Thomas R Montgomery

US Patent:

6925427, Aug 2, 2005

Filed:

Apr 4, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/543028

Inventors:

Thomas Anthony Montgomery - Plymouth MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

G06F017/50

US Classification:

703 13, 703 14, 700 11, 701 36

Abstract:

A method of determining a switch sequence plan for an electrical system includes the steps of identifying switches for the electrical system and organizing the identified switches within a switch group by defining a coincident group of switches to be closed together or a sequential group of switches to be closed one at a time and by defining a duration of time the switches should be closed. The method also includes the steps of organizing the switch group in a data tree structure for the switch sequence plan and traversing the data tree structure recursively to calculate opening and closing times for the switches within the switch sequence plan. The method further includes the steps of generating a simulation command for setting a position sequence of the switches from the opening and closing times for the switch sequence plan and using commands within the switch sequence plan to operatively control the switches in a simulation of the electrical system.

US Patent:

7376635, May 20, 2008

Filed:

Jul 21, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/621393

Inventors:

Damian Porcari - Farmington Hills MI, US
Thomas Anthony Montgomery - Plymouth MI, US
Bryan Roger Goodman - Dearborn MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707 1, 715514, 715513

Abstract:

A classification system () having a controller (), a document storage memory (), and a document input () is used to classify documents (). The controller () is programmed to generate a theme score from a plurality of source documents in a plurality of predefined source documents. A theme score is also generated for the unclassified document. The unclassified document theme score and the theme scores for the various classes are compared and the unclassified document is classified into the classification having the nearest theme score.