Patents by Inventor Yan Zhu

Yan Zhu 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: 20230079318
    Abstract: This application provides a battery pack, a vehicle, and an energy storage device. The battery pack includes at least one battery sequence. The battery sequence includes a plurality of batteries. A thickness of each battery extends along a first direction. The plurality of batteries are successively arranged along the first direction to form the battery sequence. At least one of the batteries includes a casing and a core packaged in the casing. A gap exists between at least two neighboring batteries. A ratio of the gap to the thickness of the battery is c, and c satisfies the following relational expression: c/a=0.01-0.5, where a represents an expansion rate of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230084361
    Abstract: A battery pack (100) and a vehicle including the battery pack (100) are provided. The battery pack (100) includes a housing, a battery core group (20), and a distribution box (30) detachably mounted on the housing. The housing is provided with a receiving space (101). Both the battery core group (20) and the distribution box (30) are received in the receiving space (101). The battery core group (20) is electrically connected to the distribution box (30). The housing includes a bottom plate (11) and an access cover (12). The bottom plate (11) is provided with an access port (110). The access port (110) communicates with the receiving space (101). The distribution box (30) faces the access port (110). The access cover (12) is detachably mounted on the bottom plate (11) and covers the access port (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Qingbo PENG, Danfeng CHEN, Naishu TAO, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230082924
    Abstract: A battery pack housing includes a housing body, the housing body includes multiple connected sub-housings, and at least one reinforcing plate is disposed in at least one of the sub-housings. Each of the sub-housings includes a top plate and a bottom plate arranged opposite to each other in a first direction, the first direction is a height direction of the housing, the at least one reinforcing plate is located between a top plate and a bottom plate, the at least one reinforcing plate is connected to the top plate and the bottom plate, and the at least one reinforcing plate divides an interior of the at least one of the sub-housings into multiple accommodating cavities. A mounting portion is provided on the housing and is configured to be connected and fixed to an external load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaopeng WANG, Qingbo PENG, Zhipei LU, Jianhua ZHU, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230069873
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery core assembly, a battery, a battery pack, and a vehicle. The battery core assembly includes an encapsulation film and an electrode core assembly. The electrode core assembly is arranged in an accommodating cavity defined by the encapsulation film, and the electrode core assembly includes at least one electrode core. The electrode core assembly includes a first electrode lead-out member and a second electrode lead-out member for current output, and a cap is arranged in the accommodating cavity at a first end portion of the electrode core assembly. The first end portion of the electrode core assembly has the first electrode lead-out member, and the cap includes an electrode lead-out hole, where the first electrode lead-out member passes through the electrode lead-out hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shichao HU, Yan ZHU, Xin GAO
  • Publication number: 20230076552
    Abstract: A battery core assembly includes an encapsulation film and multiple electrode core assemblies disposed in the encapsulation film. The electrode core assemblies are connected to form an electrode core string, and each of the electrode core assemblies includes at least one electrode core. A spacer is disposed between two adjacent electrode core assemblies, the first spacer divides an accommodating space inside the encapsulation film into multiple accommodating cavities, cavity walls of the accommodating cavities includes the first spacer and the encapsulation film connected to the first spacer, and the electrode core assemblies are respectively accommodated in the accommodating cavities. The first spacer includes at least one first liquid reservoir, and the at least one first liquid reservoir communicates with one of accommodating cavities on both sides of the first spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shichao HU, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230070599
    Abstract: A cell array, including a plurality of cells arranged in sequence is provided. Each of the plurality of cells includes a housing and an electrode core. The electrode core includes an electrode plate. The electrode plate includes a current collector and a coating layer arranged on the current collector. The cell array satisfies the following formula 1: (1?JRw)+(SRw?1)=10%?15%. JRw is an expansion space for the electrode core inside each of the plurality of cells in a first direction, SRw is an expansion space outside the plurality of cells in the first direction, and a thickness direction of each of the plurality of cells is defined as the first direction. JRw=Pw/(Cellw?Kw?Cw). SRw=(Mw?MNw)/(Celln×Cellw).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Wansong YUAN, Haipeng YAN, Xi JIANG, Xiangda ZOU, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230075479
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery core assembly, a battery, a battery pack, and a vehicle. The battery core assembly includes an encapsulation film and an electrode core assembly encapsulated in the encapsulation film. The electrode core assembly includes an electrode core assembly body and two electrode lead-out members of opposite polarities electrically connected to the electrode core assembly body. The electrode core assembly body includes at least two electrode cores connected in parallel. Each of the electrode cores includes an electrode core body and two tabs of opposite polarities that are electrically connected to the electrode core body. The electrode core assembly body further includes a tab support. The two electrode lead-out members are respectively electrically connected to one of the tab supports located two sides of the electrode core assembly body in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shichao HU, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230072369
    Abstract: A battery includes a housing and multiple electrode core assemblies in the housing. Each electrode core assembly includes a packing film and an electrode core located in an accommodating cavity defined by the packing film. A spacer is arranged between two adjacent electrode core assemblies connected in series. Each electrode core assembly includes a first electrode and a second electrode extending out of the packing film. The first electrode of a first electrode core assembly is connected to the second electrode of a second electrode core assembly of the two adjacent electrode core assemblies through a connecting portion in a through hole. The spacer includes an outer surface facing the housing. A first positioning portion is formed on the outer surface, A second positioning portion corresponding to the first positioning portion is formed on the inner surface of the housing and is coupled with the first positioning portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shichao HU, Mingming ZHANG, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230059574
    Abstract: A battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric vehicle are provided. The battery includes a metal shell and a plurality of electrode core assemblies sealed in the metal shell and arranged in sequence. The electrode core assemblies are connected in series. Each of the electrode core assemblies includes at least one electrode core. The electrode core assemblies are sealed in a packaging film. An air pressure between the metal shell and the packaging film is lower than an air pressure outside the metal shell. An air pressure inside the packaging film is lower than the air pressure between the metal shell and the packaging film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Shichao HU, Wansong YUAN, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230055300
    Abstract: A battery pack and a vehicle are provided. The battery pack is fixed to the vehicle and is configured to provide electric energy for the vehicle. The battery pack includes a cell array. The cell array includes at least one cell. The cell includes electrode terminals for leading out current. A first direction is defined as a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle. The electrode terminals are oriented parallel to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Qingbo PENG, Shichao HU, Yan ZHU, Xin GAO
  • Publication number: 20230054089
    Abstract: A cell, a battery pack, and an electric vehicle are provided in the present disclosure. The cell includes a hermetical metal housing and at least two hermetical accommodating cavities, multiple electrode core assemblies, and an encapsulation film arranged in the metal housing. The electrode core assemblies are arranged along a first direction. The electrode core assemblies are connected in series. A length of each electrode core assembly extends along the first direction. The electrode core assembly includes an electrode core assembly body and a first electrode and a second electrode configured to lead out a current. The first electrode and the second electrode are respectively arranged on two sides of the electrode core assembly body along the first direction. At least one of the accommodating cavities is defined by the encapsulation film, and the electrode core assembly body is arranged in the accommodating cavity. A length of the cell extends along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Yan ZHU, Shichao HU
  • Publication number: 20230041540
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a housing, and at least one housing structural beam and multiple electrode core strings electrically connected to one another located in the housing. The housing includes a housing body, including a top plate and a bottom plate arranged opposite to each other in a first direction. The structural beam is located between the top plate and the bottom plate, the at least one structural beam is connected to the top plate and the bottom plate, and divides the interior of the housing into multiple accommodating cavities, and at least one electrode core string is provided in at least one accommodating cavity. A mounting portion is provided on the housing, and the mounting portion is configured to be connected and fixed to an external load. The electrode core string includes multiple electrode core assemblies sequentially disposed in a second direction and connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Zhipei LU, Qingbo PENG, Long WAN, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230041144
    Abstract: A cell (100) is provided, which includes a metal housing (11) and multiple electrode core strings encapsulated in the metal housing (11). The multiple electrode core strings are arranged in a second direction and sequentially connected in series. Each of the electrode core strings includes an encapsulation film (13) and multiple electrode core assemblies (12) arranged in a first direction and sequentially connected in series. The electrode core assemblies (12) are encapsulated in the encapsulation film (13). An air pressure between the metal housing (11) and the encapsulation film (13) is lower than an air pressure outside the metal housing (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Zhipei LU, Yan ZHU, Shichao HU
  • Publication number: 20230040013
    Abstract: A battery pack and an electric vehicle are provided. The battery pack includes a battery sequence. The battery sequence includes multiple cells. A thickness of each cell extends along a first direction. The multiple cells are arranged in sequence along the first direction to form the battery sequence. At least one of the cells includes a metal shell and an electrode core packaged in the metal shell. An air pressure inside the metal shell is lower than an air pressure outside the metal shell. A gap is provided between at least two adjacent cells. A ratio of the gap to the thickness of the cell ranges from 0.001 to 0.15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Shichao HU, Zhiyong AO, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230042566
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery pack housing, a battery pack, and an electric vehicle. The battery pack housing includes a housing body and at least one structural beam disposed in the housing body. The at least one structural beam divides the internal space of the housing body into a number of accommodation cavities. The housing body includes a top plate and a bottom plate arranged opposite to each other in a first direction, the first direction is a height direction of the battery pack housing, and the structural beam is located between and attached to the top plate and the bottom plate. The battery pack housing comprises a mounting part for connecting mounting portion for a fixed connection with an external load. The battery pack housing disclosed in the present disclosure has relatively high strength and stiffness as well as high space utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Zhipei LU, Qingbo PENG, Long WAN, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230023909
    Abstract: A battery pack and an electric vehicle are provided. The battery pack includes a cell array and two first reinforcing plates. The cell array includes a number of cells. Each of the cells is defined with a length L, a thickness D, and a height H between the length L and the thickness D. The number of cells are arranged along a thickness direction, and the cells are adhered to each other by a structural adhesive. The two first reinforcing plates are arranged opposite to each other and are respectively adhered to two surfaces of the cell array along the arrangement direction of the cells, and are configured to constrain relative positions between the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Long HE, Huajun SUN, Zhipei LU, Long WAN, Yan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230020386
    Abstract: This application provides a battery. The battery includes a housing and a plurality of accommodating cavities located in the housing. Two adjacent accommodating cavities are isolated by a partition plate, and an electrode core assembly comprising at least one electrode core is arranged in the accommodating cavity. A plurality of electrode core assemblies are sequentially arranged along a first direction and connected in series. A liquid guiding hole and a gas guiding hole are provided on the partition plate. The liquid guiding hole and the gas guiding hole are used to connect two adjacent accommodating cavities at both sides of the partition plate. The battery further includes a blocking mechanism that enables the liquid guiding hole to be in a settable state including an open state and a closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Huajun SUN, Yan ZHU, Xinyue WANG
  • Publication number: 20230017407
    Abstract: A battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric vehicle. The battery includes a housing, end covers, partition plates, and a number of electrode core assemblies. The end covers are arranged on two opposite ends of the housing for sealing an internal space of the housing. The partition plates are spaced apart from each other in the housing for separating the internal space of the housing into a number of accommodating cavities successively arranged along a first direction. Each electrode core assembly is arranged in each accommodating cavity. The electrode core assembly includes at least one electrode core. The number of electrode core assemblies are successively arranged along the first direction and connected in series. The partition plate is provided with an electrolyte solution filling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jianhua ZHU, Yan ZHU, Dongjun DENG
  • Patent number: 11545710
    Abstract: A power battery base includes a tray and a liquid cooling tube disposed on the tray, wherein the tray includes a bottom plate and side plates disposed around the periphery of the bottom plate, the bottom plate and the side plates jointly form a receiving cavity for receiving a power battery pack, the bottom plate is provided with at least one beam, the beam divides the bottom plate into at least two sub-bottom plates, the liquid cooling tube is laid on at least one of the sub-bottom plates, and the liquid cooling tube is disposed across the beam that it passes through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi Zeng, Weixin Zheng, Jianhua Zhu, Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11544737
    Abstract: Classification of the user of an attention application is moved from the cloud, where the classification is performed by advertisers based on trackers that follow a user, to the attention application itself. A user of the attention application controls inputs to the classification model and can exclude sensitive privacy information from inclusion in the classification model. The classification model is applied locally at the attention application to a catalog of advertisements and without revealing to trackers and advertisers whether attention was paid to particular ads. An analytics provider may have increased access to attention applications and can form ad campaigns and provide performance data thereon to advertisers without infringing attention user privacy. The system directs value away from trackers and advertisers and to attention application users and publishers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Brave Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Eich, Luke Mulks, Benjamin Livshits, Yan Zhu, Mandar Shinde, Nejc Zdovc, Brian Johnson