Patents by Inventor An Ma

An Ma 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).

  • Rapid drying lacquers
    Patent number: 8357456
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solventborne coating composition that provides a high quality basecoat especially for automotive substrates, methods for forming a layer of the solventborne coating composition and substrates coated with the coating composition. The coating composition contains an acrylic polymer that has both acid functional groups and polyether functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Sheau-Hwa Ma
  • System having a layered architecture for constructing a dynamic social network from image data
    Patent number: 8358805
    Abstract: A system having a layered architecture for constructing dynamic social network from image data of actors and events. It may have a low layer for capturing raw data and identifying actors and events. The system may have a middle layer that receives actor and event information from the low layer and puts it in to a two dimensional matrix. A high layer of the system may add weighted relationship information to the matrix to form the basis for constructing a social network. The system may have a sliding window thus making the social network dynamic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Yunqian Ma, Roland Miezianko
  • Mouse with wire arrangement structure
    Patent number: 8358270
    Abstract: A mouse with a wire arrangement structure is provided. The mouse includes a housing, a base, a connection unit and a wire. The housing includes an opening and an opening edge. The base corresponds to the housing, wherein the base is moved between a first position and a second position, and when the base is in the first position, the base abuts the opening edge to cover the opening, and when the base is in the second position, the base is separated from the opening edge. The connection unit is connected to the housing and the base, allowing the base to move relative to the housing. The wire includes a joint, wherein when the wire is in a receiving state, the wire is wound up around the connection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Giga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mou-Ming Ma, Yen-Bo Lai, Po-Jen Shih, Shu-I Chen
  • Front consumables for pulse GMAW torches
    Patent number: 8357877
    Abstract: A contact tip for a welding torch in accordance with the present invention includes an elongated, generally cylindrical body having a front contact end and an opposite rear retaining end. A central aperture is defined by an inner wall of the body. The aperture extends through the body from an opening at the rear retaining end to an opening at the front contact end. The aperture has a front portion and a wider diameter portion adjacent the front portion. The front portion generally has a length that is shorter than a length of the wider diameter portion. A consumable electrode wire fed through the aperture contacts the inner wall in the front portion but does not contact the inner wall in the wider diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Tiejun Ma
  • Umbrella hub with cord lock feature
    Patent number: 8356613
    Abstract: An umbrella hub is provided that is operative to engage an umbrella cord for maintaining an umbrella in an open position. The hub can comprise a cord retention means. The cord retention means can be located within a portion of and/or behind, abutting, and/or at the base of at least a portion of one connection cavity of the hub. The cord retention means can comprise a passage that is configured to receive a cord therethrough and extend along at least a portion of the hub. The cord retention means can be configured to allow the cord to pass freely in a first direction while preventing movement of the cord therethrough in a second direction that is opposite the first direction or to pass freely in both the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Inventor: Oliver Joen-an Ma
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING CIRCUIT OPERATION
    Publication number: 20130018643
    Abstract: A processor for use in simulating operation of a portion of an electrical circuit is provided. The processor is configured to receive at least one input indicative of electrical circuit data related to the electrical circuit being simulated, generate a model of the electrical circuit based on the at least one input, receive a user input that indicates the portion of the electrical circuit to be simulated, generate, based on the user input and the electrical circuit model, a partial circuit snapshot that corresponds to the portion of the electrical circuit, and apply at least one event to the partial circuit snapshot to simulate operation of the corresponding portion of the electrical circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Prashant Sharma, Jia Qiang Ma
  • MULTI-SITE MIMO COOPERATION IN CELLULAR NETWORK
    Publication number: 20130016662
    Abstract: In a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site comprises at least one antenna, a method of serving a given data stream to a target-mobile terminal, comprising: designating at least two of the plurality of transmitting sites as cooperating sites; assigning tones to each transmitting site from a sub-band associated with the cooperating sites; dividing the data stream into at least two sub-data streams, each of the sub-data streams for transmission over selected tones; and interlacing tones of the cooperating sites in accordance with a selected one of a time switching and a frequency switching transmit diversity technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Mohammadhadi Baligh, Jiangei Ma, Hua Xu
  • PALM MASSAGER
    Publication number: 20130018292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a massage device, and provides a palm massager comprising a plurality of air bags corresponding to each part of the palm, an air pump, a plurality of electromagnetic valves for controlling the air charging and air discharging of the plurality of air bags, a main control module and a plurality of load driving modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHENZHEN BREO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuejun Ma
  • Bone Plate Module with Adjustable Fixing Direction and an Adjustment Ring Thereof
    Publication number: 20130018426
    Abstract: A bone plate module with adjustable fixing direction includes a bone plate, an adjustment ring and a bone nail. The bone plate has a coupling hole. The adjustment ring is disposed in the coupling hole and has a thread portion. The adjustment ring further comprises a first adjustment member and a second adjustment member. The first adjustment member has a first end coupled with a first end of the second adjustment member. The bone nail has an adjustment portion coupled with the thread portion of the adjustment ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Feng-Te Tsai, Chih-Kun Hsiao, Ting-Sheng Lin, Yuan-Kun Tu, Ching-Hou Ma, Chin-Hsien Wu
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRICK PLAY IN OVER-THE-TOP VIDEO DELIVERY
    Publication number: 20130019273
    Abstract: A method for trick play (fast forward, rewind, etc.) in video streams using adaptive bitrate HTTP delivery protocols includes playing only portions of a video at a current bitrate to achieve the initial trick play functionality. A new trick play bitrate is selected based on a trick play playout rate, the trick play bitrate for the duration of the trick play is retrieved, and operation is switched back to a previous bitrate when normal playback resumes. A system is also specified for implementing a client and server infrastructure in accordance with the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: AZUKI SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Ma, Radim Bartos
  • MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES FOR OFDMA
    Publication number: 20130016603
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request) techniques are provided for use with OFDMA systems. In various embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for dealing with issues such as Handling non-full rate vocoder frames, VoIP packet jitter handling, VoIP capacity increasing schemes, persistent and non-persistent assignment of resources in OFDMA systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Novak, Hang Zhang, Sophie Vrzic, Mo-Han Fong, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
  • SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-VOLTAGE RAIL VOLTAGE REGULATION MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20130015715
    Abstract: Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Hung-Piao Ma, Alon Naveh, Gil Schwarzband, Annabelle Pratt, Jorge Pedro Rodriguez, Joseph T. Dibene, II, Sean M. WeIch, Kosta Luria, Edward R. Stanford
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH RELAYS
    Publication number: 20130016650
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station for providing communication between the BS and MS. Methods are provided for allocating OFDM resources for communicating between the BS, RS and/or MS for example dividing transmission resources into uplink and downlink transmissions and methods of inserting pilot symbols into transmission resources used by the RS. In some embodiments on the invention, the methods are consistent and/or can be used in conjunction with existing standards such as 802.16e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: HANG ZHANG, JIANGLEI MA, PEIYING ZHU, MO-HAN FONG, WEN TONG
  • RARE EARTH ION DOPED LANTHANUM GALLATE LUMINOUS MATERIAL CONTAINING METAL PARTICLES AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130015402
    Abstract: A rare earth ion doped lanthanum gallate luminous material containing metal particles and preparation method thereof are provided. The chemical formula of the lanthanum gallate luminous material is La1-xGaO3:Lnx,My, wherein Ln is one or more of Tm3+, Tb3+, Eu3+ and Sm3+, M is one of Ag, Au, Pt and Pd, the value range of x is 0.001 to 0.1, and the value range of y is 0.00002 to 0.01. The luminous performance of the lanthanum gallate luminous material can be greatly improved under the same excitation condition and the wavelength of emission light doesn't change, due to the introduction of metal particles into the rare earth ion doped lanthanum gallate luminous material. The lanthanum gallate luminous material has excellent luminous performance, and its emitting photochromic purity and light emitting luminance after excitation are high, so it can be used widely in various kinds of light emitting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Wenbo Ma, Ting Lv
  • ASSURING FOOD SAFETY USING NANO-STRUCTURE BASED SPECTRAL SENSING
    Publication number: 20130017298
    Abstract: A method for inspecting an edible oil includes obtaining a first Raman spectrum from an edible oil sample, discovering an unhealthy, unsanitary, unsafe, or adulterated content in the edible oil sample in part by the intensity level of the fluorescence background in the first Raman spectrum, introducing the edible oil sample to nano-scale surface structures to allow molecules of the edible oil sample to be adsorbed to the nano-scale surface structures, illuminating the edible oil sample and the nano-scale surface structures by a laser beam, obtaining a second Raman spectrum from light scattered by molecules of the edible oil sample adsorbed to the nano-scale surface structures, and identifying the unhealthy, unsanitary, or unsafe content in the edible oil sample using one or more first spectral signatures in the second Raman spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Hong Wang, Xun Guo, Chunwei Liu, Hao Zhou, Ning Ma, Xue Zhong
  • DOUBLE CORE-SHELL FLUORESCENT MATERIALS AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130017395
    Abstract: Double core-shell fluorescent materials and preparation methods thereof are provided. The double core-shell fluorescent materials include inner core, inner shell coating the inner core and outer shell coating the said inner shell. The inner core is metal particle and the chemical constitution of the inner shell is silicon dioxide. The outer shell is fluorescent powder represented by the following chemical formula: (R1-x, Eux)2O3, wherein R is Y, Gd or combination thereof, 0.02?x?0.1. The double core-shell fluorescent materials with uniform and stable luminous effect not only increase luminous intensity, but also decrease usage amount of fluorescent powder by using metal particle as inner core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Ocean's King Lighting Science & Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Wenbo Ma, Shuxin Lu, Yewen Wang
  • SCATTERED PILOT PATTERN AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD FOR MIMO-OFDM SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130016693
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for inserting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission resource utilizing frequency hopping patterns for the data symbols and/or the pilot symbols. Data symbols and pilot symbols are allocated for down link (base station to mobile station) and up link (mobile station to bases station) transmission resources in a two-dimensional time-frequency pattern. For each antenna of a MIMO-OFDM (multiple input multiple output OFDM) communication system, pilot symbols are inserted in a scattered pattern in time-frequency and data symbols are inserted in an identical frequency-hopping pattern in time-frequency as that of other antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING FRAME HEADER ALIGNMENT AND MULTI-FRAME ZEROING
    Publication number: 20130016738
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for implementing frame header alignment and multi-frame zeroing. By using one indication signal, the period of which is 256 times of that of a single frame, the frame header alignment for frame data is completed, and the multi-frame zeroing for frame data is implemented. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for implementing frame header alignment and multi-frame zeroing. The implementation process of the present invention is simple, the process comprising the frame data processing in an Optical Transport Network (OTN) cross dispatching system can be effectively simplified, the complexity of system processing can be significantly decreased, and the logical resources of the system can be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: ZTE Coration
    Inventors: Shide Yu, Wenkai Ma
  • Pain Relieving Composition
    Publication number: 20130017282
    Abstract: A pain relieving composition that includes an anesthetic in the range of 0.5%-7.0% by weight (“w/w”), an anti-inflammatory agent in the range of 1.0%-11.0% w/w, a moisturizing agent in the range of 0.5%-12.0% w/w, a humectant in the range of 0.5%-13.0% w/w, a penetration enhancing agent in the range of 0.5%-7.0%, and a carrier solvent in the range of 40.0%-97.0% w/w to be used before and/or after procedures which cause damage to human skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventor: Edna Ma
  • Method to monitor the life of the contact tip in robotic or automatic GMAW
    Patent number: 8354614
    Abstract: A method of monitoring contact tip useful life in a welding torch includes measuring at least one of welding current (I) and welding voltage (V) of the contact tip mounted in the welding torch. Deterioration of the contact tip is quantified based on one or both of (i) a decrease of the welding current and increase of a standard deviation of the welding current (sd_I), and (ii) an increase of the welding voltage. Deterioration of the contact tip may be quantified by calculating an index of contact tip life (ITL) based on the welding current and standard deviation of the welding current and/or by calculating a reference index of contact tip life (ITL_v) based on the welding voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun Ma, Thomas Jaeger