Battery-fed Motor Systems Patents (Class 318/139)
  • Patent number: 11940194
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes: a rectifying unit configured to rectify an input AC power, a buck converter that is configured to step down a voltage of the rectified power and that is configured to output DC power having the step down voltage, a first inverter that is connected to an output terminal of the buck converter and that is configured to convert the DC power into AC power to drive a first motor, a second inverter that is connected to the output terminal of the buck converter, that is disposed in parallel to the first inverter, and that is configured to convert the DC power into AC power to drive a second motor, and a converter controller configured to control an output voltage of the DC power of the buck converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinho Cho, Taeyoung Park, Jongwon Heo
  • Patent number: 11933023
    Abstract: A plus-side main connection line (27) connects electrical equipment (21), (22) to a plus terminal (26A) of a battery (26). A plus-side isolating switch (28) is provided in the plus-side main connection line (27) to connect or disconnect the electrical equipment (21), (22) and or from the plus terminal (26A) of the battery (26). A plus-side auxiliary connection line (30) connects a urea SCR controller (25) to the plus terminal (26A) of the battery (26) in a position upstream of the plus-side isolating switch (28). A minus-side main connection line (32) connects a minus terminal (26B) of the battery (26) to ground. A minus-side isolating switch (33) is provided in the minus-side main connection line (32) to connect or disconnect the minus terminal (26B) of the battery (26) and or from ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Tago, Takenori Hiroki, Tomoya Murazumi, Hironori Itou, Daiki Machida, Junya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11916504
    Abstract: An energy conversion device is provided. The energy conversion device includes a reversible pulse-width modulation (PWM) rectifier (102) and a motor coil (103). The motor coil (103) includes L sets of winding units, and each set of winding unit is connected with the reversible PWM rectifier (102), where L?2 and is a positive integer. At least two sets of heating circuits of a to-be-heated device are formed by an external power supply (100), the reversible PWM rectifier (102), and the winding units in the motor coil (103). The energy conversion device controls the reversible PWM rectifier (102) according to a control signal, so that a current outputted from the external power supply (100) flows through at least two sets of winding units in the motor coil (103) to generate heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heping Ling, Jicheng Li, Changjiu Liu, Feiyue Xie, Yuxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11901582
    Abstract: A power supply device disposes an end plate at each end of a battery stack in a stacked direction of the battery stack, and couples a binding bar to the end plate, so as to fix battery cells. The binding bar includes a plate-shaped bar that extends in the stacked direction of the battery stack, and an engagement block that is fixed to the plate-shaped bar and protrudes as a face opposing an outer peripheral face of the end plate. The End plate includes a fitting part to which the engagement block is guided, and a stopper. The fitting part is disposed on the outer peripheral face of the end plate. The stopper is disposed closer to the battery stack with respect to the fitting part, and abuts the engagement block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinobu Terauchi, Tetsuji Omura
  • Patent number: 11890955
    Abstract: A charging control method for an electric vehicle is configured to boost a charging voltage by using a motor and an inverter, and includes steps of determining whether a current imbalance control is normally operated based on currents input from the motor to three-phase inputs of the inverter during charging, determining whether a current sensor is deteriorated based on a result of an internal temperature sensing of the inverter when the current imbalance control is in a normal operation, and adjusting a scale of the current sensor to maintain the charging, when a deterioration of the current sensor is detected, as a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Hyeon Bin, Han Hee Park, Ho Sun Jang, Ho Rim Choi, Tae Il Yoo, Seong Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11876469
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus which drives a motor including a plurality of windings corresponding to a plurality of phases, respectively, includes: a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings; a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings; and a controller obtaining a vector corresponding to a voltage command of the motor by combining switching vectors which cause difference between a common mode voltage of the first inverter and a common mode voltage of the second inverter to be zero and configured to control the plurality of first switching elements and the plurality of second switching elements in a pulse width modulation method based on the obtained vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kang Ho Jeong, Sang Cheol Shin, Jung Ik Ha, Hyeon Gyu Choi, Jae Hoon Sim
  • Patent number: 11855568
    Abstract: A motor driving device for driving a motor having multiple windings corresponding to multiple phases, respectively, may include: a first inverter including multiple first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the multiple windings; a second inverter including multiple second switching elements and connected a second end of each of the multiple windings; a third switching element configured to connect/disconnect points, at which the number of turns of each of the multiple windings is partitioned based on a predetermined ratio, to/from each other; and a controller configured to control, based on the required output of the motor, an on/off state of the first switching elements to the third switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Hyeon Bin, Han Hee Park, Seong Min Kim, Ho Rim Choi, Seon Mi Lee, Sang Woo Park, Tae Il Yoo, Ho Sun Jang
  • Patent number: 11850947
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a motor, an inverter, a first power storage device, with a large-capacity characteristic, a second power storage device, with a high-power characteristic, a power converter and a circuit. The power converter has a voltage step down function during power driving. In the circuit, the power converter is connected to the first power storage device and the second power storage device. Thus, the first power storage device and the second power storage device are parallel to each other. During the power driving of the motor, the power converter steps down an output voltage of the first power storage device to supply energy from the first power storage device and the second power storage device to the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C.
    Inventors: Takaharu Takeshita, Mahmoud Abdelnaby Sayed Abdallah, Tatsuyuki Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11841385
    Abstract: A diagnostic method of a three-phase AC motor including: applying predetermined voltage in an order of first, second, and third current paths among three current paths in which current flows from a first phase winding to a second phase winding, from the second phase winding to a third phase winding, from the third phase winding to the first phase winding, respectively, via a neutral point; and detecting an abnormality based on current values flowing in these paths, wherein the second current path is a path in which a rate of change of generated torque to change of the rotation angle at a current rotation angle of the motor is greatest among the three paths, and a rotation direction of the motor when the first current path is energized is a direction in which an absolute value of torque generated when starting energization of the second current path decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuta Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11801754
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, as techniques to transition between and/or among safety states of an electric motor driver unit (EMDU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
    Inventors: Jeong Kwon, Marko Sinistaj
  • Patent number: 11801763
    Abstract: A vehicle has a drive system that includes a battery, two inverters, an electric machine, and switches. The vehicle also has a controller that, responsive to charge mode, operates the switches to couple one of the inverters to a charge port and operates at least one of the inverters such that DC current from the charge port sequentially flows through the one of the inverters, the electric machine, and the other of the inverters to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ali Najmabadi
  • Patent number: 11770079
    Abstract: An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor and a controller. The motor is configured to be electrically coupled to a battery pack and to be driven with electric power from the battery pack. The controller is configured to acquire an internal resistance information of the battery pack and to change control of the motor based on the internal resistance information acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11760333
    Abstract: A method for controlling the longitudinal dynamics of a vehicle, where the vehicle has a friction brake system brakes, a drive system with an electromotive drive acting on at least one wheel, and a battery for supplying power to the electromotive drive determines state information which describes the state of the vehicle and/or the state of the brake system and/or of the drive system. Route information is determined which describes the route profile of the vehicle. An action plan for implementing a future braking request by the friction brakes and/or the electromotive drive on the basis of the state information and the route information is determined. The action plan specifies, for future times and/or areas on the route, whether a braking request of the vehicle is to be implemented by means of the friction brake and/or the drive system and implements a braking request accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jens Hoffmann, Uwe Bach, Martin Semsch, Matthias Schulitz
  • Patent number: 11757298
    Abstract: A charging system and method using a motor driving system which can charge a vehicle battery using charging equipment providing various voltages using a motor driving system provided in a vehicle and improve charging efficiency by selectively determining a charging mode in response to an actual voltage state of the vehicle battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Hyun Bae, Jung Mo Yu, Jae Ho Hwang, Joo Young Park, Yong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11745550
    Abstract: A vehicle having one or more pneumatic wheels, the vehicle including an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and an intake manifold in fluid communication with the cylinder, a tire inflation system configured to direct air into at least one of the one or more inflatable wheels, an air assembly configured to supply air at a first pressure higher than atmospheric pressure to both the intake manifold and the tire inflation system, where the air assembly includes a first compressor stage and a second compressor stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Joseph R. Gonsowski, Pratir Punjani, Brian Bratvold
  • Patent number: 11750128
    Abstract: An external force estimation device is configured to estimate an external force acting on a motor. The external force estimation device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: calculate an output torque of the motor by using a value of a current supplied to the motor; estimate an inertia torque of the motor by using rotational position information of the motor; estimate a first friction torque of the motor by using the rotational position information of the motor; perform temperature-based correction for the first friction torque by using temperature information of the motor; and estimate the external force by subtracting the inertia torque and the first friction torque after the temperature-based correction from the output torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taro Takahashi, Akira Hatano, Naoki Mima
  • Patent number: 11716049
    Abstract: A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ichikawa, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Noriyuki Wada, Kotaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11708008
    Abstract: A battery system for a motor vehicle or other system includes a voltage bus with positive and negative bus rails, and first and second battery packs. The battery packs are arranged between and connected to rails. High-voltage switches are collectively configured to selectively interconnect the battery packs in a series or parallel battery arrangement. The switches include a pair of mutually-exclusive three-way/two-position contactors each having a series connection position and parallel connection position corresponding to the respective series and parallel battery arrangements. An electric powertrain includes an electrical load connected to the battery system, and a controller coupled to the switches. In response to a battery mode selection signal, the controller selectively transitions the contactors from the series connection position to the parallel connection position, or vice versa. A motor vehicle includes road wheels, a body, and the electric powertrain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Heydel, Christopher Schlaupitz
  • Patent number: 11705738
    Abstract: A system for battery management for electric aircraft batteries includes an energy storage system configured to provide energy to the electric aircraft via a power supply connection, the energy storage system including: a battery pack, a sensor configured to detect a condition parameter of the battery pack and generate a battery datum based on the condition parameter, a pack monitoring unit (PMU) configured to receive the battery datum, and a high voltage disconnect configured to terminate the power supply connection between the battery pack and the electric aircraft; a high voltage bus electrically connected to the high voltage disconnect; a primary functional display configured to display information based on battery datum; and a first controller area network (CAN) bus and a second CAN bus communicatively connected to the PMU, the high voltage bus, and the primary functional display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Braedon Lohe, Cullen Jemison, Andrew Giroux, Tom Hughes
  • Patent number: 11701536
    Abstract: A pedal drive system, in particular for an electric vehicle or a training apparatus, and for generating electrical power from muscle power of a user with at least one pedal and an electric generator, connected mechanically with said at least one pedal, is provided. To improve the haptic feel and feedback at the pedal, a control unit is provided for controlling a feedback torque, applied at said pedal, wherein the control unit comprises a haptic renderer, configured for control of said feedback torque based on at least one user-defined pedal reference trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SWISSMOVE C/O ANWALTS—UND WIRTSCHAFTSKANZLEI KMUFORUM GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Fuchs
  • Patent number: 11673679
    Abstract: An aircraft with electric or hybrid propulsion which includes an electrical installation including at least a first electrical network and at least a second electrical network operating at a voltage higher than that of the first electrical network. This second electrical network includes at least an electrical-energy distribution system, at least a reversible electric motor for aircraft propulsion directly or indirectly connected to the electrical-energy distribution system, at least a reversible electrical system directly or indirectly connected to the electrical-energy distribution system, and a safety unit positioned as close as possible to each electric motor and to each reversible electrical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: David Rousset, Jean-Marc Lacoste
  • Patent number: 11670788
    Abstract: A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Dean King, Timothy Gerard Richter
  • Patent number: 11654789
    Abstract: An electric power supply system includes a battery, an electric power receiving apparatus that is coupled to the battery in parallel with a load and receives and supplies external electric power to the battery, a switching apparatus that allows or cuts off connection of the electric power receiving apparatus and the load to the battery and is switchable between a normal state and a current suppression state when the connection is allowed, and a control apparatus that permits a load driving mode if the external electric power is receivable. In the load driving mode, the control apparatus controls an electrical connection state of the electric power supply system to a first connection state in which the electric power receiving apparatus and the load are coupled to the battery via the switching apparatus in the current suppression state, depending on output electric power of the electric power receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11656291
    Abstract: Used batteries are screened based on a measured Constant-Current Impulse Ratio. A used battery is charged using a Constant Current (CC) until a voltage target is reached, and the current integrated to obtain the CC charge applied, QCC. Then the battery continues to be charged using a Constant Voltage (CV) of the voltage target until the charging current falls to a minimum current target. The current is integrated over the CV period to obtain the CV charge applied, QCV. The measured CCIR is the ratio of QCC to (QCC+QCV). The measured CCIR is input to a calibration curve function to obtain a modeled State of Health (SOH) value. The used battery is sorted for reuse or disposal based on the modeled SOH value. The calibration curve function is obtained by aging new batteries to obtain CCIR and SOH data that are modeled using a neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Minjie Xu, Liya Zheng, Yaofeng Sun
  • Patent number: 11652433
    Abstract: A motor actuator of the present invention includes, between a battery and an inverter, a first solid state relay and a second solid state relay in which directions of parasitic diodes are opposite to each other. When supply of power from the battery to the inverter is to be interrupted, the first solid state relay is brought into an OFF state or all of a plurality of field effect transistors are brought into the OFF state, and then the second solid state relay is brought into the OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Gomi, Masaki Itabashi, Yawara Kato, Kazutoshi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11643165
    Abstract: A bicycle drive unit includes a motor, a second electronic controller and a communication circuit. The motor is configured to assist in propulsion of a bicycle. The second electronic controller controls the motor. The communication circuit is configured to communicate with an operation device that operates a bicycle electric component. The second electronic controller is operable in a third state, in which the motor is drivable, and a fourth state, which consumes less power than the third state and does not drive the motor. The second electronic controller is configured to switch an operation state from the fourth state to the third state upon the communication circuit receiving an input signal while the second electronic controller is operated in the fourth state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeshita, Tetsuya Kitani
  • Patent number: 11639669
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an electrical machine positioned at least partially inward of a core airflow path, the electrical machine including an electrical rotor component and an electrical stator component, a connecting member positioned between the electrical machine and a rotary member, a disconnection device that is positionable between a disengaged position, in which the disconnection device is disengaged from the connecting member, and an engaged position, in which the disconnection device is engaged with the connecting member, and a controller including a processor, where the processor receives a signal from the electrical machine indicative of a fault, and in response to receiving the signal from the electrical machine indicative of the fault, directs the disconnection device to move from the disengaged position to the engaged position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLSKA SP. Z O.O., GENERAL ELECTRIC DEUTSCHLAND HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Bartlomiej Drozd, Miroslaw Sobaniec, Mohamed Osama, Darek Zatorski
  • Patent number: 11639170
    Abstract: A motor-driven vehicle includes: a motor for traveling; an inverter that drives the motor; and a controller configured to perform automatic parking control for parking the motor-driven vehicle at a target parking position without depending on a user's vehicle operation, and prohibit or stop the automatic parking control when a load limitation ratio is less than a threshold value, the load limitation ratio indicating a limitation level of a torque which is able to be output from the motor in response to a required torque for the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Suguru Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 11608073
    Abstract: A system that may include multiple driving related systems that are configured to perform driving related operations; a selection module; multiple fault collection and management units that are configured to monitor statuses of the multiple driving related systems and to report, to the selection module, at least one out of (a) an occurrence of at least one critical fault, (b) an absence of at least one critical fault, (c) an occurrence of at least one non-critical fault, and (d) an absence of at least one non-critical fault; and wherein the selection module is configured to respond to the report by performing at least one out of: (i) reset at least one entity out of the multiple fault collection and management units and the multiple driving related systems; and (ii) select data outputted from a driving related systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Leonid Smolyansky, Yosi Arbeli, Elchanan Rushinek, Shmuel Cohen
  • Patent number: 11603013
    Abstract: A propulsion system for an electric vehicle comprising a high voltage battery unit having a first high voltage battery connected in series with a second high voltage battery, which may also be referred to as a first and second battery bank, and one or more power inverters arranged to connect the battery banks to one or more electric machines. The one or more power inverters and the one or more electric machines are configured to form a first and a second three-phase system. The described architecture incorporating dual battery banks, and dual and/or multiphase inverters and electric machines can provide enhanced redundancy and limp home functionality in cases where a fault or error occurs in the inverter and/or in the electric machine so that a faulty three-phase system can be operated in a safe-state mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Eriksson, Nikitas Sidiropoulos
  • Patent number: 11563392
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods related to an automated footwear platform including motor control techniques. The motor control techniques can include operations such as operating a motor to produce different operating characteristics based on incoming battery voltage. More specifically, the control technique compares incoming battery voltage to a threshold voltage and selects from at least two target operating characteristics. If the voltage transgresses the threshold the motor is controlled to produce a first operating characteristic, and if the voltage does not transgress the threshold the motor is controlled to produce a second operating characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Summer L. Schneider
  • Patent number: 11541960
    Abstract: A man-machine interaction somatosensory vehicle includes a vehicle body and two wheels provided on the vehicle body. The wheels are able to rotate around the vehicle body in a radial direction. The vehicle body further comprising a supporting frame, two pedal devices provided on the supporting frame, a control device, and a driving device for driving the wheels. The supporting frame is of an integral structure and being rotatably connected to the wheels. The pedal devices includes a pedal foot board and a first position sensor located between the pedal foot board and the supporting frame and used for sensing the stress information on the pedal devices. The control device controls, according to the stress information on the two pedal devices, the driving device to drive the wheels to move or steer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU CHIC INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiawei Ying, Keping Xiao
  • Patent number: 11532841
    Abstract: A current of a storage battery is appropriately controlled depending on the situation. In a battery controller, a battery information acquiring unit acquires information on the storage battery. A first allowable current calculating unit calculates a first allowable current of a battery module in accordance with a rated value of a component through which a current flows by charging or discharging of the battery module. A second allowable current calculating unit calculates a second allowable current of the battery module in accordance with an SOC of the battery module on the basis of the information acquired by the battery information acquiring unit. A third allowable current calculating unit calculates a third allowable current of the battery module in accordance with an SOH of the battery module on the basis of the information acquired by the battery information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Yamauchi, Kei Sakabe, Masahiro Yonemoto, Takanori Yamazoe, Keiichiro Ohkawa, Ryohhei Nakao
  • Patent number: 11511637
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus that includes first, second, and third power converter stages connected to a transformer module. At least one of the first, second, and third power converter stages is a multi-level power converter stage that has multiple configurations to generate different output voltages from an input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huibin Zhu, Heping Dai, Yongtao Liang, Weiping Liu
  • Patent number: 11489476
    Abstract: A vehicle power conversion apparatus is provided to reduce an overall system size by integrating a motor controller which generates power and a power supply apparatus which converts the power. The vehicle power conversion apparatus includes a driving motor which is connected to an engine and a power converter which selectively converts power in a plurality of modes to generate the power related to an operation of the driving motor. A first battery supplies the power for the conversion or receives the converted power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Tae-Jong Ha, Byung-Gu Kang, Dae-Woo Lee, Youn-Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 11489477
    Abstract: A power tool with a direct current, DC, power source comprising a controller for controlling a driver circuit driving a brushless motor in a power tool, the driver circuit being coupled to a direct current, DC, power source and including a first switching element pair coupled to a first phase winding of the brushless motor and a second switching element pair coupled to a second phase winding of the brushless motor; and the controller being arranged to alternately switch a first switching element of the first switching element pair and a second switching element of the second switching element pair, wherein the first switching element and the second switching elements are coupled to a respective terminal of the DC power source. A power tool comprising such a controller, and a method of controlling a driver circuit driving a brushless motor in a power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mirka Oy
    Inventors: Caj Nordström, Tomas Södergård
  • Patent number: 11476676
    Abstract: A system for battery management for electric aircraft batteries includes an energy storage system configured to provide energy to the electric aircraft via a power supply connection, the energy storage system including: a battery pack, a sensor configured to detect a condition parameter of the battery pack and generate a battery datum based on the condition parameter, a pack monitoring unit (PMU) configured to receive the battery datum, and a high voltage disconnect configured to terminate the power supply connection between the battery pack and the electric aircraft; a high voltage bus electrically connected to the high voltage disconnect; a primary functional display configured to display information based on battery datum; and a first controller area network (CAN) bus and a second CAN bus communicatively connected to the PMU, the high voltage bus, and the primary functional display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Braedon Lohe, Cullen Jemison, Andrew Giroux, Tom Hughes
  • Patent number: 11465530
    Abstract: A battery regenerative strength control method for an electric vehicle is provided. The method includes: in an initial stage, gradually adjusting a current regenerative strength; in a real-time adjustment stage, dynamically adjusting the current regenerative strength; calculating a corrected regenerative strength according to a historical data when a current time point reaches at least one correction check point; and comparing the corrected regenerative strength with the current regenerative strength to decide whether to update the current regenerative strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Chin-Yi Tsai
  • Patent number: 11458804
    Abstract: An air conditioner cut control system may include a driving condition detection unit detecting operation conditions of a vehicle, an air conditioner controller configured of determining an intake manifold negative pressure stored in a brake booster at a value obtained by subtracting intake manifold pressure from an atmospheric pressure detected by the driving condition detection unit when the air conditioner is operated and an engine control unit (ECU) for integrating the intake manifold negative pressure according to a brake negative pressure prediction logic and determining a virtual brake booster sensor value by modeling change of booster negative pressure according to driving information, and the ECU, and if the virtual brake booster sensor value is below a reference negative pressure of an A/C CUT standard logic, the ECU determines that brake negative pressure is insufficient and activates A/C CUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Tae Hun Jung
  • Patent number: 11454652
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor including a first bus bar, a second bus bar, and a shunt resistor including a shunt resistor body part whose one end portion is bonded to the first bus bar and the other end portion is bonded to the second bus bar and a detection terminal extending from the shunt resistor body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Kawaguchi, Takanori Toma
  • Patent number: 11456603
    Abstract: A safety charging system includes: a motor and an inverter which boost a voltage charged from a high-speed battery charger to a high voltage battery; a current variation amount sensor configured to detect variation amount of a current flowing in a motor coil from the high-speed battery charger; and a controller configured to determine that a rotor of the motor rotates when the variation amount of the current detected in the current variation amount sensor is greater than a reference value and perform control of interrupting a charging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Kyu Lee, Young Chan Byun, Jeong Won Rho
  • Patent number: 11448316
    Abstract: A shift range control apparatus controls driving of a motor in a shift range switching system provided with the motor and a shift range switching mechanism. A drive controller controls the driving of the motor to fit an engaging member in a recess according to a shift range in response to that the shift range is switched. A polarity determination device determines a polarity of a stator, which faces a rotor. The drive controller causes the engaging member to move to the recess according to the shift range, and then performs cancel energization control to energize a coil with a cancellation current which is a current reducing the magnetic flux density of the stator according to the polarity of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Tarui
  • Patent number: 11439411
    Abstract: A system for improved surgical cutting in the presence of surgical debris, the system comprising: a surgical cutter comprising a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end of the surgical cutter being configured to cut bone; a debris detection system mounted to the surgical cutter, the debris detection system comprising: a light source for emitting light; a receiver for receiving light emitted from the light source; and a microprocessor for determining a change in a characteristic of the light emitted by the light source and received by the receiver, and for determining the presence and/or amount of surgical debris present at a surgical site using a change in a characteristic of the light emitted by the light source and received by the receiver; and a controller for varying, based on the presence and/or amount of surgical debris present at the surgical site, at least one of (i) an amount of irrigation supplied to the surgical site, (ii) the feed rate of the surgical cutter, (iii) the direction of the surgi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: THINK Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Micah Forstein, Joel Zuhars
  • Patent number: 11444474
    Abstract: A mobile power source apparatus includes a mobile unit having a platform structure, a frame connected to the platform structure and multiple wheels rotatably connected to the platform structure to promote moving the mobile unit. An electronics power module is connected to a DC power source defining a high voltage DC battery. The electronics power module converts DC energy of the DC battery to at least one of an alternating current (AC) power and a direct current (DC) power. A wireless communication device promotes wireless communication of a battery state-of-charge (SOC) of the high voltage DC battery. A liquid cooling thermal system provides positive cooling of the electronics power module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chandra S. Namuduri, Benjamin Christian, Thomas W. Nehl, Rashmi Prasad
  • Patent number: 11441626
    Abstract: Provided is an electric linear motion actuator that enables size reduction and cost reduction while increasing the instantaneous output of an electric motor. A control device (2) of the electric linear motion actuator includes: a motor driver (24) configured to control power supplied to a coil (4b) of an electric motor (4); a power storage unit (21) connected to a power supply device (3) and the motor driver (24); a current flow direction restriction unit (20) disposed between the power supply device (3) and the power storage unit (21), which causes current to pass only in a direction in which power is supplied from the power supply device (3); and a step-up unit (19) configured to step up voltage of the power supply device (3) and provide the stepped-up voltage to the power storage unit (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yui Masuda
  • Patent number: 11437672
    Abstract: Electrical energy store (1), device and/or vehicle and method for producing an electrical energy store (1) comprising a control unit (11) and electrical energy storage cells (2), each comprising a cell controller (31), wherein the control unit (11) comprises a printed circuit board which is cohesively connected to the respective cell controller (31) of each electrical energy storage cell (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Ruehle, Boris Gendlin, Ionut Marian Lica, Matthias Oechsle, Thomas Dittert, Maximilian Russ-Mohl
  • Patent number: 11428741
    Abstract: A method and device for estimating an open circuit voltage of a battery based on a gas-liquid dynamic model, includes the following steps: deriving an undetermined equation for estimating the open circuit voltage according to a gas-liquid dynamic model; identifying the estimation equation parameters according to experimental data; designing a method for estimating the open circuit voltage according to the complete equation for estimating open circuit voltage and calculating to obtain an estimated value of the open circuit voltage. The estimation equation of open circuit voltage includes the battery temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Biao Chen, Haobin Jiang, Huayang Sun, Huanhuan Li, Lei Hua
  • Patent number: 11394330
    Abstract: A current command module is configured to, based on a direct current (DC) bus voltage for an electric motor of the vehicle, generate a d-axis current command for the electric motor and a q-axis current command for the electric motor. A voltage command module configured to generate voltage commands based on the d-axis current command and the q-axis current command. A battery switching control module is configured to: determine a voltage operating state of a battery based on the voltage commands; compare a battery parameter to at least one of a predetermined voltage parameter and a predetermined current parameter during a dwell time when a plurality of switches of the battery are open; and generate a switch control signal to transition at least one switch of the plurality of switches to cause the battery to operate in the voltage operating state based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Lei Hao, Alireza Fatemi, Thomas W. Nehl, Chandra S. Namuduri
  • Patent number: 11370306
    Abstract: An electrically driven, movable underground vehicle and a method for operating the same, includes a chassis with at least two driven drive wheels, an electrical trailing cable for connection to an electrical supply network, an electric drive motor, which is electrically connected to the trailing cable, for driving the drive wheels, and an energy storage unit. The vehicle further includes an auxiliary drive motor with a subsequent hydraulic fluid transmission, a switchgear assembly and a processor for controlling the supply of the electric drive motor and the electric auxiliary drive motor with electrical energy. The drive motor directly drives the drive wheels while bypassing the hydraulic fluid transmission. Also, the energy provided by the energy storage unit is sufficient for driving the drive wheels and for temporarily moving the load-haul-dump machine independently of the supply network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GHH FAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Brandenstein, Thomas Deimel
  • Patent number: 11364811
    Abstract: A controller generates a target motor torque and target accessory power information during operation of an electric vehicle. The target motor torque and target accessory power information maintain a DC-link of the electric vehicle powertrain within a safe DC-link operating range. The DC-link has a DC-link voltage that is used to supply an accessory device and a motor. The accessory device is disposed on the electric vehicle and includes vehicle indictors, hydraulics, or any other accessory involved in the operation of the vehicle. The motor drives the vehicle. The controller receives the DC-link voltage, motor speed, desired output torque information, desired accessory power information, and the safe DC-link operating range and generates therefrom the target motor torque and the target accessory power information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Motiv Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Elias Stein, Tai-Sik Hwang, Justin Tomlin, James Michael Castelaz