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Battery control with dual broadcast

Grant US12576749B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Volvo Car Corporation

Inventors

Markus Ekström

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a battery arrangement. The battery arrangement including a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of battery cell controllers forming a plurality of slave nodes, wherein each battery cell controller of the battery cell controllers is connected to at least one terminal associated with at least one battery cell of the battery cells and includes at least a power electronics arrangement for selectively connecting or disconnecting with the at least one terminal. The battery cell arrangement further includes a master node broadcasting a control information message to the slave nodes, wherein the control information message enables each of the slave nodes to generate an electrical signal with one or more characteristics based on the control information message, by controlling its power electronics arrangement.

CPC Classifications

B60L 58/18 B60L 50/64 B60L 58/21 B60L 50/66 B60L 58/12 B60L 2240/547 B60L 2260/42 H01M 10/425 H01M 50/51 H01M 2220/20 H01M 50/249 H01M 2010/4271 H01M 2010/4278 Y02T 10/70 B60Y 2200/91 B60Y 2200/92 B60Y 2400/112

Filing Date

2022-09-22

Application No.

18694928

Claims

19