US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 23 for "Dynamic models for inductor temperature" (Michigan, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,964, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Dynamic models for inductor temperature" was invented by William Robert Brown (Huntington Woods, Mich.), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.), Papiya Bagchi (Northville, Mich.) and Monty Anderson (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system includes an inverter and a variable voltage converter. An inductor associated with the variable voltage converter is subject to temperature limits. Dynamic models are used to estimate the temperature of the inductor. Inputs to these dynamics models include DC current, DC voltage, Battery Volta...