FRACTIONAL DEPLETION ESTIMATION FOR BATTERY CONDITION METRICS
First Claim
1. A method of evaluating a battery state comprising:
- collecting samples of an operating condition of a battery that is used to power an electric load;
determining fractional depletion contributions of the collected samples to a state of the battery; and
generating a depletion estimate associated with the state of the battery based upon an accumulation of the fractional depletion contributions.
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Abstract
Evaluation of a battery state comprises transforming a time based history of the load on the battery into a spectral representation of that history in a load domain, e.g., the current domain. The method also comprises comparing the spectral representation to an expected battery capability for the load represented by each line in the spectra and calculating the fraction of the expected capability used at each spectral line. The method still further comprises aggregating the calculated fractions into a total fraction that represents the estimated fraction of the expected battery capability associated with that particular time history.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of evaluating a battery state comprising:
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collecting samples of an operating condition of a battery that is used to power an electric load; determining fractional depletion contributions of the collected samples to a state of the battery; and generating a depletion estimate associated with the state of the battery based upon an accumulation of the fractional depletion contributions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of evaluating a battery state comprising:
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collecting samples of battery current flow to generate current samples of a battery used to power an electric load; sorting the current samples into a plurality of bins according to the respective values of the current samples; evaluating at least some of the plurality of bins to determine bin fractional depletion contributions to the state of the battery made by accumulated current samples in the evaluated plurality of bins, where the evaluation is based upon a comparison of the accumulated samples to a curve that characterizes battery lifetime amp-hours as a function of current; and combining the evaluated bin fractional depletion contributions into a depletion estimate to evaluate the state of the battery. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A method of evaluating a battery state comprising:
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transforming a time based history of a load on a battery, into a spectral representation of that history in a load domain, the spectral representation having a spectra comprised of a plurality of spectral lines that represent the load; comparing the spectral representation to an expected battery capability for the load represented by spectral lines in the spectra; calculating a fraction of the expected battery capability used at the spectral lines in the comparison; and aggregating the calculated fractions into a total fraction that represents the estimated fraction of the expected battery capability associated with the time based history.
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