Patents by Inventor Chengwu An

Chengwu An 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: 20230048820
    Abstract: An axial flux electric motor for an automobile includes a stator assembly, and a rotor assembly, the rotor assembly including a plurality of lamination blocks arranged in an annular pattern, a plurality of conductive wedges, one conductive wedge being positioned between each adjacent pair of lamination blocks, the plurality of lamination blocks and the plurality of conductive wedges defining a rotor core disk having an inner diameter and outer diameter and opposing axial faces, and a plurality of permanent magnets attached to one of the opposing axial faces of the rotor core disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan, Yusheng Zou
  • Publication number: 20230029734
    Abstract: A stator core assembly for an axial flux electric motor for an automobile includes a cylindrical outer case that defines a central axis, first and second disk shaped insulate frames axially spaced from one another and positioned within the outer case, each of the first and second insulate frames including a circular outer ring, a circular inner ring and a plurality of radial spokes extending between the outer ring and the inner ring and spaced circumferentially about the central axis, and a plurality of segmented core sections extending axially between the first and second insulate frames spaced circumferentially around and supported by the first and second insulate frames, wherein, a radial spoke is positioned between each adjacent pair of segmented core sections, and at least one radial spoke extends across each axial end of each one of the plurality of segmented core sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan
  • Patent number: 11569713
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a shaft, a rotor, a stator, and at least one coolant supply channel. The shaft is rotatably mounted within the housing and has a longitudinal axis. The rotor is fixed to the shaft for rotation therewith. The stator is spaced apart from the rotor along the longitudinal axis of the shaft to yield at least one air gap between the stator and the rotor. The at least one coolant supply channel extends through at least one of the shaft and the stator and is configured to supply coolant flow to the at least one air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan
  • Publication number: 20230018438
    Abstract: An axial flux motor is provided and includes a shaft, at least one rotor connected to the shaft, and a stator. The stator includes a stator core and an electrically conductive wire. The stator core is segmented and ring-shaped and includes a central opening through which the shaft extends to the at least one rotor. The stator core includes a hybrid segment. The hybrid segment includes soft magnetic composite material components and laminated layered blocks. The laminated layered blocks include two inclined laminated layered blocks, where a distance between the two inclined laminated layered blocks increases radially along a radially extending centerline of the hybrid segment. The electrically conductive wire wound on the hybrid segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan
  • Patent number: 11535613
    Abstract: Disclosed are a crystal form and a salt form of a pyrazolopridine compound, and a preparation method therefor. Further included is the use of the crystal form in preparing anti-influenza virus drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG RAYNOVENT BIOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Xiong, Xiaoxin Chen, Jingjing Wang, Zhuowei Liu, Kevin X Chen, Chengwu Liu, Cheng Xie, Chaofeng Long, Peng Li, Jian Li, Shuhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11524576
    Abstract: A speed reduction assembly for an electric vehicle includes an electric machine configured to operate as a motor and as a generator. The electric machine includes an output shaft that is rotatable about a longitudinal axis at an output speed. The assembly also includes an output member coupled to the output shaft and rotatable about the longitudinal axis at a reduced speed. In addition, the assembly includes a pericyclic apparatus coupled to the output shaft and the output member to reduce the output speed of the output shaft to the reduced speed of the output member. A vehicle may include the speed reduction assembly in certain configurations. The vehicle includes a battery module and the electric machine is in electrical communication with the battery module to recharge the battery module when the electric machine operates as the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Chengwu Duan, Mohammad Hotait, Jian Yao
  • Publication number: 20220380363
    Abstract: Disclosed are sodium salts of pyrimidine derivatives, and a series of crystal forms thereof. The series of crystal forms exhibit a good druggability, such as stability, fluidity, compressibility, etc., and provide a variety of options of APIs for subsequent drug product development.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaoxin Chen, Chengwu Liu, Zhuowei Liu, Zhenyou Tan, Zhiqiang Liu, Zhiwei Cheng, Chaofeng Long, Jiajun Huang, Guangqiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11515786
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for continuous current sensing for a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) regulator. One example method includes operating a plurality of switches of the SIMO regulator, via a plurality of control signals, according to a plurality of switching states using a switching controller, sensing currents associated with at least a portion of the plurality of switches of the SIMO regulator using a plurality of current sense circuits, and selectively outputting a sense current from one of the plurality of current sense circuits based on a change in the plurality of controls signals occurring between a transition from a first switching state to a second switching state of the plurality of switching states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linfei Guo, Chengwu Tao, Joseph Duncan, Xiaocheng Jing, Amir Parayandeh, Xun Liu
  • Publication number: 20220376592
    Abstract: An axial flux motor drive unit for an automobile includes a stator defining a core, an output defining an axis of rotation, a first rotor, a second rotor, and a thrust bearing. The first rotor is rotatable about the axis of rotation and is coupled to the output and disposed relative to the stator to create a first air gap. The second rotor is rotatable about the axis of rotation and is coupled to the output and is disposed relative to the stator to create a second air gap. The thrust bearing is coupled to the output and supports axial loads that are substantially parallel to the axis of rotation, and the first rotor is still rotatable about the axis of rotation when the second rotor is inoperable, and the second rotor is still rotatable when the first rotor is inoperable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Chengwu Duan, Alan G. Holmes, Jian Yao
  • Publication number: 20220305609
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic grinding device and a magnetic grinding control method, and relates to the field of machining. According to the device, a magnet platform of a grinding piece fixing table is connected with an electromagnet; the grinding piece fixing table is used for fixing a to-be-ground workpiece; an output end of a programmable power supply is connected with a coil of the electromagnet; a permanent magnet grinding rod is located above the to-be-ground workpiece; and a magnetic grinding control system is connected with the programmable power supply and is used for acquiring grinding points, on the to-be-ground workpiece, of the permanent magnet grinding rod, and controlling an output voltage of the programmable power supply by utilizing a removal amount of a blank workpiece surface shape of the to-be-ground workpiece, the grinding points and a pulse width modulation (PWM) control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shiju E, Xinsheng HE, Chunfu GAO, Chongqiu ZHOU, Lanpeng ZHENG, Jiajie JIANG, Huaiyi ZHANG, Huadong WANG, Chengwu WANG
  • Publication number: 20220292637
    Abstract: Systems and methods for high spatial and temporal resolution ultrasound imaging of microvessels in a subject are described. Ultrasound data are acquired from a region-of-interest in a subject who has been administered a microbubble contrast agent. The ultrasound data are acquired while the microbubbles are moving through, or otherwise present in, the region-of-interest. The region-of-interest may include, for instance, microvessels or other microvasculature in the subject. By imaging microbubbles, a cross-correlation map between each microbubble image and a point spread function of the system can be generated. Accumulation of power-based cross-correlation maps may then be used to generate a high-resolution high-contrast image of the microvasculature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Chengwu Huang, Shigao Chen
  • Publication number: 20220240899
    Abstract: Super-resolution ultrasound imaging of microvessels in a subject is described. Ultrasound data are acquired from a region-of-interest in a subject who has been administered a microbubble contrast agent. The ultrasound data are acquired while the microbubbles are moving through, or otherwise present in, the region-of-interest. Microbubble signals are isolated from the ultrasound data and are separated into subsets of data based on properties of the microbubbles, such as spatial-temporal hemodynamics. By localizing, tracking, and accumulating the microbubbles in each subset of data, super-resolution images of the microvessels can be generated for each subset, such that each of these images represents a sparse subset of microbubble signals. These images are combined to generate a super-resolution microvessel image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Joshua D. Trzasko, Shigao Chen, Pengfei Song, Chengwu Huang, Armando Manduca, Matthew Lowerison
  • Patent number: 11381123
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides hybrid stator core components for an axial flux motor stator and methods for making the same. The hybrid stator core component includes a molded soft magnetic composite material and a laminated component. In one variation, a laminated insert comprising a plurality of insulated layers is non-releasably seated within a molded soft magnetic composite material. In another variation, a hybrid stator core component has a molded soft magnetic composite core and a laminated shell comprising a plurality of layers disposed around at least a portion of the molded soft magnetic composite core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Mingyuan Zhang, Chengwu Duan, Yusheng Zou
  • Publication number: 20220200417
    Abstract: A method to make a stator lamination of an axial flux motor for an automobile vehicle includes: constructing a stator having multiple stator stack members, including: providing a stator lamination with individual ones of the stator stack members; forming the stator lamination from a single lamination sheet of steel defining a sinuous-shaped assembly having multiple bends; compressing the stator lamination; and machining the stator lamination to create a first edge by removing a first portion of the multiple bends and to create a second edge opposite to the first edge by removing a second portion of the multiple bends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Anil K. Sachdev, Chengwu Duan, Alireza Fatemi
  • Publication number: 20220166520
    Abstract: A performance estimation apparatus and method for a nonlinear communication system and an electronic device. The nonlinear communication system is equated with by an equivalent model including an equivalent linear model and an equivalent additive noise model, and the equivalent additive noise outputted by the equivalent additive noise model is mathematically uncorrelated to the signal inputted into the equivalent model. Performances of the nonlinear communication system of different modulation formats at different baud rates may be accurately estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Xiaofei SU, Tong YE, Zhenning TAO, Chengwu YANG
  • Publication number: 20220166264
    Abstract: A bi-material permanent magnet for an electric machine includes a core including a first magnetic material and a shell portion located on the core and made of a second magnetic material. The first magnetic material comprises a magnet material with an energy less than 20 Mega Gauss Oersteds (MGOe). The second magnetic material comprises a magnet material with an energy greater than 30 MGOe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Alireza FATEMI, Anil K. SACHDEV, Jian YAO, Anthony M. COPPOLA, Thomas W. NEHL, Chengwu DUAN
  • Publication number: 20220166268
    Abstract: A stator assembly for an axial flux motor includes a heat exchanger jacket configured to circulate a heat transfer liquid. A stator also includes a plurality of stator cores each having a conductive winding, an electrically insulating material disposed over at least a portion of the conductive wire winding, and a molded soft magnetic composite (SMC) material. The heat exchanger jacket is disposed circumferentially around at least a portion of a perimeter of the stator. Each stator core defines a peripheral surface configured to contact the heat exchanger jacket and at least a portion of the peripheral surface is defined by the molded soft magnetic composite (SMC) material. Methods of making a molded soft magnetic composite (SMC) material stator core are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chengwu DUAN, Jian YAO, Alireza FATEMI
  • Patent number: 11305675
    Abstract: A disturbance cancellation and generation seat system includes a seat mounted to a structure of a vehicle. The seat is accelerated due to a disturbance acceleration received in the structure and transferred to the seat. A seat control unit generates a force cancellation command signal. An actuation device is connected to the structure and is in communication with the seat control unit. The actuation device in response to receipt of the force cancellation command signal induces a cancellation acceleration motion into the seat which is equal but opposite to and therefore cancels an acceleration motion of the seat induced by the disturbance acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chengwu Duan, Jian Yao, David Sun
  • Patent number: 11254223
    Abstract: An electric propulsion system includes a battery pack and a DC-DC converter. The converter has a bypass switch and semiconductor switches. A traction power inverter module (“TPIM”) rectifies a DC bus voltage on the voltage bus to produce an AC bus voltage. An electric machine is connected to the TPIM and energized via the AC bus voltage. A controller calculates required output power from the converter based on a requested operating mode, and speed and torque of the electric machine. When the output power exceeds a threshold, the bypass switch closes to bypass the converter. When the output power is less than the threshold, the controller uses a minimum loss voltage from a loss map as a target control voltage of the converter to optimize efficiency of the electric propulsion system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Lei Hao, Chandra S. Namuduri, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Chengwu Duan, Norman K. Bucknor
  • Patent number: D944383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN QIANHAI PATUOXUIN NETWORK AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingxiao Jin, Tingsheng Wang, Chengwu Wang