Patents by Inventor Wenfeng Jiang

Wenfeng Jiang 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: 20240128565
    Abstract: A battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device are provided. The battery pack includes a cell array and a support member, where the cell array includes a plurality of cells, the cell has a first dimension, and the first dimension is a maximum spacing between two imaginary parallel planes sandwiching the cell; and at least one of the cells 600 mm?first dimension?2500 mm the at least one cell includes a casing and a core located inside the casing, a supporting region is formed on the casing, and the cell is connected to the support member through the supporting region and is supported by the support member. The support member is connected to the supporting region to support the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Patent number: 11955651
    Abstract: A power battery pack includes: a pack body; a plurality of cells, disposed in the pack body; the cell having a length L0, a width H0, and a thickness D0, where at least one cell meets: L0>H0?D0, a length direction of the cell is arranged along a width direction of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle, and in the width direction of the electric vehicle, the length L0 of the cell and a size W of the vehicle body of the electric vehicle in the width direction meet: 46%?L0/W?76%; or at least one cell meets: L0>H0?D0, a length direction of the cell is arranged along a length direction of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle, and in the length direction of the electric vehicle, the length L0 of the cell and a size X of the vehicle body of the electric vehicle in the length direction meet: 40%?L0/W?76%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long He, Huajun Sun, Wenfeng Jiang, Zhipei Lu, Weixin Zheng, Jianglong Tang, Yan Zhu, Xinyue Wang, Kefeng He
  • Publication number: 20240005077
    Abstract: A method of designing a thin film transistor device, including: calculating characteristic parameters of searched materials; screening the materials according to a characteristic parameter threshold to obtain first active layer materials; simulating the first active layer material as an active layer material in a thin film transistor device model to obtain a device characteristic of the thin film transistor device; screening the first active layer materials according to a device characteristic threshold to obtain second active layer materials; taking the second active layer material as the active layer material of the thin film transistor device to perform an experiment; and selecting another second active layer material to perform the experiment once again when an experiment result does not meet a preset requirement, and a design of the thin film transistor device is completed until the experiment result meets the preset requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Nianduan Lu, Ling Li, Wenfeng Jiang, Di GENG, Jiawei Wang, Ming Liu
  • Publication number: 20230352783
    Abstract: A battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device are provided. The battery pack includes a cell array and a support member, where the cell array includes a plurality of cells, the cell has a first dimension, and the first dimension is a maximum spacing between two imaginary parallel planes sandwiching the cell; and at least one of the cells 600 mm?first dimension?2500 mm the at least one cell includes a casing and a core located inside the casing, a supporting region is formed on the casing, and the cell is connected to the support member through the supporting region and is supported by the support member. The support member is connected to the supporting region to support the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Patent number: 11407031
    Abstract: Self-assembly methods are provided for making hedgehog-shaped microparticles or nanoparticles. The method may comprise combining a metal-containing (e.g., Fe, Au) precursor, a chalcogen-containing precursor (e.g., Se, S), and a self-assembly additive (e.g., dodecanethiol (DT), oleylamine (OLA), hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)). At least one hedgehog-shaped nanoscale, mesoscale, or microscale particle is formed that defines a core region formed of a first material and a plurality of needles connected to and substantially orthogonal to a surface of the core region. The needles comprise a second material. At least one of the first or the second material comprises iron or gold and optionally selenium or sulfur, for example, iron diselenide (FeSe2). Hedgehog-shaped microparticles or nanoparticles formed from such self-assembly methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Kotov, Dawei Deng, Wenfeng Jiang, Douglas Montjoy
  • Publication number: 20220238962
    Abstract: A battery module, a power battery pack and a vehicle are provided. The battery module comprises n cells. At least two surfaces of the cell are respectively provided with a first positive terminal and a first negative terminal, and a second positive terminal and a second negative terminal. The n cells are arranged side by side in series. The cell (100) has a length L and a width H, where L meets 600 mm<L?1300 mm, and L and H meet 10<L/H?20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Kefeng HE, Wenfeng JIANG, Xinyue WANG, Hui ZHANG, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220181730
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power battery pack, an energy storage device, an electric vehicle. The power battery pack includes an accommodating device and a plurality of cells, the accommodating device includes a plurality of accommodating regions, and each accommodating region has a first side edge and a second side edge and cells disposed between the first side edge and the second side edge. A distance between the first side edge and the second side edge along a first direction varies with different accommodating regions, each cell includes a first end and a second end, and a distance between the first end and the second end matches a distance between a corresponding first side edge and a corresponding second side edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Zhipei LU, Jianglong TANG, Wenfeng JIANG, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220126666
    Abstract: Provided are a power battery pack and an electric vehicle. The power battery pack includes: a pack body; and a plurality of cells, directly arranged in the pack body. The cell extends from a first side of the pack body to a second side of the pack body, and the first side and the second side are disposed opposite to each other. The first side of the pack body is provided with a first side wall, the second side of the pack body is provided with a second side wall, an end of the cell is supported by the first side wall, and the other end of the cell is supported by the second side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20220126705
    Abstract: A battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device are provided. The battery pack includes a cell array and a support member, where the cell array includes a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells has a first size, and the first size is a maximum value of spacings between pairs of imaginary parallel planes that clamp the cell; at least one cell satisfies 600 mm?first size?2500 mm, and is supported by the support member; and a normal direction of two parallel planes corresponding to the first size is a direction Q, a battery placement area is defined in the battery pack, the cell array is located in the battery placement area, and each of the plurality of cells extends from one side of the battery placement area to another side of the battery placement area along the direction Q.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20220118840
    Abstract: A power battery pack includes: a pack body; a plurality of cells, disposed in the pack body; the cell having a length L0, a width H0, and a thickness D0, where at least one cell meets: L0>H0?D0, a length direction of the cell is arranged along a width direction of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle, and in the width direction of the electric vehicle, the length L0 of the cell and a size W of the vehicle body of the electric vehicle in the width direction meet: 46%?L0/W?76%; or at least one cell meets: L0>H0?D0, a length direction of the cell is arranged along a length direction of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle, and in the length direction of the electric vehicle, the length L0 of the cell and a size X of the vehicle body of the electric vehicle in the length direction meet: 40%?L0/W?76%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20220123404
    Abstract: A battery pack and an electric vehicle are provided. The battery pack includes a housing; and a plurality of cells, provided in the housing, wherein the sum V1 of the volumes of the plurality of cells and the volume V2 of the battery pack satisfy V1/V2?55%. The battery pack has a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to each other. A length direction of the cell is arranged along the first direction of the battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along the second direction of the battery pack. The cell comprises a cell body, and the length of the cell body is 400-2500 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20220118841
    Abstract: Provided are a power battery pack and an electric vehicle. The power battery pack includes: a pack body, where an accommodating space is defined in the pack body, the pack body is provided therein with at least one widthwise cross beam or lengthwise cross beam, the widthwise cross beam extends along a width direction of the power battery pack, the lengthwise cross beam extends along a length direction of the power battery pack, and the accommodating space is divided into a plurality of accommodating chambers by the at least one widthwise cross beam or lengthwise cross beam; and a plurality of cells, disposed in the pack body and directly arranged in the accommodating chambers, where at least one cell is arranged in each accommodating chamber to form a cell array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20220102787
    Abstract: A cell, a power battery pack, and an electric vehicle are provided. The cell includes a cell body, and the cell body has a length L, a width H and a thickness D. The length L of the cell body is greater than the width H, the width H of the cell body is greater than the thickness D, the length L of the cell body is greater than 600 mm, and the length L and the width H of the cell body satisfy L/H=4-21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Patent number: 11183729
    Abstract: A battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device. The battery pack includes a housing with a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The battery pack housing includes at least one rectangular cell accommodating unit is formed therein. The battery pack also includes a plurality of rectangular cells, and has a dimension greater than or equal to 600 mm along the first direction. The plurality of rectangular cells are arranged in the rectangular cell accommodating unit along the second direction. The rectangular cell has a thickness of D, length of L, and height of H. A length direction of at least one rectangular cell extends from one side of the rectangular cell accommodating unit to its other side along the first direction, and meets: L>H, L>D, 600 mm?L?2500 mm, 23?L/D?208.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long He, Huajun Sun, Wenfeng Jiang, Zhipei Lu, Weixin Zheng, Jianglong Tang, Yan Zhu, Xinyue Wang, Kefeng He
  • Publication number: 20210249725
    Abstract: A battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device are provided. The battery pack includes a cell array and a support member, where the cell array includes a plurality of cells, the cell has a first dimension, and the first dimension is a maximum spacing between two imaginary parallel planes sandwiching the cell; and at least one of the cells 600 mm?first dimension?2500 mm the at least one cell includes a casing and a core located inside the casing, a supporting region is formed on the casing, and the cell is connected to the support member through the supporting region and is supported by the support member. The support member is connected to the supporting region to support the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20210175572
    Abstract: A battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Wenfeng JIANG, Zhipei LU, Weixin ZHENG, Jianglong TANG, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG, Kefeng HE
  • Publication number: 20210162872
    Abstract: A battery system and an electric vehicle are disclosed. The battery system includes at least one series circuit, a pouch battery and at least one first cell connected to the pouch battery in series being disposed in the series circuit, and a current interrupt device being disposed on the first cell; and the current interrupt device of the first cell being configured to interrupt an internal current of the first cell when at least one of the pouch battery and the first cell is abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Long HE, Xi SHEN, Luxia JIANG, Wenfeng JIANG
  • Publication number: 20200254527
    Abstract: Self-assembly methods are provided for making hedgehog-shaped microparticles or nanoparticles. The method may comprise combining a metal-containing (e.g., Fe, Au) precursor, a chalcogen-containing precursor (e.g., Se, S), and a self-assembly additive (e.g., dodecanethiol (DT), oleylamine (OLA), hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)). At least one hedgehog-shaped nanoscale, mesoscale, or microscale particle is formed that defines a core region formed of a first material and a plurality of needles connected to and substantially orthogonal to a surface of the core region. The needles comprise a second material. At least one of the first or the second material comprises iron or gold and optionally selenium or sulfur, for example, iron diselenide (FeSe2). Hedgehog-shaped microparticles or nanoparticles formed from such self-assembly methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Nicholas A. KOTOV, Dawei DENG, Wenfeng JIANG, Douglas MONTJOY
  • Patent number: 10711383
    Abstract: A water reuse control method of a multiple-drum washing machine, having a first washing drum and a second washing drum. When the first drum reaches a drainage process, comparing a time for the second drum to reach a water supply process T12 to a time for the first drum to reach a next drainage process T11; if T12<T11, the first drum waits until water is supplied into the second drum; if T12?T11, water in the first drum is directly drained. Alternatively, when the first drum reaches the water supply process, comparing time for the second drum to reach the drainage process T22 to time for the first drum to reach a next water supply process T21; if T22?T21, clean water is directly supplied into the first drum; if T22<T21, the first drum waits until the second drum drains water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenwei Li, Jun Wu, Rongshuai Cai, Haibo Wang, Wenfeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 10297881
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery heating system, a battery assembly and an electric vehicle. The battery heating system includes: a battery group having a positive terminal and a negative terminal; a switch having a first end connected with the positive terminal; a large-current discharge module, and a controller connected to the switch and configured to control the switch according to a temperature of the battery group. A first end of the large-current discharge module is connected to a second end of the switch, and a second end of the large-current discharge module is connected to the negative terminal. When the switch is turned on, the battery group discharges via the large-current discharge module and the battery group is heated due to an internal resistance thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xi Shen, Wenfeng Jiang, Jin Liu, Xiaohui Jia