Patents by Inventor Jian Ruan

Jian Ruan 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: 11978866
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Jian Ruan, Yizhen Hou, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11952222
    Abstract: A material conveying device includes a base frame, a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit and a transfer assembly. The first conveying unit is provided on the base frame, the second conveying unit is provided on the base frame, and the transfer assembly is provided on the base frame and can transfer a material between the first conveying unit and the second conveying unit. The present disclosure further provides a processing equipment facilitating material distribution and a material distribution method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU MINGSEAL ROBOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongsheng Qu, Changfeng Li, Junsheng Xia, Jian Yang, Hongjun Wu, Feng Yin, Jin Zha, Kaicang Ruan, Jiming Huang, Fuliang Gao, Dianqiu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240111827
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a matrix device and an operation method thereof. The matrix device includes a transpose circuit and a memory. The transpose circuit is configured to receive a first element string representing a native matrix from a matrix source, wherein all elements in the native matrix are arranged in the first element string in one of a “row-major manner” and a “column-major manner”. The transpose circuit transposes the first element string into a second element string, wherein the second element string is equivalent to an element string in which all elements of the native matrix are arranged in another one of the “row-major manner” and the “column-major manner”. The memory is coupled to the transpose circuit to receive the second element string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NEUCHIPS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huang-Chih Kuo, YuShan Ruan, Jian-Wen Chen, Tzu-Jen Lo
  • Patent number: 11899071
    Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for determining a state of charge of a battery, a battery management system and a storage medium, and relates to the field of battery technologies, where the method includes: obtaining a current OCV value of a battery and cumulative continuous charging or discharging capacity information of the battery; obtaining SOC credible information based on the current OCV value and the cumulative continuous charging or discharging capacity information; obtaining a corrected SOC value corresponding to the current OCV value according to the SOC credible information. According to the present disclosure, accuracy of SOC correction could be improved by determining the SOC credible information under the current OCV; for batteries, especially those with a hysteresis characteristic, accuracy of SOC estimation could be improved, an error of SOC estimation could be reduced and reliability of battery and experience of users could be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Shenzhi Tang, Jian Ruan, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240030755
    Abstract: A claw-pole magnetic levitation torque motor includes a stator component and a rotor component. The stator component includes an end cover, upper and lower claw poles, coil skeletons, coils, and a flux guide sleeve. The cavity formed between the upper and lower claw poles accommodates the coil skeletons, on which coils are wound. The rotor component includes a ring-shaped shell, a permanent magnet, a base, and a shaft. The shell is fitted outside the claw poles, the bottom of the shell includes a base having a base platform shoulder, in the center of which a blind hole is opened. The lower end of the shaft is fixedly arranged in the blind hole, and the upper end of the shaft passes through the flux guide sleeve. The stator component is assembled with the rotor component through a gap-fitting between the magnetic guide sleeve and the shaft of the rotor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Jiahui HUANG, Zhankai SONG, Bin MENG, Liangtao HAN
  • Publication number: 20230386102
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for image reconstruction. The method may include obtaining image raw data; determining, based on a complexity of a reconstruction task of the image raw data and processing capacities of one or more workstations, from the one or more workstations, one or more hardware resources for processing the image raw data; generating, based on the image raw data and the one or more hardware resources, one or more sub tasks of the reconstruction task; assigning the one or more sub tasks to the one or more hardware resources; obtaining one or more intermediate results corresponding to the one or more sub tasks, the one or more intermediate results being generated by the one or more hardware resources; and generating, based on the one or more intermediate results, a reconstruction result of the image raw data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian RUAN
  • Publication number: 20230204674
    Abstract: A method and device for determining an available capacity of a battery, a battery management system, and a storage medium, relating to the field of battery technologies. The method includes: obtaining the at least one DOD interval corresponding to the SOC interval of the operation of the battery, and the number of cycles and the cycle temperature corresponding to the at least one DOD interval; obtaining a recoverable amount of capacity fade of the battery according to the at least one DOD interval, the number of cycles and the cycle temperature, and determining an actual available capacity of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Mingshu DU, Shenzhi TANG, Shichao LI, Yanhua LU, Wei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230184233
    Abstract: A shaft-distributed double-acting roller piston pump includes a front end cover, a pump casing, a rear end cover and a pump core assembly. The pump core assembly includes a guide rail assembly including left and right guide rails arranged back to back. The side surfaces of the left and right guide rails away from each other are space cam curved surfaces. A flow distribution shaft is installed in the center of the guide rail assembly. A cylinder assembly is installed on both sides of the guide rail assembly including left and right cylinders, between which a piston assembly is arranged. The piston assembly forms left and right closed cavities with the left and right cylinders respectively. The piston assembly performs axial reciprocating linear motion under the constraint of the cylinder assembly and the guide rail assembly, and the volumes of the left and right closed cavities change continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Chenchen ZHANG, Chengwei TONG, Bin MENG, Ke ZHU, Chuantan RUAN
  • Patent number: 11668755
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining available energy of a battery, a battery management system, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of battery technologies. The method includes: obtaining a DOD interval corresponding to a current SOC interval of the battery, and a cycle quantity and a cycle temperature that correspond to the DOD interval; obtaining recoverable energy information of the battery based on the DOD interval, the cycle quantity, and the cycle temperature; and determining current remaining available energy of the battery based on the recoverable energy information. For a battery with a recoverable attenuation capacity, the method, the apparatus, the battery management system, and the storage medium in this disclosure could help improve accuracy in estimating remaining available energy of the battery, thereby improving battery reliability, prolonging a service life of the battery, and enhancing user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11619679
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose a method, apparatus and medium for estimating a battery remaining life and relates to the field of battery power. The method includes: acquiring a material aging parameter of a battery representing an aging degree of a material of the battery; and determining, based on a preset corresponding relationship between the material aging parameter and the battery remaining life, the battery remaining life corresponding to the material aging parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230095453
    Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for determining a state of charge of a battery, a battery management system and a storage medium, and relates to the field of battery technologies, where the method includes: obtaining a current OCV value of a battery and cumulative continuous charging or discharging capacity information of the battery; obtaining SOC credible information based on the current OCV value and the cumulative continuous charging or discharging capacity information; obtaining a corrected SOC value corresponding to the current OCV value according to the SOC credible information. According to the present disclosure, accuracy of SOC correction could be improved by determining the SOC credible information under the current OCV; for batteries, especially those with a hysteresis characteristic, accuracy of SOC estimation could be improved, an error of SOC estimation could be reduced and reliability of battery and experience of users could be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Mingshu DU, Shichao LI, Shenzhi TANG, Jian RUAN, Yanhua LU, Wei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11609276
    Abstract: A method and device for determining an available capacity of a battery, a battery management system, and a storage medium, relating to the field of battery technologies. The method includes: obtaining the at least one DOD interval corresponding to the SOC interval of the operation of the battery, and the number of cycles and the cycle temperature corresponding to the at least one DOD interval; obtaining a recoverable amount of capacity fade of the battery according to the at least one DOD interval, the number of cycles and the cycle temperature, and determining an actual available capacity of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11598811
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for identifying a cell, including: determining, for a cell under test during a charge and discharge process, a number N of measured values of OCV and a number N of net cumulative throughputs corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV; for an ith target cell, obtaining a number N of calculated values of OCV corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV, and obtaining an OCV mean square error between the number N of measured values of OCV and the number N of calculated values of OCV; and determining that the cell under test is the ith target cell, when the OCV mean square error between the cell under test and the ith target cell is a minimum mean square error among a number M of OCV mean square errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Shenzhi Tang, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11590857
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Yizhen Hou, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11486934
    Abstract: A method, a device and a system for recovering recoverable faded capacity of a battery. The method includes determining the recoverable faded capacity of the battery, determining a corresponding lower limit of a battery parameter according to the recoverable faded capacity of the battery, and instructing a discharging device to discharge the battery to the corresponding lower limit of the battery parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Shenzhi Tang, Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Jian Ruan
  • Publication number: 20220281350
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of battery technologies, and discloses a method for updating an OCV-SOC curve of a battery pack, a battery management system, and a vehicle. The method for updating an OCV-SOC curve of a battery pack includes: obtaining information that represents an aging state of the battery pack; obtaining a current aging characteristic parameter of the battery pack based on a current OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack and the information; and updating the OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack based on the current aging characteristic parameter and the current OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack. In this application, the OCV-SOC curve of the battery pack is updated based on the aging state of the battery pack, thereby obtaining an OCV-SOC curve that meets the aging state of the battery pack and making it convenient to estimate the online state of the battery pack more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Shenzhi TANG, Mingshu DU, Shichao LI, Jian RUAN
  • Publication number: 20220276310
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for identifying a cell, including: determining, for a cell under test during a charge and discharge process, a number N of measured values of OCV and a number N of net cumulative throughputs corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV; for an ith target cell, obtaining a number N of calculated values of OCV corresponding to the number N of measured values of OCV, and obtaining an OCV mean square error between the number N of measured values of OCV and the number N of calculated values of OCV; and determining that the cell under test is the ith target cell, when the OCV mean square error between the cell under test and the ith target cell is a minimum mean square error among a number M of OCV mean square errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Mingshu Du, Shichao LI, Shenzhi TANG, Yanhua LU, Wei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11402434
    Abstract: The present application provides a battery state estimation method, which relates to the field of battery technology. The battery state estimation method includes: obtaining a first cell state parameter of each of a plurality of cells in a battery; under a condition that there are multiple cell partitions, determining whether the first cell state parameter of each cell belonging to a cell partition is within a first cell state parameter range corresponding to the cell partition; when it is within the first cell state parameter range corresponding to the cell partition, estimating a cell state of each of the cell partitions based on a target cell state parameter corresponding to the cell partition; and estimating a battery state of the battery based on the cell state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Mingshu Du, Shichao Li, Shenzhi Tang, Yanhua Lu
  • Patent number: 11366170
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting a state of charge (SOC) is provided. The method includes: acquiring state data of a battery cell in a case where the battery cell meets a preset standing condition, wherein the state data includes: current and voltage data, the preset standing condition is that the current in the state data is less than a preset current threshold, wherein a length of the voltage data in the state data is greater than a preset length; calculating an estimated steady-state Open Circuit Voltage (OCV) value according to the state data, under a condition that a change value of the voltage data in the state data is greater than a preset change threshold; determining a SOC correction value corresponding to the estimated steady-state OCV value; and correcting a current SOC by using the SOC correction value corresponding to the estimated steady-state OCV value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jian Ruan, Shichao Li, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220120821
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose a method, apparatus and medium for estimating a battery remaining life and relates to the field of battery power. The method includes: acquiring a material aging parameter of a battery representing an aging degree of a material of the battery; and determining, based on a preset corresponding relationship between the material aging parameter and the battery remaining life, the battery remaining life corresponding to the material aging parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jian RUAN, Mingshu Du, Shenzhi Tang, Shichao Li, Yanhua Lu, Wei Zhang