Back to results
US 2022/0176839 A1Published application
Electrified vehicle charging station configured to provide parking guidance to electrified vehicles
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorColin Turner Lieberman
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An electrified vehicle charging station according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a charger assembly including a plug connected to a terminal via a charger cable, and a transceiver configured to communicate information to an electrified vehicle which is useable to guide the electrified vehicle to an acceptable parking position. The acceptable parking position is a position in which the plug will reach a charging port of the electrified vehicle. A method is also disclosed.
Claims20
A electrified vehicle charging station, comprising:
- a charger assembly including a plug connected to a terminal via a charger cable;
- and
- a transceiver configured to communicate information to an electrified vehicle which is useable to guide the electrified vehicle to an acceptable parking position, wherein the acceptable parking position is a position in which the plug will reach a charging port of the electrified vehicle.
A method, comprising:
- communicating information to an electrified vehicle, wherein the information is useable to guide the electrified vehicle to an acceptable parking position, wherein the acceptable parking position is a position in which a plug of an electrified vehicle charging station will reach a charging port of the electrified vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.