An advanced power
system employing
lithium polymer pouch cells which operates in all environments from atmospheric pressures, upward and through to the harsh and demanding realm of a space vacuum, including any
aerospace related environments of launch, flight or operation for satellites, missiles, rockets, aircraft, or on any vehicle where size and weight may or may not be of critical importance but where
power output is desired to be maximized, this invention is an new manifestation, arrangement, combination, architecture and application of
lithium polymer battery technology in the form of an advanced
lithium polymer system (ALPS) for
aerospace or similar environments that require an architecture resulting in the never-before contemplated, attempted or demonstrated integrated combination of attributes of safety,
modularity,
scalability, expandability, deployability, employability, practicality, intelligence control and
radiation hardening, while being comprised of any number of stacked flat
lithium polymer battery cells physically arranged and integrated within a constraining packaging
enclosure that maximizes safety and
power density while mitigating the debilitating effects of shock, vibration,
thermal cycle, vacuum,
radiation and
electromagnetic interference while simultaneously communicating electronically with a battery
management system that provides instant autonomous
cell protection, balancing and electronically isolated real-time monitoring of all individual
cell parameters of
voltage, current, temperature,
state of charge and
internal resistance to prevent battery catastrophic
thermal runaway events caused by
cell electrolyte leakage,
overcharge and internal defects while simultaneously being capable of
interfacing with a hardwired graphical human interface and remote
telemetry system that monitors and displays all cell parameters with
visibility down to the individual cell level allowing for
cell parameter data to be continually monitored and archived and used to characterize and screen out cells in a particular cell manufacturing lot, and also to identify in real-time via prognostic
software if a particular cell is entering a non-acceptable condition prior to displaying hazardous behavior which could result in a hazardous condition.