Patents by Inventor Mingwang ZHOU

Mingwang ZHOU 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: 20230256857
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for timing a scheduled charging, and a terminal device. The method for timing a scheduled charging comprises steps of: acquiring, in response to a condition that a charging gun is connected, a scheduled-charging start time for equipment and a first current-absolute-time at which a connection of the charging gun is completed; determining a first time duration to the scheduled-charging start time according to the scheduled-charging start time and the first current-absolute-time; performing a compensation on the first time duration to obtain a second time duration, and starting a timing; and terminating the timing, when the second time duration is reached, and waking up the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Xuejing YANG, Shujiang CHEN, Zhimeng YUAN
  • Publication number: 20230219436
    Abstract: A DC converter, a controlling method, and a vehicle are provided. The DC converter includes: a first inductor, a switching unit, a diode, a first capacitor, a load resistor, a pre-charge control unit and a controller. The output terminal of the controller is connected with the control terminal of the switching unit and the control terminal of the pre-charge control unit. The controller is configured to control the switching unit to be turned on or turned off, and to control the resistor connected between the negative electrode of the diode and the first end of the load resistance in the pre-charge control unit when the switching unit is turned off, such that the direct current converter is pre-charged by the low-voltage power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Xuejing YANG, Shujiang CHEN, Gengnan ZHANG, Yipo HU
  • Publication number: 20230211694
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling vehicle charging, a program, a medium, and a vehicle is provided. The method by acquiring a current connection state of a telematics box in the vehicle and the server when a charging gun of a vehicle is determined in a connection state; and recording a first duration of the offline state when the current connection state is determined in an offline state, and controlling the vehicle charging according to the first duration. In this way, when it is determined that the current connection state is in the offline state, the vehicle charging can be controlled according to the duration of the offline state, which can effectively avoid the problem of charging failure due to network connection failure during the reservation charging process, the reliability of vehicle reservation charging is improved, and thus the vehicle user experience is effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Shujiang CHEN, Qing ZHAO, Tong KANG
  • Publication number: 20230202457
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling mode switching of a hybrid electric vehicle, and a vehicle is provided, and belongs to the field of hybrid electric vehicles. The method includes: performing, if the drive state information indicates that a current drive mode of the hybrid electric vehicle is a forward mode of a non-hybrid drive and in a case that a current speed reaches a speed limit, a pre-gear operation when a transmission gear of the hybrid electric vehicle is a neutral gear, to switch the transmission gear from the neutral gear to a second gear. The technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can make the hybrid electric vehicle unable to switch to the hybrid drive mode due to the limitation of the ability of synchronizer on gear shifting when driving at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Tong KANG, Shujiang CHEN, Qing ZHAO, Mingwang ZHOU, Di WU, Han LIU
  • Publication number: 20230182603
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a battery pack. When the battery pack is charged by using a charging gun of a charging pile, battery pack is charged according to smaller value of a first charging current upper limit value of a charging device and a second charging current upper limit value of the battery pack, so that the charging efficiency is improved to the greatest extent, and the charging time is shortened on the premise of ensuring safety, and a situation that the charging time is prolonged as the charging current is set to be too small is avoided; and when the battery pack is charged by using an on-board charging gun, the battery pack is charged according to the smallest value of the first charging current upper limit value of the charging device, the second charging current upper limit value of the battery pack, and a preset charging current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Shujiang CHEN, Xuejing YANG
  • Publication number: 20230173942
    Abstract: A charging method and apparatus, wherein the method is applied to an electric vehicle, the electric vehicle includes a power battery and a fuel cell that are connected, and the method includes: when a function of idle charging of the fuel cell is started up, detecting, every preset duration, a first power-battery electric quantity of the power battery; calculating a second power-battery electric quantity that is required to start up the fuel cell; and when the first power-battery electric quantity and the second power-battery electric quantity satisfy a predetermined condition, charging the power battery. The present disclosure may enable the power battery to be charged when the predetermined condition is satisfied, to ensure that feeding of the power battery does not happen due to long-time placement of the power vehicle, which ensures the usage reliability of the power vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Maiqing WU
  • Publication number: 20230150399
    Abstract: A method for controlling a fuel cell of a vehicle, is provided. The vehicle includes a fuel cell and a power battery. The method includes the following steps: detecting road condition information for a planned driving route of the vehicle; detecting a battery level of the power battery; and controlling an activation or a deactivation of the fuel cell according to the road condition information and/or the battery level of the power battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Baogang WANG, Han LIU, Tong KANG, Yipo HU, Zheng ZHANG, Ming GAO
  • Publication number: 20230139991
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for determining a pure electric available power and a vehicle, the method being applied to a vehicle including a fuel cell, the vehicle further including a battery pack and a motor, the fuel cell and the battery pack being electrically connected to the motor, wherein the method includes: monitoring a current travelling state of the vehicle and a current on-off state of the fuel cell; acquiring a maximum peak power outputted by the motor, a maximum output power of the battery pack and a starting-up power of the fuel cell; and according to the current travelling state, the current on-off state of the fuel cell, the maximum peak power, the maximum output power and the starting-up power, determining the pure electric available power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Maiqing WU, Shengbo WANG, Lei LI, Zhiwei LIU, Yang HAO, Gengnan ZHANG, Linxiao WANG, Yazhou SHEN, Mingwang ZHOU, Yanlong GENG
  • Publication number: 20230127667
    Abstract: A method and a system for heat preservation of a battery of a vehicle, and a storage medium is provided. The method includes: detecting, in response to completing the charging of the vehicle, whether a current temperature of the battery of the vehicle is lower than a preset temperature threshold value of the battery, and the temperature threshold value is configured as a lowest temperature value at which the battery is able to maintain normal performance; and controlling, when a detection result is yes, the vehicle to obtain an electrical energy from an external charging device to heat the battery, such that the battery is heated above the temperature threshold value to complete heat preservation of the battery. The method provided by the present application can heat the battery without consuming the power of the battery used for endurance mileage of the vehicle when the battery is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Maiqing WU, Song HAN
  • Publication number: 20230034887
    Abstract: A method for determining a remaining range of a vehicle, including: determining a remaining range of the vehicle driven depending on a current residual energy of a power battery, determining a remaining range of the vehicle driven depending on a current residual energy of a fuel cell, and determining a remaining range of the vehicle driven depending on a recuperated energy when an energy recuperation function of the vehicle is activated; and determining the remaining range of the vehicle based on the aforesaid remaining ranges of the vehicle. According to this method of the present disclosure, the remaining range of the vehicle may be accurately reflected, and it is more convenient for a user to schedule a vehicle trip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Maiqing WU, Lei LI, Na LU, Yang HAO, Mingwang ZHOU