Embedded Wireless Battery With Integrated Logic And Sensors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional battery systems lack dynamic functionality beyond power supply, failing to provide additional features or serve as a secondary source of device functionality, and do not offer real-time status monitoring or remote control capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A battery with embedded sensors, a logic unit, and a wireless transceiver that communicates with electronic devices to transmit location, status, and control signals, including voltage and current regulation, enabling remote monitoring and control of battery operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional battery systems are used, then the battery provides basic power supply functionality, but the battery lacks additional functions and real-time monitoring capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the battery with additional functional components including a microcontroller unit, wireless transceiver, sensors, and control circuits into a single integrated battery assembly. This combining approach enables the battery to provide both power supply and auxiliary functions such as wireless communication, environmental monitoring, and remote control capabilities, thereby resolving the contradiction between enhanced versatility and structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery is designed as a multi-functional device that simultaneously performs power supply, wireless data transmission, environmental sensing, and remote control operations. The microcontroller coordinates multiple functions including charging management, discharge control, temperature monitoring, and wireless communication, allowing the battery to serve multiple purposes beyond basic power provision and addressing the limitation of conventional single-function batteries.
2Loss of information
If no wireless transceiver is embedded, then the battery structure remains simple, but real-time status monitoring and remote control are not possible
Solution Approach 1:
The battery incorporates a feedback mechanism where sensors continuously monitor battery parameters (voltage, current, temperature) and environmental conditions, transmit this data wirelessly via the transceiver to external devices, and receive control commands in response. This closed-loop feedback system enables real-time status monitoring and remote control capabilities, resolving the contradiction between information availability and structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless transceiver acts as an intermediary component that bridges the battery and external monitoring/control devices. It enables bidirectional communication by transmitting battery status information to external devices and receiving control commands from them, thereby facilitating remote monitoring and control without requiring direct physical connection or complex wiring.
3Reliability
If embedded sensors and control units are added, then real-time monitoring and control capabilities are achieved, but the battery size and capacity are impacted
Solution Approach 1:
The battery implements local quality by strategically placing sensors and control components in specific locations within the battery structure. Temperature sensors are positioned near heat-generating elements, voltage and current sensors are integrated at key electrical connection points, and the microcontroller is located centrally for optimal signal routing. This localized component placement achieves reliable monitoring while minimizing overall battery volume impact.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery employs a nested structure where electronic components (microcontroller, transceiver, sensors) are integrated within the battery housing and arranged in a compact, space-efficient configuration. Components are nested within available void spaces and structural elements of the battery, maximizing the use of internal volume and minimizing the increase in overall battery size while maintaining reliable monitoring capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
The present embodiments relate to a battery that comprises one or more battery cells and a logic unit embedded within the battery to receive data from a plurality of sensors that are also embedded within the battery. A wireless transceiver embedded within the battery communicates with the logic unit. A voltage controller embedded within the battery receives instructions from the logic unit and a voltage regulator and a current limiter that are also embedded within the battery controls an output of the battery based on one or more signals from the voltage controller.