Patents by Inventor Feng Liu

Feng Liu 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: 11898245
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a baking chamber for processing a chamber component are provided herein. In some embodiments, a baking chamber includes: an enclosure defining a first chamber, wherein the first chamber comprises: a first chamber body having a first floor and first sidewalls that couple the first floor to a first lid of the first chamber body to define a first interior volume; a first support disposed in the first interior volume; a first gas line disposed in the first interior volume proximate the first lid; a first showerhead disposed between the first gas line and the first support; a first exhaust coupled to the first floor; and a first heater disposed in the first interior volume between the first support and the first floor; and wherein the enclosure includes a door configured to facilitate transferring the chamber component into and out of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Min Liao, Chi-Feng Liu, Yi Nung Wu, Hsiu Yang, Yixing Lin, Boon Sen Chan, Siamak Salimian
  • Publication number: 20240047974
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of frequency regulation of a power system involving renewable energy power generation, a computer device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: constructing a system frequency dynamic model according to parameters associated with power generator sets in the power system, where the power generator sets comprise a renewable energy power generator set and a conventional energy power generator set; calculating secure operation indexes of the power system according to the system frequency dynamic model of the power system; and obtaining system comprehensive cost indexes of the power system, constructing a reserve allocation model of the power generator sets according to the system comprehensive cost indexes and the secure operation indexes of the power system, and regulating a system frequency of the power system according to the reserve allocation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: FENG LIU, YUN-FAN ZHANG, SHI-YONG WU
  • Publication number: 20240044714
    Abstract: A flat panel detector is provided, which includes a base substrate and a plurality of detection regions arranged in an array on the base substrate, where each detection region is successively provided with a photosensitive sensor and an optical structure along a direction away from the base substrate; the optical structure includes a condensing unit and a light filtering unit, where the condensing unit is used for receiving the near-infrared light and ambient light emitted by the laser light source and performing condensing, and the light filtering unit is configured to shield the ambient light and transmitting the near-infrared light; a photosensitive sensor which includes an amorphous silicon photodiode and a thin film transistor, where the amorphous silicon photodiode is configured to convert the near-infrared light transmitted by the light filtering unit into an electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Lin ZHOU, Cheng LI, Tiansheng LI, Shoujin CAI, Chuncheng CHE, Feng LIU, Yingzi WANG
  • Publication number: 20240045586
    Abstract: A method for enabling a function in an application includes receiving a first operation, where the first operation is that a user drags a first icon and/or a second icon in a first interface until a position relationship between the first icon and the second icon meets a preset condition; and displaying a second interface corresponding to a target function indicated by the second icon in response to the first operation, where a first contact corresponding to the first icon is an operation object of the target function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Meixing Chen, Feng Liu
  • Publication number: 20240040435
    Abstract: The present application provides a bandwidth adjustment method, a service transmission method, a network device and a readable storage medium. The bandwidth adjustment method includes: receiving a slot adjustment request sent from a predetermined device, and acquiring a slot adjustment scheme notified by the predetermined device; completing slot adjustment preparation on a current device according to the slot adjustment scheme, and sending a slot adjustment acknowledge signal to the predetermined device; and extracting and carrying, in response to detecting a slot adjustment indication signal sent from the predetermined device, a client service according to slots after the slot adjustment scheme is executed, starting from a corresponding receiving cell and a corresponding sending cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: Feng LIU
  • Patent number: 11889434
    Abstract: A wireless communication includes a control circuit and a receiver (RX) circuit. The control circuit obtains indicator information from another wireless communication system, identifies a transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) packet delivery scenario as one of a packet overlapping scenario and a packet non-overlapping scenario according to the indicator information, and generates RX gain control information in response to the TX and RX packet delivery scenario. The RX circuit refers to the RX gain control information to set an RX gain used for receiving data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Wen Yang, Chen-Feng Liu, Ting-Che Tseng, Ying-Che Hung, Tsai-Yuan Hsu, You-Chin Chang, Kin-Man Sun, Chih-Hsiu Lin, Teng-Wei Huang, Hung-Chang Tsai
  • Publication number: 20240028756
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data access method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: when a first account logged in to a current device triggers a data access operation on user data, generating a first access request corresponding to the data access operation; sending the first access request to a storage device; receiving a permission verification request fed back by the storage device; generating an access authorization request based on the permission verification request; outputting the access authorization request to a first device; receiving authorization verification information from the first device; generating, based on the authorization verification information, a second access request corresponding to the data access operation; and sending the second access request to the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiachen Yang, Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 11882637
    Abstract: An operation method of a proximity sensor comprises: controlling a light-emitting element by a processing circuit. Such control includes a plurality of light source on and light source off operations. An optical sensor receives light and outputs a sensing signal corresponding to the intensity of the light. The processing circuit computes the sensing signal to produce a sensing result. The plurality of light source on and light source off operations includes a group having two light sources on operations and two light sources off operations. The two light sources on operations in the group or the two light sources off operations in the group are performed consecutively. In this way, the ambient light components of the light source on and off operations may cancel out each other to reduce the ambient light components contained in the sensing results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Meng-Yong Lin, Ming-Huang Liu, Jer-Hau Hsu, Cheng-Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 11872505
    Abstract: A separation device with two-stage gas-liquid mixture and conical spiral fields is provided. A first-stage uniform mixer performs first-stage gas-liquid crushing and uniform mixing process by an outer micropore ceramic pipe, a middle micropore ceramic pipe and an inner micropore ceramic pipe and crushes large bubbles in the gas-liquid two-phase flow into small bubbles. A second-stage uniform mixer performs second-stage gas-liquid crushing and uniform mixing process. A whirlpool-making gas collector adjusts the gas-liquid uniform mixing flow obtained after two-stage gas-liquid uniform mixing into hollow-core type high-speed two-phase spiral flow. A conical degasser performs gas-liquid efficient separation operation in a high-speed conical spiral field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)
    Inventors: Chunhua Liu, Ji Chen, Zhongxian Hao, Xinfu Liu, Feng Liu, Yongjun Shi, Wenhao Sha, Hui Cheng, Junling Tao
  • Publication number: 20240004775
    Abstract: A computer implemented anomaly detection method for detecting anomalies in a system, comprising: obtaining (301) a mean vector and a sketch matrix, wherein the mean vector is a mean of performance metric vectors indicating status of the system, and the sketch matrix is a sketch of an original matrix, the original matrix generated from subtracting the mean vector from each of the performance metric vectors, obtaining (302) a result of anomaly detection for at least one observational performance metric vector indicating status of the system, based on the mean vector and the sketch matrix. The corresponding apparatus, system, device, computer-readable storage and carrier, etc. thereof are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 11858883
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for recycling a taurine mother liquor, which includes: adding a base to the taurine mother liquor, heating to a first temperature, carrying out a hydrolysis reaction, removing ammonia produced, and evaporating and concentrating the ammonia-removed solution to obtain an alkali metal hydroxyethyl sulfonate solution. When applying the method provided by the present disclosure for the recycling of the taurine mother liquor, the taurine mother liquor can be further converted into the alkali metal hydroxyethyl sulfonate solution, impurities are removed from the obtained alkali metal hydroxyethyl sulfonate solution, the impurity-removed alkali metal hydroxyethyl sulfonate solution is concentrated and crystallized, and the alkali metal hydroxyethyl sulfonate is separated out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QIANJIANG YONGAN PHAMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Chen, Xiquan Fang, Shaobo Li, Feng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230417450
    Abstract: A heating apparatus is disclosed. The heating apparatus comprises a PTC heating element, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first protection layer, a second protection layer, a first interlayer, and a second interlayer. A hardness of the first protection layer is greater than that of the first interlayer. A hardness of the second protection layer is greater than that of the second interlayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Feng LIU
  • Publication number: 20230406388
    Abstract: Embodiments of an electric power-assisted wheeled child carrier are provided herein. The electric power-assisted wheeled child carrier, such as a stroller for example, includes an electric drive mechanism for electrically powering rotation of at least one wheel of the child carrier. The electric power mechanism includes a motor, an output shaft coupled to the motor that is configured to rotate the output shaft, a wheel shaft coupled to the wheel being powered; and a clutch positioned between the output shaft and the wheel shaft. The clutch is configured to move axially between an engaged state and a disengaged state. In the engaged state, the output shaft powered by the motor drives rotation of the wheel, and in the disengaged state, the wheel is configured to rotate without power from the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: FENG LIU, JIAFENG GUO, JINLONG LIAN
  • Publication number: 20230412796
    Abstract: Systems and methods for hybrid video compression. A method includes receiving an encoded video including at least two compressed frames corresponding to at least two anchor frames and a compressed subset of at least one intermediate frame between the at least two anchor frames, generating, by inputting the at least two anchor frames into a deep machine learning model, a synthesized image frame corresponding to the at least one intermediate frame between the at least two anchor frames, reconstructing at least one hybrid image frame by combining the compressed subset of the at least one intermediate frame with the synthesized image frame, and outputting a video including the at least two anchor frames and the at least one hybrid image frame. Thus, DCT-based video compression techniques can leverage machine learning-based video interpolation techniques to provide encoded video streams with a reduced bitrate and thus reduced bandwidth while maintaining image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Feng Liu, Wu-Chi Feng
  • Publication number: 20230399864
    Abstract: A frame pool having a plurality of vertical support tubes, a plurality of horizontal support tubes, a pool body comprising a pool bottom and a pool wall, and a reinforcing band having a continuous annular shape and provided between the inner side of the vertical support tubes and an outer surface of the pool wall. The reinforcing band entirely or partially covering the perimeter of the pool body and being fitted with the pool wall. A fixing band having a continuous annular shape is provided about an outer surface of the reinforcing band and of the vertical support tubes. At least one fixing device is fixedly coupled to the reinforcing band, wherein the fixing band passes through the fixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Feng LIU
  • Publication number: 20230403665
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a time calibration method, including: determining, in response to a first cell transmitted from a first device, a first reception time corresponding to the first cell, and transmitting a second cell to the first device; and receiving a third cell that is fed back by the first device and carries a second reception time corresponding to the second cell, determining a first time offset value according to a first transmission time, the first reception time, a second transmission time corresponding to the second cell and the second reception time, and performing a time calibration according to the first time offset value. The present disclosure further provides a communication device and a computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Feng LIU, Li HE
  • Publication number: 20230377277
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of video monitor information. Provided are a video patrol method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable medium. The video patrol method comprises: obtaining video patrol information, wherein the video patrol information is video information obtained from a real scene; matching and combining the video patrol information with a 3D roaming scenario to obtain a 3D patrol video, wherein the 3D roaming scenario is a virtual scenario obtained by simulating the real scene; and displaying the 3D patrol video. The present disclosure can reduce the labor intensity of operation and maintenance workers, and improve the patrol efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Zhenjiang YUAN, Haijun HU, Ping FENG, Feng LIU, Tianjiao YANG, Yanzhen BI
  • Patent number: 11821656
    Abstract: A heating apparatus is disclosed. The heating apparatus comprises a PTC heating element, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first protection layer, a second protection layer, a first interlayer, and a second interlayer. A hardness of the first protection layer is greater than that of the first interlayer. A hardness of the second protection layer is greater than that of the second interlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BESTWAY INFLATABLES & MATERIALS CORP.
    Inventor: Feng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230367729
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic configuration and enforcement of access lanes to I/O controllers. The System may include a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) controllers and a plurality of lanes. The system may also include a lane mapping module configured to multiplex at least one of the I/O controllers to at least one of the lanes based on a configuration. The system may further include a first processor configured to detect a change request, the change request to modify the configuration from an existing configuration to a new configuration; and a second processor configured to: verify that the new configuration is valid based on a stock keeping unit (SKU) associated with the system; and, if the verification is successful, store the new configuration in non-volatile memory and reset the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Balaji PARTHASARATHY, Ramamurthy KRITHIVAS, Bradley BURRES, Pawel SZYMANSKI, Yi-Feng LIU
  • Publication number: 20230356345
    Abstract: A multi-type industrial robot control system may include: an automation controller; and a programmable logic controller (PLC)-robot bridge. The controller stores a general-purpose robot control function block generated using a unified design standard, calls a corresponding robot control function block for a robot and using robot state data and puts out corresponding first command data to the PLC-robot bridge. The PLC-robot bridge virtualizes robot interfaces of corresponding offline programming functions of different types of robot as a unified virtual interface, calls a corresponding offline programming function via the unified virtual interface according to the first command data, and generates second command data for output to a corresponding robot controller. The corresponding robot controller controls a corresponding robot. At the same time, robot state data from a corresponding type of robot is received via the unified virtual interface and the robot state data is fed back to the automation controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Zhi Min Chen, Zi Jian Wang, Xu Zhao, Wen Feng Liu, Shun Jie Fan