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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Brittany Connolly, Plymouth, MI (US);
Sriram Jala, Northville, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02H 1/00 (2006.01); H02H 5/04 (2006.01); B60L 53/14 (2019.01); B60L 58/24 (2019.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/14 (2019.02); B60L 53/62 (2019.02); B60L 58/24 (2019.02); H02H 1/0007 (2013.01); H02H 5/04 (2013.01); H02J 7/0031 (2013.01); H02J 7/0047 (2013.01); H02J 7/00309 (2020.01); B60L 2240/36 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for a vehicle includes an electrical port that charges a vehicle battery via a connection to a power source, and a controller configured to interrupt charging and to display an alert responsive to temperature at the connection being greater than a threshold and voltage of a control pilot terminal of the port being at an overtemperature state voltage that is different from each of disconnected, connected, ready, and fault state voltages.