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).

  • Publication number: 20240009807
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jingwei NING, Xiang YAN, Wen LIU, Hongwei CUI, Hang WANG, Chi ZHANG, Li LIN, Peichao WANG, Yeying TENG
  • Patent number: 11862039
    Abstract: A device for an analogue modeling experiment of a geological structure under a hypergravity field of a large-scale centrifuge is provided. A bottom plate is placed on a basket of the centrifuge and mounted with screw rod components; screw rods are arranged in parallel with the bottom plate; diverters, screw rod supporting columns, sliding guide rails and a motor are arranged on the bottom plate; output shafts at two ends of the motor are respectively connected to the two diverters; the diverters are connected with one end of the corresponding screw rod; a fixed baffle plate is connected with the screw rods and is embedded with the sliding guide rails; a detachable baffle plate is arranged at a lower part of the fixed baffle plate and has a lower part connected with a swing baffle plate through a hinge; and a curved table is arranged on the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liangtong Zhan, Chi Zhang, Jianxun Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230399020
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control method, the method includes: determining predicted motion features of a to-be-avoided object within a perception visual field of a vehicle; determining a safety level of the to-be-avoided object relative to the vehicle according to the predicted motion features and preset safety conditions; and determining a target deceleration of the vehicle according to an attribute feature of the to-be-avoided object and the corresponding safety level, and controlling traveling of the vehicle according to the target deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang SHI, Chi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11841791
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to aggregate code change requests for a continuous integration pipeline. The method may include receiving a plurality of code change requests (CCRs) for a software product that are to be processed by a continuous integration (CI) pipeline. The method may also include obtaining all functions of the software product tested by all testcases in a testcase set. The method may also include selecting a plurality of groups of testcases from the testcase set, each group of the plurality of groups of testcases corresponding to a CCR from the plurality of CCRs. The method may also include identifying at least two groups of testcases from the plurality of groups of testcases without overlapping code. The method may also include aggregating each CCR that corresponds to the at least two groups of testcases into a single CCR group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wen Tao Zhang, Hong Jun Tu, Yiwen Huang, Yang Yang, Ye Cui, Xiao Kai Dong, Yu Chi Zhang, Wei Wu, Xin Huang
  • Patent number: 11843492
    Abstract: A method for determining a reference signal sequence, a terminal device, and a network device, the including receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device, determining, by the terminal device, a target resource based on the first indication information, determining, by the terminal device, a reference signal sequence based on parameters of a first bandwidth and parameters of a second bandwidth, and sending or receiving, by the terminal device, the reference signal sequence on the target resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Wu, Hao Tang, Chi Zhang, Mengying Ding
  • Publication number: 20230387791
    Abstract: Provided are a soft-start method, a power converter system, and a household energy storage system, which are applied to the field of household energy storage technology and are used to improve the soft-start effect of a full-bridge resonant converter. The method includes the following manners: A soft-start process is configured as multiple operating periods, and a duty cycle is adjusted in periods and gradually increases; and in the soft-start process, according to the conversion of the duty cycle, a voltage is slowly output, and the value of the output voltage is gradually increased, so that the operating current in the soft-start process can be effectively controlled, thereby reducing the voltage stress of a power switch transistor when the power switch transistor is hard turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hongtao NIE, Chi ZHANG, Daqing WANG
  • Publication number: 20230380106
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of California, Merced, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Sougata Hazra, Chi Zhang, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Ercan M. Dede, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi
  • Publication number: 20230378724
    Abstract: A power converter includes a field graded substrate, a plurality of power device dies attached to the field graded substrate, a polymer layer on the field graded substrate, one or more conductors over the polymer layer, and a plurality of power conditioning components mounted on the field graded substrate to form a power converter circuit. The field graded substrate includes a first conductor layer, a graded layer that blends conductor and insulator material, and a second conductor layer, the graded layer having an insulator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Jeffrey Ewanchuk
  • Publication number: 20230369878
    Abstract: Provided are a household energy storage system in an off-grid state and a black start method therefor. The method includes: in response to detecting that a battery system is discharged to a SOC of less than or equal to a set value M, sending, by a BMS, a state of the battery system to an EMS; sending, by the EMS, timing starting time T1 and black start time T2 to the BMS; starting, by the BMS, timing from T1 and after a time T, instructing the battery system to stop working such that the household energy storage system enters a sleep mode; in response to performing timing to T2, waking, by the BMS, an auxiliary power supply up for power supply to the EMS; and in response to detecting that the battery system is in a charging state, determining, by the EMS, that a black start succeeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Song CHEN, Daqing WANG, Gang XIAO, Chi ZHANG, Yuezhen HU, Liran SUN
  • Patent number: 11816469
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for container lifecycle management is provided. The embodiment may include registering a topology for a plurality of deployments in a container orchestration platform. The embodiment may include detecting a rolling update to a deployment of the plurality of deployments. The embodiment may include assuming ownership of at least one previous version pod of the deployment. The embodiment may include creating network routing rules for the at least one previous version pod. The embodiment may include routing network packets to the at least one previous version pod based on the created network routing rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Jun Tu, Wen Tao Zhang, Yang Yang, Yiwen Huang, Ye Cui, Xiao Kai Dong, Yu Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230356774
    Abstract: A method for lateral control of a vehicle includes: determining a target steering wheel rotation angle based on a target trajectory of the vehicle and a vehicle pose; determining a steering wheel rotation angle compensation according to the target steering wheel rotation angle and steering data of the vehicle; and controlling steering of the vehicle according to the target steering wheel rotation angle and the steering wheel rotation angle compensation, such that an actual steering angle of the vehicle is consistent with the target steering wheel rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi ZHANG, Wei TAN, Hao LI
  • Patent number: 11804316
    Abstract: The invention discloses an underwater umbilical cable which is capable of temperature and vibration measuring and three-dimensional shape reconstruction, wherein underwater umbilical cable is used to connect underwater equipment and aquatic equipment; the underwater umbilical cable comprises an outer sheath, armored steel wires, an inner sheath, a power cable, a communication optical cable, a steel pipe, three strain measuring optical fibers, three temperature measuring optical fibers, a distributed optical fiber strain interrogator, a distributed optical fiber temperature interrogator and a processor. The invention can collect the operation status data of the umbilical cable for a long time. The collected data is highly objective, can truly reflect the real-time operation status of the umbilical cables, and plays an important role in guaranteeing the long-term submarine oil and gas exploitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yixin Zhang, Fei Xiong, Xuping Zhang, Chi Zhang, Long Chen, Shun Wang, Xiaohong Chen, Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11799370
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a series resonant converter and its corresponding control method. In one aspect, the series resonant converter includes m (m=1,2,3, . . . ) sets of primary side stages in parallel, wherein each primary side stage is identical and includes n (n=2,3, . . . ) stacked element circuits, where the primary side stages receive an input voltage; n×m resonant networks coupled to the primary side stages; n×m transformers having n×m primary side windings and n×m secondary side windings, where the primary side windings are coupled to the n×m resonant networks; p (p=1,2,3, . . . ) sets of secondary side stages in parallel, wherein each secondary side stage is identical and includes q (q=n×m/p) stacked element circuits, where the secondary side stages are coupled to n×m secondary side windings; and a control block controlling the primary side switches according to the output voltage, input voltage and input capacitor voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Zhiyu Shen, Ruxi Wang, Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa
  • Publication number: 20230314090
    Abstract: Improved vapor chambers are provided using monolithic wick structures having deep features (?150 um) and two or more different feature heights above the substrate. Such monolithic multi-level wick structures provide improved performance in vapor chambers by alleviating the tradeoff between fluid transport (which favors tall pin-fins) and heat transfer (which favors short pin-fins).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Sougata Hazra, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230303068
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao WANG, Chi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230299447
    Abstract: An electrochemical apparatus includes a housing, an electrode assembly, and an electrolyte, the electrode assembly and the electrolyte being disposed in the housing. The housing includes a housing body, a housing cover covering the housing body, and a sealing plug, where an injection opening is disposed at the center of the housing cover and the sealing plug is configured to seal the injection opening. The housing body includes a side wall. A first tab of the electrode assembly is electrically connected to the side wall. A second tab of the electrode assembly is electrically connected to a pole disposed on the side wall. The pole is insulated from the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Ningde Amperex Technology Limited
    Inventor: Chi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11764568
    Abstract: Provided is a determination method of differential protection suitable for an electricity transmission line with multi-terminal T-connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: TAIZHOU POWER SUPPLY COMPANY OF STATE GRID ZHEJIANG ELECTRIC POWER, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Ping Zhao, Chi Zhang, Yiping Shen, Yutao Qiu, Hua Xu, Xiaochun Xu, Hao Li, Yuande Zheng, Zaibing Zhou, Zhen Huang, Kang Wang, Jian Wu, Tao Zhu, Hao Tan, Ben Li, Qingchun Zhao, Xiaotong Zhu, Chen Zhou, Guode Ying, Zheng Qin, Xu Jiang
  • Patent number: 11763474
    Abstract: A method for generating simulated point cloud data, a device, and a storage medium includes: acquiring at least one frame of point cloud data collected by a road collecting device in an actual environment without a dynamic obstacle as static scene point cloud data; setting, least one dynamic obstacle in a coordinate system matching the static scene point cloud data; simulating in the coordinate system, a plurality of simulated scanning lights emitted by a virtual scanner located at an origin of the coordinate system; updating the static scene point cloud data according to intersections of the plurality of simulated scanning lights and the at least one dynamic obstacle to obtain the simulated point cloud data comprising point cloud data of the dynamic obstacle; and at least one of adding a set noise to the simulated point cloud data, and, deleting point cloud data corresponding to the dynamic obstacle according to a set ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feilong Yan, Jin Fang, Tongtong Zhao, Chi Zhang, Liang Wang, Yu Ma, Ruigang Yang
  • Publication number: 20230285554
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of biomedicine, and relates to a combined medication for treating soft tissue sarcoma. The combined medication comprises an anti-PD-L1 antibody and anlotinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In addition, further provided is a pharmaceutical composition comprising the anti-PD-L1 antibody and anlotinib or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or the use of the pharmaceutical composition in preparation of a medication for treating soft tissue sarcoma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Chi ZHANG, Nan SU
  • Publication number: 20230285051
    Abstract: A puncture instrument kit includes a puncture rod, mesh, and sheath. The puncture rod consists of a puncture head, puncture rod body, and handle. One end of the puncture rod body is connected to the handle and the other end is integrated with the puncture head. The puncture head is arc-shaped with an end gradually tapering to form a tip. The tip of the puncture head is circumferentially designed with a groove for fixing a thread during surgery. The puncture head is smoothly connected with the puncture rod body, and the line between the tip of the puncture head and puncture rod body is at an obtuse angle of 130-140° relative to the puncture rod body. The sheath is sleeved on the puncture rod with the rod tip exposed. The mesh and sheath are designed as separate or integrated, and the tip of the puncture rod is provided with a shape-matching detachable silicone protective sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: West China Hospital of Sichuan University
    Inventors: Deyi LUO, Hong SHEN, Chi ZHANG, Xiao ZENG