Patents by Inventor Jianfeng Zhang

Jianfeng 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).

  • Patent number: 11904552
    Abstract: A connection including a first profile having a first end and a first lumen, the first profile including a first polymeric material and a second profile having a second end and a second lumen, the second profile including a second polymeric material, a metal, or combination thereof, wherein the first end and the second end are coincidently welded via an ionized gas treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Rachel Z Pytel, Jian L. Ding
  • Publication number: 20240051096
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a powered screwdriver. The powered screwdriver includes a housing, a motor housed in the housing and a tool holder driven by the motor. The tool holder selectively holds both a screwdriver bit and a hex key. The hex key includes a bend such that legs of the hex key are transverse to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, JianHui Jiang, JianFeng Zhang, Ana Garcia, Paul Gerard Gross
  • Patent number: 11900594
    Abstract: Method and system for displaying one or more regions of interest of an original image. For example, a computer-implemented method for displaying one or more regions of interest of an original image includes: obtaining one or more detection results of one or more first regions of interest, each detection result of the one or more detection results corresponding to one first region of interest of the one or more first regions of interest, each detection result including image information and one or more attribute parameters for their corresponding first region of interest; and obtaining one or more attribute parameter thresholds provided by a user in real time, each attribute parameter threshold of the one or more attribute parameter thresholds corresponding to one attribute parameter of the one or more attribute parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Yanli Song, Dijia Wu, Yiqiang Zhan, Xiang Sean Zhou
  • Patent number: 11878476
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composite article that may include a plastic component, and a silicone component bonded the plastic component. The plastic component and the silicone component may be bonded at an intersecting region between a first surface of the plastic component and a first surface of the silicone component. The intersecting region may include at least one of an acetone content of not greater than about 0.2 ppm, an MEK content of not greater than about 0.2 ppm, or a trimethylsilanol content of not greater than about 0.2 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Scott R. Johnson, Heidi Lennon
  • Patent number: 11875576
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic sign recognition method based on a lightweight neural network, which including: a lightweight neural network model is constructed for training and pruning to obtain a lightweight neural network model; the lightweight neural network model comprises a convolution feature extraction part and a classifier part; the convolution feature extraction part includes one layer of conventional 3×3 convolution and 16 layers of separable asymmetric convolution. The classifier part includes three layers of separable full connection modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUANZHOU EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jielong Guo, Xian Wei, Xuan Tang, Hui Yu, Jianfeng Zhang, Dongheng Shao, Xiaodi Yang, Yufang Xie
  • Publication number: 20230419683
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatic driving data collection and closed-loop management. The method includes: obtaining vehicle driving data; preprocessing the vehicle driving data; obtaining incremental data by filtering, through a pre-trained neural network based on a predetermined filtering rule, the preprocessed vehicle driving data; and storing the incremental data or transmitting the incremental data to a cloud. The method can effectively filter high-value incremental data, thereby reducing requirements for data storage volume and/or data transmission bandwidth of the system. The system of the present disclosure can be post-mounted or pre-mounted on a vehicle, and is independent of specific vehicle type of the vehicle. In addition, it is not necessary for the vehicle to be equipped with real-value systems such as high-cost laser radars, which greatly improves use convenience of the system and facilitates rapid and large-scale application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yue HU, Kun DENG, Jianfeng ZHANG, Xinyu ZHENG
  • Patent number: 11845230
    Abstract: A connection includes: a first profile having a first end, the first profile including a first polymeric material comprising a thermoset material; and a second profile having a second end, the second profile including a second polymeric material, a metal, or combination thereof, wherein the first end and the second end are coincidently bonded without a bonding material at an interface of the first end and the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Rachel Z. Pytel, Jian L. Ding
  • Publication number: 20230401706
    Abstract: A method for detecting a rib with a medical image, a device and a medium are provided. Feature coding is performed, by using a neural network model, on different rib regions in the medical image to obtain multiple feature vectors. According to a learned corresponding relationship between rib query items and the different rib regions, a feature vector for respective rib query item is determined. Parallel decoding is performed on the feature vector for respective rib query item to obtain a rib detection result corresponding to respective rib query item. The rib query items are endowed with semantic information in anatomy, such that respective rib query items may focus on features of different rib regions, and thus realizing controllable rib detection in instance-level. Any rib detection result includes a rib prediction classification and a prediction value of a pose parameter, in a three-dimensional space, of a rib detection box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Heng GUO, Jianfeng ZHANG, Minfeng XU, Le LYU
  • Patent number: 11840044
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multilayer tube that may include an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer may include a fluoroether elastomer and the outer layer may include a non-fluoroether based elastomer. The multilayer tube may further include an adhesion force between the inner layer and the outer layer of at least about 1 ppi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael J. Tzivanis, Jianfeng Zhang, Xipeng Liu, Charles S. Golub
  • Patent number: 11817944
    Abstract: A time synchronization method, apparatus, domain controller, and storage medium are disclosed. The domain controller is mounted in a vehicle and includes a number of SoCs and micro control units. The SoCs and micro control units are respectively, communicatively connected through the controller area network bus and respectively connected to the switch via Ethernet. The switch has external Ethernet interfaces. A main SoC in the number of SoCs has external UART/PPS interfaces and the micro control units have external FlexRay interfaces. The time synchronization method of the domain controller includes any one of the steps of receiving a time service from an external device through the UART/PPS interfaces, receiving a time service from the external device through the switch over the Ethernet interface, or receiving a time service from the external device through the FlexRay interface under a normal operation phase of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Long Zhang, Weifu Chen
  • Publication number: 20230334872
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic sign recognition method based on a lightweight neural network, which including: a lightweight neural network model is constructed for training and pruning to obtain a lightweight neural network model; the lightweight neural network model comprises a convolution feature extraction part and a classifier part; the convolution feature extraction part includes one layer of conventional 3×3 convolution and 16 layers of separable asymmetric convolution. The classifier part includes three layers of separable full connection modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jielong GUO, Xian WEI, Xuan TANG, Hui YU, Jianfeng ZHANG, Dongheng SHAO, Xiaodi YANG, Yufang XIE
  • Patent number: 11787020
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a powered screwdriver. The powered screwdriver includes a housing, a motor housed in the housing and a tool holder driven by the motor. The tool holder selectively holds both a screwdriver bit and a hex key. The hex key includes a bend such that legs of the hex key are transverse to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, JianHui Jiang, JianFeng Zhang, Ana Garcia, Paul Gerard Gross
  • Patent number: 11783037
    Abstract: Disclosed are a defense method and a model of deep learning model aiming at adversarial attacks in the technical field of image recognition, which makes full use of the internal relationship between the adversarial samples and the initial samples, and transforms the adversarial samples into common samples by constructing a filter layer in front of the input layer of the deep learning model; the parameters of the filter layer are trained by using the adversarial attack samples, so as to improve the ability of the model to resist adversarial attack; then the trained filter layer is combined with the learning model after the adversarial training, and a deep learning model with strong robustness and high classification accuracy is obtained, which ensures that the recognition ability of the initial sample is not reduced while resisting the adversarial attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Quanzhou Equipment Manufacturing Research Institute
    Inventors: Jielong Guo, Xian Wei, Xuan Tang, Hui Yu, Dongheng Shao, Jianfeng Zhang, Jie Li, Yanhui Huang
  • Patent number: 11752677
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for on-line measurement of the polymer melt temperature, comprising: on-line measurement of ultrasonic sound velocity c of melt in an injection molding process, on-line measurement of melt pressure P in the injection molding process, and obtaining melt temperature T in the injection molding process by formula (1). The present disclosure also discloses an apparatus for on-line measurement of the polymer melt temperature. The method and the apparatus provided in the present disclosure may enable on-line and in-situ characterization of the melt density and further enable on-line quantitative measurement of the melt quality. Compared with infrared measurement methods, the method provided herein is significantly reduced in cost, which is of great significance to theoretical researches of crystallization process and shear heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Jianfeng Zhang, Kaipeng Ji, Zhengyang Dong, Neng Xia, Hongwei Zhou, Jianzhong Fu
  • Publication number: 20230274466
    Abstract: Disclosed are a point cloud polar coordinate coding method and a device, including dividing a circular scanning area scanned by a lidar at an equal angle with an angle ?? to obtain a plurality of identical polar coordinate areas; dividing each of the polar coordinate areas with equal length along a radial direction with a length ?r to obtain a plurality of polar coordinate grids and generating a plurality of polar coordinate cylinders corresponding to each of the polar coordinate grids in a three-dimensional space; generating polar coordinate cylinder voxels; extracting structural features from the all point cloud data in each of the polar coordinate cylinder voxels; obtaining a two-dimensional point cloud pseudo-image; boundary supplementing to the two-dimensional point cloud pseudo-image; and performing feature extraction on the two-dimensional point cloud pseudo-image by using convolutional neural networks, and outputting a final feature map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Xian WEI, Jielong GUO, Hui YU, Xuan TANG, Hai LAN, Jianfeng ZHANG, Yufang XIE, Dongheng SHAO, Chao LI
  • Publication number: 20230152138
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system for dispensing liquid from a container holding a liquid comprises a reservoir mountable to the container so as to be in fluidic communication with the container. The reservoir may comprise an inlet and an outlet. When mounted to the container, the reservoir may be configured to measure a predetermined quantity of liquid while in first orientation and to simultaneously dispense the predetermined quantity of liquid from the outlet and receive a refilling quantity of liquid through the inlet while in a second orientation that is angled relative to the first orientation above a threshold angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Gloria GHEZZI, Jianfeng ZHANG, Jonathan Chayet SILVERMAN
  • Publication number: 20230136261
    Abstract: Immunogenic compositions comprising a recombinant adenoviral vector that expresses a nucleic acid molecule encoding multimers of a Gonadotrophic Releasing Hormone (GnRH), an antigenic carrier and multiple immune enhancing epitopes are described herein. The use of the immunogenic compositions on mammals resulting in an antibody response to GnRH can inhibit the physiological activity of GnRH and thus induce infertility and modify breeding behavior of immunized animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Henry BAKER, Jianfeng ZHANG, Kent VAN KAMPEN, Scot ROBERTS, De-chu TANG
  • Patent number: 11590333
    Abstract: A tubular coupling comprising a first connector comprising a body defining a first passageway portion and a valve area, the valve area comprising a first volume adjacent to an end of the first passageway portion; and a second volume in fluid communication with the first volume; and a first valve disposed in the first volume of the valve area; and a second connector adapted to receive at least a portion of the first connector, the second connector comprising: a body defining a second passageway portion and a valve area, the valve area comprising: a first volume adjacent to an end of the second passageway portion; and a second volume in fluid communication with the first volume; and a second valve disposed in the first volume of the valve area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Xipeng Liu, Jian L. Ding
  • Publication number: 20230057724
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a powered screwdriver. The powered screwdriver includes a housing, a motor housed in the housing and a tool holder driven by the motor. The tool holder selectively holds both a screwdriver bit and a hex key. The hex key includes a bend such that legs of the hex key are transverse to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, JianHui Jiang, JianFeng Zhang, Ana Garcia, Paul Gerard Gross
  • Patent number: 11573146
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a ultrasonic method for indirectly measuring a pressure of a cavity of an injection molding machine, comprising: emitting ultrasonic wave to each pull rod along an axial direction of the pull rod respectively at the same time, detecting an ultrasonic wave echo time difference of each pull rod, and obtaining an average pressure inside a cavity of the injection molding machine. By the detection method and detection device of the present invention, the pressure inside the cavity may be detected in a certain state, the pressure inside the cavity in the injection molding process may be detected in real time, and the detection process is simple and the accuracy is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Jianfeng Zhang, Yao Zhao, Fu Gu, Junye Huang, Neng Xia, Jianzhong Fu