Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Matthew Fleming

Ray C Siciak

Erik J Christen

William Paul Perkins

Christopher Adam Ochocinski

Joseph F Stanek

Charles Everett Badger, Ii

Jimmy Kapadia

Brandon Beauvais

Renata Michaela Arsenault

Robert David Hancasky

Allen Dennis Dobryden

Steven A Daleiden

Richard Isaacs

Stephen Li-Chun Shen

Alan McDonald

A vehicle charging station according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a cooling system configured to communicate a cooling airflow to a portion of a thermal management system located onboard an electrified vehicle, the cooling system including a fan and a chiller assembly.

Charging station for electrified vehicles

A battery thermal management system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery pack, a coolant subsystem configured to cool the battery pack, and a thermoelectric device disposed within the coolant subsystem and selectively activated to augment cooling of the battery pack.

Battery thermal management system including thermoelectric device

A system includes a computer programmed to receive impact sensor data specifying a force of an impact to a vehicle body panel. The computer is programmed to, upon determining that the force is below a collision force threshold, identify the impact as user input. The computer is programmed to actuate a vehicle component according to the user input.

External vehicle component control

An exemplary creep torque selection method includes selecting an amount of reverse creep torque for a vehicle. The selecting is independent from an amount of forward creep torque for the vehicle.

Variable creep torque

A system and method is provided for electrostatic air filtering in automotive vehicles, such as electric and hybrid electric vehicles. The system includes an electrical distribution system and an electrostatic filtering system having discharge electrodes and an accumulation electrode. The distribution system is in high-voltage electrical communication with the filtering system as well as an electric motor and a high-voltage energy storage device in the vehicle. In operation, the distribution system distributes high-voltage electric power to the filtering system. The filtering system receives the high-voltage electric power to generate a high-voltage electrostatic potential between the accumulation electrode and the discharge electrodes to remove particulates from air flowing through a region of the electrostatic filtering system.

System and method for electrostatic air filtering in an automotive vehicle

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Matthew Fleming