Patents by Inventor Feng Yan

Feng Yan 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).

  • Publication number: 20220179229
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes fixing bracket, first support frame sleeved on the fixing bracket, second support frame sleeved on the first support frame, rotation assembly configured to make the fixing bracket rotate relative to the first support frame about a first direction and the first support frame rotate relative to the second support frame about a second direction, driving assembly for driving fixing bracket to rotate relative to first support frame about the first direction and driving the first support frame to rotate relative to the second support frame about the second direction, flexible printed circuit board, first elastic support components, and second elastic support components. The lens driving device increases spacing between adjacent two of crossing portions of the shape memory wires so that the shape memory wires have enough space for the movement, preventing the shape memory wires from being interfered with each other during the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Feng Yan, Suohe Wei
  • Publication number: 20220179231
    Abstract: A photographing apparatus and an electronic device are provided. The photographing apparatus includes a frame assembly, a first movement assembly, first support members, a second movement assembly, second support members, and a lens module. The frame assembly is provided with a receiving cavity. The first movement assembly is suspended in the receiving cavity, and a movement cavity is provided inside the first movement assembly. The first support members are each arranged at least partially in a respective first movement groove and abut against the first movement assembly and the frame assembly. The first movement grooves adapted to the first movement assembly and the second movement grooves adapted to the second movement assembly are provided such that the photographing apparatus is of a compact structure on condition that the lens module can rotate about the first axis of rotation and/or the second axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Feng Yan, Suohe Wei
  • Publication number: 20220182512
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes a fixing bracket; first and second support frames; a rotation assembly including first and second rolling balls so that the fixing bracket and the first support frame are spaced apart from each other and form a rotational connection about a first direction, and the first and second support frames are spaced apart from each other and form a rotational connection about a second direction; a driving assembly for driving the fixing bracket to rotate relative to the first and second support frames about the first direction and for driving the first support frame to rotate relative to the second support frame about the second direction; a flexible circuit board; and first and second elastic support components. The lens driving device reduces the height of the overall structure, and effectively reduces the height of the lens driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Feng Yan, Suohe Wei
  • Patent number: 11342367
    Abstract: A photosensitive detector includes an array of detection units, each detection unit having a light-sensing transistor (1), a charge storage transistor (2) and a reading transistor (3), or comprising a light-sensing transistor, a charge transfer transistor (4), a charge storage transistor and a reading transistor. The light-sensing transistor is configured to realize the light-sensing function of the photosensitive detector; the charge storage transistor is configured to store photogenerated charges; the reading transistor is configured to read a signal; and, the charge transfer transistor is configured to control the transfer of the photogenerated charges. The photosensitive detector can realize global shutter and fast reading, and is compatible with the existing floating gate CMOS process, and the failure of any pixel will not affect the normal operation of the whole imaging array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Feng Yan, Zhijian Huang, Yi Shi, Haowen Ma, Yuqian Li, Xiaofeng Bu, Xiangshun Kong, Cheng Mao, Cheng Yang, Limin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220150410
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes first and second support frames, lens barrel, anti-shake magnets, anti-shake coils, flexible PCB, metal sheets, and support assembly including support member and first and second guiding posts. Support member includes support plate and first and second support walls. First soft protruding rubbers are respectively provided at positions of top surface of first support frame corresponding first support walls, and second soft protruding rubbers are respectively provided at positions of inner wall of second support frame corresponding to two sides of each second support wall. Compared with the prior art, lens driving device of the present disclosure makes impact limit position of first support walls closer to deflection axis position in first direction, and makes impact limit positions of second support walls closer to deflection axis position in second direction to reduce speed of limit impact, thereby reducing risk of generating particles due to impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Rongfu Xie, Feng Yan, Gang Li, Suohe Wei
  • Publication number: 20220150411
    Abstract: A camera lens includes a mounting housing, a lens module, an image stabilization module, first and second support shafts fixed to the mounting housing opposite to each other along one of diagonals of the mounting housing, and third and fourth support shafts fixed to the frame opposite to each other along another diagonal of the mounting housing. The mounting housing is formed by sequentially connecting first to fourth frame plates. The image stabilization module includes a frame, a movable frame, first and second image stabilization coils, and first and second magnets. The movable frame has first to fourth rotation holes. The first to fourth support shafts are respectively rotatably fit within the first to fourth rotation holes. The camera lens of the present disclosure can solve the problems of great process difficulty and high cost in the related art when the camera lens performs the optical image stabilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Rongfu Xie, Feng Yan, Gang Li, Suohe Wei
  • Publication number: 20220146782
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes a lens module, a first support frame, a second support frame sleeved on the first support frame, a support assembly for suspending the first support frame inside the second support frame, a first flexible printed circuit board (PCB) including folding portions, a second flexible PCB opposite to and independent from the first flexible PCB, and a driving assembly. Each folding portion includes a first fixing portion attached to the first support frame, a second fixing portion attached to the shell, and bent portions connecting the first fixing portion with the second fixing portion by bending. The two flexible PCBs are separately provided in the lens driving device to prevent the risk of disengagement when the two flexible PCBs move, and the folding portions prevent the first flexible PCB from being pulled by the movement of the lens module to be disconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Rongfu Xie, Feng Yan, Gang Li, Suohe Wei
  • Publication number: 20220150412
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lens driving device including a first supporting framework, a second supporting framework, a lens barrel, a bracket assembly which is rotatably connected with the first supporting framework, the first supporting framework is rotatably connected with the second supporting framework; anti-shake magnets fixed on two adjacent first side walls; anti-shake coils fixed on two adjacent second side walls; a flexible printed circuit fixed at a peripheral side of the second supporting framework and electrically connected with the anti-shake coils; and metal sheets respectively opposite to and spaced from two anti-shake magnets and generating mutual magnetic attraction with the anti-shake magnets. Compared with the related art, the lens driving device of the present invention has a simple structure and low production cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tianheng Ni, Rongfu Xie, Feng Yan, Gang Li, Suohe Wei
  • Patent number: 11307162
    Abstract: The present technology for the detection and analysis of analytes within a sample is based on molecular biology methods, including western blotting, gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and RT-PCR, which are normally time-consuming and laborious. The present disclosure provides novel OECT based electrochemical biosensors that can enable the convenient and cost-effective determination of analytes within a sample with high sensitivity and selectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Feng Yan, Ying Fu
  • Patent number: 11257977
    Abstract: Described herein is a diffusion-based ex-situ group V element doping method in the CdCl2 heat-treated polycrystalline CdTe film. The ex-situ doping using group V halides, such as PCl3, AsCl3, SbCl3, or BiCl3, demonstrated a promising PCE of ˜18% and long-term light soaking stability in CdSe/CdTe and CdS/CdTe devices with decent carrier concentration>1015 cm?3. This ex-situ solution or vapor process can provide a low-cost alternative pathway for effective doping of As, as well as P, Sb, and Bi, in CdTe solar cells with limited deviation from the current CdTe manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Feng Yan, Yanfa Yan
  • Patent number: 11224487
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system and accessory having a robotic base or hand piece having a plurality of motors and a mechanical actuator each for operating a mechanical positioning arm in a different degrees of freedom. The robotic base is reusable and provides the platform for the system. The drive system has a port that interfaces with the robotic base and allows for insertion of surgical instruments into the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: US Patent Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Canady, Cheffren Canady, Taisen Zhuang, Feng Yan, Aditya Shanghavi, Zhangshi Liu, Daniel Tabatabai, Tanner Pierce
  • Patent number: 11207731
    Abstract: A process for preparing alloy products is described using a self-sustaining or self-propagating SHS-type combustion process with point-source ignition, preferably a laser, in a pressurized vessel. Binary, ternary and quaternary alloys can be formed with control over polycrystalline structure and bandgap. Methods to tune the bandgap and the alloys formed are described. The alloy products may be doped. Preferably sulfides, tellurides or selenides are formed. Cooling during reaction takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Shrinivas Govindarajan, Michael Latusek, Christopher Wagner, Feng Yan
  • Publication number: 20210382516
    Abstract: A photoelectric computing unit, a photoelectric computing array and a photoelectric computing method. The photoelectric computing unit includes a semiconductor multifunctional region structure, which includes at least one carrier control region, at least one coupling region, and at least one photon-generated carrier collection region and readout region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Feng YAN, Hongbing PAN, Haowen MA, Donghai SHI, Zhangnan LI, Yuxuan WANG, Chenxi WANG, Xuan CHEN, Tao YUE, Di ZHU, Yuanyong LUO, Zihao WANG, Sheng LOU
  • Patent number: 11167146
    Abstract: A system for performing cold atmospheric plasma treatment of respiratory infections or lung cancer having a source of a carrier gas, a cold atmospheric plasma generator connected to the source of carrier gas, a source of compressed air, a humidifier connected to the source of compressed air, a source of oxygen, a ventilator having inputs connected to an output of the humidifier and the source of oxygen, a mixer having an interior chamber formed from a dielectric, an active electrode inside the interior chamber, and an outer electrode connected to ground, wherein the mixer has a fluid input port connected to a gas output of the cold atmospheric plasma generator and an output of the ventilator, and a delivery member connected to an output of the mixer for delivering combined humidified air and cold atmospheric plasma to a respiratory system of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences
    Inventors: Jerome Canady, Taisen Zhuang, Xiaoqian Cheng, Evgueni Sokolovski, Saravana Murthy, Buddika Sumanasena, Feng Yan, Cheffran Canady, Jerome McQueen
  • Publication number: 20210341415
    Abstract: The invention provides a transistor comprising: a source electrode; a drain electrode; a channel comprising an organic semiconductor between the source electrode and the drain electrode; a plurality of gate electrodes; and an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte contacts the gate electrodes and the channel, and wherein at least one gate electrode comprises an oxidoreductase and at least one gate electrode does not comprise an oxidoreductase, and methods for detecting and/or determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample using the transistor comprising: (i) applying a voltage to the at least one gate electrode which does not comprise an oxidoreductase; (ii) contacting the test sample in the transistor; (iii) applying the voltage used in (i) to the at least one gate electrode which comprises an oxidoreductase, (iv) removing the voltage from the at least one gate electrode which does not comprise an oxidoreductase; wherein (iii) and (iv) occur simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Feng YAN, Anneng YANG
  • Patent number: 11160598
    Abstract: An apparatus for gas-assisted electrosurgery having a gas-assisted electrosurgical probe comprising a tube and an electrode within said tube, wherein a distal end portion of said electrode extends from an opening at a distal end of said tube and an electrically insulating tip connected to a distal end of said electrode. The electrically insulating tip has a substantially hemispherical distal end portion having a radius r1 and a proximal portion having a circular cross-section and a central axis of a length l1, wherein l1>r1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: US Patent Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Canady, Feng Yan, Taisen Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11157955
    Abstract: An online system tracks stores information identifying content provided by third party systems and accessed by online system users as well as interactions with advertisements performed by online system users. When the online system identifies an opportunity to present an advertisement to a viewing user, the online system identifies content from third party systems accessed by the viewing user and content from third party systems accessed by additional online system users who interacted with advertisements. A score is computed for various advertisements based at least in part on correlations between content from third party systems accessed by the viewing user and content from third party systems accessed by additional online system users who interacted with advertisements. The online system selects candidate advertisements to evaluate for presentation to the viewing user based on the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Feng Yan, Shyamsundar Rajaram, Hao Zhang, Lu Zheng, Tianshi Gao, David Michael Viner
  • Publication number: 20210316106
    Abstract: A method for performing cold atmospheric plasma treatment of respiratory infections or lung cancer having a source of a carrier gas, a cold atmospheric plasma generator connected to the source of carrier gas, a source of compressed air, a humidifier connected to the source of compressed air, a source of oxygen, a ventilator having inputs connected to an output of the humidifier and the source of oxygen, a mixer having an interior chamber formed from a dielectric, an active electrode inside the interior chamber, and an outer electrode connected to ground, wherein the mixer has a fluid input port connected to a gas output of the cold atmospheric plasma generator and an output of the ventilator, and a delivery member connected to an output of the mixer for delivering combined humidified air and cold atmospheric plasma to a respiratory system of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences
    Inventors: Jerome Canady, Taisen Zhuang, Xiaoqian Cheng, Evgueni Sokolovski, Saravana Murthy, Buddika Sumanasena, Feng Yan, Cheffran Canady, Jerome McQueen
  • Publication number: 20210316153
    Abstract: A system for performing cold atmospheric plasma treatment of respiratory infections or lung cancer having a source of a carrier gas, a cold atmospheric plasma generator connected to the source of carrier gas, a source of compressed air, a humidifier connected to the source of compressed air, a source of oxygen, a ventilator having inputs connected to an output of the humidifier and the source of oxygen, a mixer having an interior chamber formed from a dielectric, an active electrode inside the interior chamber, and an outer electrode connected to ground, wherein the mixer has a fluid input port connected to a gas output of the cold atmospheric plasma generator and an output of the ventilator, and a delivery member connected to an output of the mixer for delivering combined humidified air and cold atmospheric plasma to a respiratory system of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences
    Inventors: Jerome Canady, Taisen Zhuang, Xiaoqian Cheng, Evgueni Sokolovski, Saravana Murthy, Buddika Sumanasena, Feng Yan, Cheffran Canady, Jerome McQueen
  • Publication number: 20210288110
    Abstract: A metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) device includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer disposed over an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a back electrode disposed over a lower surface of the semiconductor layer opposing the upper surface, and first and second electrodes disposed over the insulating layer and spaced-apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Jenn-Gwo HWU, Hao-Hsiung LIN, Chang-Feng YAN, Samuel C. PAN