Vehicle Power Socket Adapter With Glass Breaker

摘要

A multi-function charging adapter that include a movable forward nosepiece (or “plug”), a rearwardly open main power socket, a glass-breaking mechanism, and optionally an auxiliary charging port. The forward nosepiece acts as part of the electrical circuit of the adapter, and as a shroud for a pointed plunger of the glass-breaking mechanism. Depression of the nosepiece causes the glass-breaking mechanism to automatically move from the cocked state to a released state. Related methods of use are also disclosed.

主权项

1. A multi-function charging adapter, comprising:
a housing; a nosepiece moveably mounted to the housing and extending forward therefrom, the nosepiece being electrically conductive and rearwardly moveable along a longitudinal axis against a return bias; a rearwardly open main socket mounted to the housing at a rearward portion of the housing; the main socket and electrically connected to the nosepiece such that power supplied to the nosepiece is available at the main socket; a glass-breaking mechanism comprising:
a plunger having a forward pointed tip and extending along a plunger axis;a bias element applying a forward bias to the plunger;a plunger guide mounted to the plunger; wherein the glass-breaking mechanism is automatically moveable between a cocked state and a released state in response to rearward displacement of the nosepiece; wherein, in the cocked state, the tip of the plunger is disposed inside the nosepiece and the plunger axis is disposed out of alignment with the longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle relative to the longitudinal axis; wherein, in the released state, the plunger extends forwardly out the nosepiece such that the tip of the plunger is disposed outside the nosepiece and the plunger axis is disposed in general alignment with the longitudinal axis; wherein more of the nosepiece is disposed in the housing in the released state than in the cocked state.