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US 10,500,977 B2Granted
Vehicle charging stations equipped with notification systems
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsKyle Anzicek, John Sturza, Dylan Erb, Abdul Lateef, Charles Honick, Philip Michael Gonzales
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Abstract
A vehicle charging includes a housing, a sensor system configured to detect if a vehicle is parked near the housing, and a notification system configured to communicate an alert if the vehicle is parked near the housing and charging has not been initiated within a threshold amount of time. The alert indicates improper usage of the vehicle charging station to an operator of the vehicle.
Claims19
A vehicle charging station, comprising:
- a housing;
- a sensor system configured to detect when a vehicle is parked near the housing;
- a notification system configured to communicate an alert when the vehicle is parked near the housing and charging has not been initiated within a threshold amount of time;
- and
- a control module configured to command the notification system to generate the alert when charging via the vehicle charging station has not been initiated after the threshold amount of time has passed since detecting the vehicle.
2 more elements
A method, comprising:
- detecting whether a vehicle is parked near a vehicle charging station;
- and
- generating an alert from a notification system of the vehicle charging station, in response to a command from a control module, when charging via the vehicle charging station has not been initiated within a threshold amount of time since detecting the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.