Electric vehicle supply equipment cables with gap extrusions
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsTimothy Harris, Kevin Schneier
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Abstract
This disclosure describes electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) assemblies for use when charging plug-in electrified vehicles. An exemplary EVSE assembly may include a charger coupler and a cable connected to the charger coupler. The cable may include a plurality of conductor wires and a gap extrusion positioned within a gap between the plurality of conductor wires. The gap extrusion may include a non-symmetrical cross-sectional shape and may be made of a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) material. The cable may be manufactured in a staggered extrusion process in which the gap extrusion is fed into a gap of a wound conductor wire bunch of the cable.
Claims19
An electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) assembly, comprising:
- a charger coupler;
- and
- a cable connected to the charger coupler and including a plurality of conductor wires and a gap extrusion positioned within a gap between the plurality of conductor wires,
- wherein the gap extrusion includes a completely solid structure that completely fills the gap and a non-symmetrical cross-sectional shape.
An electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) assembly, comprising:
- a charger coupler;
- and
- a cable connected to the charger coupler and including a gap extrusion positioned within a gap between a plurality of conductor wires,
- the gap extrusion including a solid structure that completely fills the gap and extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis, a first axis bisects the gap extrusion along a first dimension of a cross-sectional slice of the gap extrusion, and a second axis bisects the gap extrusion along a second dimension of the cross-sectional slice of the gap extrusion,
- the second axis is perpendicular to the first axis, and each of the first axis and the second axis is perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis,
- wherein the cross-sectional slice is non-symmetric about the first axis or the second axis and is symmetric about the other of the first axis or the second axis,
- wherein the gap extrusion includes a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.