Patents by Inventor Heping Ling

Heping Ling 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: 20250145148
    Abstract: A vehicle drift control method and system, and a vehicle are provided. The vehicle drift control method comprises: in response to a drift operation instruction by a user, obtaining a whole-vehicle required torque and vehicle state parameters; determining a front-axle torque ratio according to the state parameters; determining a front-axle required torque according to the front-axle torque ratio and the whole-vehicle required torque; and performing torque control respectively on a front-axle motor and a rear-axle motor according to the front-axle required torque and the rear-axle required torque, such that the torque distribution between the front and rear axles is more reasonable, and the drift duration and the drift safety are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Heping LING, Mingchuan SHI, Hongxia WANG, Luo FU
  • Publication number: 20250141389
    Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a three-phase inverter and a three-phase motor. A first terminal of the three-phase inverter is connected to a positive electrode of a power battery. A second terminal of the three-phase inverter is connected to a negative electrode of the power battery Three phase coils of the three-phase motor are respectively connected to midpoints of three phase legs of the three-phase inverter. The motor drive apparatus is configured to simultaneously control (i) a process of charging the power battery by a power supply module, (ii) a torque of the three-phase motor at a zero output, and (iii) the three-phase inverter and the three-phase motor to heat a heat exchange medium flowing through at least one of the three-phase inverter or the three-phase motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Heping LING, Hua PAN, Feiyue XIE, Lijun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250074209
    Abstract: A vehicle torque control method includes: a wheel speed of a wheel corresponding to a vehicle drive shaft is acquired by a vehicle controller, and an equivalent rotating speed of a motor is calculated based on the wheel speed of the wheel. An actual rotating speed of the motor corresponding to the drive shaft is acquired by the vehicle controller, and based on the equivalent rotating speed of the motor and the actual rotating speed of the motor corresponding to the drive shaft, an equivalent rotating speed difference of the motor corresponding to the drive shaft is calculated. A correcting torque value is acquired by the vehicle controller, based on the equivalent rotating speed difference of the motor corresponding to the drive shaft. An output torque of the motor corresponding to the drive shaft is adjusted by the vehicle controller, based on the correcting torque value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Mingchuan SHI, Hao ZHANG, Chao YIN, Hongxia WANG
  • Publication number: 20250074210
    Abstract: A vehicle torque control method includes: step 101, acquiring vehicle traveling parameters; step 102, determining a torque adjustment value of a driving shaft of a vehicle according to the vehicle traveling parameters; and step 103, adjusting the torque of the driving shaft of the vehicle according to the torque adjustment value, wherein the vehicle traveling parameters comprise wheel rotating speeds at two ends of the driving shaft of the vehicle. Further disclosed are a vehicle torque control apparatus, a vehicle and a storage medium. A torque adjustment value of each driving shaft of a vehicle is determined by means of wheel rotating speeds at two ends of the driving shaft of the vehicle, and torque adjustment is performed on all driving shafts of the vehicle, such that the torque adjustment is more comprehensive; and the torques of the driving shafts are adjusted in a linkage manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Mingchuan SHI, Chao YIN, Luo FU, Yuexu YUAN
  • Publication number: 20250058647
    Abstract: A vehicle torque control method includes: obtaining a steering wheel angle and a vehicle steering speed parameter; determining a current driving state of a vehicle based on the steering wheel angle and the vehicle steering speed parameter, and controlling output torques of a front driver and a rear driver of the vehicle based on the current driving state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Heping LING, Mingchuan SHI, Hao ZHANG, Pengxiang LI
  • Publication number: 20250050731
    Abstract: A vehicle torque control method, comprising: acquiring a front axle equivalent axle speed and a rear axle equivalent axle speed of a vehicle, and determining an equivalent axle speed difference between front axles and rear axles of the vehicle according to the front axle equivalent axle speed and the rear axle equivalent axle speed; determining a drive shaft torque adjustment value according to the equivalent axle speed difference; and adjusting an output torque of a drive shaft motor according to the drive shaft torque adjustment value. Also disclosed are a vehicle torque control apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Mingchuan SHI, Hongxia WANG, Hao ZHANG, Binhao ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20250046904
    Abstract: A battery heating system includes: a power battery pack including a first battery assembly and a second battery assembly connected to each other at a connection point, buck-boost inverters connected in parallel to form a first bus terminal and a second bus terminal, and a controller connected to a control terminal of the inverter bridge and configured to control self-heating of the first battery assembly and the second battery assembly. A center line is led out at the connection point. Each buck-boost inverters includes an inverter bridge and an inductor. The first bus terminal is connected to a positive electrode of the power battery pack. The second bus terminal is connected to a negative electrode of the power battery pack. A first terminal of the inductor is connected to a midpoint of the inverter bridge. A second terminal of the inductor is connected to the center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Lei YAN, Wen GAO, Jinyue XIE
  • Publication number: 20250042307
    Abstract: A battery self-heating control method includes: in a first period of each of control periods, configuring a conduction state of an upper bridge arm assembly and a conduction state of a lower bridge arm assembly to be a self-heating state, and in the self-heating state, alternately charging and discharging a first battery pack and/or a second battery pack to heat the battery pack by a current on a second connecting wire between a motor and the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Lei YAN, Wen GAO, Jinyue XIE, Ke ZHU
  • Publication number: 20250046906
    Abstract: A battery self-heating device, comprising: a bridge arm converter, an energy storage element, an inductor and a controller. The controller is configured to control, in a preset state, the connection and disconnection of the bridge arm converter, such that a first power battery and a second power battery are respectively charged/discharged by means of the inductor, and each form a freewheeling circuit by means of the energy storage element, so as to realize the continuous heating of the first power battery and the second power battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Heping LING, Lei YAN, Gan SONG, Wen GAO
  • Publication number: 20250042220
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a first passenger compartment heating loop and a first battery pack heat exchange loop. The first passenger compartment heating loop and the first battery pack heat exchange loop share a compressor and an out-vehicle condenser. The first passenger compartment heating loop further includes an in-vehicle condenser, the first battery pack heat exchange loop further includes a heat conducting component connected to a power battery. The power battery is connected to a self-heating circuit used for self-heating the power battery; and an outlet of the compressor is in communication with an inlet of the in-vehicle condenser. An outlet of the in-vehicle condenser is in communication with an inlet of the out-vehicle condenser, and an outlet of the out-vehicle condenser is in communication with an inlet of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Heping LING, Wei HUANG, Zhen ZHAI, Gan SONG
  • Patent number: 12218613
    Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a three-phase inverter and a three-phase motor. A first terminal of the three-phase inverter is connected to a positive electrode of a power battery. A second terminal of the three-phase inverter is connected to a negative electrode of the power battery Three phase coils of the three-phase motor are respectively connected to midpoints of three phase legs of the three-phase inverter. The motor drive apparatus is configured to simultaneously control (i) a process of charging the power battery by a power supply module, (ii) a torque of the three-phase motor at a zero output, and (iii) the three-phase inverter and the three-phase motor to heat a heat exchange medium flowing through at least one of the three-phase inverter or the three-phase motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yubo Lian, Heping Ling, Hua Pan, Feiyue Xie, Lijun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250018799
    Abstract: A method includes: acquiring a first rotating speed of a first drive motor of a vehicle and a second rotating speed of a second drive motor of the vehicle, where when the first rotating speed is higher than the second rotating speed, an angular acceleration corresponding to the first rotating speed is a first angular acceleration, and an angular acceleration corresponding to the second rotating speed is a second angular acceleration; and determining, in response to that the first angular acceleration is greater than 0, a trackslip trend of the first drive motor according to at least the first rotating speed, the second rotating speed, the first angular acceleration, and the second angular acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Mingchuan SHI, Pengxiang LI, Chao YIN, Guixin ZHOU
  • Patent number: 12172548
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of vehicles, and provides a vehicle and an energy conversion device and a control method therefor. The energy conversion device includes a motor controller, a bus capacitor, a first switch module, a motor, and a second switch module. By controlling the first switch module and the second switch module to be turned on/off, a motor driving circuit can be formed by a battery pack, the first switch module, the bus capacitor, the motor controller, and the motor, and a charging and discharging circuit can be formed by the battery pack, the second switch module, the motor, the motor controller, and the bus capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heping Ling, Hua Pan, Feiyue Xie, Ri Huang, Yihao Zheng
  • Patent number: 12170498
    Abstract: An energy conversion apparatus includes: a first switch module, a motor inverter having a first bus terminal connected with a first end of a battery and a second bus terminal connected with a second end of the battery through the first switch module, a motor winding having a first end connected with a midpoint end of the motor inverter, and a second switch module and a first capacitor connected in series. A first end of the serial-connected second switch module and the first capacitor is connected with a second end of the motor winding. A second end of the serial-connected second switch module and the first capacitor is connected with the second bus terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yubo Lian, Heping Ling, Changjiu Liu, Haijun Liu, Yunfeng Wu
  • Publication number: 20240375547
    Abstract: An integrated heat management system includes: a heat pump subsystem, configured to exchange heat with a passenger compartment and a battery of a vehicle; a high-pressure cooling subsystem, configured to exchange heat with a high-pressure system of the vehicle and the heat pump subsystem; a battery self-heating subsystem, configured to heat the battery through charging and discharging; an air heating subsystem, configured to exchange heat with the passenger compartment; the heat pump subsystem including a compressor and a control valve, one end of the control valve being in communication with an exhaust port of the compressor, and an other end of the control valve being in communication with an air return port of the compressor directly or through a gas-liquid separator; and a control subsystem, configured to control the control valve to be in communication with the exhaust port and the air return port of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Heping LING, Gan SONG, Lei YAN, Yong XIONG
  • Publication number: 20240367499
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an underbody, a rear subframe, and a battery pack. The rear subframe is connected to the underbody. The battery pack is connected to the underbody and is disposed on a lower side of the underbody. A front end surface of the rear subframe includes a limiting surface for the battery pack to extend backward, and at least a part of an upper surface of the battery pack forms a portion of at least a portion of a floor of a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Bengang YI, Heping LING, Junfei YAN, Tengyong LIU
  • Publication number: 20240367726
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an underbody, a front subframe, and a battery pack. The front subframe is connected to the underbody. The battery pack is connected to the underbody, and is disposed on a lower side of the underbody. A rear end surface of the front subframe includes a limiting surface for the battery pack to extend forward, and at least a part of an upper surface of the battery pack forms a portion of a floor of a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yubo LIAN, Bengang YI, Heping LING, Junfei YAN, Tengyong LIU
  • Publication number: 20240367553
    Abstract: A battery self-heating apparatus and method, and a vehicle include a first energy processing apparatus, a second energy processing apparatus, and a controller connected to each other. The controller is configured to control connect/disconnect of a first inverter and a second inverter in a first preset state, to enable a first power battery and a second power battery to be charged/discharged through the first energy processing apparatus and the second energy processing apparatus, to implement heating of the first power battery and the second power battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Heping LING, Lei YAN, Zhen ZHAI, Wen GAO, Ke ZHU
  • Patent number: 12132432
    Abstract: An energy conversion device is provided, including: a first electrical motor control circuit, where the first electrical motor control circuit is connected with a battery pack; a second electrical motor control circuit, where the second electrical motor control circuit is connected with the first electrical motor control circuit in parallel; and a controller, configured to: when operating in a first control mode, control the first electrical motor control circuit to charge and discharge the battery pack to heat the battery pack, and control the second electrical motor control circuit to output torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heping Ling, Lei Yan, Yong Xiong, Chen Hong, Junwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12132182
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery energy processing device and method and a vehicle. The battery energy processing device includes: a bridge arm converter, having a first bus terminal connected with a positive electrode of a battery and a second bus terminal connected with a negative electrode of the battery; a motor winding, having a first end connected with a midpoint of the bridge arm converter; an energy storage device, respectively connected with a second end of the motor winding and the second bus terminal; and a controller, configured to control, in a first preset state, the bridge arm converter to charge and discharge the battery, so as to realize heating of the battery. In this way, the charging and discharging of the battery can be controlled, and internal resistance of the battery causes the battery to generate a large amount of heat, which causes a temperature rise of the battery, thereby realizing the heating of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yubo Lian, Heping Ling, Hua Pan, Lei Yan, Feiyue Xie