Patents by Inventor Xiaogang Zhang

Xiaogang Zhang 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: 11973384
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, an insulating layer, and a wire. The stator includes a first circular laminate and a second circular laminate. The first laminate includes a first finger having a distal end extending toward a center point of the first circular laminate. The second laminate includes a second finger having a distal end extending toward a center point of the second circular laminate. The first and second fingers define a wall. The distal ends of the first and second fingers define a space therebetween. The insulating layer extends along the wall and into the space. The insulating layer is spaced from the distal end of the second finger. The wire extends along the insulating layer below the distal ends of the first and second fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240130597
    Abstract: A base station of a cleaning device and a cleaning system are provided. The base station of the cleaning device includes: a base station body having an accommodating chamber for accommodating the cleaning device and an opening for the cleaning device to enter or exit the accommodating chamber; and a water injection assembly including a movable base, and a movable plate, a lifting mechanism, and a water injection pipe that are disposed on the movable base. The water injection pipe is configured to inject water into the cleaning device. The lifting mechanism is configured to drive the water injection pipe to move. A first elastic member is disposed between the movable plate and a side wall of the accommodating chamber. The cleaning device is contacted with the movable plate during a water injection process of the water injection assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tao SUN, Tao ZHANG, Xianmin WEI, Xiaogang XUAN
  • Publication number: 20240136899
    Abstract: A motor assembly tool includes a stator defining a plurality of slots and a varnish application fixture. The fixture includes a disc defining a plurality of slots, an outer shield disposed on the disc radially outward of the slots of the disc, and an inner shield disposed on the disc radially inward of the slots on the disc. The disc is disposed on the stator and the outer and inner shields are configured to direct varnish through the slots of the disc and into the slots of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240131551
    Abstract: A varnish injector assembly for an electric motor includes an injector nozzle, a varnish reservoir fluidly connected to the injector nozzle, and a filament extending from the varnish reservoir. The filament is configured to direct varnish from the injector nozzle to a slot of a stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240130092
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data center computer room cooling system and a control method thereof, relating to the field of heat dissipation technology of the data center computer room. The system includes an indoor subsystem and an outdoor subsystem. The indoor subsystem includes an indoor fan, an indoor air supply outlet, an indoor return air inlet, an indoor wet curtain apparatus and an evaporator. The outdoor subsystem includes an outdoor fan, a fluorine pump condenser, a liquid cooling dry cooler, a compressor, a fluorine pump, an expansion valve, and an outdoor wet curtain apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Binghua ZHANG, Mingjiang LI, Xiaogang SUN
  • Publication number: 20240125555
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a compound evaporative cooling tower and a data center, relating to the field of cooling tower technology. The compound evaporative cooling tower includes an air-inlet grille, a precooling module, a first spray module, a cooling module, a direct evaporative heat exchanger, a second spray module, a water collector, and an outdoor fan. The precooling module is arranged on an inner side of the air-inlet grille. The first spray module is arranged above the precooling module, and the second spray module is arranged above the direct evaporative heat exchanger. The cooling module is arranged below the direct evaporative heat exchanger and includes a plurality of cooling sub-modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Binghua ZHANG, Mingjiang LI, Xiaogang SUN
  • Publication number: 20240125494
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data center and an air conditioning system thereof. The air conditioning system includes an air-inlet grille, a precooling module, a first spray module, a cooling module, a direct evaporative heat exchanger, a second spray module, a water collector, and an outdoor fan. The precooling module is arranged on an inner side of the air-inlet grille and includes a plurality of groups of indirect evaporative coolers. The first spray module is arranged above the precooling module, and the second spray module is arranged above the direct evaporative heat exchanger. The cooling module is arranged below the direct evaporative heat exchanger and includes a plurality of cooling sub-modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Binghua ZHANG, Mingjiang LI, Xiaogang SUN
  • Publication number: 20240113358
    Abstract: A battery pack assembly includes a cell stack having a plurality of battery cells distributed along an axis and a plurality of thermal energy transfer assemblies distributed along the axis. Each thermal energy transfer assembly is disposed axially between a first battery cell and a second battery cell. Each thermal energy transfer assembly provides a channel configured to communicate a flow of air between the first battery cell and the second battery cell. A coolant plate assembly is adjacent the cell stack. The coolant plate assembly includes at least one coolant path configured to communicate a liquid coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240106310
    Abstract: A method for applying varnish to an electric motor includes locating a varnish injector above a slot of a stator of the electric motor, depressing an intermediate layer in the slot with the varnish injector, and applying varnish from the varnish injector into a gap defined between the intermediate layer and a wall of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240076985
    Abstract: For the problem of difficult roof anchor withdrawal at the end of a working face, a static crushing directional anchor withdrawal method at the end of a large-mining-height working face is provided. The method includes the following steps: designing key parameters of boreholes for static crushing, including a borehole position, a spacing between boreholes, a borehole depth, and a borehole diameter at the end of a working face; then determining parameters of a static crushing agent grouting technology device for the construction of a static crushing process; and carrying out an anchor withdrawal operation at the end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Xuandong LI, Fuqi WANG, Zhixiang LI, Jun WU, Chao GAO, Bin TIAN, Jiangning WANG, Yuanda REN, Dongdong WANG, Longfei WANG, Hua ZHANG, Jianhua CHEN, Zhenghu MO, Xiaogang LI
  • Patent number: 11923532
    Abstract: A pre-lithiated silicon-based anode includes a silicon-based anode, lithium disposed on a surface or in an interior of the silicon-based anode, and a protective coating on the surface of the silicon-based anode. The pre-lithiated silicon-based anode allows subsequent processing to be performed safely in the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rongrong Jiang, Jingjun Zhang, Yuqian Dou, Lei Wang, Chuanling Li, Yunhua Chen, Xiaogang Hao, Qiang Lu
  • Publication number: 20240063495
    Abstract: An assembly includes a first piece of an enclosure having an interior area. The first piece has a first flange that projects outward from the interior area. The assembly also includes a second piece of the enclosure, the second piece including a second flange that projects outward from the interior area. The assembly further includes a gasket seal that is sandwiched between the first and second flanges. The first and second flanges are secured together at a flange-to-flange interface that is between the gasket seal and the interior area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Nathaniel Conti, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Parikshit S. Gupte
  • Publication number: 20240055718
    Abstract: A battery pack venting assembly includes a battery pack vent that communicates a flow of vented gas through a vented gas passage from a vented gas inlet to a vented gas outlet. The battery pack vent has at least one ambient air passage configured to communicate ambient air into the vented gas passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11898512
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cold starting an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, fuel is delivered in four equal amounts into a cylinder during a cycle of the cylinder. The fuel is injected so as to reduce cylinder wall wetting, raise combustion stability, and increase exhaust system heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Steven Wooldridge, Gary Coulson, David Bruce Reiche
  • Publication number: 20230411726
    Abstract: A battery pack assembly includes a cell stack having a plurality of battery cells distributed along an axis and a plurality of thermal energy transfer assemblies distributed along the axis. Each thermal energy transfer assembly is disposed between axially adjacent battery cells within the plurality of battery cells. Each thermal energy transfer assembly includes a first sheet and a second sheet that sandwich an insulation layer. The battery pack assembly further includes a coolant plate assembly and a base sheet sandwiched between the coolant plate assembly and the cell stack. The base sheet is configured to communicate thermal energy from the first sheet and the second sheet to the coolant plate assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11799368
    Abstract: A varnish injection system includes a varnish injector including a base, a nozzle extending from the base, and a spacer disposed on the nozzle, and an electric motor including a stator, a wire, and an insulating layer between the stator and the wire. The nozzle is arranged to deposit varnish between the stator and the insulating layer. The nozzle and the stator define a gap therebetween when the spacer engages the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11788483
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cold starting an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, the two amounts of fuel are injected into an engine cylinder during a cycle of the engine cylinder. The first amount of fuel is combusted to generate torque to rotate a crankshaft of the engine and the second amount of fuel is at least partially combusted in an exhaust system of the engine to increase exhaust gas temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11725562
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing emissions during an engine cold start. In one example, a method may include, during emission control device heating, injecting heated air into an exhaust runner of each cylinder of the engine during an exhaust stroke of the corresponding cylinder, after a blowdown exhaust pulse. In this way, an amount of hydrocarbons in feedgas provided to the emission control device prior to the emission control device reaching its light-off temperature may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Leone, Brad Alan VanDerWege, Peter C. Moilanen, Xiaogang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230246505
    Abstract: An e-machine that provides propulsion and regenerative braking includes a rotor and a stator that includes pin conductors encircling the stator. Current is conducted around the stator for a plurality of phases of alternating current. Phase terminals and neutral terminals are connected by terminal connectors to a plurality of wires that connect to the neutral terminal or connect the phase terminals to a source of alternating current. The terminal contacts include means for dampening vibration disposed adjacent terminals. The means for dampening vibration may include a spiral segment of the wire that encircles the terminal or the spiral segment may be disposed adjacent the terminal. A flexible joint assembly may be a clamp including a terminal contact that is movable on ball bearings between an upper jaw and a lower jaw. Another flexible joint assembly may include a receptacle that receives a plug supported on ball bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Xiaogang ZHANG
  • Patent number: D1017767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang