Intelligent Adaptive Energy Management System and Method for Using

A system for balancing battery cells comprising:

• a first plurality of cells in series;
• a second cell selectively in parallel with each cell in said first plurality of cells;
• a charging module for selectively connecting said second cell in parallel with at least one of said cells in said first plurality of cells;
• a voltage detector for detecting the voltage in each of said cells;
• a controller connected to said charging module, wherein the charging module selectively connects said second cell in parallel with one of said first plurality of cells until said first plurality of cells are operatively balanced in response to an imbalance of voltage among each said first plurality of cells.

A system for controlling battery discharge comprising:

• a first battery having a plurality of cells;
• a second battery having a plurality of cells in parallel with said first battery pack;
• a third battery having a plurality of cells in parallel with said first and second battery pack;
• a voltage detector for monitoring the voltage of each of said cells in said batteries;
• and
• a controller for selectively rotating discharge among the first and second batteries, wherein the discharging battery is the active battery and the other battery is the idle battery, wherein as one of said first and second batteries is discharging, the idle battery is being charged by said third battery.

A method for balancing a plurality of series connected battery cells and a selectively connected parallel battery cell comprising the steps of:

• sensing a voltage of said parallel cell;
• sensing voltages of said series connected cells;
• recognizing the voltages of the series connected cells are not balanced;
• determining whether the voltage of the parallel cell is greater than the highest voltage of the series connected cells;
• and
• charging the series cells with the parallel cell until voltages of the series cells are substantially balanced.

A method for preventing battery cell failure with an intelligent microcomputer and adaptive control logic adapted to receive cell condition data from safety sensors comprising the steps of:

• storing default limits for the cell;
• receiving initial data from the safety sensors and associating said data with the cell in new condition;
• updating the initial data with current data from the safety sensors;
• comparing said current data with said default limits;
• isolating the cell before the cell enters an unsafe state.

A method for charging a battery cell using an intelligent microcomputer and an adaptive controller capable of storing a history of cell health data received from a plurality of sensors comprising the steps of:

• measuring current cell health data with the plurality of sensors;
• comparing the cell health data with historical cell health data;
• calculating an optimum charge based on compared data;
• sending a charge to the cell based on said calculated value;
• and
• modifying the charge based on changing conditions of the cell.

A computer enabled method for protecting battery health comprising the steps of:

• recognizing that the battery is connected to a device adapted to produce charges including constant current, pulse and flutter;
• measuring battery health conditions;
• predicting based on battery health conditions when the battery is going to enter unsafe conditions;
• and
• aborting charging before the battery enters unsafe conditions.

A battery cell management system comprising:

• a cell condition monitoring unit for measuring the condition of the cell;
• a charging module operatively connected to the cell adapted to selectively charge the cell;
• and
• a control unit adapted to receive data from the cell condition monitoring unit and use that data to determine future conditions inside the cell, said control unit also adapted to control the charge produced by said charging module in response to determined future conditions.