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Granted Patent B2
US 12,405,312 · App. 18/474,357 · Granted Sep 2, 2025

Traction battery controller operable to control battery based on adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy battery measurements

Inventors: Nathan Kempema (Grosse Pointe Farms, MI); David Bilby (Royal Oak, MI)
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
G01R31/389B60L58/12G01R31/367B60L2240/547
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Patent No.
US 12,405,312
App. No.
18/474,357
Granted
Sep 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system, such as an electrified vehicle, includes a battery, such as a traction battery. The controller controls the battery based on adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements of the battery. The controller may perform the adaptive sampled EIS measurements. The controller may use the adaptive sampled EIS measurements to identify values of parameters of a model, such as an equivalent circuit model (ECM), of the battery. The controller may use the model, with the identified values of the parameters, to detect an internal state of the battery whereby the controller detects the internal state of the battery based on the adaptive sampled EIS measurements.

Claims (48)

1. A system comprising:

a battery; and

a controller configured to control the battery based on adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the battery; and

wherein each adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurement includes a magnitude component and a phase component, and the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements include electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the battery at frequencies within regions of a frequency range where a surrogate model of an impedance spectrum of the battery, generated from prior electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the battery at other frequencies within the frequency range, indicates that additional electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements are desired due to the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the battery providing a relatively poorer approximation of magnitude or phase components of the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the battery compared to other regions of the frequency range.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the controller is further configured to perform the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the controller is further configured to perform the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements until the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements are indicative of the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the battery within a given tolerance.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the controller is configured to perform a first set of the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements to detect the magnitude components of the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements and to then perform a second set of the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements to detect the phase components of the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the controller is configured to perform the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements to iteratively detect the magnitude and the phase components of the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the controller is further configured to use the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements to identify values of parameters of a model of the battery.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein:

the controller is further configured to use the model of the battery, with the identified values of the parameters, to detect an internal state of the battery whereby the controller detects the internal state of the battery based on the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein:

the internal state of the battery is a power capability of the battery whereby the controller controlling the battery based on the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements involves the controller controlling the battery based on the power capability of the battery.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein:

the internal state of the battery is a state-of-charge of the battery whereby the controller controlling the battery based on the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements involves the controller controlling the battery based on the state-of-charge of the battery.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the battery is a traction battery.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the battery and the controller are on-board a vehicle.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the battery is on-board a vehicle, and the controller is off-board the vehicle.

13. A method for a vehicle having a traction battery and a controller, the method comprising:

performing, by the controller, adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery; and

wherein each adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurement includes a magnitude component and a phase component, and wherein performing adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery includes performing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery at frequencies within regions of a frequency range where a surrogate model of an impedance spectrum of the traction battery, generated from prior electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery at other frequencies within the frequency range, indicates that additional electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements are desired due to the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the traction battery providing a relatively poorer approximation of magnitude or phase components of the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the battery compared to other regions of the frequency range; and

controlling, with the controller, the traction battery and/or another component of the vehicle based on the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

using the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements to identify values of parameters of a model of the traction battery; and

detecting an internal state of the traction battery based on the model.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

detecting a distance-to-empty estimation of the vehicle based on the internal state of the traction battery; and

controlling the traction battery and/or another vehicle component according to the distance-to-empty estimation of the vehicle.

16. A vehicle comprising:

a traction battery; and

a controller configured to charge and/or discharge the traction battery based on adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery; and

wherein each adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurement includes a magnitude component and a phase component, and the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements include electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery at frequencies within regions of a frequency range where a surrogate model of an impedance spectrum of the traction battery, generated from prior electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of the traction battery, indicates that additional electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements are desired due to the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the traction battery providing a relatively poorer approximation of magnitude or phase components of the surrogate model of the impedance spectrum of the traction battery compared to other regions of the frequency range.

17. The vehicle of claim 16 wherein:

the controller is further configured to perform the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements.

18. The vehicle of claim 16 wherein:

the controller is further configured to use the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements to identify values of parameters of a model of the traction battery.

19. The vehicle of claim 18 wherein:

the controller is further configured to use the model of the traction battery, with the identified values of the parameters, to detect an internal state of the traction battery whereby the controller detects the internal state of the traction battery based on the adaptive sampled electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements.

20. The vehicle of claim 16 wherein:

the vehicle is a battery electric vehicle.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2023
From: KEMPEMA, NATHAN; BILBY, DAVID
To: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
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