US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 18 for "Vehicular electric drive system including traction battery, inverter, and motor having self-heater arrangement" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,831, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicular electric drive system including traction battery, inverter, and motor having self-heater arrangement" was invented by Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.) and Petros G. Taskas (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an electrified vehicle, such as a battery electric vehicle (BEV), includes an inverter configured to drive a motor having motor windings with electrical power from a battery according to a configuration of a power switch of the inverter. The system further includes a capacitor connected between a center-tap of the bat...