Patents by Inventor Jiaqi Li
Jiaqi Li 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: 20210285178Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for quantifying a bearing capacity of foundation containing shallow-hidden spherical cavities, comprising: in Step 1, constructing a spatial axisymmetric calculation model for stability analysis of the foundation containing shallow-hidden spherical cavities; in Step 2, solving the model to obtain a general solution which reflects the spatial stress distribution of surrounding rock containing shallow-hidden spherical cavities; in Step 3, obtain a mathematical expression by derivation for calculating the bearing capacity of the foundation containing shallow-hidden spherical cavities; and in Step 4: completing the determination of the foundation bearing capacity. Benefits: This method has many advantages such as comprehensive consideration, high accuracy and reliability of calculation results, and may provide the scientific basis for the development of prevention and control against the instability of the foundation containing shallow-hidden cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Peng XIE, Zurun YUE, Haijia WEN, Ying TENG, Shuqi YANG, Jiaqi LI, Lei YAN, Yuxuan YANG, Shaolong JIE, Bingyang LIU, Jingjing FU, Jing XIE, Zhichao DU, Di YIN
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Publication number: 20210270490Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes one or more processing circuits having one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media containing program instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform operations including providing an optimization function for operating HVAC equipment over a future time period including a plurality of time steps and using the optimization function to generate a time series of temperature setpoints for the plurality of time steps in the future time period. The time series of temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the optimization function over the future time period. The operations include operating the HVAC equipment to drive indoor air temperature toward a first temperature setpoint of the time series of temperature setpoints for a first time step of the plurality of time steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Robert D. Turney, Jiaqi Li
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Publication number: 20210229548Abstract: A longitudinal multi-shift electrically driving power assembly, wherein the longitudinal multi-shift electrically driving power assembly includes an electric motor and a plurality of sets of gearboxes, each of the gearboxes is a single-shift reduction gearbox or a multi-shift reduction gearbox, the gearboxes are connected in series to form a gearbox assembly, and an output shaft of the electric motor and an input shaft of the gearbox assembly are integrally manufactured. The power assembly employs the plurality of sets of gearboxes that are connected in series, which improves the performance of the power assembly without adding a power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Ping YU, Jianwen LI, Defeng HOU, Jiaqi LI
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Publication number: 20210207481Abstract: A split air cabin ventilation system for construction of tunnel inclined shafts, including a first air cabin and a second air cabin which are both in a hollow closed structure with an air inlet end and an air outlet end respectively at both sides. The two air outlet ends are arranged away from each other. An end of the split air cabin is provided with an air inlet, and the other end is provided with an air outlet. The air inlet is connected to an air source, and the air outlet is connected to the air inlet ends of the first and second air cabins, respectively. The air inlet end of the first air cabin is connected to another air source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Shuangqin CHEN, Jun LI, Runzhi JIA, Feng CHENG, Yaqiong WANG, Jiaqi LI, Rui REN, Wei LONG, Xitong BAI
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Publication number: 20210198193Abstract: Involved are a diketone oxime ester compound shown in formula I and a manufacturing method therefor, and a photo-curable composition using the compound of formula I as a photoinitiator. The composition has extremely high light sensitivity and relatively low yellowing resistance when applied to prepare a color filter for a light resistance device such as a display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Wenchao ZHAO, Jiaqi LI, Chenlong WANG
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Patent number: 11009252Abstract: A building management system includes HVAC equipment operable to affect an indoor air temperature of a building, a system manager configured to obtain a cost function that characterizes a cost of operating the HVAC equipment, obtain a dataset relating to the building, determine a current state of the building by applying the dataset to a neural network, select a temperature bound associated with the current state, augment the cost function to include a penalty term that increases the cost when the indoor air temperature violates the temperature bound, and determine a temperature setpoint for each of a plurality of time steps in the future time period. The temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the cost function over the future time period. The building management system also includes a controller configured to operate the HVAC equipment to drive the indoor air temperature towards the temperature setpoint.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Robert D. Turney, Jiaqi Li
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Publication number: 20210141346Abstract: A controller for operating building equipment of a building including processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining a first setpoint trajectory from a cloud computation system. The first setpoint trajectory includes setpoints for the building equipment or for a space of the building. The setpoints correspond to time steps of an optimization period. The operations include determining whether a connection between the controller and the cloud computation system is active or inactive at a time step of the optimization period and determining an active setpoint for the time step of the optimization period using either the first or second setpoint trajectory based on whether the connection between the controller and the cloud computation system is active or inactive at the time step. The operations include operating the building equipment based on the active setpoint.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney, Jiaqi Li, Matthew J. Ellis, Mohammad N. ELBSAT
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Publication number: 20210094171Abstract: A magnetically driven hopping soft robot based on magnetically programmed temperature-sensitive hydrogels includes first moving bodies and a second moving body. Several first moving bodies are distributed evenly on a bottom portion of the second moving body. The first moving bodies are made of a temperature-responsive hydrogel containing magnetic particles. An alternating magnetic field is applied to the first moving bodies to cause the first moving bodies to deform due to magnetocaloric effect. The first moving bodies have a two-layered structure. A first layer is made of a double-network cross-linked hydrogel and a second layer is made of a magnetic temperature-responsive hydrogel with added magnetic nanoparitcles. An alternating magnetic field is applied to the first moving bodies in a manner that an amount of deformation of the second layer is greater than that of the first layer. The second layer is made of a temperature-responsive hydrogel with added magnetic nanoparticles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Jiangsu UniversityInventors: Lin XU, Siyuan LIU, Jianning DING, Kun ZHANG, Jiaqi LI, Chuncheng LIU, Guanggui CHENG, Zhongqiang ZHANG, Xiaodong WANG
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Publication number: 20210046819Abstract: A dual-power-source dual driving assembly for a vehicle, includes two driving units that are symmetrically provided and connected to a same one set of vehicle axle half shaft. Each driving units is provided with a power source and an automatic transmission that are each connected to one half shaft of the vehicle axle half shaft. Moreover, each automatic transmission is provided with an input shaft, an intermediate shaft and an output shaft that are parallel. The three shafts have multiple gear stages with different transmission ratios, the power source is connected to the input shaft, and the output shaft is connected to a left or right half shaft of the vehicle axle half shaft. The dual driving assembly provides a transmission with two speed ratios, which results in flexible transmission modes, and shortens the axial dimension of the driving assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Ping YU, Kuizhu SHAO, Jianwen LI, Haibin WANG, Jiaqi LI
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Patent number: 10644475Abstract: A random distributed Rayleigh feedback fiber laser based on a double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber includes: a pump laser source, a pump combiner, a cladding power stripper, and a double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber for simultaneously achieving distributed active gain and random distributed Rayleigh feedback. An output end of the pump combiner is connected with one end of the double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber, the other end of the double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber is connected with an input end of the cladding power stripper, and a concentration of ytterbium ions in the double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber is in a range of 0.5×1023 to 1×1025/m3. The laser provided by the present invention solves the problem that the existing random fiber lasers cannot simultaneously utilize distributed active gain and random distributed Rayleigh feedback with a single type of fiber.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaInventors: Zinan Wang, Jiaqi Li, Han Wu, Yunjiang Rao
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Patent number: 10555862Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an armboard adjustment assembly for a patient support table. In one embodiment, an armboard adjustment assembly is configured to retain a rotational position of an armboard of a patient support table via a plurality of one-way clutches, and in another embodiment the armboard adjustment assembly is configured to retain the rotational position of the armboard via a pair of friction pads. In this way, the armboard may be moved into a continuous plurality of positions between a fully lowered position and a fully raised position.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eric Jeffrey Lubar, Jiaqi Li, Jason Philps, Paul Jason Krueger
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Patent number: 10491298Abstract: A hybrid distributed amplification method based on a random fiber laser generated within erbium fiber with low doping concentration, i.e. weak erbium-doped fiber (WEDF), which includes: Step 1. constructing a fiber link via WEDF; Step 2. generating the random fiber laser based on the fiber link, the pump source, the wavelength division multiplexer and the strong feedback module; Step 3. constructing the spatial equalized gain based on hybrid gain of the erbium fiber and random fiber laser; Step 4. the signal is amplified by the hybrid spatial equalized gain. The present invention solves the typical problem of high laser threshold and low pump conversion efficiency when conventional fiber is used to generate random fiber laser for distributed amplification.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaInventors: Yunjiang Rao, Yun Fu, Jiaqi Li, Zinan Wang
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Publication number: 20190338977Abstract: A building management system includes HVAC equipment operable to affect an indoor air temperature of a building, a system manager configured to obtain a cost function that characterizes a cost of operating the HVAC equipment, obtain a dataset relating to the building, determine a current state of the building by applying the dataset to a neural network, select a temperature bound associated with the current state, augment the cost function to include a penalty term that increases the cost when the indoor air temperature violates the temperature bound, and determine a temperature setpoint for each of a plurality of time steps in the future time period. The temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the cost function over the future time period. The building management system also includes a controller configured to operate the HVAC equipment to drive the indoor air temperature towards the temperature setpoint.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Robert D. Turney, Jiaqi Li
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Patent number: 10274556Abstract: A radio frequency coil apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising an inductor circular carrier, a first capacitor circular carrier, and a second capacitor circular carrier. A plurality of inductor bars are provided at intervals on the inductor circular carrier. A plurality of first capacitor elements are provided on the first capacitor circular carrier, the first capacitor circular carrier being configured to be detachably connected to one end of the inductor circular carrier, the plurality of first capacitor elements being configured to be connected to one end of the plurality of inductor bars. A plurality of second capacitor elements are provided on the second capacitor circular carrier, the second capacitor circular carrier being configured to be detachably connected to the other end of the inductor circular carrier, the plurality of second capacitor elements being configured to be connected to the other end of the plurality of inductor bars.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Sheng Tong, Cong Zhang, Yonghui Jiang, Jiaqi Li, Xuelian Lu
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Publication number: 20190058524Abstract: A hybrid distributed amplification method based on a random fiber laser generated within erbium fiber with low doping concentration, i.e. weak erbium-doped fiber (WEDF), which includes: Step 1. constructing a fiber link via WEDF; Step 2. generating the random fiber laser based on the fiber link, the pump source, the wavelength division multiplexer and the strong feedback module; Step 3. constructing the spatial equalized gain based on hybrid gain of the erbium fiber and random fiber laser; Step 4. the signal is amplified by the hybrid spatial equalized gain. The present invention solves the typical problem of high laser threshold and low pump conversion efficiency when conventional fiber is used to generate random fiber laser for distributed amplification.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Yunjiang Rao, Yun Fu, Jiaqi Li, Zinan Wang
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Publication number: 20180366897Abstract: A random distributed Rayleigh feedback fiber laser based on a double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber includes: a pump laser source, a pump combiner, a cladding power stripper, and a double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber for simultaneously achieving distributed active gain and random distributed Rayleigh feedback. An output end of the pump combiner is connected with one end of the double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber, the other end of the double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber is connected with an input end of the cladding power stripper, and a concentration of ytterbium ions in the double-cladding weakly ytterbium-doped fiber is in a range of 0.5×1023 to 1×1027/m3. The laser provided by the present invention solves the problem that the existing random fiber lasers cannot simultaneously utilize distributed active gain and random distributed Rayleigh feedback with a single type of fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Zinan Wang, Jiaqi Li, Han Wu, Yunjiang Rao
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Patent number: 10132891Abstract: A PET-MRI system for imaging an object is provided. The PET-MRI system includes a magnetic resonance imaging sub-system, a positron emission tomography sub-system, an optical sensor, and a data processing controller. The magnetic resonance imaging sub-system includes a surface coil that acquires magnetic resonance signals from the object. The positron emission tomography sub-system acquires PET emissions from the object. The optical sensor detects at least one of a spatial location and a shape of the surface coil. The data processing controller communicates with the magnetic resonance imaging sub-system, the positron emission tomography sub-system, and the optical sensor, and utilizes at least one of the detected spatial location and the detected shape of the surface coil to correct the acquired PET emissions for attenuation.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jiaqi Li, Andrew Byshenk, Chinmoy Goswami, Tongzhou Wang
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Publication number: 20180177468Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an armboard adjustment assembly for a patient support table. In one embodiment, an armboard adjustment assembly is configured to retain a rotational position of an armboard of a patient support table via a plurality of one-way clutches, and in another embodiment the armboard adjustment assembly is configured to retain the rotational position of the armboard via a pair of friction pads. In this way, the armboard may be moved into a continuous plurality of positions between a fully lowered position and a fully raised position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Eric Jeffrey Lubar, Jiaqi Li, Jason Philps, Paul Jason Krueger
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Patent number: 9927559Abstract: The disclosure relates to wavelength-controlled directivity of all-dielectric optical nanoantennas. One example embodiment is an optical nanoantenna for directionally scattering light in a visible or a near-infrared spectral range. The optical nanoantenna includes a substrate. The optical nanoantenna also includes an antenna structure disposed on the substrate. The antenna structure includes a dielectric material having a refractive index that is higher than a refractive index of the substrate and a refractive index of a surrounding medium. The antenna structure includes a structure having two distinct end portions. The antenna structure is asymmetric with respect to at least one mirror reflection in a plane that is orthogonal to a plane of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignees: IMEC VZW, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU LEUVEN R&DInventors: Jiaqi Li, Niels Verellen, Pol Van Dorpe, Dries Vercruysse
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Publication number: 20180081014Abstract: A PET-MRI system for imaging an object is provided. The PET-MRI system includes a magnetic resonance imaging sub-system, a positron emission tomography sub-system, an optical sensor, and a data processing controller. The magnetic resonance imaging sub-system includes a surface coil that acquires magnetic resonance signals from the object. The positron emission tomography sub-system acquires PET emissions from the object. The optical sensor detects at least one of a spatial location and a shape of the surface coil. The data processing controller communicates with the magnetic resonance imaging sub-system, the positron emission tomography sub-system, and the optical sensor, and utilizes at least one of the detected spatial location and the detected shape of the surface coil to correct the acquired PET emissions for attenuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: JIAQI LI, ANDREW BYSHENK, CHINMOY GOSWAMI, TONGZHOU WANG