Patents by Inventor Daniel C. Huang
Daniel C. Huang 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: 11913554Abstract: This disclosure details a coolant distribution module as used in a thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. An exemplary coolant distribution module includes a module body including a plurality of inlet ports and a plurality of outlet ports, a first manifold valve encompassed within the module body, and a second manifold valve encompassed within the module body. The first manifold valve includes a plurality of first valve inputs wherein each first valve input is in communication with at least one inlet port of the plurality of inlet ports, and a plurality of first valve outputs wherein each first valve output is in communication with at least one outlet port of the plurality of outlet ports.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ravi Gopal, Daniel C. Huang
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Publication number: 20230323966Abstract: This disclosure details a coolant distribution module as used in a thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. An exemplary coolant distribution module includes a module body including a plurality of inlet ports and a plurality of outlet ports, a first manifold valve encompassed within the module body, and a second manifold valve encompassed within the module body. The first manifold valve includes a plurality of first valve inputs wherein each first valve input is in communication with at least one inlet port of the plurality of inlet ports, and a plurality of first valve outputs wherein each first valve output is in communication with at least one outlet port of the plurality of outlet ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Ravi Gopal, Daniel C. Huang
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Patent number: 11731482Abstract: This disclosure details integrated thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. Exemplary integrated thermal management systems may include a thermal module assembly that may be integrated into a front end structure of a flexible modular platform of the electrified vehicle. The integrated thermal management systems may be controlled in a plurality of distinct thermal control modes for thermal managing various subcomponents and for addressing various vehicle auxiliary loads (e.g., passenger cabin heating loads, passenger cabin cooling loads, etc.).Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Daniel C. Huang, Sunil Katragadda, Ravi Gopal, Clay Wesley Maranville, Christopher Mark Greiner
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Patent number: 11703137Abstract: This disclosure details a coolant distribution module as used in a thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. An exemplary coolant distribution module includes a module body including a plurality of inlet ports and a plurality of outlet ports, a first manifold valve encompassed within the module body, and a second manifold valve encompassed within the module body. The first manifold valve includes a plurality of first valve inputs wherein each first valve input is in communication with at least one inlet port of the plurality of inlet ports, and a plurality of first valve outputs wherein each first valve output is in communication with at least one outlet port of the plurality of outlet ports.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ravi Gopal, Daniel C. Huang
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Publication number: 20230033890Abstract: This disclosure details a coolant distribution module as used in a thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. An exemplary coolant distribution module includes a module body including a plurality of inlet ports and a plurality of outlet ports, a first manifold valve encompassed within the module body, and a second manifold valve encompassed within the module body. The first manifold valve includes a plurality of first valve inputs wherein each first valve input is in communication with at least one inlet port of the plurality of inlet ports, and a plurality of first valve outputs wherein each first valve output is in communication with at least one outlet port of the plurality of outlet ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Ravi Gopal, Daniel C. Huang
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Patent number: 11541715Abstract: This disclosure details integrated thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. Exemplary integrated thermal management systems may include a thermal module assembly that may be integrated into a front end structure of a flexible modular platform of the electrified vehicle. The integrated thermal management systems may be controlled in a plurality of distinct thermal control modes for thermal managing various subcomponents and for addressing various vehicle auxiliary loads (e.g., passenger cabin heating loads, passenger cabin cooling loads, etc.).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Daniel C. Huang, Sunil Katragadda, Ravi Gopal, Clay Wesley Maranville, Christopher Mark Greiner
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Patent number: 11331982Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for purifying air for breathing. The apparatus includes an armrest having a receiver and an air purification module releasably received in the receiver. The air purification module is portable and displaceable between a first operating position held in the receiver and a second operating position remote from the armrest and the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel C. Huang, Kevin Michael Swenskowski, John Craig Elson, Clay Wesley Maranville, Lawrence C. Karas
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Publication number: 20220097475Abstract: This disclosure details integrated thermal management systems for thermally managing electrified vehicle components. Exemplary integrated thermal management systems may include a thermal module assembly that may be integrated into a front end structure of a flexible modular platform of the electrified vehicle. The integrated thermal management systems may be controlled in a plurality of distinct thermal control modes for thermal managing various subcomponents and for addressing various vehicle auxiliary loads (e.g., passenger cabin heating loads, passenger cabin cooling loads, etc.).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Daniel C. HUANG, Sunil KATRAGADDA, Ravi GOPAL, Clay Wesley MARANVILLE, Christopher Mark GREINER
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Patent number: 11043834Abstract: A method and system for an electric vehicle include a controller and a battery cooling system. The controller automatically detects when the vehicle is being driven to a charging station. The controller controls the battery cooling system to pre-cool a traction battery of the vehicle as the vehicle is being driven to the charging station so that the traction battery is cooled to a target temperature upon the vehicle reaching the charging station. The battery cooling system includes a phase change material (PCM) surrounding at least a portion of the traction battery. The traction battery is pre-cooled by circulating refrigerant coolant to the PCM to cool the PCM and thereby pre-cool the traction battery.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Waqas Ahmed Manzoor, Daniel C. Huang, Yinhua Zheng, Brian Joseph Robert
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Publication number: 20200412160Abstract: A method and system for an electric vehicle include a controller and a battery cooling system. The controller automatically detects when the vehicle is being driven to a charging station. The controller controls the battery cooling system to pre-cool a traction battery of the vehicle as the vehicle is being driven to the charging station so that the traction battery is cooled to a target temperature upon the vehicle reaching the charging station. The battery cooling system includes a phase change material (PCM) surrounding at least a portion of the traction battery. The traction battery is pre-cooled by circulating refrigerant coolant to the PCM to cool the PCM and thereby pre-cool the traction battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Waqas Ahmed Manzoor, Daniel C. Huang, Yinhua Zheng, Brian Joseph Robert
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Publication number: 20200307359Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for purifying air for breathing. The apparatus includes an armrest having a receiver and an air purification module releasably received in the receiver. The air purification module is portable and displaceable between a first operating position held in the receiver and a second operating position remote from the armrest and the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Daniel C. Huang, Kevin Michael Swenskowski, John Craig Elson, Clay Wesley Maranville, Lawrence C. Karas
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Patent number: 10486494Abstract: A vehicle having a heating and cooling system includes a refrigerant loop having first and second heat exchangers, and a coolant loop. The coolant loop is connected to allow a first flow of coolant to be directed through at least one of a plurality of air-to-coolant heat exchangers and at least one component for regulating a temperature of the at least component, and to allow a second flow of coolant to be directed through at least one other of the plurality of air-to-coolant heat exchangers and the at least one component for regulating the temperature of the at least one component dependent upon a mode of operation. A control module, control unit, controller, or the like commonly used in vehicles controls the first and second flows of coolant dependent upon the mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Manfred Koberstein, Angelo Patti, Loren John Lohmeyer, III, Jing He, Kenneth J. Jackson, Daniel C. Huang
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Publication number: 20190061470Abstract: A vehicle having a heating and cooling system includes a refrigerant loop having first and second heat exchangers, and a coolant loop. The coolant loop is connected to allow a first flow of coolant to be directed through at least one of a plurality of air-to-coolant heat exchangers and at least one component for regulating a temperature of the at least component, and to allow a second flow of coolant to be directed through at least one other of the plurality of air-to-coolant heat exchangers and the at least one component for regulating the temperature of the at least one component dependent upon a mode of operation. A control module, control unit, controller, or the like commonly used in vehicles controls the first and second flows of coolant dependent upon the mode of operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Manfred Koberstein, Angelo Patti, Loren John Lohmeyer, III, Jing He, Kenneth J. Jackson, Daniel C. Huang
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Patent number: 6446810Abstract: A pack of self-opening bags with a front, rear, and co-joined side walls, with front and rear tabs extending from top edges of the front and rear walls. The tabs have a curved aperture slits therein, and the tabs are frangibly adhered together with contact adhesive. The slit has a main cut section, a first curved end section at one end, and a second curved end section at the opposite end. The first curved section has a curve that extends upwardly and inwardly from the main cut section. The second curved section has a substantially semi-circular curve that extends from the main cut section in a direction towards the bottom edge of the tab and has an end that is substantially perpendicular to and adjacent the main cut section. In one embodiment, the first curved section is dashed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Durabag Co., Inc.Inventors: Daniel C. Huang, Frank F. J. Huang
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Patent number: 6438928Abstract: A device for use in boxing pliable objects having a footprint into boxes. The boxing device includes a trapdoor unit, a box conveying unit, a tamping unit, and a control unit. The trapdoor unit has coplanar sliding trays that are adapted to be rapidly and simultaneously moved apart from a horizontal closed position, wherein the trays are close together with each, to a horizontal opened position, wherein the trays are slid apart by a distance sufficiently large to pass the footprint of the plurality of objects and permit the objects to fall therethrough in a flat manner into open boxes below. The box conveying unit moves empty open boxes to a position underneath the trapdoor unit. The tamping unit has tamping plates which tamps the objects into the box, and the control unit which controls the operation of the trapdoor unit, the box conveying unit, and the tamping unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: Supertonics, LLCInventors: Daniel C. Huang, Frank F. J. Huang, Frank Pannier
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Publication number: 20020074260Abstract: A pack of self-opening bags with a front, rear, and co-joined side walls, with front and rear tabs extending from top edges of the front and rear walls. The tabs have a curved aperture slits therein, and the tabs are frangibly adhered together with contact adhesive. The slit has a main cut section, a first curved end section at one end, and a second curved end section at the opposite end. The first curved section has a curve that extends upwardly and inwardly from the main cut section. The second curved section has a substantially semicircular curve that extends from the main cut section in a direction towards the bottom edge of the tab and has an end that is substantially perpendicular to and adjacent the main cut section. In one embodiment, the first curved section is dashed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2000Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Daniel C. Huang, Frank F.J. Huang
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Publication number: 20020073658Abstract: A device for use in boxing pliable objects having a footprint into boxes. The boxing device includes a trapdoor unit, a box conveying unit, a tamping unit, and a control unit. The trapdoor unit has coplanar sliding trays that are adapted to be rapidly and simultaneously moved apart from a horizontal closed position, wherein the trays are close together with each, to a horizontal opened position, wherein the trays are slid apart by a distance sufficiently large to pass the footprint of the plurality of objects and permit the objects to fall therethrough in a flat manner into open boxes below. The box conveying unit moves empty open boxes to a position underneath the trapdoor unit. The tamping unit has tamping plates which tamps the objects into the box, and the control unit which controls the operation of the trapdoor unit, the box conveying unit, and the tamping unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2000Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Daniel C. Huang, Frank F.J. Huang, Frank Pannier
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Patent number: 6089514Abstract: A swing-arm bagging rack for use in simultaneously carrying multiple styles of packs of plastic bags. Swing arm bagging rack has a back portion with left and right sides. A first arm portion is attached with first hinges to right side of the back portion and a second and third arm portions are attached via a second hinge to the left side of the back portion. The first and second arm portions are for carrying a first pack of bags and the third arm portion has uprights positioned thereon to carry a second pack of bags. A fourth arm portion is hingedly attached to the front of third arm portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1998Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Durabag Co., Inc.Inventors: Frank Feng Jung Huang, Daniel C. Huang
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Patent number: 5967962Abstract: An apparatus, method, and pack of tabless, self-opening bags with flapless aperture cutouts pack. In the apparatus and method, cylindrical dies connected to a vacuum source are used to cut out plugs of holes, and the plugs are evacuated to a receptacle. Compression bars, or a relatively shallow bevel cut on the cylindrical die, are used to form area of frangible bonding in the central tab portion of the bag pack. The pack of tabless, self-opening bags with flapless aperture cutouts has no flap portions which might inadvertently detach from bag pack.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Inventors: Frank F. J. Huang, Daniel C. Huang
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Patent number: 5938033Abstract: A pack of self-opening plastic T-shirt bags for use with a bagging rack. Each plastic bag in the pack of bags has a mouth tab portion between its two upwardly extending handles, which are at the sides of the mouth of the T-shirt bags. The mouth tab portion is located on the front and rear walls in the mouth region of the plastic bags. The mouth tab portion has an aperture for receiving a retaining projection of a bagging rack. Frangible pressure bonding is formed along the perimeter of said mouth aperture. Flapless handle apertures are also formed in the handles, with frangible pressure bonds formed along their perimeter edges. Due to the frangible bonding formed between adjacent bags, as a frontmost bag is removed from the pack of bags on the bagging rack, the next bag in the pack of bags will automatically self-open into a open position for loading with merchandise.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1996Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Durabag Co., Inc.Inventors: Frank Feng Jung Huang, Daniel C. Huang