Replacement battery formation system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorRonald David Brost
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Abstract
A replacement battery formation method includes the steps of; providing a bank of batteries made up of a plurality of individual batteries having substantially the same state of formation; cycling a replacement battery by forcing repeated charging and discharging; monitoring a formation state of the replacement battery; ending the cycling when the replacement battery has approximately the same formation state as the plurality of individual batteries; and replacing one of the plurality of batteries with the replacement battery.
Claims13
A method for replacement battery formation comprising the steps of:
- providing a bank of batteries, said bank of batteries comprising a plurality of individual batteries, said plurality of individual batteries each having substantially the same state of formation;
- cycling a replacement battery by forcing repeated charging and discharging;
- monitoring a formation state of said replacement battery;
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- ending said cycling when said replacement battery has approximately the same formation state as said plurality of individual batteries.
A replacement battery formation system for a bank of batteries comprising a plurality of individual batteries, the plurality of individual batteries each having substantially the same state of formation, said system comprising:
- a replacement battery, said replacement battery being cycled by forcing repeated charging and discharging;
- a formation monitor coupled to said battery and monitoring a formation state of said replacement battery, said formation monitor stopping said replacement battery from being cycled when said replacement battery has approximately the same formation state as said plurality of individual batteries.
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