US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on Sept. 16 for "Slave BMS for diagnosing an error of a battery module and battery pack comprising same slave BMS" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,683, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Slave BMS for diagnosing an error of a battery module and battery pack comprising same slave BMS" was invented by Ye Seul Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyun Ki Cho (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack comprising a slave BMS which diagnoses an error in a battery module. The battery pack includes a master BMS and a first slave BMS. The first slave BMS, when an error has occurred in a first battery module, determines whether or not the error is critical. The first slave BMS communicates with the master BMS in a time s...