Patents by Inventor Chi Zhang
Chi Zhang 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).
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Patent number: 12364734Abstract: Methods and materials for treating a mammal having Alzheimer's disease (AD) are described. For example, one or more Zika virus (ZIKV) polypeptides can be administered to a mammal having, or at risk of developing, AD to treat the mammal.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2024Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: NUtech VenturesInventors: Luwen Zhang, Chi Zhang
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Patent number: 12358101Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of automobile part processing, and specifically provides a clamping device and a sandblasting device for automobile part processing. The clamping device comprises a clamping component for clamping an automobile part, and an auxiliary component; the auxiliary component comprises a supporting part, a pull rod, a protective pad, and a return spring, wherein the pull rod is movably provided on the supporting part, one end of the pull rod is connected to the protective pad having deformation performance, and the protective pad is used for being arranged between the automobile part and the clamping component; the return spring is used for being installed between the supporting part and the protective pad; the pull rod is pulled so that the pull rod pulls the protective pad to move towards the direction close to the supporting part.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Zhejiang Wanli UniversityInventors: Jingwei Ning, Xiang Yan, Wen Liu, Hongwei Cui, Hang Wang, Chi Zhang, Li Lin, Peichao Wang, Yeying Teng
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Publication number: 20250226742Abstract: The present disclosure provides a converter system including a branch circuit and a controller. The branch circuit includes a top arm and a bottom arm electrically connected to each other. The top arm includes N cells and a top arm inductor. The bottom arm includes N? cells and a bottom arm inductor. The controller controls the converter system to operate in first, second and third modes through the plurality of control signal, wherein in the first mode, the voltage applied to the top arm inductor and the bottom arm inductor is substantial zero. In the second mode, the voltage applied to the top arm inductor and the bottom arm inductor is at least one cell voltage. In the third mode, at least one of the top arm inductor and the bottom arm inductor resonates with at least one capacitor in the top arm and the bottom arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: Chi Zhang, Zhiyu Shen, Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa
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Publication number: 20250226661Abstract: The present disclosure provides an energy storage circuit, and a control method. The energy storage circuit includes a DC/DC circuit including a primary side and a secondary side which are connected through a transformer; at least one AC/DC circuit electrically connected between the DC/DC circuit and an electrical grid; a third grid voltage detector configured to measure a grid voltage and detect an on-grid state or an off-grid state; a grid power relay; and a processor. In response to the on-grid state being detected and a grid voltage being detected abnormal, the processor is configured to turn off the grid power relay for disconnection and generate waves using a dual active bridge (DAB) topology mode; and in response to the off-grid state being detected and the grid voltage being detected normal, the processor is configured to determine whether the primary-side voltage is matched with the secondary-side voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: Chi ZHANG, Jiansheng CHEN, Song CHEN, Gang XIAO
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Patent number: 12353482Abstract: The present disclosure recites systems and methods for generating record clusters. For example, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of records from data sources and providing at least a subset of the records to a scoring model that determines scores for various pairings of the records, a score for a given pair of the records representing a probability that the given pair of records contain data elements about the same entity. The method further comprises generating a graph data structure that includes a plurality of nodes, individual nodes representing a different record from the records. The method also comprises assigning a different unique identifier to individual clusters of the final clusters and responding to a request for data regarding a given entity by providing aggregated data elements from those records of the records associated with a cluster of the final clusters having an identifier that represents the given entity.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2024Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Hua Li, Sophie Liu, Yi He, Zhixuan Wang, Chi Zhang, Kevin Chen, Shanji Xiong, Christer Dichiara, Mason Carpenter, Mark Hirn, Julian Yarkony
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Patent number: 12345276Abstract: Disclosed are a cross-flow air duct and an air outlet device. The cross-flow air duct includes a volute and a volute tongue. The volute includes a first body, a first side of the first body is an air inlet side, and a second side of the first body is an air outlet side. The volute tongue includes a second body, a first side of the second body is an air inlet side, and a second side of the second body is an air outlet side. An air inlet port is formed between the first sides, and an air outlet port is formed between the second sides. According to the cross-flow air duct, multiple groups of air outlet areas in different directions are formed, the air outlet width is enlarged as a whole, and the air supply range is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Chi Zhang, Zhou Liu, Hao Liang, Wenlong Liang, Changjian Rao, Ling Tian
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Publication number: 20250197613Abstract: The rubber composition for a tire tread according to the embodiment contains 1 to 50 parts by mass of an aromatic resin which contains an aromatic vinyl compound as a constituent monomer and which is liquid at 23° C. per 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber. The rubber composition has an on-ice braking performance and a response performance on an icy road surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2024Publication date: June 19, 2025Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Chi Zhang
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Patent number: 12333822Abstract: A method and an apparatus for vehicle positioning. The method includes: acquiring a distance transformation image of a road marking object in a road image based on the road image of an environment where a vehicle is located at a current time point; acquiring a vector subgraph of the road marking object from a global vector map; and determining a target positioning posture of the vehicle based on the distance transformation image and the vector subgraph.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hao Li, Chi Zhang, Hao Liu, Kun Guo, Kuiyuan Yang, Rui Cai, Zhiwei Li
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Publication number: 20250182039Abstract: A physical distribution management device manages a physical distribution system using a first storage storing a first type article to be received by a user using an article, a second storage storing a second type article to be transported to a user using the plural first storages, and a third storage storing a third type article to be transported to a user using the plural first storages corresponding to the second storages. The device has an acquisition unit acquiring a use frequency of the article, and a classification unit classifying the article corresponding to a first use frequency as the first type article, the article corresponding to a second use frequency as the second type article, and the article corresponding to a third use frequency as the third type article, based on the use frequency of the user belonging to a transport target region set for the third storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: June 5, 2025Applicant: MISUMI Group Inc.Inventors: Takashi BABA, Chi ZHANG
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Patent number: 12318050Abstract: A carpet recognition method for a robot cleaner. The robot cleaner comprises a sleeve and an ultrasonic sensor, wherein the ultrasonic sensor is fixed in the sleeve. The recognition method comprises: controlling the ultrasonic sensor to vertically transmit an ultrasonic signal to the current ground, and to receive an actual echo signal reflected by the current ground; and determining whether the actual echo signal is different from the standard echo signal of the normal ground, and if so, recognizing the current ground as a carpet surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanjun Liu, Zhenyu Liang, Chi Zhang, Qiong Du, Yinqi Liu, Lizhi Xiang
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Publication number: 20250161221Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and related methods of their use. The compounds described herein are useful, e.g., as liposomal delivery vehicles to facilitate the delivery of encapsulated polynucleotides to target cells and subsequent transfection of said target cells, and in certain embodiments are characterized as having one or more properties that afford such compounds advantages relative to other similarly classified lipids.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Translate Bio, Inc.Inventors: Braydon Charles Guild, Michael Heartlein, Frank DeRosa, Jerry Chi Zhang
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Publication number: 20250159464Abstract: A communication method and apparatus, and a storage medium. A UE may send, to an AMF, an indication that the UE supports an enhanced LADN, or the AMF may obtain group subscription data from a UDM, so that the AMF can learn that the UE supports the enhanced LADN, and a group service area configured for the UE is at a DNN and S-NSSAI granularity. In this way, the AMF can perceive that an LADN processing capability of the UE is enhanced, and send a correct group service area to the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2025Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Chi ZHANG, Qianghua ZHU, Wenzheng LI, Yali YAN
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Publication number: 20250145464Abstract: A method for preparing mesoporous iron phosphate by induction of block copolymers is provided. The method comprises preparing a ferric salt solution having a certain concentration and evenly dispersing it into a dispersant, then evenly mixing a structure directing agent solution with a phosphorus source solution, next adding the mixed solution to the ferric salt solution while dropwise adding an oxidant and stirring to react, thus after ending the reaction, washing, drying and calcinating the reaction product to obtain mesoporous iron phosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: YIDU XINGFA CHEMICAL CO., LTDInventors: Jie WANG, Baorui LUO, Weiyun SHEN, Chi ZHANG, Lei ZHENG, Haiquan TAN, Zujing WANG, Dong WANG
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Patent number: 12280771Abstract: A vehicle traveling control method, includes: predicting traveling paths of candidate vehicles within the sensing range of a current vehicle; determining a target competing vehicle competing with the current vehicle from the candidate vehicles, where the target competing vehicle is a vehicle having a path intersection with the traveling path of the current vehicle; determining the traveling strategy combinations of the current vehicle and the target competing vehicle according to preset traveling variations and current traveling status of the current vehicle and the target competing vehicle; and determining a target traveling strategy combination that meets preset safe traveling conditions from the traveling strategy combinations, and controlling the traveling of the current vehicle according to the target traveling strategy combination.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chao Wang, Chi Zhang
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Patent number: 12276594Abstract: A shaft wall pressure corrosion test system includes a pressure bearing device, a confining pressure application device, and a seepage pressure application device. The confining pressure application device and the seepage pressure application device provide confining pressure and seepage pressure for the pressure bearing device, respectively, and keep the confining pressure and the seepage pressure constant on the pressure bearing device. In the system, axial pressure is applied to a piston by means of a hydraulic jack and is then transferred to a sample to complete axial pressure application. The confining pressure is applied to hydraulic oil by a manual pump in combination with an energy accumulator and then transferred to the sample to complete confining pressure application. The seepage pressure is applied to a corrosion solution by a water pump group in combination with an energy accumulator and then transferred to the sample to complete seepage pressure application.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Tao Han, Yong Xue, Tingting Luo, Yu Zhang, Weihao Yang, Yansen Wang, Zhijiang Yang, Chi Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jiahui Huang, Haipeng Li
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Publication number: 20250118476Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless power transfer system and a wireless power transfer assembly. In one aspect, a wireless power transfer assembly includes a flexible printed circuit board, which is also referred to as a flexible printed circuit board structure. The flexible printed circuit board includes a litz winding. The litz winding has multiple layers of electrically insulated strands. The wireless power transfer assembly also includes a ceramic heat sink. The ceramic heat sink is arranged relative to the flexible printed circuit board in a manner that dissipates heat away from the litz winding. In another aspect, a wireless power transfer system includes a transmit unit or receive unit having an input stage, a resonator, and the wireless power transfer assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Anup Anurag, Chi Zhang, Ruxi Wang, Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa
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Patent number: 12274026Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus for a cooler device includes a manifold constructed at least partially of silicon oxide. The manifold includes an array of inlet channels and an array of outlet channels. Each inlet channel has a first depth. The array of outlet channels are interlaced with the array of inlet channels, Each outlet channel has a second depth that is larger than the first depth. Each of the array of outlet channels has a pair of sidewalls separating each outlet channel from adjacent inlet channels of the array of inlet channels.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, The Regents of the University of California, Merced, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, United States Department of EnergyInventors: Sougata Hazra, Chi Zhang, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Ercan M. Dede, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi
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Publication number: 20250108513Abstract: A robot calibration method based on pose constraint and force sensing includes the following steps: establishing a kinematic model, a geometric error model, and a non-geometric error model; installing an end calibration device to an end of a robot, and installing to the geometric constraint device into a working space of the robot; dragging the robot, constraining various calibration spheres of the end calibration device into various V-shaped grooves on the geometric constraint device to achieve pose constraint; then dragging the calibration spheres to V-shaped grooves on different surfaces, and calibrating a geometric parameter error of the robot using a deviation between a nominal end pose measured twice and an actual value; reading an end force by a force sensor to calibrate the non-geometric error model; identifying kinematic model parameters of a corresponding robot; and compensating an identified kinematic model parameter error to a controller of the robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Guilin YANG, Jianhui HE, Silu CHEN, Hongyu WAN, Jingbo LUO, Ye TANG, Zhihui ZHANG, Qingying CHEN, Chi ZHANG
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Patent number: 12265066Abstract: Provided are an imaging method and system for residual stress of a basin insulator and a method for preparing a test block. The imaging method includes cutting and preparing a standard industrial sample of a basin insulator and testing the acoustoelastic coefficient of the standard industrial sample; then obtaining the residual stress data of the basin insulator and obtaining the spatial point sound velocity distribution of the basin insulator; finally, obtaining a stress distribution cloud map of the basin insulator by calculation of the attribute value and the coordinate data of a to-be-measured location, and performing reliability verification based on the residual stress data.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: ELECTRIC POWER SCIENCE &RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STATE GRID TIANJIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, STATE GRID TIANJIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINAInventors: Jin He, Chun He, Songyuan Li, Qinghua Tang, Chi Zhang, Rong Chen, Qi Zhao, Jin Li, Xiaobo Song, Yue Han, Meng Cao, Lin Li, Suya Li, Yanwei Dong, Zhengzheng Meng
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Patent number: 12263602Abstract: A robot calibration method based on pose constraint and force sensing includes the following steps: establishing a kinematic model, a geometric error model, and a non-geometric error model; installing an end calibration device to an end of a robot, and installing to the geometric constraint device into a working space of the robot; dragging the robot, constraining various calibration spheres of the end calibration device into various V-shaped grooves on the geometric constraint device to achieve pose constraint; then dragging the calibration spheres to V-shaped grooves on different surfaces, and calibrating a geometric parameter error of the robot using a deviation between a nominal end pose measured twice and an actual value; reading an end force by a force sensor to calibrate the non-geometric error model; identifying kinematic model parameters of a corresponding robot; and compensating an identified kinematic model parameter error to a controller of the robot.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Guilin Yang, Jianhui He, Silu Chen, Hongyu Wan, Jingbo Luo, Ye Tang, Zhihui Zhang, Qingying Chen, Chi Zhang