MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411097594 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group AG on December 10, 2024, for Overhead Retractable Charger (orc) For Charging Electric Vehicles.
Inventors include Naveendra Rama Koti Sai Teja Pulavarthi; and Neethu Mohan.
The application for the patent was published on July 24, 2026, under issue no. 30/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an overhead retractable charger (ORC) for charging electric vehicles (170). The ORC (100) includes an infrared (IR) sensor (108) configured to measure a distance value indicative of a distance from the IR sensor (108) to a vehicle (170) parked below the ORC (100), and a controller (104) configured to relea...