US 12,155,462 B2
Optimizing node location in a battery management system
Tariq Muhanna, Garland, TX (US); Ariton Xhafa, Plano, TX (US); Naveen Kumar Kala, Austin, TX (US); and Mathew Giaramita, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/823,291.
Prior Publication US 2024/0072920 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/44 (2006.01)
CPC H04J 3/0647 (2013.01) [H04J 3/0658 (2013.01); H04L 12/44 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery management system (BMS) comprising:
a master node including a master transceiver and a controller communicably coupled to the master transceiver; and
a plurality (n) of slave nodes, each slave node of the n slave nodes including a slave transceiver configured to be communicably coupled to at least one battery monitor, wherein the controller is configured to direct the master transceiver to:
establish a communications network in accordance with a wireless communication protocol;
establish, over the communications network, a plurality of (n) single-node communication links based on a predetermined ordering of a superframe, wherein each single-node communication link of the n single-node communication links includes the master transceiver and one of the n slave nodes;
assign each of the n slave nodes to non-overlapping time slots of the superframe; and
consecutively receive uplink (UL) transmissions from the n slave nodes, by the n single-node communication links, over the communications network and in the non-overlapping time slots of the superframe.