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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Baoming Ge, Okemos, MI (US);
Lihua Chen, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Shuitao Yang, Canton, MI (US);
Yan Zhou, Canton, MI (US);
Fan Xu, Novi, MI (US);
Mohammed Khorshed Alam, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A powertrain for a vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller. The electric machine has electrically isolated windings and is coupled with an inverter. The controller may be programmed to configure respective terminals of the windings to form a Y-connection, and responsive to an electrical connection between the vehicle and a 3-phase power grid, reconfigure the respective terminals such that each is coupled to a respective phase of the 3-phase power grid.