Patent ID: 8500094

Claim:
A battery removal apparatus for a vehicle, comprising a mobile lifting device with vertically adjustable load-handling means having a front end, and a locking device mounted thereon for locking engagement of an exchangeable battery unit of a vehicle in its engagement member, wherein the locking device comprises a ramp portion, which is set back with respect to the front end of the load-handling means, with an inclined approach surface and an adjoining support surface for a lifting abutment of the exchangeable battery unit, and a locking member which is complementary to the engagement member of the exchangeable battery unit and which is arranged so as to come into locking engagement with the engagement member of the exchangeable battery unit when the ramp portion of the locking device engages under the lifting abutment of the exchangeable battery unit when the battery removal apparatus is brought up to the battery compartment so that the front end of the load-handling means extends under the battery compartment floor.