US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "System and method for contactor status check for electrified vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,173, issued on July 29, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for contactor status check for electrified vehicle" was invented by Yuan Zhang (Canton, Mich.), Rui Wang (Canton, Mich.) and Xu Wang (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution system includes a contactor between a traction battery and a high-voltage bus. The system includes a controller configured to generate a contactor status to determine if the contactor is operating as commanded. The controller identifies a contactor as closed responsive to a rate of change of a voltage difference between a tracti...