Patents by Inventor Shichao LI
Shichao LI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11668755Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining available energy of a battery, a battery management system, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of battery technologies. The method includes: obtaining a DOD interval corresponding to a current SOC interval of the battery, and a cycle quantity and a cycle temperature that correspond to the DOD interval; obtaining recoverable energy information of the battery based on the DOD interval, the cycle quantity, and the cycle temperature; and determining current remaining available energy of the battery based on the recoverable energy information. For a battery with a recoverable attenuation capacity, the method, the apparatus, the battery management system, and the storage medium in this disclosure could help improve accuracy in estimating remaining available energy of the battery, thereby improving battery reliability, prolonging a service life of the battery, and enhancing user experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 11656289Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for correcting a state of health of a battery, a battery management system, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of battery technologies. The method includes: determining whether a current voltage value of a battery cell is within a correction OCV section of the battery cell; if yes, using the current voltage value of the battery cell as a correction voltage value; and acquiring an SOC correction value, and correcting a state of health (SOH) of the battery cell. According to the method, the apparatus, the battery management system, and the storage medium in this disclosure, reliability of an SOH correction result is improved, thereby providing accurate estimation of the state of health of the battery, a prolonged service life of the battery, and better user experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Shenzhi Tang, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 11619679Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose a method, apparatus and medium for estimating a battery remaining life and relates to the field of battery power. The method includes: acquiring a material aging parameter of a battery representing an aging degree of a material of the battery; and determining, based on a preset corresponding relationship between the material aging parameter and the battery remaining life, the battery remaining life corresponding to the material aging parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology LimitedInventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
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Publication number: 20230095453Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for determining a state of charge of a battery, a battery management system and a storage medium, and relates to the field of battery technologies, where the method includes: obtaining a current OCV value of a battery and cumulative continuous charging or discharging capacity information of the battery; obtaining SOC credible information based on the current OCV value and the cumulative continuous charging or discharging capacity information; obtaining a corrected SOC value corresponding to the current OCV value according to the SOC credible information. According to the present disclosure, accuracy of SOC correction could be improved by determining the SOC credible information under the current OCV; for batteries, especially those with a hysteresis characteristic, accuracy of SOC estimation could be improved, an error of SOC estimation could be reduced and reliability of battery and experience of users could be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Mingshu DU, Shichao LI, Shenzhi TANG, Jian RUAN, Yanhua LU, Wei ZHANG
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Patent number: 11609276Abstract: A method and device for determining an available capacity of a battery, a battery management system, and a storage medium, relating to the field of battery technologies. The method includes: obtaining the at least one DOD interval corresponding to the SOC interval of the operation of the battery, and the number of cycles and the cycle temperature corresponding to the at least one DOD interval; obtaining a recoverable amount of capacity fade of the battery according to the at least one DOD interval, the number of cycles and the cycle temperature, and determining an actual available capacity of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 11598811Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for identifying a cell, including: determining, for a cell under test during a charge and discharge process, a number N of measured values of OCV and a number N of net cumulative throughputs corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV; for an ith target cell, obtaining a number N of calculated values of OCV corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV, and obtaining an OCV mean square error between the number N of measured values of OCV and the number N of calculated values of OCV; and determining that the cell under test is the ith target cell, when the OCV mean square error between the cell under test and the ith target cell is a minimum mean square error among a number M of OCV mean square errors.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Shenzhi Tang, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 11590857Abstract: The present application discloses a charging method, an apparatus, a device, a medium, a battery management system and a charging pile. The method includes: acquiring a charging demand parameter set by a user; calculating, according to the charging demand parameter and acquired actual operation state information of a battery, a target charging scheme for charging the battery; transmitting, according to the target charging scheme, a first charging request to a charging device, so that the charging device charges the battery according to the first charging request. According to the charging method, the apparatus, the device, medium, the battery management system and the charging pile provided in the embodiments of the present application, personalized smart charging can be achieved for different users.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Jian Ruan, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Yizhen Hou, Wei Zhang
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Publication number: 20230047373Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for battery SOC correction, and a battery management system, which relate to the technical field of batteries. The method includes: acquiring a voltage-SOC variation curve of a battery during a charging process; generating a voltage differential curve of the battery according to the voltage-SOC variation curve, the voltage differential curve being a variation curve of a differential value with SOC, the differential value being a ratio of a voltage variation to a SOC variation corresponding to the voltage variation during the charging process; determining a peak point on the voltage differential curve, the peak point being between any two adjacent plateaus on the voltage-SOC variation curve and not located on the any two adjacent plateaus; performing SOC correction on the basis of the peak point. This method is used to improve the SOC estimation accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology LimitedInventors: Shan Huang, Shichao Li, Mingshu Du, Guangyu Xu
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Publication number: 20230034272Abstract: This application provides a charging method and apparatus, a vehicle, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a current voltage of a target battery; determining a current power of the target battery based on the current voltage; determining a chargeable power of the target battery based on the current power; and obtaining a real-time voltage of the target battery where the target battery is charged with the chargeable power, where the real-time voltage is used for determining a charge cut-off voltage of the target battery in a next charging.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Sitong LIU, Dongyang SHI, Shichao LI, Baiqing LI
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Publication number: 20230031352Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a method for charging battery a charging and discharging device, which can ensure the safety performance of the battery. The charging and discharging device includes a first DC/DC converter, a unidirectional AC/DC converter and a control unit, where the first DC/DC converter is a unidirectional DC/DC converter, and the control unit is configured to: receive a first charging current and control the unidirectional AC/DC converter and the first DC/DC converter to charge a battery through an AC power source based on the first charging current; receive a first discharging current, and control the battery to release power based on the first discharging current; and receive a second charging current, and control the unidirectional AC/DC converter and the first DC/DC converter to charge the battery through the AC power source based on the second charging current.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yu YAN, Xiyang ZUO, Zhimin DAN, Haili LI, Shan HUANG, Shichao LI
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Publication number: 20230018810Abstract: This application provides a battery charging control method and device. Voltages of N cell units in an Mth sampling period are obtained, and a voltage of the battery at each sampling moment among K sampling moments in said sampling period is calculated. Charging of the battery is stopped when the voltage of the battery increases monotonically in the Mth sampling period and a trend of a fitting curve of the voltage of at least one cell unit among the N cell units in said sampling period is not rising.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Linfu LI, Shichao LI
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Patent number: 11557903Abstract: This application embodiment provides a method for equalizing the battery module, an apparatus, a battery module and a power management controller, including: judging whether the first battery core and the second battery core enter their respective fully-charged interval; if the first battery core enters and the second battery core doesn't enter, discharging the first battery core until the second battery core enters; if the first battery core doesn't enter and the second battery core enters, judging whether the maximum value of the first charging voltage of each battery cell in the first battery core is greater than a third preset value; if so, discharging the second battery core until the first battery core enters; if not, controlling both to rest a preset time; after resting for the preset time, discharging the first battery core and the second battery core until the SOC of each battery cell enters a same state.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Lei Peng, Guangyu Xu, Shichang Zhang, Shichao Li
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Patent number: 11536772Abstract: The present application provides a method and apparatus for correcting a state of charge. The method for correcting a state of charge comprises: determining an operating state of a battery cell, wherein the operating state comprises a discharging state or a charging state; and determining a corrected state of charge of the battery cell according to an acquired current open circuit voltage of the battery cell, an acquired current accumulative capacity of the battery cell, an accumulative capacity correspondence relationship corresponding to the operating state of the battery cell, and an open circuit voltage curve corresponding to a limit initial state of charge, wherein the accumulative capacity correspondence relationship comprises a correspondence relationship between a pre-measured open circuit voltage and an accumulative capacity threshold. A technical solution of the present application can be used to improve the accuracy of calculation of a state of charge.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Shenzhi Tang, Li Tan, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 11486934Abstract: A method, a device and a system for recovering recoverable faded capacity of a battery. The method includes determining the recoverable faded capacity of the battery, determining a corresponding lower limit of a battery parameter according to the recoverable faded capacity of the battery, and instructing a discharging device to discharge the battery to the corresponding lower limit of the battery parameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Shenzhi Tang, Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Jian Ruan
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Publication number: 20220285958Abstract: This application provides a method and device for estimating a SOC of a battery pack, and a battery management system. The battery pack includes a first cell without a plateau and a second cell with a plateau. At least one first cell is serially connected to the second cell. The method includes: determining a capacity variation of the battery pack based on a SOC variation of the first cell in comparison with an initial SOC of the first cell, and based on a nominal capacity of the first cell; obtaining an equalization capacity of the first cell and an equalization capacity of the second cell; and estimating a SOC of the second cell, and determining the SOC of the battery pack based on the SOC of the second cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Guangyu XU, Shichao LI, Wei ZHAO
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Publication number: 20220283236Abstract: A method for estimating a power limit of a battery pack is disclosed, including: obtaining an actual minimum cell voltage of an electrical core with a minimum voltage in the battery pack; obtaining a static discharge power limit of the battery pack; calculating, based on the actual minimum cell voltage, an estimated discharge voltage of the electrical core with the minimum voltage for use when the battery pack is discharged based on the static discharge power limit; determining whether the estimated discharge voltage falls between a discharge voltage control threshold of the electrical core with the minimum voltage and an undervoltage threshold of the electrical core with the minimum voltage; and determining a target discharge power limit of the battery pack through a discharge interpolation algorithm when the estimated discharge voltage falls between the discharge voltage control threshold and the undervoltage threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Shenzhi Tang, Guangmei Huang, Shichao Li, Wei Zhao
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Publication number: 20220281350Abstract: This application relates to the field of battery technologies, and discloses a method for updating an OCV-SOC curve of a battery pack, a battery management system, and a vehicle. The method for updating an OCV-SOC curve of a battery pack includes: obtaining information that represents an aging state of the battery pack; obtaining a current aging characteristic parameter of the battery pack based on a current OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack and the information; and updating the OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack based on the current aging characteristic parameter and the current OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack. In this application, the OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack is updated based on the aging state of the battery pack, thereby obtaining an OCV-SOC curve that meets the aging state of the battery pack and making it convenient to estimate the online state of the battery pack more accurately.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Shenzhi TANG, Mingshu DU, Shichao LI, Jian RUAN
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Patent number: 11437838Abstract: The present application provides a battery charging control method and apparatus, a battery management system, and a medium. The method includes: obtaining, based on a received charging request, a threshold value and an initial value of a charging parameter of a battery, wherein the threshold value of the charging parameter is determined based on an actual capacity value of the battery and an accumulated mileage of an electric vehicle where the battery is located; sending, under a condition that the initial value of the charging parameter is less than the threshold value of the charging parameter, a control command of charging the battery, so as to charge the battery; obtaining a value of the charging parameter of the battery in real time during the charging of the battery; sending a control command of stopping charging the battery, so as to stop charging.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Weiqing Wu, Wei Zhang
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Publication number: 20220276310Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for identifying a cell, including: determining, for a cell under test during a charge and discharge process, a number N of measured values of OCV and a number N of net cumulative throughputs corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV; for an ith target cell, obtaining a number N of calculated values of OCV corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV, and obtaining an OCV mean square error between the number N of measured values of OCV and the number N of calculated values of OCV; and determining that the cell under test is the ith target cell, when the OCV mean square error between the cell under test and the ith target cell is a minimum mean square error among a number M of OCV mean square errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Jian RUAN, Mingshu Du, Shichao LI, Shenzhi TANG, Yanhua LU, Wei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20220268845Abstract: An embodiment of this application provides a charging control method and device and a power management controller. The charging control method includes: determining whether battery status of a battery pack meets preset conditions, where the battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, and the preset conditions are: the battery pack has been left standing for a preset duration, and an open-circuit voltage of each battery cell in the battery pack falls within a preset range; and charging the battery pack based on a charging policy corresponding to a determining result, so that a capacity of a battery cell with a highest remaining capacity in the battery pack reaches a nominal capacity of the battery cell with the highest remaining capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Guangyu XU, Shichao LI, Wei ZHAO