Patent ID: 9597970
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B60L,G08B,H02J,Y02T,Y04S

Claim:
1. An electric vehicle charging apparatus, comprising: a housing having a periphery and a body; and a light guide assembly mounted to the body and adapted to display a status of the electric vehicle charging apparatus, the light guide assembly further comprising: a light guide including a light receiving region located adjacent to one or more light sources, a light guiding region, and a light exit region at the periphery, wherein the light exit region includes a side facing surface including an angle of tilt relative to light emitted from the light guiding region, the side facing surface configured to provide a halo effect about one or more segments of the periphery, wherein the angle of tilt of the side facing surface is between about 30 and 50 degrees and is selected such that a light beam is spread across substantially all of the side facing surface for providing the halo effect as a maximum halo effect in that the light exit region displays a halo of different colors each color indicating a specific status of a particular electric vehicle charging state.