Patents by Inventor Linwang Deng

Linwang Deng 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: 11904703
    Abstract: Provided is an electric vehicle driving mileage calculation method, comprising the following steps: calculate the energy consumption of a power battery of the electric vehicle per unit driving mileage; obtain the open-circuit voltage (OCv)-battery capacity (Q) reference curve of the power battery; obtain the OCv of the power battery; obtain the currently remaining available energy of the power battery according to the OCv and the OCv-Q reference curve of the power battery; calculate the driving mileage of the electric vehicle according to the energy consumption of the power battery per unit driving mileage and the currently remaining available energy of the power battery, whereby the driving mileage of the electric vehicle which is calculated is more accurate. Also disclosed is an electric-vehicle driving mileage calculation device and an electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Linwang Deng, Zihua Yang, Tianyu Feng, Chun Lv, Siqi Lin
  • Publication number: 20240019496
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a capacity of a power battery includes: collecting, by sensors, sample data of the power battery; dividing, by a processor, the sample data into multiple categories, each of the categories having a corresponding aging model and a feature identifier, the feature identifier identifying features of sample data of a corresponding category, and the aging model being obtained by: determining a fitting relationship in the aging model, and determining parameters in the fitting relationship according to sample data of a corresponding type of the aging model; acquiring, by the processor, battery state parameters of the power battery; selecting, by the processor, an aging model from multiple aging models according to the battery state parameters; and inputting, by the processor, the battery state parameters into the selected aging model to obtain the capacity of the power battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Tianyu FENG, Pengqing ZHANG, Xiaoqian LI
  • Publication number: 20230341472
    Abstract: A method for determining a voltage inflection point of a cell core in a LFP battery includes: charging the LFP battery with a first current value and monitoring the State of charge (SOC) of the LFP battery, the first current value being greater than a predetermined threshold of current; if the SOC of the LFP battery is outside a predetermined detection range, charging the LFP battery with the first current value; if the SOC of the LFP battery is within the detection range, charging the LFP battery with a second current value, the second current value being less than the predetermined threshold of current; and detecting the voltage inflection point of various cell cores in the LFP battery according to parameter information of the various cell cores in the LFP battery in the process of charging where the SOC is within the detection range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tianyu FENG, Xiaoqian LI, Linwang DENG
  • Publication number: 20230236257
    Abstract: A method for generating an electrochemical impedance spectrum for a battery includes: collecting, in a discharge state of a battery, battery discharge information of the battery periodically according to a preset collection interval, where the battery discharge information includes collection time, and current information and voltage information associated with the collection time; performing Fourier transform according to the collection interval and battery discharge information, to obtain multiple frequency-based first battery signals; determining a second battery signal from the multiple first battery signals, where the second battery signal includes a voltage signal greater than or equal to a preset voltage threshold; and determining an electrochemical impedance at a corresponding frequency according to the second battery signal, and constructing an electrochemical impedance spectrum according to all the electrochemical impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Tianyu FENG, Linwang DENG, Shiwei SHU, Xiaoqian LI
  • Publication number: 20230231403
    Abstract: A battery charging method based on lithium plating detection includes: acquiring a battery charging strategy table after receiving a battery charging instruction; charging a battery according to a charging current in the battery charging strategy table, and performing at least one charging lithium plating detection on the battery during the charging of the battery, to obtain a first lithium plating detection result; continuing the charging of the battery according to the charging current and the charging lithium plating detection of the battery when no lithium plating phenomenon occurs, and stopping the charging lithium plating detection when the lithium plating phenomenon occurs or the charging of the battery is completed; and updating the charging current according to a preset first current reduction strategy when the lithium plating phenomenon occurs, and continuing the charging of the battery according to the updated charging current until the charging is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tianyu FENG, Shiwei SHU, Linwang DENG, Xiaoqian LI
  • Publication number: 20230221373
    Abstract: A method for detecting a lithium plating state of a battery includes regularly collecting a voltage of a battery after the end of charging at a preset time interval after the battery is in an idle state, and associatively storing the collected voltage and a collection time as voltage data; constructing a time-differential voltage curve in a voltage-time coordinate system according to the voltage data; detecting whether a characteristic peak voltage exists in the time-differential voltage curve; and sending a warning message when detecting that the characteristic peak voltage exists in the time-differential voltage curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Tianyu FENG, Shiwei SHU, Sijia LIU
  • Publication number: 20230168097
    Abstract: A path determination method includes: obtaining current position information and destination position information of a target vehicle; determining a candidate path of the target vehicle according to the current position information and the destination position information; acquiring road condition information of the candidate path and reference vehicle information; determining first energy consumption information required to be consumed by the target vehicle to travel on the candidate path over a unit distance according to the road condition information and the reference vehicle information; and recommending the candidate path to the target vehicle according to the first energy consumption information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Guanhao DU, Tianyu FENG, Sijia LIU
  • Publication number: 20230152380
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for determining a state of charge (SOC) of a battery and a battery management system (BMS), so as to resolve a problem such as inaccurate estimation of the SOC. The method includes: acquiring state data of the battery, where the state data comprises current data and voltage data; determining each element parameter value in an equivalent circuit model of the battery based on the equivalent circuit model, error information, battery characteristic data, and the state data by using a recursive least square (RLS) prediction model; and determining an estimated value of the SOC of the battery based on the element parameter value in the equivalent circuit model, the state data, and the battery characteristic data according to a technique of an observer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Sijia LIU, Tianyu FENG, Linwang DENG, Xiaoqian LI, Xun SONG
  • Patent number: 11628743
    Abstract: Disclosed are an automobile, and a power battery pack equalization method and device, the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a high voltage inflection point of the charging curve of a battery cell of the power battery pack and acquiring the capacity of the battery cell according to the high voltage inflection point of the battery cell, and equalizing the battery cell according to the capacity of the battery cell. Hence, equalization management of the power battery pack can be realized, thereby improving the use ratio of the power battery pack and prolonging the service life of the power battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tianyu Feng, Linwang Deng, Chun Lv, Siqi Lin, Zihua Yang
  • Publication number: 20230112978
    Abstract: A method for calculating a cell state includes: acquiring a first knee-point voltage threshold of a cell, a first knee-point electricity corresponding to the first knee-point voltage threshold, a second knee-point voltage threshold of the cell and a second knee-point electricity corresponding to the second knee-point voltage threshold; recording a first charging curve of the cell in real time; obtaining a target knee point according to the first charging curve, the first knee-point voltage threshold, and the second knee-point voltage threshold, and obtaining a target-knee-point electricity according to the first knee-point electricity or the second knee-point electricity; detecting the electricity of the cell until the charging is completed, and obtaining a charged electricity of the cell from the target knee point to the completion of charging; and obtaining the capacity of the cell according to the target-knee-point electricity and the charged electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Xiaoqian LI, Tianyu FENG, Sijia LIU
  • Publication number: 20230093620
    Abstract: A power battery heating method for an electric vehicle includes: acquiring a heating power demand of a power battery; acquiring power demand information of a driving module of the electric vehicle in real time, and determining a current heating power of the power battery according to the power demand information; acquiring a compensating heating current according to the heating power demand and the current heating power when the current heating power is less than the heating power demand; causing the motor controller to regulate a control current of the driving motor according to the compensating heating current, so that the driving motor outputs a high-frequency oscillation current equal to the compensating heating current; and causing the power battery to perform self-heating according to the high-frequency oscillation current outputted by the driving motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Long HE, Linwang DENG, Tianyu FENG, Sijia LIU
  • Publication number: 20230093420
    Abstract: A warning method for battery thermal runaway includes: acquiring current temperature data of each temperature sensor arranged in a battery pack, current voltage data of each voltage sensor arranged in the battery pack, and current sensor disconnection data of each temperature sensor; calculating a number of occurrences of a primary feature at a current moment according to the current temperature data; calculating a number of occurrences of a secondary feature at the current moment according to the current voltage data and the current sensor disconnection data in a case that the number of occurrences of the primary feature is greater than 0; calculating a sum of the number of occurrences of the primary feature and the number of occurrences of the secondary feature at the current moment; and sending a warning for battery thermal runaway when the sum is greater than a preset feature number threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Yonggang YIN, Tianyu FENG, Sijia LIU
  • Publication number: 20230025958
    Abstract: A battery internal temperature information processing method, a computer device, and a storage medium that first acquire off-line testing data for off-line testing a battery module and construct an equivalent thermal network model from the off-line testing data, determine optimal model parameters of the equivalent thermal network model based on a multi-objective function fitting method; thereafter, a first battery internal temperature estimate of the battery of the vehicle at a first moment in actual operation of the vehicle is determined, in turn, based on the acquired initial state vector values of the battery of the vehicle, first operational data at a first moment in actual operation of the vehicle, and an equivalent thermal network model including the optimal model parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Xiaoqian LI, Tianyu FENG, Sijia LIU
  • Publication number: 20220352728
    Abstract: A step-varying equalization method, a device, a medium, a battery pack, and a vehicle are provided. The method includes: initiating coarse-tuning equalization for a cell in the series-connected battery when an initial equalization difference of the cell reaches a preset coarse-tuning requirement; determining a first state of charge (SOC) equalization difference according to a first voltage value of the cell after completion of the coarse-tuning equalization when a first real equalization difference of the cell after the coarse-tuning equalization reaches a preset fine-tuning requirement, and initiating fine-tuning equalization for the cell with a first equalization step size based on the first SOC equalization difference; and determining that SOC equalization of the cell is completed when a second real equalization difference of the cell after completion of the fine-tuning equalization is less than or equal to a target equalization value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tianyu FENG, Linwang DENG, Sijia LIU, Xiaoqian LI, Bin KANG
  • Patent number: 11346887
    Abstract: Provided is a method for calculating the SOH of a battery power pack. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a charging curve of a cell of a battery power pack, and determining a current charging phase according to the charging curve, wherein the charging phase comprises a high voltage charging inflection point and a high voltage charging phase (S1); acquiring a battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging inflection point and a battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging phase (S2); calculating the remaining capacity of a cell according to the battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging inflection point and the battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging phase (S3); and calculating the SOH of the cell according to the remaining capacity (S4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Linwang Deng, Tianyu Feng, Chun Lv, Siqi Lin, Zihua Yang
  • Publication number: 20210016664
    Abstract: Provided is an electric vehicle driving mileage calculation method, comprising the following steps: calculate the energy consumption of a power battery of the electric vehicle per unit driving mileage; obtain the open-circuit voltage (OCv)-battery capacity (Q) reference curve of the power battery; obtain the OCv of the power battery; obtain the currently remaining available energy of the power battery according to the OCv and the OCv-Q reference curve of the power battery; calculate the driving mileage of the electric vehicle according to the energy consumption of the power battery per unit driving mileage and the currently remaining available energy of the power battery, whereby the driving mileage of the electric vehicle which is calculated is more accurate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Linwang Deng, Zihua Yang, Tianyu Feng, Chun Lv, Siqi Lin
  • Publication number: 20210018568
    Abstract: Provided is a method for calculating the SOH of a battery power pack. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a charging curve of a cell of a battery power pack, and determining a current charging phase according to the charging curve, wherein the charging phase comprises a high voltage charging inflection point and a high voltage charging phase (S1); acquiring a battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging inflection point and a battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging phase (S2); calculating the remaining capacity of a cell according to the battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging inflection point and the battery pack power amount corresponding to the high voltage charging phase (S3); and calculating the SOH of the cell according to the remaining capacity (S4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Linwang Deng, Tianyu Feng, Chun Lv, Siqi Lin, Zihua Yang
  • Publication number: 20210016680
    Abstract: Disclosed are an automobile, and a power battery pack equalization method and device, the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a high voltage inflection point of the charging curve of a battery cell of the power battery pack and acquiring the capacity of the battery cell according to the high voltage inflection point of the battery cell, and equalizing the battery cell according to the capacity of the battery cell. Hence, equalization management of the power battery pack can be realized, thereby improving the use ratio of the power battery pack and prolonging the service life of the power battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Tianyu Feng, Linwang Deng, Chun Lv, Siqi Lin, Zihua Yang
  • Publication number: 20190168632
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an energy management system of an electric vehicle, a control method therefor, and an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Linwang DENG, Jingcui TENG, Chao WANG, Yu ZENG, Shiqing YANG
  • Patent number: 8704405
    Abstract: A parallel device comprises a battery module, a plurality of switching units and a control module being couplable to the battery module. The battery module includes a plurality of battery groups. The plurality of switching units includes a plurality of first switches. Each of the switching units is couplable to a respective battery group in series. Each series combination of the switching unit and the respective battery group is coupled in parallel with another series combination, and each of the switching unit includes a respective first switch coupled with a load in series. The control module is configured to receive values of measured voltages across at least two battery groups, calculate a voltage difference between the two received voltage values, compare an absolute value of the voltage difference to a reference voltage to obtain a voltage comparison result, and turn ON or OFF at least one of the first switches in accordance with the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Linwang Deng, Yu Zeng, Yaming Deng