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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 19, 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);
Khorshed Khorshed Alam, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes an inverter connected to an energy store having a variable output voltage and including a first pair of battery partitions. The vehicle includes a controller configured to operate a first set of switches to arrange electrical connections between the first pair such that the variable output voltage is greater than battery voltage of a one of the battery partitions. The operation of switches is responsive to a parameter indicative of speed of an electric machine electrically coupled to the inverter exceeding a first predetermined threshold.