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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Allan Roy Gale, Livonia, MI (US);
Paul Theodore Momcilovich, Tecumseh, MI (US);
Michael W. Degner, Novi, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/00 (2006.01); B60L 11/18 (2006.01); B60L 3/00 (2006.01); B60L 3/04 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1838 (2013.01); B60L 3/0046 (2013.01); B60L 3/04 (2013.01); B60L 11/1816 (2013.01); B60L 11/1846 (2013.01); H02J 7/0004 (2013.01); H02J 7/0027 (2013.01); B60L 2210/30 (2013.01); B60L 2240/547 (2013.01); B60L 2240/549 (2013.01); B60L 2240/80 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7055 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7072 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7241 (2013.01); Y02T 90/121 (2013.01); Y02T 90/127 (2013.01); Y02T 90/128 (2013.01); Y02T 90/14 (2013.01); Y02T 90/163 (2013.01); Y02T 90/169 (2013.01); Y04S 30/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
A charge station includes a controller that initiates charging of a battery of a vehicle and notifies the vehicle in response to an electrical parameter measured and reported by the vehicle not being approximately equal to a same electrical parameter measured at the charge station. The electrical parameter may be power, voltage or current.