Patents by Inventor Jason Yan

Jason Yan 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: 11969037
    Abstract: The present application discloses anti-impact gloves, which include a glove body and an anti-impact protective layer arranged on the back of the glove body. The anti-impact protective layer includes a finger protection layer, which includes a thumb protective layer and a plurality of universal finger protective layers; an anisotropic flex slit is arranged on the first dactylus of the thumb protective layer near the first knuckle, and a flex cut structure is provided at the metacarpophalangeal joint. A plurality of full flex cuts are positioned at the fingertip part of each universal finger protective layer; the hand back protective layer includes a plurality of vertical protection blocks and a plurality of long strip-shaped flex slits arranged alternately; the bottom layer is fixed on the back of the glove body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Select Safety Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Zhao, Jason Leigh Sparrow, Xiuyun Zhang, Xuefeng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240085415
    Abstract: An enzymatic extraction agent, as well as methods, compositions and kits for detecting Group A streptococcus in a biological sample, which involve the enzymatic agent, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Yan-Guo Ren, Stewart Hoelscher, Cristian Alberto, Stephanie Pinedo, Jason McClure, Hyunjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11920845
    Abstract: An ice making assembly includes an ice mold and a pump assembly for urging an ice-building spray into the ice mold to form an ice billet. A controller operates the pump assembly to provide the ice-building spray at a first flow rate until the ice billet reaches a predetermined thickness and then operates the pump assembly to provide the ice-building spray at a second flow rate that is less than the first flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Schiller, Adam Pusateri, Justin Tyler Brown, Brent Alden Junge, Jin Wu, Bo Yan, Yayu Song, Michael Zhou, Roy Teng, Eddy Zhou, Jason Jiang
  • Patent number: 11630249
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensing device with a conical reflector for making a two-dimensional optical radar that mainly diffuses a light source using a diffusing element to form a diffused light, and directs the light source onto a reflection surface of a reflective element, after the diffused light is reflected to a reflector through the reflection surface, the reflector then reflects the diffused light to form a reflected light, and reflects the reflected light onto the reflection surface in order that the reflected light is reflected onto an optical lens through the reflection surface, and finally, the reflected light is directed onto a sensing module through the optical lens, and the reflected light is received through the sensing module; thereby achieving the effects of omnidirectional real-time scanning, one-time detection of 360-degree environmental characteristic points, and accurately and stably providing relative positions between each characteristic point and a robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 11530726
    Abstract: A robot cleaner having a fan brake device is provided, which includes a main cleaner body having an accommodating slot used to contain a dust box and a fan, and at least one brake device is disposed inside the accommodating slot. The brake device is disposed at a notch on the bottom of the dust box for the fan to be inserted into, and under the junction line between the notch and the bottom edge of the dust box. Therefore, when the dust box is taken off from the main cleaner body, the flexible element of the brake device can press a soft stopper upward and then the soft stopper presses against the bottom of the fan blade of the fan to stop the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 11513528
    Abstract: A method for docking a robot at a charging station includes the following steps: the charging station outputs a first transmitting signal and a second transmitting signal, wherein an overlapping zone and two non-overlapping zones are formed within the signal transmission range of the first and second transmitting signals, and a blank zone forms within a predetermined distance. When the robot needs to move to the charging station, the robot detects its entry into the overlapping zone or one of the two non-overlapping zones, and the robot moves in the direction of the charging station by alternately moving in and out between the overlapping zone and one of the two non-overlapping zones until the robot moves to the blank zone, then the robot either moves directly towards the charging station, or rotates and then moves backwardly towards the charging station, thereby allowing the robot to dock at the charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 11253127
    Abstract: A cleaning wheel structure, which mainly comprises a cleaning unit, a universal joint and an elastic element, wherein the cleaning unit comprises a plurality of clamping jaws disposed around the circumference of the shaft thereof, and each of the clamping jaws has a positioning groove, the universal joint is disposed between the plurality of clamping jaws, the elastic element is disposed between the universal joint and the cleaning unit, wherein the outer surface of the universal joint is convexly provided with a positioning portion for embedding with the positioning grooves, with the above structure, when the cleaning unit is stuck and cannot be driven to rotate by the universal joint, the positioning portion repeatedly pushes each of clamping jaws outwardly to rotate and to be embedded in the next positioning groove, so that the universal joint no longer drives the cleaning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 11234571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning robot and a material identification method thereof, which is suitable for cleaning robots. The cleaning robot is pre-set with a threshold comparison table and comprises a plurality of comparison thresholds, wherein each comparison threshold defines an interval of accumulated energy information accumulated by the moving plane of different materials within a predetermined period of time. The cleaning robot generates accumulated energy information during the movement, so that the cleaning robot can find the comparison threshold corresponding to the accumulated energy information from the threshold comparison table, and then determines the material of the moving plane contacted by the cleaning robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jason Yan, Shui-Shih Chen
  • Patent number: 11167811
    Abstract: A robotic obstacle-crossing device mainly includes a wheel body and an obstacle-crossing body, wherein the wheel body includes a wheel part, a first obstacle-crossing part and a second obstacle-crossing part. When the sweeping robot tilts, the plurality of first recessed portions and the plurality of second recessed portions provided on the periphery of the first obstacle-crossing part and the second obstacle-crossing part provide a climbing function. In addition, when the sweeping robot encounters obstacles or steps, the obstacle-crossing body can provide robot the function of the obstacle-crossing or climbing, thereby reducing the number of situations when the sweeping robot is trapped or unable to effectively climb upon encountering an obstacle or a steep road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Publication number: 20210341938
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for docking a robot at a charging station, which is applied between the robot and the charging station. The charging station outputs a first transmitting signal and a second transmitting signal, wherein an overlapping zone and two non-overlapping zones are formed within the signal transmission range of the first and second transmitting signals forming at a predetermined distance in front of the charging station, with a blank zone forming within the predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Publication number: 20210321843
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a cleaning device and a robot. A movable box is disposed on the bottom side of the robot, wherein a roller space in the movable box is disposed with a roller, and a cleaning cover is disposed around an opening of the movable box. When the robot is moving and sweeping the ground with the roller, the roller will rotate to make contact with a guide element so that the guide element removes the garbage and dust attached to the roller and at the same time guides the airflow of a suction port of the robot, thereby allowing the garbage and dust to follow the airflow into the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Jason YAN
  • Patent number: 11147427
    Abstract: A fully floating contact redirecting device for a cleaning robot, wherein a contact unit is floatingly disposed on a surface of a robot body in a forward direction, and at least one sensing unit is respectively disposed on opposite sides of the contact unit in a direction opposite to the forward direction. An angle at which the robot body is retracted and turned to avoid a wall or an obstacle is determined by a position where the contact unit goes into contact with the sensing unit after the contact unit touches the wall or the obstacle, thereby solving the problem of going through multiple turns to move in an obstacle-free direction and improving the cleaning efficiency of the cleaning robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 11079766
    Abstract: A collision sensing device for laser module accommodates a laser module by a shield body, a moving seat and a base, and a scanning space is set between the shield body and the moving seat to provide a scanning environment for laser module. When a shield body is collided, the shield body may drive the moving seat to move backward, and a traction part disposed at a periphery of the moving seat drives one end of a linkage body to move backward. Therefore, when the linkage body moves backward, it touches or presses a sensing part of a sensing element, the sensing element may determine whether the shield body is collided; if it is determined that the cover shield body is collided, a collision information may be transmitted to a control unit to drive a robot to move out of trouble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Publication number: 20210187561
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved cleaning mechanism of automatic cleaning machine mainly comprising a base, a cleaning cloth and a plurality of protruding portions. The base is connected to the cleaning cloth, and the protruding portions are disposed on one side surface of the base facing the cleaning cloth, or on one side surface of the cleaning cloth facing the base, or simultaneously on the side surfaces of the base and the cleaning cloth facing each other, so that gaps are further provided between the base and the cleaning cloth to avoid a vacuum state formed by air being discharged by moisture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Jason YAN
  • Publication number: 20210148423
    Abstract: A robot cleaner having a fan brake device is provided, which includes a main cleaner body having an accommodating slot used to contain a dust box and a fan, and at least one brake device is disposed inside the accommodating slot. The brake device is disposed at a notch on the bottom of the dust box for the fan to be inserted into, and under the junction line between the notch and the bottom edge of the dust box. Therefore, when the dust box is taken off from the main cleaner body, the flexible element of the brake device can press a soft stopper upward and then the soft stopper presses against the bottom of the fan blade of the fan to stop the fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Jason YAN
  • Publication number: 20210145235
    Abstract: A cleaning robot for lifting dust and with multi-directional suction ports comprises a cleaning robot main body, at least one dust lifting device and at least one dust suction port disposed at a bottom of the cleaning robot main body, and the dust suction port is disposed around the dust lifting device. During traveling process of the cleaning robot main body of the cleaning robot for lifting dust and with multi-directional suction ports provided by the present invention, dust deposited on a bottom of fluff of a carpet is lifted by the dust lifting device by pushing, beating or blowing, and then the lifted dust is sucked into a dust collecting box disposed in the cleaning robot main body by the dust suction port to achieve an object of effectively cleaning the carpet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Publication number: 20210106197
    Abstract: A robot cleaner having cleaning device for cleaning floor mopping roller is provided. The robot cleaner includes a cleaning device disposed on one side or one surface of a robot so as to divert the water stored in a water supply portion inside the robot to a cleaning body of the cleaning device. Then, the cleaning body can be used to clean a floor. When the cleaning body is used to clean the floor, a water squeezing body presses against one side of the cleaning body and a shaft body drives the cleaning body to rotate. Afterward, the water squeezing body can squeeze the water (dirty water) out of the cleaning body. Finally, a recycling body can recycle the water to a water storage portion inside the robot. In this way, the robot cleaner can clean the floor and the cleaning body at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Publication number: 20210100420
    Abstract: A cleaning wheel structure, which mainly comprises a cleaning unit, a universal joint and an elastic element, wherein the cleaning unit comprises a plurality of clamping jaws disposed around the circumference of the shaft thereof, and each of the clamping jaws has a positioning groove, the universal joint is disposed between the plurality of clamping jaws, the elastic element is disposed between the universal joint and the cleaning unit, wherein the outer surface of the universal joint is convexly provided with a positioning portion for embedding with the positioning grooves, with the above structure, when the cleaning unit is stuck and cannot be driven to rotate by the universal joint, the positioning portion repeatedly pushes each of clamping jaws outwardly to rotate and to be embedded in the next positioning groove, so that the universal joint no longer drives the cleaning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Jason YAN
  • Patent number: 10932638
    Abstract: A robot trapping detecting device, mainly uses a shaft body to drive a convex body to rotate, and a convex portion is disposed around the convex body, so when a binding surface of a binding body is touched to the convex body and the convex body is rotated to the disposing position of the convex portion, the binding body is driven upward, and then, when the convex body is rotated to a position other than the disposing position of the convex portion, the binding body is driven downward, so that a sensed body disposed on a linking component is driven up and down by the linking component, and a sensing body senses a displacement change of the sensed body to determine whether a robot has stopped moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 10883731
    Abstract: The invention provides an air purifier with independent duel channel, which has separate first channel portion and second channel portion, wherein the first channel portion is used to filter particulate matters in the air and the second channel portion is used to purify the air. The invention mainly separates the channels and processes of the filtered air and the purified air, and more matches the selection of specific suction fan and intake fan so as to meet the different flow velocities required for air filtration and purification respectively, thereby achieving the optimal air filtration and purification effects, and improving the ineffective problem caused by the simultaneous filtration and purification of the air in the same channel of the existing air purifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jason Yan, Wen-Lung Kan