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US 2016/0079749 A1Published application
Apparatus for blocking high voltage source, plug applied for the same, and method for controlling the same
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsYun-Jae Jung, Bum W. Nam
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Abstract
An apparatus for blocking a high voltage source includes a plug that is inserted into a household socket, and a circuit breaker connected to the plug through a power cable, where the circuit breaker detects whether or not the plug is detached from the household socket during a slow charging operation, so as to block the power source supplied to a vehicle from the plug.
Claims14
An apparatus for blocking a high voltage source, comprising:
- a plug configured to be inserted into a household socket;
- and
- a circuit breaker connected to the plug through a power cable, the circuit breaker detecting whether or not the plug is detached from the household socket during a slow charging operation, in order to block the power source supplied to a vehicle from the plug.
A plug applied to an apparatus for blocking a high voltage source, comprising:
- an electrode terminal;
- a plug pin having a protruding part formed on one end of the plug pin, the protruding part configured to contact a surface of the household socket, and the plug pin being disposed on a lower end of one side of the electrode terminal;
- an elastic member disposed on a step part of the protruding part so as to provide elastic force to the plug pin which can be reciprocally moved by the elastic force in a transverse direction;
- and
- a contact part for being contacted with or detached from the other end of the plug pin to activate or deactivate the contact.
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A method for blocking high voltage source, comprising:
- performing a slow charging operation while a plug is inserted into a household socket;
- detecting, by a circuit breaker connected to the plug through a power cable, whether or not the plug is detached from the household socket;
- continuously supplying, by the circuit breaker, the power source to a vehicle through the plug, if the detachment is not detected;
- and
- blocking the power source supplied to the vehicle from the plug, if the detachment is detected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.