Patents by Inventor Kai Deng

Kai Deng 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: 20250141252
    Abstract: An energy storage converter and an energy storage system are provide. The energy storage converter includes: a DC switching power supply circuit configured to provide a first power supply using DC power from the DC side port; an AC switching power supply circuit configured to provide a second power supply using AC power from the AC side port; a power supply circuit configured to supply power to the energy storage converter using the first power supply or the second power supply; and a control circuit configured to, based on an operation state of the energy storage converter, control the DC switching power supply circuit or the AC switching power supply circuit to provide the power supply circuit with power supply. A power supply mode is selected based on an operation state of the energy storage converter. The DC/AC switching power supply circuit independently supplies power at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Hao DONG, Kai DENG, Le LI, Feiyang ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20250102595
    Abstract: A fault detection method and a fault protection method for a power conversion system, and a power conversion system are provided, which relate to the technical field of fault detection for circuits. The fault detection method includes: controlling, when the power conversion system operates in a reactive mode, an alternating current pre-charge power supply to operate to charge a bus capacitor of the power conversion system, where the bus capacitor supplies power to a digital signal processor (DSP) through a first switch power supply (SPS), determining whether the DSP is energized to obtain a first determination result, and determining that the bus capacitor is short-circuited if the first determination result indicates that the DSP is de-energized. According to the present disclosure, when the bus capacitor of the power conversion system is short-circuited, the short-circuit fault of the bus capacitor can be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feiyang Zheng, Kai Deng, Le Li
  • Publication number: 20250102195
    Abstract: A vapor compression system and method for operating the vapor compression system are provided. The vapor compression system includes a first compressor, a second compressor, a condenser, and at least one check valve disposed between the first compressor and the condenser. The method provides for the transmitting of a shutdown command to at least one of the first compressor and the second compressor, at least one of the first compressor and the second compressor including a rotating shaft and a magnetic bearing, the magnetic bearing having an active mode and an inactive mode, the magnetic bearing levitating the rotating shaft in the active mode. The method further provides for the monitoring of at least one of a rotational speed of the rotating shaft and a differential pressure over the check valve for a preset time, wherein the magnetic bearing remains in the active mode at least during the preset time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Vishnu M Sishtla, Jun Cao, Kai Deng
  • Patent number: 12235024
    Abstract: A deflector for a condenser, the condenser has an inlet communicated with exhaust pipes of a compressor, and the deflector is provided at the inlet, the deflector includes: a flow guiding structure having a first tube section and a second tube section of increasing diameter, the second tube section being positioned below the first tube section and extending into the condenser when mounted in place; and a support assembly for fixing the flow guiding structure at the inlet, at least a part of the refrigerant gas flow flows through the interior of the first tube section, and at least another part of the refrigerant gas flow flows through the outer side of the first tube section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongsheng Yang, Kai Deng, Yuling Shi, Hongyi Li, Keli Dong
  • Patent number: 12227535
    Abstract: The present invention relates to triterpene glycoside saponin-derived adjuvants, syntheses thereof, intermediates thereto, and uses thereof. QS-7 is a potent immuno-adjuvant that is significantly less toxic than QS-21, a related saponin that is currently the favored adjuvant in anticancer and antiviral vaccines. Tedious isolation and purification protocols have hindered the clinical development of QS-7. A novel semi-synthetic method is provided wherein a hydrolyzed prosapogenin mixture is used to synthesize QS-7, QS-21, and related analogs, greatly facilitating access to QS-7 and QS-21 analogs for preclinical and clinical evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: David Gin, Michelle Adams, Kai Deng, Philip Livingston, Govindaswami Ragupathi, Eric Chea, Alberto Fernandez-Tejada, Lars Ulrik Nordstroem, William Walkowicz, Jeffrey Gardner, Derek Tan
  • Patent number: 12215901
    Abstract: A deflector for a condenser. The condenser has an inlet in communication with a compressor, and a deflector for guiding a refrigerant gas flow from the compressor is arranged in the condenser and at a position close to the inlet. The deflector is provided with a deflecting structure projecting toward the inlet, and the deflecting structure is configured as impermeable to the refrigerant gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Stark, Scott A. Nieforth, Kai Deng, Haiping Ding, Yuling Shi, HongYi Li
  • Patent number: 12209777
    Abstract: A vapor compression system and method for operating the vapor compression system are provided. The vapor compression system includes a first compressor, a second compressor, a condenser, and at least one check valve disposed between the first compressor and the condenser. The method provides for the transmitting of a shutdown command to at least one of the first compressor and the second compressor, at least one of the first compressor and the second compressor including a rotating shaft and a magnetic bearing, the magnetic bearing having an active mode and an inactive mode, the magnetic bearing levitating the rotating shaft in the active mode. The method further provides for the monitoring of at least one of a rotational speed of the rotating shaft and a differential pressure over the check valve for a preset time, wherein the magnetic bearing remains in the active mode at least during the preset time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vishnu M. Sishtla, Jun Cao, Kai Deng
  • Publication number: 20240410065
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a rose petal effect-based biomimetic electrode and a membrane-less water electrolysis reactor utilizing the same, belongs to the technical field of catalytic technology for water electrolysis. The electrode has a surface exhibiting a microscopically alternating hydrophilic-hydrophobic periodic structure. The hydrophilic parts ensure good contact between the catalyst and the electrolyte solution, thereby guaranteeing the electrode's catalytic performance. The hydrophobic parts allow the gas generated at the electrode surface to be discharged through internal porous channels, preventing the formation of visible bubbles on the electrode surface and thereby fundamentally avoiding issues caused by bubble formation. The membrane-less water electrolysis reactor utilizing the electrode can eliminate bubble formation on the electrode surface, thereby avoiding problems related to bubble covering catalytic sites, bubble resistance, and gas mixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Dong LIU, Kai DENG, Hao FENG, Ying ZHANG, Qiang LI
  • Patent number: 12078186
    Abstract: A locking structure of a compressor impeller, which includes: a rotary shaft; a lock nut arranged on an end of the rotary shaft by means of a threaded connection and provided with waist-shaped holes extending along a circumferential direction thereof; an impeller sleeved on the end of the rotary shaft and located on an inner side of the lock nut, the impeller is provided with threaded holes in communication with the waist-shaped holes of the lock nut; a nose piece located on an outer side of the lock nut and provided with through holes in communication with the waist-shaped holes of the lock nut; and bolts passing through the through holes and the waist-shaped holes in turn into the threaded holes, thereby fixing the nose piece, the lock nut and the impeller together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huiliang Zhang, Kai Deng
  • Patent number: 12078180
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor and a refrigerating device. The centrifugal compressor includes: a shell, which has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; a motor assembly including a stator and a rotor, the rotor including a vertically arranged rotor shaft; a centrifugal compression mechanism, an impeller of which is connected with the rotor shaft so as to be driven by the motor assembly, wherein the centrifugal compression mechanism is arranged downstream of the fluid inlet to receive fluid, compress and pressurize the fluid, and output the pressurized fluid in a direction away from the motor assembly; and a guide member, which receives the pressurized fluid from the centrifugal compression mechanism, and which defines a flow passage alone or together with a part of the shell, wherein the flow passage is configured such that the pressurized fluid from the centrifugal compression mechanism passes through and cools the motor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tingcan Mi, Kai Deng, Lei Yu, Guangyu Shen, Fei Xie, Yuhui Kuang
  • Patent number: 12072127
    Abstract: A refrigeration system includes a compressor, a condenser, a throttling device, and an evaporator, which are connected in sequence to form a cooling circuit, the refrigeration system further includes an oil recovery system which includes: an operation chamber, which includes a first port communicating with an oil-containing position in the refrigeration system through a first pipeline, and a second port communicating with a bearing chamber or a bearing lubrication pipeline of the compressor through a second pipeline; and a main piston in the operation chamber, the main piston reciprocating in the operation chamber to perform an extraction stroke and a discharge stroke; in the extraction stroke, an oil-containing refrigerant in the oil-containing position in the refrigeration system is extracted to the operation chamber; and in the discharge stroke, the oil-containing refrigerant in the operation chamber is delivered to the bearing chamber or the bearing lubrication pipeline of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhen Guo, Kai Deng, Vishnu Sishtla, Yingqin Wu, Lei Yu
  • Publication number: 20240200254
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of laundry apparatus manufacturing, and discloses a space textile cleaning equipment and a cleaning method, comprising a washing unit consisting of: a housing, in which a fixing plate for paving the fabric and a fixing clip for clamping and fixing the paved fabric are arranged; and a scraper corresponding to the fabric, which can move along the length direction or the width direction of the fixing plate, and is also provided with an atomizing nozzle for spraying detergent, with the outlet of the atomizing nozzle corresponds to the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: YIQIAN CHENG, QI WANG, SIHAO QIAN, GUANGWEI WANG, PING TAN, JIN LIU, KAI DENG, LIN JIANG, ZHAN XU, PENG LI, QI FENG, DAN LI, WANI WU, ZHENQI SU, HAOWEI LI
  • Publication number: 20240162737
    Abstract: A power conversion system, an energy storage system and a power supply method are provided. The power conversion system includes a battery management system and an auxiliary power supply. A positive electrode of the auxiliary power supply is connected to a positive electrode of a battery rack. The auxiliary power supply is configured to obtain power from the battery rack, convert the power obtained from the battery rack, and supply the converted power to the battery management system and a load in the power conversion system. The battery management system is configured to sample a voltage of the battery rack and a current of the battery rack, and control charging and discharging of the battery rack based on the voltage and the current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Deng, Le Li, Hao Dong, Feiyang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11965681
    Abstract: A refrigeration system and a lubricating method thereof. The refrigeration system (100) includes: a compressor (110), a condenser (120), an evaporator (130), and a lubrication circuit (200), the lubrication circuit including a post-lubrication flow path (230,240,260) connected from the compressor into the condenser and the evaporator respectively; and a pre-lubrication flow path (210,220,250) connected from the condenser and the evaporator into the compressor respectively; wherein after flowing from the condenser via the pre-lubrication flow path to the compressor for lubrication, a part of refrigerant for lubrication can flow back to the evaporator via the post-lubrication flow path; or after flowing from the evaporator via the pre-lubrication flow path to the compressor for lubrication, the part of refrigerant for lubrication can flow back to the condenser via the post-lubrication flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Stark, Hsihua Li, Haitao Zhang, Biao Shu, Kai Deng, Haiping Ding
  • Publication number: 20240035720
    Abstract: A deflector for a condenser. The condenser has an inlet in communication with a compressor, and a deflector for guiding a refrigerant gas flow from the compressor is arranged in the condenser and at a position close to the inlet. The deflector is provided with a deflecting structure projecting toward the inlet, and the deflecting structure is configured as impermeable to the refrigerant gas flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Michael A. Stark, Scott A. Nieforth, Kai Deng, Haiping Ding, Yuling Shi, HongYi Li
  • Patent number: 11879468
    Abstract: A control method for a centrifugal compressor and an air conditioning system. The control method for the centrifugal compressor includes: S100, when an inlet opening of the centrifugal compressor is below a first preset value, shutting down a drive motor of the centrifugal compressor; or S200, when the inlet opening of the centrifugal compressor is not below the first preset value, performing the following operations in a preset order: decreasing the inlet opening of the centrifugal compressor, and increasing a rotate speed of the centrifugal compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Deng, Vishnu Sishtla, Jun Cao, Yuchang Shac
  • Patent number: 11859881
    Abstract: Refrigeration systems and control methods therefor are described. The refrigeration systems include a main circuit to connect, through a pipeline, a multi-stage compressor, a condenser, an economizer, a main throttling element, and an evaporator. An air supply branch is configured to connect to the air outlet of the economizer and the intermediate stage air inlet of the multi-stage compressor. A liquid injection branch is configured to connect to the intermediate stage air inlet of the multi-stage compressor from a section having a high-pressure liquid-phase refrigerant in the main circuit. Through the design of the liquid injection branch, the liquid-phase refrigerant can be introduced when vibration or noise of the unit exceeds a limit. The liquid-phase refrigerant, in the form of droplets, can effectively absorb the sound wave energy in the compressor pipeline to reduce an overall discharge pulsation of the compressor and reduce the noise and vibration of the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Deng, Vishnu Sishtla
  • Publication number: 20230377016
    Abstract: Methods and system for generating a filter interface in response to a user search are disclosed. The method includes extracting keywords from a search term, determining a plurality of filters associated with the keywords, determining a ranking for each of the plurality of filters, providing and displaying, based on the ranking, a subset of the plurality of filters as exposed filters, receiving a user selection of one of the exposed filters, in response to the second user input, applying the one of the plurality of filters and updating the ranking of the remaining of the plurality of filters, updating, to the first user, the search result, and regenerating the plurality of filters. The methods and system further includes methods to determine the ranking and filter arrangements on the user interface, and methods to update filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: COUPANG CORP.
    Inventors: Nishant Agrawal, Kai Deng, Daewon Kang, Hyunjun Jeon, Andrei Alikov, Vladimir Solomenchuk, Wonki Jung, Nam Gyun Jo, Chan Seo, Jin Hyeong Park, Narae Kwak
  • Patent number: 11821665
    Abstract: A deflector for a condenser. The condenser has an inlet in communication with a compressor, and a deflector for guiding a refrigerant gas flow from the compressor is arranged in the condenser and at a position close to the inlet. The deflector is provided with a deflecting structure projecting toward the inlet, and the deflecting structure is configured as impermeable to the refrigerant gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Stark, Scott A. Nieforth, Kai Deng, Haiping Ding, Yuling Shi, HongYi Li
  • Patent number: 11738321
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for tracking solutions, (e.g., reaction conditions in solutions). In some embodiments, the method comprises: contacting a first lanthanide-chelator complex to a first solution to generate a first barcoded solution, wherein the first lanthanide-chelator complex comprises a first lanthanide chelated by a first chelator; contacting a second lanthanide-chelator complex to a second solution to generate a second barcoded solution, wherein the second lanthanide-chelator complex comprises a second lanthanide chelated by a second chelator; mixing the first barcoded solution and the second barcoded solution to form one or more mixtures; and identifying the first lanthanide ions in the mass spectrum and the second lanthanide ions in the mass spectrum to track the condition of each of the one or more mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Duncombe, Trent R. Northen, Kai Deng, Anup K. Singh