# US 11,440,431 B2 · Managing and monitoring car-battery and tires to assure safe operation and providing arrival ready battery and tire services > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,440,431 B2 - Document ID: US11440431B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/935,075 - Filed: 2020-07-21 - Published: 2020-12-03 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2012-01-17 - Assignees: Shwu-Jiang Liang; Bo-In Lin - Applicants: Shwu-Jian Liang; Bo-In Lin - Inventors: Shwu-Jian Liang; Bo-In Lin - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11440431B2 ## CPC - B60L 58/12: responding to state of charge [SoC] - B60L 3/12: Recording operating variables {; Monitoring of operating variables} - B60L 53/305: {Communication interfaces} - B60L 53/31: Charging columns specially adapted for electric vehicles - B60L 53/65: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types - B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment} - B60L 53/67: Controlling two or more charging stations - B60L 53/68: Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control - B60L 53/80: Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries - B60L 58/16: responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH] - B60L 58/21: having the same nominal voltage - G06K 7/10297: {arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 (cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00)} - G06K 19/0723: {the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs} - G06Q 30/0645: Rental transactions; Leasing transactions - B60L 2240/12: Speed - B60L 2240/14: Acceleration - B60L 2240/545: Temperature - B60L 2240/547: Voltage - B60L 2240/549: Current - B60L 2240/662: Temperature - B60L 2240/70: Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres - B60L 2250/10: by alarm - 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 90/12: Electric charging stations - Y02T 90/14: Plug-in electric vehicles - Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles - Y02T 90/167: Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV] - Y04S 30/14: Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing - 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 - G06K: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION - Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS ## Abstract The present invention discloses a system for managing rechargeable batteries to provide power to electrical vehicles. The system comprises a plurality of charging stations each if the intelligent charger includes at least an intelligent battery charger for charging the rechargeable batteries. The intelligent battery chargers further comprises a battery diagnostic detector for detecting and storing data of designated battery health management parameters. The intelligent battery chargers further comprises a transmitter for transmitting the data of the designated battery health management parameters as wireless signals to a networked server in a battery management center. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for managing rechargeable batteries to provide power to vehicles comprising: a battery health state monitoring sensor implemented as an integrated circuit (IC) chip on the rechargeable batteries for detecting and storing data of battery health state parameters on each of the vehicles having a transmitter to transmit the battery health state parameters as wireless signals; a battery management center includes a networked server to receive the battery health state parameters transmitted as the wireless signals to continuously collect the battery health management parameters from the plurality of rechargeable batteries; the battery management center further categorizes the health management parameters into different categories according to a time sequence to perform statistical data analyses on the battery health management parameters collected for detecting an abnormal condition of a rechargeable battery; and the battery health state monitoring sensor implemented as the IC chip on the rechargeable batteries further detecting, storing, and transmitting data of operational environments surrounding the rechargeable battery including temperature and humidity variations, vehicle speed, vehicle acceleration and deceleration, and vehicle impacts. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein: the battery health state monitoring sensor implemented as the IC chip on the rechargeable batteries further detecting, storing and transmitting data of battery health state parameters including discharge currents (Ad), discharging voltages (Vd), a charge time (Tc), and a discharge time (Td) during the intelligent charger charges the rechargeable batteries. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein: the battery management center continuously collects and analyzes the battery health management parameters for detecting the abnormal condition of a rechargeable battery and the battery management center sends a warning message to a charge state or a vehicle driver when the abnormal condition of a rechargeable battery is detected. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein: the battery management center continuously collects and analyzes the battery health management parameters from the plurality of batteries for detecting the abnormal condition of a rechargeable battery and the battery management center sends a message to a battery pack supplier with necessary data of the abnormal condition for resolving technical issues that cause the abnormal condition. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein: the battery management center continuously collects and analyzes the battery health management parameters from the plurality batteries for maintaining and continuously monitoring conditions of each of the rechargeable batteries and the battery management center sends the battery health management parameters to a battery pack supplier, a battery manufacturer, an insurance company, a highway safety agency and an automaker as commercially or technically required. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein: the battery management center continuously collects and analyzes the battery health management parameters from the plurality batteries for maintaining and continuously monitoring conditions of each of the rechargeable batteries and the battery management center applies the battery health management parameters and the conditions of a plurality of the rechargeable batteries to certify and classify the rechargeable batteries into different categories. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further comprising: a plurality of charging stations each includes at least an intelligent battery charger for charging the rechargeable batteries; the intelligent battery chargers further comprise a battery diagnostic detector for detecting and storing data of designated battery health management parameters; and the intelligent tire service station further comprises a transmitter for transmitting the data of designated tire health management parameters as wireless signals to a networked server in a tire management center wherein a tire management center continuously collects tire health management parameters from the plurality of tire service stations and categorizes the health management parameters into different categories according to a time sequence to perform statistical data analyses on the tire health management parameters collected for detecting an abnormal condition of a tire. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The system of claim 7 wherein: at least one of the plurality of charging stations includes at least an ready for immediate replacement battery for replacing one the rechargeable batteries operated on one of the vehicles. ### Claim 9 A system for managing rechargeable batteries to provide power to vehicles comprising: a battery health state monitoring sensor implemented as an integrated circuit (IC) chip on the rechargeable batteries for detecting and storing data of battery health state parameters on each of the vehicles having a transmitter to transmit the battery health state parameters as wireless signals; a battery management center includes a networked server to receive the battery health state parameters transmitted as the wireless signals to continuously collect the battery health management parameters from the plurality of rechargeable batteries; the battery management center further categorizes the health management parameters into different categories according to a time sequence to perform statistical data analyses on the battery health management parameters collected for detecting an abnormal condition of a rechargeable battery; and the battery management center further receives, stores and analyzes man, machine, manufacture, method and environment (4E1M) parameters from vehicle manufacturers, battery pack assemblers, and battery cell manufacturers, and the battery management center further performs statistical process control methods (SPC) to analyze and correlate the aging and power supply performance to the 4E1M parameters of the rechargeable batteries. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9 wherein: the battery management center further receives, stores, and analyzes performance differences between different battery cells for each of the batteries for correlating the performance differences to the 4M1E parameters among different manufacturing lots and the battery management center further provides relevant data and information with early detection of defective batch predictions to vehicle makers, battery cell makers, battery pack makers for taking corrective and preventive measures. ### Claim 11 A system for managing rechargeable batteries to provide power to vehicles comprising: a battery health state monitoring sensor implemented as an integrated circuit (IC) chip on the rechargeable batteries for detecting and storing data of battery health state parameters on each of the vehicles having a transmitter to transmit the battery health state parameters as wireless signals; a battery management center includes a networked server to receive the battery health state parameters transmitted as the wireless signals to continuously collect the battery health management parameters from the plurality of rechargeable batteries; the battery management center further categorizes the health management parameters into different categories according to a time sequence to perform statistical data analyses on the battery health management parameters collected for detecting an abnormal condition of a rechargeable battery; and the battery management center further receives, stores and analyzes performance differences between different battery cells for each of the batteries for correlating the performance differences to the 4M1E parameters among different manufacturing lots.