Monitoring and managing temperature of power packs
AssigneeSustainable Energy Technologies, Inc.
InventorJohn Cronin
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Abstract
Systems and methods for monitoring and managing temperature of power packs of supercapacitors are disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of supercapacitor power packs associated with an electric motor. Further, an energy database is provided and configured to store data related to the charge of the supercapacitor power packs and thermal energy requirements related to the supercapacitor power packs.
Claims17
A system for monitoring power packs and temperature management of the power packs, the system comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to monitor thermal energy associated with a set of supercapacitor power packs integrated with an electric motor;
- a connection interface that receives information from the one or more sensors regarding a current measurement of thermal energy associated with the set of supercapacitor power packs;
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- a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein the processor executes the instructions to:
- detect a thermal event associated with the set of supercapacitor power packs based on the received measurement of thermal energy,
- compare a thermal efficiency to a threshold value,
- determine that the detected thermal event is associated with a state of charging circuitry for the set of supercapacitor power packs, wherein the determined state of the charging circuitry is further based on the comparing of the thermal efficiency to the threshold value, and wherein the determined state of the charging circuitry is one of an ON state or an OFF state, and
- switch the charging circuitry between the ON state and the OFF state to control charging of the set of supercapacitor power packs based on the determined state.
A method for monitoring power packs and temperature management of the power packs, method comprising:
- monitoring thermal energy associated with a set of supercapacitor power packs integrated with an electric motor via one or more sensors;
- receiving information at a connection interface, the information received from the one or more sensors regarding a current measurement of thermal energy associated with the set of supercapacitor power packs;
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- executing instructions stored in memory, wherein executing the instructions by a processor:
- detects a thermal event associated with the set of supercapacitor power packs based on the received measurement of thermal energy,
- compares a thermal efficiency to a threshold value,
- determines that the detected thermal event is associated with a state of charging circuitry for the set of supercapacitor power packs, wherein the determined state of the charging circuitry is further based on the comparison, and wherein the determined state of the charging circuitry is one of an ON state or an OFF state, and
- switches the charging circuitry between the ON state and the OFF state to control charging of the set of supercapacitor power packs based on the determined state.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for monitoring power packs and temperature management of the power packs, the method comprising:
- monitoring thermal energy associated with a set of supercapacitor power packs integrated with an electric motor via one or more sensors;
- receiving information at a connection interface, the information received from the one or more sensors regarding a current measurement of thermal energy associated with the set of supercapacitor power packs;
- and
- executing instructions stored in memory, wherein executing the instructions by a processor:
- detects a thermal event associated with the set of supercapacitor power packs based on the received measurement of thermal energy,
- compares a thermal efficiency to a threshold value,
- determines that the detected thermal event is associated with a state of charging circuitry for the set of supercapacitor power packs, wherein the determined state of the charging circuitry is further based on the comparison, and wherein the determined state of the charging circuitry is one of an ON state or an OFF state, and
- switches the charging circuitry between the ON state and the OFF state to control charging of the set of supercapacitor power packs based on the determined state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.