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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2015
Kostal Kontakt Systeme Gmbh, Luedenscheid, DE;
Siegfried Hauptenbuchner, Halver, DE;
Thomas Scherer, Luedenscheid, DE;
Georg Schroeder, Drolshagen, DE;
Matthias Schubert, Luedenscheid, DE;
Joerg Welschholz, Herscheid, DE;
Roland Drees, Boenen, DE;
Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH, Luedenscheid, DE;
Abstract
A charging system for charging an electric vehicle at a charging station includes a charge module at the charging station and a charge module at the vehicle. The charge modules include electric contact elements which can be interconnected together. The charging system includes an automatic positioning device configured to move the charging station charge module relative to the vehicle charge module to align and join the charge modules together. The charging system includes an automatic feed device configured to enable the contact elements of the charging station charge module to connect to the contact elements of the vehicle charge module when the charge modules are joined together. The contact elements of the charge modules are configured such that the contact elements can connect to each other without overriding a contact force.