Voltage correlation calculation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10890959-B2
Application number	US-201815883796-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2018
Priority date	Jan 30, 2018
Publication date	Jan 12, 2021
Grant date	Jan 12, 2021

Abstract

A system comprising an energy storage device including a plurality of cells and a sensor per cell to provide the voltage of each cell; and a device to read the voltages of each cell, calculate a correlation between the voltages of each cell, store a result of the calculation, and set a threshold for the result, wherein in response to the result meeting the threshold, the device to send a notification including a message stating a potential failure of the energy storage device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
an energy storage device including a plurality of cells and a sensor per cell to provide the voltage of each cell; and
a device to read the voltages of each cell, calculate a correlation between the voltages of each cell, store a result of the calculation, and set a threshold for the result, wherein in response to the result meeting the threshold, the device to send a notification including a message stating a potential failure of the energy storage device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device is a baseboard management controller (BMC).

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device to store calculations in a machine-readable storage medium associated with the device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the correlation is calculated using Pearson's Correlation.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the energy storage device is a battery.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the energy storage device is a capacitor.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the message includes a time until energy storage device failure.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the threshold is adjustable.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the threshold is based in part on time before failure.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the correlation for multiple cells are calculated in pairs.

11. A method comprising:
measuring, by a baseboard management controller (BMC), voltages of a plurality of cells of a battery;
calculating, by the BMC, a correlation of the voltages of the plurality of cells of the battery over time;
storing, by the BMC, the calculations in a non-volatile memory;
setting, by the BMC, a correlation threshold; and
in response to meeting the correlation threshold, sending, by the BMC, a notification indicating a time until battery failure.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the correlation threshold is relative to the time until battery failure.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the correlation of the voltages of the plurality of cells of the battery over time is calculated per pairs of cells.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the BMC includes the non-volatile memory.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the BMC and the battery are included in a computing device.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising, instructions to:
read the voltage from a sensor on each of a plurality of cells in a battery;
calculate a correlation calculation utilizing the voltage per pair of cells in the battery over time; and
in response to the correlation calculation nearing a user set threshold, send a notification including a time until battery failure due to cell voltage separation.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein a BMC includes the processor and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the user set threshold is set through a user interface of the BMC.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the correlation calculation ranges from −1 to 1.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein correlation calculations closer to 1 indicate a healthy battery and correlation calculations ranging from 0.85 to −1 indicate cell voltage separation.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Entpr Dev Lp

Inventors

• Lugo Beauchamp Wilfredo E
• Mccarthy Robert

Classifications

• G06F1/28 Primary

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