US 11,996,646 B2
Charging connector for vehicle
Soo Hwan Park, Incheon (KR); and Na Young Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to YURA CO., LTD., Hwaseong-si (KR)
Filed by YURA CO., LTD., Hwaseong-si (KR)
Filed on May 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/744,216.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0064060 (KR), filed on May 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0376423 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/424 (2006.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); H01R 13/506 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/424 (2013.01) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); H01R 13/506 (2013.01); H01R 2201/26 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charging connector for a vehicle, which is coupled to an inlet charging part of an electric vehicle, the charging connector comprising:
a housing configured to provide a coupling space with the inlet charging part at one side and, to provide an accommodation space at another side;
an outlet terminal part comprising an outlet terminal disposed to pass through the accommodation space so as to be in contact with an inlet terminal part installed inside the inlet charging part and a cable connected to the outlet terminal; and
a rear holder to prevent the outlet terminal part from being separated,
wherein the rear holder comprises:
a body disposed outside the accommodation space; and
a prevention rib extending from the body to inside of the accommodation space and elastically deformed,
wherein the accommodation space inwardly has a coupling hole to which the rear holder is coupled and a plurality of guide protrusion that guides a coupling position of the rear holder, and
wherein the body has a plurality of guide grooves to correspond to the guide protrusion and a coupling rib extends from one side of the guide groove to the inside of the accommodation space to be hooked and fixed to the coupling hole.