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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:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Mcmaster University, Hamilton, CA;
Assignee:
McMaster University, Hamilton, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1811 (2013.01); B60L 11/1838 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments are described herein for a dual-voltage charging system for electrified vehicles. In one example embodiment, the dual-voltage charging system comprises an integrated active filter auxiliary power module (AFAPM), the integrated AFAPM is applied as an active power filter (APF) to compensate low frequency harmonics in a high voltage (HV) battery charger when the HV battery is charging, and applied as a low voltage (LV) battery charger auxiliary power module (APM) when the HV battery stops the charging and starts to charge the LV battery.