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US 10,377,264 B2Granted
Vehicle conductive charge port having cooling infrastructure
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJuan Lopez, Nondo G. Basoukeas
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Abstract
A vehicle conductive charge port is configured to conductively transfer charging current from an external source to the vehicle for charging a traction battery of the vehicle. A cooling system is configured to cool the charge port depending on a temperature of the charge port. The cooling system may use coolant and/or air to cool the charge port.
Claims10
An assembly for charging a traction battery of a vehicle, comprising:
- a charge port having input and output connection interfaces and configured to conductively transfer charging current via the connection interfaces from an external source to the vehicle;
- a cold plate entirely encasing the charge port except for the connection interfaces, the cold plate having a chamber,
- a cooling system configured to provide coolant through the chamber to cool the charge port.
A vehicle comprising:
- a traction battery;
- a charge port having input and output connection interfaces and configured to conductively transfer charging current via the connection interfaces from an external source to the traction battery;
- a cold plate entirely encasing the charge port except for the connection interfaces, the cold plate having a chamber;
- a cooling system configured to provide coolant through the chamber to cool the charge port.
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An assembly for a vehicle, comprising:
- a charge port having input and output connection interfaces, the output connection interface connected to an on-board charger of the vehicle which is connected to a traction battery of the vehicle, the charge port configured to conductively transfer electrical current via the connection interfaces from an external source to the on-board charter, for charging the traction battery, when a charge connector of the external source is plugged into the input connection interface;
- a cold plate entirely encasing the charge port except for the connection interfaces, the cold plate having a chamber,
- a cooling system configured to provide coolant through the chamber to cool the charge port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.