Patents by Inventor CHARLES ZHOU

CHARLES ZHOU 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: 20240413618
    Abstract: In an operation, the modular electrical power distribution panel (MEPP) is built and assembled with accessories of additional electrical components, instruments, and lighting controls installed in the MEPP. The MEPP can further include bus bars for circuit breakers to attach to as well as electrical rails constructed to allow one or more instruments that will be mounted in the MEPPs to electrically connect to the electrical rails. The MEPP rests on a floor and is supported through its frame from a ground up to be a free standing panel. The MEPP, the bus bars, electrical rails and accessories are modular shippable in five modular pieces or less that meet requirements set by a nationally recognized testing laboratory approval as assembled as a whole unit; and thus, eliminate a need for a second laboratory approval as the whole unit when assembled for a first time at a work site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Charles Zhou, David McFate
  • Publication number: 20240238989
    Abstract: An advanced system of cooperating solar module carrier robots for installing solar panels on a solar tracker is provided. The advanced system can include a computer vision system designed to route the cooperating solar module carrier robots to a solar tracker, a deck sized to fit one or more pallets of solar panels, and a robotic arm with a suction cup tool designed to pick up and hold a solar panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ali Asmari, Brian Lynn, Eric Feldman, Greg Penza, Ben Artes, Rob Kodadek, Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, Jr., Halston Ryan Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Publication number: 20240189978
    Abstract: An advanced system of cooperating solar module carrier robots for installing solar panels is provided. The system includes a computer vision system designed to route the cooperating solar module carrier robots to the solar tracker. The system also includes a robotic arm with a suction cup tool designed to pick up and hold a solar panel. The suction cup tool can include a set of suction cups, an actuator designed to create a vacuum in each suction cup of the set of suction cups. The suction cup tool also has an air nozzle designed to below off debris on a surface of the solar panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Ali Asmari, Brian Lynn, Eric Feldman, Greg Penza, Ben Artes, Rob Kodadek, Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Halston Ryan Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Patent number: 11951617
    Abstract: An autonomous solar module installation platform can be used for solar module installation onto a solar tracker. The autonomous solar module installation platform can include an off-road capable base vehicle and a robotic arm, mounted on the off-road capable base vehicle, for the solar module installation onto the solar tracker. The off-road capable base vehicle and the robotic arm can communicate with each other and cooperate their movements to proceed to the solar tracker and align with the solar tracker in order for the robotic arm to pick up and lift the solar module during an installation of the solar module onto the solar tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rosendin Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, Jr., Halston Ryan Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Patent number: 11919149
    Abstract: An autonomous solar module installation platform can be used for solar module installation onto a solar tracker. The autonomous solar module installation platform can include an autonomous ground vehicle and a robotic arm for the solar module installation onto the solar tracker. The autonomous ground vehicle can autonomously drive itself to the solar tracker using a global positioning system and align itself with the solar tracker using at least a vision system in order to place one or more solar modules onto the solar tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rosendin Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, Jr., Halston Ryan Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Publication number: 20230321842
    Abstract: An autonomous solar module installation platform can be used for solar module installation onto a solar tracker. The autonomous solar module installation platform can include an autonomous ground vehicle and a robotic arm for the solar module installation onto the solar tracker. The autonomous ground vehicle can autonomously drive itself to the solar tracker using a global positioning system and align itself with the solar tracker using at least a vision system in order to place one or more solar modules onto the solar tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Halston Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Publication number: 20220193927
    Abstract: A multiple part bracket can be constructed to provide an electrical power connection and a mechanical attachment. The multiple part bracket includes an upper portion and a lower portion of the bracket constructed to be assembled together on an arm of a solar tracker in the field. The lower portion is adaptable in shape and dimensions to attach onto solar trackers from two or more different manufacturers in order to mechanically capture a solar panel module on the arm and to retain the solar panel module in place on the arm of the solar tracker. The multiple part bracket can be used with an autonomous ground vehicle with a robotic arm in order to autonomously install the multiple part bracket onto a solar tracker with the robotic arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Charles Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210359498
    Abstract: In an operation, the modular electrical power distribution panel (MEPP) is built and assembled with accessories of additional electrical components, instruments, and lighting controls installed in the MEPP. The MEPP can further include bus bars for circuit breakers to attach to as well as electrical rails constructed to allow one or more instruments that will be mounted in the MEPPs to electrically connect to the electrical rails. The MEPP rests on a floor and is supported through its frame from a ground up to be a free standing panel. The MEPP, the bus bars, electrical rails and accessories are modular shippable in five modular pieces or less that meet requirements set by a nationally recognized testing laboratory approval as assembled as a whole unit; and thus, eliminate a need for a second laboratory approval as the whole unit when assembled for a first time at a work site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Charles Zhou, David McFate
  • Publication number: 20210205997
    Abstract: An autonomous solar module installation platform can be used for solar module installation onto a solar tracker. The autonomous solar module installation platform can include an autonomous ground vehicle and a robotic arm for the solar module installation onto the solar tracker. The autonomous ground vehicle can autonomously drive itself to the solar tracker using a global positioning system and align itself with the solar tracker using at least a vision system in order to place one or more solar modules onto the solar tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Halston Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Publication number: 20210206003
    Abstract: An autonomous solar module installation platform can be used for solar module installation onto a solar tracker. The autonomous solar module installation platform can include an off-road capable base vehicle and a robotic arm, mounted on the off-road capable base vehicle, for the solar module installation onto the solar tracker. The off-road capable base vehicle and the robotic arm can communicate with each other and cooperate their movements to proceed to the solar tracker and align with the solar tracker in order for the robotic arm to pick up and lift the solar module during an installation of the solar module onto the solar tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Charles Zhou, William Paul Mazzetti, JR., Halston Rowe, David Scott Lincoln
  • Publication number: 20090295034
    Abstract: A process for making activated carbon monolith using PTFE as binder is disclosed and described. The process includes carbon-PTFE paste preparation, shearing the paste in a calender with hot rollers, and forming carbon monoliths using compression shaping equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: CM-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: XIAOQUN WU, SHOWGUEI YEH, CHARLES ZHOU, HUIFANG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20080090736
    Abstract: This invention is to use knowledge pattern learning and search system for selecting microorganisms to produce useful materials and to generate clean energy from wastes, wastewaters, biomass or from other inexpensive sources. The method starts with an in silico screening platform which involves multiple steps. First, the organisms' profiles are compiled by linking the massive genetic and chemical fingerprints in the metabolic and energy-generating biological pathways (e.g. codon usages, gene distributions in function categories, etc.) to the organisms' biological behaviors. Second, a machine learning and pattern recognition system is used to group the organism population into characteristic groups based on the profiles. Lastly, one or a group of microorganisms are selected based on profile match scores calculated from a defined metabolic efficiency measure, which, in term, is a prediction of a desired capability in real life based on an organism's profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: QUANTUM INTELLIGENCE, INC.
    Inventors: YING ZHAO, Charles Zhou, Hsiu-Ying Sherry