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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:
Nov. 25, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2021
Applicant:

Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;

Inventors:

Nikitas Sidiropoulos, Öjersjö, SE;

Jonas Forssell, Gothenburg, SE;

Assignee:

Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/382 (2019.01); G01R 31/392 (2019.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0014 (2013.01); G01R 31/382 (2019.01); G01R 31/392 (2019.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H02J 7/005 (2020.01);
Abstract

One or more embodiments herein can facilitate charging and/or discharging of one or more units (e.g., battery cells and/or multi-cell battery clusters of battery cells) based at least in part on state of charge and/or state of health monitoring at one or more of the cell-level and/or cluster-level. An exemplary method can comprise monitoring, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, cell states of cells of a multi-cell battery cluster, and selectively determining, by the system, based on the cell states, a time-based order for electrically connecting the cells to an external apparatus for current flow between the external apparatus and the cluster. The cell states can be provided as a function of a cluster state of the cluster. The cell states can be provided as one or more of states of health of the cells or states of charge of the cells determined from the monitoring.


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