Patents by Inventor Hu Xu

Hu Xu 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: 11469481
    Abstract: A battery unit includes: an electrode assembly, including a main body portion, and a negative tab and a positive tab, which respectively extend out from both ends of the main body portion along the length direction; a negative terminal and a positive terminal, arranged at the top of the electrode assembly; a first current collector for electrically connecting the negative tab with the negative terminal; and a second current collector for electrically connecting the positive tab with the positive terminal. The first current collector includes a first guiding plate. The first guiding plate is of a flat plate structure, and the negative tab is bent to one side of the first guiding plate away from the main body portion and is connected with the first guiding plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Hu Xu, Youlei Lai, Yuanbao Chen, Miaomiao Ren, Donglai Zheng, Haizu Jin
  • Publication number: 20220311056
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present application provides an electrode assembly, a battery cell, a battery, and a manufacturing method and device for the electrode assembly, which belong to the technical field of batteries. The electrode assembly includes a negative electrode plate and a positive electrode plate. The negative electrode plate includes a negative active material layer located in the straight area, and the positive electrode plate includes a positive active material layer located in the straight area. A first direction is perpendicular to an axial direction of a winding structure. The negative active material layer includes a negative electrode main body portion and negative electrode edge portions located on both sides of the negative electrode main body portion. The electrode assembly of this structure can effectively reduce the risk of lithium plating and improve the safety of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Hu XU, Miaomiao REN, Xing LI, Haizu JIN
  • Patent number: 11450931
    Abstract: The present application discloses a secondary battery, a battery module, and a device using the secondary battery as a power source. The secondary battery includes: a casing; an electrode assembly disposed in the casing; a cap assembly; and a current collecting member including an adapting piece and a connecting component provided separately and connected with each other; the adapting piece connected with the electrode terminal of the cap assembly and including a guiding section; the connecting component including a current collecting section to be connected with the guiding section and a tab connecting section to be connected with the electrode assembly; and the connecting component has a rigidity less than that of the guiding section, so that deformation of the guiding section toward the electrode assembly can be reduced when a portion of the connecting component connected with the electrode assembly is bent with respect to the length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited
    Inventor: Hu Xu
  • Publication number: 20220285795
    Abstract: This application provides a secondary battery, a battery module, and a device using a secondary battery as a power supply. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a cap assembly, and current collection members. The electrode assembly includes a main body and tabs that extend from the main body. The cap assembly includes a cap plate, electrode terminals, and an insulation baffle. The electrode terminals are disposed on the cap plate. The insulation baffle is connected to a side of the cap plate, where the side is close to the main body. The current collection members are at least partly located between the insulation baffle and the main body, and each of the current collection members includes a tab connection portion connected to one of the tabs. The insulation baffle contains a first recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Hu XU, Yuanbao CHEN, Long XU, Jiao DONG
  • Patent number: 11414821
    Abstract: An expandable modular energy-dissipation protection net unit group includes support columns each provided at each of two ends of each support column with a first horizontal longitudinal rotation reversing device on the left side, a second horizontal longitudinal rotation reversing device on the right side and a transverse rotation reversing device on the bottom; a transverse endless support rope, a longitudinal endless support rope and connectors. The transverse endless support rope is wound on the transverse rotation reversing device. The longitudinal endless support rope is wound on the first horizontal longitudinal rotation reversing device and the second horizontal longitudinal rotation reversing device adjacent. A metal net panel is tied by the plurality of connecting members and hung on the transverse endless support rope and the longitudinal endless support rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhixiang Yu, Liru Luo, Yuntao Jin, Liping Guo, Hu Xu, Xin Qi, Lei Zhao, Shichun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11409689
    Abstract: A device of a data testing environment including a node configured to connect the device to a tester; one or more processors configured to receive from the node an electrical signal alternating between at least a first state and a second state, the first state representing a data transmission trigger and the second state representing a data transmission opportunity; determine a timing of the data transmission opportunity based on the received electrical signal; and send data to the node during the data transmission opportunity in response to receiving the data transmission trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Siak Pin Lim, Govindraya Sanoor Prabhu, Tue Fatt David Wee, Hu Xu
  • Publication number: 20220246973
    Abstract: The present application provides an electrode assembly, including a negative electrode plate and a positive electrode plate, the negative electrode plate and the positive electrode plate being wound in a winding direction to form a winding structure including a bending area. Both the negative and the positive electrode plates include a plurality of bending portions located in the bending area. At least one bending portion in the negative electrode plate is a first bending portion, and an active substance capacity per unit area outside the first bending portion is greater than an active substance capacity per unit area inside the first bending portion; and/or, at least one bending portion in the positive electrode plate is a second bending portion, and an active substance capacity per unit area outside the second bending portion is greater than an active substance capacity per unit area inside the second bending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Haizu JIN, Hu XU, Baiqing LI, Xing LI, Chengdu LIANG
  • Publication number: 20220246993
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide an electrode assembly, a battery cell, a battery, and a method and a device for manufacturing an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. The first electrode plate and the second electrode plate are wound along a winding direction to form a winding structure, and the winding structure includes a bending region. The first electrode plate includes a first segment that exceeds a winding starting end of the second electrode plate, and at least a part of the first segment is configured to provide a support force to a part of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate in the bending region and located at an outer side the first segment, making a structure of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate more compact in the bending region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Haizu JIN, Hu XU, Xinxin DU, Xing LI, Chengdu LIANG, Yuqun ZENG
  • Publication number: 20220238890
    Abstract: The present application relates to a secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof, a battery module and an apparatus. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a main body portion and a tab extending out from the main body portion; a current collecting member including a guiding section, which extends in a direction perpendicular to a length direction of the electrode assembly; a transition connecting piece, being separately provided from the current collecting member and including a current collecting portion and a fixing portion, the current collecting portion being adapted to connect with the tab to form a first connection region, the fixing portion being adapted to connect with the guiding section to form a second connection region, and respective projections of the first connection region and the second connection region on a plane perpendicular to the length direction do not overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventor: Hu Xu
  • Publication number: 20220158197
    Abstract: An electrode assembly and a battery cell is disclosed. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. The first electrode plate includes a first current collector and a first active material layer, the first current collector includes a first main body and a first tab, and the first tab extends from one end of the first main body in a longitudinal direction. The second electrode plate includes a second current collector and a second active material layer, the second current collector includes a second main body and a second tab, the second tab extends from one end of the second main body in the longitudinal direction, and the second active material layer is applied on a surface of the second main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Hu XU, Miaomiao REN, Yongshou LIN, Long XU, Youlei LAI, Haizu JIN, Lingbo ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220129556
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, a natural-language understanding (NLU) module, a dialog manager, one or more agents, an arbitrator, a delivery system, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to receive a user input, process the user input using the ASR module, the NLU module, the dialog manager, one or more of the agents, the arbitrator, and the delivery system, and provide a response to the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Zhiyu Chen, Honglei Liu, Hu Xu, Seungwhan Moon, Hao Zhou, Bing Liu, Zihang Meng, Amy Lawson Bearman, Ahmed Magdy Hamed Mohamed, Eric Robert Northup, Jihang Li, Jinsong Yu, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Lloyd Hilaiel, Justin Denney, Christophe Chaland
  • Publication number: 20220127804
    Abstract: A two-stage energy dissipation type shed tunnel support structure connected by a principle of Dougong and a design method thereof are provided. The two-stage energy dissipation type shed tunnel support structure includes a Dougong joint domain, crossbeams and columns. The Dougong joint domain includes section steel members, wavy-wall cylindrical elastoplastic buffers, U-shaped sliding connecting troughs and high-strength bolts. Multiple layers of the section steel members are orthogonally stacked to form a Dougong shape, the wavy-wall cylindrical elastoplastic buffers are arranged between adjacent layers of the section steel members, and the U-shaped sliding connecting troughs are arranged at upper and lower ends of the wavy-wall cylindrical elastoplastic buffers, which realizes a connection between the wavy-wall cylindrical elastoplastic buffers and a section steel in two orthogonal directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Southwest Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Zhixiang YU, Liru LUO, Linxu LIAO, Yuntao JIN, Lijun ZHANG, Hu XU, Lei ZHAO, Hao ZHAO, Shichun ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11308048
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a database migration method, including: copying metadata from a first server of a database, the metadata including identification information of synthetic data; receiving a service instruction sent by a client after the copying the metadata from the first server of the database; determining, based on the service instruction, whether the synthetic data needs to be retrieved from the first server of the database; and in response to it is determined that the synthetic data needs to be retrieved from the first server of the database, copying the synthetic data from the first server of the database based on the identification information of the synthetic data. According to the present disclosure, the service instruction sent by the client is received in advance, and the synthetic data is copied from the first server of the database based on the identification information of the synthetic data, thereby reducing time taken for database migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING OCEANBASE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hu Xu, Yuzhong Zhao, Min Yang
  • Publication number: 20220115748
    Abstract: The present application discloses a secondary battery, a battery module, and a device using the secondary battery as a power source. The secondary battery includes: a casing; an electrode assembly disposed in the casing; a cap assembly; and a current collecting member including an adapting piece and a connecting component provided separately and connected with each other; the adapting piece connected with the electrode terminal of the cap assembly and including a guiding section; the connecting component including a current collecting section to be connected with the guiding section and a tab connecting section to be connected with the electrode assembly; and the connecting component has a rigidity less than that of the guiding section, so that deformation of the guiding section toward the electrode assembly can be reduced when a portion of the connecting component connected with the electrode assembly is bent with respect to the length direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited
    Inventor: Hu XU
  • Patent number: 11269535
    Abstract: Implementations of the present application provide a partition splitting method. Data files in a target source partition are divided into at least two data groups. A first data group from the at least two data groups is selected as a target splitting data group. A first splitting step is performed on the target splitting data group, including: splitting the target splitting data group into a plurality of data sub-groups based on a predetermined splitting rule, wherein each data sub-group of the plurality of data sub-groups corresponds to a new partition of at least two new partitions for the target source partition, and assigning each data sub-group to the new partition corresponding to the data sub-group. A second data group from the at least two data groups is selected as the target splitting data group, wherein the second data group is different from the first data group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing OceanBase Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenxi Li, Yuzhong Zhao, Hu Xu
  • Patent number: 11225786
    Abstract: A dry process connected energy-consuming beam column joint based on a corbel includes a prefabricated concrete corbel column, pre-buried steel plates and connecting steel plates, wherein the corbel section of the prefabricated concrete corbel column is stepped, and a notch section of a prefabricated concrete notch beam is matched with the stepped section of the corbel and is in lap joint to the stepped section; the pre-buried steel plates are separately pre-buried on the upper and lower surfaces of the corbel and the prefabricated concrete notch beam, friction plates are arranged outside the pre-buried steel plates, and slight tooth spaces are arranged on the sides, facing the pre-buried steel plates, of the friction plates; and the connecting steel plates are arranged on the left and right sides of the prefabricated concrete notch beam and the corbel lap joint section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Southwest Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Zhixiang Yu, Yuntao Jin, Chun Liu, Liping Guo, Liru Luo, Wenjun Gao, Hu Xu, Lei Zhao, Rui Guo
  • Publication number: 20210404631
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a related illumination device. The wavelength conversion device comprises a fluorescent powder layer (110) that is successively stacked, a diffuse reflection layer (120), and a high-thermal-conductivity substrate (130). The diffuse reflection layer (120) comprises white scattered particles for scattering the incident light; the high-thermal-conductivity substrate (130) is one of an aluminum nitride substrate, a silicon nitride substrate, a silicon carbide substrate, a boron nitride substrate, and a beryllium oxide substrate. The wavelength conversion device has good reflectivity and thermal stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yanzheng XU, Zifeng TIAN, Qian LI, Hu XU
  • Publication number: 20210376372
    Abstract: An electrode assembly and a related battery, and battery module are provided, wherein the electrode assembly includes: at least one positive electrode plate and at least one negative electrode plate, the number of all the positive and negative electrode plates is greater than or equal to 3; the positive and negative electrode plates are wound around the winding axis and arranged in a superimposing manner along a direction vertical to the winding axis, each positive electrode plate includes a positive main body part, at least part of the positive main body part is a positive active substance area, each negative electrode plate includes a negative main body part, at least part of the negative main body part is the negative active substance area, two ends of the negative active substance area along the winding axis both exceed corresponding ends of the adjacent positive active substance area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Chengdu LIANG, Hu XU, Haizu JIN, Yuqun ZENG
  • Publication number: 20210376428
    Abstract: An electrode assembly as provided includes a plurality of first electrode plates and at least one second electrode plate. The plurality of first electrode plates and the at least one second electrode plate are wound around a winding axis to form a winding structure. In the winding structure, the plurality of first electrode plates and the second electrode plate are arranged in a superimposing manner along a direction vertical to the winding axis. Each first electrode plate includes a first current collector and a first active substance layer, and the first current collector includes a first main body portion and a first tab which protrudes from the first main body portion along the direction of the winding axis; wherein each first tab and the first main body portion are arranged in parallel along the winding axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Chengdu LIANG, Haizu JIN, Hu XU, Yuqun ZENG
  • Publication number: 20210376387
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrode assembly and a related battery, battery module, wherein, the electrode assembly includes: a plurality of first type of electrode plates and at least one second type of electrode plate which are arranged in a superimposing manner, the polarity of the first type of electrode plate is opposite to the polarity of the second type of electrode plate, the plurality of first type of electrode plates comprise a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate, wherein the first electrode plate comprises a first current collector, the second electrode plate comprises a second current collector, and the first current collector is different from the second current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Chengdu LIANG, Hu XU, Haizu JIN, Yuqun ZENG