Patents by Inventor Fang Zeng

Fang Zeng 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).

  • Patent number: 11965734
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for quantitatively evaluating surface roughness of an organic pore of kerogen in shale. The method includes: making a shale sample; applying a circle of silver-painted conductive tape on the edge of the shale sample to obtain a processed sample; conducting image scanning on the processed sample to obtain a scanned image; determining a kerogen area according to the scanned image; determining an organic pore area according to the kerogen area; carrying out gridding treatment on the organic pore area to obtain multiple grid cells; adopting double integral calculation on each of the grid cells to obtain the areas of the multiple grid cells; summing each of the areas to obtain the surface area of the organic pore; and evaluating surface roughness of the organic pore according to the surface area of the pore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Northeast Petroleum University
    Inventors: Shansi Tian, Bo Liu, Xiaofei Fu, Fang Zeng, Xu Dong, Yifei Gao, Zhenjie Luo
  • Publication number: 20240128987
    Abstract: A decoding method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: activating a decoding circuit which supports a plurality of decoding modes each corresponding to a threshold value, wherein a distribution of the threshold value corresponds to error correction abilities of the decoding modes; reading first data from a rewritable non-volatile memory module; performing, by the decoding circuit, a first decoding operation on the first data; obtaining a decoding parameter according to an execution result of the first decoding operation; and performing, by the decoding circuit, a second decoding operation on the first data based on a first decoding mode among the decoding modes according to a relative numerical relationship between the decoding parameter and the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Jia Zeng, Yi-Fang Chang, Chun-Wei Tsao, Chen-An Hsu, Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11962328
    Abstract: A decoding method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: activating a decoding circuit which supports a plurality of decoding modes each corresponding to a threshold value, wherein a distribution of the threshold value corresponds to error correction abilities of the decoding modes; reading first data from a rewritable non-volatile memory module; performing, by the decoding circuit, a first decoding operation on the first data; obtaining a decoding parameter according to an execution result of the first decoding operation; and performing, by the decoding circuit, a second decoding operation on the first data based on a first decoding mode among the decoding modes according to a relative numerical relationship between the decoding parameter and the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Jia Zeng, Yi-Fang Chang, Chun-Wei Tsao, Chen-An Hsu, Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20240109803
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible glass and manufacturing method thereof. The flexible glass includes a first straight part and a second straight part on two opposite ends thereof, a recess formed between the first straight part and the second straight part, and a pre-bent curve connection part disposed corresponding to the recess. The first straight part and the second straight part are not arranged on the same plane. The flexible glass has a first lateral side and a second lateral side, and the recess sinks from the first lateral side toward the second lateral side. Therefore, the flexible glass is provided with a greater bendability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: CHENFENG OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHING-FANG WONG, YU-WEI LIU, WEI-LUN ZENG, KUAN-HUA LIAO
  • Patent number: 11929090
    Abstract: A method for matching audio clips includes: obtaining a first feature sequence corresponding to a first audio clip and a second feature sequence corresponding to a second audio clip; constructing a distance matrix, elements in the distance matrix representing respective distances between first positions in the first feature sequence and second positions in the second feature sequence; calculating a first accumulation distance between a start position and a target position in the distance matrix, and calculating a second accumulation distance between an end position and the target position in the distance matrix; and calculating a minimum distance between the first feature sequence and the second feature sequence based on the first accumulation distance and the second accumulation distance, and determining a degree of matching between the first audio clip and the second audio clip according to the minimum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Fang Chao Lin, Wei Biao Yun, Peng Zeng
  • Patent number: 11851691
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fusion protein comprising a fucosidase or a truncated fragment or a mutant thereof fuses with either N-terminal end or C-terminal end of the endoglycosidase or a truncated fragment of mutant thereof. The present disclosure also provides a nucleic acid molecule expressing the fusion protein and a method for remodeling a glycan of an antibody Fc region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CHO PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Kuo-Ching Chu, Lin-Ya Huang, Yi-Fang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11808751
    Abstract: A system is provided for detecting the mass of oil in an inorganic mineral of shale. The system operates by performing an extraction test on a first shale sample by using chloroform to obtain a total content of shale oil in the shale; enriching kerogen from the second shale sample to obtain dry kerogen; and performing an extraction test on oven-dried kerogen by using chloroform to determine the mass of extracted kerogen. The system also operates by determining the mass of the oil in the organic matter of the shale sample and the mass of the oil in an inorganic mineral of the shale; establishing a model for predicting a ratio of the mass of the oil in the inorganic mineral of the shale to the mass of the oil in the organic matter; and using the prediction model to determine the mass of oil in an inorganic mineral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Northeast Petroleum University
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Shansi Tian, Xiaofei Fu, Fang Zeng, Zhiwei Hu, Liu Wang, Ning Hou
  • Patent number: 11427532
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescent compound for the detection of isocyanate substances, a preparation method therefor and use thereof as a test-paper-type detection probe. The fluorescent compound is 2,4-di(((4?-(diphenylamino)-[1,1?-biphenyl]-4-yl)imino)methyl)phenol. The fluorescent compound is prepared by means of a one-step method. The fluorescent compound has simple and convenient preparation with high yield, and is capable of making a rapid and specific response to isocyanate substances. Moreover, the fluorescence intensity of the fluorescent compound will enhance with the increase of the isocyanate concentration. The fluorescent compound can be made into a portable test-paper-type probe for the detection of isocyanate substances in air, and can achieve the visual detection of volatile isocyanate gases. The probe has an aggregation-induced emission effect, and thus it has higher fluorescence quantum yield when using a test-paper-type probe for detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shuizhu Wu, Lingfeng Xu, Fang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11361193
    Abstract: A method for identifying mineral pore types in mud shale includes: determining an inorganic mineral pore image and a kerogen region image of a mud shale Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) gray-scale image; performing an expansion operation on the inorganic mineral pore image to obtain an expanded inorganic mineral pore image; comparing the inorganic mineral pore image with the expanded inorganic mineral pore image, and determining an extra region in the expanded inorganic mineral pore image as an expansion region; collecting statistics about the number of pixel points of a siliceous mineral, a calcareous mineral, and a clay mineral; calculating the proportion of each mineral according to the number of pixel points of the minerals; drawing a mineral pore triangular image chart according to the proportions of minerals; and determining the mineral type corresponding to the pores in the inorganic mineral pore image according to the mineral pore triangular image chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Northeast Petroleum University
    Inventors: Shansi Tian, Bo Liu, Fang Zeng, Xiaofei Fu, Zhiwei Hu, Ya'ao Chi, Haiyang Yan
  • Publication number: 20220058303
    Abstract: A method and system for quantitatively evaluating kerogen swelling oil in shale is provided. The method includes: establishing different types of kerogen molecular models, and loading each of the kerogen molecular models into a graphene slit-type pore composed of a lamellar structure; performing energy minimization (EM), relaxation and annealing to obtain a kerogen slit-type pore; loading a shale oil molecule into the kerogen slit-type pore to obtain an initial model of swelling and adsorption of shale oil in kerogen; assigning a value to a force field of the shale oil molecule and the kerogen molecule in the swelling and adsorption model to obtain a density of the kerogen and the shale oil; plotting a density curve of the kerogen and the shale oil; calculating kerogen swelling oil mass; determining per-unit kerogen swelling oil mass; and determining the kerogen swelling oil mass in different evolution stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Shansi Tian, Fang Zeng, Xiaofei Fu, Boyang Wang, Longhui Bai, Haiyang Yan
  • Publication number: 20220057199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for quantitatively evaluating surface roughness of an organic pore of kerogen in shale. The method includes: making a shale sample; applying a circle of silver-painted conductive tape on the edge of the shale sample to obtain a processed sample; conducting image scanning on the processed sample to obtain a scanned image; determining a kerogen area according to the scanned image; determining an organic pore area according to the kerogen area; carrying out gridding treatment on the organic pore area to obtain multiple grid cells; adopting double integral calculation on each of the grid cells to obtain the areas of the multiple grid cells; summing each of the areas to obtain the surface area of the organic pore; and evaluating surface roughness of the organic pore according to the surface area of the pore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Northeast Petroleum University
    Inventors: Shansi Tian, Bo Liu, Xiaofei Fu, Fang Zeng, Xu Dong, Yifei Gao, Zhenjie Luo
  • Publication number: 20220059191
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting an amount of shale oil based on an occurrence state, wherein an occurrence-state-based shale oil quantification model is established in accordance with a kerogen swelled amount, an amount of kerogen absorbed oil, an amount of free oil in an organic pore, an amount of adsorbed oil by an inorganic mineral and an amount of free oil in an inorganic pore, and detects an amount of shale oil is detected in accordance with the occurrence-state-based shale oil quantification model, such that the accuracy of the evaluation of shale oil mobility is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Shansi TIAN, Bo LIU, Fang ZENG, Xiaofei FU, Ya'ao CHI, Tong WU, Haiyang YAN
  • Publication number: 20220057379
    Abstract: A system is provided for detecting the mass of oil in an inorganic mineral of shale. The system operates by performing an extraction test on a first shale sample by using chloroform to obtain a total content of shale oil in the shale; enriching kerogen from the second shale sample to obtain dry kerogen; and performing an extraction test on oven-dried kerogen by using chloroform to determine the mass of extracted kerogen. The system also operates by determining the mass of the oil in the organic matter of the shale sample and the mass of the oil in an inorganic mineral of the shale; establishing a model for predicting a ratio of the mass of the oil in the inorganic mineral of the shale to the mass of the oil in the organic matter; and using the prediction model to determine the mass of oil in an inorganic mineral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Shansi Tian, Xiaofei Fu, Fang Zeng, Zhiwei Hu, Liu Wang, Ning Hou
  • Publication number: 20220041545
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescent compound for the detection of isocyanate substances, a preparation method therefor and use thereof as a test-paper-type detection probe. The fluorescent compound is 2,4-di(((4?-(diphenylamino)-[1,1?-biphenyl]-4-yl)imino)methyl)phenol. The fluorescent compound is prepared by means of a one-step method. The fluorescent compound has simple and convenient preparation with high yield, and is capable of making a rapid and specific response to isocyanate substances. Moreover, the fluorescence intensity of the fluorescent compound will enhance with the increase of the isocyanate concentration. The fluorescent compound can be made into a portable test-paper-type probe for the detection of isocyanate substances in air, and can achieve the visual detection of volatile isocyanate gases. The probe has an aggregation-induced emission effect, and thus it has higher fluorescence quantum yield when using a test-paper-type probe for detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shuizhu WU, Lingfeng XU, Fang ZENG
  • Patent number: 11075490
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. Two metal sheets are arranged at two sides of the tongue portion. Each of the metal sheets includes a hook structure protruding from a side portion of the tongue portion and a through hole adjacent to the hook structure. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity. The insulated housing is held in the receiving cavity. The contact arms are formed by the through holes of the metal sheets in an elastic manner, to avoid the hooks on both sides of the electrical plug connector in contact with the metal sheets in a poor interference manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11031725
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. A coverage region adjacent to the base portion is held on a surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals include a body portion and a contact portion, the body portion is held in the base portion and the tongue portion, and the contact portion is outwardly extending from one end of the body portion. Each of the receptacle terminals includes an avoidance portion between the contact portion and the body portion. The avoidance portion of each of the receptacle terminals is covered by the coverage region of the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11011864
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity, the insulated housing is held in the receptacle cavity. An insertion opening is on a first end of the metallic shell, a stopping portion is inwardly bending on a second end of the metallic shell, and the stopping portion is extending to a surface of the base portion. When an electrical plug connector is inserted into the receptacle cavity, an end portion of the electrical plug connector is in contact with the stopping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 10935498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescent probe for detecting nitroreductase and a preparation method and use thereof in enzymatic reactions, belonging to the field of industrial analysis and detection. The fluorescent probe is 3-(4-(2-(4?-(diphenylamino)-3-((4-nitrobenzyl)oxy)-[1, 1?-biphenyl]-4-yl)vinyl)quinolin-1-ium-1-yl)propane-1-sulfonate. The fluorescent probe of the present invention, with the introduction of hydrophilic groups, sulfonate and quinolinium, the probe's hydrophilicity is enhanced, under the enzymatic catalysis of nitroreductase (NTR), 1,6-rearrangement and elimination reaction occurs, and hydroxyl group is generated. Detection and analysis of the NTR in the industrial enzymatic reactions can be realized due to the change of fluorescence which is induced by the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shuizhu Wu, Lingfeng Xu, Ling Ni, Fang Zeng
  • Publication number: 20210048393
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescent probe for detecting nitroreductase and a preparation method and use thereof in enzymatic reactions, belonging to the field of industrial analysis and detection. The fluorescent probe is 3-(4-(2-(4?-(diphenylamino)-3-((4-nitrobenzyl)oxy)-[1,1?-biphenyl]-4-yl)vinyl)quinolin-1-ium-1-yl)propane-1-sulfonate. The fluorescent probe of the present invention, with the introduction of hydrophilic groups, sulfonate and quinolinium, the probe's hydrophilicity is enhanced, under the enzymatic catalysis of nitroreductase (NTR), 1,6-rearrangement and elimination reaction occurs, and hydroxyl group is generated. Detection and analysis of the NTR in the industrial enzymatic reactions can be realized due to the change of fluorescence which is induced by the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shuizhu WU, Lingfeng XU, Ling NI, Fang ZENG
  • Publication number: 20210040463
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fusion protein comprising a fucosidase or a truncated fragment or a mutant thereof fuses with either N-terminal end or C-terminal end of the endoglycosidase or a truncated fragment of mutant thereof. The present disclosure also provides a nucleic acid molecule expressing the fusion protein and a method for remodeling a glycan of an antibody Fc region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kuo-Ching CHU, Lin-Ya HUANG, Yi-Fang ZENG