SMART BATTERY SYSTEM

• US 20140342193A1
• Filed: 05/17/2013
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tenergy Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tenergy Corporation
• Inventors: MULL, Benjamin C., SCHNEIDER, Lon, KARANTH, Gurudev
• Application Number:
  US13/896,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20140342193A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/50
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/371 with remote indication, e.g. on external chargers
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/382 Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2010/4271 Battery management systems including electronic circuits, e.g. control of current or voltage to keep battery in healthy state, cell balancing
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2010/4278 Systems for data transfer from batteries, e.g. transfer of battery parameters to a controller, data transferred between battery controller and main controller
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring one or more batteries are disclosed. One such apparatus may include a battery management device. The battery management device may include a sensor configured to detect a characteristic of a battery, a processor communicatively connected with the sensor to receive a signal indicative of the characteristic of the battery, a network interface to send the signal to a server through a network and to receive an instruction from the server through the network, and a control circuit to control one or more aspects of the battery based on the received instruction.

Claims

1. A battery management device, comprising:

a sensor configured to detect a characteristic of a battery;

a processor communicatively connected with the sensor to receive a signal indicative of the characteristic of the battery;

a network interface to send the signal to a server through a network and to receive an instruction from the server through the network; and

a control circuit to control one or more aspects of the battery based on the received instruction.

2. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes an accelerometer.

3. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a hygrometer.

4. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a thermocoupler.

5. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a GPS receiver.

6. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a gas sensor.

7. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a voltage sensor.

8. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a current sensor.

9. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes an impedance sensor.

10. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a strain sensor.

11. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a pressure sensor.

12. The battery monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a dimensional sensor.

13. A battery management system, comprising:

a battery; and

a controller, wherein the controller comprises;

a sensor configured to detect a characteristic of a battery;

a processor communicatively connected with the sensor to receive a signal indicative of the characteristic of the battery;

a network interface to send the signal to a server through a network and to receive an instruction from the server through the network; and

a control circuit to control one or more aspects of the battery based on the received instruction.

14. A method for managing a battery, comprising:

detecting a characteristic of the battery;

generating a signal indicative of the characteristic of the battery; and

sending the signal to a server through a network;

receiving an instruction from the server through the network; and

controlling one or more aspects of the battery based on the received instruction.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the characteristic includes a temperature of the battery, and controlling the one or more aspects includes setting a charging or discharging voltage threshold of the battery.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the characteristic includes a gas level inside the battery, and controlling the one or more aspects includes disconnecting the battery from an electrical circuit.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the characteristic includes a pressure level inside the battery, and controlling the one or more aspects includes disconnecting the battery from an electrical circuit.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the characteristic includes location information of the battery, and controlling the one or more aspects includes setting a charging or discharging voltage threshold of the battery.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the characteristic includes an impedance value of the battery, and controlling the one or more aspects includes setting a charging or discharging current threshold of the battery.