US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Externally excited synchronous machine-based electric drive integrating galvanically isolated AC" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,567, issued on July 7, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Externally excited synchronous machine-based electric drive integrating galvanically isolated AC" was invented by Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.) and Fan Xu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive power system integrates a power factor correction circuit, an H-bridge power module, an externally excited synchronous machine, a traction inverter, and a traction battery. The system operates in two modes: driving and charging. In driving mode, power flows from the traction battery through the H-bridge power module and the traction inverter ...