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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2019
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Michael Hinterberger, Großmehring, DE;
Berthold Hellenthal, Schwanstetten, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A battery and a method for operating a battery, in particular for a motor vehicle, including multiple battery cells, which have respective battery cell housings with electric terminals via which the battery cells are electrically interconnected, wherein a respective cell branch connecting the terminals and having a galvanic cell is arranged in the battery cell housings, a respective bypass branch for bypassing the respective galvanic cell is arranged in the battery cell housings; each cell branch has a first switching element for opening and closing the cell branch, and each bypass branch has a second switching element for opening and closing the bypass branch.