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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (US);
Paul Barom Jeon, Seoul, KR;
Mo-Yuen Chow, Raleigh, NC (US);
Taejung Yeo, Yongin-si, KR;
Habiballah Rahimi Eichi, Raleigh, NC (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in an electric vehicle is provided. The apparatus may include a driving history data storage configured to store driving history data for each category among categories generated based on a frequency of appearance of road data, a driving profile generator configured to categorize road data associated with a driving route for each of the generated categories and generate a driving profile with respect to the driving route based on the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data, and a battery SOC estimator configured to estimate the SOC of a the battery with respect to the driving route based on the driving profile.