Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Brad Warren Probert

Micah Smith

Ihab Grace

Tarek Obeid

Eric Yoo

Bradley Dean Riedle

Gregory Daniel Goleski

Bradley Ronald Heuver

Charles William Suter

Jianping Zhang

Ahteram Khan

Mike Popovski

Cory Benson LaRoche

Anil Reddy Pullalarevu

Jeremy L Russell

Philip Joseph Wiethe

David Edward Paul

Kenneth Leon Nowaczyk

Kenneth Edward Sovel

Luis Javier Sanchez

This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack may include an enclosure assembly that houses one or more battery arrays. An impact protection shroud is mounted to a portion of at least one of the battery arrays. A battery sensitive component is at least partially covered by the impact protection shroud. The impact protection shroud is configured to establish minimum clearances relative the battery sensitive component and to redirect loads away from the battery sensitive component, thereby protecting the battery sensitive component during vehicle impact loading events.

Impact protection shrouds for protecting battery pack components

This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. Exemplary battery packs may include an enclosure assembly that houses one or more battery arrays. The battery arrays may be efficiently arranged relative to one another inside the enclosure assembly to establish an open channel within the enclosure assembly. Coolant lines and/or wiring lines may be positioned within and/or routed through the open channel in order to maximize battery internal component volume without increasing the overall footprint of the enclosure assembly.

Systematic layouts for electrified vehicle traction battery packs

This disclosure details exemplary electrical architectural layouts for distributing high voltage power within electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack associated with an electrical architectural layout of an electrified vehicle may include an enclosure assembly that houses one or more battery arrays. The battery arrays may be efficiently arranged relative to one another inside the enclosure assembly to establish an open channel within the enclosure assembly. A high voltage wiring harness may be routed through an interior of the battery pack within the open channel. The exemplary electrical architectural layouts of this disclosure may be employed within all-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, or front-wheel drive electrified vehicles.

Efficient electric architectural layouts for electrified vehicles

This disclosure details mounting systems and associated methods for mounting a battery pack to an electrified vehicle. An exemplary electrified vehicle may include a frame, a battery pack, and a mounting system for mounting the battery pack to the frame. The mounting system may include one or more side rails. Each side rail may include a predefined crush initiator configured to plastically deform for absorbing and transferring energy during vehicle impact loading events.

High voltage battery pack mounting systems for providing load path management during impact loading events

A method for controlling a vehicle driveline includes determining, for current vehicle operating conditions, an initial engine output torque, at which the driveline meets predetermined structural criteria, establishing a factor that varies with torque converter slip, determining an engine torque limit by multiplying the factor corresponding to a current torque converter slip by the initial engine output torque, and limiting torque produced by an engine connected to the driveline to the engine torque limit.

Control of vehicle driveline torque

A method for controlling gearshifts of an automatic transmission includes preventing an upshift while the vehicle accelerates on an ascending grade, if predicted vehicle acceleration in a target gear is less than a reference vehicle acceleration in the target gear; accelerating the vehicle on the grade; and producing the upshift, if predicted vehicle acceleration in the target gear is greater than a reference vehicle acceleration.

Controlling gearshifting to prevent powertrain hunting

A method for controlling brakes of an automatic transmission including a first brake arranged in parallel with an overrunning brake between a planet pinion carrier and a housing, includes using the overrunning brake to provide brake torque equal to or less than a reference brake torque under positive torque conditions, increasing a torque capacity of the first brake when brake torque is greater than the reference brake torque, and fully engaging the first brake.

Control of parallel reaction brakes in a transmission

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