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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 07, 2015
Applicants:

Utah State University, North Logan, UT (US);

United States Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);

Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Llc, Golden, CO (US);

Inventors:

Regan A. Zane, North Logan, UT (US);

Michael Evzelman, Logan, UT (US);

Daniel Costinett, Knoxville, TN (US);

Dragan Maksimovic, Boulder, CO (US);

Richard Dyche Anderson, Plymouth, MI (US);

Kandler Smith, Golden, CO (US);

Michael Scott Trimboli, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Gregory Loren Plett, Colorado Spings, CO (US);

Assignee:

Utah State University, Logan, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 1/10 (2006.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0016 (2013.01); H02J 1/102 (2013.01); H02J 7/0021 (2013.01); H02J 7/0052 (2013.01); H02J 7/0068 (2013.01); H02M 3/33507 (2013.01); H02J 2007/0059 (2013.01);
Abstract

For battery control, an apparatus includes a shared bus and a plurality of isolated direct current (DC) to DC bypass converters. Each bypass converter is associated with one battery unit. Inputs of each bypass converter are in parallel electrical communication with the associated battery unit. Outputs of each bypass converter are in parallel electrical communication with the shared bus. Each bypass converter estimates a battery state for each battery unit and controls the battery state to a reference state.


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