US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "Electrified vehicle low-voltage (LV) bus voltage control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,839, issued on April 7, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle low-voltage (LV) bus voltage control" was invented by Hanyang Chen (Canton, Mich.) and Michael J Irby (Monroe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a traction battery coupled to an electric machine that provides propulsive force, an auxiliary battery, a voltage converter coupled to the traction battery and configured to convert traction battery voltage to auxiliary battery voltage, and a controller programmed to control the voltage converter to provide either a non-oscillating voltage above a fi...