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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:
Jul. 20, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Noah Singer, White Plains, NY (US);

Steven John Ahladas, Highland, NY (US);

Robert K. Mullady, Highland, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01); H01M 10/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0026 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); H01M 10/425 (2013.01); H01M 10/443 (2013.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H01M 10/486 (2013.01); H02J 7/0016 (2013.01); H01M 2010/4271 (2013.01);
Abstract

A battery pack configured for discharging to a desired state of charge (SoC) after a fault event that includes a plurality of battery cells and a balancing circuit connected to each of the battery cells. The balancing circuit is configured to measure operational values of each of the battery cells. The battery pack further includes a microcontroller configured to receive the operational values from the balancing circuit, compare the operational values to a prescribed threshold values and issue commands to selectively discharge one or more of the battery cells across the balancing circuit.


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