Electric vehicle charging socket cleaning tool and method
AssigneeInternational Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
InventorEric Lee George
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Abstract
A cleaning tool for charging sockets of electric vehicles is provided for cleaning charging sockets and terminals included by electric vehicles. The cleaning tool may include a connecting interface, plug fitting, terminal receiving port, abrasive cleaning component, and operatively connected handle. The abrasive cleaning component may at least partially scour the terminals of the electric vehicle charging socket, such as by being rotated. A method for cleaning charging sockets included by electric vehicles using the cleaning tool for charging sockets of electric vehicles is also provided.
Claims14
A cleaning tool for scouring a terminal of a charging socket of an electric vehicle comprising:
- a plug fitting extending outwardly from a terminal side of a connecting interface to be removably received by the charging socket, further comprising:
- terminal receiving ports comprising a rotatable terminal receiving port that extends from the operator side to the terminal side of the connecting interface to receive a DC terminal while inserting the plug fitting into the charging socket, the terminal receiving ports constructed using insulated material, and
- an abrasive cleaning component provided by an interfacing surface of the terminal receiving ports to receive the terminal;
- wherein the terminal is scoured upon moving the terminal receiving ports about the terminal;
- wherein the rotatable terminal receiving port passes through the connecting interface to extend outwardly on the terminal side to a terminal end of the rotatable receiving port and extend outwardly on the operator side to an operator end of the rotatable terminal receiving port;
- wherein the DC terminal is reversibly received by the terminal end of the rotatable terminal receiving port that is rotated by turning the operator end of the rotatable terminal receiving port;
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- wherein the connecting interface comprises an operator side facing away from the terminal side.
A cleaning tool for scouring a terminal of a charging socket of an electric vehicle comprising:
- a plug fitting extending outwardly from a terminal side of a connecting interface to be removably received by the charging socket, further comprising:
- terminal receiving ports to receive the terminal while inserting the plug fitting into the charging socket;
- the terminal receiving ports comprising a rotatable terminal receiving port extending from the operator side to the terminal side of the connecting interface;
- wherein the rotatable terminal receiving port passes through the connecting interface and extends outwardly from the operator side and the terminal side of the connecting interface;
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- wherein a DC terminal is reversibly received by a terminal end of the rotatable terminal receiving port that is rotated by turning an operator end of the rotatable terminal receiving port;
- an abrasive cleaning component provided by an interfacing surface of the terminal receiving ports to contact the terminal;
- an operatively connected handle extending outwardly from an operator side of the connecting interface away from the plug fitting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.