EV Battery Situation Management With Safe Relocation Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electric vehicles face challenges in managing battery stability, particularly due to overheating and thermal runaway, which can lead to fire risks, and current parking lot systems lack effective fire response capabilities.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for managing electric vehicle battery situations, including a battery management module, communication module, warning module, and processor to monitor and alert abnormal conditions, perform wireless communication, and enable autonomous driving to move the vehicle to a safe location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a battery management system monitors battery state continuously, then safety and reliability improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is divided into multiple independent sensor modules (temperature, voltage, current sensors) distributed across different battery cells. Each sensor independently monitors specific parameters, allowing the system to achieve comprehensive monitoring coverage without requiring a single complex centralized monitoring unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery management system utilizes the battery's own operational data (voltage, current, temperature) to self-diagnose its state. The processor analyzes data from distributed sensors to automatically detect anomalies and trigger appropriate responses, enabling the system to monitor itself without external intervention.
2Reliability
If wireless communication transmits battery status information, then response capability improves, but information security may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies encryption algorithms to battery status information before transmission through the wireless communication module. This preliminary security measure prevents unauthorized access or tampering with the transmitted data, ensuring that sensitive battery information remains protected while still enabling real-time monitoring and response capabilities.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the vehicle autonomously moves to a safe location, then fire risk mitigation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous driving module is pre-configured with emergency response protocols and safe location navigation capabilities. When the processor detects critical battery anomalies, it automatically activates the pre-programmed sequence to steer the vehicle to a safe location, eliminating the need for complex real-time decision-making algorithms during the emergency response.
4Measurement precision
If multiple monitoring parameters are tracked, then detection precision improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Different battery parameters (temperature, voltage, current) are monitored by dedicated specialized sensor modules rather than a single multi-functional sensor. This segmentation allows each sensor to be optimized for its specific measurement task, improving overall measurement precision while keeping individual sensor complexity low.
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AI summary
An apparatus for managing a situation of an electric vehicle battery is disclosed. The apparatus for managing a situation of an electric vehicle battery includes a battery management module configured to monitor a state of the battery mounted in a vehicle, a communication module configured to transmit or receive information about the situation of the battery to or from a surrounding, a warning module configured to warn of the situation of the battery, and a processor operatively coupled to the battery management module, the communication module, and the warning module, wherein the processor determines the situation based on state information of the battery received from the battery management module, and outputs the information about the situation through at least one of the warning module or the communication module.