CHARGING CONNECTOR DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20180215254A1
• Filed: 12/20/2017
• Published: 08/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2017
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: JOBST, Thomas, SANCHEZ, Jaume, KAUSELMANN, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 10,259,315 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/05 Inlet covers
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0422 actuated by the inlet cover
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0435 using a sliding connection
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/053 with hinged connection to the vehicle body
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0538 with open or close mechanism automatically actuated
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0553 Details concerning the inlet box or bowl in the vehicle car body panel
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/534 Fuel lids
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/447 Shutter or cover plate
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5213 Covers
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6397 with means for preventing unauthorised use
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/26 for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/14 Fastening of cover or lid to box
• 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

Abstract

A charging connector device for a motor vehicle. A connector socket, which is arranged in a depression, with a pivotable cover, which can be detachably connected to said connector socket, as well as a pivotable cover flap, which closes the depression reversibly. The cover and the cover flap can pivot between a closed position and an opened position. The cover, situated in the opened position, is arranged in the pivoting path of the cover flap, which can pivot from the opened position to the closed position by a motor-driven positioning device, and, during the pivot movement of the cover flap, is entrained by the latter for closure.

Claims

1. A charging connector device for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a connector socket, which is arranged in a depression, with a pivotable cover, which can be detachably connected to said connector socket, as well as a pivotable cover flap, which closes the depression reversibly, wherein the cover and the cover flap can pivot between a closed position and an opened position, wherein the cover, situated in the opened position, is arranged in the pivoting path of the cover flap, which can pivot from the opened position to the closed position by a motor-driven positioning device, and, during the pivot movement of the cover flap, is entrained by the latter for closure.

2. The charging connector device according to claim 1, wherein the cover can move via the cover flap to its closed position.

3. The charging connector device according to claim 1, wherein the cover is coupled to a return element that pretensions it in the closed position and, during the movement from the closed position to the opened position, is carried over a dead center, wherein the cover flap entrains the cover during closure up to beyond the dead center, after which the cover snaps automatically into the closed position via the return element.

4. The charging connector device according to claim 3, wherein the return element is a spring, in particular a coil spring.

5. The charging connector device according to claim 1, wherein the cover and the cover flap are arranged pivotably at a common component, which defines the depression.

6. The charging connector device according to claim 5, wherein the cover is arranged pivotably at the connector socket and the cover flap is arranged pivotably at the component that defines the depression.