Electric vehicle charging system and connector having an rfid reader and method for rf validation for charging electric vehicle
AssigneeEaton Intelligent Power Limited
InventorsSaivaraprasad Murahari, Barton Kirk Ideker
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Abstract
A connector for use in charging an electric vehicle (EV). The connector includes a housing, an electrical receptacle coupled to the housing and structured to be inserted into and electrically couple with a charging port of the electric vehicle, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader disposed within or on the housing of the connector, the RFID reader structured to read RFID tags and, in response to reading an approved code from an RFID tag, to enable charging of the EV.
Claims20
A connector for use in charging an electric vehicle (EV), the connector comprising:
- a housing;
- an electrical receptacle coupled to the housing and structured to be inserted into and electrically couple with a charging port of the electric vehicle;
- and
- a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader disposed within or on the housing of the connector, the RFID reader structured to read RFID tags and, in response to reading an approved code from an RFID tag, to enable charging of the EV.
An electric vehicle charging system for charging an electric vehicle (EV), the electric vehicle charging system comprising:
- an EV charger coupled to a power source;
- a charging cable coupled to the EV charger;
- and
- a connector coupled to the charging cable, the connector including:
- a housing;
- an electrical receptacle coupled to the housing and structured to be inserted into and electrically couple with a charging port of the electric vehicle;
- and
- a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader disposed within or on the housing of the connector, the RFID reader structured to read RFID tags and, in response to reading an approved code from an RFID tag, to enable the EV charger to charge the EV with power from the power source.
A connector for use in charging an electric vehicle (EV), the connector comprising:
- a housing;
- an electrical receptacle coupled to the housing and structured to be inserted into and electrically couple with a charging port of the electric vehicle;
- and
- a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader disposed within or on the housing of the connector, the RFID reader structured to read RFID information from an RFID tag and to output the RFID information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.