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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yee Shan Woo, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Christopher H. Van Dyke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph Mardall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Newport, San Jose, CA (US);
Joshua Willard Ferguson, Alameda, CA (US);
TESLA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A charging system for an electric vehicle includes: a power supply; a cable having first and second ends, the first end attached to the power supply, the cable comprising a charging conductor and a cooling conduit, each of which extends from the first end to the second end; and a connector attached to the second end of the cable, the connector having a form factor corresponding to a charge port of the electric vehicle; wherein the cooling conduit is adapted to convey a fluid that cools the charging conductor.