US 12,450,151 B1
System and method for large volume design, build, and test
Frank Wong, El Cerrito, CA (US); Anna Schneider, Oakland, CA (US); Scott Mackenzie, Berkeley, CA (US); Anushka Makhija, Bridgewater, NJ (US); Peter Vliet, San Francisco, CA (US); Jason Capili, San Francisco, CA (US); Henry Tareque, Arlington, MA (US); Rupak Chakraborty, Seattle, WA (US); Florian Wehner, Brookline, MA (US); Natalie Mako, Cambridge, MA (US); Adam Giusti, Newton, MA (US); Seth Feder, Cambridge, MA (US); Kristen Carlisle, Saugus, MA (US); John Challis, San Diego, CA (US); and Konstantin S. Solnushkin, Yerevan (AM)
Assigned to Form Energy, Inc., Somerville, MA (US)
Filed by Form Energy, Inc., Somerville, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/360,440.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/392,843, filed on Jul. 27, 2022.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/3668 (2025.01); G06F 8/71 (2018.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/3688 (2013.01) [G06F 8/71 (2013.01); G06F 11/3476 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of large volume item design, building, and testing, comprising:
inputting, into a user interface of a software platform, specifications of an long duration storage battery cell to build;
inputting, into the user interface, conditions of a test to apply to the cell;
verifying, by the software platform, that one or more required components are available to build one or more subassemblies of the cell;
staging the required components;
identifying, within the software platform, one or more matching channels from multiple channels across multiple battery cyclers, wherein the matching channels are capable of performing the input test conditions and not actively testing another item nor reserved for testing another item;
reserving, within the user interface, one of the matching channels;
committing the cell to be built after the required components are staged and the one of the matching channels is reserved;
tracking, by the software platform, a build status for each of the one or more subassemblies;
after completion of all of the one or more subassemblies, building the cell;
connecting the cell to the reserved channel within a battery cycler;
operating the battery cycler and testing the cell based on the input test conditions;
taking reference calibrations, measuring reference electrode calibrations and recording the calibrations during the test to be used later against test data;
disconnecting the cell after completion of the test;
tearing down the cell to one or more components;
tracking, through the software platform, metadata about the cell through specification, build, test, and teardown;
tracking, through the software platform, metadata about one or more characterization samples taken during teardown;
specifying, within the software platform, a number of replicates of the item;
building the number of replicates of the item, each to the specifications of the item; and
tracking separate metadata for each replicate item.