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Redox flow devices are described in which at least one of the positive electrode or negative electrode-active materials is a semi-solid or is a condensed ion-storing electroactive material, and in which at least one of the electrode-active materials is transported to and from an assembly at which the electrochemical reaction occurs, producing electrical energy. The electronic conductivity of the semi-solid is increased by the addition of conductive particles to suspensions and / or via the surface modification of the solid in semi-solids (e.g., by coating the solid with a more electron conductive coating material to increase the power of the device). High energy density and high power redox flow devices are disclosed. The redox flow devices described herein can also include one or more inventive design features. In addition, inventive chemistries for use in redox flow devices are also described.

The invention relates to an electric-vehicle power battery quick replacing system, which comprises a quick dismounting mechanism and a transferring mechanism. The quick-dismounting mechanism comprises a vacuum sucker and an electromagnetic sucker, which can pull the battery case out from the electric vehicle body or push the battery case into the electric vehicle body. The transferring mechanism adopts the work module of three-coordinate translational and rotational motion, thus transferring the dismounted battery case to a charging support and / or inserting the battery case taken from the charging support in the electric vehicle, thus completing the mechanical quick loading and replacing of electric-vehicle power battery.

An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a scan line on the substrate for transferring a scan signal, a data line crossing the scan line and for transferring a data signal, a driving voltage line crossing the scan line and for transferring a driving voltage, a switching thin film transistor coupled to the scan line and the data line, a driving thin film transistor coupled to a switching drain electrode of the switching thin film transistor, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) coupled to a driving drain electrode of the driving thin film transistor, wherein a driving semiconductor layer of the driving thin film transistor is bent and in a plane substantially parallel to the substrate.

A battery system is disclosed that can internally heat a battery by consuming minimal battery energy and with short heating times.

The invention relates to an automatic quick plug connection draw type electrical car cell box. The cell box comprises a cell unit formed by connected single cells, an internal box, an external box, a front door and a full-pull load slide, wherein the cell unit and the front door are fastened together tightly by a fastener, the cell box carried by the internal box is accommodated in the external box. With the help of the full-pull load slide arranged between the internal box and the external box, the cell unit arranged inside the internal box can be pulled out of the external box easily to supply stable electrical power through automatic quick plug joint mechanisms arranged on the back parts of the internal box and the external box, thereby realizing the quick assembly and disassembly of the whole cell unit, solving the problem of safety use of lithium batteries, facilitating the maintenance and expanding the driving range.

A pure electric bus drive control method comprises the following steps that after a vehicle controller passes self inspection, a working pattern of the a vehicle is judged to be one of a safety starting pattern, an economic pattern and a power pattern according to the opening degree of an accelerator pedal, the change rate of the opening degree of the accelerator pedal and the SOC state of a battery and by combining a minimum working time limiting module; if the working pattern of the vehicle is recognized as the safety starting pattern, expected motor torque under the safety starting pattern is calculated; if the working pattern of the vehicle is recognized as the economic pattern, the expected motor torque under the economic pattern is calculated; otherwise the expected motor torque under the power pattern is calculated; finally, the expected motor torque is restrained and limited through energy limiting strategies, final target torque instructions are output to a drive motor if the vehicle has no serious faults at the moment, the vehicle is switched to high pressure if a fault level is high, and otherwise the final demand torque of the drive motor is output as zero.

Brushless DC motor (4) is driven based on a first or second waveform signal output from operation switching unit (11), which switches output so that a first waveform signal by first waveform generation unit (6) is output when the speed of rotor (4a) is determined to be lower than a predetermined speed, and a second waveform signal by second waveform generation unit (10) is output when the speed of rotor (4a) is determined to be higher than the predetermined speed. Thus, there is provided a motor driving device in which drive is stable even at high speed / under high load, and a driving range is extended.

The disclosure relates to a unitary heat pump air conditioner (Unitary HPAC) having a plate type exchanger assembly, an electrically driven compressor, and coolant pumps. The plate heat exchanger assembly includes a plurality of plates stacked and hermetically sealed between an upstream end plate and a downstream end plate. The stacked plates define a condenser / chiller portion adjacent the upstream end plate, an accumulator portion adjacent the downstream end plate, and an evaporator / chiller portion sandwiched between the condenser / chiller portion and the accumulator portion. A refrigerant passageway extends through the plate type heat exchanger assembly, a hot coolant passageway extends through the condenser / chiller portion, and a cold coolant passageway extends through the evaporator / chiller portion. The cold coolant passageway and the hot coolant passageway are in non-contact thermal communication with the refrigerant passageway.

The disclosure relates to a unitary heat pump air conditioner (Unitary HPAC) having a plate type hot-side heat exchanger assembly, a cold-side heat exchanger assembly, and electrically driven compressors and coolant pumps. The plate type hot-side heat exchanger assembly includes a plurality of plates stacked and hermetically sealed between an upstream end plate and a downstream end plate, defining a condenser / chiller portion having a first coolant passageway, a sub-cooler portion having a second coolant passageway, and a refrigerant receiver portion sandwiched between the condenser / chiller portion and the sub-cooler portion. The first coolant passageway and the second coolant passageway are in non-contact thermal communication with the refrigerant passageway.

The invention discloses a range extending type whole electric automobile control system and method. The control system comprises a low-pressure automobile body CAN control system, a whole automobile controller, a motor controller, a generator controller, a battery management system and an insulating detecting unit. According to the control method, when the energy of an automobile power battery is stored sufficiently, a pure electric work mode can be achieved, energy is saved, and environmental friendliness is achieved; when the energy storage consumption of the power battery reaches to a certain degree, the mode of an automobile is switched into a range extending mode, a generator is driven to work to generate electricity to compensate for certain energy, and therefore the driving range of the automobile can be increased. According to the control system and method, the automobile can work in a pure electric mode so that emission can be reduced, the automobile can work in the range extending mode so that the driving range can be increased, the whole automobile control and the energy distribution management of the range extending type electric automobile are achieved, low emission can be achieved, and the driving range can be increased.

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including: a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and including a switching semiconductor layer and a driving semiconductor layer connected to the switching semiconductor layer; a first gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer; a switching gate electrode and a driving gate electrode disposed on the first gate insulating layer and respectively overlapping with the switching semiconductor layer and the driving semiconductor layer; a second gate insulating layer disposed on the switching gate electrode and the driving gate electrode; a driving voltage line configured to transmit a driving voltage and disposed on the second gate insulating layer; an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the driving voltage line and the second gate insulating layer; and a data line configured to transmit a data signal and disposed on the interlayer insulating layer.

A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes at least two series-connected windings for each phase, and is configured to be driven by selecting the windings using a multi-inverter driving device configured to switch between an inverter for low-speed drive and an inverter for high-speed drive. A ratio of an induced voltage constant of at least one group of windings constituting the windings for the high-speed drive and a d-axis inductance is larger than a ratio of an induced voltage constant of all the series-connected windings to the d-axis inductance.

A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat member, and an injector plate which is coupled to a front end face of the valve seat member and has a plurality of fuel injection orifices disposed about an axis of the valve seat member to communicate with a valve seat. Swirling means for swirling a fuel injected from each of the fuel injection orifices is provided in at least one of the valve seat member and the injector plate. The plurality of fuel injection orifices are disposed so that liquid membrane portions of adjoining hollow conical fuel spray forms formed by the fuel injected from the fuel injection orifices collide with one another. Thus, the atomization of the injected fuel can be further promoted, and a coalesced fuel spray form having a fuel particle density higher in a central zone and lower in an outer peripheral zone can be formed.

A system and method to convert the ram air energy resulting from the movement of an electric vehicle through the air mass into electric energy to recharge the energy storage devices of the vehicle while minimizing the apparatus caused drag effect on the vehicle, thereby extending the driving range of the vehicle between external charging. At least one ram air driven turbine is positioned within the vehicle, the turbine driving a mechanically coupled generator to charge the battery. Ram air is ducted in the front of the vehicle to cause the turbine generator to rotate and output electrical energy to charge the battery. The effect of variation in vehicle speed on both turbine generator output and turbine caused drag is optimized by adjusting the pitch angle of the turbine blades. At least one included ultra capacitor will implement a pre-programmed charge / discharge profile to reduce charge resistance electrical loading on the turbine generator and enable continued battery charging with minimal increase of turbine caused drag.

A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided that can extend the mileage of a vehicle by reducing the power consumed by the operation of a compressor and a heater. When a required quantity of heating Q_req is acquired, the minimum power sharing ratio between quantity of heat release Q_hpof a water-refrigerant heat exchanger 22 and quantity of heat release Q_htrof a water heater 32 is calculated, which allows the power consumption W_total to be minimized, and a compressor 21 and the water heater 32 is operated based on the result of the calculation.

Front left and right wheel units (FL, FR) are driven by an engine (ENG) and a motor generator (MG2). Rear left and right wheel units (RL, RR) are independently driven by in-wheel motor type motor generators (MGR, MGL). The motor generator (MG2) and the motor generator (MGR, MGL) are configured to have different rated outputs, respectively, and be subjected to different speed reduction ratios, respectively, between the motor generators and their respectively associated drive wheel units, and thus have characteristics, respectively, in efficiency with respect to torque and vehicular speed, that exhibit high efficiency in mutually different output ranges, respectively. When a mileage oriented mode is selected as a traveling mode, an ECU (30) determines how a drive torque should be allocated between the motor generators (MG2, MGR, MGL), as based on the motors' required drive torque and vehicular speed and on each motor generator's characteristic in efficiency, to maximize the motor generators' total efficiency.

The invention discloses a whole automobile heat management system for a hybrid power automobile. The whole automobile heat management system comprises a heat pump circulation loop, an engine heat management loop, a passenger cabin heat management loop, a motor heat management loop and a battery heat management loop, wherein the heat pump circulation loop comprises a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a heat exchanger, an evaporator and a second heat exchanger; the battery cooler is connected in parallel with the evaporator and is then connected with the second heat exchanger; the engine heat management loop comprises an engine, a first heat radiator and a first water pump; the motor heat management loop comprises a motor, a third water pump and a second heat radiator; the passenger cabin heat management loop comprises a hot air core body, a second water pump and a first heat exchanger; the battery heat management loop comprises a battery pack, a fourth water pump and a battery cooler. The system realizes the whole automobile heat management and reasonable distribution and utilization of the hybrid power automobile.

The disclosure relates to a unitary heat pump air conditioner (Unitary HPAC) that includes a refrigerant loop having a condenser, a refrigerant expansion device, and an evaporator hydraulically connected in series. An electrically driven compressor is provided to circulate a two-phase refrigerant through the refrigerant loop to transfer heat from the evaporator to the condenser. The unitary HPAC also includes a cold side chiller configured to hydraulically connect to a cold side coolant loop and is in thermal communication with the evaporator. The unitary HPAC further includes a hot side chiller configured to hydraulically connect to a hot side coolant loop and is in thermal communication with the condenser. The refrigerant loop transfer heat from the cold side chiller to the hot side chiller, thereby cooling the cold side coolant loop and heating the hot side coolant loop. The components of the unitary HPAC are mounted on a common platform.

A method for controlling a heat pump system is provided with air conditioning means connected to a controller and including a plurality of valves and expansion valves connected to each other through a refrigerant line and a bypass line, a compressor, an accumulator, an evaporator, an exterior condenser, an interior condenser, and an HVAC module having a PTC heater and a door at a warming mode, a cooling mode, a dehumidification mode, a dehumidification / defrosting mode, or an extremely low temperature dehumidification / defrosting mode according to selection of a driver.

The invention belongs to the field of motor control, and provides an efficiency optimizing method of a master-slave type multi-motor driving system. The efficiency optimizing method comprises master motor independent driving steps, slave motor independent driving steps and dual-motor synergetic driving steps. The principle of efficiency optimizing in dual-motor synergetic driving comprises the steps of obtaining a distribution ratio corresponding to the smallest instantaneous power loss of the multi-motor driving system by changing the distribution ratio of a master motor and the distribution ratio of a slave motor, and therefore obtaining torque and the rotation speed of the master motor and the slave motor when efficiency is optimal. According to the efficiency optimizing method of the master-slave type multi-motor driving system, output power of the master motor and output power of the slave motor can be optimized and distributed in real time according to different traveling working conditions of a vehicle, comprehensive advantages of the different motors are sufficiently expressed, the efficiency of the complete vehicle is kept optimal all the time, therefore, the driving range of the electric vehicle can be effectively prolonged, and economy and dynamic performance are improved.

The embodiments of the invention disclose a vehicle energy control method and device of a vehicle, the vehicle and a storage medium. The vehicle energy control method comprises the steps: the surpluselectric quantity of a power cell at the current moment is obtained, and according to the surplus electric quantity and the surplus electric quantity threshold, a first output power standby value of afuel cell engine is determined; based on a heat management power threshold value, the unit time output power and the minimum output power of the fuel cell engine, a second output power standby valueof the fuel cell engine is determined; according to the vehicle required power, the maximum discharge power of the power cell, the first output power standby value and the second output power standbyvalue, the target output power of the fuel cell engine at the current moment is determined; and based on the working state of the power cell, the vehicle required power, the target output power and the maximum working power of the power cell at the current moment, the target working power of the power cell at the current moment is determined. The vehicle energy utilization rate is increased, and the vehicle energy consumption rate is decreased.

The invention relates to a drive control method for a range-extended electric vehicle. The method is characterized in that whether an engine is required to participate in working or not is determined according to the target mileage of a driver and the working condition average speed at a power consumption stage. When the target mileage is greater than a mileage threshold and the working condition average speed is greater than an average speed threshold, the engine is required to participate in working; otherwise, the vehicle runs in a pure electric mode all the time. When the engine is required to participate in working, the engine only works when the whole vehicle is required to enter an economic zone, and electrical energy is not actively supplied. At the power consumption stage, a gear is determined according to the driving capability and the working efficiency of a driving motor at the first and second gears. At a power maintaining stage, tandem operation is realized when a power system runs at a low speed, and parallel operation is realized when a power system runs at a high speed; and at the power maintaining stage, the working gear is determined according to the requirement of the engine in a high-efficiency zone. With the adoption of the method, efficient use of energy of the whole vehicle is realized, the driving mileage of the whole vehicle is improved, the running working condition adaptability of the whole vehicle is improved, and efficient work of the engine is realized.

The invention discloses an extended range type electric vehicle power system based on a fuel battery and a control method for the extended range type electric vehicle power system. The output end of a fuel battery system with a hydrogen pot is connected with an input of a direct current / direct current (DC / DC) transformer through a controllable relay S1; an output of the DC / DC transformer is connected with a lithium iron phosphate power battery pack; the lithium iron phosphate power battery pack is connected with the high voltage input end of a motor controller; the three-phase output end of the motor controller is connected with a driving motor; a whole vehicle controller VMS directly controls an electromagnetic valve for managing hydrogen output and the relay S1 through an input / output (I / O) port, and communicates with the fuel battery system, the DC / DC transformer, a battery management system and the motor controller through controller area network (CAN) buses so as to control a motor to drive the whole vehicle to run and manage the whole power system. The fuel battery system with the hydrogen pot is used as a vehicle-mounted charger for the lithium iron phosphate power battery pack; and a scheme of a vehicle-mounted range extender of an electric vehicle can be provided. The efficiency of the fuel battery system serving as the vehicle-mounted range extender is higher than that of an internal combustion engine; furthermore, the noise is low, and zero emission and zero pollution are realized.

A hybrid electric vehicle having an array of batteries that recharge with a generator connected to a Stirling engine, steam engine and / or steam turbine powered by combusting a solid fuel product. The battery array for this vehicle, which is a series hybrid, can be recharged using residential electrical current. A preferred solid fuel product for burning in the generator-charging engine of this vehicle is selected from cellulose, lignin and combinations thereof, most preferably in the form of pellets or small logs.

The invention discloses a light-weight electric automobile. The light-weight electric automobile is characterized in that: an automobile body cover member of the electric automobile is made of a high-intensity compound material; an automobile body framework has a high-intensity aluminum alloy space structure; and the automobile body cover member is connected with the automobile body framework through a high-molecule adhesive. The automobile body cover member and the automobile body framework of the whole automobile are made of whole new materials; compared with the weight of a whole steel pure electric automobile in the same type, the weight of the whole automobile having the light-weight design is reduced by 40 to 45 percent, so an aim of light-weight design is fulfilled to the maximum extent, and the investment cost of an automobile body die is low; by adopting an advanced adhering process, the investment cost of welding equipment can be reduced, and the intensity of the whole automobile body can be enhanced. A very good energy-saving effect is achieved, and the continuation running mileage of the whole automobile is increased.

Presented are vehicle charging systems and control logic for provisioning vehicle grid integration (VGI) activities, methods for making / using such charging systems, and electric-drive vehicles with intelligent vehicle charging and VGI capabilities. A method of controlling charging operations of electric-drive vehicles includes a vehicle controller detecting if a vehicle is coupled to an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), and determining if the vehicle's current mileage exceeds a calibrated mileage threshold. Responsive to the vehicle being connected to the EVSE and the vehicle's current mileage exceeding the calibrated mileage threshold, the controller determines the current remaining life of the vehicle's traction battery pack and the current time in service of the vehicle. The vehicle controller determines if the current remaining battery life exceeds a predicted remaining battery life corresponding to the current time in service. If so, the vehicle controller enables the traction battery pack to transmit electrical power to the EVSE.

This invention pertains to an economical method of easy conversion of any internal combustion fueled vehicle into a fuel saving hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) by an add-on kit, without replacing the engine and with a minimal modification of the vehicle body. The converted vehicle has a substantially longer driving range on the same amount of fuel than the vehicle before this conversion.

An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a scan line formed on the substrate and transferring a scan signal, a data line and a driving voltage line crossing the scan line and transferring a data signal and a driving voltage, respectively, a switching thin film transistor connected to the scan line and the data line, a driving thin film transistor connected to the switching thin film transistor and the driving voltage line, and an organic light emitting diode connected to the driving thin film transistor. The driving thin film transistor includes a driving semiconductor layer, a first gate insulating layer covering the driving semiconductor layer, a floating gate electrode formed on the first gate insulating layer, a second gate insulating layer, and a driving gate electrode formed on the second gate insulating layer.