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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT (US);
Donald McMenemy, Willington, CT (US);
John Kaminski, Vernon, CT (US);
Shailesh N. Joshi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ali M. Bazzi, South Windsor, CT (US);
Krishna Pattipati, Storrs Mansfield, CT (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of testing the health of vehicular power devices are disclosed herein. A method may include producing operating points as a function of cycling current (I) and voltage drain to source (V) when a subject device is conducting current. The method may further include determining a mean of moving distribution to adapt a center of the moving distribution contrasted with a plurality of known healthy devices. The method may also include indicating an imminent fault in the subject device based upon a discontinuity among operating points above a threshold.