Patent ID: 11870286
Assignee: META SYSTEM S.P.A.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A battery charger for electric or hybrid motor vehicles, the battery charger comprising:
at least one container body installable on a motor vehicle and defining at least one housing compartment, said container body comprising at least one grounding connector to be connected to at least one grounding electrical potential by means of at least one electrical grounding cable; and
at least one electronic appliance housed inside said housing compartment, connectable to at least one electric battery of said motor vehicle and configured to recharge said battery;
wherein said connector comprises at least one electrical connecting element of said electrical grounding cable and at least one connecting terminal, which can be coupled in a removable manner to said connecting element and electrically associable with said electrical grounding cable,
wherein said connecting element comprises a threaded body and a nut screw body that can be screwed to said threaded body to fix said connecting terminal thereto,
wherein said connector comprises retaining means of said electrical grounding cable adapted to block the position of said grounding cable during the fixing of said connecting terminal to said threaded body by said nut screw, and
wherein said retaining means comprise elastic locking means for locking said electrical grounding cable, said elastic locking means comprising a pair of elastic elements arranged substantially opposed to each other to define a clamping mouth and elastically deformable away from each other to allow the insertion of said electrical cable inside said clamping mouth, said elastic elements coming to approach each other elastically to prevent said electrical cable from coming out of said clamping mouth.