US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Embedded temperature sensor solution for power inductor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,639, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Embedded temperature sensor solution for power inductor" was invented by Lihua Chen (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Boris Curuvija (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.), Moon Young Lee (Livonia, Mich.), Fan Wang (Novi, Mich.) and Serdar H. Yonak (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power inductor such as a variable voltage converter power inductor having a temperature sensor embedded therein is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the sensor may be disposed between the core and the coil or winding. The sensor may be posi...