Patents by Inventor Jiang Xu
Jiang Xu 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).
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Publication number: 20250150746Abstract: An earphone comprises a core module located at a front side of an ear in a wearing state and a hook structure at least a portion of which is located at a rear side of the ear in the wearing state. A free end of the core module not connected to the hook structure extends into a concha cavity of the ear in the wearing state. In the wearing state, a first inner side surface of the core module covers at least a portion of a tragus of the ear, a transition portion of the hook structure is located at the front side of the ear, and a second inner side surface of the transition is bent along the thickness direction of the core module toward a direction away from an outer side surface of of the core module with respect to the first inner side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Zeying ZHENG, Jiang XU, Zeteng YAN
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Publication number: 20250122548Abstract: In alternative embodiments, provided are methods that are reliable and scalable for making disulfide bond rich peptides and proteins. In alternative embodiments, provided are oxidation refolding methods to produce disulfide bond rich peptides and proteins. In alternative embodiments, methods as provided herein can be used to make any disulfide bond-containing proteins, including but not limited to: three finger neurotoxin peptides (such as for example, rec-?-Bungarotoxin (rec-?Btx), rec-?-Cobratoxin (rec-?CTX), ?-Bungarotoxin (rec-?Btx), rec-MTa, rec-hannalgesin, rec-Mambalgin, rec-Slurp, rec-Pate), antibodies and antibody fragments (such as single chain antibody), extracellular domain of viral membrane proteins, cell surface receptors, other disulfide-bond rich toxin peptides (such as dendrotoxin, conotoxin) and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Jiang XU, Lin CHEN
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Patent number: 12279084Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone may include a hook-shaped component, a connecting component, and a holding component. When the earphone is in a wearing state, the hook-shaped component may be configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user. The holding component may be configured to contact a front side of the ear. The connecting component may be configured to connect the hook-shaped component and the holding component and extend from the head to an outside of the head to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to provide the holding component with a pressing force on the front side of the ear.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Zeying Zheng, Jiang Xu, Yonggen Wang, Haofeng Zhang, Gan Lai, Chong Wang, Liwei Wang, Ruixin Han, Lei Zhang, Junjiang Fu
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Patent number: 12279085Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an acoustic apparatus. The acoustic apparatus may include a support assembly. The support assembly may include a first portion and a second portion. When a user is wearing the acoustic apparatus, the first portion may be hung between a first side of an ear and a head of the user, the second portion may contact a second side of the ear. The first portion may cause the second portion to provide a compressive force on the second side of the ear.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Yonggen Wang, Haofeng Zhang, Zeying Zheng, Lei Zhang, Liwei Wang, Jiang Xu, Fanyue Wang
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Publication number: 20250080898Abstract: Provided is an earphone comprising a core module and a hook structure connected to the core module. In wearing state, the core module is located at a front side of ear, a free end of the core module extends into a cavity of auricular concha of the ear, and a portion of the hook structure is located on a rear side of the ear. Orthographic projections of the hook structure and the core module on a first reference plane do not overlap. A first reference line segment having a shortest length is between the orthographic projections of the hook structure and the core module. When the core module is fixed, the hook structure, when pulled 5 mm to 10 mm away from the core module along a direction parallel to the first reference line segment, has a pulling force between 0.6 N and 8 N at a measurement fixed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Zeying ZHENG, Jiang XU
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Patent number: 12244996Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a headphone including a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook includes a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion being hooked up between an ear auricle and a head of a user, and the second portion is configured to be hang between an auricle of a user and a head of the user, the second portion extends toward a front outer side of the auricle, connects with the sound production component, and is configured to place the sound production component at a position close to an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, and at least a portion of the sound production component is inserted into an concha cavity. The sound production component and the first portion of the ear hook clamp the auricle in a wearing state.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
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Publication number: 20250071466Abstract: The present application relates to an earphone, comprising a hook portion and a retention portion connected to the hook portion. At least a part of the hook portion is hung between a rear side of an ear and the head of a user, the retention portion is configured to contact a front side of the ear, the hook portion includes a connection segment connected to the retention portion and a free segment connected to the connection segment, the connection segment and the free segment are located on opposite sides of the retention portion in the width direction, respectively. On a reference plane perpendicular to the thickness direction, a maximum spacing between the connection segment and the retention portion in the width direction is in a range of 10 mm-17 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiang XU, Cai HU, Zeying ZHENG, Haofeng ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250071463Abstract: Provided is an earphone. The earphone includes a core module and a hook-like structure connected to the core module. The core module has a connecting end connected to the hook-like structure and a free end not connected to the hook-like structure. The core module is located on a front side of an ear in a wearing state and the free end extends into a cavum conchae of the ear. At least a portion of the hook-like structure is located on a rear side of the ear in the wearing state, and the core module and the hook-like structure jointly clamp an ear region corresponding to the cavum conchae from a front side and a rear side of the ear region, which increases the resistance against the earphone falling off the ear, thereby improving the stability of the earphone during wear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Haofeng ZHANG, Zeying ZHENG, Jiang XU, Duoduo WU
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Publication number: 20250071461Abstract: Provided is an earphone comprising a core module and a hook structure connected to the core module. The hook structure includes a battery housing, and a battery connected to the core module is disposed within the battery housing. In a wearing state, the core module is located at a front side of an ear, and a free end of the core module that is not connected to the hook structure extends into a cavity of auricular concha of the ear. A portion of the hook structure is located on a rear side of the ear in the wearing state. The core module and the battery housing jointly clamp an ear region corresponding to the cavity of auricular concha from a front side and a rear side of the ear region. The battery housing contacts the skin of the head around the ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiang XU, Zeying ZHENG
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Publication number: 20250071464Abstract: The present disclosure mainly relates to an earphone, comprising a core module and a hook structure. The core module is disposed on a front side of an ear in a wearing state. At least a portion of the hook structure is disposed at a rear side of the ear in the wearing state. The core module includes a core housing and a loudspeaker. The hook structure includes an adapter housing connected with the core housing. At least a portion of the adapter housing is disposed at the front side of the ear in the wearing state. The adapter housing forms an accommodation cavity and one or more through holes communicated with the accommodation cavity. The earphone includes one or more electrode terminals at least partially disposed in the one or more through holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Chong WANG, Ruixin HAN, Gong YUE, Yunbin CHEN, Zhiqing LIU, Jiang XU
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Publication number: 20250071462Abstract: Provided is an earphone. The earphone may include a core module and a hook-like structure connected to the core module. The core module may be located on a front side of an ear in a wearing state, and at least part of the hook-like structure may be located on a rear side of the ear in the wearing state. The hook-like structure may include an adapter housing connected to the core module, and an accommodation cavity may be pre-formed in the adapter housing. The earphone may further include an electronic component that is subsequently mounted in the accommodating cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Haofeng ZHANG, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO
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Publication number: 20250071465Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone, comprising a core module and a hook structure. In a wearing state, the core module is disposed at a front side of an ear in a wearing state, and at least a portion of the hook structure is disposed at a rear side of the ear. A length of the core module is in a range of 22 mm-35 mm, which allows a free end of the core module to extend into a cavity of auricular concha. A transition portion of the hook structure is configured as a tapered structure, such that the earphone is smoother and more symmetrical in overall appearance. In the waring state and viewed along a direction of a human coronal axis, a connection end of the core module connected with the hook structure is closer to the top of the head of the user compared with the free end.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Zeteng YAN, Zeying ZHENG, Jiang XU
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Publication number: 20250056143Abstract: Provided are a core module and an earphone. The core module may include a core housing, and a speaker and a bracket provided in the core housing. The bracket and the speaker may enclose to form an acoustic cavity, the core housing may be provided with an acoustic hole, the bracket may be provided with an acoustic channel connecting the acoustic hole and the acoustic cavity, the bracket may cooperate with the core housing to form a first adhesive-containing groove surrounding at least a portion of the acoustic hole, and the first adhesive-containing groove may contain a first adhesive for sealing an assembly gap between the bracket and the core housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Haofeng ZHANG, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Duoduo WU
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Publication number: 20250056142Abstract: Provided are a housing assembly and an electronic device. The housing assembly may include a first housing, an electrode terminal, a microphone, and a support assembly. The first housing may be provided with an accommodation cavity and a first through-hole and a second through-hole that are connected to the accommodation cavity, respectively. The first through-hole and the second through-hole are located on different side walls of the first housing. The electrode terminal may be at least partially provided in the first through-hole, the microphone may be provided in the accommodation cavity and configured to collect a sound outside the housing assembly through the second through-hole, and the support assembly may be provided in the accommodation cavity and configured to support and fix the electrode terminal and the microphone to the side walls corresponding to the first through-hole and the second through-hole, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Haofeng ZHANG, Jiang XU, Duoduo WU, Ao JI
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Publication number: 20250048015Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone, comprising a core module and a hook structure. In a wearing state, the core module is disposed on a front side of the ear, and at least a portion of the hook structure is disposed at a rear side of the ear. Orthographic projections of the hook structure and the core module on a reference plane perpendicular to a thickness direction do not overlap. The hook structure includes a battery housing and a flexible coating. A battery coupled with the core module is disposed in the battery housing, and the battery housing includes a cover housing and a battery compartment connected with the cover housing. The flexible coating is configured to cover the cover housing. A first reference line segment with the shortest length is provided between the orthographic projection of the hook structure and the orthographic projection of the core module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiang XU, Zeying ZHENG, Zeteng YAN
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Publication number: 20250039480Abstract: Per-segment parameters for content delivery are described herein. A manifest file for a segment and a parameter file for the segment may be sent to a user device. The parameter file may indicate one or more time ranges each corresponding to a parameter value. Requests for content segments based on the manifest file and the parameter file may be received. The user device may access the parameter file to determine a time range of the one or more time ranges into which a start time of a particular segment falls. The user device may determine a parameter value as corresponding to the determined time range. The user device may then generate a request to include the determined parameter value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Alexander Giladi, Weidong Mao, Jiang Xu
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Patent number: 12212916Abstract: The present disclosure provides a headphone including a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook and the sound production component form a first projection on a user's sagittal plane. In a non-wearing state, an inner contour, a first end contour, a second end contour of the first projection, and a tangent segment connecting the first end contour and the second end contour jointly define a first closed curve. A first area of the first closed curve ranges 300 mm2-500 mm2. A portion of the inner contour corresponding to the ear hook includes a first curve. The first curve has an extremum point in a first direction perpendicular to a long axis direction of a projection of the sound production component, the extremum point is located behind a projection point of an upper vertex of the ear hook on the sagittal plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiang Xu, Haofeng Zhang, Zeying Zheng, Lei Zhang, Shanyong Gu, Hongqiang Zhao, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi, Liwei Wang, Zhen Wang
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Patent number: 12212911Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. In a wearing state, the ear hook is configured to place the sound production component at a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. An inner contour of the ear hook's projection on a user's sagittal plane includes a first curve having an extremum point in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to a long-axis direction of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane. The extremum point is located behind a projection point of an upper vertex of the ear hook on the sagittal plane, and the upper vertex is a highest point of an inner contour of the ear hook along the user's vertical axis. An inclination angle of the long-axis direction relative to a horizontal direction is within a range of 13°-21°.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi, Zeying Zheng, Haofeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20250016386Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for fault tolerant network storage and delivery of recorded content. Two or more network digital video recorders may each receive a plurality of requests to record, archive, and/or play back content items, such as television programs. Each network digital video recorder may receive capacity reports of statistics such as storage and/or bandwidth from one or more other network digital video recorders. At least one of the network digital video recorders may determine whether, based on a network capacity, to record, archive, and/or playback content items. The methods, systems, and apparatuses may accommodate equipment failures that lead to partitions between network digital video recorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Neill Kipp, Martin Trang, Jiang Xu
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Publication number: 20250008255Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone may include a hook-shaped component, a connecting component, and a holding component. When the earphone is in a wearing state, the hook-shaped component may be configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user. The holding component may be configured to contact a front side of the ear. The connecting component may be configured to connect the hook-shaped component and the holding component and extend from the head to an outside of the head to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to provide the holding component with a pressing force on the front side of the ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Zeying ZHENG, Jiang XU, Yonggen WANG, Haofeng ZHANG, Gan LAI, Chong WANG, Liwei WANG, Ruixin HAN, Lei ZHANG, Junjiang FU