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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Mitsuru Tanabe, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The electric vehicular connector includes: a connection terminal block including a primary power transmission terminal to be electrically connected to a first power terminal of a power converter; a plug including a secondary power transmission terminal to be electrically connected to a second power terminal of an inlet of an electric vehicle; a breaker which is connected between the primary power transmission terminal and the secondary power transmission terminal and has a closed state of electrically interconnecting the primary power transmission terminal and the secondary power transmission terminal and an open state of electrically separating the primary power transmission terminal and the secondary power transmission terminal from each other; and a breaker controller configured to set the connector-side breaker in the closed state during a normal state and to set the connector-side breaker in the open state during an abnormal state in which abnormality occurs in the electric vehicle.