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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2022
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Yantao Song, Northville, MI (US);
Baoming Ge, Okemos, MI (US);
Lihua Chen, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Serdar Hakki Yonak, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/24 (2006.01); B60L 53/60 (2019.01); H02J 7/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/24 (2013.01); B60L 53/60 (2019.02); H02J 7/345 (2013.01); B60L 2210/10 (2013.01); H02J 2207/20 (2020.01);
Abstract
A power system includes a DC/AC converter, a traction battery, an AC/DC converter electrically connected between the DC/AC converter and traction battery, and a transformer electrically connected between the DC/AC converter and AC/DC converter. The AC/DC converter includes a plurality of semiconductor devices and a plurality of capacitors such that during power transfer from the DC/AC converter to the traction battery, a voltage across each of the capacitors is half of a battery voltage.