Result description
Measuring pressure INSIDE electric car’s battery is of outstanding importance for the real-time, accurate monitoring of a battery’s health status and thus for better powertrain management and avoidance of any unwanted environment pollution. Our sensor, demonstrated by IMT-Bucharest and tested at the site of Infineon Technologies Romania, comes to solve this problem. The current demonstrator is at TRL5. We improved the sensor since the end of the project as regards integration inside each of the battery’s cells and now look for practical application into car battery and for connection to enhanced battery system management.
Moreover, other industries may benefit as well: chemical and petrochemical indusrtry, food and biotech industry, pharmaceutical industry, transport of dangerous materials. The sensor is applicable to the toxic, flammable, explosive, biologically contaminated, corrosive materials.
It is a demonstrator of pressure sensor that has no electrical or optical connections to the inside of the battery, however is able to measure the pressure inside with the help of a properly designed magnetic field. The signal is read outside the battery either as a magnetic signal or as a pressure signal.
We have submitted the result to international patenting.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Grants and Subsidies
- Business partners – SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations
- Marketing Mentoring or Coaching
- I/we wish to transfer my/our IPR to an interested party
- Business Angels
- Venture Capital
- Crowd-funding Equity
Further development for applications into batteries and commercialization / technology transfer. Also interested for development of the sensor for application to other fields such as chemical and petrochemical indusrtry, food and biotech industry, pharmaceutical industry, transport of dangerous (non-radioactive) materials.
- Public or private funding institutions
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
- Private Investors
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
Demonstrator devised and built by IMT-Bucharest and succesfully tested by Infineon Technologies Romania.
The sensor can be manufactured in a reproducible manner by using additive manufacturing capabilities such as selective laser melting / direct metal laser sintering (metal version) or selective laser sintering on polymers (polymer version). We have made tests on a polymer version.
Integrating of the sensor inside a battery cell is of utmost importance for ensuring a safe and optimum operation of the battery. These requirements for battery operation are already representing a main challenge for the batteries of the future. Because of that, we think that we are well positioned to address the business perpsective of our result. Our business model, at its current stage, looks for the transfer of know-how to a battery producer and subsequent support offered for further development and improvement. Adding new function aside that of pressure measurement represents a step toward making smart batteries and is one of the main direction of support. Combination with locally embedded artificial intelligence may represent the leap to modern, new standard batteries for electric cars and energy storage systems. .
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETAREDEZVOLTARE PENTRU MICROTEHNOLOGIE
