Battery Cell Voltage Correction for Fastening Position Errors

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Solution Overview

Problem

Voltage measurement errors in battery cells occur due to specific patterns related to their fastening location, causing some cells to be excluded from safety diagnosis targets despite normal operation, leading to inaccurate internal resistance measurements.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method that includes a voltage sensor, controller, and lookup table to detect and correct voltage changes in battery cells by determining specific patterns of voltage deviation, using compensation values to ensure accurate inclusion in safety diagnostics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If voltage measurement is performed using conventional methods, then measurement process is simple, but measurement precision deteriorates due to fastening position errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoltage measurement precisionVSAvoidmeasurement system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-calculating compensation values for voltage measurement errors that occur at different fastening positions. A lookup table is created in advance storing correction values corresponding to various fastening positions. During actual measurement, the system simply retrieves the appropriate compensation value from the pre-prepared table and applies it, eliminating the need for complex real-time error calculation while improving measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If battery cells with measurement errors are excluded from safety diagnosis, then false safety alerts are reduced, but safety diagnosis coverage deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety diagnosis reliabilityVSAvoidsafety diagnosis coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback by using the measured voltage values along with fastening position information to determine compensation values, then applying these compensations to correct the voltage measurements. The corrected voltage values are fed back into the safety diagnosis system, allowing battery cells that were previously excluded due to measurement errors to now be properly included in safety diagnosis with accurate readings, thus improving both reliability and coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Speed

If compensation values are stored in lookup table, then correction speed is improved, but storage memory requirement increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoltage correction speedVSAvoidstorage memory quantity
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by organizing compensation values in a lookup table indexed by fastening position parameters. Instead of storing all possible compensation scenarios, the system uses discrete position parameters as indices to retrieve appropriate compensation values. This approach maintains fast correction speed while optimizing storage requirements by only storing necessary compensation data for identified fastening positions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12584967B2Apparatus for correcting voltage of battery cell and method thereof
Publication Date: 2026.03.24 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

In an apparatus for correcting a voltage of a battery cell and a method thereof. The apparatus includes a voltage sensor configured for measuring voltages of a plurality of battery cells, and a controller which is configured for determining an amount of voltage change of each battery cell corresponding to a preset discharge current, detects target battery cells whose identification numbers have preset intervals while the amount of voltage change does not exceed a threshold value, and corrects the amount of voltage change of each target battery cell.