Patents by Inventor Yankai TU

Yankai TU 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: 11981332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power control method and terminal device for a hydraulic hybrid vehicle, and a storage medium. The method includes: S1: predicting, according to environmental information of a road ahead, recoverable energy in the road ahead; S2: calculating, according to the predicted recoverable energy, a critical pressure required by a hydraulic accumulator to recover the recoverable energy; and S3: determining whether a current pressure of the hydraulic accumulator is greater than the critical pressure, and if so, reducing fuel output power of an engine and controlling the hydraulic accumulator to release energy such that the current pressure of the hydraulic accumulator is less than or equal to the critical pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Yaxon Network Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Tu, Weibin Chi
  • Patent number: 11982346
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a terrain based dynamic gear shift control method and system for a vehicle. The method includes: during running of a vehicle, obtaining a current terrain; according to the current terrain, the economic gear shift strategy, and the dynamic gear shift strategy, generating a current gear shift strategy curve; and according to the current gear shift strategy curve, controlling a transmission to perform gear shift. The present disclosure can make the vehicle have wider adaptability, and achieve a better dynamic balance between economy and dynamic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Yaxon Network Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Tu, Jianyun Qu, Tengyuan Luo, Gang Ji
  • Patent number: 11982347
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a vehicle energy saving control method, comprising: switching a multi-power switch to a corresponding gear position according to an actual load value and a load threshold; obtaining road information of a corner ahead when the vehicle is driving, wherein the road information comprises a curvature radius; calculating equivalent mass according to the curvature radius, total mass, a speed of the vehicle and a road friction coefficient; determining a predicted gear position according to the sum of the actual load value and the equivalent mass; and switching the multi-power switch to the predicted gear position if the predicted gear position is different from the current gear position. The present disclosure can solve the problem of energy waste caused by the power output mismatch when the vehicle passes the corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Yaxon Network Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Tu, Chaoyang Huang, Xuhui Ye, Tengyuan Luo
  • Publication number: 20240102553
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a vehicle energy saving control method, comprising: switching a multi-power switch to a corresponding gear position according to an actual load value and a load threshold; obtaining road information of a corner ahead when the vehicle is driving, wherein the road information comprises a curvature radius; calculating equivalent mass according to the curvature radius, total mass, a speed of the vehicle and a road friction coefficient; determining a predicted gear position according to the sum of the actual load value and the equivalent mass; and switching the multi-power switch to the predicted gear position if the predicted gear position is different from the current gear position. The present disclosure can solve the problem of energy waste caused by the power output mismatch when the vehicle passes the corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Chaoyang HUANG, Xuhui YE, Tengyuan LUO
  • Patent number: 11927266
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a dual-speed final drive control method and terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes: when an absolute value of a gradient value of a road ahead is greater than a gradient threshold, determining, according to the gradient value, whether the road ahead is an uphill section or a downhill section, thereby controlling all gears of a transmission to correspond to a higher final drive ratio or a lower final drive ratio in the dual-speed final drive. The disclosure can make use of the dual-speed-ratio final drive to the greatest extent to improve the economy in energy consumption of the entire vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Yaxon Network Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Tu, Hejie Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240025422
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electric vehicle energy management method based on bend prediction, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: S1. counting an average acceleration av of vehicle decelerations; S2. acquiring bend information of a road ahead by an e-horizon system; S3. predicting energy recovery amount during cornering based on the bend information and a maximum cornering speed of a vehicle; and S4. adjusting a logic threshold value for current driving based on the predicted energy recovery amount. With the method of the present disclosure, a supercapacitor can output more energy in advance based on energy likely to be recovered during cornering ahead, so as to free up energy recovery space and to recover energy during cornering, which can reduce power output of a battery, ensure energy recovery, and play a positive role in loss reduction and energy-saving control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Junfang LAI, Xuhui YE, Tengyuan LUO, Hui LI
  • Publication number: 20240017712
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a dynamic control system and method for power of a vehicle. The system includes: an electronic horizon system, configured to obtain slope information and to send the slope information to a power controller; an accelerator pedal, configured to output accelerator pedal depth information to the power controller; and the power controller, configured to fit a power output curve for entering a next slope, and to control an engine or a motor of the vehicle to output a torque according to the power output curve. The present disclosure can generate the power output curve for a next road segment in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Junfang LAI, Weibin CHI, Xuhui YE
  • Publication number: 20240010284
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a lift axle control method for a vehicle and a lift axle control system for a vehicle, wherein the method comprises the following steps: step 1) acquiring a load M of the vehicle; step 2) judging whether it needs to lower the lift axle according to the load, and if so, controlling the vehicle to lower the lift axle, and entering into step 3); otherwise, returning to step 1); step 3) calculating an optimal position of lifting the lift axle, controlling the vehicle to lift the lift axle at the optimal position, and entering into step 4); step 4) calculating an optimal position to lower the lift axle, controlling the vehicle to lower the lift axle at the optimal position, and then returning to step 3). The method of the present disclosure can reduce the damage to the road surface and achieve the economy of fuel consumption during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Junfang LAI, Gang JI
  • Publication number: 20240001918
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a following distance based on terrains, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: S1. dynamically acquiring a slope ? of a current driving road; S2. calculating a dynamic following distance d based on the slope ?; S3. determining whether d is within an acceptable following distance range [d1, d2], if d is within the range, controlling the following distance of a vehicle to be d, otherwise proceeding to step S4; and S4. if d is smaller than d1, controlling the following distance of the vehicle to be d1; and if d is greater than d2, controlling the following distance to be d2. With the method of the present disclosure, the following distance can be automatically and dynamically adjusted based on the terrains to achieve the consistency of energy saving and safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Junfang LAI, Tengyaun LUO, Xuhui YE
  • Publication number: 20240001803
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power battery pack equalization method based on terrain prediction. The method includes: S1. during running of a vehicle, acquiring information of a road ahead of the vehicle; and S2. classifying the road information, setting a power prediction type based on a road information type, and switching a battery pack equalization mode correspondingly. For a low power and high energy recovery type, charging equalization is performed on a battery pack, and single batteries with low power capacity are charged through a supercapacitor; and for a road with high power and high energy consumption, discharging equalization is performed on the battery pack, and the supercapacitor is charged through single batteries with high power capacity. Thanks to the present disclosure, energy distribution and equalization of the entire vehicle can be more reasonable, the batteries are protected, and better economical efficiency is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Xuhui YE, Tengyuan LUO
  • Publication number: 20230392685
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a terrain based dynamic gear shift control method and system for a vehicle. The method includes: during running of a vehicle, obtaining a current terrain; according to the current terrain, the economic gear shift strategy, and the dynamic gear shift strategy, generating a current gear shift strategy curve; and according to the current gear shift strategy curve, controlling a transmission to perform gear shift. The present disclosure can make the vehicle have wider adaptability, and achieve a better dynamic balance between economy and dynamic performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Jianyun QU, Tenguan LUO, Gang JI
  • Publication number: 20230347856
    Abstract: Disclosed are a control method for a hydraulic retarder, and a control system. The method includes: acquiring a slope of a downhill road segment ahead of a vehicle; determining whether an absolute value of the slope is greater than an absolute value of a slope for which a braking force is not required; if so, predicting a required braking force and oil amount for the vehicle at a steady speed; predicting, according to the oil amount, oil filling time and a distance between the vehicle and an origin of the above road segment at the start time of oil filling of the hydraulic retarder; in the case that the actual distance of the vehicle is equal to a predicted distance, starting oil filling; and upon the vehicle reaching the origin of the road segment, starting braking. The present disclosure can lower wear of brake pads and reduce vehicle running costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Yuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230323803
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a DPF regeneration trigger control method and terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes: setting an active trigger differential pressure and an initial trigger differential pressure; and controlling, according to a relationship between a differential pressure of the DPF collected in real time during a vehicle travelling process and and the active trigger differential pressure and a relationship between the differential pressure of the DPF and the initial trigger differential pressure, the vehicle to actively start DPF regeneration, to trigger passive DPF regeneration, or not to start DPF regeneration; otherwise, controlling the vehicle to actively start DPF regeneration. According to the disclosure, by setting a flexible trigger interval, there is a tolerance interval of differential pressure, so that fuel consumption of the diesel engine can be reduced, and the economy is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Yuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230287838
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a predictive EGR control method and terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes calculating f there is a slowdown section ahead of a vehicle, an engine output torque to be reduced for travelling from a current position to a start position of the slowdown section and/or an engine output torque to be increased for travelling from the start position of the slowdown section to an end position of the slowdown section, and thereby adjusting an EGR rate according to the engine output torque to be reduced increased. Before the vehicle running at a high load enters the slowdown section, an EGR valve can be opened in advance to increase the EGR rate, thereby reducing harmful gas emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Yuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230286511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power control method and terminal device for a hydraulic hybrid vehicle, and a storage medium. The method includes: S1: predicting, according to environmental information of a road ahead, recoverable energy in the road ahead; S2: calculating, according to the predicted recoverable energy, a critical pressure required by a hydraulic accumulator to recover the recoverable energy; and S3: determining whether a current pressure of the hydraulic accumulator is greater than the critical pressure, and if so, reducing fuel output power of an engine and controlling the hydraulic accumulator to release energy such that the current pressure of the hydraulic accumulator is less than or equal to the critical pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Weibin CHI
  • Publication number: 20230272850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-speed final drive control method and terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes: S1: acquiring, according to electronic horizon data ahead, a gradient value of a road ahead, and when an absolute value of the gradient value is greater than a gradient threshold, proceeding to S2; and S2: determining, according to the gradient value, whether the road ahead is an uphill section or a downhill section, and if the road ahead is the uphill section, controlling all gears of a transmission to correspond to a higher final drive ratio in the dual-speed final drive when a vehicle travels into the uphill section; and if the road ahead is the downhill section, controlling all the gears of the transmission to correspond to a lower final drive ratio in the dual-speed final drive when the vehicle travels into the uphill section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Hejie ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230271532
    Abstract: Provided herein are an FCEV energy management method and system. The method includes: acquiring front road information and front road condition information of a vehicle; predicting a front required power mode according to the front road information and the front road condition information; and adjusting an SOC value of an FCEV auxiliary electric energy module on the basis of the predicted front required power mode. The SOC value of the FCEV auxiliary electric energy module can be adjusted according to the front road information and the front road condition information of the vehicle, thereby keeping the SOC value of the FCEV auxiliary electric energy module at a reasonable level, thus loads of a fuel cell are balanced, and the fuel cell can keep slow change of power output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Weibin CHI
  • Publication number: 20230271547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive front-lighting system control method and terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining a safe sight distance corresponding to a current position of a vehicle according to a current speed of vehicle; calculating, in combination with the electronic horizon data ahead, a difference of view inclination of each gradient point relative to the current position of the vehicle within the safe sight distance; screening the gradient points sequentially from the farthest gradient point within the safe sight distance until the differences of view inclination corresponding to all the gradient points between the screened gradient point and the current position of the vehicle are within a lighting angle range corresponding to the screened gradient point; and adjusting the illumination angle using the difference of view inclination corresponding to the screened gradient point as the vertical adjustment angle of the adaptive front-lighting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Tengyuan LUO
  • Publication number: 20230271528
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy management method and terminal device for an electric vehicle, and a storage medium. The method includes: calculating a predictive dynamic threshold in real time according to electronic horizon data, and setting an energy output/recovery proportion of a battery and a supercapacitor of the electric vehicle according to the predictive dynamic threshold. According to the present invention, the road ahead is predicted based on the electronic horizon system, and the predictive dynamic logic threshold is generated according to the electronic horizon information, thereby overcoming the defect that the conventional fixed logic threshold is incapable of predictive optimal energy management. A corresponding energy management strategy is set for predictive energy management according to the predictive dynamic logic threshold, thereby playing a positive role in reducing energy consumption of the electric vehicle, preventing battery loss, improving vehicle economy, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Yuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230264575
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optimized energy allocation method and system for an electric vehicle and an electric vehicle. The method includes step (1) detecting remaining charge levels of a first super-capacitor and a second super-capacitor, determining whether the remaining charge levels of the first super-capacitor and the second super-capacitor are greater than a preset threshold value, and if so, proceeding to step (2); step (2) acquiring a topographic map of a road ahead by means of an electric horizon system, predicting whether there is a continuous slope ahead, and if so, proceeding to step (3); and step (3) according to a continuous slope value ahead, predicting a braking force allocation proportion when carrying out braking ahead, allocating current power outputs of the first super-capacitor and the second super-capacitor in advance according to the braking force allocation proportion, and returning to step (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Xuhui YE