Patents by Inventor Chao Fei

Chao Fei 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).

  • Publication number: 20250289784
    Abstract: Disclosed is a one-pot process (without the isolation of three intermediates) of preparing diroximel fumarate represented by the following structural formula: The method comprises reacting ethylene carbonate with succinimide 5 to form 2-hydroxyethyl succinimide; reacting 2-hydroxyethyl succinimide with maleic anhydride to form a (Z)-4-(2-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)ethoxy)-4-oxobut-2-enoic acid intermediate, isomerizing the (Z)-4-(2-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)ethoxy)-4-oxobut-2-enoic acid intermediate to an (E)-4-(2-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)ethoxy)-4-oxobut-2-enoic acid intermediate, and reacting the (E)-4-(2-10(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)ethoxy)-4-oxobut-2-enoic acid intermediate with methanol to form the product compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Inventors: Daw-long Albert Kwok, Chao Fei
  • Publication number: 20250131472
    Abstract: A method including acquiring user behavior data generated in a first service module of a commodity information service system, wherein the user behavior data includes behavior data generated in a process of a user interacting with the first service module by browsing commodity information published therein; determining, by analyzing the user behavior data, a target user having a commodity purchase intention and having difficulty in finding or deciding on commodities in the first service module; and after the target user is determined, re-engaging the target user with a second service module of the commodity information service system so that the target user may initiate a purchase form in the second service module and interact therewith. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the user re-engagement efficiency is improved, and resource waste is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Chao FEI, Zhengce Tao, Wei Li, Luying Zhang
  • Patent number: 12125631
    Abstract: Shielded electrical transformers and power converters using those transformers are disclosed. In some implementations, a shielded electrical transformer includes a magnetic core, a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding. The transformer includes a first shielding winding that has a same voltage potential direction as the primary winding and is connected in series with the primary winding to carry current that passes through the primary winding. The transformer also includes a second shielding winding that has a voltage potential direction opposite the primary winding and is connected from primary ground to a floating terminal. The first secondary winding, the second secondary winding, the first shielding winding, and the second shielding winding can each have an approximately equal number of turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Douglas Osterhout, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20240308958
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing diroximel fumarate represented by the following structural formula (I) The method comprises reacting ethy lene carbonate with succinimide to form a hydroxyethyl succinimide intermediate; and reacting the intermediate with monomethyl fumarate to form the product compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Daw-long Albert KWOK, Chao Fei, Erwin Irdam, Donald Walker, Markus Grohmann, Jens Mohr, Janina Bucher
  • Patent number: 11916478
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device that includes a power storage device, an electrical load, and a first regulated power converter including components configured to generate, during a first time period and using electrical energy received from a power source external to the device, a first power signal to charge the power storage device. A second regulated power converter includes components configured to determine a charging current at which to charge the power storage device, determine a total amount of current flowing to the power storage device that includes current sourced by the second power converter less current sinked by the electrical load, and generate, during a second time period that is non-overlapping with the first time period, using electrical energy from the power source and based on determined the total amount of current, a second power signal to charge the power storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liang Jia, Li Wang
  • Publication number: 20230179010
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device having a first power storage device and a second power storage device connected in series. A first power converter may generate, using electrical energy sourced from the first power storage device and the second power storage device, a first power signal to power a first set of components. A second power converter may generate, using electrical energy sourced from the first power storage device and not the second power storage device, a second power signal to power a second set of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20220302734
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device that includes a power storage device, an electrical load, and a first regulated power converter including components configured to generate, during a first time period and using electrical energy received from a power source external to the device, a first power signal to charge the power storage device. A second regulated power converter includes components configured to determine a charging current at which to charge the power storage device, determine a total amount of current flowing to the power storage device that includes current sourced by the second power converter less current sinked by the electrical load, and generate, during a second time period that is non-overlapping with the first time period, using electrical energy from the power source and based on determined the total amount of current, a second power signal to charge the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liang Jia, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11404967
    Abstract: Three-phase interleaved LLC and CLLC resonant converters, with integrated magnetics, are described. In various examples, the primary sides of the phases in the converters rely upon a half-bridge configuration and include resonant networks coupled to each other in delta-connected or common Y-node configurations. The secondary sides of the phases can rely upon a full-bridge configurations and are coupled in parallel. In one example, the transformers of the phases in the converters are integrated into one magnetic core. By changing the interleaving structure between the primary and secondary windings in the transformers, resonant inductors of the phases can also be integrated into the same magnetic core. A multi-layer PCB can be used as the windings for the integrated magnetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Bin Li, Fred C. Lee, Qiang Li
  • Publication number: 20210366647
    Abstract: Shielded electrical transformers and power converters using those transformers are disclosed. In some implementations, a shielded electrical transformer includes a magnetic core, a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding. The transformer includes a first shielding winding that has a same voltage potential direction as the primary winding and is connected in series with the primary winding to carry current that passes through the primary winding. The transformer also includes a second shielding winding that has a voltage potential direction opposite the primary winding and is connected from primary ground to a floating terminal. The first secondary winding, the second secondary winding, the first shielding winding, and the second shielding winding can each have an approximately equal number of turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Douglas Osterhout, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 10910140
    Abstract: A matrix transformer particularly suited to large voltage step-down, high current applications achieves increased good current sharing uniformity or air gap and electrical characteristics and reduced or eliminating termination losses, core losses and winding losses with a unitary magnetic core structure featuring sheets of magnetic material and a two-dimensional array of pillars on which windings, oriented in opposite directions on pillars that are adjacent in orthogonal directions, can be formed or placed comprising metallization on or embedded in a printed circuit board (PCB) structure. Magnetic flux density is reduced by at least one-half by dividing the magnetic flux in each pillar into two paths of increased width in the sheets of magnetic material. Magnetic flux density may be further decreased and flux uniformity improved by extending the sheets of magnetic material beyond a periphery defined by the pillar array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Fred C. Lee, Qiang Li
  • Publication number: 20200358314
    Abstract: A computing device can include a housing, a display secured by the housing, a charging coil included in a back side of the housing, the back side of the housing being on an opposite side from the display, and at least one magnet adjacent to the charging coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Vijayasekaran Boovaragavan, Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Douglas Osterhout, Liang Jia, Chao Fei, Zhenxue Xu
  • Patent number: 10790081
    Abstract: Three-phase interleaved LLC and CLLC resonant converters, with integrated magnetics, are described. In various examples, the primary sides of the phases in the converters rely upon a half-bridge configuration and include resonant networks coupled to each other in delta-connected or common Y-node configurations. The secondary sides of the phases can rely upon a full-bridge configurations and are coupled in parallel. In one example, the transformers of the phases in the converters are integrated into one magnetic core. By changing the interleaving structure between the primary and secondary windings in the transformers, resonant inductors of the phases can also be integrated into the same magnetic core. A multi-layer PCB can be used as the windings for the integrated magnetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Bin Li, Fred C. Lee, Qiang Li, Hongfei Wu
  • Publication number: 20200220368
    Abstract: An adapter can include a voltage doubler rectifier, a first stage converter, and a second stage converter. The voltage doubler rectifier can have a switch and can be configured to rectify a received voltage in response to the switch being in a first position, and to rectify and effectively double the received voltage in response to the switch being in a second position. The first stage converter can be coupled to the voltage doubler rectifier and can be a first type of converter. The first type of converter can be either an isolated converter or a non-isolated converter. The second stage converter can be coupled to the first stage converter and can be a second type of converter. The second type of converter can be either the isolated converter or the non-isolated converter. The second type of converter can be different from the first type of converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Publication number: 20190379292
    Abstract: Three-phase interleaved LLC and CLLC resonant converters, with integrated magnetics, are described. In various examples, the primary sides of the phases in the converters rely upon a half-bridge configuration and include resonant networks coupled to each other in delta-connected or common Y-node configurations. The secondary sides of the phases can rely upon a full-bridge configurations and are coupled in parallel. In one example, the transformers of the phases in the converters are integrated into one magnetic core. By changing the interleaving structure between the primary and secondary windings in the transformers, resonant inductors of the phases can also be integrated into the same magnetic core. A multi-layer PCB can be used as the windings for the integrated magnetics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Bin Li, Fred C. Lee, Qiang Li
  • Publication number: 20190355506
    Abstract: Three-phase interleaved LLC and CLLC resonant converters, with integrated magnetics, are described. In various examples, the primary sides of the phases in the converters rely upon a half-bridge configuration and include resonant networks coupled to each other in delta-connected or common Y-node configurations. The secondary sides of the phases can rely upon a full-bridge configurations and are coupled in parallel. In one example, the transformers of the phases in the converters are integrated into one magnetic core. By changing the interleaving structure between the primary and secondary windings in the transformers, resonant inductors of the phases can also be integrated into the same magnetic core. A multi-layer PCB can be used as the windings for the integrated magnetics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Bin Li, Fred C. Lee, Qiang Li, Hongfei Wu
  • Patent number: 10075083
    Abstract: A resonant power converter is disclosed with a driving circuit generating a switching signal connecting power to a resonant tank circuit, with a voltage monitoring circuit measuring a voltage output and a load current. A micro-controller is operable with a control circuit for multiple step sampling with the switching signal at a switching frequency to settle the resonant circuit determined from the voltage output and load current. A fast load transient response at a high frequency with the resonant circuit provides the multiple step sampling to ensure enough time for micro-controller to calculate. Optimal trajectory control facilitates a burst mode of high frequency with the resonant circuit using adaptive multiple step sampling for an on-time to extend the burst operation range. A soft start-up process uses the micro-controller processing in multiple stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Fred C. Lee, Weiyi Feng, Qiang Li
  • Publication number: 20160294297
    Abstract: A resonant power converter is disclosed with a driving circuit generating a switching signal connecting power to a resonant tank circuit, with a voltage monitoring circuit measuring a voltage output and a load current. A micro-controller is operable with a control circuit for multiple step sampling with the switching signal at a switching frequency to settle the resonant circuit determined from the voltage output and load current. A fast load transient response at a high frequency with the resonant circuit provides the multiple step sampling to ensure enough time for micro-controller to calculate. Optimal trajectory control facilitates a burst mode of high frequency with the resonant circuit using adaptive multiple step sampling for an on-time to extend the burst operation range. A soft start-up process uses the micro-controller processing in multiple stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Fred C. Lee, Weiyi Feng, Qiang Li