US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 15 for "Electrified vehicle inductor cooling system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,873, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle inductor cooling system" was invented by John Casci (Westland, Mich.), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.), Fan Wang (Novi, Mich.) and Moon Young Lee (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes an inductor having an associated arcuate deflector to redirect fluid toward inductor coils to facilitate heat transfer. The inductor may be disposed within a transmission proximate to at least one gear that distributes fluid during rotation to proximate components to provide splash lubrication. The arcuate defl...