Patents by Inventor An Soo Kim
An Soo Kim has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12282068Abstract: A lithium precipitation detecting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a measuring unit configured to calculate a charge amount of a battery in a charging process and calculate a discharge amount of the battery in a discharging process; and a control unit configured to estimate a state of charge (SOC) of the battery in the charging process and the discharging process and determine whether lithium precipitation occurs in the battery based on the estimated SOC, the charge amount and the discharge amount.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Seung-Hyun Kim, Hyun-Chul Lee, Dong-Keun Kwon, An-Soo Kim, Chae-Bin Shin
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Publication number: 20250044364Abstract: A battery state of charge estimating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a charging and discharging unit for receiving a control signal including a C-rate and for charging and discharging a battery at the C-rate included in the control signal; a measuring unit for measuring a voltage of the battery in a charging and discharging process of the battery; and a control unit for transmitting the control signal to the charging and discharging unit, changing the C-rate included in the control signal whenever the voltage value measured by the measuring unit reaches a preset threshold value, and estimating SOC of the battery based on the result of comparing the changed C-rate with a preset cutoff value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Seung-Hyun KIM, Hyun-Chul LEE, Dong-Keun KWON, An-Soo KIM, Chae-Bin SHIN
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Publication number: 20250044360Abstract: A battery state estimating apparatus and method that adds system noise to a recursive filter and corrects parameters used in an extended Kalman filter in consideration of an offset and variance of a current sensor and a voltage sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: An-Soo KIM, Dong-Keun KWON, Seung-Hyun KIM, Chae-Bin SHIN, Hyun-Chul LEE
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Publication number: 20250015625Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for managing an Open Circuit Voltage (OCV)-State Of Charge (SOC) profile of a battery. The apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a storage means to store a plurality of OCV-SOC profiles having an overlapping zone in which the OCV-SOC profiles overlap in a predetermined SOC range; and a control means coupled to the storage means. The control means is configured to calculate a partial capacity of the battery in the SOC range of the overlapping zone during charging or discharging of the battery, determine a reduction ratio of the current partial capacity to the partial capacity of the battery at Beginning Of Life (BOL), select the OCV-SOC profile corresponding to the reduction ratio among the plurality of OCV-SOC profiles, change the current OCV-SOC profile to the selected OCV-SOC profile, and control the charge or discharge of the battery using the changed OCV-SOC profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun-Chul Lee, Seung-Hyun KIM, An-soo KIM, Chae-Bin SHIN
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Patent number: 11965936Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a battery including battery cells, the apparatus according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer for measuring the voltage of each battery cell during a preset period of time, a voltage variation calculator for calculating an individual voltage variation of each battery cell during the preset period of time, an average voltage variation calculator for calculating an average voltage variation of the battery cells during the preset period of time, and an abnormality detector for determining that a voltage abnormality has occurred in at least one battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the voltage variation of the at least one battery cell and the average voltage variation of the at least one battery cell is greater than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Chul Lee, Dong Keun Kwon, Sung Yul Yoon, Seung Hyun Kim, An Soo Kim
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Patent number: 11815559Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a battery cell according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer that measures a voltage of each battery cell of a battery module in a state of an open circuit voltage of a battery, a memory that stores the measured voltage at predetermined time intervals, and an abnormality detector that compares a current measured voltage with a measured voltage before a preset time for each battery cell and determines that an abnormality has occurred in a first battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the current measured voltage of the at least one battery cell and the measured voltage of the at least one battery cell before the preset time exceeds a reference value.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sung Yul Yoon, Dong Keun Kwon, Hyun Chul Lee, Seung Hyun Kim, An Soo Kim
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Patent number: 11815558Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery management system and method for diagnosing abnormal deterioration of a battery cell, and provides the battery management system including an SOC calculation unit for calculating a state of charge (SOC) of a plurality of battery cells, a change amount calculation unit for calculating, for each of the plurality of battery cells, an SOC change amount that is a change amount of the calculated SOC during a preset period and an SOC change amount average that is an average of the SOC change amount of all the plurality of battery cells, and an abnormal deterioration diagnosis unit for diagnosing an abnormal deterioration of each of the plurality of battery cells using the SOC change amount and the SOC change amount average thereby accurately diagnosing abnormal deterioration of battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Chul Lee, Dong Keun Kwon, Sung Yul Yoon, Seung Hyun Kim, An Soo Kim, Chae Bin Shin
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Patent number: 11796599Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a voltage measurer for measuring a cell voltage of each of first to nth battery cells and a processor, wherein n is a natural number of 2 or greater. The processor determines an average cell voltage of each battery cell for a first rest period from a first time point to a second time point, based on the cell voltage of each battery cell measured a first number of times for the first rest period, determines an average cell voltage of each battery cell for a second rest period and diagnoses a fault of each battery cell based on the average cell voltage of each battery cell for the first rest period and the average cell voltage of each battery cell for the second rest period.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun-Chul Lee, Dong-Keun Kwon, Seung-Hyun Kim, An-Soo Kim, Sung-Yul Yoon
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Publication number: 20230288487Abstract: A lithium precipitation detecting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a measuring unit configured to calculate a charge amount of a battery in a charging process and calculate a discharge amount of the battery in a discharging process; and a control unit configured to estimate a state of charge (SOC) of the battery in the charging process and the discharging process and determine whether lithium precipitation occurs in the battery based on the estimated SOC, the charge amount and the discharge amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Seung-Hyun KIM, Hyun-Chul LEE, Dong-Keun KWON, An-Soo KIM, Chae-Bin SHIN
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Publication number: 20230148088Abstract: A battery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a state of health (SOH) calculating unit calculating an SOH of each of a plurality of battery cells and a balancing target determining unit selecting, as a second battery cell, a battery cell having a state of charge (SOC) difference from a first battery cell having a lowest SOC among the plurality of battery cells, the SOC difference being greater than or equal to a reference value, and determining a balancing target by comparing an SOH of the first battery cell with an SOH of the second battery cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Chul LEE, Dong Keun KWON, Seung Hyun KIM, An Soo KIM, Chae Bin SHIN
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Patent number: 11567141Abstract: A battery pack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a plurality of battery cells and a BMS for controlling the battery pack. The BMS may include a state-of-charge (SOC) calculation module for calculating a SOC of each of the plurality of battery cells included in the battery pack and a faulty battery cell detection unit for detecting at least one faulty battery cell on the basis of the calculated SOC of each of the plurality of battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: An Soo Kim, Dong Keun Kwon, Hyun Chul Lee, Sung Yul Yoon, Seung Hyun Kim, Jae Sung Im
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Publication number: 20220317196Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery management system—and method for diagnosing abnormal deterioration of a battery cell, and provides the battery management system including an SOC calculation unit for calculating a state of charge (SOC) of a plurality of battery cells, a change amount calculation unit for calculating, for each of the plurality of battery cells, an SOC change amount that is a change amount of the calculated SOC during a preset period and an SOC change amount average that is an average of the SOC change amount of all the plurality of battery cells, and an abnormal deterioration diagnosis unit for diagnosing an abnormal deterioration of each of the plurality of battery cells using the SOC change amount and the SOC change amount average thereby accurately diagnosing abnormal deterioration of battery cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Chul LEE, Dong Keun KWON, Sung Yul YOON, Seung Hyun KIM, An Soo KIM, Chae Bin SHIN
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Publication number: 20220229122Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a battery including battery cells, the apparatus according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer for measuring the voltage of each battery cell during a preset period of time, a voltage variation calculator for calculating an individual voltage variation of each battery cell during the preset period of time, an average voltage variation calculator for calculating an average voltage variation of the battery cells during the preset period of time, and an abnormality detector for determining that a voltage abnormality has occurred in at least one battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the voltage variation of the at least one battery cell and the average voltage variation of the at least one battery cell is greater than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Chul LEE, Dong Keun KWON, Sung Yul YOON, Seung Hyun KIM, An Soo KIM
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Publication number: 20220221527Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a battery cell according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer that measures a voltage of each battery cell of a battery module in a state of an open circuit voltage of a battery, a memory that stores the measured voltage at predetermined time intervals, and an abnormality detector that compares a current measured voltage with a measured voltage before a preset time for each battery cell and determines that an abnormality has occurred in a first battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the current measured voltage of the at least one battery cell and the measured voltage of the at least one battery cell before the preset time exceeds a reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sung Yul YOON, Dong Keun KWON, Hyun Chul LEE, Seung Hyun KIM, An Soo KIM
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Publication number: 20220196752Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a voltage measurer for measuring a cell voltage of each of first to nth battery cells and a processor, wherein n is a natural number of 2 or greater. The processor determines an average cell voltage of each battery cell for a first rest period from a first time point to a second time point, based on the cell voltage of each battery cell measured a first number of times for the first rest period, determines an average cell voltage of each battery cell for a second rest period and diagnoses a fault of each battery cell based on the average cell voltage of each battery cell for the first rest period and the average cell voltage of each battery cell for the second rest period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun-Chul LEE, Dong-Keun KWON, Seung-Hyun KIM, An-Soo KIM, Sung-Yul YOON
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Publication number: 20200408849Abstract: A battery pack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a plurality of battery cells and a BMS for controlling the battery pack. The BMS may include a state-of-charge (SOC) calculation module for calculating a SOC of each of the plurality of battery cells included in the battery pack and a faulty battery cell detection unit for detecting at least one faulty battery cell on the basis of the calculated SOC of each of the plurality of battery cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: An Soo KIM, Dong Keun KWON, Hyun Chul LEE, Sung Yul YOON, Seung Hyun KIM, Jae Sung IM
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Patent number: 7999761Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method of thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of first address electrodes and a plurality of second address electrodes, and a data driver for supplying a voltage of a substantially equal magnitude to a last first address electrode of at least one side of the plurality of first address electrodes and at least one second address electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sonic Kim, Jung Gwan Ilan, An Soo Kim
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Publication number: 20060262037Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method of thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of first address electrodes and a plurality of second address electrodes, and a data driver for supplying a voltage of a substantially equal magnitude to a last first address electrode of at least one side of the plurality of first address electrodes and at least one second address electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Inventors: Sonic Kim, Jung Ilan, An Soo Kim