Vehicle with a storage device that can be recharged by way of a charging cable and an external power supply

US10720766B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Josef Krammer · Holzkirchen, DE
• Gerhard Hofer · Königsee, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2017
• Grant date: Jul 21, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T90/14
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle is provided with a storage device for electrical energy that can be recharged from an external power supply and with a body which has at least one body opening that can be closed by a body flap, wherein a charging cable is provided, connected or connectable in an electrically conducting manner to the storage device and running at least partly inside the body. The body opening is a luggage-compartment opening or a door opening of the vehicle and the body flap is respectively a luggage-compartment lid or a door of the vehicle. The charging cable is formed as a flexible ribbon cable or has at least one flexible ribbon cable portion. The flexible ribbon cable or the at least one flexible ribbon cable portion can be led through a body gap present between a periphery of the body opening and the body flap. The ribbon cable or the at least one flexible ribbon cable portion has current-carrying conductors that are arranged next to one another, are designed as flat conductors of a ribbon form and are surrounded by a common, electrically insulating sleeve.