US Patent Issued to BYD on May 19 for "Battery self-heating control method and system, and electric vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,056, issued on May 19, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery self-heating control method and system, and electric vehicle" was invented by Heping Ling (Shenzhen, China), Lei Yan (Shenzhen, China), Wen Gao (Shenzhen, China), Jinyue Xie (Shenzhen, China) and Ke Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery self-heating control method includes: in a first period of each of control periods, configuring a conduction state of an upper bridge arm assembly and a conduction state of a lower bridge arm assembly to be a self-heating state, and in the self-heating state, alternately charging and discharging a fi...