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US 2012/0235476 A1Published application
Energy conversion system for a vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsChingchi Chen, Michael Degner
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Abstract
An energy conversion system transfers energy between an energy source, or storage unit, and an electric device via a first port and a second port and at least one of receives and provides energy via a third port.
Claims11
An energy conversion system for a vehicle comprising:
- an energy storage unit;
- an electric device;
- and
- an energy conversion arrangement including a non-isolated transformer and a first port at a first DC voltage electrically connected with the unit and the transformer, a second port at a second DC voltage electrically connected with the device, and a plurality of additional ports, the arrangement being configured to selectively (i) transfer energy from the unit to the device, (ii) transfer energy from the device to the unit, (iii) output a DC voltage, of a first polarity, different in magnitude than the first and second DC voltages via some of the additional ports and (iv) output a DC voltage, of a second polarity opposite the first polarity, different in magnitude than the first and second DC voltages via other of the additional ports.
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An energy conversion system for a vehicle comprising:
- an energy storage unit;
- an electric device;
- and
- an energy conversion arrangement configured to receive energy from the device and to provide energy to the unit, the arrangement including a first port at a first voltage, a second port at a second voltage greater than the first voltage, and a third port at a third voltage different than the first voltage, the arrangement being further configured to at least one of receive and provide energy via the third port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.