Method and apparatus to monitor state of health of electrical connections between battery and generator
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsSatish Rajagopalan, Yilu Zhang, Mutasim A. Salman
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring the state of health of the connection between a generator and a battery includes detecting an interruption in power between the generator and the battery, incrementing a counter each time an interruption is detected, generating a trend of a number of interruptions over time based on a number of increments in the counter, monitoring a rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time and determining if the rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time is greater than a predetermined threshold.
Claims20
A method for monitoring the state of health of the connection between a generator and a battery, the method comprising:
- detecting an interruption in power between the generator and the battery;
- incrementing a counter each time an interruption is detected;
- generating a trend of a number of interruptions over time based on a number of increments in the counter;
- monitoring a rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time;
- and
- determining if the rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time is greater than a predetermined threshold.
A system that includes non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions for:
- detecting an interruption in power between the generator and the battery;
- incrementing a counter each time an interruption is detected;
- generating a trend of a number of interruptions over time based on a number of increments in the counter;
- monitoring a rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time;
- determining if the rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time is greater than a predetermined threshold;
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- transmitting a warning signal if the rate of increase in the number of interruptions over time is greater than the predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.