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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:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2016
Applicant:

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Inventors:

Rengaswamy Srinivasan, Ellicott City, MD (US);

Bliss G. Carkhuff, Laurel, MD (US);

Lakshminarayan Srinivasan, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 10/46 (2006.01); H01M 10/44 (2006.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0021 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); H01M 10/44 (2013.01); H01M 10/443 (2013.01); H01M 10/46 (2013.01); H01M 10/48 (2013.01); H01M 10/486 (2013.01); H02J 7/007 (2013.01);
Abstract

A battery charging monitor is provided including a non-invasive sensor electrically connected to at least one battery cell of at least one battery, which is configured to measure an internal temperature of the at least one battery cell. The non-invasive internal temperature sensor is connected to the microcontroller that is configured to determine a rate of change of the internal temperature of the at least one battery cell based on the internal temperature of the at least one battery cell, determine a state of charge of the at least one battery cell based on the rate of change of the internal temperature, and cause a charging rate to be applied, by a battery charger, to the at least one battery cell based on the determined state of charge.


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