Patents by Inventor Haiming Liu

Haiming 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: 12366313
    Abstract: A hose assembly for use with a tankless water heater. The hose assembly includes a flexible hose, a first connector assembly, and a second connector assembly. The first connector assembly is fluidly coupled with the flexible hose and includes a first fitting. The first fitting is rotatably coupled with the first connector assembly such that the first fitting is independently rotatable relative to the flexible hose. The second connector assembly is fluidly coupled with the flexible hose opposite to the first connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Reliance Worldwide Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Haiming Liu, Michael John Kornegay, Clayton Pierce Boardman, IV
  • Patent number: 12098234
    Abstract: A stable polyol pre-mix composition comprises a blowing agent, a polyol, a surfactant, and a catalyst composition comprising an oxygen-containing amine catalyst and a metallic salt. The oxygen-containing amine catalyst may be, for example, one or more of an alkanol amine, an ether amine, or a morpholine group-containing compound such as, for example, 2-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)ethanol or N,N,N?-trimethylaminoethyl-ethanolamine. The metallic salt may be, for example, alkali earth carboxylates, alkali carboxylates, and carboxylates of metals selected form the group consisting of zinc (Zn), cobalt (Co), tin (Sn), cerium (Ce), lanthanum (La), aluminum (Al), vanadium (V), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), chromium (Cr), scandium (Sc), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), strontium (Sr), and barium (Ba).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin Chen, Joseph S. Costa, Laurent T. Abbas, Haiming Liu, Sri R. Seshadri, William D. Honnick
  • Publication number: 20240167595
    Abstract: A hose assembly for use with a tankless water heater. The hose assembly includes a flexible hose, a first connector assembly, and a second connector assembly. The first connector assembly is fluidly coupled with the flexible hose and includes a first fitting. The first fitting is rotatably coupled with the first connector assembly such that the first fitting is independently rotatable relative to the flexible hose. The second connector assembly is fluidly coupled with the flexible hose opposite to the first connector assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jun WU, Haiming LIU, Michael John KORNEGAY, Clayton Pierce BOARDMAN, IV
  • Publication number: 20230150337
    Abstract: The present application discloses an air conditioning system for a vehicle and an operating method therefor, which relates to the technical field of vehicle air conditioners. The system includes a motor (5), an operating dial (3) and internal and external-circulation ventilation doors (1, 2), and the motor (5) drives the operating dial (3) to drive the internal and external-circulation ventilation doors (1, 2) to rotate to achieve the purpose of different internal and external air-intake ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Weili ZHANG, Haiming LIU, Fuhai DUAN, Shuyan WANG, Haiyang XING, Fang MENG, Jian XU, Xiaocui WU
  • Publication number: 20210261716
    Abstract: A stable polyol pre-mix composition comprises a blowing agent, a polyol, a surfactant, and a catalyst composition comprising an oxygen-containing amine catalyst and a metallic salt. The oxygen-containing amine catalyst may be, for example, one or more of an alkanol amine, an ether amine, or a morpholine group-containing compound such as, for example, 2-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)ethanol or N,N,N?-trimethylaminoethyl-ethanolamine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin CHEN, Joseph S. COSTA, Laurent T. ABBAS, Haiming LIU, Sri R. SESHADRI, William D. HONNICK
  • Patent number: 10961339
    Abstract: A stable polyol pre-mix composition comprises a blowing agent, a polyol, a surfactant, and a catalyst composition comprising an oxygen-containing amine catalyst and a metallic salt. The oxygen-containing amine catalyst may be, for example, one or more of an alkanol amine, an ether amine, or a morpholine group-containing compound such as, for example, 2-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)ethanol or N,N,N?-trimethylaminoethyl-ethanolamine. The metallic salt may be, for example, alkali earth carboxylates, alkali carboxylates, and carboxylates of metals selected form the group consisting of zinc (Zn), cobalt (Co), tin (Sn), cerium (Ce), lanthanum (La), aluminum (Al), vanadium (V), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), chromium (Cr), scandium (Sc), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), strontium (Sr), and barium (Ba).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin Chen, Joseph S. Costa, Laurent T. Abbas, Haiming Liu, Sri R. Seshadri
  • Publication number: 20200283351
    Abstract: A method for synthesizing halogenated organic compounds, such as halogenated alkenyl group-containing and halogenated alkyl group-containing compounds having a heteroatom (e.g., O,N.S) coupled to a carbon atom of a halogenated alkenyl or halogenated alkyl group, involves reacting a halogenated olefin such as a chloro-substituted trifluoropropenyl compound with an active hydrogen-containing organic compound such as an alcohol (e.g., an aliphatic monoalcohol, aliphatic polyalcohol, or a phenolic compound), a primary amine, a secondary amine or a thiol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin CHEN, Robert G. SYVRET, Craig A. POLSZ, Haiming LIU, Jay Fingeret MILLER, Lucy M. CLARKSON
  • Publication number: 20190248946
    Abstract: A stable polyol pre-mix composition comprises a blowing agent, a polyol, a surfactant, and a catalyst composition comprising an oxygen-containing amine catalyst and a metallic salt. The oxygen-containing amine catalyst may be, for example, one or more of an alkanol amine, an ether amine, or a morpholine group-containing compound such as, for example, 2-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)ethanol or N,N,N?-trimethylaminoethyl-ethanolamine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin Chen, Joseph S. COSTA, Laurent T. ABBAS, Haiming LIU, Sri R. SESHADRI
  • Publication number: 20140051776
    Abstract: A polyol pre-mix composition includes a blowing agent having a halogenated hydroolefin, a polyol, a surfactant, a catalyst composition, and a metal salt. The metal salt may be, for example, a carboxylate, acetylacetonate, alcoholate of a metal selected from the group consisting of Zn, Co, Ca, and Mg. The metal salt may be, for example, a carboxylate and/or alcoholate of a C1-C21 straight chain or branched aliphatic monocarboxylic acid or monoalcohol, such as magnesium formate, zinc octoate, calcium octoate, cobalt octoate, and magnesium octoate, and mixtures thereof. The metal acetylacetonate may be, for example, zinc acetylacetonate, cobalt acetylacetonate, magnesium acetylacetonate, or calcium acetylacetonate. A two-part system for producing a thermosetting foam blend includes (a) a polyisocyanate and, optionally, one or more isocyanate compatible raw materials; and (b) the polyol pre-mix composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin Chen, Joseph S. Costa, Laurent Abbas, Haiming Liu, Sri R. Seshadri, William D. Honnick
  • Publication number: 20140005288
    Abstract: A stable polyol pre-mix composition comprises a blowing agent, a polyol, a surfactant, and a catalyst composition comprising an oxygen-containing amine catalyst. The oxygen-containing amine catalyst may be, an alkanol amine, an ether amine, or a morpholine group. containing compound such as, 2.(2.dimethylaminoethoxy)ethanol or N.N.N?.trimethylaminoethylethanolamine. A stabilized thermosetting foam blend comprises: (a) a polyisocyanate and, optionally, isocyanate compatible raw materials; and (b) a polyol pre. mix composition. A method for stabilizing thermosetting foam blends comprises combining: (a) a polyisocyanate and, optionally, isocyanate compatible raw materials; and (b) a polyol pre. mix composition. A polyurethane or polyisocyanurate foam having uniform cell structure with little or no foam collapse comprises a mixture of: (a) a polyisocyanate and, optionally, one or more isocyanate compatible raw materials; and (b) a polyol pre-mix composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Bin Chen, Joseph S. Costa, Laurent Abbas, Haiming Liu, Sri R. Seshadri
  • Patent number: 8464002
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to cache memory systems and/or techniques to identify dead cache blocks in cache memory systems. Example systems may include a cache memory that is accessible by a cache client. The cache memory may include a plurality of storage locations for a first cache block, with a most recently used position location in the cache memory. A cache controller may be configured to predict whether the first cache block stored in the cache memory is identified as a dead cache block based on a cache burst of the first cache block. The cache burst may comprise a first access of the first cache block by a cache client and any subsequent contiguous accesses of the first cache block following the first access by the cache client while the first cache block is in a most recently used position of the cache set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Doug Burger, Haiming Liu
  • Patent number: 8180997
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for dynamically composing processor cores to form logical processors. Processor cores are composable in that the processor cores are dynamically allocated to form a logical processor to handle a change in the operating status. Once a change in the operating status is detected, a mechanism may be triggered to recompose one or more processor cores into a logical processor to handle the change in the operating status. An analysis may be performed as to how one or more processor cores should be recomposed to handle the change in the operating status. After the analysis, the one or more processor cores are recomposed into the logical processor to handle the change in the operating status. By dynamically allocating the processor cores to handle the change in the operating status, performance and power efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Board of Regents, University of Texas System
    Inventors: Douglas C. Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Robert McDonald, Paul Gratz, Nitya Ranganathan, Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan, Karthikevan Sankaralingam, Ramadass Nagarajan, Changkyu Kim, Haiming Liu
  • Publication number: 20110087845
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to cache memory systems and/or techniques to identify dead cache blocks in cache memory systems. Example systems may include a cache memory that is accessible by a cache client. The cache memory may include a plurality of storage locations for a first cache block, with a most recently used position location in the cache memory. A cache controller may be configured to predict whether the first cache block stored in the cache memory is identified as a dead cache block based on a cache burst of the first cache block. The cache burst may comprise a first access of the first cache block by a cache client and any subsequent contiguous accesses of the first cache block following the first access by the cache client while the first cache block is in a most recently used position of the cache set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Doug Burger, Haiming Liu
  • Publication number: 20090013160
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for dynamically composing processor cores to form logical processors. Processor cores are composable in that the processor cores are dynamically allocated to form a logical processor to handle a change in the operating status. Once a change in the operating status is detected, a mechanism may be triggered to recompose one or more processor cores into a logical processor to handle the change in the operating status. An analysis may be performed as to how one or more processor cores should be recomposed to handle the change in the operating status. After the analysis, the one or more processor cores are recomposed into the logical processor to handle the change in the operating status. By dynamically allocating the processor cores to handle the change in the operating status, performance and power efficiency is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Douglas C. Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Robert McDonald, Paul Gratz, Nitya Ranganathan, Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan, Karthikevan Sankaralingam, Ramadass Nagarajan, Changkyu Kim, Haiming Liu
  • Patent number: 7332640
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for kinetically separating a light hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least two components by preferentially adsorbing a first component on a zeolite adsorbent comprising 8-member rings of tetrahedra as the pore opening controlling hydrocarbon diffusion and alkali metal cations balancing a framework charge, wherein a second component is not preferentially adsorbed. The novel process comprises contacting the light hydrocarbon mixture with a zeolite adsorbent having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio greater than about 50 and less than 200 and further having a diffusion rate at least 50 times greater for the first component as compared to the second component, and then recovering at least one of the first component or the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Exxonmobile Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Sebastian C. Reyes, David H. Olson, Haiming Liu, Karl G. Strohmaier, Jose G. Santiesteban
  • Publication number: 20050096494
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for kinetically separating a light hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least two components by preferentially adsorbing a first component on a zeolite adsorbent comprising 8-member rings of tetrahedra as the pore opening controlling hydrocarbon diffusion and alkali metal cations balancing a framework charge, wherein a second component is not preferentially adsorbed. The novel process comprises contacting the light hydrocarbon mixture with a zeolite adsorbent having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio greater than about 50 and less than 200 and further having a diffusion rate at least 50 times greater for the first component as compared to the second component, and then recovering at least one of the first component or the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Sebastian Reyes, David Olson, Haiming Liu, Karl Strohmaier, Jose Santiesteban
  • Patent number: 6727359
    Abstract: Acesulfame-K is a widely used sweetener in food and beverage. It is prepared by using the substituted sodium phenoxide or substituted phenol as the starting substance to synthesize the following three intermediates: a substituted phenoxide sulfonylchloride(I), a substituted phenoxide sulfonylamide(II) and an acetoacetamide-N-sulfonyl-substituted phenoxide(III). Particularly, II was prepared by using the liquid or gaseous ammonia to react with I under the action of some catalysts in a reaction column. III was prepared by using II to react with diketene. Acesulfame-K was prepared by ring-closure in III with methanol solution of KOH or K2CO3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: BDL Corporation
    Inventors: Nianshou Tian, Haiming Liu
  • Publication number: 20030065172
    Abstract: Acesulfame-K is a widely used sweetener in food and beverage. It is prepared by using the substituted sodium phenoxide or substituted phenol as the starting substance to synthesize the following three intermediates: a substituted phenoxide sulfonylchloride(I), a substituted phenoxide sulfonylamide(II) and an acetoacetamide-N-sulfonyl-substituted phenoxide(III). Particularly, II was prepared by using the liquid or gaseous ammonia to react with I under the action of some catalysts in a reaction column. III was prepared by using II to react with diketene. Acesulfame-K was prepared by ring-closure in III with methanol solution of KOH or K2CO3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Nianshou Tian, Haiming Liu