Patents by Inventor Yizhen Hou

Yizhen Hou 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).

  • Patent number: 11183917
    Abstract: A power converter as provided includes: a control circuit configured to receive a first electric energy supplied to the control circuit from an energy storage device, receive a second electric energy supplied to the control circuit from a power grid equipment, and be powered on with a third electric energy which is the first electric energy or the second electric energy, and output a control signal; and a power conversion circuit configured to receive the control signal and perform power conversion between the energy storage device and the power grid equipment according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Meng Li, Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou
  • Publication number: 20210325466
    Abstract: A method includes: estimating a first estimated time required for the battery to be charged from the state of charge estimation initial value to an upper limit of the state of charge estimation section; estimating a second estimated time required for the battery to be changed in temperature from the temperature estimation initial value to an upper limit of the temperature estimation section; determining a new state of charge estimation initial value, a new state of charge estimation section, and a new temperature estimation initial value and a new temperature estimation section based on a smaller estimated time between the first estimated time and the second estimated time, until an upper limit of an state of charge estimation section reaches a target state of charge and a smaller estimated time is a first estimated time; and accumulating every determined smaller estimated times to obtain an estimated remaining charging time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Shichao LI, Yanhua LU, Yizhen HOU, Wei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11146090
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting information in a battery management system. The method includes: determining, from a plurality of slave nodes, a fault slave node that communicates abnormally with a master node in the battery management system; selecting a target slave node from the plurality of slave nodes, wherein the target slave node is a slave node that communicates normally with both the master node and the fault slave node; transmitting frequency conversion information to the target slave node, so that the target slave node forwards the frequency conversion information to the fault slave node, and the fault slave node performs a frequency conversion based on the frequency conversion information; and transmitting information with the fault slave node using a frequency after the frequency conversion. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the reliability of wireless communication in the battery management system can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Zhimin Dan, Wenbin Lu, Wei Zhang, Yizhen Hou, Jia Xu, Jiechao Luo, Teng Yu
  • Patent number: 11139514
    Abstract: A battery pack heating apparatus for double vehicle heating and a control method. In the embodiments of the present application, the apparatus is portably arranged outside a vehicle, and includes: an energy storage device; a current sensor; a first diode, an input end of the first diode connected with a second end of the current sensor; a first heating interface; a first switching device connected between the second end of the current sensor and a positive electrode of the first heating interface; a second diode, an output end of the second diode connected with the second end of the current sensor; a second heating interface; a second switching device connected between the second end of the current sensor and a negative electrode of the second heating interface; and a heating control module configured to control on-off states of the first and the second switching devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiyang Zuo, Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou, Wei Zhang, Xingyuan Wu, Taosheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210293860
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a current sampling method and a current sampling circuit. The method comprises: obtaining a detected temperature of each semiconductor switch device of a plurality of parallel semiconductor switch devices; determining that the plurality of parallel semiconductor switch devices are in a current equalization state based on the detected temperature of each semiconductor switch device; obtaining an equalized current flowing through a target semiconductor switch device in the current equalization state, the target semiconductor switch device being any one of the plurality of parallel semiconductor switch devices; determining a total current of a main circuit connected to the plurality of parallel semiconductor switch devices according to the equalized current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yizhen HOU, Zhimin DAN, Wei ZHANG, Jinbo CAI, Xiong ZHENG
  • Patent number: 11120958
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a relay holding circuit and a battery management system. the relay holding circuit may include: a high-voltage isolated power source, a power source driving module, and a microprocessor of a battery management system; the high-voltage isolated power source may be respectively connected to two electrodes of a battery pack, an output terminal of the power source driving module, the microprocessor, and a first terminal of a first switching device; an input terminal of the power source driving module may be connected to the microprocessor; the microprocessor may be further connected to a primary battery, the microprocessor may output a low-level signal to the power source driving module when the primary battery supplies power abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Zhimin Dan, Delong Shi, Yizhen Hou, Wei Zhang, Liansong Wang
  • Patent number: 11102651
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for data transmission, comprising: authenticating, by a target node in a battery management system, a source node in response to a request for data transmission from the source node; selecting, by the target node, any two prime numbers from a pre-stored set of prime numbers if the authentication is passed, generating a public key and a private key according to the two prime numbers, and transmitting the public key to the source node; performing, by the source node, a first encryption byte-by-byte for source data to be transmitted using the public key, performing a second encryption for the first encrypted data using a first encryption algorithm stored by the source node itself, and transmitting the second encrypted data to the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Wenbin Lu, Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou, Wei Zhang, Jia Xu, Jiechao Luo, Teng Yu
  • Publication number: 20210245628
    Abstract: In a battery heating system an inverter includes a first-phase bridge arm, a second-phase bridge arm and a third-phase bridge arm connected in parallel, each of a upper bridge arm and a lower bridge arm is provided with a switch module, the switch module is connected in parallel with a buffer module; and a motor controller in the inverter is provided for providing driving signals to the switch module of a target upper bridge arm and the switch module of a target lower bridge arm to control the switch module of the upper bridge arm of any bridge arm among the three phases of bridge arms and the switch module of the lower bridge arm of at least one bridge arm among the bridge arms except the bridge arm where the switch module of the target upper bridge arm is located to be periodically turned on and off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Xiyang ZUO, Zhimin DAN, Wei ZHANG, Yizhen HOU, Guowei LI, Xingyuan WU, Yanru LI
  • Publication number: 20210249707
    Abstract: A battery pack heating apparatus for double vehicle heating and a control method. In the embodiments of the present application, the apparatus is portably arranged outside a vehicle, and includes: an energy storage device; a current sensor; a first diode, an input end of the first diode connected with a second end of the current sensor; a first heating interface; a first switching device connected between the second end of the current sensor and a positive electrode of the first heating interface; a second diode, an output end of the second diode connected with the second end of the current sensor; a second heating interface; a second switching device connected between the second end of the current sensor and a negative electrode of the second heating interface; and a heating control module configured to control on-off states of the first and the second switching devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Xiyang ZUO, Zhimin DAN, Yizhen HOU, Wei ZHANG, Xingyuan WU, Taosheng ZHU
  • Publication number: 20210231742
    Abstract: The present application discloses an insulation detection circuit, a method and a battery management system. The circuit includes: a first voltage dividing module, where, one end of the first voltage dividing module is connected to a positive electrode of a power battery to be detected, and the other end of the first voltage dividing module is connected to a first isolation module and a second voltage dividing module respectively; the second voltage dividing module, connected to a negative electrode of the power battery to be detected; the first isolation module, connected to one end of a sampling module; the sampling module, where, the other end of the sampling module is connected to one end of a signal generating module; the signal generating module, where, the other end of the signal generating module is connected to power ground; and the processing module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Meng LI, Zhimin DAN, Weiping SUN, Yizhen HOU, Wei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11050287
    Abstract: A battery pack system includes a battery pack, a battery management module, a discharge circuit module, a charge circuit module and an energy storage module. The battery pack is connected to the discharge circuit module in series and the battery pack is connected to the charge circuit module in series. The battery management module is configured to monitor a temperature of the battery pack, and if the temperature is lower than a first temperature threshold, send a switch-on instruction to the discharge circuit module and the charge circuit module alternately at a regulation frequency. The discharge circuit module is configured to switch on according to the switch-on instruction to enable electricity of the battery pack to flow into the energy storage module. The charge circuit module is configured to switch on according to the switch-on instruction to enable electricity of the energy storage module to flow into the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou, Xiyang Zuo, Wenbin Lu, Xingyuan Wu, Taosheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210184486
    Abstract: This application relates to a pre-charging circuit and a method thereof. The pre-charging circuit includes a controller, a PWM control unit, and a drive unit. The controller and the PWM control unit are electrically connected to the drive unit, and the drive unit is connected to a main switch of a battery management system circuit. When the main switch is turned on, the PWM control unit detects a current in the battery management system circuit and outputs a control signal to the drive unit according to the current. The controller outputs a preset PWM signal to the drive unit, which then turns the main switch off or on according to the received control signal and the PWM signal, to pre-charge a load capacitor of the battery management system circuit when the main switch (S1) is turned on, thereby implementing fast pre-charging by adjusting a pre-charging time of the load capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Zhimin Dan, Jinbo Cai, Meilin Chen, Yizhen Hou, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11021064
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery pack heating apparatus. The battery pack heating apparatus is applicable portably and externally to a vehicle and includes: an electrical energy conversion component, including an energy storage device, a first set of switches and a second set of switches; a heating interface component including a plurality of heating interfaces connected to the energy storage device via the first set of switches to form a first heating loop and connected to the energy storage device via the second set of switches to form a second heating loop, each of the plurality of heating interfaces being configured to be connected to a battery pack of one vehicle; and a heating control module configured to control a direction of electrical energy transfer between the electrical energy conversion component and the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Zhimin Dan, Xiyang Zuo, Wei Zhang, Yizhen Hou, Wenbin Lu, Xingyuan Wu, Taosheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210146794
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Shichao LI, Yanhua LU, Yizhen HOU, Wei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210144052
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery management system and a communication method. The method includes: determining, by a main BMU, from a plurality of managed units a fault unit that communicates abnormally with the main BMU, and transmitting, by the main BMU, to a backup BMU a fault frequency at which the fault unit communicates abnormally with the main BMU; selecting, by the backup BMU, from the managed units a managed unit that communicates normally with the backup BMU and the fault unit as a target unit; transmitting, by the backup BMU, frequency-conversion information to the fault unit through the target unit based on the fault frequency; converting, by the fault unit, its frequency to a frequency; transmitting the frequency to the main BMU if the backup BMU communicates normally with the fault unit using the frequency; and communicating, by the main BMU, with the fault unit using the frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporay Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Zhimin DAN, Wenbin LU, Wei ZHANG, Yizhen HOU, Jia XU, Jiechao LUO, Teng YU
  • Patent number: 11001165
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery pack heating apparatus and a method of battery pack heating control. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a battery pack heating apparatus is provided. The battery pack heating apparatus is applicable portably and externally to a vehicle and includes: an electrical energy conversion component, including an energy storage device, a first set of switches and a second set of switches; a heating interface connected to the energy storage device via the first set of switches to form a first heating loop and connected to the energy storage device via the second set of switches to form a second heating loop, the heating interface being configured to be connected to a battery pack of one vehicle; and a heating control module configured to control a direction of electrical energy transfer between the battery pack and the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Yizhen Hou, Zhimin Dan, Wei Zhang, Xiyang Zuo, Xingyuan Wu, Taosheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 10996251
    Abstract: Provided is a method and device for obtaining internal side and external side insulation resistances of a relay. The method includes steps of controlling the insulation resistance obtaining circuit to output a low-frequency AC signal; when both the main relay and the pre-charge relay are switched off, obtaining an internal side insulation resistance of the main relay according to the low-frequency AC signal; if the internal side insulation resistance of the main relay is normal, controlling the pre-charge relay to be switched on; and when the main relay is switched off and the pre-charge relay is switched on, obtaining an external side insulation resistance value of the main relay according to the low-frequency AC signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou, Weiping Sun, Meng Li, Wei Zhang, Teng Yu
  • Patent number: 10992327
    Abstract: A system comprises an antenna, a port converting device, an information transmission device, a shield case, and a reference voltage end; wherein the antenna, the port converting device, and the information transmission device are connected sequentially, and the information transmission device is disposed within the shield case, and both the shield case and the port converting device is connected with the reference voltage end; the antenna is configured for a conversion between a radio frequency signal and a single-ended signal; the port converting device is configured for a conversion between the single-ended signal and target differential mode signals; the information transmission device is configured to transmit and process the target differential mode signals; and parameters of components in the port converting device is determined according to a preset communication frequency and a voltage amplitude and phase of a differential mode signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Yizhen Hou, Zhimin Dan, Wei Zhang, Jiechao Luo, Wenbin Lu, Jia Xu, Teng Yu
  • Publication number: 20210119547
    Abstract: The present application discloses a system and method for providing a constant power source. The system includes: a main control module configured to receive a wake-up time and send the wake-up time to a timer device; a timer power supply module configured to supply power to the timer device according to electric energy in a high-voltage battery pack; a high-voltage power supply module configured to supply power to a power conversion module according to the electric energy in the high-voltage battery pack; the timer device configured to set a wake-up clock according to the wake-up time, start timing when a battery management system (BMS) enters into sleep, and send a discharge instruction to the high-voltage battery pack when the timing reaches the wake-up time; the power conversion module configured to convert high-voltage electric energy output from the high-voltage battery pack into low-voltage electric energy and supply power to the BMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Liansong Wang, Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou, Fangjie Zhou, Changjian Liu
  • Publication number: 20210119275
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of circuit technology, and disclose a method for correcting a SOC of a battery pack, a battery management system, and a vehicle. The method for correcting an SOC of a battery includes: determining, when a charging process of the battery pack starts, whether an initial SOC value of the battery pack is less than or equal to a preset electricity quantity threshold; when the initial SOC value of the battery pack is less than or equal to the preset electricity quantity threshold, recording state information of the battery pack during the charging process, and generating a differential capacity curve of the battery pack according to the state information; correcting a current SOC value of the battery pack according to the differential capacity curve and a voltage-SOC reference curve of a non-decay zone of the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Mingshu DU, Shichao Li, Jian Ruan, Yizhen Hou, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang