Stowable electric vehicle charging port cover
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsSarath Chander CB, Vinoth Sankar
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a vehicle body, a charging port carried by the vehicle body within a cavity, a door carried by the vehicle body and movable from a closed position in which the door covers the cavity and an open position in which the door does not cover the cavity to permit access to the charging port, and a cover. The cover is coupled to the vehicle body at a first side and to the door at a second side. The cover is in a retracted position and at least partly received in the cavity when the door is in the closed position and the cover is in an extended position when the door is in the open position, and when the cover is in the extended position, and the cover spans a space between an inner surface of the door and the vehicle body.
Claims19
A vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle body defined in part by one or more body panels;
- a charging port carried by the vehicle body within a cavity of the vehicle body;
- a door carried by the vehicle body and movable from a closed position in which the door covers the cavity and prevents access to the charging port and an open position in which the door does not cover the cavity to permit access to the charging port;
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- a cover coupled to the vehicle body at a first side of the cover and coupled to the door at a second side of the cover, wherein the cover is in a retracted position and at least partly received in the cavity when the door is in the closed position and the cover is in an extended position when the door is in the open position, and when the cover is in the extended position, the cover spans a space between an inner surface of the door and the vehicle body.
A cover for a vehicle charge port, comprising:
- a first side including one or more first side connection features adapted to be coupled a vehicle body,
- a second side including one or more second side connection features adapted to be coupled an inner surface of a door movable relative to a charging port of the vehicle;
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- a third side that spans between the first side and the second side, the cover has a retracted position in which the second side is a first distance from the first side and an extended position in which the second side is a second distance from the first side and the second distance is greater than the first distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.