Patents by Inventor Hao Zhu

Hao Zhu 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: 11589657
    Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zaki Moustafa, Hsiang Hung Chen, Stephen E. Dey, Qigen Ji, Hao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11579060
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining of fat content of milk having variable solids fractions and flowing with variable gas content in a pipeline. The method includes ascertaining a velocity of sound and an average density value for the milk based on eigenfrequencies of at least two bending oscillation wanted modes of measuring tubes of a densimeter arranged in the pipeline. The method further includes ascertaining a static pressure in the pipeline; a gas volume fraction based on the velocity of sound; the average density; the pressure; a density of the milk without gas content based on the average density and the gas volume fraction; and a permittivity of the milk based on a propagation velocity and/or an absorption of microwaves in the milk. The fat fraction is calculated based on the density of the milk without gas content and on the effective permittivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Pflüger, Wolfgang Drahm, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230044660
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for selecting a radio bearer mode for multicast broadcast services (MBS). The method includes informing a radio access network (RAN) that a user equipment (UE) is receiving/interested to receive or no longer receiving/interested to receive multicast broadcast service (MBS) services via a cast mode. The method includes sending, by the UE, MBS interest information to the RAN, the MBS interest information comprising a list of MBS services of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Lin CHEN, Zijiang MA, Tao QI, Feng XIE, Ying HUANG
  • Patent number: 11573111
    Abstract: The measuring system includes a transducer apparatus with two tubes. Each tube is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid from an inlet end toward an outlet end and to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical exciter mechanism excites and maintains mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes, and a sensor arrangement registers mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes. The transducer apparatus includes two temperature sensors each being mechanically and thermally conductively coupled with a wall of the tube, wherein each of the temperature sensors registers a measuring point temperature, and converts such into a temperature measurement signal temperature. A measuring and operating electronics (ME) generates a transducer temperature measured value representing a transducer apparatus temperature so that a magnitude of the transducer temperature measured value is greater than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature and less than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Gerhard Eckert, Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230032534
    Abstract: A method for monitoring flow of a medium by means of a pressure difference measuring device and a Coriolis mass flowmeter having two oscillators, which comprise, in each case, a bent measuring tube pair, which are arranged on top of one another and connected for parallel flow between the two pressure measuring points of the pressure difference measuring device, comprising steps as follows: Registering a pressure difference between the first pressure measuring point and the second pressure measuring point; registering a first density measured value based on at least a first oscillation frequency of the first oscillator; registering a second density measured value based on at least a second oscillation frequency of the second oscillator; ascertaining a flow measured value based on the pressure difference, when a difference between the first density measured value and the second density measured value is less than a density difference limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Josef Hubensteiner
  • Publication number: 20230022150
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a flow measuring point for media having at least one liquid phase, the flow measuring point including: a Coriolis measuring device for measuring the mass flow rate and the density of a medium flowing through a pipeline; and a pressure-difference measuring apparatus for sensing the pressure difference between a flow region arranged upstream of the Coriolis measuring device and a flow region arranged downstream of the Coriolis measuring device, wherein a flow measurement based on measured values of the pressure difference is corrected by means of measured values acquired using the Coriolis measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230026350
    Abstract: A method for characterizing the gas load of a medium, which comprises a liquid loaded with gas, using a measurement sensor that guides the medium in at least one vibrating measurement tube, includes: determining a speed of sound value and a resonator density value of the medium based on natural frequencies of at least two different vibration modes of the measurement tube; determining a measured pressure value for the medium guided in the measurement tube; determining a gas volume content of suspended bubbles in the medium based on the resonator density value, the speed of sound value and the measured pressure value; and determining a value for the gas volume content of free bubbles based on the resonator density value of the medium and the gas volume content of suspended bubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Yaoying Lin, Andreas Güttler
  • Publication number: 20230028225
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for measuring the flow of a liquid medium having variable gas content, on the basis of a differential pressure measurement by means of a differential pressure-generating primary element, through which the medium flows, which method comprises: ascertaining a differential pressure measurement value between two measuring points of the differential pressure-generating primary element; ascertaining a flow regime; ascertaining a flow rate measurement value as a function of the differential pressure measurement value and the flow regime, wherein the flow rate measurement value is ascertained by ascertaining a provisional flow rate measurement value on the basis of the differential pressure measurement value under the assumption of a first flow regime, which provisional flow rate measurement value is corrected if a second flow regime different from the first flow regime is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Schäfer, Hao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11553766
    Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zaki Moustafa, Qigen Ji, Caitlin M. McLain, Clayton J. McCoy, Hao Zhu, Hsiang Hung Chen, Stephen E. Dey, Fernando F. Cunha
  • Publication number: 20230009321
    Abstract: A measuring tube arrangement of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate of a flowable medium includes: two measuring tubes for conducting the medium, wherein the measuring tubes each have an inlet and an outlet, wherein the measuring tubes are bent at least once between the inlet and outlet; a coupler arrangement for mechanically coupling the two measuring tubes, wherein the coupler arrangement has at least two coupler elements, wherein one coupler element is arranged at the inlet, and one coupler element is arranged at the outlet; two magnet arrangements, each having at least two magnets, arranged on the measuring tubes, wherein precisely one magnet arrangement is arranged on one measuring tube; and a connecting body configured to mechanically detachably connect the measuring tube arrangement to a carrier unit, wherein the connecting body is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the respective measuring tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu, Martin Josef Anklin, Wolfgang Drahm
  • Publication number: 20230007544
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and devices for informing at least one downstream device of a migrating integrated access backhaul node (IAB-node) about an inter-donor migration status of migrating IAB node undergoing a migration from a source IAB-donor to a target IAB-donor. The method includes receiving, by a receiving device, a radio resource control (RRC) message sent from an IAB-donor. The RRC message includes an information element which indicates an inter-donor migration status of a migrating IAB-node. The method further includes in response to the information element indicating a successful inter-donor migration, sending, by the receiving device, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) status reports to a target IAB-donor. The PDCP status report corresponds to a radio link control acknowledged mode (RLC-AM) bearer configured to be allowed to send the PDCP status report in an uplink, and is configured to update data transmission for the receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Ying HUANG, Lin CHEN, Liping WANG, Kun CAO
  • Patent number: 11513556
    Abstract: An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Stryker, Caitlin M. Mclain, Travis C. Pedley, Nicholas A. Treadwell, Hao Zhu, Yang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220364895
    Abstract: A method for the measurement of a physical parameter of a liquid by means of a sensor having at least one measuring tube for conducting the liquid, wherein the measuring tube can be excited to vibrate in at least one flexural vibration mode, comprises: determining at least one current value of a vibration parameter of the flexural vibration mode; determining a measurement value of the physical parameter according to the current value of the vibration parameter, wherein the measurement value is compensated in respect of the resonator effect according to a current value for the natural frequency of the flexural vibration mode and according to the sound velocity of the liquid conducted in the measuring tube, wherein the value for the sound velocity is provided independently of the vibrations of the measuring tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Martin Josef Anklin, Reinhard Huber, Yaoying Lin
  • Publication number: 20220345947
    Abstract: A system and method for managing Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) continuity. The system and method include transmitting, by a wireless communication device through a first distributed unit (DU) of a wireless communication node to a central unit (CU) of the wireless communication node, a first message. The first DU corresponds to a first subset of a plurality of MBMS services of the CU. The first message indicates a second subset of the plurality of MBMS services that corresponds to a second DU of the wireless communication node. The system and method include receiving, by the wireless communication device from the CU in response to transmitting the first message, a second message including MBMS scheduling information. The system and method include performing, by the wireless communication device, a handover procedure from the first DU to the second DU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Kun CAO, Tao QI, Feng XIE, Hao ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220337367
    Abstract: A system and method for multicast/broadcast service data synchronization. In some embodiments, the method includes transmitting, by a first network node, synchronization information to a second network node. In some embodiments, the synchronization information indicating a plurality of information elements configured to transmit Multicast/Broadcast Service (MBS) data on a user plane over an interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Tao QI, Feng XIE, Kun CAO, Zijiang MA
  • Publication number: 20220333971
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a pipeline and a Coriolis volumetric flow meter for measuring a mass flow rate of a medium flowing through the pipeline. A first pressure sensor is attached at an inlet-side of the pipeline and a second pressure sensor is attached at an outlet-side of the pipeline, or wherein a differential pressure sensor is configured to detect a difference between an inlet-side and an outlet-side. The pressure sensors and/or the differential pressure sensor are configured to measure a media pressure and to determine, for each differential pressure, a volumetric flow velocity of the medium through the pipeline. A first monitoring sensor is attached at an inlet-side portion of the pipeline and a second monitoring sensor is attached at an outlet-side portion of the pipeline, wherein the monitoring sensors are configured to monitor a measurement variable different from the media pressure to identify a static media state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Hao Zhu, Wolfgang Drahm, Andreas Güttler
  • Publication number: 20220334038
    Abstract: A measuring device for determining the density, the mass flow and/or the viscosity of a gas-charged liquid includes an oscillator, having a media-conducting measuring tube and two vibrational modes having media-density-dependent natural frequencies; an exciter for exciting the two vibrational modes; a vibrational sensor for detecting vibrations of the oscillator; and an operating and evaluating circuit to apply an excitation signal to the exciter, detect signals of the vibration sensor, determine current values of the natural frequencies of the two vibrational modes of the oscillator and fluctuations of the natural frequencies. The operating and evaluating circuit is designed to determine a first media state value, wherein the operating and evaluating circuit is furthermore designed to determine a second media state value which represents a gas charge of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Michael Wiesmann
  • Publication number: 20220322581
    Abstract: A cooling system for a datacenter device is disclosed. Fins are provided between a first plate and a second plate to dissipate a first amount of heat to an environment in a first configuration of the fins. The first plate is movable relative to the second plate to expose a surface area of the fins to the environment in a second configuration of the fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaozhuo CAI, Shuanghu YAN, Dinghai YI, Hao ZHU, Yonghua FU
  • Publication number: 20220309017
    Abstract: A multi-format graphics process unit (GPU) docking board is disclosed. The multi-format GPU docking board includes a first switch to enable communication between a first format (GPU) board and a second format GPU board, and a second switch to enable communication between a central processing unit (CPU) and the first format GPU board and between the CPU and the second format GPU board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaozhuo CAI, Shuanghu YAN, Hao ZHU, Dinghai YI
  • Publication number: 20220290797
    Abstract: Display assemblies for supporting displays on stands or support arms have mount portions to removably attach to the displays using magnetic assemblies and latches. The magnetic assemblies and latches can improve user experience and allow the display to be installed on a support arm from the viewing side of the display and without having to see or reach behind the display. Magnetic structures can center a mount portion of the support arm and a recess of the display and can attract them to each other. Laterally-extending latches can ensure the display is not inadvertently removed. Locking mechanisms can prevent the display from being rotated to a portrait orientation when sufficient space around the display and the necessary user intent is not provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kristopher P. Laurent, Bradley J. Hamel, Brett W. Degner, David H. Narajowski, Hao Zhu, Lauren M. Farrell, Sunita Venkatesh, Peter N. Jeziorek, Edward T. Sweet, David A. Jungquist, Karen Y. Cheng, Xiang Zhang, Danny L. McBroom, Michael D. McBroom, Laura M. DeForest