US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 22 for "Motor control based on power electronics temperatures" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,487, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Motor control based on power electronics temperatures" was invented by Jogendra Singh Thongam (Windsor, Canada), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.), Fan Wang (Novi, Mich.), Papiya Bagchi (Northville, Mich.), Serdar Hakki Yonak (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rimma Paransky (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system includes a power electronics module with a DC-DC converter and an inverter. The power electronics modules include a plurality of Silicon Carbide switches. Dynamic models are used to estimate the temperatures of t...