ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,203, issued on June 24, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"High voltage battery contactor welding prevention" was invented by Abhilash Gudapati (Troy, Mich.), Zhentao Xie (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Rudolf Kharpuri (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High voltage battery contactor welding prevention techniques for an electrified vehicle include, in response to a request to perform a high voltage connection procedure, utilizing a supervisory controller to monitor a voltage of the low voltage battery system to determine whether a low voltage battery system of the vehicle has a voltage level sufficient to o...