Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Alfonso Ortiz Espino

Estefania Rojas Silva

Jose Ramon Gachuz Navarro

A charge cord management arrangement includes a retractable charge retainer and a charge cord wrapped at least partially around a plunger of that retractable charge cord retainer when that plunger is in a deployed position. The retractable charge cord retainer includes: (a) a base, (b) the plunger carried on the base and displaceable between a home position and a deployed position, (c) a biasing element received and held in the base and adapted to bias the plunger toward the deployed position and (d) a guide feature. The guide feature includes a guide track carried on the base and a guide follower. A related method of managing a charge cord is also disclosed.

Charge cord management arrangement

A retention device, useful in a method of retaining a charge cord in a motor vehicle, includes a housing, a retainer and an actuator. The retainer includes a pivot connecting the retainer to the housing and is displaceable between a stowed position and a use position. The actuator translates along a guideway in the housing and is displaced from a first position to a second position in order to displace the retainer to the use position.

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Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico

Alfonso Ortiz Espino