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US 12,005,750 B2Granted
Detachable plug
OwnerFred Brayinventor
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Abstract
A detachable plug, including a main body, including a first section, and a second section detachably connected to at least a portion of the first section to detach from the first section in response to an application of force exceeding a predetermined level of separation force, a first connector disposed on at least a portion of the first section to removably connect to at least a portion of a motor vehicle, and a second connector disposed on at least a portion of the second section to removably connect to at least a portion of a trailer.
Claims6
A detachable plug, comprising:
- a main body, comprising:
- a first section, and
- a second section detachably connected to at least a portion of the first section to detach from the first section in response to an application of force exceeding a predetermined level of separation force, wherein the application of force is provided in a first direction toward the first section that is linearly parallel and opposite to a second direction toward the second section;
- a first connector disposed on at least a portion of the first section to removably connect to at least a portion of a motor vehicle;
- a second connector disposed on at least a portion of the second section to removably connect to at least a portion of a trailer;
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- a locking clip springingly disposed on at least a portion of at least one of the first section and the second section to lock the first section to the second section in response to moving the locking clip from extended away from the first section and the second section in a first position to at least partially retracted toward the first section and the second section in a second position, and unlock the first section from the second section in response to moving the locking clip from retracted toward the first section and the second section in the second position to extended away from the first section and the second section in the first position, wherein the locking clip is unlocked in response to the application of force.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.