US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Over-temperature management of DC link capacitor in electric vehicle propulsion drive converter" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,559, issued on July 7, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Over-temperature management of DC link capacitor in electric vehicle propulsion drive converter" was invented by Jogendra Singh Thongam (Windsor, Canada), Serdar Hakki Yonak (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Joseph Sherman Kimmel (Carleton, Mich.) and Papiya Bagchi (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After start of an electric drive system, a controller reduces power output of an inverter responsive to sensed temperature of a power switch of the inverter, sensed current of a power electronics module, sensed DC-link voltage, and thermal impedance pa...