Patents by Inventor Chao Niu

Chao Niu 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: 11040713
    Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus configured to mitigate a shock to an occupant of a vehicle when a rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle from behind, including a driving unit generating a driving force, and an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform predicting whether the rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle, and controlling the driving unit so that when it is predicted that the rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle, a difference between a vehicle speed of the vehicle and a vehicle speed of the rearward vehicle reduces and a driving force of a rear wheel is greater than a driving force of a front wheel immediately before the rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Saito, Chao Niu, Shogo Takano, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20200358710
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a container-based mobile code offloading support system in a cloud environment and the offloading method thereof, comprising a front-end processing layer, a runtime layer and a back-end resource layer. The front-end processing layer is responsible for responding to an arrived request and managing a status of a container, which is realized by a request distribution module, a code caching module and a monitoring and scheduling module; the runtime layer provides the same execution environment as that of a terminal, which is realized by a runtime module consisted of a plurality of mobile cloud containers; and the back-end resource layer solves incompatibility of a cloud platform with an mobile terminal environment and provides underlying resource support for a runtime, which is realized by a resource sharing module and an extended kernel module within a host operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Song WU, Chao NIU, Hai JIN
  • Patent number: 10787162
    Abstract: A driving force control apparatus including a posture detecting part detecting a riding posture of an occupant; an acceleration detecting part detecting an acceleration of a vehicle; a driving force generation part generating a driving force in a manner enabling to change a driving force distribution between a front and rear wheels or between a left and right wheels; and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a required driving force, and controlling the driving force generation part so as to change the driving force distribution to a target driving force distribution to suppress a change of the riding posture while generating the required driving force when a magnitude of the acceleration is greater than or equal to a predetermined magnitude and a degree of change of the riding posture is greater than or equal to a predetermined degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Niu, Shogo Takano, Kota Saito, Takashi Adachi
  • Patent number: 10764202
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a container-based mobile code offloading support system in a cloud environment and the offloading method thereof, comprising a front-end processing layer, a runtime layer and a back-end resource layer. The front-end processing layer is responsible for responding to an arrived request and managing a status of a container, which is realized by a request distribution module, a code caching module and a monitoring and scheduling module; the runtime layer provides the same execution environment as that of a terminal, which is realized by a runtime module consisted of a plurality of mobile cloud containers; and the back-end resource layer solves incompatibility of a cloud platform with an mobile terminal environment and provides underlying resource support for a runtime, which is realized by a resource sharing module and an extended kernel module within a host operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Song Wu, Chao Niu, Hai Jin
  • Publication number: 20200047735
    Abstract: A driving force control apparatus including a posture detecting part detecting a riding posture of an occupant; an acceleration detecting part detecting an acceleration of a vehicle; a driving force generation part generating a driving force in a manner enabling to change a driving force distribution between a front and rear wheels or between a left and right wheels; and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a required driving force, and controlling the driving force generation part so as to change the driving force distribution to a target driving force distribution to suppress a change of the riding posture while generating the required driving force when a magnitude of the acceleration is greater than or equal to a predetermined magnitude and a degree of change of the riding posture is greater than or equal to a predetermined degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Chao Niu, Shogo Takano, Kota Saito, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20200001891
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including a driving force generation unit, a driving force distribution mechanism distributing a driving force from the driving force generation unit to a front wheel and a rear wheel, and an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform: determining whether a mode switching instruction from self-drive mode enabling a self-drive function to manual drive mode disabling the self-drive function has been input; and controlling the driving force distribution mechanism so that a driving force distribution rate of rear wheel driving force relative to front wheel driving force is a first distribution rate during driving in the self-drive mode, and thereafter so that the driving force distribution rate is a second distribution rate greater than the first distribution rate when it is determined that the mode switching instruction has been input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shogo Takano, Kota Saito, Takashi Adachi, Chao Niu, Masakatsu Hori
  • Publication number: 20200001716
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a self-driving vehicle with a self-driving capability including a slip detector detecting a slip generated at four drive wheels, a direction detector detecting a direction of a vehicle body, and a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform: calculating target torques of the four drive wheels in accordance with an action plan; correcting the target torques so as to decrease the target torque of the first drive wheel when the slip of the first drive wheel is detected, and thereafter so as to increase the target torque of the second drive wheel and decrease the target torque of the fourth drive wheel when a deviation of the detected direction from a target traveling direction is greater than or equal to a predetermined deviation; and controlling a driving part in accordance with the corrected target torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shogo Takano, Kota Saito, Chao Niu, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20200001889
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including an operation detector detecting driving instruction, a direction detector detecting actual traveling direction of the vehicle, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: determining whether a deviation of the actual traveling direction from target traveling direction according to the driving instruction is greater than or equal to predetermined deviation; switching to the self-drive mode when the deviation is greater than or equal to the predetermined deviation during traveling in the manual drive mode; and controlling the actuator in accordance with the driving instruction, the controlling including controlling the actuator so as to match the actual traveling direction with the target traveling direction after switching to the self-drive mode, and the switching including switching to the manual drive mode when the actual traveling direction is matched with the target traveling direction after switching to the self-drive mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chao Niu, Shogo Takano, Kota Saito, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20190382015
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a control device for a vehicle, as an acceleration priority shift control that selects the shift stage set by the automatic transmission (TM) by preferentially using the information of acceleration of the vehicle (1), the traveling control part (120) calculates a maximum acceleration (Gmax) and a minimum acceleration (Gmin) of the vehicle (1) by using external information of the vehicle (1); calculates a target acceleration (Gt) by comparing the calculated maximum acceleration (Gmax) and minimum acceleration (Gmin) with a preset optimum acceleration (Gi); calculates a target shift stage (SHt) of the automatic transmission (TM) based on a current state of an engine (EG) in accordance with the calculated target acceleration (Gt); and calculates a standby pressure (Pm) for a clutch of the calculated target shift stage (SHt), and performs standby pressure control of the clutch with the calculated standby pressure (Pm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao NIU, Takashi ADACHI, Kazunori MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20190359204
    Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus configured to mitigate a shock to an occupant of a vehicle when a rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle from behind, including a driving unit generating a driving force, and an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform predicting whether the rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle, and controlling the driving unit so that when it is predicted that the rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle, a difference between a vehicle speed of the vehicle and a vehicle speed of the rearward vehicle reduces and a driving force of a rear wheel is greater than a driving force of a front wheel immediately before the rearward vehicle collides into the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kota Saito, Chao Niu, Shogo Takano, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20170289059
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a container-based mobile code offloading support system in a cloud environment and the offloading method thereof, comprising a front-end processing layer, a runtime layer and a back-end resource layer. The front-end processing layer is responsible for responding to an arrived request and managing a status of a container, which is realized by a request distribution module, a code caching module and a monitoring and scheduling module; the runtime layer provides the same execution environment as that of a terminal, which is realized by a runtime module consisted of a plurality of mobile cloud containers; and the back-end resource layer solves incompatibility of a cloud platform with an mobile terminal environment and provides underlying resource support for a runtime, which is realized by a resource sharing module and an extended kernel module within a host operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Song WU, Chao NIU, Hai JIN
  • Patent number: 8774868
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a power-saving system and method for a mobile terminal. By way of monitoring the power level of the mobile terminal, the present invention adopts a high visual contrast power-saving mode while reducing the backlight lightness when the power level is low. The present invention achieves the object of increasing the display resolution and facilitating the user to obtain information while saving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chao Niu, Yaheng Wang, Wen Cong
  • Publication number: 20130130745
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a power-saving system and method for a mobile terminal. By way of monitoring the power level of the mobile terminal, the present invention adopts a high visual contrast power-saving mode while reducing the backlight lightness when the power level is low. The present invention achieves the object of increasing the display resolution and facilitating the user to obtain information while saving power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chao Niu, Yaheng Wang, Wen Cong
  • Publication number: 20120281441
    Abstract: A circuit for converting a direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage includes a buck converter, a resonant DC voltage/DC voltage converter, a DC voltage/AC voltage inverter, and a DC link capacitor. The buck converter generates a DC current according to an input voltage generated by a voltage source operating at an optimal operation point. The resonant DC voltage/DC voltage converter converts the input voltage to a DC voltage according to a switch clock and a resonant frequency determined by a resonant capacitor and a resonant inductance of the resonant DC voltage/DC voltage converter. The DC voltage/AC voltage inverter converts the DC voltage and outputs an AC voltage to an AC power supply network. The DC link capacitor adjusts power outputted by the DC voltage/AC voltage converter to regulate the DC voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Yung-Hsiang Liu, Kuo-Hsin Chu, Yu-Kai Wang, Yuan-Chao Niu
  • Patent number: 7291983
    Abstract: A ballast according to the present invention operates in an ignition state, a warm-up state, and a steady state for igniting and powering a lamp. The ballast comprises an igniter that ignites the lamp during the ignition state and a switching power inverter, for example, a full bridge DC-AC inverter implemented with MOSFET switching transistors, that powers the lamp during the warm-up and steady states. The switching power inverter, which drives the igniter, operates at a first switching frequency during the ignition state and operates at a second switching frequency during the steady state. Preferably, the first switching frequency, which in one exemplary embodiment is in the kHz range, is higher than the second switching frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuequan Hu, Milan Jovanović, Yuan Chao Niu, Colin Weng
  • Patent number: 7271545
    Abstract: A ballast according to the present invention operates in an ignition state, a warm-up state, and a steady state for igniting and powering a lamp. The ballast comprises an igniter that ignites the lamp during the ignition state and a switching power inverter, for example, a full bridge DC-AC inverter implemented with MOSFET switching transistors, that powers the lamp during the warm-up and steady states. The switching power inverter, which drives the igniter, operates at a first switching frequency during the ignition state and operates at a second switching frequency during the steady state. Preferably, the first switching frequency, which in one exemplary embodiment is in the kHz range, is higher than the second switching frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuequan Hu, Milan M. Jovanović, Yuan Chao Niu, Colin Weng