Chargepoint, Inc.

2Wire, Inc.

Pasquale Romano

Stephen Eric Sidle

Justin D Cumming

Darren Chin-Ho Kim

Peter H Muller, Jr

David Hoenig

Aaron Dayton Little

Benjamin Bylenok

David Baxter

Dennis Michael Heleine

Jacky S Wong

Michal Lekszycki

Carl F Hagenmaier, Jr

Craig T Matsuno

Peter Vaughan

Gary A Eldridge

William Rich

Kevin Fetterman

Patrick Kien Tran

John Hsudan Yu

Jacob Heth

Stan C Reyes

Price B Terzis

Richard J Quattrini, Jr

Jonathan Christopher Wilson

Jeffrey Barone

Brian L Hinman

Philip Stanley Bednarz

Paul Baron Guerra

James Randall Turner

Damian S Matthews

Hossein Sedarat

Milton T Tormey

Peter H Muller

Richard Lowenthal

Kevin Dean Fisher

Scott Fullam

Christopher John Sabol

Bradley Kayton

Paul J Andrus

James M Barbera

Anthony Watts Vastola

Jaime Fink

Jaana Behm

Richard J Quattrini

Carl F Hagenmaier

Power block

A cable tether for managing an electric vehicle charging cable is described. The cable tether comprises a housing that houses a spring clamp and a compression pad. The housing including an opening for the electric vehicle charging cable to pass through. The spring clamp includes two openings that allow a shaft member attached to an arm of the electric vehicle charging station to pass through, where a first segment of the spring clamp includes a first opening of the two openings and a portion that extends into the first opening, and where the portion that extends into the first opening slots into a cutout portion of the shaft member as the shaft member is passed through the two openings to latch the spring clamp onto the shaft member. The compression pad that is attached to the housing of the cable tether for gripping the electric vehicle charging cable.

Cable tether for an electric vehicle charging cable

Electric vehicle charging station

Dynamic allocation of power modules for charging electric vehicles is described herein. The charging system includes multiple dispensers that each include one or more power modules that can supply power to any one of the dispensers at a time. A dispenser includes a first power bus that is switchably connected to one or more local power modules and switchably connected to one or more power modules located remotely in another dispenser. The one or more local power modules are switchably connected to a second power bus in the other dispenser. The dispenser includes a control unit that is to cause the local power modules and the remote power modules to switchably connect and disconnect from the first power bus to dynamically allocate the power modules between the dispenser and the other dispenser.

Dynamic allocation of power modules for charging electric vehicles

Dynamic allocation of power modules for charging electric vehicles is described herein. A power cabinet includes multiple power modules that each are capable of supplying an amount of power to a dispenser. Multiple dispensers are coupled with the same power cabinet. A first power bus couples a first dispenser and switchably connects the power modules to the first dispenser; and a second power bus couples a second dispenser and switchably connects the power modules to the second dispenser. The power cabinet includes a control unit that is configured to cause the power modules to switchably connect and disconnect from the first power bus and the second power bus to dynamically allocate the power modules between the first dispenser and the second dispenser.

An electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) includes a thermal management system that includes a dual-sided heatsink that includes a first side that faces internal ambient air of the EVSE and a second side that faces external ambient air. A first fan circulates the internal ambient air of the EVSE across the first side to reject heat from the internal ambient air into the first side. A first airflow guide guides the internal ambient air across the first side of the dual-sided heatsink. A second fan draws external ambient air that flows across the second side to reject heat from the second side out of the thermal management system. A second airflow guide guides the external ambient air across the second side. An airflow seal prevents the external ambient air and the internal ambient air from mixing.

Thermal management system for an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) that includes a dual-sided heatsink

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Pasquale Romano