Patents by Inventor Fazal Urrahman. Syed

Fazal Urrahman. Syed 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).

  • Energy management control system
    Patent number: 9592817
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling energy distribution within a HEV powertrain are provided. A feedforward battery power value is generated in response to input indicative of a driver torque request. A feedback battery power modification value is generated in response to input indicative of actual battery power and the driver torque request. A battery power request is calculated based a sum of the feedforward battery power value and the feedback battery power modification value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Steven Yamazaki, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Ming Lang Kuang
  • VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170057362
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an electric machine, a traction battery, and a solar panel array. The vehicle may further include circuitry electrically connected with the battery and array. The circuitry may include at least one switch configured to close when activated by a calibrated maximum holding power to permit energy to flow from the array to the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Fazal Urrahman Syed, Venkatapathi Raju Nallapa, Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar, Michael Edward Loftus, Shane Schulze, Robert K. Taenaka, Donald Charles Franks, Ming Lang Kuang, Venkateswara Anand Sankaran
  • Vehicle high voltage interlock startup
    Patent number: 9550422
    Abstract: A vehicle high voltage system may include switches (e.g., IGBTs, contactors, relays, etc.), wires, a traction battery, electrical components with electrical properties and at least one controller. The at least one controller may be programmed to modulate a switch to provide a testing voltage for the electrical components, which is less than an operating voltage of the battery, and in response to a current flow associated with the testing voltage being less than a predetermined threshold, stop current flow between the battery and electrical components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Richard Luedtke, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Edward William Haran
  • Hybrid electric vehicle control for minimizing high voltage battery power limits violations
    Patent number: 9545843
    Abstract: A control system and method for controlling a hybrid electric vehicle powertrain with mechanical and electro-mechanical power sources that use an intelligent controller adapted to reduce driveline oscillations while minimizing hybrid vehicle battery limit violations. Damping of driveline torque oscillations is accomplished and violations of battery power limits are avoided by filtering estimated engine power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fazal Urrahman Syed, Ming Lang Kuang, Carol Louise Okubo, Thomas Chrostowski, Matthew D. Smith
  • Hybrid electric vehicle powertrain with enhanced reverse drive performance
    Patent number: 9545839
    Abstract: A method for controlling a hybrid electrical vehicle powertrain having an engine that is a source of power during forward drive and an electric motor that is a source of reverse driving power. A desired engine power during reverse drive is achieved by operating the engine at an increased speed that is greater than an optimum speed for a given engine power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shunsuke Okubo, Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Carol Louise Okubo, Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar
  • Parameter identification offloading using cloud computing resources
    Patent number: 9533597
    Abstract: A vehicle may include battery cells of a battery and at least one controller configured to control the vehicle based on a state observation associated with the battery according to battery model parameters for the cells received from a computing device external to the vehicle and responsive to measurements relating to a battery model of the cells sent to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Fazal Urrahman Syed
  • Vehicle power system
    Patent number: 9496751
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an electric machine, a traction battery, and a solar panel array. The vehicle may further include circuitry electrically connected with the battery and array. The circuitry may include at least one switch configured to close when activated by a calibrated maximum holding power to permit energy to flow from the array to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fazal Urrahman Syed, Venkatapathi Raju Nallapa, Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar, Michael Edward Loftus, Shane Schulze, Robert K. Taenaka, Donald Charles Franks, Ming Lang Kuang, Venkateswa Anand Sankaran
  • Vehicle and method of advising a driver therein
    Patent number: 9493171
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a driver interface and at least one controller operatively arranged with the interface. The at least one controller may be configured to determine a speed and acceleration of the vehicle, to predict a time until a future speed of the vehicle exceeds a predefined speed based on the predefined speed and the speed and acceleration of the vehicle, and to issue an alert via the interface if the time is less than a predefined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Fling Tseng
  • Torque error detection and torque estimation system
    Patent number: 9448135
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a powertrain having an engine and a generator coupled to a driveshaft, an inverter configured to provide phase currents to the generator, and a controller programmed to output a fault condition based on first and second generator torques, the first generator torque being based on an engine torque and the second generator torque being based on no more than two phase currents of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fazal Urrahman Syed, Daniel Richard Luedtke, Bader M. Badreddine, Susan Rebecca Cikanek
  • Voltage Injection-Based Cable Swap Detection
    Publication number: 20160268944
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller configured to inject a voltage into the electric machine. The controller measures the currents caused by the voltage and processes the currents using a discrete Fourier transform to determine positive and negative sequence currents. A phase rotation sequence is identified by comparing the sequence currents to expected positive and negative sequence currents that are associated with possible phase rotation sequences. The electric machine may be controlled according to the identified phase rotation sequence. A cable swapped diagnostic may be output when the phase rotation sequence is different than an expected phase rotation sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Fazal Urrahman Syed
  • Hybrid vehicle and associated control method
    Patent number: 9409566
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle and method of control are disclosed wherein the ratio of engine speed to vehicle speed varies continuously in some operating modes and is controlled to simulate a discrete ratio transmission in other operating modes. The disclosure specifies the method of controlling the engine speed and the combined output torque of the engine and at least one traction motor in each of the operating modes. Transitions among operating modes occur in response to driver movement of a shift lever, driver operation of shift selectors, and changes in vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qing Wang, Ming Lang Kuang, Philip Joseph Wiethe, Jeffrey Randolph Holmes, Ryan Abraham McGee, Fazal Urrahman Syed
  • Charge balance system and method
    Patent number: 9403443
    Abstract: A power system may perform charge balancing for a vehicle. The power system may include a battery including a plurality of modules, each module including a cell and associated resistive circuitry. The system may also include at least one controller configured to, in response to a cell achieving a threshold voltage and/or SOC, activate the associated resistive circuitry for the cell and reduce a charge current applied to the battery to prevent the cell from acquiring additional charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Loftus, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Michael Schamber, Venkatapathi Raju Nallapa, Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar
  • Systems and Methods For Determining A Duty Cycle For A Variable Voltage Converter
    Publication number: 20160200201
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a traction battery, an electric machine, and a variable voltage converter. The variable voltage converter includes an inductor and is disposed electrically between the traction battery and electric machine. The vehicle also includes a controller programmed to issue duty cycle commands for the variable voltage converter based on a product of an AC component of current flowing through the inductor and a calibrated resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Richard Luedtke, Yulei Chen, Kyle M. Hanson, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Wei Xu
  • Adaptive real-time driver advisory control for a hybrid electric vehicle to achieve fuel economy
    Patent number: 9361272
    Abstract: A vehicle powertrain controller includes a fuzzy logic-based adaptive algorithm with a learning capability that estimates a driver's long term driving preferences. An adaptive algorithm arbitrates competing requirements for good fuel economy, avoidance of intrusiveness and vehicle drivability. A driver's acceptance or rejection of advisory information may be used to adapt subsequent advisory information to the driving style. Vehicle performance is maintained in accordance with a driver's driving style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fazal Urrahman Syed, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Finn Tseng
  • High Frequency Injection-Based High Voltage Interlock
    Publication number: 20160156290
    Abstract: A power inverter for driving an electric machine is configured to apply a voltage to the electric machine based on a high-frequency injection current. Three phase currents are measured and input into a current controller. A voltage command output from the current controller is monitored using a discrete Fourier transform to determine a positive and negative sequence voltage of the voltage command. The sequence voltages are compared to expected positive and negative sequence voltages. A loss of connection diagnostic is output if a magnitude of the difference between the expected and actual sequence voltages is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Fazal Urrahman Syed
  • Hybrid electric vehicle driveline active damping and transient smoothness control
    Patent number: 9278681
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling a hybrid electric vehicle include controlling torque in a traction motor in response to a provisional motor torque that has been adjusted based on a difference between a measured traction motor speed and a calculated vehicle speed and filtered to attenuate a resonant driveline frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Xiaoyong Wang, Thomas Chrostowski, Jonathan Andrew Butcher, Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed
  • TORQUE ERROR DETECTION AND TORQUE ESTIMATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160018287
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a powertrain having an engine and a generator coupled to a driveshaft, an inverter configured to provide phase currents to the generator, and a controller programmed to output a fault condition based on first and second generator torques, the first generator torque being based on an engine torque and the second generator torque being based on no more than two phase currents of the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Fazal Urrahman SYED, Daniel Richard LUEDTKE, Bader M. BADREDDINE, Susan Rebecca CIKANEK
  • INTENTIONALLY INCREASING A NON-TORQUE OUTPUT OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE IN AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20150346696
    Abstract: An example method includes operating an electric machine to produce a torque output and a non-torque output. The method maintains the torque output and intentionally increases the non-torque output to produce a desired condition in an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel Richard Luedtke, Johnathan Andrew Butcher, Kent Hancock, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Paul Stephen Bryan
  • Method of adaptive control for engine transient mitigation in a hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9193350
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle and method of control are provided. An engine raw power command is quantized. The quantized power command is set to one of a plurality of quantized power steps. A step size between the quantized power steps varies based on the raw power command. The engine of the hybrid vehicle is operated based on the set quantized power command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Qing Wang, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Ming Lang Kuang
  • Electric vehicle control based on operating costs associated with power sources
    Patent number: 9187085
    Abstract: A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle operates the engine and/or traction motor in response to energy costs or prices received from an external source, such as a user or network. The vehicle can include a battery; an engine; an electric motor; a memory to store a battery charge point, and a controller to modify the battery charge point in response to arbitration criteria to control battery charging from the engine. The arbitration criteria can be based at least partially on fuel cost for the engine. The arbitration criteria can be based at least partially on electricity cost. The arbitration criteria can also include location of the vehicle. The controller may alter a deadband between charging the battery with the engine and discharging the battery to power the traction motor based on the arbitration criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Venkatapathi Raju Nallapa, Kerry Eden Grand, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Ming Lang Kuang