US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Feb. 17 for "Charging system for a fire fighting vehicle" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,278, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Charging system for a fire fighting vehicle" was invented by Eric Linsmeier (Larsen, Wis.) and Chad Smith (Omro, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire fighting vehicle includes an energy storage system coupled to the chassis and a charging assembly configured to interface with a charging plug. The energy storage system includes battery cells. The charging assembly includes a housing, a charging port disposed within the housing and electrically coupled to the battery cells, a retainer positioned proximate the charging port, a first actuator, and a second actu...