Patents by Inventor Liang Xiong

Liang Xiong 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: 20240186871
    Abstract: A stator-and-rotor structure and an axial magnetic field motor are provided. The stator-and-rotor structure is a dual-stator and dual-rotor structure. Permanent magnets of the outer rotor is fixed on a rotor yoke portion, the inner rotor has no rotor yoke portion, permanent magnets of the inner rotor is fixed on a rotor support, the inner stator core has no stator yoke portion, and the outer stator core has a stator yoke portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Shengchuan ZHANG, Xuebo XIONG, Liang FANG, Tao HAN, Haisheng YU, Yanjun TAN, Xiaozhe LIN, Ruiping WANG, INGO SCHOLTEN
  • Publication number: 20240164144
    Abstract: A display substrate, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, sub-pixels and an isolation portion, and each sub-pixel includes a light-emitting function layer. The isolation portion includes a first sub-isolation portion and a second sub-isolation portion. The first sub-isolation portion is between the second sub-isolation portion and the base substrate. The second sub-isolation portion includes a protrusion protruding relative to an edge of the first sub-isolation portion, the second sub-isolation portion facing one of adjacent sub-pixels is different in shape from the second sub-isolation portion facing the other one; or, a slope angle between a side surface of the first sub-isolation portion or the second sub-isolation portion facing one sub-pixel and a plane parallel to the base substrate is 60° to 120°. At least one film of the light-emitting function layer is disconnected at the isolation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Wei ZHANG, Liang SONG, Zhiming REN, Chunfang FAN, Xiaoliang GUO, Donghua JIANG, Wuyang ZHAO, Weiyun HUANG, Zhen WANG, Zhongfei DONG, Hongguang YUAN, Pengyu LIAO, Li XIONG
  • Patent number: 11965304
    Abstract: A self-sinking-type deep foundation pit retaining wall structure, comprising a cylindrical retaining wall body (1); a ground breaking structure (2) is formed at the bottom of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1), and the cylindrical retaining wall body (1) is suitable for achieving downward ground breaking and sinking by means of the cooperation of the ground breaking structure (2) and the gravity of the cylindrical retaining wall body; and a water pipe (20) running through the cylindrical retaining wall body is cast in the cylindrical retaining wall body (1), and the water pipe (20) is provided with a water outlet (80) located at the lower end face of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1) and a water inlet (81) located at the upper end face of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Xiangang Liu, Yonghua Li, Yunli Xiong, Liang Peng
  • Patent number: 11945528
    Abstract: A hip joint mechanism includes: a hip joint frame; an upper leg movably connected to the hip joint frame; a hip actuator configured to drive the hip joint frame to rotate; two upper leg actuators mounted on the hip joint frame; two transmission mechanisms configured to transmit motion from the two upper leg actuators to the upper leg, wherein each of the upper leg actuators comprises a casing connected to the hip joint frame, and an output shaft connected to one corresponding transmission mechanism, each of the two transmission mechanisms comprises an output end; and three connecting mechanisms, wherein the output ends and the hip joint frame are movably connected to the upper leg through the three connecting mechanisms, the three connecting mechanisms are arranged at three vertices of a triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Liang Huang, Hongyu Ding, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20240070192
    Abstract: An audio conversion method, an audio playing method and an apparatus, the method including: receiving an audio acquisition request corresponding to a target chapter (101); in response to an absence of an audio file corresponding to the target chapter, segmenting the target chapter to obtain a plurality of text segments (102); generating an audio file corresponding to each of the text segments, and determining identification information of the audio file based on a typesetting order of each of the text segments in the target chapter; storing the audio file corresponding to each of the text segments, and generating an audio list based on file information of the audio file corresponding to each of the text segments and the identification information of the audio file (103); and determining an estimated total audio playing duration corresponding to the target chapter, and sending the audio list and the estimated total audio playing duration to a user terminal (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jiaxin XIONG, Jianxiong LI, Liang LIANG
  • Patent number: 11797875
    Abstract: To present one or more content items to users of an online system, the online system identifies a content evaluation pipeline including an order of a plurality of stages having one or more computer models for evaluating a likelihood of user interaction with a content item. The content evaluation pipeline selects a decreasing number of content items, from each stage of the order, according to the order of the stages. The online system optimizes the selection of content items selected at the plurality of stages of the content evaluation pipeline by training the computer models to predict content selection values that the subsequent model would generate for a content items in a training data set and content items that the subsequent model would select for input to the next stage of the content evaluation pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianshi Gao, Wenlin Chen, Liang Xiong
  • Publication number: 20230283248
    Abstract: In certain aspects, a power amplification device, a power amplification system, and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The power amplification system includes a power amplification device and a control unit. The power amplification device includes a plurality of power amplification circuits, a power supply network configured to supply a power source from a plurality of power sources to the plurality of power amplification circuits, and a transformer network configured to provide an output power that matches a transmit power level. The control unit includes a memory storing code and a processor coupled to the memory. When the code is executed, the processor is configured to determine a plurality of circuit configurations for the plurality of power amplification circuits based on the transmit power level, and configure the plurality of power amplification circuits using the plurality of circuit configurations, respectively, so that the output power matches the transmit power level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicants: Bestechnic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Bestechnic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Renzhong Xie, Liang Xiong, Lu Chai
  • Publication number: 20230193989
    Abstract: An electric drive module and an electric drive equipment are provided, the electric drive module comprises a housing, a force output assembly, a flexible gear, a rotor, a stator, a wave generator, and a cooling pipe, the stator is configured to drive the rotor to rotate relative to the housing, when the rotor rotates, the wave generator drives the flexible gear to deform to drive the rigid gear to rotate, at least part of the cooling pipe is received in and closes to the stator. The electric drive module is compact and space saving, the flexible gear is secured to the housing, the rotation of the rigid gear driven by the deformation of the flexible outputs power, which is low rotational inertia and decreases vibration, the cooling pipe arranged in the stator can directly dissipate heat from the stator with high heat dissipation efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: QIAN-LAN HU, NING HUA, LIANG XIONG, TONG-YANG ZHAO, QIAN ZHAO, XIAO-BEN YE, ZHUO-LIN LIU, TENG CHEN
  • Patent number: 11657253
    Abstract: For a content item with unknown tasks performed by a viewing user on an online system, the online system predicts a likelihood of interacting with each content item using a prediction model associated with a plurality of tasks. The prediction model comprises a plurality of independent layers, a plurality of shared layers and a plurality of separate layers. Each independent layer is configured to extract features, for each task, that are not shared across the plurality of tasks. The plurality of shared layers are configured to extract common features that are shared across the plurality of tasks. Each separate layer is configured to predict likelihood of the viewing user performing a task associated with the separate layer based on the features extracted from the plurality of independent layers and the plurality of shared layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Xiong, Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11612849
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling air pollution using a venturi scrubber with a venturi throat having multiple variable apertures. In some embodiments, the venturi throat comprises a first plate and a second plate, each with multiple apertures. The plates may move relative to each other. The dimensions of the apertures may be determined based on the movement of two plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Devpreet Jassal, Man Zhou, Liang Xiong
  • Publication number: 20230041744
    Abstract: A method for controlling heating of a battery pack is provided, in which, the method includes: acquiring a temperature of the battery pack; and controlling a motor controller to output a current to a motor, if the temperature of the battery pack is lower than a preset temperature threshold, so as to generate a magnetic field in the motor having a magnetic pole direction consistent with or opposite to a magnetic pole direction of a motor rotor and to enable the motor to maintain a stationary state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Liang XIONG, Zhe JIANG, Yongluan ZHANG, Xinran DONG, Guowei SONG, Meng LIU, Pingyuan LUO, Yushan LI, Zelin GAO, Yadong WANG
  • Publication number: 20230006486
    Abstract: A motor cooling structure, a drive assembly and a vehicle. The motor cooling structure includes: branch flow-channels (100), shell flow-channels (200), end cover flow-channels (300), a liquid inlet (201) and a liquid outlet (202). A plurality of the branch flow-channels (100) are circumferentially arranged on a stator (1) of a motor around an axis of the motor. The shell flow-channels (200) includes a liquid inlet flow-channel (211), shell long flow-channels and a liquid outlet flow-channel (212). The liquid inlet flow-channel (211), the plurality of shell long flow-channels and the liquid outlet flow-channel (212) are circumferentially arranged on a reducer shell (2) around the axis of the motor. The end cover flow-channels (300) includes end-cover long flow-channels, and a plurality of the end-cover long flow-channels are circumferentially arranged on a motor end cover (3) around the axis of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Pingyuan LUO, Liang XIONG, Yadong WANG
  • Patent number: 11537623
    Abstract: To select the content to be presented to the user, a first latent vector is determined for a content item based on a first object associated with the content item. A second latent vector is determined for the content item based on a second object associated with the content item. A content item vector is then determined based on the first and second latent vectors. Furthermore, a user vector is determined based on interactions of the user with the first set of content objects and the second set of content objects. A score indicative of the likelihood of the user interacting with the content item is determined based on the content item vector and the user vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianshi Gao, Ahmad Abdulmageed Mohammed Abdulkader, Yifei Huang, Ou Jin, Liang Xiong
  • Patent number: 11190039
    Abstract: A method of charging a battery and a system using the same are provided. The method includes: detecting a terminal voltage of a battery; When the terminal voltage is less than a voltage threshold, performing quick charging which includes: calculating a rising rate of the terminal voltage, comparing the rising rate with a rising rate reference value, and controlling the terminal voltage according to the comparison result; and when the terminal voltage is not less than the voltage threshold, performing low current floating charging which includes: intermittently charging the battery by a predetermined floating charging period, calculating a falling rate of the terminal voltage, comparing the falling rate with a falling rate reference value, controlling the terminal voltage according to the comparison result, in a first time duration of the floating charging period, and suspending charging in a second time duration of the floating charging period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Xiong, Zhenji Liu, Wen-Kang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11144812
    Abstract: A preprocessing module of a neural network has a first input and second input. The module generates multiple, different first latent vector representations of its first input, and multiple, different second latent vector representations of its second input. The module then models pairwise interactions between every unique pairwise combination of the first and second latent vector representations. The module then produces an intermediate output by combining the results of the modeled pairwise interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Xianjie Chen, Wenlin Chen, Liang Xiong, Tianshi Gao
  • Patent number: 11132604
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes a preprocessing stage of a neural network model, where the preprocessing stage includes first and second preprocessing modules. Each of the two modules has first input that may receive a dense input and a second input that may receive a sparse input. Each module generates latent vector representations of their respective first and second inputs, and combine the latent vectors with the original first input to define an intermediate output. The intermediate output of the first module is fed into the first input of the second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Xianjie Chen, Wenlin Chen, Liang Xiong, Tianshi Gao
  • Publication number: 20210252447
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling air pollution using a venturi scrubber with a venturi throat having multiple variable apertures. In some embodiments, the venturi throat comprises a first plate and a second plate, each with multiple apertures. The plates may move relative to each other. The dimensions of the apertures may be determined based on the movement of two plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Devpreet Jassal, Man Zhou, Liang Xiong
  • Patent number: 11017287
    Abstract: For a content item with unknown tasks performed by a viewing user on an online system, the online system predicts a likelihood of interacting with each content item using a prediction model associated with a plurality of tasks. The prediction model comprises a plurality of independent layers, a plurality of shared layers and a plurality of separate layers. Each independent layer is configured to extract features, for each task, that are not shared across the plurality of tasks. The plurality of shared layers are configured to extract common features that are shared across the plurality of tasks. Each separate layer is configured to predict likelihood of the viewing user performing a task associated with the separate layer based on the features extracted from the plurality of independent layers and the plurality of shared layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Xiong, Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10943171
    Abstract: An optimized computer architecture for training an neural network includes a system having multiple GPUs. The neural network may be divided into separate portions, and a different portion is assigned to each of the multiple GPUs. Within each GPU, its portion is further divided across multiple training worker threads in multiple processing cores, and each processing core has lock-free access to a local parameter memory. The local parameter memory of each GPU is separately, and individually, synchronized with a remote master parameter memory by lock memory access. Each GPU has a separate set of communication worker threads dedicated to data transfer between the GPU and the remote parameter memory so that the GPU's training worker threads are not involved with cross GPU communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Ou Jin, Liang Xiong
  • Patent number: 10909454
    Abstract: For a content item with unknown tasks performed by a viewing user on an online system, the online system receives a plurality of content items associated with a viewing user. The online system derives a feature vector for each content item. The online system predicts a likelihood of interacting with each content item using a prediction model associated with a plurality of tasks. The prediction model comprises a plurality of shared layers and a plurality of separate layers. The plurality of shared layers are configured to extract common features that are shared across the plurality of tasks. Each separate layer is configured to predict likelihood of the viewing user performing a task associated with the separate layer based on the common features. The online system scores each content item based on predicted likelihood of each task. The online system ranks the plurality of content items based on the scoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shilin Ding, Min Li, Liang Xiong