Patents by Inventor Feng Zhou

Feng Zhou 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: 10771131
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU 106 may determine a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix for a precoding of one or more data streams for transmission on a plurality of antennas coupled to the gNB-DU. The precoding may be in accordance with a split functionality between the gNB-CU and the gNB-DU that includes: precoding by the gNB-CU with the first precoding matrix, and precoding by the gNB-DU with the second precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yushu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Wenting Chang, Qian Li
  • Publication number: 20200277262
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, X1 and X2 are defined in the specification. This disclosure also relates to materials and methods for preparing compounds of Formula 1, to pharmaceutical compositions which contain them, and to their use for treating diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with PHD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Jones, Andre Kiryanov, Jon Kuehler, Marion Lanier, Sean Murphy, Feng Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200280239
    Abstract: A cooling system simultaneously cools both a power module and a vehicle motor. A vehicle motor housing is provided in thermal communication with a plurality of manifolds. Each manifold defines a cooling fluid inlet, a cooling fluid outlet, and a distribution recess providing fluid communication. The distribution recess may be defined by a wall having an exterior major surface in thermal communication with the vehicle motor. A manifold fluid insert may be disposed within the distribution recess, defining a plurality of inlet branch channels and outlet branch channels. A power module may be coupled to the manifold and a heat sink feature. A flow of coolant fluid is provided from each cooling fluid inlet, through the inlet branch channels of the manifold fluid insert for impingement with the heat sink feature, returning through the outlet branch channels and to the cooling fluid outlet of the respective manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ercan Mehmet Dede
  • Patent number: 10755779
    Abstract: Various architectures and layouts for an array of resistive random access memory (RRAM) cells are disclosed. The RRAM cells are organized into rows and columns, with each cell comprising a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a switching layer. Circuitry is included for improving the reading and writing of the array, including the addition of a plurality of columns of dummy RRAM cells in the array used as a ground source, connecting source lines to multiple pairs of rows of RRAM cells, and the addition of rows of isolation transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SILICON STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hieu Van Tran, Anh Ly, Thuan Vu, Stanley Hong, Feng Zhou, Xian Liu, Nhan Do
  • Publication number: 20200264811
    Abstract: It discloses a technical solution of the present disclosure partitions a high-speed data code stream into a plurality of sequentially arranged data blocks so as to write the data blocks sequentially to a circular cache. The circular cache is comprised of N cache segments that share a write pointer, each cache segment owning an independent read pointer. The data blocks are sequentially written into the N cache segments; data will be continuously written to the 1st cache segment; data will be read from the cache segment at a relatively low rate and written to a corresponding SD card, thereby implementing data speed reduction; a controller will integrate the disordered data into a same SD card following the original arrangement order, thereby completing all data storage work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yong WANG, Zhe WANG, Hongyu LI, Feng ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200266127
    Abstract: A multi-layer cooling structure comprising a first substrate layer comprising an array of cooling channels, a second substrate layer comprising a nozzle structure that includes one or more nozzles, an outlet, and an outlet manifold, a third substrate layer comprising an inlet manifold and an inlet, and one or more TSVs disposed through the first substrate layer, second substrate layer, and third substrate layer. At least one of the one or more TSVs is metallized. The first substrate layer and the second substrate layer are directly bonded, and the second substrate layer and the third substrate layer are directly bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ki Wook Jung, Ercan M. Dede
  • Patent number: 10746477
    Abstract: Systems and methods for degassing and charging phase-change thermal devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a flask, a first shut-off valve fluidly coupled to an outlet of the flask, and a first valve fluidly coupled to the first shut-off valve by a fluid line. The system further includes a second valve fluidly coupled to the first valve, wherein the second valve is operable to be fluidly coupled to the phase-change thermal device, a second shut-off valve fluidly coupled to the second valve, a third valve fluidly coupled to the first valve, a vacuum pump fluidly coupled to the third valve, and a fluid injection device fluidly coupled to the fluid line between the first valve and the first shut-off valve. The fluid injection device draws the working fluid from the flask and injects a desired amount into the phase-change thermal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yanghe Liu, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Shailesh N. Joshi
  • Publication number: 20200248969
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein disclose a vapor chamber including a thermally-conductive evaporator wall, a thermally-conductive condenser wall and a volume therebetween defining a vapor core for transporting a vapor of a working fluid from the evaporator wall to the condenser wall. The outer surfaces of the evaporator wall and the condenser wall are configured to be in thermal contact with a plurality of heat sources and a heat sink respectively. The vapor chamber further includes a porous wick structure for holding and pumping the working fluid towards the plurality of heat sources. The wick structure comprises an evaporator-feeding wick having an inner surface in thermal contact with an inner surface of the evaporator wall. The evaporator-feeding wick comprises a first region having a higher permeability than at least a second region to form a permeability gradient, such that the working fluid has a uniform flow to the plurality of heat sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Srivathsan Sudhakar, Feng Zhou, Ercan M. Dede, Paul T. Fanson
  • Patent number: 10727240
    Abstract: A memory device including a plurality of upwardly extending fins in a semiconductor substrate upper surface. A memory cell is formed on a first of the fins, and includes spaced apart source and drain regions in the first fin, with a channel region extending along top and opposing side surfaces of the first fin between the source and drain regions. A floating gate extends along a first portion of the channel region. A select gate extends along a second portion of the channel region. A control gate extends along the floating gate. An erase gate extends along the source region. A second of the fins has a length that extends in a first direction which is perpendicular to a second direction in which a length of the first fin extends. The source region is formed in the first fin at an intersection of the first and second fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Store Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Serguei Jourba, Catherine Decobert, Feng Zhou, Jinho Kim, Xian Liu, Nhan Do
  • Patent number: 10707929
    Abstract: A method of processing signals in a radio processing apparatus of a base station may include obtaining a plurality of aggregated data symbols, wherein each of the plurality of aggregated data symbols corresponds to a receive terminal of a plurality of receive terminals of the base station and is composed of transmitted data symbols from a plurality of transmit terminals; applying a compression filter to the plurality of aggregated data symbols to reduce the plurality of aggregated data symbols into a plurality of isolated data symbols, the compression filter being based on channel estimates between the plurality of receive terminals and the plurality of transmit terminals; and transmitting the plurality of isolated data symbols to a baseband processing apparatus of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenting Chang, Xu Zhang, Yujun Chen, Jiansong Tian, Guangjie Li, Ye Wu, Feng Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200212719
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein a method for controlling operating frequency for a wireless power charging system. Specifically, a transmitter coil at a wireless power transmitter is driven under an operating frequency and an input voltage. deadtime information at the wireless power receiver is received, from a wireless power receiver having a receiver coil that receives wireless power from the transmitter coil. A microcontroller then determines, based on the received deadtime information or the operating frequency, whether the operating frequency deviates from a target operating frequency range. Based on the determination, one or both of the operating frequency or the input voltage are adjusted thereby causing the operating frequency to fall within the target operating frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jiangjian HUANG, Feng ZHOU, Zhitong GUO, Rui LIU
  • Publication number: 20200208264
    Abstract: This invention relates to a semiconductor processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The semiconductor processing apparatus includes a processing chamber including two or more reaction regions. Each of the reaction regions includes an independent gas path module. The control method includes: cycle periods of introducing gas into the reaction regions are synchronized during the semiconductor processing. The semiconductor processing apparatus and the control method thereof of this invention can control the cycle periods of the reaction gas introduced into the reaction regions to be in consistent, so that the gas introduced into different reaction regions is the same at the same time, and the interference of the gas between the reaction regions is avoided, thereby improving the product yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hao PENG, Zhao LI, Hongbin ZHU, Xianjin WAN, Yuan LI, Feng ZHOU, Kai HU, Jun WEI, Xiangying CAI, Yao HU
  • Patent number: 10700571
    Abstract: A cooling system is provided with a plurality of layered assemblies for simultaneously cooling both a power module and a vehicle motor. A first layer, a second layer, and a third layer each define upper and lower opposing major surfaces, and are positioned in a stacked arrangement and configured to provide a flow of coolant fluid from a fluid inlet, defined in the third layer, through an inner region of the second layer, and to a heat sink feature disposed in the first layer. The coolant fluid is then directed back through an outer region of the second layer and to a fluid outlet defined in the third layer. The first layer is in thermal communication with one of the power module and the vehicle motor; the third layer is in thermal communication with the other of the power module and the vehicle motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ercan Mehmet Dede
  • Publication number: 20200189086
    Abstract: A power tool including a housing, a motor accommodated in the housing; and an output member connected to the motor via a transmission module. The transmission module is received in a substantially vacuum chamber in the housing. The vacuum chamber effectively reduces the propagation of noises generated by the transmission module to the outside of the power tool, thus improving the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Rui LIANG, Li Guo MA, Jing Feng ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10685905
    Abstract: A multi-layer cooling structure comprising a first substrate layer comprising an array of cooling channels, a second substrate layer comprising a nozzle structure that includes one or more nozzles, an outlet, and an outlet manifold, a third substrate layer comprising an inlet manifold and an inlet, and one or more TSVs disposed through the first substrate layer, second substrate layer, and third substrate layer. At least one of the one or more TSVs is metallized. The first substrate layer and the second substrate layer are directly bonded, and the second substrate layer and the third substrate layer are directly bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ki Wook Jung, Ercan M. Dede
  • Publication number: 20200176459
    Abstract: A memory device having plurality of upwardly extending semiconductor substrate fins, a memory cell formed on a first fin and a logic device formed on a second fin. The memory cell includes source and drain regions in the first fin with a channel region therebetween, a polysilicon floating gate extending along a first portion of the channel region including the side and top surfaces of the first fin, a metal select gate extending along a second portion of the channel region including the side and top surfaces of the first fin, a polysilicon control gate extending along the floating gate, and a polysilicon erase gate extending along the source region. The logic device includes source and drain regions in the second fin with a second channel region therebetween, and a metal logic gate extending along the second channel region including the side and top surfaces of the second fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, JINHO KIM, XIAN LIU, SERGUEI JOURBA, CATHERINE DECOBERT, NHAN DO
  • Publication number: 20200176578
    Abstract: A memory cell is formed on a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface with a plurality of upwardly extending fins. First and second fins extend in one direction, and a third fin extends in an orthogonal direction. Spaced apart source and drain regions are formed in each of the first and second fins, defining a channel region extending there between in each of the first and second fins. The source regions are disposed at intersections between the third fin and the first and second fins. A floating gate is disposed laterally between the first and second fins, and laterally adjacent to the third fin, and extends along first portions of the channel regions. A word line gate extends along second portions of the channel regions. A control gate is disposed over the floating gate. An erase gate is disposed over the source regions and the floating gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Serguei Jourba, Catherine Decobert, Feng Zhou, Jinho Kim, Xian Liu, Nhan Do
  • Publication number: 20200169215
    Abstract: Provided are a positioning device for a solar panel cleaning robot (100) and a positioning method thereof. The positioning device is used to obtain a real-time position of a vehicle body (10) on a solar panel (200). The positioning device comprises an image acquisition unit (11), a border recognition unit (12), a latitude and longitude recognition unit (13), a vehicle body position calculation unit (14), an image acquisition unit position calculation unit (15), a vehicle body center point position calculation unit (16), a GPS unit (17), a panel determination unit (18), a wireless communication unit (19) and a memory (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Fang PENG, Jianrong XU, Feng ZHOU, Jiaqing WANG
  • Patent number: 10660527
    Abstract: A blood vessel imaging temperature measurement method is provided. The method comprises the steps of finding blood vessels, displaying a measurement position, and aligning for temperature measurement to achieve visual and precision temperature measurement. The temperature measurement is quite visual, instead of the traditional technology that uses a blind measurement method corresponding to a position to be measured, thereby solving the problem that the temperature measurement is not accurate enough in the traditional technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: HETAIDA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yaonan Tong, Zhenguang Chen, Song Chen, Zhaoming Luo, Feng Zhou, Xuanbing Yang
  • Patent number: D896856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Feng Zhou