Patents by Inventor John Hu
John Hu 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: 20240134776Abstract: A system, e.g., a system on a chip (SoC) includes a first domain including a first processor configured to boot the system; a second domain including a processing subsystem having a second processor; and isolation circuitry between the first domain and the second domain During boot-up of the system, the first processor provides code to the second domain. When the code is executed by the second processor, it configures the processing subsystem as either a safety domain or as a general-purpose processing domain. The safety domain may an external safety domain or an internal safety domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Venkateswar Kowkutla, Raghavendra Santhanagopal, Chunhua Hu, Anthony Frederick Seely, Nishanth Menon, Rajesh Kumar Vanga, Rejitha Nair, Siva Srinivas Kothamasu, Kazunobu Shin, Jason Peck, John Apostol
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Publication number: 20240135324Abstract: A system, apparatus, and/or method is disclosed for—inter alia—producing a product. One or more financial characteristics relating to one or more sample products may be received. For each of the sample products, a value for each of one or more respective properties of the sample product may be received. The received values of the one or more respective properties of the sample products, the one or more received financial characteristics relating to the sample products, and a desired financial characteristic for a potential product may be input into the machine learning model. A value for each of the one or more respective properties for the potential product may be determined based on the desired financial characteristic for the potential product. A product having the determined value for each of the one or more respective properties for the potential product may be produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Zhichao HU, Michael FITZGERALD, Iraklis PAPPAS, Keeyan HAGHSHENAS, Junfang Katy QIAN-PENA, John WOLF, Lingfei ZENG, Teressa CLARK, Jason JOYCE, Evan WIREMAN
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Patent number: 11936491Abstract: A method of coordinating engagement with a laundry appliance may include receiving one or more table conditions from an owner account for a notification table. The method may also include receiving a communication request from a remote user device of a guest user and recording a guest account to the notification table based on the received communication request. The method may still further include receiving a status signal from the laundry appliance and transmitting a notice signal to the guest account based on the status signal and the one or more table conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Haitian Hu, Hairong Li, Kyran Hoff, John Ouseph
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Publication number: 20240087111Abstract: A system and method is provided for controlling an acquisition system to obtain, based on a currently acquired set of projection data, a next set of projection data that is to be acquired using a set of learned imaging conditions. The set of learned imaging conditions are, at least in part, based on training data including projection data and dose information. In one embodiment, the initial dose and angle for obtaining the initial set of projection data are chosen at random. In another embodiment, the initial dose and angle for obtaining the initial set of projection data are chosen based on a test scan and a trained neural network for outputting the initial dose and angle using a loss function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yi HU, Yu-bing CHANG, Haruki IWAI, Joseph MANAK, John BAUMGART, James BEGELMAN
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Patent number: 11922147Abstract: A system and method for user interface development and appliance data transmission is provided. The method includes generating, at a controller at an appliance, a core control module configured to perform operations corresponding to a first operating function at the appliance; obtaining, at a network computing device, a user input corresponding to a second operating function; building, at the network computing device, a user-specific control module comprising the second operating function; transmitting, to the controller at the appliance, the user-specific control module; and combining the user-specific control module to the core control module.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Haitian Hu, Hairong Li, John Ouseph
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Patent number: 11867400Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a liner surrounding a fuel and air mixing body. A gaseous fuel supply passage delivers gaseous fuel into the mixing body. A wall of the mixing body has air openings to communicate air into mixing passages. At least one fuel opening in each of the mixing passages allows fuel to flow into the mixing passages and mix with the air. There are passage sections downstream of a location of the fuel openings, such that the mixed air and fuel travel downstream of the location and into a combustion chamber. The passage sections have baffles that create a tortuous path. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Tin Cheung John Hu
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Patent number: 11820297Abstract: The application proposes a bracket, a bracket assembly, a device arranged on vehicle roof and a vehicle, which are applied in the field of automobile technology. The bracket comprises: a first bracket body mounted to the top of the vehicle; and a connecting body comprising: a first connecting piece arranged on the left side of the first bracket body and mounted with a first image sensor, and a second connecting piece arranged on the right side of the first bracket body and mounted with a second image sensor, wherein the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece are arranged above A pillars of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) CO., LTDInventors: William Li, Samir Agrawal, Jianyong Zhang, Waylon Chen, John Hu, Yunyue Cai, Xiaoning Gong, Shaoqing Ren, Ted Li, Gordon Cao, Jiong Chen, Matt Samson, Devin Zhang, Yunfeng Dong, Taylor Cheng, Nicole Guo
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Patent number: 11692489Abstract: A method of servicing a gas turbine engine having an igniter socket, the method comprising: inserting a glow plug into the igniter socket of the gas turbine engine until a rod end of a glow plug heater rod of the glow plug is exposed to a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine; and blocking a gap between the glow plug heater rod and an aperture defined in a combustor liner of the gas turbine engine to block fluid communication between the combustion chamber and an environment outside the combustion chamber via the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Richard Freer, Kian McCaldon, Tin-Cheung John Hu, Michel Bousquet, André Fortin
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Patent number: 11686222Abstract: An aircraft engine has a combustor supplied by a hydrogen fuel system and is configured to combust hydrogen and generate water vapor. A water vapor collector receives at least part of the water vapor. A condenser is in fluid communication with the water vapor collector to receive and cool in the condenser the at least part of the water vapor and thereby condense at least part of the at least part of the flow of water vapor. A spray nozzle is in fluid communication with the condenser and operable to spray the condensed part of the at least part of the flow of water vapor onto a component of the aircraft engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Tin-Cheung John Hu
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Patent number: 11668463Abstract: A combustor of an aircraft engine comprises a liner defining a primary and a dilution zone having a hot surface exposed to a flow of combustion gases traveling from the primary zone downstream to the dilution zone and a cold surface. Dilution holes extending through the liner from the cold to the hot surface delimit the primary from the dilution zone. Effusion holes extending through the liner from the cold to the hot surface direct cooling air into the dilution zone. Two or more rows of effusion holes positioned within three dilution hole diameters downstream of the dilution holes are oriented relative to the liner to direct the cooling air in a cooling direction that is at least one of normal to the direction of the flow of gases passing adjacent the effusion holes, and against the direction of the flow of gases passing adjacent the effusion holes.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Tin-Cheung John Hu
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Publication number: 20230167975Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a combustor of an aircraft engine includes a nozzle body defining an a fuel passage, extending therethrough between a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet located at the outlet end that at least partially defines a nozzle tip, for directing a fuel flow into the combustor via the nozzle tip. A core air passage extends through the nozzle body for directing a core air flow into the combustor via the nozzle tip. At least two flow restrictors are disposed in series within the core air passage, the flow restrictors including an upstream flow restrictor and a downstream flow restrictor each having an orifice therein. The restricted air flow passage having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the core air passage. The orifice in the upstream flow restrictor being at least partially offset from the orifice in the downstream flow restrictor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventor: Tin-Cheung John HU
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Patent number: 11614034Abstract: A gas turbine engine has: a casing; a combustor liner delimiting a combustion chamber; a fuel nozzle in fluid communication with the combustion chamber; and an igniter having a base, a glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, and a sleeve extending around the glow plug heater rod, the sleeve radially spaced apart from the glow plug heater rod by an annular gap, the sleeve defines fins circumferentially distributed around the axis, each two circumferentially adjacent fins of the fins spaced apart from one another by a spacing communicating with the annular gap, the fins extending in a direction having an axial component from roots to tips, the roots axially closer to the base than the tips, the rod end extending axially beyond the tips of the fins such that the rod end is located outside the annular gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Richard Freer, Kian McCaldon, Tin-Cheung John Hu, Michel Bousquet, André Fortin
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Publication number: 20230044804Abstract: A combustor of an aircraft engine comprises a liner defining a primary and a dilution zone having a hot surface exposed to a flow of combustion gases traveling from the primary zone downstream to the dilution zone and a cold surface. Dilution holes extending through the liner from the cold to the hot surface delimit the primary from the dilution zone. Effusion holes extending through the liner from the cold to the hot surface direct cooling air into the dilution zone. Two or more rows of effusion holes positioned within three dilution hole diameters downstream of the dilution holes are oriented relative to the liner to direct the cooling air in a cooling direction that is at least one of normal to the direction of the flow of gases passing adjacent the effusion holes, and against the direction of the flow of gases passing adjacent the effusion holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventor: Tin-Cheung John HU
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Publication number: 20230035231Abstract: An aircraft engine has a combustor supplied by a hydrogen fuel system and is configured to combust hydrogen and generate water vapor. A water vapor collector receives at least part of the water vapor. A condenser is in fluid communication with the water vapor collector to receive and cool in the condenser the at least part of the water vapor and thereby condense at least part of the at least part of the flow of water vapor. A spray nozzle is in fluid communication with the condenser and operable to spray the condensed part of the at least part of the flow of water vapor onto a component of the aircraft engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventor: Tin-Cheung John HU
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Patent number: 11536454Abstract: Wall assemblies for a combustor of a gas turbine engine are disclosed. A wall assembly comprises an outer shell made of a metallic material, adjacent first and second inner panels mounted to the outer shell via an insert and a damper disposed between the outer shell and at least one of the first and second inner panels. The first and second inner panels may be spaced apart from the outer shell to define a double-wall configuration with the outer shell. The first and second inner panels may be made of a composite material. The insert may be made from substantially the same or other type of composite material.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Tin-Cheung John Hu
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Publication number: 20220372916Abstract: A gas turbine engine has: a casing; a combustor liner delimiting a combustion chamber; a fuel nozzle in fluid communication with the combustion chamber; and an igniter having a base, a glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, and a sleeve extending around the glow plug heater rod, the sleeve radially spaced apart from the glow plug heater rod by an annular gap, the sleeve defines fins circumferentially distributed around the axis, each two circumferentially adjacent fins of the fins spaced apart from one another by a spacing communicating with the annular gap, the fins extending in a direction having an axial component from roots to tips, the roots axially closer to the base than the tips, the rod end extending axially beyond the tips of the fins such that the rod end is located outside the annular gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Richard FREER, Kian MCCALDON, Tin-Cheung John HU, Michel BOUSQUET, André FORTIN
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Patent number: 11454173Abstract: There is disclosed an igniter for a gas turbine engine including: a base, a glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, and a plurality of fins disposed circumferentially around the glow plug heater rod, the fins extending axially along at least a portion of the glow plug heater rod. A gas turbine engine including such an igniter is further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Richard Freer, Kian McCaldon, Tin-Cheung John Hu, Michel Bousquet, André Fortin
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Patent number: 11435078Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprises a combustor chamber defined at least partially by an outer combustor skin and an inner combustor skin. A plurality of stand-off devices have a body including a first end and a second end, the second end of the body retained in an opening in the outer combustor skin, the first end spaced apart from the second end and abutting the inner combustor skin to space the inner combustor skin apart from the outer combustor skin.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Tin-Cheung John Hu, Oleg Morenko
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Patent number: 11415060Abstract: There is disclosed an igniter for a gas turbine engine including: a base including a securing assembly configured to be matingly connected to a casing of the gas turbine engine, a glow plug heater rod, the glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, a flow impeding member extending along the axis and having a distal end spaced from the base and extending axially relative to the axis beyond the rod end, the flow impeding member sized and configured such that the distal end extends into a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine upon the base connected to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Richard Freer, Kian McCaldon, Tin-Cheung John Hu, Michel Bousquet, André Fortin
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Patent number: 11401867Abstract: There is disclosed an igniter for a gas turbine engine including: a base, a glow plug heater rod, the heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, a peripheral wall extending circumferentially around the rod end and having a distal end directed away from the base, a gap between the peripheral wall and the heater rod, the rod end being axially retracted relative the distal end of the peripheral wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Richard Freer, Kian McCaldon, Tin-Cheung John Hu, Michel Bousquet, André Fortin