The present invention is an improved lithium-ion battery core system for use within an electric vehicle. The present invention has a battery receiver and a battery charger. The battery receiver has a battery adaptor and a receiver lock. The battery adaptor allows the present invention to insert standardized lithium-ion cores that are managed at a specified voltage level suitable for the electric vehicle. The lithium-ion core includes a removable and rechargeable lithium-ion core, that can be charged by the battery charger. The battery charger has a plurality of cores, a plurality of lights, and an ejection button. The ejection button removes a battery from the battery charger. All of these various components allow for the present invention to provide users with a system for keeping electric vehicles properly charged for long distance travel.

The present disclosure relates to a monitoring system for an energy storage system, an energy storage system comprising such a monitoring system, a vehicle comprising such an energy storage system and a manufacturing method for such a monitoring system. The monitoring system for an energy storage system comprises a plurality of energy storage cells comprising at least one stretchable electronic unit and a communication element. The stretchable electronic unit is arrangeable at least at one of the energy storage cells. The stretchable electronic unit is configured to generate data based on strain applied on the stretchable electronic unit. The communication element is integrated in the stretchable electronic unit and configured to transfer data generated by the stretchable electronic unit.

A method for controlling a cell current limiting value for a battery management system. In some examples, the method includes determining quadratic reference currents of a battery cell; calculating a corresponding reference time constant for each reference current using a model for the calculation of a RMS value of a cell current by reference to a continuous current; constituting a diagram for the relationship between the reference time constant and the quadratic reference current; determining a predictive time constant by the comparison of a quadratic measured value of a cell current with the quadratic reference currents; calculating a predictive RMS limiting value of the cell current; calculating a first predictive limiting value for a short predictive time, a second predictive limiting value for a long predictive time, and a third predictive limiting value for a continuous predictive time; and calculating additional RMS limiting value for the cell current.

The invention relates to a device (2) for cooling a plurality of electronic elements (11) that are capable of releasing heat when supplying power to an appliance or vehicle, wherein the electronic elements are arranged in a housing (12), the device (2) comprises at least one element (22) for spraying a diphasic dielectric fluid (3) onto the electronic elements (11), as well as a condenser (26) with a cooling fluid circuit (23), the housing (12) comprises a receptacle (25) for collecting the dielectric fluid (3), the cooling device (2) comprises a dielectric fluid circuit (21) with a circulation pump (24), which is configured to draw the dielectric fluid (3) from the collection receptacle (25) and is directly connected to the spraying element (22), characterised in that the cooling device (2) comprises a system (4) for controlling the internal pressure of the housing (12), the control system (4) comprising a control module (41) configured to generate a control command to control the internal pressure depending on a state of the cooling device and/or a state of the appliance or vehicle.

A battery including a swelling sensing unit. The battery includes a case and an electrode assembly in the case. The battery further includes a film on a surface of the battery. The film includes a predetermined amount of elasticity or having substantially no elasticity.

A battery including a swelling sensing unit. The battery includes a case and an electrode assembly in the case. The battery further includes a film on a surface of the battery. The film includes a predetermined amount of elasticity or having substantially no elasticity.

A battery pack includes a housing, a plurality of rechargeable battery cells, a connection interface, a near-field communication (NFC) reader, a battery management system, and a communication gateway. The connection interface is in communication includes a plurality of data pins, a positive terminal, and a negative terminal. The battery management system is in communication with the NFC reader and is configured to receive information from the NFC reader including an NFC tag identification, then retrieve stored parameters corresponding to the NFC tag identification, and configure at least one of the plurality of data pins based upon the stored parameters corresponding to the NFC tag identification.

An apparatus for measuring a pressure of battery cells includes a pressure sensor configured to measure the pressure of battery cells stacked in the interior of a battery module, the pressure sensor includes a plurality of pressure measuring units, a connection unit for connecting the plurality of pressure measuring units to each other, and an output unit connected to the connection unit and configured to output pressure values measured through the pressure measuring units, and the plurality of pressure measuring units are arranged on surfaces of the battery cells to measure the pressure of the battery cells.

The invention relates to a mounting device (1) for a composite battery (7) consisting of a plurality of battery cells (71), comprising a printed circuit board (2) with electrical lines and switch elements for connecting the battery cells in parallel or series connection, a safety device with safety instruments (51) for the overcurrent protection of each battery cell, a housing with two housing parts (61, 62), having contact regions (63) for fixing the battery cells, wherein the contact regions of at least one housing part are designed as enclosures (64) for embracing a battery cell, the circuit board comprises recesses (23) for receiving and contacting (31, 32) in each case one battery cell in a respective enclosure, and wherein each recess embraces an enclosure with a battery cell in its maximum cross-sectional area. The mounting device makes it possible to provide a composite battery with exchangeable battery cells of different design, power and operating voltage in series or parallel connection with overcurrent protection at the cell level and a battery pack (8) with correspondingly configured composite batteries in a safe, simple and cost-effective manner by a user.

The disclosure relates to a rechargeable battery pack for a hand-held power tool, having an interface for establishing an electrical connection of the rechargeable battery pack to a hand-held power tool and/or a charging device. The interface has contact elements for electrically contacting corresponding mating contact elements on the hand-held power tool and/or on the charging device. One contact element is a signal contact element which is electrically connected to an encoder element of the rechargeable battery pack. A rechargeable battery pack electronics is configured to provide information relating to the rechargeable battery pack via the signal contact element, said information relating to the rechargeable battery pack being stored, at least in part, in the at least one encoder element, wherein in the rechargeable battery pack electronics, the encoder element is connected, in an electric parallel circuit, in parallel with a dynamic current path.