GB2489038A - Vehicle with electrical socket - Google Patents

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GB2489038A
GB2489038A GB1104553.1A GB201104553A GB2489038A GB 2489038 A GB2489038 A GB 2489038A GB 201104553 A GB201104553 A GB 201104553A GB 2489038 A GB2489038 A GB 2489038A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R16/00—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for
    • B60R16/02—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements
    • B60R16/03—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R16/00—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for
    • B60R16/02—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements

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Abstract

The vehicle has one or more sockets to receive a plugs with pins of portable devices at the required supply voltage for the devices. Such socket(s) can accept a plurality of internationally recognised plugs to allow portable devices to be plugged into the electric vehicle's power supply.

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VEHICLE ELECTRIC SOCKETS
Vehicles such as cars often have a relatively low voltage (12.8 volts from a typical dc battery) to supply or help to supply power to the electrical systems of the vehicle.
Some portable devices such as computers, electric shavers and the like are desirably used or charged away from fixed power supplies. A particular difficulty arises for international travellers away from their home country, whose portable devices may have plugs which are not compatible with the local sockets.
The invention proposes the access of such devices to the mobile power supply in vehicles. Presently vehicles do not have any plug sockets to allow portable devices to be plugged into the vehicle's power supply at substantially the normal supply voltage of for the standard of the plug concerned, except a cigarette lighter.
According to the present invention, a vehicle has one or more sockets to allow portable devices having plugs with pins to be plugged into the vehicle's electrical systems power supply at substantially the normal supply voltage for the standard of the plug concerned.
In one embodiment the socket may receive a plurality of types of internationally recognised plugs.
In order to connect to conventional international plugs on portable devices, an alternator and voltage step up means would need to be provided in the circuit connecting the would need to be provided in the circuit connecting the batteries to the socket so that ac current at the appropriate voltage was provided to the socket. For many standards a 220 to 240 volt supply would be required, but also a 110 volt supply would be provided to parts of the socket to receive pins on portable devices to operate at this voltage.
In a universal socket the apertures to receive pins can either be disposed in a cluster or in an array close to one another.
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  1. Claims 1. A vehicle having one or more sockets to allow portable devices having plugs with pins to be plugged into the vehicle's electrical power supply at substantially the normal supply voltage for the standard of the plug concerned.
  2. 2. A vehicle according in which the socket is universal receiving a plurality of types of internationally recognised plugs.
  3. 3. A vehicle according to claim 1 2 or 3 in which an alternator is provided in the circuit connecting the battery or other electric power storage system to the socket.
  4. 4. A vehicle according to claim 2 or 3 in which the universal socket has pin holes to receive pins on a plug which pin holes are disposed in a cluster.
  5. 5. A vehicle according to claim 2 or 3 in which the universal socket has pin holes to receive pins on a plug which pin holes are disposed in a cluster.
  6. 6. A vehicle substantially as hereinbefore described.
  7. 7. An electric socket for a vehicle, said vehicle being as claimed in claims 1 to 6.
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US11283229B2 (en) 2018-02-15 2022-03-22 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft Socket device for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle comprising a socket device

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DE202005007979U1 (en) * 2005-05-18 2005-07-14 Koch, Klaus-Detlef Plug socket outlet adapter for connecting a European standard plug for a motor vehicle's cigarette lighter socket connects to a single-pole vehicle standard plug-in socket linked to vehicle power
CN2749736Y (en) * 2004-12-20 2006-01-04 田德怀 Alternating current power supply socket used in vehicle
GB2424317A (en) * 2005-03-15 2006-09-20 Lear Corp Power track and slidable sockets for use in vehicle
US20080191551A1 (en) * 2007-02-13 2008-08-14 Ford Global Technologies, Llc Usb for vehicle application
EP1962404A2 (en) * 2007-01-24 2008-08-27 Omron Corporation Power supply device
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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JP2003151704A (en) * 2001-11-19 2003-05-23 Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd Onboard conversion plug device
JP2003263252A (en) * 2002-03-07 2003-09-19 Car Mate Mfg Co Ltd Vehicle-mounted usb hub
DE10338279A1 (en) * 2003-08-20 2005-03-24 Siemens Ag Car plug connector unit for electronic element connections, with socket strip, secured to car body part, with several contact socket modules coupled to first cable harness
CN2749736Y (en) * 2004-12-20 2006-01-04 田德怀 Alternating current power supply socket used in vehicle
US20090233481A1 (en) * 2005-01-07 2009-09-17 Casco Schoeller Gmbh Vehicle
GB2424317A (en) * 2005-03-15 2006-09-20 Lear Corp Power track and slidable sockets for use in vehicle
DE202005007979U1 (en) * 2005-05-18 2005-07-14 Koch, Klaus-Detlef Plug socket outlet adapter for connecting a European standard plug for a motor vehicle's cigarette lighter socket connects to a single-pole vehicle standard plug-in socket linked to vehicle power
EP1962404A2 (en) * 2007-01-24 2008-08-27 Omron Corporation Power supply device
US20080191551A1 (en) * 2007-02-13 2008-08-14 Ford Global Technologies, Llc Usb for vehicle application

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US11283229B2 (en) 2018-02-15 2022-03-22 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft Socket device for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle comprising a socket device

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