Patents by Inventor An-Hong Liu

An-Hong Liu 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: 11537485
    Abstract: A configuration generating method for devices is applied to connecting ports and external devices connected to the connecting ports. The method includes the following steps: determining communication protocol types of the connecting ports respectively; generating a sequence list according to a plurality of device data, wherein each of the device data is corresponding to a communication protocol, the device data with ccTalk protocol are categorized in a first priority group, the device data with MDB protocol are categorized in a third sequence group, the device data other than those of the first priority group and the third priority group are categorized in a second priority group; and, testing the external devices sequentially and generating communication results according to the sequence list and the device data corresponding to the communication protocol types, and then generating a connecting ports configuration data of connecting ports according to the communication results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ADLINK TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Te Tsai, Chun-Hong Liu, Quang Huy Bui, Shih-Hsun Lin, Yu-Yen Chen
  • Publication number: 20220401057
    Abstract: A radiographic phantom comprises: a body comprising a wax material or a wax-like material, wherein the body has an x-ray attenuation value that is approximately the same as that of a human tissue; and a plurality of crystalline test objects positioned on or within the body. A method comprises: obtaining a radiographic phantom comprising a body and a plurality of crystalline test objects positioned on or within the body, wherein the body comprises a wax material or a wax-like material, and wherein the body has an x-ray attenuation value that is approximately the same as that of a human breast tissue; performing an operation of the radiographic phantom and using a device; and assessing a performance of the device based on the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Dee H. Wu, Elizabeth A. Jett, Natalie Stratemeier, Hong Liu, Caroline J. Preskitt, Weiyuan Wang, Min Yang
  • Patent number: 11531246
    Abstract: A display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units each of which includes a transparent electrode; a pixel electrode opposite to the transparent electrode; an auxiliary electrode at a side of the transparent electrode facing the pixel electrode, a channel penetrating through the auxiliary electrode; an electrostrictive dielectric layer between the auxiliary electrode and the transparent electrode, an accommodation space being formed in the electrostrictive dielectric layer; and charged particles located between the transparent electrode and the pixel electrode. The through channel is configured to allow the charged particles to pass through the auxiliary electrode through the through channel, and the electrostrictive dielectric layer is configured to selectively confine the charged particles in the accommodation space according to an electric field applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Le Zhang, Xuchen Yuan, Hong Liu, Bin Li, Pengcheng Tian
  • Patent number: 11531241
    Abstract: A substrate in an array substrate includes a light aperture region and a winding region arranged around the light aperture region. On the substrate, an orthographic projection of a first winding in each first signal line is overlapped with an orthographic projection of a second winding in a corresponding second signal line. In this way, the distance between two adjacent signal lines in the winding region is larger, and the parasitic capacitance generated between them is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongqiang Zhang, Jingyi Xu, Hong Liu, Peng Liu, Peirong Huo, Aiyu Ding, Zhenhong Xiao, Bo Li, Bo Huang
  • Patent number: 11521884
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an apparatus. The apparatus includes a chuck for placing an object thereon, a gas passage extending along a periphery of an outer sidewall of the chuck and separating the chuck into an inner portion and a sidewall portion, and a plurality of gas holes through the sidewall portion and configured to connect a gas external to the chuck to the gas passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ian Hsieh, Che-fu Chen, Yan-Hong Liu
  • Patent number: 11522438
    Abstract: The present application provides a conversion system and a control method, including N power converters and N controllers, and N controllers one-to-one corresponds to the N power converters. In addition to receiving a first side current and a second side voltage of a corresponding power converter, each of the N controllers can also receive a neighboring direct current voltage signal which only reflects second side voltages of other M power converters in the conversion system, and perform voltage control on the corresponding power converter according to the received signal. The present application adopts fully distributed control, and does not need to set up a centralized controller. When parts of controllers fail, the other controllers can continue to work, so the reliability is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Yong Tao, Cheng Lu
  • Publication number: 20220380338
    Abstract: Novel compounds of structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of Nav1.8 channel activity and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by Nav1.8 channel activity. The compounds of Formula I may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of pain disorders, cough disorders, acute itch disorders, and chronic itch disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Ashok Arasappan, Ian M. Bell, Jason M. Cox, Michael J. Kelly, III, Mark Eric Layton, Hong Liu, Jian Liu, Akshay A. Shah, Michael D. VanHeyst
  • Publication number: 20220383629
    Abstract: A label-free cell classification and screening system based on hybrid transfer learning, including a data preprocessing module for acquiring 2D light scattering video data and for digital cell filtering, is made public here; the data preprocessing module includes the label-free high-content video flow cytometry, which has the optical excitation module, the sheath flow control module, and the data acquisition and processing module; the image archiving module is used to sort and set labels for cells; in the feature extraction module, the first convolutional neural network is used to obtain image data feature vectors; in the cell classification and screening module, a support vector machine model is used to obtain the cell screening results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Xuantao SU, Zhuo WANG, Chao LIU, Junkun JIA, Kun SONG, Hong LIU
  • Patent number: 11511522
    Abstract: The present invention is an optically clear, curable adhesive including a polyvinylbutyral, a polyurethane (meth)acrylate, a (meth)acrylate monomer, and a photoinitiator. The polyvinylbutyral has a dynamic viscosity of between about 9 and about 13 mPa·s and a polyvinyl alcohol weight percent of less than about 18%. The polyurethane (meth)acrylate includes the reaction product of a diol, at least one diisocyanate, and a hydroxyfunctional (meth)acrylate or an isocyanatofunctional (meth)acrylate. When the optically clear, curable adhesive is placed between two transparent substrates and made into a laminate, the laminate has a haze of less than about 6%, a transmission of greater than about 88%, and an optical clarity of greater than about 98% when cured. The optically clear, curable adhesive also has a peel adhesion of at least about 100 g/cm based on ASTM 3330 when cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Lan Hong Liu, Jianhui Xia, Thomas P. Klun, David A. Kowitz, Audrey A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 11513384
    Abstract: Provided is a black matrix structure including a plurality of crossed black matrix strips. A side surface of the black matrix strip has a roughness less than 2 ?m and is intersected with a reference plane. The reference plane being parallel to a plane defined by crossing of the plurality of black matrix strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Jingyi Xu, Peng Liu, Yongqiang Zhang, Bo Li, Peirong Huo
  • Patent number: 11509241
    Abstract: A power conversion system includes N power converters. Each power converter includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal. Each of the N power converters receives a DC power through the corresponding input terminal. The first output terminal of a first power converter of the N power converters and the second output terminal of an N-th power converter of the N power converters are connected in parallel to form an N-th total output terminal to output an N-th total output power. The first output terminal of an i-th power converter of the N power converters and the second output terminal of an (i?1)-th power converter of the N power converters are connected in parallel to form an (i?1)-th total output terminal to output an (i?1)-th total output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Cheng Lu
  • Publication number: 20220367833
    Abstract: A display substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a substrate, the substrate comprising a blind hole area; a buffer layer covering one side of the substrate; an organic film layer provided on the surface of the buffer layer away from the substrate and having a first opening in the blind hole area; a passivation layer provided on the side of the organic film layer away from the substrate and having a second opening in the blind hole area; and a transparent electrode layer covering the passivation layer and the buffer layer in the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hong LIU, Jingyi XU, Yongqiang ZHANG, Peng LIU, Peirong HUO, Wanzhi CHEN, Xiaochun XU, Jiantao LIU, Bo LI
  • Publication number: 20220364854
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a contact angle measuring device, including a light source, a container, a photodetector, a bubble generating unit, and a processing unit. The container includes a first and a second side walls that are opposite. The first side wall is made of a light-transmitting material, the container is filled with a liquid with light transmission inside. The monochromatic light emitted by the light source passes through the first side wall and enters an interface between the first side wall and the liquid. The bubble generating unit is configured for generating a bubble that is in contact with an inner surface of the first side wall. The photodetector is configured for detecting light intensity distribution of the monochromatic light through the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Dong SUN, Luming SONG, Xianjian ZHOU, Hongyi LIN, Hong LIU, Wenzhang ZHU, Haijun LIN
  • Publication number: 20220368235
    Abstract: A power module includes N inverter units outputting N AC voltages and being coupled to N high-frequency AC terminals, wherein the N high-frequency AC terminals are cascaded and connected to a post-stage rectifier circuit. A phase-shift control method for the power module includes: setting at least two phase-shift sequences, wherein phase sequence numbers of the N AC voltages of the N inverter units are different in the at least two phase-shift sequences; in one switching period, controlling the N AC voltages of the N inverter units to shift a first angle according to a first phase-shift sequence of the at least two phase-shift sequences; and in another switching period, controlling the N AC voltages of the N inverter units to shift the first angle according to a second phase-shift sequence of the at least two phase-shift sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hong LIU, Jie KONG, Wen ZHANG, Baihui SONG, Cheng LU, Hongyang WU
  • Publication number: 20220367237
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method that prevents pre-mature dc-chucking in processing modules. The method includes placing a wafer onto a chuck equipped with lift pins. One or more of the lift pins include a pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure exerted by the wafer. The method further includes measuring a first pressure applied to the one or more lift pins by the wafer, lowering the lift pins to place the wafer on the chuck, and processing the wafer. The method also includes removing the wafer from the chuck by pressing the one or more lift pins against the wafer to measure a second pressure exerted by the wafer. If the measured second pressure is equal to the first pressure, the method raises the wafer using the lift pins above the chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan-Hong LIU, Che-fu Chen
  • Publication number: 20220368219
    Abstract: A method for controlling a power module includes: configuring N cells in cascade connection, where N is a positive integer equal to or greater than 2, each cell comprising a bidirectional switching unit and a non-controlled rectifier bridge, the bidirectional switching unit being connected to central points of two bridge arms of the non-controlled rectifier bridge; controlling each cell to operate in one of three operating modes of a modulation mode, a bypass mode and a non-controlled rectifying mode, wherein in the N cells, m1 cells operate in the bypass mode, where 0?m1?M1, m2 cells operate in the non-controlled rectifying mode, where 0?m2?M2, m3 cells operate in the modulation mode and can realize power factor correction, where 0<m3; wherein m1+m2+m3=N, M1 is the allowable number of cells for bypass in the system, and M2 is the allowable number of cells for non-controlled rectification in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hong LIU, Wen ZHANG, Dan WANG, Cheng LU, Hongyang WU
  • Patent number: 11499250
    Abstract: An elastic multiple component fiber comprising a cross-section, wherein at least a first region of said cross-section comprises a polyurethaneurea composition; and comprising a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: THE LYCRA COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Steven W. Smith, Hong Liu, David A Wilson, James B Elmore
  • Publication number: 20220359262
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system includes: a gas distributor assembly configured to dispense gas into a chamber; and a chuck assembly configured to secure a wafer within the chamber, wherein at least one of the gas distributor assembly and the chuck assembly includes: a first portion comprising a convex protrusion, and a second portion comprising a concave opening, wherein the convex protrusion is configured to engage the concave opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Bo-Ru CHEN, Yan-Hong LIU, Che-Fu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220361032
    Abstract: A micro-power wireless access method and apparatus for the Internet of things for power transmission and transformation equipment involves a time synchronization process, a traffic channel access process, a control channel configuration information access process, and a control channel burst information access process. In the time synchronization process, an aggregation node determines a delay parameter and other parameters based on a timeslot in which traffic information randomly transmitted by a sensing terminal is located, and the sensing terminal adjusts transmission time of a corresponding frame based on the parameters. The traffic channel access process adopts a mode in which one-way reporting is mainly used, to minimize working time of a sensor. The present disclosure realizes limited two-way communication on a control channel, supports configuration of a sensor cycle, a threshold, and other parameters, and supports a retransmission mechanism on the control channel for important alarm information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., State Grid Corporation of China
    Inventors: Jianhua Qin, Yongling Lu, Hong Liu, Chengbo Hu, Zhen Wang, Chao Yun, Min Zheng, Jun Jia, Guojiang Zhang, Lingling Xu, Fengbo Tao, Qiang Huang, Ziquan Liu, Xueqiong Zhu, Chong Tan
  • Patent number: 11496038
    Abstract: The present application provides a conversion system and a control method, including N power converters and N controllers, where each power converter includes a first side and a second side, the first sides of the N power converters are electrically coupled in series, and currents flowing through the first sides of the N power converters are the same, the N controllers correspond to the N power converters one to one. Each controller contains a common-mode voltage loop and a current loop. The common-mode voltage loop is configured to receive a voltage reference signal and a voltage feedback signal, and output a given signal. The current loop is configured to receive the given signal, a current reference signal, and a first side current of a corresponding power converter, and output a common-mode control signal to modulate a first side voltage of the corresponding power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Yong Tao, Cheng Lu