# US 10,870,360 B2 · Battery monitoring network

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- Number: US 10,870,360 B2
- Document ID: US10870360B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/084,019
- Filed: 2013-11-19
- Published: 2014-08-14
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2013-02-12
- Assignees: CPS Technology Holdings LLC
- Applicants: CPS Technology Holdings LLC
- Inventors: Douglas C. Campbell; Michael J. Sims; Rodger W. Eich; Thomas H. Morell; Dale A. Gospodarek; James S. Symanski
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10870360B2

## CPC

- B60L 50/15: with additional electric power supply (with capacitors charged by engine-driven generators B60L50/40; with batteries charged by engine-driven generators B60L50/61)
- B60L 58/16: responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH]
- G01R 31/382: Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
- H04B 3/548: {the power on the line being DC (arrangements for feeding power H04L12/10; extracting feeding power from signals H04L25/02)}
- H04Q 9/00: Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
- B60L 2240/545: Temperature
- B60L 2240/547: Voltage
- B60L 2240/549: Current
- B60L 2240/70: Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
- B60L 2240/80: Time limits
- B60L 2260/44: by parameter estimation
- H01M 2010/4278: {Systems for data transfer from batteries, e.g. transfer of battery parameters to a controller, data transferred between battery controller and main controller}
- H04B 2203/5445: Local network
- H04B 2203/5458: Monitor sensor; Alarm systems
- H04Q 2209/10: using a centralized architecture
- H04Q 2209/40: using a wireless architecture
- H04Q 2209/43: using wireless personal area networks [WPAN], e.g. 802.15, 802.15.1, 802.15.4, Bluetooth® or Zigbee®
- H04Q 2209/883: where the sensing device enters an active or inactive mode
- Y02E 60/10: Energy storage using batteries
- Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
- Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
- Y02T 10/72: Electric energy management in electromobility
- Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- G01R: MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J3/12)
- H04B: TRANSMISSION
- H04Q: SELECTING (switches, relays, selectors H01H; wireless communication networks H04W)
- H01M: PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

A battery monitoring network is provided that includes a battery. The battery monitoring network also includes a battery monitoring system integrated within the battery. The battery monitoring system includes a diagnostic system configured to monitor or to store one or more battery parameters of the battery. Additionally, the battery monitoring system includes a transmitter configured to transmit data indicative of the one or more battery parameters of the battery. Furthermore, battery monitoring network includes a cloud-based computing network having a remote server configured to receive the data indicative of the one or more battery parameters of the battery. Moreover, the cloud-based computing network is configured to interface with a plurality of battery monitoring systems, and includes an internet connection.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A battery monitoring network, comprising:
a vehicle battery comprising a plurality of battery cells and configured to power components of a vehicle;
a battery monitoring system integrated within the vehicle battery, wherein the battery monitoring system comprises:
a diagnostic system configured to monitor one or more operational parameters of each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells and to determine one or more battery parameters of the vehicle battery based on the one or more operational parameters of the each battery cell, and
a transmitter configured to transmit data indicative of the one or more battery parameters to a user's cellular phone via an infrared wireless link, wherein the user's cellular phone is configured to transmit the data to an Internet-connected remote server via a cellular network; and
a cloud-based computing network comprising the Internet-connected remote server configured to:
receive the data indicative of the one or more battery parameters from the transmitter via the infrared wireless link, the user's cellular phone, the cellular network, and the Internet;
determine an end of life of the vehicle battery based, at least in part, on the one or more battery parameters; and
in response to determining that the end of life of the vehicle battery is less than a predetermined value, send a notification to the user's cellular phone via the Internet and the cellular network, wherein the notification indicates the determined end of life of the vehicle battery.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the notification includes the one or more battery parameters of the vehicle battery.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the cellular network comprises code division multiple access (CDMA), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), High Speed Packet Access (HPSA), or IEEE 802.16 wireless link.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the one or more battery parameters comprises a duration of use, a voltage, a temperature, a charge status of the vehicle battery, or a current of the vehicle battery.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the battery monitoring system is activated when the battery monitoring system determines that a current drawn from the vehicle battery exceeds a threshold.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the vehicle battery comprises a transparent or translucent window included in a housing of the vehicle battery to allow signals associated with the data transmitted by the transmitter to pass through the battery housing.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic system is configured to remain inactive until activated via an optical light signal from an infrared emitter of a maintenance device.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic system is configured to remain inactive until activated via an optical light signal from an infrared emitter of the user's cellular phone.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The battery monitoring network of claim 1, wherein the cloud-based computing network is configured to interface with a plurality of battery monitoring systems and determine a respective end of life for each vehicle battery of the plurality of battery monitoring systems.

### Claim 10

A method for monitoring a vehicle battery, comprising:
monitoring one or more operational parameters of each battery cell of a plurality of battery cells of the vehicle battery via a battery monitoring system integrated within the vehicle battery, wherein the vehicle battery is configured to power components of the vehicle;
determining one or more battery parameters of the vehicle battery based on the one or more operational parameters of each battery cell;
transmitting, via a transmitter of the battery monitoring system, data indicative of the one or more battery parameters of the vehicle battery to a user's cellular phone via an infrared wireless link; and
transmitting, using the user's cellular phone, the data indicative of the one or more battery parameters of the vehicle battery to a cloud-based computing network comprising an Internet-connected remote server via a cellular network and the Internet; and
receiving a notification on the user's cellular phone via the cellular network and the Internet, wherein the notification indicates an end of life of the vehicle battery determined by the Internet-connected remote server, and wherein the end of life of the vehicle battery is less than a predetermined value.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the notification comprises information associated with a replacement vehicle battery.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the information associated with the replacement vehicle battery comprises a location to purchase, location to replace the vehicle battery, promotion related to a replacement vehicle battery, discount related to a replacement vehicle battery, incentive to replace vehicle battery, incentive to purchase from a location, advertisements related to a replacement vehicle battery, or some combination thereof.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, comprising the Internet-connected remote server of the cloud-based computing network diagnosing a vehicle fault based on the one or more operational parameters of the each battery cell, wherein the notification comprises data indicative of the vehicle fault, and the vehicle fault comprises an issue that causes a premature end of life of the vehicle battery.

### Claim 14 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, comprising the Internet-connected remote server of the cloud-based computing network:
monitoring a location of the vehicle battery via the cloud-based computing network; and
transmitting the location of the vehicle battery to a service location.

### Claim 15

A battery monitoring network, comprising:
a vehicle battery configured to be installed in a vehicle to power components of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle battery comprises a plurality of battery cells;
a battery monitoring system integrated within the vehicle battery, wherein the battery monitoring system comprises a diagnostic system configured to monitor or to store at least one characteristic of the vehicle battery, wherein the battery monitoring system is configured to determine at least one characteristic of the vehicle battery based on one or more operational parameters of each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells, and a transmitter configured to transmit data indicative of the at least one characteristic of the vehicle battery via an infrared wireless link;
a user's cellular phone is configured to receive the data via the infrared wireless link and to transmit the data to an Internet-connected remote server via a cellular network; and
a cloud-based computing network comprising the Internet-connected remote server configured to;
receive the data from the transmitter via the user's cellular phone;
determine an end of life of the vehicle battery based, at least in part, on the one or more battery parameters: and
in response to determining that the end of life of the vehicle battery is less than a predetermined value, send a notification to the user's cellular phone via the Internet and the cellular network, wherein the notification indicates the determined end of life of the vehicle battery.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The battery monitoring network of claim 15, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit data indicative of the at least one characteristic of the vehicle battery in response to a user input.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The battery monitoring network of claim 16, wherein the battery monitoring system comprises an optical wireless device configured to receive the user input.

### Claim 18 (depends on 15)

The battery monitoring network of claim 15, wherein the diagnostic system is activated through an optical wireless connection to the user's cellular phone.

### Claim 19 (depends on 15)

The battery monitoring network of claim 15, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the data indicative of the at least one characteristic of the vehicle battery to the user's cellular phone via the infrared wireless link interface.

### Claim 20 (depends on 15)

The battery monitoring network of claim 15, wherein the user's cellular phone comprises an infrared dongle.