Printed Temperature Sensors for use in battery monitoring systems working within the cells/batteries

提高电动汽车的安全性和性能对公众和整个英国的更广泛采用至关重要；这对实现汽车技术路线图中设定的目标也是至关重要的。提高安全性和性能的一个关键方法是增加来自电池的传感器信息量，特别是温度。PST传感器提供了这一独特的打印温度传感器的能力，这些传感器可以开发成符合电池单元的阵列。目前测量电池温度的方法只允许单点测量，主要是在充电电路上，这不能提供电池完整性的整体情况。PST与CPI合作，他们将合作测试用于电池监控系统的PST温度传感器的放大电位。如果每个电池都有自己的传感器阵列，那么规模化生产的需求就是最重要的，因此需要使用成本低廉的工艺，如丝网印刷。使用这种传感器将极大地降低热失控的可能性，并允许改进对电池的监控。通过改善从电池获得的信息量，PST设想在不改变目前电动汽车设计的情况下，延长寿命和增加续航里程。这将进一步减少电动汽车及其电池对环境的影响，使其续航里程与内燃机持平。

"Increased safety and performance of electric vehicles is paramount to wider adoption by the public and the UK as a whole; it is also essential to achieving the goals set out in the automotive technology roadmap . A key way to improve safety and performance is to increase the amount of sensor information from the batteries, particularly temperature. PST Sensors offers this unique ability to print temperature sensors that can be developed into arrays that are conformable to a battery cell. Current methods of measuring battery temperature only allow for single point measurements mainly on the charging circuity, which does not provide the whole picture of the cells integrity.PST collaborating with CPI, will work together they to test the up-scaling potential of PST temperature sensors for use in battery monitoring systems. If each cell has its sensor array then the need to produce on scale is paramount, hence the need to use a cheap process like screen printing. Using such a sensors will dramatically reduce the chances of thermal runaway and allow for improved monitoring of the batteries. By improving the amount of information obtained from the batteries, PST envisage a longer life and increased range without altering the current design of EV. This will reduce the environmental impact of the EVs and their batteries further and bring their range on par with combustion engines."