Patents by Inventor Jianping Zhang

Jianping 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: 20200385252
    Abstract: Disclosed are a movable battery replacing platform (103) and a quick replacing system (100), wherein the movable battery replacing platform (103) comprises: a travel-driving portion (106) used for driving the movable battery replacing platform (103) to move on the ground; a lifting portion (107) mounted on the travel-driving portion (106), for lifting a battery during the replacement of the battery; and a battery mounting portion (108) mounted on the top of the lifting portion (107), for placing a battery to be replaced or a replaced battery, wherein the battery mounting porting (108) is provided with a battery replacing device. The device can use an unlocking device (50) to unlock a battery locked on the bottom of an electric vehicle, automatically aligning an unlocking point of a battery locking mechanism and realizing automatic unlocking in the movement. The whole process is fully automated without manual intervention and can improve battery replacement efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Chunhua Huang, Junqiao Zhou, Minghou Zhu, Xiaodong Li, Rui Zou, Shiyong Di
  • Publication number: 20200375840
    Abstract: A thermostatic massage pad includes: a thermostatic pad, wherein a thermostatic water pipe is arranged inside the thermostatic pad; a cooling pad, wherein a cooling water pipe is arranged inside the cooling pad; a casing, wherein a thermostatic water pump and a cooling water pump are respectively arranged inside the casing, a thermostatic water tank is arranged at a top of the thermostatic water pump, a cooling water tank is arranged at a top of the cooling water pump, a water inlet end of the thermostatic water pump is connected to a water outlet of the thermostatic water tank, and a water inlet end of the cooling water pump is connected to a water outlet of the cooling water tank; a thermoelectric cooler, wherein an end surface of the thermoelectric cooler is fixedly connected to a wall surface of the thermostatic water tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Jianping ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200377103
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a vehicle that includes an engine and an electric machine are described. In one example, an actual total number of transmission gear downshifts are counted to determine whether or not a transmission clutch characterization is immature. The transmission clutch characterization may be adjusted if it is determined to be immature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Jaewon Choi, Jianping Zhang, Steve Michael Cicala, Kendrick Morrison, Kurt Howard Nickerson
  • Patent number: 10849997
    Abstract: A disinfection device includes: a container having a wall that defines a chamber for containing liquid therein; and a light source for transmitting disinfection light to the liquid. The light source is in a spatial relationship with the container so that a distance between the light source and the first light receiving surface of the liquid remains unchanged regardless of a volume of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: BOLB INC.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Ling Zhou, Ying Gao
  • Publication number: 20200365766
    Abstract: A light emitting device with on-chip optical power readout includes a light emitting mesa and a light detecting mesa formed adjacent to each other on the same substrate of a chip, and a portion of the light emitted from the light emitting mesa is transmitted to the light detecting mesa at least through the substrate. The light emitting mesa and the light detecting mesa have exactly the same epitaxial structure and can be electrically isolated from each other by an insulation layer, or an airgap formed therebetween, or by ion implantation. The light emitting mesa and the light detecting mesa can also share an n-type structure and a common n-electrode while having their own p-electrode, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: JIANPING ZHANG, YING GAO, LING ZHOU, ALEXANDER LUNEV
  • Publication number: 20200353838
    Abstract: Disclosed are a battery swapping station and a control method therefor. The battery swapping station comprises: a first battery swapping platform being arranged between a first charging compartment and a second charging compartment; a first shuttle travels between the first battery charging compartment and the first battery swapping platform, a second shuttle travels between the second battery charging compartment and the first battery swapping platform; a control unit being electrically connected to the first shuttle and to the second shuttle, used for the following operation: when operating a same vehicle on the first battery swapping platform, if the first shuttle is executing either operation of battery unmounting or battery mounting, the second shuttle executes the other operation. Through the battery swapping station and the control method therefor, the waiting time for vehicles when swapping batteries can be reduced, thus increasing the battery swapping efficiency of the battery swapping station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Chunhua Huang, Rui Zou, Libin Wan, Junqiao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10833221
    Abstract: Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: BOLB INC.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Ying Gao, Ling Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200316238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mobile devices for disinfecting an object. The mobile device includes: one or more light sources for generating a disinfection light; a display; one or more processors coupled to the one or more light sources and display; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes steps to be performed including: determining a required dosage of the disinfection light; determining an exposure time of the disinfection light that corresponds to the required dosage of the disinfection light; illuminating the disinfection light on the surface; and displaying a disinfection map on the display to report a result of a disinfection process performed by the illumination of the disinfection light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Bolb Inc.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Ling Zhou, Ying Gao
  • Publication number: 20200287078
    Abstract: Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: JIANPING ZHANG, YING GAO, LING ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200287079
    Abstract: Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: JIANPING ZHANG, YING GAO, LING ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200287086
    Abstract: Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: JIANPING ZHANG, YING GAO, LING ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200287077
    Abstract: Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: JIANPING ZHANG, YING GAO, LING ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10768453
    Abstract: A device for cleaning a contact lens includes a lid, a base portion and a drawer unit detachably coupled to the base portion. The drawer unit includes a container holding a volume of fluid therein. The device also includes a vibration generator for generating an oscillatory motion on the container, where the oscillatory motion induces turbulence in the fluid with sufficient force to dislodge deposits from a lens immersed in the fluid. The device also includes a circuit board secured to the base portion and a light source for generating radiation to disinfect the dislodged deposits in the fluid. A suspension secures the light source to the circuit board and a resonance frequency of the suspension is offset from a frequency of the oscillatory motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Bolb Inc.
    Inventors: Ling Zhou, Jianping Zhang, Ying Gao
  • Publication number: 20200268064
    Abstract: A thermostatic garment being heated and cooled by a power supply and includes a thermostatic garment body. A first heat exchange water pipe network and a second heat exchange water pipe network are arranged on the thermostatic garment body in a laying manner. A thermoelectric cooler, an electric heating sheet, a controller, a power supply, a first water pump, a second water pump, a first heat conducting water tank, and a second heat conducting water tank are arranged outside the thermostatic garment body. The first heat conducting water tank is provided with a first temperature sensor, and the first temperature sensor is electrically connected to an input end of the controller. Output ends of the controller is further electrically connected to the thermoelectric cooler, the electric heating sheet and the water pump respectively. The electric heating sheet is connected to the first heat conducting water tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Jianping ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200259302
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical connection device (1) including a connector (2) having a hollow connecting cavity (21), each of two opposite sides of the connecting cavity is connected to a conductive plug (22) electrically coupled with the connecting cavity (21). The connecting cavity (21) is form by a plurality of flexible conductive materials. When in use, the grid-like connecting cavity (21) made of the flexible conductive materials can be elongated, compressed, or radially twisted, and is adaptive to changes in relative displacement at various angles at various angles in the axial direction or radial direction between different electrical connecting bases, thereby preventing degradation of performance of electrical connection due to the changes in relative displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Jianping ZHANG, Chunhua HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200230281
    Abstract: Disinfection apparatus having submersible disinfection devices for disinfecting fluid. The disinfection apparatus includes: a pipe having one or more linear segments; one or more disinfection devices installed on the pipe, each of the one or more disinfection devices generating light for disinfecting fluid in a linear segment of the pipe; and a controller electrically coupled to the one or more disinfection devices and controlling the one or more disinfection devices. Another embodiment of the disinfecting apparatus includes; side and bottom walls and a lid that define an enclosed chamber; an inlet and outlet for communicating fluid to the enclosed chamber; a plurality of disinfection devices disposed on the side wall, each of the plurality of disinfection devices generating light for disinfecting fluid inside the enclosed chamber; and a controller electrically coupled to the plurality of disinfection devices and controlling the plurality of disinfection devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Bolb Inc.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Huazhong Deng, Bin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200194610
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes an n-type AlGaN structure, a p-type AlGaN structure, and a light-emitting active-region sandwiched between the n-type AlGaN structure and the p-type AlGaN structure. A first p-contact is formed on the p-type AlGaN structure defining a light-emitting structure, a second p-contact is formed on the p-type AlGaN structure defining a light-detecting structure, and an n-contact is formed on the n-type AlGaN structure serving as a common cathode for the light-emitting structure and the light-detecting structure. There is a bridge zone between the first and the second p-contacts and the p-type AlGaN structure in the bridge zone is not removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: YING GAO, LING ZHOU, ALEXANDER V. LUNEV, JIANPING ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10678407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling one or more controllable devices (5, 6, 7, 38, 39, 40) in a system. In order to provide the apparatus with a more user friendly interface to control the one or more controllable device in the system, the method comprises capturing an image (50), comprising the one or more controllable devices, displaying the captured image (50), associating local areas (105,106,107,108,109,110) in the captured image (50) to the one or more respective controllable devices (5,6,7,38,39,40) on basis of information associated with the controllable devices in the captured image, receiving a user input indicating a selected one of the local areas in the displayed image, determining a command for the one or more controllable devices from the user input associated with the selected local area; and communicating the command to the one or more controllable devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Bingzhou Chen, Jianping Zhang, Xiang Chen, Hong Ming Zheng, Jianlin Xu, Zhen Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10662348
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminium-zinc hot-plated steel plate having excellent weather resistance, corrosion resistance and alkali resistance, and an environmental-friendly surface treating agent therefor, wherein after the surface treatment of the aluminium-zinc hot-plated steel plate using an environmental-friendly surface treating agent consisting of the components of a matrix resin compounded from a particular solvent-free aqueous aliphatic polyurethane dispersion and aqueous polyurethane-acrylic acid copolymer, an organic silicon compound, a matrix resin curing agent, a water-soluble metal salt compound and a high-density polyethylene lubrication auxiliary etc., the formed surface-treated aluminium-zinc hot-plated steel plate has comprehensive properties of excellent weather resistance, corrosion resistance and alkali resistance, and good machine formability etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan Ma, Yuling Ren, Yigang Dai, Jianping Zhang, Lan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10653808
    Abstract: Disinfection apparatus having submersible disinfection devices for disinfecting fluid. The disinfection apparatus includes: a pipe having one or more linear segments; one or more disinfection devices installed on the pipe, each of the one or more disinfection devices generating light for disinfecting fluid in a linear segment of the pipe; and a controller electrically coupled to the one or more disinfection devices and controlling the one or more disinfection devices. Another embodiment of the disinfecting apparatus includes; side and bottom walls and a lid that define an enclosed chamber; an inlet and outlet for communicating fluid to the enclosed chamber; a plurality of disinfection devices disposed on the side wall, each of the plurality of disinfection devices generating light for disinfecting fluid inside the enclosed chamber; and a controller electrically coupled to the plurality of disinfection devices and controlling the plurality of disinfection devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Bolb Inc.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Huazhong Deng, Bin Zhang