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US 9,310,444 B2Granted
Battery testing system and method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsXiao Guang Yang, Renata Michaela Arsenault, Theodore James Miller
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Abstract
A battery testing system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a penetrating device and an impedance meter electrically connected to the penetrating device.
Claims19
A battery testing system, comprising:
- a penetrating device configured as a nail;
- and
- an impedance meter electrically connected to said penetrating device.
A battery testing system, comprising:
- a battery cell;
- a penetrating device configured as a nail and configured to short circuit said battery cell;
- and
- an impedance meter electrically connected to said battery cell and said penetrating device and configured to measure at least impedance data between said battery cell and said penetrating device.
1 more element
A method, comprising:
- creating a short circuit in a battery cell using a penetrating device configured as a nail;
- and
- measuring impedance data associated with the battery cell in response to the step of creating the short circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.