Patents by Inventor Weihua Tan

Weihua Tan 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: 8758651
    Abstract: A conductive slurry for a solar battery is disclosed, which comprises a first-order aluminum powder having a median diameter D50 of about 2-8 um, a second-order powder having a median diameter D50 of about 20-100 nm, a glass powder, and an organic carrier. The conductive slurry may be stable on a screen without leakage through screen, and there are no agglomeration and sedimentation during long-time storage. A method of preparing a conductive slurry for a solar battery is also disclosed, which comprises steps of mixing a first-order aluminum powder, a second-order powder, a glass powder, and an organic carrier to obtain a mixture; and then ball milling the mixture to obtain the conductive slurry. The method may be simple and easy to realize, so that it's advantageous for mass production in the industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Weihua Tan, Zhen Liu
  • Publication number: 20140089953
    Abstract: A system and method for searching and/or subscribing to media programs and notifying the user before a recommended program starts in response to a user's request for recommendation. A server receives a user request for a media program event recommendation from a client device. The user request comprises user media program recommendation setting. The server generates a search query in accordance with the user request. The server runs the search query against one or more databases to generate a recommendation containing one or more media program events. At least one of the databases consists of scheduled media program events. The server sends automatically, without user interaction, to one or more user-designated calendar programs, a calendar event corresponding to a recommended media program event. The calendar event includes a respective date, time and duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Qiliang Chen, Weihua Tan
  • Publication number: 20120330989
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems, computer program products for automatic language-detection for search queries are described. A character-to-language mapping is stored on a client device. The client device can process each query character of a search query to determine a number of candidate “language-writing system” pairs in which the query character can exist according to the character-to-language mapping. A respective sub-score can be generated for each candidate “language-writing system” pair in the context of each query character that is associated with the candidate “language-writing system” pair. A final score can be calculated for each candidate “language-writing system” pair by aggregating all the sub-scores that have been generated for the candidate “language-writing system” pair. A source language of the search query can be determined based on the respective final scores of all the candidate “language-writing system” pairs identified for the search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Weihua Tan, Qiliang Chen
  • Publication number: 20120330990
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems, computer program products for generating cross-language query suggestions are described. For each query suggestion written in a first natural language, candidate segmentations are generated from the query suggestion, and candidate translations are generated from each candidate segmentation. The candidate translations are evaluated based on a measure of segmentation quality associated with the respective candidate segmentation from which each candidate translation is derived, and a frequency of occurrence of the candidate translation in a target language query log. The measure of segmentation quality associated with each candidate segmentation is further based on a frequency of occurrence of the candidate segmentation in a source language query log. A candidate translation is provided as a cross-language query suggestion for the primary language query suggestion based on the result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Qiliang Chen, Weihua Tan
  • Publication number: 20120330919
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems, computer program products for generating cross-language query suggestions are described. A pair of machine-generated translations are obtained for a primary-language query suggestion. A first machine-generated translation of the pair is generated by machine-translation from a first language to a second language, while the second machine-generated translation is generated by machine-translation from the second language to the first language. A respective difference measure is determined for each machine-generated translation based on the number of n-grams the machine-generated translation has in common with the primary-language query suggestion. The machine-generated translation that has a smaller number of n-grams in common with the primary-language query suggestion is identified as a preferred choice as a cross-language query suggestion for the primary-language query suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Qiliang Chen, Weihua Tan
  • Publication number: 20120306772
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for selecting text using a touchscreen display of a computing device. A computing device identifies physical contact between multiple fingers and the touchscreen display at a starting location, wherein the identifying is in distinction to identifying physical contact between a single finger and the touchscreen display. The computing device determines that the physical contact persists during movement of the physical contact from the starting location to an ending location. The computing device determines that the physical contact was interrupted at the ending location. The computing device identifies that text displayed between the starting location and the ending location is text that has been selected by a user of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Weihua Tan, Qiliang Chen
  • Publication number: 20120032120
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a conductive shiny for a solar battery comprising a first-order aluminum powder having a median diameter D50 of about 2-8 um, a second-order powder having a median diameter D50 of about 20-100 nm, a glass powder, and an organic carrier. The conductive slurry may be stable on a screen without leakage through screen, and there are no agglomeration and sedimentation during long-time storage. The present invention further discloses a method of preparing a conductive slurry for a solar battery, comprising steps of mixing a first-order aluminum powder, a second-order powder, a glass powder, and an organic carrier to obtain a mixture; and then ball milling the mixture to obtain the conductive slurry. The method may be simple and easy to realize, so that it's advantageous for mass production in the industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Weihua Tan, Zhen Liu
  • Publication number: 20110073178
    Abstract: An electrically conductive paste for a solar cell comprises a metal powder, an inorganic adhesive, an aqueous adhesive and an auxiliary agent. The aqueous adhesive comprises a water-soluble polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BYD Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Weihua TAN, Zhen Liu, Yong Zhou, Zhanfeng Jiang
  • Publication number: 20060068297
    Abstract: The present invention discloses non-aqueous electrolytes for lithium ion batteries. Said electrolytes comprise of lithium salts and a non-aqueous organic solvent. The non-aqueous organic solvent comprises of compounds having the formate derivative or formamide derivative. The chemical formulas for these compounds are HCOOR1 and HCONR2R3, where R1, R2, R3 are alkyls having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. The weight percentage of the compounds having the formate derivative or formamide derivative is between 5 wt % and 70 wt % of the total weight of the non-aqueous organic solvent. Lithium ion batteries using said electrolytes exhibit improved discharge properties at low temperatures. These batteries are especially suitable for use as power batteries with large capacities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Weihua Tan, Junqing Dong, Zhaosheng Liu