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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2022
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
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 3/07 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2007.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/07 (2013.01); H02M 1/0095 (2021.05); H02M 3/158 (2013.01);
Abstract
A variable voltage converter includes a pair of series connected switches, a series connected switch and inductor, and a capacitor having a terminal sharing a node with adjacent terminals of the series connected switches and another terminal sharing a node with adjacent terminals of the series connected switch and inductor such that during operation, a voltage input to the variable voltage converter and a voltage across the capacitor are same and less than a voltage output by the variable voltage converter.