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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
May. 07, 2021
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dapeng Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jinjun Shi, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/635 (2014.01); H01M 10/6572 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/635 (2015.04); H01M 10/486 (2013.01); H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/6572 (2015.04); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H01M 2220/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A battery system includes a battery cell, a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) that cools the battery cell, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the battery cell, and a battery management unit (BMU) controller. The BMU controller activates the TEC to cool the battery cell in response to determining that a state of charge (SOC) of the battery cell is greater than a threshold SOC and the temperature of the battery cell is greater than a threshold temperature.