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US 12,623,559 B2Granted
Sliding door restriction to protect charging connector
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToru Ando
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a sliding door, an energy storage device for storing energy used to generate driving force for the vehicle, an energy supply port located in a range in which the sliding door is movable, the energy supply port being configured to receive energy provided from an external energy supply source and supply energy to the energy storage device, and a control device that restricts movement of the sliding door when an energy supply connector is connected to the energy supply port.
Claims5
A vehicle, comprising:
- a sliding door;
- an energy storage device configured to store energy used to generate driving force for the vehicle;
- an energy supply port located in a range of movement of the sliding door, the energy supply port being configured to receive the energy provided from an external energy supply source and supply the energy to the energy storage device;
- and
- a control device configured to restrict the movement of the sliding door to an intermediate position of opening when an energy supply connector is connected to the energy supply port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.