Patents by Inventor Liang Zhu
Liang 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).
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Publication number: 20240145623Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor structures may include a plurality of LED structures and a backplane layer. Exemplary semiconductor structures may also include a light barrier region positioned between the LED structures and the backplane layer. The light barrier region may be operable to absorb light at wavelengths shorter than or about 300 nm and transmit light at wavelengths greater than or about 350.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Fabio Pieralisi, Mingwei Zhu, Zihao Yang, Liang Zhao, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Hou T. Ng, Nag Patibandla
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Publication number: 20240140862Abstract: The present application discloses a glass fiber sizing composition. The glass fiber sizing composition comprises effective components and water, and has a solid content of 4.0% to 6.0%; and the effective components comprise a silane coupling agent, a film former, a lubricant, a surfactant, a leveling agent, an interfacial reinforcing agent, a wetting agent, a defoaming agent, and a pH regulator. A glass fiber produced by the sizing composition has desirable strand integrity properties, softness and high dispersibility after a certain tension; the glass fiber also has high permeation velocity and complete permeation effect in the epoxy resin. The glass fiber shows excellent interfacial compatibility with the resin, and is suitable for weaving technology, especially for producing a heavy wind blade fabric. A composite formed by vacuum infusion of the fabric and the epoxy resin has desirable static mechanics and fatigue properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Guoming YANG, Shengjie XU, Qifeng FEI, Yaoping YAO, Zhongming ZHU, Liang FAN
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Patent number: 11970415Abstract: The present invention discloses a sludge anaerobic fermentation treatment method with simultaneously enhanced acid production and phosphorus removal. The method includes steps of: (1) adding waste activated sludge into an anaerobic reaction system, with a concentration of a total suspended solid (TSS) of 10000-15000 mg/L; (2) maintaining a pH value of the waste activated sludge at 10±0.1; adding powdery magnetite of 0.3-0.9 g/gVS S. Compared with simple alkaline conditions, in the method of the present invention, an accumulation amount of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in a fermentation broth is increased by 20%, and a content of orthophosphoric acid is reduced by 10%. The method can further improve the enhancing effect by using sulfuric acid to modify the magnetite, the accumulation amount of SCFAs can be increased by 36.7% at most, and the content of phosphorus and refractory organic substances can be reduced by 32.4% and 40.4% at most, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Liang Zhu, Donghui Lu, Jianxun Chen, Chen Wang, Taixing Han, Xiangyang Xu
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Patent number: 11967175Abstract: Provided are a facial expression recognition method and system combined with an attention mechanism. The method comprises: detecting faces comprised in each video frame in a video sequence, and extracting corresponding facial ROIs, so as to obtain facial pictures in each video frame; aligning the facial pictures in each video frame on the basis of location information of facial feature points of the facial pictures; inputting the aligned facial pictures into a residual neural network, and extracting spatial features of facial expressions corresponding to the facial pictures; inputting the spatial features of the facial expressions into a hybrid attention module to acquire fused features of the facial expressions; inputting the fused features of the facial expressions into a gated recurrent unit, and extracting temporal features of the facial expressions; and inputting the temporal features of the facial expressions into a fully connected layer, and classifying and recognizing the facial expressions.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Sannyuya Liu, Zongkai Yang, Xiaoliang Zhu, Zhicheng Dai, Liang Zhao
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Publication number: 20240125966Abstract: A transient electromagnetic device with variable shape and turns includes squares, a transmitting coil carrying frame, a transmitting coil, a turns-variable device, a current generator and a working power supply. The transmitting coil carrying frame is arranged inside the transmitting coil; the transmitting coil carrying frame is configured as a carrier of the transmitting coil, and configured for adjusting a side length of the transmitting coil and a shape of the transmitting coil; the square is configured for clamping and connecting the transmitting coil and the transmitting coil carrying frame to fix the transmitting coil to the transmitting coil carrying frame. The current generator is configured for generating transient current; the turns-variable device is configured for changing the turns of the transmitting coil; and the transmitting coil is configured for transmitting the transient current to a target area to be measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yuesheng LUAN, Shizhong CHEN, Xiaobo WANG, Jikai WANG, Geming ZENG, Gang SHI, Zhijian ZHANG, Liang LI, Jun ZHANG, Tianzhu XU, Liang ZHANG, Xiao PAN, Li XIAO, Zhou'e WANG, Yunfa ZHU, Liangzi YIDU, Yanian ZHANG, Jie LUO
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Publication number: 20240129146Abstract: A first communication device generates an Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) frame that includes i) OAM message content and ii) an OAM frame header outside of the OAM message content, wherein generating the OAM frame comprises generating the OAM frame header to include information that signals one of i) a low power sleep (LPS) request, and ii) a wake-up request (WUR). The first communication device transmits the OAM frame to a second communication device via a communication medium to signal to the second communication device the one of i) the LPS request, and ii) the WUR.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Ming-Tak LEUNG, Bizhan ABEDINZADEH, Hon Wai FUNG, Liang ZHU, Der-Ren CHU
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Patent number: 11959243Abstract: A method for constructing a large-span station by two-wing open type semi-covered excavation and semi-reverse construction, is divided into three stages of excavation. First, excavate a first-stage inner small foundation pit, then excavate a second-stage annular foundation pit within the first-stage retaining piles and outside the range of the first-stage inner small foundation pit, and finally excavate a third-stage semi-covered excavation foundation pit below the first-stage inner small foundation pit and the second-stage annular foundation pit. By setting graded retaining piles, middle upright post piles, middle top plates, local waist beams and local concrete supports in the soil-rock combination strata, so that the force transfer between the foundation pit enclosure and the station main body structures and the underlying rock layer is clear and reliable, and a stable frame structure is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group Co., LimitedInventors: Fucai Hua, Gang Lei, Zhihui Yang, Jianye Zhu, Liang Zhang, Ning Li, Yanan Dong, Ningning Li
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Publication number: 20240119256Abstract: The present disclosure provides directed to new, more efficient neural network architectures. As one example, in some implementations, the neural network architectures of the present disclosure can include a linear bottleneck layer positioned structurally prior to and/or after one or more convolutional layers, such as, for example, one or more depthwise separable convolutional layers. As another example, in some implementations, the neural network architectures of the present disclosure can include one or more inverted residual blocks where the input and output of the inverted residual block are thin bottleneck layers, while an intermediate layer is an expanded representation. For example, the expanded representation can include one or more convolutional layers, such as, for example, one or more depthwise separable convolutional layers. A residual shortcut connection can exist between the thin bottleneck layers that play a role of an input and output of the inverted residual block.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Andrew Gerald Howard, Mark Sandler, Liang-Chieh Chen, Andrey Zhmoginov, Menglong Zhu
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Publication number: 20240120932Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a circuit, chip, system, and method for eliminating random perturbation. The circuit includes a weight calculating module for receiving digital signals and random perturbation digital quantity, using least mean square error algorithm to calculate weight deviation iteration coefficient based on digital signal and digital quantity, and updating perturbation weight in real-time according to weight deviation iteration coefficient; and a perturbation eliminating module for eliminating perturbation signal in output digital signal of quantizer according to perturbation weight updated in real-time and updating perturbation weight in real-time according to weight deviation iteration coefficient, and then calculating current perturbation weight in real time to realize self-calibration of perturbation weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Chongqing GigaChip Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yabo NI, Yong ZHANG, Xiaofeng SHEN, Ting LI, Lu LIU, Can ZHU, Jiahao PENG, Liang LI, Dongbing FU, Jianan WANG
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Patent number: 11949096Abstract: A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder mixture comprising a first and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder. The first powder comprises a material A having a layered crystal structure comprising the elements Li, a transition metal based composition M and oxygen and has a particle size distribution with a span <1.0. The second powder has a monolithic morphology and a general formula Li1+bN?1-bO2, wherein ?0.03?b?0.10, and N?=NixM?yCozEd, wherein 0.30?x?0.92, 0.05?y?0.40, 0.05?z?0.40 and 0?d?0.10, with M? being one or both of Mn or Al, and E being a dopant different from M?. The first powder has an average particle size D50 between 10 and 40 ?m. The second powder has an average particle size D50 between 2 and 4 ?m. The weight ratio of the second powder in the bimodal mixture is between 20 and 60 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: UMICORE, UMICORE KOREA LTD.Inventors: Dae-Hyun Kim, Jens Paulsen, Shinichi Kumakura, YuRi Lee, Liang Zhu, TaeHyeon Yang
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Publication number: 20240099196Abstract: The disclosure provides a mower. The mower includes a vehicle frame, a walking assembly, a working assembly, a seat and a battery pack. The walking assembly includes a first walking wheel assembly and a second walking wheel assembly connected with the vehicle frame. The first walking wheel assembly and/or the second walking wheel assembly includes a main walking wheel and a hub motor, the main walking wheel is connected with the hub motor, and the hub motor is arranged outside a side of the vehicle frame. The working assembly is connected with the vehicle frame. The seat is arranged on the vehicle frame. The battery pack is lowered and mounted on the vehicle frame and extends below the seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Greenworks (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qunli WEI, Dongdong SHI, Chen ZHU, Min DING, Chaoqun WANG, Fei ZHU, Jun FAN, Liang PENG
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Patent number: 11943373Abstract: An identity certificate may be issued to a blockchain node. The issuance may include issuing a first identity certificate to a first terminal and receiving a second identity certificate issuance request that is from the first terminal. A second identity certificate may be issued to the first terminal, and a third identity certificate issuance request is received from the second terminal. A third identity certificate is issued to the second terminal, so that the second terminal forwards the third identity certificate to the third terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Mao Cai Li, Zong You Wang, Kai Ban Zhou, Chang Qing Yang, Hu Lan, Li Kong, Jin Song Zhang, Yi Fang Shi, Geng Liang Zhu, Qu Cheng Liu, Qiu Ping Chen
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Publication number: 20240086249Abstract: Systems, methods, and processor-readable media for elastic allocation of resources for deep learning jobs are described. A machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) of a cloud computing system includes an elastic training module which includes resource allocator for allocating resources to training jobs that optimizes overall estimated time to completion (ETC) for all training jobs received by the system and uses node-based resource allocation. The elastic training module may realize a combination of high resource utilization, short training times, and low queueing delay relative to existing approaches, thereby potentially enabling the realization of higher profits for a cloud computing system which provides MLaaS to users (i.e. customers). An improved user interface is described, enabling users to specify a range of resources to elastically allocate to the user's training job, and/or informing users of training time saved through the use of elastic resource allocation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Liang HU, Jiangcheng ZHU, Zirui ZHOU, Ruiqing CHENG, Yong ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240081705Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-contact fatigue detection system and method based on rPPG. The system and method adopt multi-thread synchronous communication for real-time acquisition and processing of rPPG signal, enabling fatigue status detection. In this setup, the first thread handles real-time rPPG data capture, storage and concatenation, while the second thread conducts real-time analysis and fatigue detection of rPPG data. Through a combination of skin detection and LUV color space conversion, rPPG raw signal extraction is achieved, effectively eliminating interference from internal and external environmental facial noise; Subsequently, an adaptive multi-stage filtering process enhances the signal-to-noise ratio, and a multi-dimensional fusion CNN model ensures accurate detection of respiration and heart rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Liang ZHAO, Sannyuya LIU, Zongkai YANG, Xiaoliang ZHU, Jianwen SUN, Qing LI, Zhicheng DAI
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Publication number: 20240074354Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for producing raw cotton of machine-harvested long-staple cotton with a modal length of greater than or equal to 35 mm, including the steps: planting sea-island long-staple cotton and machining seed cotton, wherein planting the sea-island long-staple cotton includes preparation before machine harvesting, defoliation and ripening, choosing a cotton variety, etc.; and machining the seed cotton includes preparation before seed cotton ginning, mechanical separation of cotton seeds and raw cotton, and finishing the separated raw cotton. Raw cotton fibers obtained by the method of the present disclosure have main quality indexes that: a fiber length is 36.5-38.4 mm, a specific strength is 42.3-46.1 cN/tex, a uniformity is 86.2-87.0%, a foreign-fiber content is 0.2-0.4 g/t, and an impurity content is 2.6-3.4%.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicants: Institute of Cash Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Awati Xinya Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Liwen TIAN, Jie KONG, Honghai LUO, Liang WANG, Zhiwu XU, Bin ZHU, Guoling NI, Tongren WANG
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Publication number: 20240076848Abstract: A method for constructing a large-span station by two-wing open type semi-covered excavation and semi-reverse construction, is divided into three stages of excavation. First, excavate a first-stage inner small foundation pit, then excavate a second-stage annular foundation pit within the first-stage retaining piles and outside the range of the first-stage inner small foundation pit, and finally excavate a third-stage semi-covered excavation foundation pit below the first-stage inner small foundation pit and the second-stage annular foundation pit. By setting graded retaining piles, middle upright post piles, middle top plates, local waist beams and local concrete supports in the soil-rock combination strata, so that the force transfer between the foundation pit enclosure and the station main body structures and the underlying rock layer is clear and reliable, and a stable frame structure is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicants: Beijing Urban Construction Design&Development Group Co., LimitedInventors: Fucai HUA, Gang LEI, Zhihui YANG, Jianye ZHU, Liang ZHANG, Ning LI, Yanan DONG, Ningning LI
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Publication number: 20240066549Abstract: A battery pole piece forming apparatus includes a conveying mechanism configured to convey a substrate; a feeding mechanism; and a press roller mechanism. The press roller mechanism includes a first press roller, a second press roller, a third press roller, and a fourth press roller arranged side by side in sequence. The first press roller and the second press roller are configured to roll-press active substance particles conveyed by the feeding mechanism to form a first membrane. The third press roller and the fourth press roller are configured to roll-press active substance particles conveyed by the feeding mechanism to form a second membrane. The second press roller and the third press roller are configured to roll-press the first membrane and the second membrane onto one side of the substrate (and another side of the substrate respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Liang ZHU, Ruirui ZHAO, Junhua LI, Yuan ZHU, Jianhua LIU, Jincheng LIU
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ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, HEATING CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20240074007Abstract: Provided are an electromagnetic heating device, a noise suppression method, a heating control system, and a storage medium, which relate to the field of electromagnetic heating technologies. The noise suppression method includes: in response to determining that any two adjacent heating modules of the electromagnetic heating device operate successively, obtaining a start operating frequency of the last-started heating module of the two adjacent heating modules; and adjusting an operating frequency of the first-started heating module of the two adjacent heating modules based on the start operating frequency of the last-started heating module, to allow the two adjacent heating modules to operate synchronously at a same operating frequency when the last-started heating module starts operating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Jun LEI, Lutian ZENG, Chengbin ZHU, Yunfeng WANG, Deyong JIANG, Wenhua LIU, Liang ZHENG -
Patent number: 11916224Abstract: A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder mixture comprises a first and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder. The first powder comprises particles of a material A comprising the elements Li, a transition metal based composition M and oxygen. The first powder has a particle size distribution characterized by a (D90?D10)/D50<1.0. The second powder comprises a material B having single crystal particles, said particles having a general formula Li+bN??bO2, wherein ?0.03?b?0.10, and N?=NixM?yCozEd, wherein 0.30?x?0.92, 0.05?y?0.40, 0.05?z?0.40 and 0?d?0.10, wherein M? is one or both of Mn or Al, and E is a dopant different from M?. The first powder has an average particle size D50 between 10 and 40 ?m. The second powder has a D50 between 2 and 4 ?m. The weight ratio of the second powder in the mixture is between 15 and 60 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Umicore, Umicore Korea Ltd.Inventors: Dae-Hyun Kim, Jens Paulsen, Shinichi Kumakura, YuRi Lee, Liang Zhu, TaeHyeon Yang
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Patent number: D1022362Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Degrii Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dongsheng Liu, Tao Zhu, Liang Zhong, Ye Zhao, Fei Zhao