RECEPTACLE

• US 20090186256A1
• Filed: 07/17/2007
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Yasuyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/374,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20090186256A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/515
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/04 Tank inlets B60K15/077 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2221/012 Hydrogen
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2221/032 Hydrocarbons
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0105 Ships
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0178 Cars
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0184 Fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0189 Planes
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 5/007 for individual gas tanks or containers, e.g. in vehicles filling with liquid fuel not under pressure, B60S5/02, B67D7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2250/20 Fuel cells in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04201 Reactant storage and supply, e.g. means for feeding, pipes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04738 of auxiliary devices, e.g. reformer, compressor, burner
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04753 of fuel cell reactants
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04783 Pressure differences, e.g. between anode and cathode
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/32 Hydrogen storage
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/50 Fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/40 Application of hydrogen technology to transportation, e.g. using fuel cells

Abstract

A receptacle including a structure for connecting a mobile object having a supply port with a fuel supply device connected to the supply port to supply the mobile object with fuel and external power is provided. The fuel supply device is provided with a first conductive portion containing the supply port when being connected, and supplying the mobile object with the fuel via a fuel supply channel formed therein, a second conductive portion provided on the outer peripheral side of the first conductive portion to supply the mobile object with the external power when being connected, an insulating portion electrically insulating the first conductive portion from the second conductive portion, and a ground line grounding the first conductive portion.

Claims

1. A receptacle comprising a structure for connecting a mobile object having a supply port with a fuel supply device connected to the supply port to supply the mobile object with fuel and external power,

wherein the fuel supply device is provided with a first conductive portion containing the supply port when being connected, having a fuel supply channel formed therein, and supplying the mobile object with the fuel via the fuel supply channel, a second conductive portion provided on the outer peripheral side of the first conductive portion to supply the mobile object with the external power when being connected, an insulating portion electrically insulating the first conductive portion from the second conductive portion, and a ground line grounding the first conductive portion.

2. The receptacle according to claim 1,

wherein the first conductive portion is provided with a conductive spherical body, and a conductive elastic body which biases the spherical body in a direction of the supply port.

3. The receptacle according to claim 1,

wherein the supply port is provided with a conductive spherical body, and a conductive elastic body which biases the spherical body in a direction of the first conductive portion.

4. The receptacle according to claim 1,

wherein the mobile object is provided with conductive biasing portion connected to the second conductive portion while biasing the fuel supply device in a direction opposite to a connection direction.

5. The receptacle according to claim 1, wherein the fuel supply device supplies a battery or an accessory of the mobile object with the external power via the second conductive portion.

6. The receptacle according to claim 1, wherein the first conductive portion is a projection-like conductive portion which protrudes in a substantially cylindrical shape, and the fuel supply channel in the center of the projection-like conductive portion.

7. The receptacle according to claim 1, wherein static electricity is removed via the ground line at the time of connection between the first conductive portion and the supply port.