Patent ID: 9365120
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: B60L,H02J,Y02T

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: detecting, at a controller of an electric vehicle, the controller including one or more processors, that (i) a battery pack of the electric vehicle requires recharging and (ii) the battery pack is currently operable to be recharged by an external charging unit, the battery pack including a plurality of cells; identifying, at the controller, a specific cell of the plurality of cells that has a highest voltage in response to the detecting; and commanding, by the controller, the external charging unit to recharge each cell of the battery pack to a predetermined voltage that is a sum of (i) a maximum open circuit voltage of the specific cell and (ii) a voltage based on a resistance of the specific cell and a first current supplied to the specific cell.