Panasonic Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Youji Minami

Hirotoshi Watanabe

Naoki Fukuo

Tatsuya Mukai

Kiyosi Gotou

Kouji Kakiuchi

Shiro Mori

Kiyoshi Goto

Satoru Ueno

Hiroshi Ooya

Tomoyoshi Hayashi

Yutaka Takada

Sinichi Nakamura

Tatuya Mukai

A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes a power plug adapted to be detachably connected to a power socket of a commercial power source; a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the power plug; a cable connector adapted to be detachably connected to an electric vehicle for supplying a charging current to a battery of the electric vehicle; and a switching unit for opening and closing a current path between the power plug and the cable connector. The charging cable further includes a leakage detecting unit for detecting an electric leakage based on a current flowing through the current path; and a power cutoff unit for opening the switching unit when the detected temperature of the temperature detection means exceeds a threshold value or when the leakage detection means detects the electric leakage.

Charging cable, charging cable unit, and charging system for electric vehicle

An electric vehicle charging cord set includes a housing containing an interrupting device therein and a first cord provided at one end with a plug connectable to an outlet installed on a wall surface of a building and at the other end connected to one of the terminal units of the interrupting device. An electric vehicle charging cord set further includes a second cord provided at one end with a connector connectable to an inlet of an electric vehicle and at the other end connected to the other of the terminal units of the interrupting device. The housing includes a storage unit for extendibly storing the second cord, a stand for placing the housing on a ground surface and a transportation handle. The storage unit includes a drum rotatably attached to the housing. The second cord is wound on the outer circumferential surface of the drum.

Electric vehicle charging cord set

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Youji Minami