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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Jost-werke Deutschland Gmbh, Neu-Isenburg, DE;
José Manuel Algüera, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Stephan Gitzen, Groß-Gerau, DE;
Achim Strütt, Riedstadt, DE;
JOST-WERKE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Neu-Isenburg, DE;
Abstract
A hitching apparatus includes a towing vehicle-side hitch component, a towed vehicle-side hitch component, a towing vehicle-side insertion connector component having at least one insertion connector configuration as an interface of a towing vehicle-side supply lead for transferring energy and/or information, a towed vehicle-side insertion connector component having at least one insertion connector configuration as an interface of a towed vehicle-side supply lead for transferring energy and/or information, a towing vehicle-side alignment component separate from the towing vehicle-side hitch component and arranged thereon, which carries the towing vehicle-side insertion connector component, and a towed vehicle-side alignment component separate from the towed vehicle-side hitch component and arranged thereon, which carries the towed vehicle-side insertion connector component. One alignment component includes an alignment configuration and is movable relative to the hitch component carrying it. One insertion connector component is displaceable relative to the alignment component carrying it.