Accessible electric vehicle charger
AssigneeAlbright Product Design Limited
InventorAlex Lee
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Abstract
An electric vehicle charger has a cable and charging plug substantially hidden inside, and protected by, a housing in a stowed configuration. The charger is activated to charge a vehicle by means of a first control input, which may be for example a touchless capacitive sensor on the housing. In response to the first control input, a motorised dispensing apparatus dispenses the charging plug into a ready-to-deploy configuration, in which the charging plug on a short length of cable 18 is outside the housing. The charging plug in this position is easily graspable by a user, and can then be further dispensed into a deployed position for charging a vehicle.
Claims15
1-14. (canceled)
An electric vehicle charger including:
- a housing;
- a charging cable having a charging plug for connection to an electric vehicle;
- and
- a motorised charging cable dispensing apparatus,
- the charger having a stowed configuration in which the charging plug is at least partly surrounded by the housing, a ready-to-deploy configuration in which the charging plug protrudes outside the housing, and a deployed configuration in which the charging plug and the charging cable extends from the housing for allowing the charging plug to be connected to the electric vehicle,
- in which a first control input is provided, the charger being adapted to activate the motorised charging cable dispensing apparatus to dispense the charging plug from the stowed configuration into the ready-to-deploy configuration in response to operation of the first control input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.