Patents by Inventor An Yang

An Yang 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: 12473166
    Abstract: A mobile reel transport device includes an automated guided vehicle (AGV) having a mobile cart with wheels for maneuvering through a facility. The AGV includes a reel manipulator mounted to the mobile cart. The reel manipulator has a movable component movable relative to the mobile cart and an end effector at a distal end of the movable component. The end effector is configured to pick up and manipulate a reel. The AGV includes a reel positioning device at the distal end of the movable component. The reel positioning device includes an imaging device for imaging the reel and environment and generating an image. The reel manipulator is operable to move the end effector based on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yiyun Fei, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Du Wen, Sonny O. Osunkwo, An Yang
  • Patent number: 12278072
    Abstract: A circuit breaker that includes a circuit breaker housing, a button mechanism arranged inside the circuit breaker housing, an operating mechanism connected with the button mechanism, a movable contact connected with the operating mechanism, a static contact co-operated with the movable contact, the button mechanism being operable to enable the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off by means of the operating mechanism; the circuit breaker also includes an electric mechanism arranged inside the circuit breaker housing, the electric mechanism is drivingly co-operated with the button mechanism or the operating mechanism, the electric mechanism can actuate the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off by means of the operating mechanism, or the electric mechanism can actuate the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off by means of the cooperation of the button mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT ELECTRICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kejun Lu, An Yang
  • Patent number: 12224143
    Abstract: A plug-in circuit breaker that includes a circuit breaker housing, and a locking mechanism, an unlocking mechanism, and a button mechanism all arranged inside the circuit breaker housing, and an operating mechanism connected to the button mechanism to drive the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off; the locking mechanism includes a first locking member with one end protruding outside the circuit breaker housing, and the circuit breaker housing comprises a locking member opening co-operated with the first locking member; the unlocking mechanism includes an independent pulling member drivingly co-operated with the first locking member, when the circuit breaker is in the switch-off state, one end of the first locking member protrudes outside the circuit breaker housing from the locking member opening, and pulling the pulling member enables the first locking member to retract into the inside of the circuit breaker housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT ELECTRICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kejun Lu, An Yang
  • Patent number: 12183530
    Abstract: A circuit breaker with a circuit breaker housing that includes a switch-on button hole and a switch-off button hole, a button mechanism that includes a switch-on button and a switch-off button, the switch-on button including a switch-on button operating end slidably arranged in the said switch-on button hole, the switch-off button including a switch-off button operating end slidably arranged in the switch-off button hole. While the switch-on button operating end is being pressed toward the inside of the circuit breaker housing to enable the circuit breaker to switch on, the switch-off button operating end moves toward the outside of the circuit breaker housing, and while the switch-off button operating end is being pressed toward the inside of the circuit breaker housing to enable the circuit breaker to switch off, the switch-on button operating end moves toward the outside of the circuit breaker housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT ELECTRICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kejun Lu, An Yang
  • Patent number: 12159764
    Abstract: A plug-in circuit breaker that includes a housing, an operating mechanism and a button mechanism which has a closing position and an opening position. The circuit breaker further includes a locking member and a linkage member arranged inside the housing. The linkage member is provided with an abutting protruding stand. The locking member is provided with a locking protruding stand. When the button mechanism is in the closing position, the abutting protruding stand of the linkage member extends out of the housing and is limited by the button mechanism at an extension position, so that it cannot retract into the housing. When the button mechanism is in the opening position, the linkage member retracts into the housing, the locking protruding stand of the locking member extends out of the housing, and the locking protruding stand of the locking member can be pushed back into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT & ELECTRICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kejun Lu, Xiangyi Gu, An Yang, Jun Zhu, Shaojun Guo
  • Patent number: 12014891
    Abstract: A plug-in circuit breaker that includes a circuit breaker housing with a limiting hole and a opening and closing button. The circuit breaker further includes a locking member rotatably arranged inside the circuit breaker housing with an upper portion close to the limiting hole provided with a locking protrusion fitting. A lower portion of the circuit breaker housing is provided with a locking driving surface fitting with the opening and closing button. When the limiting hole is not shielded, the opening and closing button jacks up the locking driving surface to enable the locking protrusion to extend out of the limiting hole. The plug-in circuit breaker is closed when the limiting hole is shielded, so that the locking protrusion cannot extend out of the limiting hole. The locking driving surface limits the opening and closing button, so that the opening and closing button cannot press to the destined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT ELECTRICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kejun Lu, Xiangyi Gu, An Yang, Jun Zhu, Shaojun Guo
  • Patent number: 11972919
    Abstract: A plug-in circuit breaker that includes a housing with a limiting hole, a button mechanism having a closing position and an opening position, and an operating mechanism actuated by the button mechanism. The plug-in circuit breaker includes a locking member arranged inside the housing. The locking member has a locking protruding stand opposite the limiting hole. When the button mechanism is in the closing position, the locking protruding stand of the locking member extends out of the limiting hole and limited by the button mechanism. When the button mechanism is in the opening position, the locking protruding stand of the locking member extends out of the limiting hole to apply an external force on the locking member for retraction. The locking protruding stand of the locking member can retract into the housing, and the locking member limits the button mechanism to perform the closing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT ELECTRICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kejun Lu, Xiangyi Gu, An Yang, Jun Zhu, Shaojun Guo
  • Patent number: 11891201
    Abstract: A cable bundle taping device adapted to wind a tape on a coiled cable bundle includes a support frame, a conveying device mounted on the support frame and adapted to convey the tape to a standby position, a first driving wheel rotatably mounted on the support frame and having a slot extending radially inward from an outer edge of the first driving wheel, and a tape binding mechanism arranged on a side of at least one sidewall of the first driving wheel near a bottom of the slot and opposite to the tape in the standby position. The coiled cable bundle is bonded to an end of the tape at the standby position and pushed to the bottom of the slot. The tape is wound on the coiled cable bundle by rotating the tape binding mechanism under driving of the first driving wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Jian Cao, Yun Liu, Yuting He, Haidong Wu, Hui Xiao
  • Patent number: 11878895
    Abstract: A cable coiling system for coiling a cable into a cable coil includes a reel rotatable around a central axis of the reel, a gripper configured to grip a starting end of the cable, and a slide rail extending in a direction perpendicular to the central axis of the reel. The cable is coilable around the reel to form the cable coil by rotating the reel in a state in which the gripper is coupled onto the reel and grips the starting end of the cable. The reel is slidably mounted on the slide rail. A length of the starting end of the cable coiled around the reel is adjustable by moving the reel along the slide rail and rotating the reel around the central axis in a state in which the gripper is separated from the reel and fixed at a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu
  • Publication number: 20240004703
    Abstract: A system for multi-modal multi-task processing includes a task representation component configured to determine a task representation element corresponding to a task representation framework that is used to define a content format for describing a to-be-processed task, and the task representation element including an element used to define task description information, an element used to define task input information, and an element used to define task output information; and based on the task representation element, acquire task description information, task input information, and task output information corresponding to each of to-be-processed tasks in different modalities; a data conversion component configured to determine an encoding sequence corresponding to each of the to-be-processed tasks; and a data processing component configured to process each of the to-be-processed tasks based on the encoding sequence corresponding to each of the to-be-processed tasks to obtain a task processing result correspon
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Chang ZHOU, Jinze BAI, Peng WANG, An YANG, Junyang LIN, Hongxia YANG, Jingren ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230325716
    Abstract: A pre-training service system is provided. The pre-training service system includes: a producer service module configured to provide a model producer with a model pre-training process for a pre-training dataset and generate a corresponding pre-training model; an optimizer service module configured to optimize the pre-training model according to a fine-tuning dataset provided by a model optimizer and obtain an optimized model; and a consumer service module configured to provide a model consumer with a service interface for the pre-training model or the optimized model, wherein the pre-training model or the optimized model is configured to perform inference on data provided by the model consumer and output a model prediction result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Rui MEN, Chang ZHOU, Peng WANG, Yichang ZHANG, Junyang LIN, An YANG, Yong LI, Wei LIN, Ming DING, Xu ZOU, Zhengxiao DU, Jie TANG, Hongxia YANG, Jingren ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230303354
    Abstract: A mobile reel transport device includes an automated guided vehicle (AGV) having a mobile cart with wheels for maneuvering through a facility. The AGV includes a reel manipulator mounted to the mobile cart. The reel manipulator has a movable component movable relative to the mobile cart and an end effector at a distal end of the movable component. The end effector is configured to pick up and manipulate a reel. The AGV includes a reel positioning device at the distal end of the movable component. The reel positioning device includes an imaging device for imaging the reel and environment and generating an image. The reel manipulator is operable to move the end effector based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yiyun Fei, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Du Wen, Sonny O. Osunkwo, An Yang
  • Patent number: 11769978
    Abstract: An assembly system includes a robot, a first gripper mounted on the robot, the first gripper gripping a first housing, and a first clamping device clamping a cable and a contact connected to an end of the cable. The robot moves the first gripper and assembles the first housing gripped by the first gripper onto the contact held by the first clamping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH Tyco, Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, An Yang, Jian Cao, Yun Liu, Roberto Franciso-Yi Lu, Yuting He, Haidong Wu, Hui Xiao
  • Patent number: 11761882
    Abstract: A connector visual inspection apparatus comprises a rotatable clamp for clamping a connector to be inspected. A first camera of the apparatus is arranged on one side of the clamp for capturing an end face image of the clamped connector along an axial direction of the connector. A computing device calculates an angular difference between an initial loading orientation and a predetermined orientation of the clamped connector according to the captured end face image. A drive device rotates the clamp around an axis that coincides with a central axis of the clamped connector by the calculated angular difference and into the predetermined orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Morocco SARL, TE Connectiyity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Zouheir Atif, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 11749957
    Abstract: A cable straightening device includes a plurality of cable straightening units connected in series. Each of the cable straightening units includes a base, a pair of rows of rollers mounted on the base and cooperating with each other to define a pressing path extending in a row direction, and a mounting frame disposed on at least one end of a pair of opposite ends of the base in the row direction. A cable is pressed by the rows of rollers while passing through the pressing path. Any two adjacent cable straightening units are assembled together at the mounting frame of each so that center lines of the pressing paths of two adjacent cable straightening units are aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Jian Cao, Yun Liu
  • Patent number: 11715923
    Abstract: A metal foil flaring apparatus includes a frame, a flaring mechanism mounted on the frame and having a flaring mouth adapted to open and close, and a first driver mounted on the frame and adapted to drive the flaring mouth to open and close. The flaring mouth has a cone shape gradually contracted toward a front end of the flaring mouth. The front end of the flaring mouth is adapted to be forwardly inserted in a first direction between an inner insulation layer of a cable and a metal foil wrapped around the inner insulation layer when the flaring mouth is closed, flaring the metal foil outwardly into the cone shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Yun Liu, Sun Kyu Pak
  • Patent number: 11699896
    Abstract: A cable processing system comprises a stripping device for stripping a segment of an outer cladding layer of a cable. The stripping device includes a support frame, and a mounting plate movably mounted on the support frame between a start position and an end position in the axial direction of the cable. The mounting plate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in an axial direction of the cable. A plurality of cutting units are mounted on the first surface of the mounting plate for cutting off the outer cladding layer in a circumferential direction of the cable. A plurality of stripping units are mounted on the second surface of the mounting plate for slicing the outer cladding layer in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230145051
    Abstract: A circuit breaker with a circuit breaker housing that includes a switch-on button hole and a switch-off button hole, a button mechanism that includes a switch-on button and a switch-off button, the switch-on button including a switch-on button operating end slidably arranged in the said switch-on button hole, the switch-off button including a switch-off button operating end slidably arranged in the switch-off button hole. While the switch-on button operating end is being pressed toward the inside of the circuit breaker housing to enable the circuit breaker to switch on, the switch-off button operating end moves toward the outside of the circuit breaker housing, and while the switch-off button operating end is being pressed toward the inside of the circuit breaker housing to enable the circuit breaker to switch off, the switch-on button operating end moves toward the outside of the circuit breaker housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Kejun LU, An YANG
  • Publication number: 20230145452
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for model training are provided. The method for model training includes: training a first model to obtain a parameter set of the trained first model, in which first layers in the first model share the same weight parameters; copying the parameter set for multiple times as weight parameters of second layers of a second model; and training the second model to realize model convergence. The first model and the second model have the same computation graph, and the number of the second layers is equal to or greater than the number of the first layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Junyang LIN, An YANG, Rui MEN, Chang ZHOU, Hongxia YANG, Jingren ZHOU
  • Patent number: D1028975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: An Yang