US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 20 for "Power supply device system for a hybrid or electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,324, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Power supply device system for a hybrid or electric vehicle" was invented by Moon Young Lee (Livonia, Mich.), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.), Fan Wang (Novi, Mich.) and John P. Casci (Westland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boost converter for a hybrid vehicle includes an inductor, a bus bar, an insulator, a temperature sensor, and a wire. The bus bar is configured to connect the inductor to a power source. The insulator is disposed over the bus bar and defines an array of orifices. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperatur...