Patents by Inventor Chi Zhang

Chi Zhang 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: 11901826
    Abstract: An efficient control method for an isolated multilevel DC/DC resonant converter achieves a wide output voltage range with a narrow device switching frequency range, relative to the output voltage range and the device switching frequency range of the prior art. At any given time, a control circuit selects one of three different modulation schemes to operate the primary-side switching devices of the resonant converter based on at least one of output voltage, output current, input signal, and one or more external control signals. Together with a selected device switching frequency, the three modulation schemes generate different voltage waveforms to a primary-side transformer, which are coupled to the secondary-side to provide different output voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Peter Barbosa
  • Publication number: 20240042938
    Abstract: All designs have features that prevent the running boards from over deploying and stowing. This ensures the mechanism does not exceed the design range of motion and prevents any excess forces on the system or vehicle. All designs use kinematic locks to prevent back driving in stowed and deployed positions, which allows more efficient gearboxes to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Magna Exteriors Inc.
    Inventors: V-Bond LEE, Chi ZHANG, Desmond P. JAMIESON, Jerry GODFREY
  • Publication number: 20240038780
    Abstract: The present application sets forth an array substrate and a display terminal. The array substrate includes an underlay, a light shielding layer disposed on the underlay, an active layer disposed on the light shielding layer, and a connection element disposed on the active layer. The light shielding layer includes light shielding portions spaced from one another. The active layer includes active portions spaced from one another. The active portions correspond to the light shielding portions. Furthermore, adjacent two active portions are electrically connected through a bridge element. A toughness of the bridge element is greater than a toughness of the active portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Yun Xiang, Jian Tao, Yafeng Li
  • Publication number: 20240032536
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to terrein functioning as a biopesticide formulation in drought resistance and growth promotion of crops. The formulation containing terrein can be treated by soaking or spraying on the crops. It is especially suitable for drought and water shortage conditions, promoting growth of plant root length, seedling height, fresh weight, and dry weight, greatly increasing crop yield, and significantly improving drought resistance of crop plants. Under the condition of seed soaking treatment with 10 ?g/mL terrein, promotion rates of root length, seedling height, fresh weight, and dry weight of pakchoi are 99.19%, 15.66%, 40.34%, and 49.12%, respectively. The source of terrein is easy to obtain and the cost is low. It has a simple structure and is easily soluble in water. In the actual application process, it only needs to simply prepare an aqueous solution or mix with other pesticide formulations for seed soaking or spraying treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Hua Shao, Lijing Lei, Wei Shao, Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240027805
    Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer filled between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate includes a supporting column located on a side of the liquid crystal layer. In a location corresponding to the supporting column, a sliding damping structure is disposed on a surface of the first substrate near the liquid crystal layer. Disposing the sliding damping structure on the surface of the first substrate near the liquid crystal layer improves a press resistance capability and a product yield rate of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventor: Chi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11881976
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a reference signal transmission method, a device, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a first device, at least one reference signal generation sequence corresponding to at least one frequency-domain resource group that is on a symbol carrying a reference signal and that is used to send the reference signal, where one frequency-domain resource group is corresponding to one reference signal generation sequence; and generating, by the first device, the reference signal based on the at least one reference signal generation sequence, and mapping the reference signal to a time-frequency resource whose time domain is the symbol and whose frequency domain is the at least one frequency-domain resource group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240009805
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of automobile part processing, and specifically provides a spray head device and a sandblasting device for automobile part processing. The spray head device comprises a spray head body and a connecting pipe. A conical through hole is penetratingly arranged in the spray head body, one end of the conical through hole forms a discharge port, the other end of the conical through hole forms a feed port, the caliber of the feed port is greater than that of the discharge port, the connecting pipe is fixedly connected to one end of the feed port of the spray head body, and the connecting pipe is coaxially arranged with the conical through hole; the conical through hole is penetratingly provided in the spray head body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jingwei NING, Wen LIU, Hongwei CUI, Kai LIN, Xiang YAN, Hang WANG, Zhiwen GUO, Chi ZHANG, Pengfei LIU
  • Publication number: 20240009807
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of automobile part processing, and specifically provides a clamping device and a sandblasting device for automobile part processing. The clamping device comprises a clamping component for clamping an automobile part, and an auxiliary component; the auxiliary component comprises a supporting part, a pull rod, a protective pad, and a return spring, wherein the pull rod is movably provided on the supporting part, one end of the pull rod is connected to the protective pad having deformation performance, and the protective pad is used for being arranged between the automobile part and the clamping component; the return spring is used for being installed between the supporting part and the protective pad; the pull rod is pulled so that the pull rod pulls the protective pad to move towards the direction close to the supporting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jingwei NING, Xiang YAN, Wen LIU, Hongwei CUI, Hang WANG, Chi ZHANG, Li LIN, Peichao WANG, Yeying TENG
  • Publication number: 20240014743
    Abstract: A novel phase-shift based modulation strategy is disclosed that enables a DC-DC converter to operate with zero voltage-switching (ZVS) across wide voltage and power range. The converter operates at a fixed fundamental frequency, with the output current controlled based on an amount of phase shift of the fundamental component at the output of an inverter portion of the converter. To achieve soft switching a rectifier portion of the converter is controlled to phase shift the fundamental component of the rectifier voltage observed at a rectifier reference terminal. More specifically, by requiring a phase shift of the voltage at the rectifier terminal relative to the output voltage of the inverter, the inverter current is such that ZVS is achieved. A converter and method are provided to implement DC-DC conversion with soft switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Satyaki MUKHERJEE, Chi ZHANG, Tomas SADILEK, Misha KUMAR, Boyi ZHANG, Peter Mantovanelli BARBOSA
  • Patent number: 11862039
    Abstract: A device for an analogue modeling experiment of a geological structure under a hypergravity field of a large-scale centrifuge is provided. A bottom plate is placed on a basket of the centrifuge and mounted with screw rod components; screw rods are arranged in parallel with the bottom plate; diverters, screw rod supporting columns, sliding guide rails and a motor are arranged on the bottom plate; output shafts at two ends of the motor are respectively connected to the two diverters; the diverters are connected with one end of the corresponding screw rod; a fixed baffle plate is connected with the screw rods and is embedded with the sliding guide rails; a detachable baffle plate is arranged at a lower part of the fixed baffle plate and has a lower part connected with a swing baffle plate through a hinge; and a curved table is arranged on the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liangtong Zhan, Chi Zhang, Jianxun Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230399020
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control method, the method includes: determining predicted motion features of a to-be-avoided object within a perception visual field of a vehicle; determining a safety level of the to-be-avoided object relative to the vehicle according to the predicted motion features and preset safety conditions; and determining a target deceleration of the vehicle according to an attribute feature of the to-be-avoided object and the corresponding safety level, and controlling traveling of the vehicle according to the target deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang SHI, Chi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11843492
    Abstract: A method for determining a reference signal sequence, a terminal device, and a network device, the including receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device, determining, by the terminal device, a target resource based on the first indication information, determining, by the terminal device, a reference signal sequence based on parameters of a first bandwidth and parameters of a second bandwidth, and sending or receiving, by the terminal device, the reference signal sequence on the target resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Wu, Hao Tang, Chi Zhang, Mengying Ding
  • Patent number: 11841791
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to aggregate code change requests for a continuous integration pipeline. The method may include receiving a plurality of code change requests (CCRs) for a software product that are to be processed by a continuous integration (CI) pipeline. The method may also include obtaining all functions of the software product tested by all testcases in a testcase set. The method may also include selecting a plurality of groups of testcases from the testcase set, each group of the plurality of groups of testcases corresponding to a CCR from the plurality of CCRs. The method may also include identifying at least two groups of testcases from the plurality of groups of testcases without overlapping code. The method may also include aggregating each CCR that corresponds to the at least two groups of testcases into a single CCR group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wen Tao Zhang, Hong Jun Tu, Yiwen Huang, Yang Yang, Ye Cui, Xiao Kai Dong, Yu Chi Zhang, Wei Wu, Xin Huang
  • Publication number: 20230387791
    Abstract: Provided are a soft-start method, a power converter system, and a household energy storage system, which are applied to the field of household energy storage technology and are used to improve the soft-start effect of a full-bridge resonant converter. The method includes the following manners: A soft-start process is configured as multiple operating periods, and a duty cycle is adjusted in periods and gradually increases; and in the soft-start process, according to the conversion of the duty cycle, a voltage is slowly output, and the value of the output voltage is gradually increased, so that the operating current in the soft-start process can be effectively controlled, thereby reducing the voltage stress of a power switch transistor when the power switch transistor is hard turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hongtao NIE, Chi ZHANG, Daqing WANG
  • Publication number: 20230380106
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus for a cooler device includes a manifold constructed at least partially of silicon oxide. The manifold includes an array of inlet channels and an array of outlet channels. Each inlet channel has a first depth. The array of outlet channels are interlaced with the array of inlet channels, Each outlet channel has a second depth that is larger than the first depth. Each of the array of outlet channels has a pair of sidewalls separating each outlet channel from adjacent inlet channels of the array of inlet channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of California, Merced, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Sougata Hazra, Chi Zhang, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Ercan M. Dede, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi
  • Publication number: 20230378724
    Abstract: A power converter includes a field graded substrate, a plurality of power device dies attached to the field graded substrate, a polymer layer on the field graded substrate, one or more conductors over the polymer layer, and a plurality of power conditioning components mounted on the field graded substrate to form a power converter circuit. The field graded substrate includes a first conductor layer, a graded layer that blends conductor and insulator material, and a second conductor layer, the graded layer having an insulator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Jeffrey Ewanchuk
  • Publication number: 20230369878
    Abstract: Provided are a household energy storage system in an off-grid state and a black start method therefor. The method includes: in response to detecting that a battery system is discharged to a SOC of less than or equal to a set value M, sending, by a BMS, a state of the battery system to an EMS; sending, by the EMS, timing starting time T1 and black start time T2 to the BMS; starting, by the BMS, timing from T1 and after a time T, instructing the battery system to stop working such that the household energy storage system enters a sleep mode; in response to performing timing to T2, waking, by the BMS, an auxiliary power supply up for power supply to the EMS; and in response to detecting that the battery system is in a charging state, determining, by the EMS, that a black start succeeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Song CHEN, Daqing WANG, Gang XIAO, Chi ZHANG, Yuezhen HU, Liran SUN
  • Patent number: 11816469
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for container lifecycle management is provided. The embodiment may include registering a topology for a plurality of deployments in a container orchestration platform. The embodiment may include detecting a rolling update to a deployment of the plurality of deployments. The embodiment may include assuming ownership of at least one previous version pod of the deployment. The embodiment may include creating network routing rules for the at least one previous version pod. The embodiment may include routing network packets to the at least one previous version pod based on the created network routing rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Jun Tu, Wen Tao Zhang, Yang Yang, Yiwen Huang, Ye Cui, Xiao Kai Dong, Yu Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230356774
    Abstract: A method for lateral control of a vehicle includes: determining a target steering wheel rotation angle based on a target trajectory of the vehicle and a vehicle pose; determining a steering wheel rotation angle compensation according to the target steering wheel rotation angle and steering data of the vehicle; and controlling steering of the vehicle according to the target steering wheel rotation angle and the steering wheel rotation angle compensation, such that an actual steering angle of the vehicle is consistent with the target steering wheel rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi ZHANG, Wei TAN, Hao LI
  • Patent number: 11804316
    Abstract: The invention discloses an underwater umbilical cable which is capable of temperature and vibration measuring and three-dimensional shape reconstruction, wherein underwater umbilical cable is used to connect underwater equipment and aquatic equipment; the underwater umbilical cable comprises an outer sheath, armored steel wires, an inner sheath, a power cable, a communication optical cable, a steel pipe, three strain measuring optical fibers, three temperature measuring optical fibers, a distributed optical fiber strain interrogator, a distributed optical fiber temperature interrogator and a processor. The invention can collect the operation status data of the umbilical cable for a long time. The collected data is highly objective, can truly reflect the real-time operation status of the umbilical cables, and plays an important role in guaranteeing the long-term submarine oil and gas exploitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yixin Zhang, Fei Xiong, Xuping Zhang, Chi Zhang, Long Chen, Shun Wang, Xiaohong Chen, Feng Wang