A's personal preference allow user A to drive and control the electric scooter smoothly and feel excellent riding comfort. By analogy, users B, C, and D can modify and adjust the corresponding characteristic value groups according to personal preferences through the personalized characteristic setter 23 according to the same operating procedure, and then store them in the characteristic control unit 222 respectively. Among them, you can get personalized driving sports characteristics that meet your personal driving experience preferences.

It is also worth mentioning that the driving characteristic personalization device 2 of the electric scooter in this preferred embodiment is to support four groups of personalization characteristic settings, and to provide four users as an example for illustration, but in fact , this case can of course also be provided to other numbers of users to use, the difference is only in the ability of the hardware, so it should not be limited to this in actual implementation.

To sum up the above, the driving characteristics personalization device 2 of the electric scooter of the present invention allows most users to easily adjust the personalized driving characteristics according to their personal preferences according to their preferences such as personal driving habits and comfort requirements, and obtain extremely Excellent driving comfort can relatively effectively improve the market versatility of the electric scooter, and effectively improve the established driving motion characteristics of the existing electric scooter under the design of built-in fixed characteristic parameters, which cannot widely satisfy all The user's driving experience requirements lead to problems such as limited versatility, so the purpose of the present invention can indeed be achieved.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not limit the scope of the present invention, that is, all simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the claims of the present invention and the content of the description should belong to Within the scope of protection covered by the patent of the present invention.

Claims (1)

1. the driving characteristic personalization device of an electric cycle comprises:

One personal choice device, this personal choice device are slippage switches, and this personal choice utensil has position, a plurality of point of contact, by switching to not isoschizomer position, can send out a personal choice signal;

One property driving device, have one in order to order about the driver element that reflects the driving state of kinematic motion, an and Characteristics Control unit that is electrically connected at this personal choice device and this driver element, this Characteristics Control unit can receive the personal choice signal of this personal choice device, and has a little processing wafer, this little processing wafer has a memory element, this memory element has a plurality of respectively for the storage blocks of organizing the storage of characteristic value group more, this personal choice signal can correspondence wherein one store block for access, characteristic value group in this storage block that this little processing wafer will set converts a drive signal to, and transmit and give this driver element, reflect the driving state of kinematic motion to order about; And

One individualized property settings device, it is the Characteristics Control unit that can be connected in this property driving device, can read the characteristic value group in this storage block that sets, wherein, each characteristic value group comprises 16 specific character values, represent the maximum speed of advancing respectively, retreat maximum speed, forward acceleration, retreat acceleration/accel, deceleration/decel advances, retreat deceleration/decel, braking effect advances, retreat braking effect, oppositely control, current limit value, the automatic power save time limit, the brake time, between the electric switch dead space, compensation, the climbing factor, and the electric switch time, and adjust characteristic value size in this characteristic value group according to individual preference.

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