Ford Motor Company has filed a patent for an equipment overheating protection system that may be used in future Ford EVs, Ford Authority has learned.
The patent was filed on March 14th, 2023, published on September 19th, 2024, and assigned serial number 0336195.
The Ford Authority Take
Though it has dialed back its all-electric ambitions as of late, Ford also continues to work to innovate in that space, too. We’ve seen this via multiple patent filings for ideas such as a user device vehicle charging strategy, a system capable of using robots as charging assistants, a noise emission level control system, and a system designed to influence electrified vehicle charging decisions, to name just a few. Now, this newly published patent outlines an idea for an equipment overheating protection system that may be used in future Ford EVs, too.
As many EV owners are well aware, charging batteries generates heat, which can cause a variety of problems. Thus, it’s important that during the charging process, there are ways to monitor the temperature of EV chargers to prevent any issues and initiate a shutdown if those temps exceed a certain threshold. Once those temperatures cool down below that threshold, the system would automatically restart the charging process, albeit, at a reduced rate to avoid any additional problems with overheating.
With so many different types of chargers, batteries, and associated equipment out there at the moment – and many more in the pipeline – a system like the one represented in this patent could one day become quite necessary. Eventually, the all-electric vehicle industry figures to have a universal standards for many things – for example, North American Charging Standard, or NACS style ports are quickly overtaking the Combined Charging Standard (CCS) interface – but it’s unclear when that might be the case, so in the meantime, chargers must be able to handle a number of variables.
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Why do we need electric vehicles, and the lithium batteries that when they meet water , burst into flames. Even this past week . a cell phone on a plane caused a fire. My 2016 Ford Flex is dependable, and the 287 HP. is very strong.