Battery Diagnosis via Overpotential-Corrected Full-Cell Profiles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing battery diagnosis methods using high electric stimulation suffer from inaccurate results due to overpotential noise, leading to prolonged diagnosis times and discrepancies between diagnosed and actual charge/discharge performance.

Innovation Solution

A battery diagnosis apparatus and method that applies high electric stimulation to obtain charge/discharge information and uses a machine learning-based factor correction model to remove overpotential noise, generating an estimated full-cell profile for accurate diagnosis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If high electric stimulation is applied to the battery to shorten diagnosis time, then diagnosis speed is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to overpotential noise

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnosis timeVSAvoidcharge/discharge performance measurement accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

A machine learning model acts as an intermediary between the high electric stimulation measurement and the final diagnosis result. The model learns the relationship between high-rate and low-rate charge/discharge characteristics from training data, then uses this learned relationship to correct the high-rate measurement results, effectively translating noisy high-rate data into accurate low-rate equivalent diagnoses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the electric stimulation rate parameter from low (accurate but slow) to high (fast but noisy), then uses a machine learning model to adjust and correct the measurement parameters. The model learns optimal correction factors that transform high-rate measurement characteristics into accurate low-rate equivalent results, achieving both speed and accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If low electric stimulation is applied to the battery to ensure accurate diagnosis, then measurement precision is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to prolonged diagnosis time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecharge/discharge performance measurement accuracyVSAvoiddiagnosis throughput
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning model serves as an intermediary that processes fast high-rate measurements and transforms them into accurate diagnostic results. By training on paired high-rate and low-rate data, the model learns to predict accurate low-rate equivalent results from high-rate inputs, eliminating the need for slow direct low-rate measurements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The machine learning model is pre-trained offline using comprehensive low-rate measurement data from multiple batteries. This preliminary training phase captures the complex relationships between different charge/discharge rates and battery states, enabling the model to quickly accurate diagnose new batteries using only fast high-rate measurements without requiring time-consuming low-rate measurements at runtime.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4657092A1Battery diagnosis apparatus and battery diagnosis method
Publication Date: 2025.12.03 LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a battery diagnosis apparatus and a battery diagnosis method. The battery diagnosis apparatus includes a data obtaining unit configured to obtain a first target full-cell profile representing a correspondence between a capacity factor and a voltage of a target cell while a first electric stimulation is being applied to the target cell, and a control circuit configured to generate an estimated full-cell profile based on the first target full-cell profile and an overpotential profile. The control circuit determines a first performance factor group as a primary estimation result for charge/discharge performance of the target cell by applying a cell diagnosis logic to the estimated full-cell profile. The control circuit determines a second performance factor group as a secondary estimation result for the charge/discharge performance of the target cell by applying a factor correction model to the first performance factor group. The second performance factor group includes an estimation result of a positive electrode loading amount of the target cell.