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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2024
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Ariton E. Xhafa, Plano, TX (US);
Torbjørn Sørby, Kolsås, NO;
Minghua Fu, Plano, TX (US);
Jesus Daniel Torres Bardales, Plano, TX (US);
Ramanuja Vedantham, Frisco, TX (US);
Alexis Justine Burnight, Dallas, TX (US);
Archanaa Santhana Krishnan, Worcester, MA (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a battery controller, a set of battery cells, a primary network node coupled to the battery controller, and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The primary and secondary network nodes are configured to wirelessly communicate with each other using frames that share a common frame format. The frame format includes one or more bits and a status of the one or more bits indicates whether the secondary network node is to communicate with the primary network node on behalf of another secondary network node.