Hitching device with automatically connectable supply plug components

US10913318B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• JOST-WERKE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH · DE

Inventors

• José Manuel Algüera · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Stephan Gitzen · Riedstadt, DE
• Achim Strütt · Riedstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 14, 2016
• Grant date: Feb 9, 2021
• Expiry date: May 19, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60D1/42
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hitching apparatus includes a towing vehicle-side hitch component, a towed vehicle-side hitch component, a towing vehicle-side insertion connector component having at least one insertion connector configuration as an interface of a towing vehicle-side supply lead for transferring energy and/or information, a towed vehicle-side insertion connector component having at least one insertion connector configuration as an interface of a towed vehicle-side supply lead for transferring energy and/or information, a towing vehicle-side alignment component separate from the towing vehicle-side hitch component and arranged thereon, which carries the towing vehicle-side insertion connector component, and a towed vehicle-side alignment component separate from the towed vehicle-side hitch component and arranged thereon, which carries the towed vehicle-side insertion connector component. One alignment component includes an alignment configuration and is movable relative to the hitch component carrying it. One insertion connector component is displaceable relative to the alignment component carrying it.