# US 9,434,260 B2 · Charging cable support arm > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,434,260 B2 - Document ID: US9434260B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/315,911 - Filed: 2014-06-26 - Published: 2015-03-05 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2013-08-28 - Assignees: Kawamura Electric, Inc.; Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Kawamura Electric, Inc.; Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Norio Takahashi; Michihito Ohkado; Makoto Ogawa; Katsutoshi Matsushita - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9434260B2 ## CPC - B60L 53/14: Conductive energy transfer - B60L 50/00: Electric propulsion with power supplied within the vehicle (with power supply from force of nature, e.g. sun or wind, B60L8/00; for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways B60L13/00) - B60L 53/18: Cables specially adapted for charging electric vehicles - F16M 7/00: Details of attaching or adjusting engine beds, frames, or supporting-legs on foundation or base; Attaching non-moving engine parts, e.g. cylinder blocks (elastic or equivalent mounting for absorbing vibrations F16F, especially F16F15/04) - Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries - Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors - Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations - Y02T 90/14: Plug-in electric vehicles - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - F16M: FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A charging cable support arm includes a support member that is fixed to a wall face, a first arm whose proximal end portion is hinged to the support member and that is rotatable within a horizontal plane, and a second arm that is hinged to a distal end of the first arm and that is rotatable within a horizontal plane. The first arm is provided with a first passage hole through which a charging cable is inserted into the first arm, and the second arm 3 is provided with, at a distal end thereof, a fourth passage hole from which the inserted charging cable is pulled out, and by use of the charging cable pulled out of the fourth passage hole, an electric vehicle is charged. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A charging cable support arm comprising: a support member configured to be fixed to a wall face or a support post; a first arm having a side portion and a proximal end portion having an end face portion, the first arm being hinged to the support member via a connecting hinge, the first arm being rotatable within a horizontal plane; the support member comprises a first engagement portion that is parallel to and protrudes from the mounting wall face or support post by predetermined distance, and, a second engagement portion that extends perpendicularly from the mounting wall face or support post by the predetermined distance to the first engagement portion to form a corner between the first and second engagement portions, wherein the connecting hinge is provided at the corner such that the first arm can be rotated in one direction of the horizontal plane until the side portion of the first arm contacts the first engagement portion, and the first arm can be rotated in another direction of the horizontal plane until the end face portion of the first arm contacts the second engagement portion such that the first arm is rotatable by substantially 180 degrees of rotational range in the horizontal plane; and a second arm hinged to a distal end of the first arm, the second arm being rotatable within a horizontal plane, wherein the first arm is provided with an insertion hole through which a charging cable is inserted into the first arm, and the second arm is provided with, at a distal end thereof or near the distal end, a pull-out hole from which the inserted charging cable is pulled out, and by use of the charging cable pulled out of the pull-out hole, an electric vehicle is charged. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The charging cable support arm according to claim 1, wherein the second arm is hinged to the first arm so as to rotate to an angle at which the second arm becomes parallel to and faces the first arm, and either one of the first arm and the second arm is provided with a magnet for attracting and holding the other counterpart facing thereto. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The charging cable support arm according to claim 1, wherein the support member is fixed to the wall face, the first arm is hinged rotatably in one specific direction to an angle at which the first arm becomes parallel to the wall face to which the support member is fixed, the support member has the first engagement portion which engages the side portion of the first arm when the first arm is rotated and arranged in parallel to the wall face, and the first engagement portion or the side portion of the first arm facing the first engagement portion is provided with a magnet for attracting and holding the engaged counterpart. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The charging cable support arm according to claim 2, wherein the support member is fixed to the wall face, the first arm is hinged rotatably in one specific direction to an angle at which the first arm becomes parallel to the wall face to which the support member is fixed, the support member has the first engagement portion which engages the side portion of the first arm when the first arm is rotated and arranged in parallel to the wall face, and the first engagement portion or the side portion of the first arm facing the first engagement portion is provided with a magnet for attracting and holding the engaged counterpart. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The charging cable support arm according to claim 3, wherein the first arm and the second arm each have a substantially identical length, and the first arm and the second arm are each hinged so as to be rotatable by substantially 180 degrees. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The charging cable support arm according to claim 4, wherein the first arm and the second arm each have a substantially identical length, and the first arm and the second arm are each hinged so as to be rotatable by substantially 180 degrees. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The charging cable support arm according to claim 1, wherein the first arm comprises a reinforcement plate having a height and a width that is larger than a height and a width of the first arm, with the reinforcement plate being configured in an L-shape and directly connected to the first arm to form the side portion and the end face portion of the first arm, and the reinforcement plate is hinged via the connecting hinge to the corner of the support member between the first and second engagement portions such that the first arm is rotatable within the horizontal plane.