# US 10,770,815 B2 · Charging column for an electric vehicle and electric vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,770,815 B2 - Document ID: US10770815B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/177,663 - Filed: 2018-11-01 - Published: 2019-05-09 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2017-11-07 - Assignees: Audi AG - Applicants: Audi AG - Inventors: Ingo Färber - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10770815B2 ## CPC - H01R 13/005: {Electrical coupling combined with fluidic coupling} - B60L 53/11: {DC charging controlled by the charging station, e.g. mode 4} - B60L 53/14: Conductive energy transfer - B60L 53/31: Charging columns specially adapted for electric vehicles - B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment} - B60L 58/26: by cooling - B60L 58/27: by heating - B60L 53/18: Cables specially adapted for charging electric vehicles - B60L 53/51: Photovoltaic means - B60L 2240/545: Temperature - Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries - Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors - Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations - Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A charging column for an electric vehicle includes a charging plug for recharging the electric vehicle; a media plug that can be connected to the electric vehicle for removing heat from a vehicle-side temperature-control circuit of the electric vehicle with the cycling of a cooling medium that can be introduced and removed by the media plug. Heat can also be introduced to the electric vehicle by the media plug with the cycling of a heating medium that can be introduced and discharged by the media plug. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A charging column for an electric vehicle, comprising: a charging plug for recharging the electric vehicle; a media plug connectable to the electric vehicle for removing heat from a vehicle-side temperature-control circuit of the electric vehicle by cycling a cooling medium that is introduced and discharged by the media plug; wherein heat is introducible to the electric vehicle by means of the media plug by cycling a heating medium that is introduced and discharged by means of the media plug; wherein the charging column has at least one interface for connecting the charging column to a heat supplier for supplying heat; wherein the charging column has at least one interface for connecting the charging column to a cold supplier for supplying cold; and wherein the supplied heat and supplied cold are not generated by way of an electrical current provided at the charging column. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The charging column according to claim 1, wherein the charging column is equipped for the purpose of removing heat from the temperature-control circuit or of introducing heat to the temperature-control circuit, independently from a charging process of the electric vehicle. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The charging column according to claim 1, wherein the charging column is equipped for the purpose of removing heat from the temperature-control circuit or of introducing heat to the temperature-control circuit, as a function of an external temperature and a temperature of at least one component of the electric vehicle that is thermally coupled to the temperature-control circuit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The charging column according to claim 1, wherein the charging column has a payment interface for payment of the heat that is introduced and removed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) An electric vehicle for connecting to a charging column according to claim 1, comprising: a charging interface for the charging plug, the temperature-control circuit, and a media interface for the media plug for removing heat from the temperature-control circuit of the electric vehicle as well as for introducing heat into the temperature-control circuit of the electric vehicle. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The electric vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the electric vehicle has a heat exchanger for the exchange of heat between the temperature-control circuit on the vehicle side and the cooling medium and the heating medium that can be introduced as well as removed by the media plug. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The electric vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the temperature-control circuit has an inlet for introducing the cooling medium and heating medium as well as an outlet for discharging the cooling medium and heating medium. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The charging column of claim 1, wherein the heat supplier is one or more of a trigeneration plant, a nearby heating network, or a remote heating network. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The charging column of claim 1, wherein the cold supplier is one or more of a trigeneration plant, a nearby cooling network, a remote cooling network, or an air conditioning system of a building. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The charging column of claim 1, wherein the heat supplier and the cold supplier are disposed at a location that is removed from the location of the charging column.