Patents by Inventor Danfei Gu

Danfei Gu 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).

  • Publication number: 20240135060
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for decoupling electric field of electrochemical model based on a parallel targeting method. The method includes selecting a negative or positive electrode region as a calculation region; selecting a solid or liquid phase current as an observed quantity, and a solid and liquid phase potential as a costate variable; inserting nodes between two endpoints of the calculation region, and determining a target value of the observed quantity of each node; constructing N calculation units; respectively performing a target shooting on the N calculation units; and determining whether a distance between the target shooting value of the observed quantity of the end point of each calculation unit and the target value of the observed quantity of the node corresponding to the end point of the calculation unit is within a preset range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mingchen Jiang, Danfei Gu, Siyuan Chen, Qian Li, Liangchang Wei, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240133958
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for step parameter identification based on an electrochemical model, including: identifying a first type of electrochemical parameters through a reduced-order electrochemical model by utilizing different preset charge-discharge rate data; determining a first type of target electrochemical parameters identified by the reduced-order electrochemical model through extrapolation; the first type of target electrochemical parameters including an approximate value of the first type of electrochemical parameters or the first type of electrochemical parameters at a specific rate; identifying the first type of electrochemical parameters, which includes solid-phase lithium concentration and exchange current, through a full-order electrochemical model by taking the first type of target electrochemical parameters as actual values of the first type of electrochemical parameters of the full-order electrochemical model; and identifying a second type of electrochemical parameters, which include
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Qian Li, Siyuan Chen, Mingchen Jiang, Jie Zhang, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240069117
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method, a system, a device, and a medium for detecting a battery state of health. The method includes extracting a target curve segment from a first charging characteristic curve of a battery under test; and determining, according to a corresponding relation between characteristic parameters of the target curve segment and the battery state of health, the battery state of health matching the characteristic parameters of the target curve segment, and determining the battery state of health as the battery state of health of the battery under test. By utilizing said corresponding relation as the calculation basis, the invention improves the reliability and accuracy of the detection of battery state of health detection. The invention also tracks instances of abusive conditions that accelerate battery aging, assessing whether such conditions accelerate battery degradation and issuing warnings accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Ding, Yanwen Zhang, Weikun Wu, Haowen Ren, Zonglin Cai, Guopeng Zhou, Xiaohua Chen, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Pei Song, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao
  • Publication number: 20240069116
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method, a system, an electronic device, and a storage medium for determining performance of a power battery. The method includes the following steps: acquiring historical data of the power battery in at least two charging processes; determining, according to historical data in one charging process, a dQ/dV curve and a direct current internal resistance corresponding to said charging process; calculating a relative change rate of internal resistance capacity in any two charging processes; and determining the performance of the power battery according to the relative change rate of internal resistance capacity and a relative change rate of internal resistance capacity range corresponding to fault type. The invention can effectively determine whether the performance of the power battery is abnormal by combining, in the two charging processes, the target peak value of a dQ/dV curve of the power battery and the change in direct current internal resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Ding, Yanwen Zhang, Weikun Wu, Haowen Ren, Zonglin Cai, Xiaohua Chen, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Pei Song, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao
  • Publication number: 20240038341
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method, a system and a storage medium for consistency analysis of a lithium battery module. The method includes acquiring various microscopic electrochemical parameters corresponding to each single cell in the lithium battery module; respectively establishing a time sequence database of the microscopic electrochemical parameters corresponding to each single cell, based on each of the microscopic electrochemical parameters; and performing consistency analysis on each single cell that meets a preset circuit connection relation based on each time sequence database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Mingchen Jiang, Siyuan Chen, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Qian Li
  • Publication number: 20240027529
    Abstract: The invention discloses method system for detecting lithium precipitation of lithium batteries. The method includes acquiring voltage-time data of lithium batteries of a battery module; performing feature extraction on the voltage-time data to obtain voltage-time data of charging and discharging in accordance with a preset range; performing an inflection point judgment on the voltage-time data of the charging and discharging; determining that there exists the inflection point, and grading the inflection point time when the inflection point occurs; and detecting an amount of lithium precipitation of the lithium batteries based on the grade of the inflection point time. The method combines data feature extraction and electrochemical model in big data and establishes a series of log and threshold system to detect and monitor lithium precipitation and early warn for lithium batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Siyuan Chen, Mingchen Jiang, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Xiaohua Chen
  • Publication number: 20240012055
    Abstract: The invention provides method, system and storage medium for solving electric field physical quantity in an electrochemical model. The method includes selecting a negative or positive electrode region as a calculation region; selecting a solid or liquid phase current as an observed quantity, and a solid- and liquid-phase potentials as a costate variable; inserting nodes between two endpoints of the calculation region, and determining a target value of the observed quantity of each node; constructing N calculation units; sequentially completing shooting of each of the N calculation units until a convergent solution of the target shooting of the N-th calculation unit is obtained, and taking the convergent solution as a deterministic solution of the costate variable; obtaining the physical quantity of each spatial point at the present time according to the observed quantity of the starting point at the present time and the deterministic solution of the costate variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Mingchen Jiang, Siyuan Chen, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240003978
    Abstract: The invention discloses method and system for target-based electric field decoupling for an electrochemical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Siyuan Chen, Mingchen Jiang, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230410949
    Abstract: The invention discloses method and system for predicting working conditions of lithium batteries. The method includes performing a Fourier transform on a physicochemical state quantity distribution function of a solid-phase lithium battery to calculate a physicochemical state quantity distribution series function in a frequency domain and obtain a solid-phase physicochemical state quantity in the frequency domain according to the physicochemical state quantity distribution series function; performing a Laplace transform on a partial differential governing equation set of the solid-phase physicochemical state quantity to obtain a solid-phase ordinary differential equation set in a complex frequency domain and obtain an analytical solution in the time domain through an inverse Laplace transform; and calculating, according to the analytical solution, a predicted value of the working conditions of the solid-phase lithium battery at any location and at any time in the future.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Mingchen Jiang, Siyuan Chen, Weikun Wu, Pei Song, Enhai Zhao, Xiao Yan, Xiaohua Chen, Peng Ding, Pingchao Hao
  • Publication number: 20230408584
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrochemical model based method for early warning for a lithium battery, including establishing a three-dimensional electrochemical model for the lithium battery, and dividing the lithium battery into three portions respectively including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator; performing spatial discretization on the three-dimensional electrochemical model according to a preset accuracy to establish the four-dimensional spatial coordinates of the lithium battery; obtaining a current lithium ion concentration in each position of the lithium battery by simulation based on the four-dimensional space coordinates, a historical lithium ion concentration and a historical diffusion coefficient of the lithium battery; and performing early warning for the lithium battery according to the current lithium ion concentration in each position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Danfei Gu, Mingchen Jiang, Siyuan Chen, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Peng Ding, Pei Song, Weikun Wu, Xiaohua Chen
  • Publication number: 20230384384
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method and a device for detecting the lithium intercalation amounts of lithium ion battery electrodes and a battery management system therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Pingchao Hao, Weikun Wu, Xiaohua Chen, Danfei Gu, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Pei Song, Peng Ding
  • Publication number: 20230375622
    Abstract: The invention provides a Kalman filter-based SOC estimation method, system and medium, and an electronic device therewith. The method includes extracting a cell voltage of a battery pack to calculate a terminal voltage, and matching the terminal voltage in a preset lookup table to obtain an initial value of the SOC; calculating an initial capacity of the battery pack based on the initial value of the SOC, and calculating a state value of the SOC and an observed value of the SOC in an interval period based on the initial capacity; calculating a Kalman gain based on the state value of the SOC and the observed value of the SOC, and updating an estimated value of the SOC based on the Kalman gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Guopeng Zhou, Peng Ding, Enhai Zhao, Xiao Yan, Xiaohua Chen, Pei Song, Weikun Wu, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao
  • Publication number: 20230361593
    Abstract: The invention provides method, apparatus and storage medium for adjusting the charging-discharging efficiency ratio of an energy storage power station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Pei Song, Zhiyi Zhang, Yanan Guo, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao, Peng Ding, Weikun Wu, Guopeng Zhou, Wenfu Wang, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Xiaohua Chen
  • Publication number: 20230280404
    Abstract: The invention provides method and device for battery state-of-charge (SOC) estimation. The method comprises establishing an electrochemical model for a battery; setting an initial value of the current SOC of the battery, and determining an initial distribution of solid-phase lithium ion concentrations in the electrochemical model according to the initial value of the SOC; performing a charge/discharge test on the battery, collecting measured voltage and current of the battery after a first time interval; calculating an output voltage and a distribution of the solid-phase lithium ion concentrations at a current acquisition time based on the measured current and the initial distribution of the solid-phase lithium ion concentrations; and when a voltage difference between the output voltage and the measured voltage is within a preset range, estimating the current SOC value of the battery based on the distribution of the solid-phase lithium ion concentration at the current acquisition time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Pingchao Hao, Danfei Gu, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Pei Song, Peng Ding, Weikun Wu, Xiaohua Chen
  • Publication number: 20230273583
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and a method for managing an energy storage power station. The apparatus includes: a first main control module communicatively connected with a battery cluster management unit (BCMU) for collecting battery information of the first priority in an energy storage power station system, and performing protection and control on the energy storage power station system according to the battery information of the first priority; and a second main control module communicatively connected with the first main control module and the BCMU, respectively, for collecting battery information of the second priority in the energy storage power station system. The second main control module operably transmits the collected battery information of the second priority to the first main control module. The first main control module operably manages the battery information of the first priority and the battery information of the second priority in a unified manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Pei Song, Enhai Zhao, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao, Peng Ding, Weikun Wu, Guopeng Zhou, Xiao Yan, Xiaohua Chen
  • Publication number: 20230236252
    Abstract: The invention provides methods, devices and non-transitory tangible computer-readable storage media for estimating a state of charge of a battery and extracting a charging curve of the battery. The method for estimating the state of charge of the battery includes estimating a first state of charge of the battery; determining a charging curve that conforms to the present charging scenario, wherein the present charging scenario is characterized by at least one of parameters including an ambient temperature, a charging rate, an internal resistance, a state of health, a lifespan, and an open circuit voltage of the battery; and correcting the first state of charge according to the charging curve to obtain a final state of charge of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Peng Ding, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao, Pei Song, Weikun Wu, Xiaohua Chen, Guopeng Zhou, Mingchen Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230236265
    Abstract: The invention provides a method, a system and a terminal device for analyzing states of battery packs in a battery cluster. The method includes acquiring cell voltages of each battery pack in the battery cluster within a preset time; performing data cleaning on the acquired cell voltages; calculating a voltage standard score of each cell based on the cell voltages after data cleaning; calculating a mean value and a standard deviation of said voltage standard score; for each battery pack, plotting scattered points based on the mean value and the standard deviation, and performing closed curve fitting to the scattered points to obtain a closed curve; and analyzing the state of the battery pack based on the closed curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Weikun Wu, Peng Ding, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao, Pei Song, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Xiaohua Chen, Guopeng Zhou, Mingchen Jiang, Longfei Ye
  • Publication number: 20230236264
    Abstract: The invention provides methods, systems and terminal devices for analyzing a state of a battery pack based on cell parameters thereof. The method comprises acquiring cell voltages of each cell and total voltages of the battery pack within a preset time; performing data cleaning on the cell voltages and the total voltages of the battery pack; calculating a voltage standard score of the cells based on the cell voltages after data cleaning, and calculating a voltage standard score of the battery pack based on the total voltages after data cleaning; and performing a time-domain analysis on the voltage standard score of each cell and/or the voltage standard score of the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Weikun Wu, Peng Ding, Danfei Gu, Pingchao Hao, Pei Song, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Xiaohua Chen, Guopeng Zhou, Mingchen Jiang, Wei Xiao
  • Publication number: 20230207907
    Abstract: The invention discloses method and apparatus for quantitative analysis of battery performance and an electronic device. The method includes performing a full charging/discharging process on a to-be-analyzed battery cluster, and determining differential capacities versus voltage of a plurality of cells in the battery cluster at different times; determining first times and first states of charge (SOC) when the differential capacities versus voltage of the cells reach a first peak and second times and second SOCs when the differential capacities versus voltage of the cells reach a second peak, and determining capacity parameters of the cells; and performing quantitative analysis on the battery cluster according to the capacity parameters of the plurality of cells. Accordingly, the battery cluster does not need to be disassembled. The capacity parameters can be quickly and accurately determined through a full charging/discharging process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Xiao Yan, Zihan Yuan, Danfei Gu
  • Publication number: 20230204681
    Abstract: The invention discloses method and apparatus for operation and maintenance of a battery and an electronic device. The method includes: performing a charging/discharging process on a to-be-analyzed battery cluster, and determining key battery parameters (KBP) of a plurality of cells in the battery cluster; determining whether the battery cluster is abnormal depending on whether the KBPs of the cells in the battery cluster exceed a normal range; and performing operation and maintenance on the battery cluster in a case that the battery cluster is abnormal. The internal resistance, the capacity parameter, and the self-discharge parameter of the cells are used as the KBPs of the cells. Based on the KBPs, whether the cells are abnormal can be determined more accurately, and the cause of the abnormality can be determined. Accordingly, more accurate operation and maintenance can be subsequently realized for the battery cluster when required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Xiao Yan, Qiqi Yin, Danfei Gu