Patents by Inventor Jianfeng Liu

Jianfeng 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).

  • Publication number: 20230288542
    Abstract: Methods, drive circuits, and lidars for laser emission control are provided. The drive circuit is configured to be coupled to a laser device and an energy storage unit, and includes a drive unit, a switch unit, and a detection unit. The energy storage unit includes a first terminal coupled to the laser device and the switch unit. The energy storage unit also includes a second terminal grounded, and forms the voltage supply path with a supplied voltage and the switch unit to perform charging based on a switch signal of a second control terminal, and to perform discharging based on a laser emission trigger signal of a first control terminal. The detection unit is configured to detect a signal of the first terminal of the energy storage unit during discharging and generate a corresponding state feedback signal based on a comparison of the signal with a preset threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yuntian BI, Jianfeng LIU, Xin ZHAO, Shaoqing XIANG
  • Publication number: 20230280493
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for calculating a safe drilling fluid density in a fractured formation, including the following steps: S1, performing image processing to identify a downhole fracture; S2, establishing three-dimensional (3D) geological models based on parameters of the downhole fracture, and establishing a drilling wellbore model based on a size and length of a wellbore; S3, assigning the model with material parameters, boundary conditions, and upper and lower bounds of an initial drilling fluid density, and calculating accuracy; S4, solving the 3D geological models using a 3-dimension distinct element code (3DEC) and determining stability of a well wall; S5, determining upper and lower bounds of a drilling fluid density using dichotomy; S6, repeating steps S4 to S5; and S7, after set accuracy conditions are reached, saving and outputting the safe drilling fluid density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Xiangchao Shi, Leiyu Gao, Jianfeng Liu, Hao Yu, Yuting Dai, Xiuping Chen, Qingling Li, Shuanggui Li, Yuming Wang
  • Patent number: 11744790
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions capable of absorbing UVA and UVB light. In particle, the present disclosure relates to UV screening compositions comprising at least a portion of LITE-1 polypeptides which are capable of absorbing UV light (e.g., UV-A and/or UV-B light).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: X. Z. Shawn Xu, Jianfeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230255874
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions capable of absorbing UVA and UVB light. In particle, the present disclosure relates to UV screening compositions comprising at least a portion of LITE-1 polypeptides which are capable of absorbing UV light (e.g., UV-A and/or UV-B light).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: X.Z. Shawn Xu, Jianfeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230261882
    Abstract: An image management method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving information about a signer and information about a target image that are sent by a first terminal device, where the signer is an object designated to sign the target image; obtaining a signature file based on the information about the signer and the information about the target image; and if a first digest that is of the target image and is returned by a container platform matches a second digest obtained based on the signature file, indicating the container platform to allow use of the target image to start a container. According to this method, a fine-grained and easy-to-use image control function is implemented by using a signature technology, to ensure security of image content and security of a container platform in a full life cycle of a container image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Jianfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11664788
    Abstract: A chip, a self-calibration circuit and method for chip parameter offset upon power-up are disclosed. The circuit includes a counting circuit, a calibration data latch circuit, a calibration data selection circuit and a parameter calibration circuit. The counting circuit outputs a sequentially scanned counting signal when receiving a valid enabling signal. The calibration data latch circuit latches the counting signal when receiving a valid latch signal. The calibration data selection circuit selects the counting signal latched by the calibration data latch circuit as a calibration signal when receiving the valid latch signal, otherwise selects the counting signal currently outputted as the calibration signal. The parameter calibration circuit implements a parameter calibration based on the calibration signal in a calibration mode, while outputs the valid latch signal when the parameter calibration satisfies a preset requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Fremont Micro Devices Corporation
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Yuquan Huang, Dennis Sinitsky
  • Publication number: 20230099257
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a design method for a distributed hydrological cycle model based on a multi-source complementary water supply mode, the method including the following steps: S1, nested hydrological response unit (HRU) division; S2, HRU attribute design; S3, design of a multi-source complementary water supply module; and S4, improvement on a SWAT model. Based on the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, the present disclosure develops a distributed natural-artificial hydrological dynamic reciprocal simulation model. The model is endowed with the functions of simulating dynamic reciprocation of natural water cycle and artificial water cycle, and integration of development, utilization and regulation of water resources, thereby simulating a natural-artificial hydrological cycle based on modes of urban multi-source water supply and multi-source irrigation water supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Mingzhi YANG, Jijun XU, Lianhai SANG, Qiang LIU, Suge ZHU, Jianfeng LIU, Quan SONG, Dacong YIN, Sinuo LI, Zhong CAO
  • Patent number: 11573279
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a displacer for reducing the consumption of a cryogen used in a superconductive magnet device. The displacer may occupy some space within the cryogen storage cavity or limit the cryogen into a relatively small space surrounding a superconductive coil in the cryogen storage cavity. The displacer may also include a displacer cavity that may be vacuum or contain a cryogen or another substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Xingen Yu, Lijun Zou, Jin Qian, Yong Jiang, Qing Ni
  • Patent number: 11565886
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wheel transfer device which can effectively prevent derailment of rolling wheels caused by breakage of a driving chain, to avoid falling of a wheel hub, thereby not only ensuring the finished product ratio of the wheel hub, and more importantly, ensuring the work safety of the workers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Kebin Wang, Jianwei Chen, Shaodong Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230003815
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet may include magnet coils including at least one group of outer coils and at least one group of inner coils, a container including an accommodating space, at least one first chamber that is disposed within the accommodating space and houses the at least one group of the inner coils, and at least one second chamber that is disposed within the accommodating space and houses the at least one group of the outer coils. The at least one first chamber and the at least one second chamber may be configured to be filled with a cooling medium and are in fluid communication with each other. The cooling medium may be configured to cool the magnet coils to a superconducting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfeng LIU, Yanqing CAI, Lijun ZOU, Jin QIAN, Jian GU
  • Publication number: 20220393670
    Abstract: A chip, a self-calibration circuit and method for chip parameter offset upon power-up are disclosed. The circuit includes a counting circuit, a calibration data latch circuit, a calibration data selection circuit and a parameter calibration circuit. The counting circuit outputs a sequentially scanned counting signal when receiving a valid enabling signal. The calibration data latch circuit latches the counting signal when receiving a valid latch signal. The calibration data selection circuit selects the counting signal latched by the calibration data latch circuit as a calibration signal when receiving the valid latch signal, otherwise selects the counting signal currently outputted as the calibration signal. The parameter calibration circuit implements a parameter calibration based on the calibration signal in a calibration mode, while outputs the valid latch signal when the parameter calibration satisfies a preset requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Yuquan Huang, Dennis Sinitsky
  • Patent number: 11519986
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The systems may include a gradient coil assembly configured to form a gradient magnetic field. The systems may also include a cryostat including a superconducting coil assembly and a magnetic field shielding apparatus arranged on/in a component of the cryostat. The superconducting coil assembly may be configured to form a main magnetic field. The magnetic field shielding apparatus may be configured to shield the superconducting coil assembly from a stray field of the gradient coil assembly. The magnetic field shielding apparatus may include a conductive shielding component, a shielding cylinder, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Zou, Xingen Yu, Jianfeng Liu, Shuguang Liu, Shiqing Lin, Bo Li
  • Patent number: 11500490
    Abstract: There is provided a touch panel, including: a substrate including a touch detection area and a fingerprint recognition area; plural touch detection units in the touch detection area, each touch detection unit including a touch detection electrode; plural fingerprint recognition units in the fingerprint recognition area, each fingerprint recognition unit including a fingerprint recognition electrode, and the fingerprint recognition electrode and the touch detection electrode being in a same layer; a signal wiring layer on a same side of the substrate as the touch detection electrode and the fingerprint recognition electrode and including plural first signal transmission lines and plural second signal transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Ni Yang, Xuefang Chen, Qi Hu, Qi Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220291314
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance system may include a magnetic resonance magnet and a storage container configured to accommodate the magnetic resonance magnet. The storage container may also contain an endothermic liquid. The magnetic resonance system may further include a ramping-down device configured to trigger releasing electric energy by the magnetic resonance magnet. The first ramping-down device may include an electric energy consumption device configured to consume at least a portion of the released electric energy by the magnetic resonance magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianfeng LIU
  • Patent number: 11442124
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet may include magnet coils including at least one group of outer coils and at least one group of inner coils, a container including an accommodating space, at least one first chamber that is disposed within the accommodating space and houses the at least one group of the inner coils, and at least one second chamber that is disposed within the accommodating space and houses the at least one group of the outer coils. The at least one first chamber and the at least one second chamber may be configured to be filled with a cooling medium and are in fluid communication with each other. The cooling medium may be configured to cool the magnet coils to a superconducting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Yanqing Cai, Lijun Zou, Jin Qian, Jian Gu
  • Patent number: 11415557
    Abstract: A tempo-spatial evolution test system for rock breaking in deep and complex environment includes an acoustic emission sensor assembly and an acoustic emission amplifier assembly that are arranged on a rock mechanics test system. A triaxial cavity coupling bracket is arranged on an outer wall of the triaxial cavity and between two sets of acoustic emission sensor assemblies. The triaxial cavity coupling bracket includes a plate-shaped bracket, two sickle-shaped brackets, and at least three bracket bolts, which can be tightly wrapped on the outer wall of the triaxial cavity. A lateral side of the plate-shaped bracket vertically fixes two guide columns. The acoustic emission amplifier assembly is arranged between the two guide columns and is located above the plate-shaped bracket, and the acoustic emission amplifier assembly is connected to the acoustic emission sensor assembly through a signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY, CHENGDU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Yan Wan, Jun Zheng, Lu Wang, Dongjie Xue, Chunping Wang, Qiangxing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11371313
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hard-sealing soluble bridge plug, comprising a body made of soluble metal. The body comprises a wedge, a slip and a guide shoe which are connected from top to bottom in turn; at least one metal sealing ring is sleeved at the junction of the outer circumference of the wedge and the slip, and the metal sealing ring is made of soluble metal. The hard-sealing soluble bridge plug provided by the disclosure is applied to the field of fracturing and stimulation operation of an oil and gas well so that the hard-sealing soluble bridge plug is more convenient to store, more stable to seal and more firm to anchor, the setting success rate of the hard-sealing soluble bridge plug is effectively improved to better adapt to down hole environments. Furthermore, due to simple and compact structure, the hard-sealing soluble bridge plug is easy to machine and manufacture, and is effectively reduced in the cost of the soluble bridge plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: PETRO-KING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ruijie Pang, Jiangping Li, Renjin Chen, Jianfeng Liu, Maoyong Zhou, Fuzeng Pang
  • Patent number: 11346906
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance system may include a magnetic resonance magnet and a storage container configured to accommodate the magnetic resonance magnet. The storage container may also contain an endothermic liquid. The magnetic resonance system may further include a ramping-down device configured to trigger releasing electric energy by the magnetic resonance magnet. The first ramping-down device may include an electric energy consumption device configured to consume at least a portion of the released electric energy by the magnetic resonance magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianfeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20220097979
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wheel transfer device which can effectively prevent derailment of rolling wheels caused by breakage of a driving chain, to avoid falling of a wheel hub, thereby not only ensuring the finished product ratio of the wheel hub, and more importantly, ensuring the work safety of the workers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Kebin Wang, Jianwei Chen, Shaodong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11282469
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a shift register unit and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display apparatus. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit configured to output an input signal from an input signal terminal to a pull-up node; an output circuit configured to output a clock signal from a clock signal terminal to an output signal terminal under control of a potential at the pull-up node; a resetting and de-noising circuit configured to reset and de-noise the pull-up node and the output signal terminal under control of a potential at a pull-down node; and a pull-down node control circuit coupled to a first voltage terminal and the pull-down node, and configured to electrically couple the pull-down node to the first voltage terminal under control of the potential at the pull-down node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunze Li, Ni Yang, Qi Hu, Jianfeng Liu, Zhi Wang