Patents by Inventor Justin T. Hughes

Justin T. Hughes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240174122
    Abstract: A traction battery controller of an electrified vehicle dynamically selects an estimation gain based on an operating condition of the vehicle and controls the vehicle according to a state (e.g., a state-of-charge (SOC)) of the traction battery estimated from an equivalent circuit model of the traction battery that depends on the estimation gain. The operating condition of the vehicle may be indicative of on-board energy (OBE) or a power demand of the vehicle. In operation, the controller selects the estimation gain to be (i) a high estimation gain during a first operating condition of the vehicle, whereby compared to a nominal estimation gain the battery state is estimated at an increased speed but with lower accuracy and (ii) a low estimation gain during a second operating condition of the vehicle, whereby compared to the nominal estimation gain the battery state is estimated with greater accuracy but at a decreased speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghua LI, Marcelo ARAUJO XAVIER, Qi JIAO, Justin T. HUGHES
  • Publication number: 20230356623
    Abstract: A system includes a traction battery and a controller. The traction battery includes first and second arrays of battery cells. The controller is programmed to implement first and second filters, such as first and second bar-delta filters, configured to respectively generate output indicative of a state-of-charge (SOC) of the first and second arrays from models of the first and second arrays. The controller is further programmed to charge and/or discharge the traction battery according to power limits defined by the SOC of the first and second arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Marcelo Araujo Xavier, Justin T. Hughes
  • Patent number: 11724622
    Abstract: A controller discharges a traction battery according to power limits defined by output that is indicative of a state of charge of the traction battery and is updated by a bar delta filter according to a balancing current. The balancing current is associated with each cell of a string of series connected cells of the traction battery and represents a deviation of an estimated current through the cell from a total current of the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Justin T. Hughes, Marcelo Araujo Xavier
  • Publication number: 20230246257
    Abstract: After start of a vehicle following a parking event having a duration that exceeds a duration threshold, a controller may adjust a maximum output power of a traction battery responsive to temperatures of the traction battery, derived from a temperature of the traction battery at a beginning of the parking event, ambient temperature during the parking event, and the duration, exceeding a first threshold difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Justin T. HUGHES, Marcelo ARAUJO XAVIER
  • Publication number: 20230048157
    Abstract: A controller discharges a traction battery according to power limits defined by output that is indicative of a state of charge of the traction battery and is updated by a bar delta filter according to a balancing current. The balancing current is associated with each cell of a string of series connected cells of the traction battery and represents a deviation of an estimated current through the cell from a total current of the string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Justin T. Hughes, Marcelo Araujo Xavier
  • Publication number: 20220396246
    Abstract: A first distance is determined between a location of a host vehicle and a received location of a remote vehicle, the remote vehicle being forward of the host vehicle. A second distance is determined between a target vehicle and the host vehicle. A time to reach is predicted between the target vehicle and the remote vehicle based on the first distance and the second distance. A brake of the host vehicle is pre-charged when the predicted time to reach is below a time threshold. Pre-charging of the brake of the host vehicle is suppressed when the predicted time to reach is above the time threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Purushothaman Rayalsamy, Justin T. Hughes, Hao Zhang, Aaron L. Mills, Alex Maurice Miller