Electrified vehicle conditioning using grid power

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10220671-B2
Application number	US-201514628940-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2015
Priority date	Feb 23, 2015
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

An exemplary method includes conditioning an electrified vehicle to maintain a target conditioning level using power from a grid source. The conditioning either lasts from a conclusion of a first drive cycle to the beginning of a second drive cycle that is subsequent the first drive cycle, or lasts from a conclusion of a first drive cycle for set time.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method, comprising:
conditioning an electrified vehicle to maintain a target conditioning level using power from a grid source, the conditioning either lasting from a conclusion of a first drive cycle to the beginning of a second drive cycle that is subsequent the first drive cycle, or lasting from a conclusion of a first drive cycle for set time.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising heating an area of the electrified vehicle to raise a temperature of the area to a temperature target during the conditioning.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the temperature target is set by a user of the electrified vehicle.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising overconditioning the area to a temperature that is higher than the temperature target.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the area is a cabin of the electrified vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising cooling an area of the electrified vehicle to lower a temperature of the area to a temperature target during the conditioning.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the temperature target is set by a user of the electrified vehicle.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising overconditioning the area to a temperature that is lower than the temperature target.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the area is a cabin of the electrified vehicle.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the area is a battery of the electrified vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising charging the battery using power from the grid source during the conditioning.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the conditioning continues actively from the conclusion of the first drive cycle to the start of the second drive cycle.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set time is adjustable by a user of the electrified vehicle.

14. A method, comprising:
conditioning an electrified vehicle to maintain a target conditioning level using power from a grid source, the conditioning lasting from the end of a first drive cycle to the beginning of a second drive cycle that is subsequent the first drive cycle.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the conditioning maintains a temperature of the vehicle to a temperature target.

16. The method of claim 14 , further comprising overconditioning the vehicle to a temperature that intentionally adjusted higher or lower than a temperature target.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the target conditioning level is a target temperature that is a range of temperatures.

18. An electrified vehicle conditioning assembly, comprising:
a controller that is activated to selectively direct power from a grid source to an electrified vehicle, the power used to condition the electrified vehicle to maintain a target conditioning level, the controller configured to remain active from a conclusion of a drive cycle until a set time.

19. The assembly of claim 18 , wherein the set time is adjustable by a user of the electrified vehicle.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Gee Thomas Scott
• Hammoud Mazen
• Layden Kevin

Classifications

• B60H1/00392 Primary

  for electric vehicles having only electric drive means · CPC title

• B60H1/00778

  the input being a stationary vehicle position, e.g. parking or stopping · CPC title

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title

• Y02T10/7072

  Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors · CPC title

• B60H2001/00307

  Component temperature regulation using a liquid flow · CPC title