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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2014
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Cody D. Berman, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Vivekananda Shripathy, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Thomas John Timpf, Jr., Royal Oak, MI (US);
Godwin Wede, Novi, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A battery management method includes the following steps: (a) reading, via a battery management processor, a non-volatile memory to determine if the non-volatile memory contains data indicative of a brownout in the auxiliary battery module; (b) receiving, via the battery management processor, at least one input signal from at least one brownout detector of at least one smart device having a device processor in order to determine a brownout condition in at least one smart device; (c) determining, via the battery management processor, that a triggering event has occurred if the non-volatile memory contains data indicative of the brownout in the auxiliary battery module or the at least one smart device exhibits a brownout condition; and (d) commanding, via the battery management processor, the main battery module to electrically charge the auxiliary battery module of the hybrid vehicle if the triggering event has occurred.