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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Satish B. Chikkannanavar, Canton, MI (US);
Joseph F. Freiman, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Yonghua Li, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Benjamin A. Tabatowski-Bush, South Lyon, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); B60L 11/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1861 (2013.01); H02J 7/0029 (2013.01); H02J 7/0047 (2013.01); H02J 2007/0037 (2013.01); H02J 2007/0049 (2013.01);
Abstract
A battery management system for a vehicle includes a controller configured to, in response to a rate of change of voltage during discharge of a battery cell exceeding a first threshold more than a predetermined number of times over a predefined duration, output an error signal, and in response to the rate of change exceeding a second threshold greater than the first, output the error signal.