Patents by Inventor Yonghua Li

Yonghua Li 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: 10436848
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery capacity active estimation method for an electric vehicle. The method is capable of determining the battery capacity based on estimating a State Of Charge (SOC) of the battery before and after a discharge operation but without having to wait until an establishment of sufficient thermal and electric equilibria in the battery. The estimation of SOC may even be made while the battery is being slowly charged. Depending on the equilibrium state of the battery, SOCs may be either directly obtained by measuring Open Circuit Voltage of the battery when the battery is in electric equilibrium or calculated and estimated when the battery is not in electric equilibrium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: Bordrin Motor Corporation, Inc., Nanjing Shenghe New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Huai'an Junsheng New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Yang Zhang, Tiepeng Zhao, Zhiwei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190184653
    Abstract: An alternating pressure melt impregnation device and a melt impregnation method, including having a resin melt squirted from each resin melt runner on an upper die and a lower die of a melt injection area, and thus the squirted resin melt is enable to be squirted directly on an upper surface and a lower surface of a continuous fiber bundle which is entering into an impregnation chamber. Impregnation and infiltration for both surfaces of the continuous fiber bundle are primarily completed by a squirted pressure. The resin melt inside the impregnation chamber flows to a decompression chambers at both sides of the impregnation chamber. When the resin melt flows to a throttle plate, a re-impregnation for the continuous fiber bundle is realized. Then the pressure is decreased and a section of the resin melt is enlarged and a radial flow is generated due to the Barus effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: KINGFA SCI. & TECH. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianbo HUANG, Wei XIN, Yonghua LI, Chunhua CHEN, Dahua CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190184606
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a melt impregnation device and a melt impregnation method. Through an impregnation chamber with a corrugated shape, when a resin melt-distributing runner is connected with a peak position of the impregnation chamber, a chamber vertical height of the peak position of the impregnation chamber is larger than a chamber vertical height of a trough position of the impregnation chamber, and when the resin melt-distributing runner is connected with the trough position of the impregnation chamber, the chamber vertical height of the trough position of the impregnation chamber is larger than the chamber vertical height of the peak position of the impregnation chamber. The present invention can balance an impregnating effect of a continuous fiber band, can carry a broken fiber hairiness which is generated during the impregnation out of an impregnation area, avoids a broken yarn, and enhances a production stability and a production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: KINGFA SCI. & TECH. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianbo Huang, Chunhua Chen, Yonghua Li, Chao Zhang, Zhongfu Luo
  • Patent number: 10207596
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a traction battery and a controller coupled to the traction battery and having a memory, the controller being programmed to control the traction battery based on a difference between a total resistance indicated by voltage and current at a first operating condition and a battery cell resistance associated with the first operating condition previously stored in the memory, the difference being indicative of a wiring resistance associated with electrical connectors such as wires, cables, bus bars, and the like of the battery. The battery or the vehicle may be controlled in response to the adaptively determined wiring resistance by adjusting subsequent voltage or current determinations used to determine state of charge and battery capacity and/or to control charging or discharging of the battery and selection of various vehicle operating modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xinfan Lin, Yonghua Li, Richard Dyche Anderson
  • Publication number: 20180340983
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery capacity active estimation method for an electric vehicle. The method is capable of determining the battery capacity based on estimating a State Of Charge (SOC) of the battery before and after a discharge operation but without having to wait until an establishment of sufficient thermal and electric equilibria in the battery. The estimation of SOC may even be made while the battery is being slowly charged. Depending on the equilibrium state of the battery, SOCs may be either directly obtained by measuring Open Circuit Voltage of the battery when the battery is in electric equilibrium or calculated and estimated when the battery is not in electric equilibrium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Yang Zhang, Tiepeng Zhao, Zhiwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10124696
    Abstract: A hybrid or electric vehicle includes a traction battery to store and provide energy for the vehicle. The traction battery includes a number of battery cells. For effective operation of the traction battery, operating parameters, such as state of charge and battery power limits, may need to be known. The operating parameters may be a function of battery cell voltage and impedance parameters. A parameter estimation scheme may use measured cell voltages and a measured traction battery current as inputs. A current measurement bias may be modeled that incorporates measurement bias caused by asynchronous current and voltage measurements. The current measurement bias may be estimated for each cell and the value may differ between cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Richard Dyche Anderson
  • Patent number: 10116638
    Abstract: A method and device for uploading data to a social platform. The method includes a plugin set into an application program. The plugin integrates at least one Application Program Interface (API) possessing publishing function provided by at least one social platform. A request for uploading data to a social platform is received and data to be uploaded is obtained according to the request. The data is uploaded to the corresponding social platform through an API possessing publishing function integrated by the plugin. Date may be uploaded through the plugin to one or more social platforms simultaneously without launching a client terminal of the corresponding social platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yonghua Li
  • Publication number: 20180287223
    Abstract: A power battery pack may include several pouch or hard-shelled electrochemical cells. A safety structure for the power battery pack may include an expansion absorption layer, a supporting and fixing tray, an upper module press plate, a lower module bottom plate, and the like. There are multiple supporting and fixing trays and multiple expansion absorption layers. The multiple supporting and fixing trays are sequentially disposed from top to bottom layer by layer. One single electrochemical cell is disposed in each of the supporting and fixing trays. One expansion absorption layer is laid on a top surface of each single electrochemical cell. The upper module press plate is disposed in a manner of covering the topmost supporting and fixing tray. The lower module bottom plate is disposed on a bottom surface of the bottommost supporting and fixing tray. A strain sensor is disposed in the center of a top surface of the topmost single electrochemical cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Chong Yok Meng, Haoxing Zhao, Zhiwei Zhang, Yonghua Li, Tiepeng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20180238969
    Abstract: A method for measurement based estimation of a power fade level of a battery determines the power fade level by estimating a series of Ohmic resistance value of the battery based on processing noisy battery parameters measured while the battery is in operation using a battery model and a filtering and estimation algorithm such as Kalman filter. The disclosed method provides an online and accurate estimation of the power fade level of the battery despite the presence of large measurement noises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Zhiwei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180229692
    Abstract: A windshield wiper operating system is provided for a semi-autonomous motor vehicle. That windshield wiper operating system includes a windshield wiper, a windshield wiper drive motor and a controller configured to deactivate the windshield wiper operation when raining and the semi-autonomous motor vehicle is in autonomous driving mode. A related method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Qiong Lan
  • Patent number: 10026998
    Abstract: Battery state of charge control systems and methods provide techniques to assist in managing battery capacity and battery life under various environmental, operating, and storage conditions. Dynamic management of desired battery SOC based on one or more parameters associated with usage patterns and environmental conditions, e.g., charge/discharge patterns, state of charge and/or temperature during storage may extend useful battery life. The present techniques can provide active state of charge monitoring and control to manage battery capacity during storage or other periods of non-use over the battery life to enhance battery performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Fling Tseng, Szushen Ho
  • Publication number: 20180178615
    Abstract: An intelligent multi-loop thermal management system for and electric vehicle has components including a battery pack, an electric-drive module, an on-board charger a DC/DC converter, a battery radiator, a battery refrigerator, a motor radiator, an electric water pump, an electric oil pump, an expansion tank, a PTC heater, a heat exchanger, an electric compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, a receiver drier, and a heater core. The system also includes an electric-drive module having a drive motor and a motor control unit. The components are thermally connected to each other by using a pipeline and a four-way valve, a three-way valve, a straight-through valve, and an electronic expansion valve that are disposed in the pipeline, to form a plurality of loops that separately performs thermal management and control the battery pack, the electric-drive module, and a passenger compartment air conditioner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Yingbo Xia, Zhiwei Zhang, Yunfei Wu, Yonghua Li
  • Patent number: 9994120
    Abstract: An exemplary electrified vehicle charging method includes waking a portion of an electrified vehicle, reading a state of charge for a battery of the electrified vehicle during the waking, charging the battery using an internal combustion engine in response to the reading if the electrified vehicle is in an open space, and disabling the charging if the electrified vehicle is in an enclosed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hai Yu, Yonghua Li
  • Patent number: 9992767
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and device, which relate to the field of communications. The method includes: when data is transmitted between an REC and one or more REs, arranging extended control words of the one or more REs in a plurality of superframes, wherein connotations of the extended control words at a same position in different superframes are different, and sending the plurality of superframes to an opposite end. By arranging extended control words of one or more REs in a plurality of superframes and different connotations of the extended control words at the same position in different superframes, the solution solves the problem that the requirements cannot be satisfied due to the limited number of control words in the protocol, and has the beneficial effect of increasing control words in the protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Xiaomin Yang, Yangfeng Wang, Sheng You, Diqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9890744
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing evaporative emissions leak detection in a vehicle are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises initiating a leak test via an electronic controller in a vehicle responsive to selected route conditions. In this way, a leak test may run without premature termination, therefore saving resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yonghua Li
  • Patent number: 9840161
    Abstract: A battery management system for a vehicle includes a controller configured to, in response to a rate of change of voltage during discharge of a battery cell exceeding a first threshold more than a predetermined number of times over a predefined duration, output an error signal, and in response to the rate of change exceeding a second threshold greater than the first, output the error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Satish B. Chikkannanavar, Joseph F. Freiman, Yonghua Li, Benjamin A. Tabatowski-Bush
  • Patent number: 9822721
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for ambient temperature estimation and engine control during sensor initialization. In one example, on vehicle start-up after a period of inactivity, during sensor initialization ambient conditions may be estimated using remotely obtained ambient conditions data. Engine actuators may be adjusted based on ambient conditions determined from remote of the vehicle during sensor initialization and on completion of sensor initialization, the engine actuator may be adjusted based on the ambient conditions determined from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yonghua Li
  • Patent number: 9817074
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for automatically computing work accuracy of a battery management system (BMS) includes the steps of controlling an automobile component simulation module to work, sending a work command to the BMS at the test moment t, and reading a prediction parameter, stopping working when the work command is completed, reading a work parameter and computing state of power (SOP) test accuracy of the BMS, determining whether a temperature of the battery pack exceeds a temperature threshold, if so, controlling a thermal management module to start working, and returning to the determination step, and otherwise, reading a stabilized parameter and performing computation to obtain state of charge (SOC) test accuracy of the BMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BORDRIN MOTOR CORPORATION, INC.
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Zhiwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9770997
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery pack with cells arranged in at least groups of two cells in series is disclosed. A controller balances the cells based on a change in voltage across the cells being different than an expected change in voltage. The expected value is based on a current and a time associated with charging or discharging the cells. A controller is disclosed that commands charging and discharging of the battery cells based on a difference between a voltage across the group and the expected value for the group. A method for charging and discharging a battery pack is disclosed. The voltage across a group of cells is measured and compared to an expected value. An imbalance in a cell attribute is estimated according to a difference between the measured voltage and the expected voltage. The voltage across each battery cell is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xinfan Lin, Anna Stefanopoulou, Richard Dyche Anderson, Yonghua Li
  • Patent number: 9774197
    Abstract: An internal short-circuit detection method for a battery cell of a battery pack is determined using a battery cell charge balancing resistor and switch. The switch is used for connecting or disconnecting the battery cell charge balancing resistor to the battery cell. Evolution of discharging of the battery with the battery cell-charge balancing resistor connected to the battery cell is monitored to measure an internal short-circuit resistance of the battery cell for estimating the state of the internal short-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: BORDRIN MOTOR CORPORATION, INC.
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Zhiwei Zhang