Patents by Inventor Hao Zhu

Hao Zhu 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: 20230188948
    Abstract: Techniques are described for a radio access network (RAN) system to obtain and manage the priority information that indicates priorities of the multicast and broadcast services (MBS). An example wireless communication method includes receiving, by a first network node from a second network node, priority information that indicates a priority of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS), and determining, by the first network, based on the priority indicated by the priority information, a reception priority of the MBS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Lin CHEN, Tao QI, Weiqiang DU, Liping WANG, Shuqiang XIA
  • Publication number: 20230184573
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method used to monitor a Coriolis mass flow meter, which has an oscillator with at least one measurement tube, the method including: exciting the oscillator so as to cause flexural vibrations of a first antisymmetric vibration mode by an excitation signal at a resonance frequency of the first antisymmetric vibration mode; sensing a vibration amplitude of the first antisymmetric vibration mode at the resonance frequency of the first antisymmetric vibration mode; sensing a time constant of the decaying free vibrations of the first antisymmetric vibration mode; and determining a modal elastic property of the oscillator with respect to the first antisymmetric vibration mode on the basis of the vibration amplitude of the first antisymmetric vibration mode, the excitation signal, and the time constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230179958
    Abstract: Provided are a multicast/broadcast information transmission method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes that: first multicast/broadcast information containing multicast/broadcast service area configuration information is sent to a first network element, or second multicast/broadcast information containing multicast/broadcast service area configuration information from a first network element is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin CHEN, Zijiang MA, Tao QI, Liping WANG, Hao ZHU, Kun CAO
  • Publication number: 20230180350
    Abstract: Provided are a mode configuration method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The mode configuration method is applied by a first communication node and comprises: receiving first information and configuring a bearer mode based on the first information; and receiving multicast/broadcast service (MBS) data using the configured bearer mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Lin CHEN, Tao QI, Zijiang MA
  • Publication number: 20230180349
    Abstract: Provided are a bearer configuration method and apparatus, a context message management method and apparatus, a releasing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The bearer configuration method includes receiving first information and configuring a radio bearer of an MBS based on the first information. The radio bearer includes a point-to-point (PTP) bearer and/or a point-to-multipoint (PTM) bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: HAO ZHU, Lin CHEN, Tao QI, Zijiang MA, Feng XIE, Ying HUANG, Kun CAO, Liping WANG
  • Publication number: 20230168115
    Abstract: A method for operating a Coriolis measurement device comprises the following steps: recording the measured voltages of sensors for sensing measuring tube vibrations and creating an asymmetric sequence of values by way of the amplitudes of the measured voltages for the purpose of diagnosing the Coriolis measurement device, recording at least one stabilization variable and creating a stabilized asymmetric sequence of values based on the stabilization variable, wherein the stabilization variable is one of the following variables or a first or further temporal derivative thereof: a resonant frequency of the measuring tube containing medium or a variable derived therefrom, time or phase difference between measurement signals from the first sensor and the second sensor or a variable derived therefrom, temperature of the measuring tube wall, temperature difference between two measurement points of the measuring tube wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Johan Pohl, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230078725
    Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Zaki MOUSTAFA, Qigen JI, Caitlin M. MCLAIN, Clayton J. MCCOY, Hao ZHU, Hsiang Hung CHEN, Stephen E. DEY, Fernando F. CUNHA
  • Patent number: 11589657
    Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zaki Moustafa, Hsiang Hung Chen, Stephen E. Dey, Qigen Ji, Hao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11579060
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining of fat content of milk having variable solids fractions and flowing with variable gas content in a pipeline. The method includes ascertaining a velocity of sound and an average density value for the milk based on eigenfrequencies of at least two bending oscillation wanted modes of measuring tubes of a densimeter arranged in the pipeline. The method further includes ascertaining a static pressure in the pipeline; a gas volume fraction based on the velocity of sound; the average density; the pressure; a density of the milk without gas content based on the average density and the gas volume fraction; and a permittivity of the milk based on a propagation velocity and/or an absorption of microwaves in the milk. The fat fraction is calculated based on the density of the milk without gas content and on the effective permittivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Pflüger, Wolfgang Drahm, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230044660
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for selecting a radio bearer mode for multicast broadcast services (MBS). The method includes informing a radio access network (RAN) that a user equipment (UE) is receiving/interested to receive or no longer receiving/interested to receive multicast broadcast service (MBS) services via a cast mode. The method includes sending, by the UE, MBS interest information to the RAN, the MBS interest information comprising a list of MBS services of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Lin CHEN, Zijiang MA, Tao QI, Feng XIE, Ying HUANG
  • Patent number: 11573111
    Abstract: The measuring system includes a transducer apparatus with two tubes. Each tube is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid from an inlet end toward an outlet end and to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical exciter mechanism excites and maintains mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes, and a sensor arrangement registers mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes. The transducer apparatus includes two temperature sensors each being mechanically and thermally conductively coupled with a wall of the tube, wherein each of the temperature sensors registers a measuring point temperature, and converts such into a temperature measurement signal temperature. A measuring and operating electronics (ME) generates a transducer temperature measured value representing a transducer apparatus temperature so that a magnitude of the transducer temperature measured value is greater than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature and less than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Gerhard Eckert, Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230032534
    Abstract: A method for monitoring flow of a medium by means of a pressure difference measuring device and a Coriolis mass flowmeter having two oscillators, which comprise, in each case, a bent measuring tube pair, which are arranged on top of one another and connected for parallel flow between the two pressure measuring points of the pressure difference measuring device, comprising steps as follows: Registering a pressure difference between the first pressure measuring point and the second pressure measuring point; registering a first density measured value based on at least a first oscillation frequency of the first oscillator; registering a second density measured value based on at least a second oscillation frequency of the second oscillator; ascertaining a flow measured value based on the pressure difference, when a difference between the first density measured value and the second density measured value is less than a density difference limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Josef Hubensteiner
  • Publication number: 20230022150
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a flow measuring point for media having at least one liquid phase, the flow measuring point including: a Coriolis measuring device for measuring the mass flow rate and the density of a medium flowing through a pipeline; and a pressure-difference measuring apparatus for sensing the pressure difference between a flow region arranged upstream of the Coriolis measuring device and a flow region arranged downstream of the Coriolis measuring device, wherein a flow measurement based on measured values of the pressure difference is corrected by means of measured values acquired using the Coriolis measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230026350
    Abstract: A method for characterizing the gas load of a medium, which comprises a liquid loaded with gas, using a measurement sensor that guides the medium in at least one vibrating measurement tube, includes: determining a speed of sound value and a resonator density value of the medium based on natural frequencies of at least two different vibration modes of the measurement tube; determining a measured pressure value for the medium guided in the measurement tube; determining a gas volume content of suspended bubbles in the medium based on the resonator density value, the speed of sound value and the measured pressure value; and determining a value for the gas volume content of free bubbles based on the resonator density value of the medium and the gas volume content of suspended bubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Yaoying Lin, Andreas Güttler
  • Publication number: 20230028225
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for measuring the flow of a liquid medium having variable gas content, on the basis of a differential pressure measurement by means of a differential pressure-generating primary element, through which the medium flows, which method comprises: ascertaining a differential pressure measurement value between two measuring points of the differential pressure-generating primary element; ascertaining a flow regime; ascertaining a flow rate measurement value as a function of the differential pressure measurement value and the flow regime, wherein the flow rate measurement value is ascertained by ascertaining a provisional flow rate measurement value on the basis of the differential pressure measurement value under the assumption of a first flow regime, which provisional flow rate measurement value is corrected if a second flow regime different from the first flow regime is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Schäfer, Hao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11553766
    Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zaki Moustafa, Qigen Ji, Caitlin M. McLain, Clayton J. McCoy, Hao Zhu, Hsiang Hung Chen, Stephen E. Dey, Fernando F. Cunha
  • Publication number: 20230009321
    Abstract: A measuring tube arrangement of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate of a flowable medium includes: two measuring tubes for conducting the medium, wherein the measuring tubes each have an inlet and an outlet, wherein the measuring tubes are bent at least once between the inlet and outlet; a coupler arrangement for mechanically coupling the two measuring tubes, wherein the coupler arrangement has at least two coupler elements, wherein one coupler element is arranged at the inlet, and one coupler element is arranged at the outlet; two magnet arrangements, each having at least two magnets, arranged on the measuring tubes, wherein precisely one magnet arrangement is arranged on one measuring tube; and a connecting body configured to mechanically detachably connect the measuring tube arrangement to a carrier unit, wherein the connecting body is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the respective measuring tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu, Martin Josef Anklin, Wolfgang Drahm
  • Publication number: 20230007544
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and devices for informing at least one downstream device of a migrating integrated access backhaul node (IAB-node) about an inter-donor migration status of migrating IAB node undergoing a migration from a source IAB-donor to a target IAB-donor. The method includes receiving, by a receiving device, a radio resource control (RRC) message sent from an IAB-donor. The RRC message includes an information element which indicates an inter-donor migration status of a migrating IAB-node. The method further includes in response to the information element indicating a successful inter-donor migration, sending, by the receiving device, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) status reports to a target IAB-donor. The PDCP status report corresponds to a radio link control acknowledged mode (RLC-AM) bearer configured to be allowed to send the PDCP status report in an uplink, and is configured to update data transmission for the receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Ying HUANG, Lin CHEN, Liping WANG, Kun CAO
  • Patent number: 11513556
    Abstract: An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Stryker, Caitlin M. Mclain, Travis C. Pedley, Nicholas A. Treadwell, Hao Zhu, Yang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220364895
    Abstract: A method for the measurement of a physical parameter of a liquid by means of a sensor having at least one measuring tube for conducting the liquid, wherein the measuring tube can be excited to vibrate in at least one flexural vibration mode, comprises: determining at least one current value of a vibration parameter of the flexural vibration mode; determining a measurement value of the physical parameter according to the current value of the vibration parameter, wherein the measurement value is compensated in respect of the resonator effect according to a current value for the natural frequency of the flexural vibration mode and according to the sound velocity of the liquid conducted in the measuring tube, wherein the value for the sound velocity is provided independently of the vibrations of the measuring tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Martin Josef Anklin, Reinhard Huber, Yaoying Lin