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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2009
Andrew Baglino, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip David Cole, Redwood City, CA (US);
Andrew Baglino, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip David Cole, Redwood City, CA (US);
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for these embodiments of the present invention, useful in manufacturing for example, includes a plurality of battery modules serially intercoupled together, each module including a housing with an anode connector and a cathode connector, each housing including a memory for storing a module identifier and wherein an anode connector of a first module is coupled to a cathode connector of a second module; and a processing system, coupled to each the module, for determining a plurality of positional attributes of each the module, one positional attribute associated with each the module of the plurality of modules, the processing system writing an ID into the memory of each particular module responsive to the associated positional attribute for the particular module.