Battery jumper system for vehicles

• US 4,079,304 A
• Filed: 08/03/1976
• Issued: 03/14/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John D. Brandenburg
• Original Assignee: John D. Brandenburg
• Inventors: Brandenburg, John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hickey, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/711,149
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 307/10 R, 307/10 BP, 320/2, 320/5, 320/15, 320/16, 320/25, 320/26, 320/56, 339/5 RL, 339/6 RL, 339/8 RL, 339/29 B, 339/119, 339/184 R, 339/10, 339/5 R, 191/12.2 R, 191/12.4 R, 242/107.13, 174/52 R
• US Class Current: 320/105
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/18 Cables specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/02 using take-up reel or drum
• 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 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 320/15 Polarity control
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 320/20 Polarity

Abstract

A battery booster system for use in starting an engine of a vehicle with a defective battery and interconnecting the same with a vehicle having a charged battery, which system includes a receptacle unit mounted on one vehicle and electrically connected to its associated battery, an electrical connector cable electrically coupled to said battery and receptacle unit, said connector cable integrally contained within said vehicle on a reel and terminating in a receptacle, and means for coupling said receptacle of said connector cable to the battery of the second vehicle.

Claims

1. A battery jumper system for use in starting a vehicle having a defective battery from a charged battery comprising a jumper cable, a first receptacle, said first receptacle electrically coupled to a battery of a vehicle and being electrically coupled in parallel with said jumper cable, a second receptacle, a reel, said jumper cable terminating in said second receptacle and said jumper cable being stored on said reel mounted within said vehicle, and means for coupling said jumper cable to said charged battery.

2. The battery jumper system recited in claim 1 wherein said charged battery is in a second vehicle, said second vehicle having the same jumper system therein whereby said coupling means is the first receptacle on said second vehicle.

3. The battery jumper system recited in claim 1 wherein said coupling means comprises an adapter having a receptacle which mates with said second receptacle of said jumper cable, a short two wire cable connected to and extending from said adapter receptacle, each of said wires terminating at a spring loaded clip.

4. The battery jumper system recited in claim 3 wherein said clips are coded to indicate the proper polarity for connection to the charged battery.

5. The battery jumper system recited in claim 1 wherein said reel is spring loaded to cause the return and rewinding of the jumper cable around said reel after use.

6. The battery jumper system recited in claim 5 including a housing mounted to the body of said vehicle including means for holding said first receptacle in a fixed position in said housing and means for retaining the second receptacle within said housing such that said jumper cable can be readily pulled from the reel through housing toward the battery to be jumped.

7. The battery jumper system recited in claim 6 including a housing mounted to the body of said vehicle, said housing having said first receptacle affixed therein and having a hole provided with a bushing through which said jumper cable extends after leaving said reel, the second receptacle of said jumper cable being larger than the hole left by said bushing thereby being retained within said housing and said cable being readily slideable through said bushing upon pulling said cable from said reel.

8. The battery jumper system recited in claim 6 including a housing cover mounted to the body of the vehicle for covering the housing.

9. The battery jumper system recited in claim 8 wherein said receptacles are provided with mating means which will couple in only one direction such that proper polarity connections are maintained.

10. The battery jumper system recited in claim 1 wherein said parallel connections are accomplished by a cable having a T-splice.