Patents by Inventor Hua Zhang

Hua Zhang 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).

  • Publication number: 20200411926
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and particularly, to a battery module. The battery module includes a lower case, a plurality of battery cells sequentially stacked and received in the lower case, and a heat conducting plate. The lower case is provided with an engaging groove, the heat conducting plate is provided with an inserted portion, and the inserted portion is inserted and fitted in the engaging groove. In the battery module according to the present disclosure, through a fitting insertion of the inserted portion in the engaging groove, a stable connection structure can be formed between the heat conducting plate and the lower case, thereby ensuring the structural stability of the battery module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Hua ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200411808
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and in particular, to a battery module. The battery module includes a set of batteries, a case receiving the set of batteries, and a sampling unit for collecting a voltage signal and a temperature signal of the set of batteries. The sampling unit is provided with a connector, and a stopper for fixing the connector is formed on the case. By forming the stopper on the case, the connector can be directly assembled to the stopper during assembling process of the set of batteries without the need to fix the connector by glue or bolt connection. Therefore, not only an assembling process is simplified, but also the connector is not easily damaged during the assembling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Hua ZHANG, Feng QIN, Peng WANG, Zhiyi YOU, Liangyi WANG
  • Publication number: 20200411899
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for battery formation, which comprises a negative pressure mechanism, a connecting assembly and a suction joint. The negative pressure mechanism has a receiving cavity inside. The suction joint is provided to the negative pressure mechanism and communicated with the receiving cavity. The connecting assembly is provided as plurality in number, and the plurality of the connecting assemblies are provided to the negative pressure mechanism; each connecting assembly is communicated with the receiving cavity and used for being connected to a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Wen YU, Hua ZHANG, Jian CHEN, Jing YANG, Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200411898
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for battery formation, which comprises a base plate, a press plate, a positioning block and a connecting assembly. The press plate is connected with the base plate, the positioning block and the connecting assembly each are provided as plurality in number and the plurality of the connecting assemblies correspond to the plurality of positioning blocks. The positioning block has a main portion and a protruding portion, the main portion is provided between the base plate and the press plate, and the protruding portion extends from a surface of the main portion away from the press plate. The base plate is provided with a plurality of positioning holes, and the protruding portion of each positioning block is inserted into the positioning hole. Each connecting assembly is provided to the main portion of a corresponding positioning block and used for being connected to a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Wen YU, Jian Chen, Jing Yang, Hua Zhang, Lin Chen
  • Publication number: 20200411925
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and particularly, to a battery module. The battery module includes a lower case, a plurality of battery cells sequentially stacked and received in the lower case, and a heat conducting plate. The lower case is connected to the heat conducting plate through an engaging assembly. In the battery module according to the present disclosure, the heat conducting plate and the lower case are connected through the engaging assembly, without performing a welding process required in the related art, thereby avoiding failures of other components caused by metal spattering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Hua ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200412039
    Abstract: A multipolar connector includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes inner terminals arranged in columns and an insulating component holding the inner terminals. The second connector includes inner terminals arranged in columns and an insulating component holding the inner terminals. One of the first connector and second connector further includes an outer terminal connected to the ground potential and held by the insulating component. A shielding component extends from the outer terminal along a direction in which the columns of inner terminals extend and is held by the insulating component, and the shielding component is located between adjacent columns of inner terminals when the inner terminals of the first connector and second connector are in contact and engaged with each other. Compared with the related art, the multipolar connector of the present disclosure does not need to form the shielding component by separately insert-molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Yongli Chen, Ya Wang, Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 10880360
    Abstract: A file is transmitted to a plurality of hosts. The hosts are divided into host groups. A host in each host group is selected as a master host. A data block is received by a master host in a host group. The master host sends the data block to both a master host in a next host group and a next host in the host group in order that the next host in the host group sends the data block to a next host of the next host in the host group, and the master host in the next host group sends the data block to both a master host in a next host group of the next host group and a next host of the next host in the next host group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guang Han Sui, Peng Hui Jiang, Qin Li, Jian Hua Zhang, Ping Xiao, Niao Qing Liu, Xiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 10875003
    Abstract: Provided are methods for the manufacture of highly porous aerogels, particularly to twisted carbon fibers (TCF) and carbon microbelt (CMB) aerogels, by providing a carbon raw material and heating said carbon raw material under inert gas atmosphere and reduced pressure up to 900 ° C. Also encompassed are the thus obtained aerogels and the use thereof, particularly for treating waste water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, Hengchang Bi
  • Publication number: 20200403331
    Abstract: An electrical contact for extending through a hole in the printed circuit board in an insertion direction, includes a retention plate and a leg extending therefrom. The leg includes an insertion section and a deformation section. The deformation section includes a pair of opposite wide side faces in a first direction perpendicular to the insertion direction, and a pair of opposite narrow side faces in a second direction perpendicular to both the insertion direction and the first direction, and a cavity recessed from one wide side face in the first direction. The cavity forms a first end located closer to the insertion end of the leg in the insertion direction and equipped with a cone shape thereof, and a second end located opposite to the first end and closer to a rectangular retention section and equipped with an arc shape thereof. The cavity forms a trapezoidal cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: DE-MING XU, XIAO-BO DU, GUO-HUA ZHANG, ZI-QIANG ZHU
  • Publication number: 20200399525
    Abstract: A well cementing method is described for improving cementing quality by controlling the hydration heat of cement slurry. By controlling the degree and/or rate of hydration heat release from cement slurry, the method improves the hydration heat release during formation of cement with curing of cement slurry, improves the binding quality between the cement and the interfaces, and in turn improves the cementing quality at the open hole section and/or the overlap section. The cementing method improves cementing quality of oil and gas wells and reduces the risk of annular pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Shuoqiong Liu, Hua Zhang, Jianzhou Jin, Ming Xu, Yongjin Yu, Fengzhong Qi, Congfeng Qu, Hong Yue, Youcheng Zheng, Wei Li, Yong Ma, Youzhi Zheng, Zhao Huang, Jinping Yuan, Zhiwei Ding, Chongfeng Zhou, Chi Zhang, Zishuai Liu, Hongfei Ji, Yuchao Guo, Xiujian Xia, Yong Li, Jiyun Shen, Huiting Liu, Yusi Feng, Bin Lyu
  • Patent number: 10869927
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an antibody specifically binding to a human endothelin receptor and uses thereof, where the antibody can inhibit the functions of the human endothelin receptor. The present invention includes the preparation, cloning, expression, and characterization of the antibody. The present invention can be used to effectively treat pulmonary arterial hypertension, a disease associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension, and a reproductive organ cancer in a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: GMAX BIOPHARM LLC
    Inventors: Cheng Zhang, Hua Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Chenjiang Yao, Yan Jiang, Min Wang, Xinxin Shi, Hao Pan, Shuqian Jing
  • Publication number: 20200394468
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for converting data to a tiling format when implementing convolutional neural networks are disclosed. A system includes at least a memory, a cache, a processor, and a plurality of compute units. The memory stores a first buffer and a second buffer in a linear format, where the first buffer stores convolutional filter data and the second buffer stores image data. The processor converts the first and second buffers from the linear format to third and fourth buffers, respectively, in a tiling format. The plurality of compute units load the tiling-formatted data from the third and fourth buffers in memory to the cache and then perform a convolutional filter operation on the tiling-formatted data. The system generates a classification of a first dataset based on a result of the convolutional filter operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Song Zhang, Jiantan Liu, Hua Zhang, Min Yu
  • Patent number: 10844788
    Abstract: A turbine engine comprising includes at least one combustor, a liquid fuel supply system, and a fuel additive injection system. The combustor is configured to combust liquid fuel. The liquid fuel supply system is configured to channel liquid fuel through at least one fuel line to the at least one combustor. The fuel additive injection system is coupled in fluid communication with the liquid fuel supply system. The fuel additive injection system includes a recirculation circuit configured to recirculate at least a portion of liquid fuel to the liquid fuel supply system. The fuel additive injection system is configured to channel chemical additive through the recirculation circuit for mixing with the at least a portion of liquid fuel to generate an additive fuel mixture configured to inhibit coke formation in the liquid fuel supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, David Terry Trayhan, Jr., William James Lawson, Paul Burchell Glaser, Douglas Frank Beadie
  • Patent number: 10827757
    Abstract: A biocidally active polymer composition formed from an oligomeric or polymeric additive and a thermoplastic polyurethane polymer is disclosed. The biocidally active polymer may further include a non-fouling and/or non-thrombogenic polymer. The biocidally active polymer provides biocidally active properties, and may also provide non-fouling and/or non-thrombogenic properties. The composition is particularly useful in articles and materials for medical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Inventors: Roger W. Day, Hua Zhang, Richard Woofter, Umit G. Makal
  • Patent number: 10829606
    Abstract: A surface-modified polymer composition formed from an oligomeric or polymeric additive and a base polymer is disclosed. The surface-modified polymer provides non-fouling and/or non-thrombogenic properties. The composition is particularly useful in articles and materials for medical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Inventors: Roger W. Day, Hua Zhang, Umit G. Makal, Richard Woofter, Kiara Smith
  • Patent number: 10825400
    Abstract: A mura compensation method for display panel is disclosed, including: storing a specific grayscale compensation data table in a timing controller, in which the specific grayscale compensation data table is used for performing grayscale compensation to a fixed mura area in the display panel; obtaining a current grayscale of the display panel; based on the specific grayscale compensation data table, performing grayscale compensation to the current grayscale of a pixel in the fixed mura area of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 10826033
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shell, a battery module and a battery pack. The shell according to the present disclosure comprises: an enclosing frame which has two side walls, a top wall, a bottom wall and a receiving cavity; two end plates which respectively securely connect with the two ends of the enclosing frame. And each side wall is formed with a fixing rib protruding outwardly along a width direction, the fixing rib is provided with at least one through hole. A battery module comprises the above-mentioned shell. A battery pack according to the present disclosure comprises: a lower casing; the plurality of above-mentioned battery modules received in the lower casing; and a plurality of fasteners, each fastener passes through the corresponding through hole of the battery module to secure the battery module in the lower casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, Feng Qin, Lin Ma, Zhiyi You
  • Patent number: 10815894
    Abstract: An exhaust processing system that includes: an exhaust passageway for directing exhaust gases, the exhaust passageway having passageway walls that define and enclose the exhaust passageway between an upstream position and a downstream position; and an acoustic liner formed against and covering at least one of the passageway walls of the exhaust passageway. The acoustic liner may include uniformly configured modular acoustic blocks fitted against each other. The modular acoustic blocks each may include interior cavities having different lengths configured to dampen targeted sound frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, Richard Lynn Loud, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
  • Patent number: 10801406
    Abstract: An inlet bleed heat (IBH) system for use in a turbine engine including a silencer assembly. The inlet bleed heat (IBH) system includes a feed pipe for delivering compressor discharge air. The feed pipe includes a plurality of orifices along at least a portion of a length of the feed pipe, and each orifice of the plurality of orifices extends through a wall of the feed pipe for allowing the compressor discharge air to exit the feed pipe. The system also includes a heat shielding component that extends across the feed pipe, wherein the heat shielding component is configured to reduce heat transfer between the feed pipe and the silencer assembly of the turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Laxmikant Merchant, Hua Zhang, Naveen Parmeshwar
  • Publication number: 20200320944
    Abstract: The invention provides a mura compensation method and system. The method comprises: Step 10: defining a position of a bright/dark boundary line as a first area, and defining an area outside the first area as a second area; Step 20: using a pixel as a unit to directly query each pixel in the first area in a preset first mura compensation data lookup table to obtain a corresponding first mura compensation data; and using a preset block as a unit to directly query each pixel in the second area in a preset second mura compensation data lookup table and calculate to obtain a corresponding second mura compensation data; Step 30: for pixels in first area, performing mura compensation on each pixel according to the corresponding first mura compensation data, and for pixels in second area, performing mura on each pixel according to the corresponding first mura compensation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Hua Zhang