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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Uwm Research Foundation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Adel Nasiri, Mequon, WI (US);
Seyed Ahmad Hamidi, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Russell Wayne Hum, Waukesha, WI (US);
John Ferdinand Bopp, West Bend, WI (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A battery management system for monitoring battery cells of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) coupled to a medical imaging load. The battery management system includes a first slave configured to obtain an operating parameter of a first battery cell. The first slave is configured to determine health of the first battery cell based at least in part on the operating parameter. The first slave is configured to generate a signal indicating the health of the first battery cell to communicate serially, via at least a second slave, to a master.