US Patent Issued to BYD on Sept. 8 for "Battery self-heating device and method, and vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,825, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery self-heating device and method, and vehicle" was invented by Yubo Lian (Shenzhen, China), Heping Ling (Shenzhen, China), Lei Yan (Shenzhen, China), Gan Song (Shenzhen, China) and Wen Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery self-heating device, comprising: a bridge arm converter, an energy storage element, an inductor and a controller. The controller is configured to control, in a preset state, the connection and disconnection of the bridge arm converter, such that a first power battery and a second power battery are respectively cha...