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Granted Patent B2
US 12,157,393 · App. 17/513,781 · Granted Dec 3, 2024

System and method for operating vehicle based on battery health

Inventors: Hesam Zomorodi Moghadam (Ypsilanti, MI); Rui Wang (Canton, MI); Xu Wang (Northville, MI); Andrea Cordoba Arenas (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
B60L58/12B60L3/12B60L58/10B60L58/16G01R31/382G01R31/396H02J7/00032H02J7/0047H02J7/007H02J7/0071H02J7/007188H02J7/007192B60L2260/50G01R31/367G01R31/374G01R31/378H02J7/0048
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Patent No.
US 12,157,393
App. No.
17/513,781
Granted
Dec 3, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle battery system includes a battery, storage, and one or more controllers. The storage maintains data defining power outputs for the battery at a plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge. The one or more controllers repeatedly update the data for some of the plurality based on temperatures and states of charge repeatedly encountered by the vehicle, update the data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server, and discharge the battery according to the data for the some and other of the plurality.

Claims (45)

1. A battery system of a vehicle comprising:

a battery;

a storage configured to maintain data defining power outputs for the battery at a plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge; and

one or more controllers programmed to,

repeatedly update the data for some of the plurality based on temperatures and states of charge repeatedly encountered by the vehicle,

update the data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server that was generated by other vehicles after the other vehicles repeatedly encountered the predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge corresponding to the other of the plurality, and

discharge the battery according to the data for the some and other of the plurality.

2. The battery system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed to update the data responsive to identifying a navigation route and anticipated combinations of temperature and state of charge corresponding to the other of the plurality.

3. The battery system of claim 1 , wherein the storage is further configured to maintain second data defining energy storage amounts for the battery at the plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge.

4. The battery system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed,

repeatedly update the second data for the some of the plurality based on the temperatures and states of charge repeatedly encountered by the vehicle,

update the second data for the other of the plurality based on data from the remote server that was generated by the other vehicles after the other vehicles repeatedly encountered the predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge corresponding to the other of the plurality, and

discharge the battery according to the second data for the some and other of the plurality.

5. The battery system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed to send the data for the some of the plurality to the remote server.

6. The battery system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed to send the data for the some and other of the plurality to the remote server with an identifier that distinguishes the some from the other of the plurality.

7. A method comprising:

maintaining data defining energy storage amounts for a battery of a vehicle at a plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and voltage;

repeatedly updating the data for some of the plurality based on temperatures and voltages repeatedly encountered by the vehicle;

updating the data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server that was generated by other vehicles; and

operating the battery according to the data for the some and other of the plurality.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

updating the data responsive to identifying a navigation route and anticipated combinations of temperature and voltage corresponding to the other of the plurality.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

maintaining second data defining power outputs for the battery at the plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and voltage.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

repeatedly updating the second data for the some of the plurality based on the temperatures and voltages repeatedly encountered by the vehicle;

updating the second data for the other of the plurality based on data from the remote server that was generated by other vehicles; and

discharging the battery according to the second data for the some and other of the plurality.

11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

sending the data for the some of the plurality to the remote server.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

sending the data for the some and other of the plurality to the remote server with an identifier that distinguishes the some from the other of the plurality.

13. A vehicle system comprising:

one or more controllers programmed to

repeatedly update data defining power outputs for a battery of a vehicle at some of a plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and voltage based on temperatures and voltages repeatedly encountered by the vehicle,

update the data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server, and

discharge the battery according to the data for the some and other of the plurality.

14. The vehicle system of claim 13 , wherein the data for the other of the plurality is generated by other vehicles after the other vehicles repeatedly encountered the predefined combinations of temperature and voltage corresponding to the other of the plurality.

15. The vehicle system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed to update the data responsive to identifying a navigation route and anticipated combinations of temperature and voltage corresponding to the other of the plurality.

16. The vehicle system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed,

repeatedly update the second data defining energy storage amounts for the battery at the plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and voltage for the some of the plurality based on the temperatures and voltages repeatedly encountered by the vehicle;

update the second data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server; and

discharge the battery according to the second data for the some and other of the plurality.

17. The vehicle system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed to send the data for the some of the plurality to the server.

18. The vehicle battery system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more controllers are further programmed to send the data for the some and other of the plurality to the server with an identifier that distinguishes the some from the other of the plurality.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2021
From: ZOMORODI MOGHADAM, HESAM; WANG, RUI; WANG, XU; CORDOBA ARENAS, ANDREA
To: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 057955/0633 →
Continuity (1)
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