EV Battery Identification Using Fleet Feedback Control Models

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electric vehicle manufacturers face a significant burden in providing control information optimized for various in-vehicle batteries with different properties, as users can select uncertified batteries, making it difficult to ensure compatibility and efficient operation.

Innovation Solution

A battery identification system that acquires and collects battery property information from multiple electric vehicles, generates a battery model based on this data, and creates control information suitable for each vehicle, including parameters like electric current, voltage, and temperature, to optimize battery performance and compatibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If battery standardization is implemented to unify external shape and size, then ease of manufacture and installation is improved, but battery properties remain diverse requiring complex control information management

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebattery installationVSAvoidcontrol information management
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system collects battery property information from multiple electric vehicles and uses this feedback to generate appropriate control information. The battery identification device receives battery property information from plurality of electric vehicles, generates control information based on collected data, and provides it back to vehicles, creating a closed-loop feedback system that manages diversity without increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

A battery identification device acts as an intermediary between diverse batteries and the electric vehicle control systems. This intermediary collects battery property information, generates appropriate control information, and provides it to vehicles, thereby mediating the interface between standardized physical batteries and their control requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If control information is prepared for each battery property variation, then reliability of vehicle operation is improved, but manufacturing burden and time increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle operationVSAvoidcontrol information preparation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The battery identification device performs multiple functions: collecting battery property information from various sources, storing it in a database, generating control information based on collected data, and providing it to electric vehicles. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate preparation processes for each battery type, improving productivity while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from actual battery performance data collected from multiple electric vehicles to generate and refine control information. This feedback mechanism allows the system to learn from real-world operation and automatically adapt control parameters, reducing manual preparation burden while ensuring reliable vehicle operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If uncertified batteries are allowed for installation, then adaptability and user choice are improved, but difficulty in ensuring compatibility increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebattery selectionVSAvoidbattery compatibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual certification and mechanical compatibility checking with an automated information-based system. The battery identification device collects battery property information, processes it through algorithms, and automatically determines compatibility and generates appropriate control information, substituting complex manual detection and measurement processes with automated information processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11996709B2Battery identification system and battery identification method
Publication Date: 2024.05.28 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention includes an information acquirer (21) configured to acquire a property of a battery (22) installed in an electric vehicle (20) and transmit the property as battery property information and a battery identification device (100) configured to collect the battery property information transmitted by a plurality of electric vehicles, generate a battery model by modeling the property of the battery on the basis of the collected battery property information, create control information according to the property of the battery for controlling traveling of each electric vehicle on the basis of the generated battery model, and provide the control information suitable for each electric vehicle.