Patents by Inventor Kai Wu

Kai Wu 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: 20250253431
    Abstract: A battery and an electric apparatus are disclosed. The battery includes: a housing having an accommodating space; battery units in the accommodating space. The battery unit includes a plurality of battery cells disposed side by side along a first direction, and the plurality of battery units are disposed side by side along a second direction. At least two battery cells in the plurality of battery units have different chemical systems. A thermal management assembly is disposed in the accommodating space, where the thermal management assembly includes a heat exchange plate that is disposed on at least one side of the battery units in the second direction, the heat exchange plate is connected to the plurality of battery cells of the battery units, and the heat exchange plate is configured to accommodate a heat exchange medium to adjust temperature of the plurality of battery cells of the battery units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Kai WU, Feng QIN, Haidong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250251252
    Abstract: An electric vehicle charging recommendation system is disclosed. The system comprises a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver is configured to receive a request from a user interface associated with a vehicle user. The request includes one or more of vehicle route information and vehicle State of Charge (SoC) level. The processor is configured to generate a geofence, and obtain real-time operator charging amounts from charging station operators located in the geofence. The processor is further configured to determine that a charging demand in the geofence is less than a predetermined threshold value, and activate a first mode when the charging demand is less than the predetermined threshold value. The processor is further configured to generate a first list of recommended charging stations based on the real-time operator charging amounts responsive to the activation of the first mode, and transmit the first list to the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Dominique Meroux, Yan Fu, Chen Zhang, Hyongju Park, Venkatarao Rebba
  • Publication number: 20250246672
    Abstract: This application relates to the technical field of lithium-ion batteries, in particular to a lithium-ion battery electrolyte solution, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical device. The lithium-ion battery electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent and an additive. The additive includes a compound represented by Formula I: where R1 to R4 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitrate ester group, a nitrite ester group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C12 alkyl, and a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C12 alkoxy, provided that at least one of R1 to R4 is a nitrate ester group. This application solves the problems of poor solubility of existing additives and low conductivity of a formed solid electrolyte interphase (SEI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Xinfeng Yang, Meina Lei, Zhishan Chen, Zhen Lin, Wei Li, Kai Wu
  • Publication number: 20250246482
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein include systems and methods for forming low resistivity tungsten features in a semiconductor device manufacturing scheme using growth suppression techniques. The system includes a processing chamber, a gas delivery system, and a system controller configured to expose at least one opening formed in a multi-tier structure of a substrate to a tungsten-containing precursor and a nucleation reducing agent. The tungsten-containing precursor and the nucleation reducing agent are alternated cyclically to form a nucleation layer within the at least one opening of the substrate. The system controller is further configured to expose the at least one opening of the substrate to a nitrogen-containing gas, a tungsten-containing gas, and a gapfill reducing agent gas to produce a non-uniform tungsten nitride passivation layer in the at least one opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Yang LI, Peiqi WANG, Kai WU, Dongming IU, Xiaozhou YU, Insu HA, Meng ZHU
  • Publication number: 20250246623
    Abstract: The present application provides a positive electrode material comprising a substrate particle of formula (I): Li1+a[NixCoyMnzMbWc]O2??(I) wherein the M is selected from one or more of Mo, Zr, Al, Ti, Sb, Nb, Te, Mg, Ca, Zn and Sr, 0.6<x<1, 0<y<0.4, 0<z<0.4, 0<a<0.2, 0<b<0.1, 0<c<0.1, and x+y+z+b+c=1; and the W is enriched at the grain boundary of the substrate particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Kai WU, Qiyu ZHANG, Qi WU, Qiang CHEN, Na LIU
  • Publication number: 20250239687
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery cell and a thermal management component. The thermal management component is opposite the battery cell along a first direction and connected to a first wall of the battery cell, the first wall is a wall with a largest surface area of the battery cell, and the first direction is perpendicular to the first wall. The thermal management component includes a pair of heat conducting plates opposite each other along the first direction and a first connecting rib connecting the pair of heat conducting plates. The first connecting rib is configured to be deformable when the battery cell swells, to provide a swelling space for the battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Kai WU, Haiqi YANG, Xiaoteng HUANG, Wenli WANG, Yu TANG, Chenyi XU
  • Publication number: 20250233293
    Abstract: A battery and an electric apparatus are disclosed. The battery includes a plurality of battery cells and a connecting piece, where the battery cells are sequentially stacked, the connecting piece extends in a stacking direction of the battery cells, and the connecting piece is bonded to the plurality of battery cells. The electric apparatus includes the battery described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Kai WU, Yu TANG, Chenyi XU, Wenli WANG, Haiqi YANG, Xiaoteng HUANG
  • Publication number: 20250230046
    Abstract: A method for preparing lithium iron phosphate includes: mixing iron phosphate, a lithium source, a carbon source, a dispersant, and a solvent to make a precursor slurry; sintering the precursor slurry to make lithium iron phosphate, where the dispersant includes an ammonium salt compound represented by Formula (1), in which R1 is a carbon-containing organic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Kai WU, Zilong LIN, Haibin YAO, Hongwei ZHAO, Changfeng BIE, Wanying DU, Xiangxi MENG, Rouchao ZHONG, Junqiang QIU
  • Patent number: 12363578
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an information reporting method and a terminal. The method includes: reporting assistance information for radio resource management RRM measurement to a network-side device, where the assistance information is used by the network-side device to determine an RRM measurement parameter for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Xiaodong Shen, Dajie Jiang
  • Patent number: 12362787
    Abstract: An auxiliary information transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: transmitting auxiliary information by using a target message, where the target message includes an MSG-3 message or an MSG-A message, and the auxiliary information includes at least one of the following content: a power compensation value expected by the terminal device, a bandwidth capability, a modulation scheme supported by the terminal device, a maximum MIMO layer supported by the terminal device, a quantity of receive antennas of the terminal device, an RRM measurement report, a target serving cell, an expected PDCCH aggregation level, expected times of repetition transmission, and a transmit power capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Na Li
  • Patent number: 12362881
    Abstract: A method for determining a direct current (DC) position, a terminal device, and a network device are provided to ensure transmission performance. The method includes obtaining DC information and determining a DC position according to the DC information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Siqi Liu, Zichao Ji, Kai Wu
  • Publication number: 20250222916
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for selectively controlling hybrid drive modes of a hybrid vehicle to reduce emissions. In one example, a method may include using route planning and vehicle operating conditions to identify emissions reducing opportunities. In one example, in response to a route distance not exceeding an electric range, the method includes suppressing an operation of an engine based on the route data, ambient temperature, and cabin pre-conditioning. In response to the route distance exceeding the electric range, further in anticipation of a fuel station along the route, where the fuel station has a fuel with a carbon footprint less than a low carbon threshold, the method includes operating the hybrid vehicle in a charge sustaining or charge increasing mode prior to a refueling event at the fuel station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Dominique Meroux, Kai Wu, Chen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250226521
    Abstract: The present application provides a battery cell, a battery and an electrical device, wherein the battery cell comprises: a case having an accommodating space and an opening communicated with the accommodating space; an electrode assembly accommodated in the storage space; an end cover closing the opening; an electrode terminal provided in the case, the electrode terminal being electrically connected to the electrode assembly; and a pressure relief portion provided in the end cover, the pressure relief portion being used to release an internal pressure of the case. In the technical solution of the present application, the electrode terminal and the pressure relief portion of the battery cell are disposed on different surfaces, which can reduce the risk of the conductive discharge discharged through the pressure relief portion being connected to the electrode terminal and causing a short-circuit of the electrode terminal when the battery cell is in thermal runaway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Yao Li, Aixin Li, Mingguang Gu, Xiaobo Chen, Jianhuang Ke
  • Publication number: 20250227740
    Abstract: A capability indication method includes transmitting, by a terminal, random access information on a random access resource. A target capability of the terminal is at least indicated by the random access information. The target capability includes a capability to support PUCCH repetition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Yong Wang, Jiansheng Cai
  • Publication number: 20250227697
    Abstract: A DCI parsing method, a dynamic waveform switching determining method, an uplink receiving determining method, an apparatus, a terminal, and a network-side device. The DCI parsing method in an embodiment of this application includes: receiving, by a terminal, a first DCI from a network-side device, where the first DCI is used to schedule a first physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, and the terminal is a terminal with dynamic waveform switching capability or a terminal with dynamic waveform switching capability enabled; parsing, by the terminal, the first DCI according to a first preset rule; and determining, by the terminal, a transmission position of the first PUSCH based on a parsing result of the first DCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai WU, Rakesh TAMRAKAR, Yi GU, Zichao JI
  • Patent number: 12351909
    Abstract: Methods of depositing a metal film are discussed. A metal film is formed on the bottom of feature having a metal bottom and dielectric sidewalls. Formation of the metal film comprises exposure to a metal precursor and an alkyl halide catalyst while the substrate is maintained at a deposition temperature. The metal precursor has a decomposition temperature above the deposition temperature. The alkyl halide comprises carbon and halogen, and the halogen comprises bromine or iodine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Byunghoon Yoon, Liqi Wu, Joung Joo Lee, Kai Wu, Xi Cen, Wei Lei, Sang Ho Yu, Seshadri Ganguli
  • Publication number: 20250219490
    Abstract: A stator of a motor comprises a stator core and a stator winding; a plurality of winding slots are formed in the inner wall of the stator core; the stator winding comprises a plurality of conductors inserted into the winding slots; the stator winding comprises a first phase winding; the first phase winding comprises a first branch and a second branch; a first wire inlet end and a second wire inlet end are respectively connected to conductors on different layers in a same winding slot; a first wire outlet end and a second wire outlet end are respectively connected to conductors on different layers in a same winding slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventor: Kai WU
  • Publication number: 20250219667
    Abstract: A signal transmission method and apparatus, and a communication device are disclosed relating to communication technologies. The signal transmission method according to embodiments of this application includes: sending, by a target communication device, a first carrier signal and a second carrier signal, where a frequency of the first carrier signal is different from a frequency of the second carrier signal; and receiving, by the target communication device, a backscatter signal, where the backscatter signal is obtained based on the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Rongling JIAN, Kai WU, Junjie TAN
  • Publication number: 20250220656
    Abstract: This application discloses a signal transmission method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of communications technologies. A signal transmission method in embodiments of this application includes: A first communication device receives a second signal sent by a second communication device, where a first frequency domain resource used to transmit a signal sent by the first communication device is different from a second frequency domain resource used to transmit the second signal. Another signal transmission method in the embodiments of this application includes: A second communication device receives a first signal sent by a first communication device. The second communication device sends a second signal based on the first signal, where a first frequency domain resource used to transmit the first signal is different from a second frequency domain resource used to transmit the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Rongling JIAN, Kai WU, Junjie TAN
  • Patent number: 12347529
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for analyzing cigarette leaf components based on fusion mapping, including the following steps: (1) Preparation of a cigarette sample to be analyzed and single-grade tobacco leaf samples; (2) Construction of a fusion map for the cigarette sample to be analyzed and the single-grade tobacco leaf samples; (3) Analysis of the fusion map to obtain the composition and proportion of the tobacco leaves in the cigarette to be analyzed. The method can complete the analysis of the composition of finished cigarettes in a few minutes, and can obtain a clear formula composition and proportion values. It is objective, efficient, highly sensitive, and has good repeatability. It has unique advantages in the analysis of finished cigarette compositions in the tobacco industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Yang, Jianjun Xia, Baokun Zhu, Wei Zhang, Qianxu Yang, Qian Gao, Shiyun Tang, Wei Jiang, Juan Li, Chunbo Liu, Chunxia Yu, Kai Wu, Zhenjie Li