Patents by Inventor Yoon-Jung Bae

Yoon-Jung Bae 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).

  • Publication number: 20230179007
    Abstract: A battery management apparatus includes a profile generating unit configured to obtain battery information about capacity and voltage of a battery and generate a differential profile representing a corresponding relationship between the capacity and a differential voltage based on the capacity and the voltage and a control unit configured to obtain the differential profile from the profile generating unit, detect a plurality of peaks in the obtained differential profile, calculate a degradation degree of the battery based on a capacity corresponding to each of the plurality of detected peaks, and set an upper limit of a charge termination voltage for the battery according to a result of comparing the calculated degradation degree with a preset criterion degradation degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, A-Ming Cha
  • Publication number: 20230178818
    Abstract: A battery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a measuring unit configured to measure a charge voltage, a charge current, a discharge voltage and a discharge current in the process of charging and discharging a battery according to a preset charge C-rate and a preset discharge C-rate, and a control unit configured to receive information about the voltage and current of the battery from the measuring unit, calculate a charge resistance for each voltage of the battery based on the charge voltage and the charge current, calculate a discharge resistance for each voltage of the battery based on the discharge voltage and the discharge current, calculate a resistance ratio between the charge resistance and the discharge resistance for each voltage of the battery, and set a discharge C-rate for the battery based on the resistance ratio calculated for each voltage of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-Seok Jeong, Yoon-Jung Bae
  • Publication number: 20230168292
    Abstract: A battery management apparatus includes an EIS unit configured to output an AC current to a battery at a plurality of times and generate an EIS profile representing a resistance of the battery as a corresponding relationship between a real part and an imaginary part at each of the plurality of times, and a control unit configured to obtain the plurality of EIS profiles for the battery generated by the EIS unit, determine a plurality of arcs in each of the plurality of EIS profiles, calculate an arc resistance value for each of the plurality of determined arcs, calculate a resistance change rate for the arc resistance value between corresponding arcs among the plurality of arcs, and determine each of the plurality of arcs as a negative electrode-originated arc or a positive electrode-originated arc based on the plurality of calculated resistance change rates and a preset criterion change rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, A-Ming Cha
  • Patent number: 11662388
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for estimating a battery free capacity, and more particularly, an apparatus for estimating a free capacity of a half cell of a battery. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to accurately estimate a free capacity of a half cell without inserting a reference electrode by revising an entire SOC region of a half cell by using an inflection point detected based on SOC-voltage data of a full cell and a half cell of the battery, respectively, and then estimating SOC-voltage data based on a SOC difference between the entire SOC regions before and after the revision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, Dae-Soo Kim, Ji-Yeon Kim, Dong-Kyu Kim, Jae-Hyun Lee, Jin-Hyung Lim, Young-Geun Choi
  • Publication number: 20230160971
    Abstract: A battery diagnosing apparatus includes a profile generating unit configured to obtain a battery profile representing a corresponding relationship between voltage and capacity of a battery, and generate a differential profile representing a corresponding relationship between the voltage and a differential capacity for the voltage based on the obtained battery profile, and a control unit configured to receive the differential profile from the profile generating unit, determine a target peak in the differential profile, compare voltages of the determined target peak and a criterion peak of a criterion profile preset for the battery, and judge whether a side reaction occurs in the battery based on the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Ming Cha, Yoon-Jung Bae
  • Publication number: 20230141623
    Abstract: A battery diagnosing apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure voltage and temperature of a battery, an ohmic resistance determining unit configured to determine an ohmic resistance of the battery based on an impedance profile generated for the battery, and a control unit configured to calculate a voltage change amount by comparing the voltage of the battery measured by the measuring unit with a reference voltage, calculate a resistance change rate by comparing the ohmic resistance determined by the ohmic resistance determining unit with a reference resistance, judge an internal gas generation level of the battery by comparing magnitudes of the calculated resistance change rate and a criterion resistance change rate, and judge an internal gas generation cause of the battery by comparing magnitudes of the calculated voltage change amount and a criterion voltage change amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hwa Woo, Yoon-Jung Bae, A-Ming Cha
  • Publication number: 20230140094
    Abstract: A battery management apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure a first voltage of a battery cell at a first time point and measure a second voltage and a second capacity of the battery cell at a second time point later than the first time point, and a control unit configured to calculate a voltage deviation between the first voltage and the second voltage, calculate a capacity deviation between a first capacity corresponding to the first voltage and the second capacity, determine a positive electrode side reaction factor and a negative electrode side reaction factor for the battery cell based on the voltage deviation and the capacity deviation, and judge the type of a side reaction of the battery cell based on the positive electrode side reaction factor and the negative electrode side reaction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Ming Cha, Yoon-Jung Bae, Kyung-Hwa Woo
  • Patent number: 11614495
    Abstract: A battery state estimating apparatus includes: a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of a battery cell and measure an open circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery cell whenever the measured voltage reaches a reference discharge voltage; and a control unit configured to receive the OCV measured by the voltage measuring unit, compare the received OCV with a pre-stored reference voltage to calculate a voltage fluctuation rate, determine a voltage increase and decrease pattern based on the calculated voltage fluctuation rate and pre-stored voltage fluctuation rate data, and determine a degradation acceleration degree of the battery cell according to the determined voltage increase and decrease pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, Hye-Jin Kang
  • Publication number: 20230035092
    Abstract: A battery management system includes a voltage sensor to generate a voltage signal indicating a voltage of a battery, a current sensor to generate a current signal indicating a current flowing through the battery, and a control unit to record a voltage history and a current history of the battery based on the voltage signal and the current signal at a predetermined time interval during constant current charging of the battery. The control unit determines a differential capacity curve indicating a correlation between the voltage of the battery and a differential capacity in a reference voltage range. The control unit performs a first protection operation for the battery by comparing a first characteristic voltage of a main feature point with a reference voltage when the main feature point is detected from the differential capacity curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Ming Cha, Yoon-Jung Bae, Hee-Seok Jeong
  • Publication number: 20220381841
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for estimating a battery free capacity, and more particularly, an apparatus for estimating a free capacity of a half cell of a battery. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to accurately estimate a free capacity of a half cell without inserting a reference electrode by revising an entire SOC region of a half cell by using an inflection point detected based on SOC-voltage data of a full cell and a half cell of the battery, respectively, and then estimating SOC-voltage data based on a SOC difference between the entire SOC regions before and after the revision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung BAE, Dae-Soo KIM, Ji-Yeon KIM, Dong-Kyu KIM, Jae-Hyun LEE, Jin-Hyung LIM, Young-Geun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20220373607
    Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a degree of degradation of a battery includes a measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of each of a plurality of battery cells in each of a plurality of cycles where charging and discharging is performed and output voltage information about the plurality of measured voltages, and a control unit configured to receive the plurality of voltage information, calculate a voltage deviation of each cycle for each battery cell based on a reference voltage of each of the plurality of battery cells, select a cycle section satisfying a predetermined condition for each of the plurality of battery cells based on the calculated voltage deviation, calculate a voltage deviation change rate corresponding to each of the plurality of selected cycle sections, and diagnose a relative degree of degradation of the plurality of battery cells based on the plurality of calculated voltage deviation change rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Kim, Young-Deok Kim, Yoon-Jung Bae
  • Patent number: 11500031
    Abstract: A battery state estimating apparatus including a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of a battery cell and measure an open circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery cell whenever the measured voltage reaches a reference charge voltage, and a control unit configured to receive the OCV measured by the voltage measuring unit, calculate a voltage fluctuation rate based on a result obtained by processing the received OCV, determine a voltage increase and decrease pattern based on the calculated voltage fluctuation rate and pre-stored voltage fluctuation rate data, and determine a degradation acceleration degree of the battery cell according to the determined voltage increase and decrease pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, Hye-Jin Kang
  • Publication number: 20220317197
    Abstract: A battery DOD diagnosing apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of each of a plurality of battery cells in each of a plurality of cycles in which charging and discharging are performed, and output a plurality of voltage information for the plurality of measured voltages, and a control unit configured to receive the plurality of voltage information, calculate a voltage deviation of each cycle for each battery cell based on a reference voltage measured in an initial cycle of each of the plurality of battery cells, and diagnose a relative DOD of the plurality of battery cells based on a voltage sum value according to the plurality of voltage deviations calculated for each of the plurality of battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Kim, Dae-Soo Kim, Yoon-Jung Bae
  • Publication number: 20220231515
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling an operation of a secondary battery using a relative deterioration degree of an electrode. The method includes determining a SOC of the secondary battery whenever a pulse current flows through the secondary battery; determining an electrochemical reaction resistance from a voltage change amount measured during a preset initial time in each pulse current section and determining a lithium ion diffusion resistance from a voltage change amount measured during a remaining time except for the initial time; determining a deterioration-biased electrode by comparing a deterioration diagnosing resistance ratio, which is a relative ratio of the lithium ion diffusion resistance to the electrochemical reaction resistance, with a preset reference deterioration diagnosing resistance ratio; and adaptively adjusting an operation condition of a next charging/discharging cycle according to the type of the deterioration-biased electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, Ji-Yeon Kim, Kyung-Hwa Woo
  • Patent number: 11391780
    Abstract: A battery diagnostic device includes a sensing unit configured to measure a current and voltage of a battery, and a processor configured to estimate a SOC of the battery based on the measured current, select a plurality of SOCs from SOC-voltage data mapping the voltage and the estimated SOC with each other, divide a preset SOC region into a plurality of sub-regions based on sizes of the selected SOCs, calculate a region change value of each of the sub-regions based on the sizes of the sub-regions and a size of a preset reference region, diagnose whether at least one of an active material area, a depth of discharge and a depth of charge of the battery changes based on the calculated change values of sub-regions, and determine whether a mode of the battery is a normal mode or a failure mode based on the diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, Dae-Soo Kim, Ji-Yeon Kim, Dong-Kyu Kim, Jae-Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11338699
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining electrode information of a battery including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a battery pack including the apparatus. The apparatus includes a sensing unit configured to measure a voltage and a current of the battery, and a processor. The processor generates a V-dQ/dV curve based on the voltage and the current of the battery. The V-dQ/dV curve indicates a relationship between V (the voltage of the battery) and dQ/dV (a ratio of an amount of change dQ of the remaining capacity to an amount of change dV of the voltage of the battery). The processor detects a plurality of feature points from the V-dQ/dV curve. The processor determines information associated with each of the first electrode and the second electrode as the electrode information based on the plurality of feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, Dae-Soo Kim, Ji-Yeon Kim, Dong-Kyu Kim, Jae-Hyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20220158468
    Abstract: A battery management apparatus, battery management method and battery pack that detects feature points of each of a first differential capacity curve acquired by charging the battery with a first constant current, a second differential capacity curve acquired by discharging the battery with the first constant current, a third differential capacity curve acquired by charging the battery with a second constant current and a fourth differential capacity curve acquired by discharging the battery with the second constant current, and determines degradation information of the battery based on voltage values of the feature points detected from each differential capacity curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Ming Cha, Yoon-Jung Bae
  • Patent number: 11283280
    Abstract: A battery management apparatus, including: a sensing unit configured to generate battery information indicating a battery voltage and current; and a control unit configured to: determine a differential voltage curve based on a history of the battery information from the sensing unit during a sensing period while the battery is being charged with a first current rate current, the differential voltage curve indicating a relationship between a remaining capacity of the battery and a ratio of a voltage change amount of the battery to a remaining capacity change amount of the battery during the sensing period; detect feature points from the differential voltage curve; determine whether stabilization for an electrode material of the battery is required, based on a feature value of each of the feature points; and output a control signal to induce the battery to be discharged with a smaller second current rate current, when stabilization is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Dae-Soo Kim, Yoon-Jung Bae, Young-Deok Kim, Song-Yi Han
  • Patent number: 11280842
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery management apparatus and method, which sets a degraded SOC region based on a SOC-based voltage difference between a charging voltage and a discharging voltage according to a SOC of a battery and estimates a degree of degradation of the battery based on the voltage difference in the set degraded SOC region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Ju Lee, Yoon-Jung Bae, Yong-Jun Kim
  • Publication number: 20220075000
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus, method and battery pack for determining a degradation degree of a battery. The apparatus generates first sensing information indicating a voltage and a current of the battery while the battery is charged with a first constant current. The apparatus generates second sensing information indicating a voltage and a current of the battery for a second period during which the battery is discharged with a second constant current. The apparatus determines a first differential capacity curve based on the first sensing information and a second differential capacity curve based on the second sensing information. The apparatus is configured to determine the degradation degree of the battery based on a voltage value of a first charge feature point of the first differential capacity curve and a voltage value of a first discharge feature point of the second differential capacity curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Ming Cha, Yoon-Jung Bae