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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
May. 24, 2013
Webasto Charging Systems, Inc., Simi Valley, CA (US);
Scott Garret Berman, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Albert Flack, Lake Arrowhead, CA (US);
Keith Kolb, Laverne, CA (US);
Ming Bai, Porter Ranch, CA (US);
Webasto Charging Systems, Inc., Simi Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
In at least one embodiment, provided is an electric vehicle supply equipment having a line power contactor including a first line power input and a second line power input and a first line power output and a second line power output. It further has a welded contactor detector with a contactor sense circuit, the sense circuit having a first line shunt resistor network connected from the first line power contactor output to ground and a second line shunt resistor network connected from the first line power contactor output to ground. In another embodiment provided is an EVSE including a welded contactor detector with a contactor sense circuit having a bias resistor connected between the hot line relay input and the neutral line relay output.