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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2021
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);

Alasdair Collins, Billericay, GB;

Yukiyasu Nagata, Northville, MI (US);

Gabriel Jim, Canton, MI (US);

Malcolm Fry, Hertford/Hertfordshire, GB;

Kelvin Howard, Romford, GB;

Hanyang Chen, Canton, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 35/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/392 (2019.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 35/0007 (2013.01); G01R 31/392 (2019.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle electrical system includes a battery, a customer connection point, a switch electrically connected in series between the battery and the customer connection point, a computer communicatively coupled to the switch, and a transceiver communicatively coupled to the computer. The computer is programmed to instruct the switch to open in response to a state of charge of the battery decreasing below a charge threshold, receive an input selecting a time limit, and instruct the transceiver to transmit a message to a remote server upon determining that the state of charge of the battery will decrease below the charge threshold in less than the time limit from a current time.


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