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Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2020
Applicant:

American Battery Solutions, Inc., Lake Orion, MI (US);

Inventors:

Martin Eberhard, Woodside, CA (US);

Olaf Brandt, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jessica Riley, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);

Darren J. Croke, Durango, CO (US);

Rob Sweney, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brennan Campbell, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Ania Mitros, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/48 (2006.01); G01R 31/388 (2019.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/482 (2013.01); G01R 31/388 (2019.01); H01M 10/425 (2013.01); H01M 2010/4271 (2013.01);
Abstract

A battery management system and method that allows a battery bank to be composed of battery modules that can be heterogeneous with respect to each other. A battery bank composed of modules that support the battery management system allows for any subset of modules to be easily replaced with modules of different electrochemical characteristics. Each of the modules may also have a controller that manages cells of the module. The bank level controller and module level controller may operate to virtualize the hardware under their management to reduce or eliminate the heterogeneous features of the underlying cells and modules.


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