Patents by Inventor Kun Xiong

Kun Xiong 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: 20200068885
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are the methods of using specific di-cationic or multiple charged cationic compounds, which are derived from primary amine or polyamines through an aza-Michael addition with an ?, ?-unsaturated carbonyl compound or from polyamines through both an aza-Michael addition with an ?, ?-unsaturated carbonyl compound and a ring-opening reaction with an epoxide, in a fouling control composition to reduce microbial and/biofilm growth in a water system. The disclosed methods or compositions are found to be more effective than those methods or compositions including commonly used single quaternary compounds for reducing microbial or biofilm growth in water systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: ASHISH DHAWAN, Kun Xiong, CARTER M. SILVERNAIL, Zhengang Zong
  • Publication number: 20200071203
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods of treating process water using a reactor for generating chlorine dioxide onsite. The onsite generation system may include double ensured precursor feeding, effective reactor, automated control/alarm, and effective product delivery. The reactor may include a mixing device, a first feed line connected to the mixing device, and a second feed line connected to the mixing device. The reactor may include a proximal portion in fluid communication with the mixing device and a distal portion in fluid communication with a motive water line. The mixing device, the reactor, a portion of the first feed line, and a portion of the second feed line may be positioned within the motive water line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Felice DiMascio, Nicholas Ryan Denny, Shawn Dalke
  • Patent number: 10563042
    Abstract: A cationic polymer salt composition is provided that includes a reaction product derived from reaction of a polyamine or a polyalkyleneimine and a substituted alkyl trialkyl quaternary ammonium salt. Also provided are surfactant compositions. The compositions may also include carriers, such as water, methanol, ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, butanol, isobutanol, monoethyleneglycol, an ethyleneglycol monobutyl ether, and hexylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Zhengang Zong, Kun Xiong, Jeffrey R. Cramm, Xiaodong Huang, Jeremy Moloney, Ashish Dhawan
  • Patent number: 10560997
    Abstract: A lamp driver for an LED lamp includes a voltage input port which is adapted to connect the lamp driver to a power source. A boost converter circuit is connected to the voltage input port. A voltage output port is adapted for connecting an LED to the lamp driver. A shutdown circuit provides a shutdown signal, which is connected to the voltage input port for detecting an input voltage of the voltage input port and is connected to the boost converter circuit for controlling at least one active component of the boost converter. The shutdown circuit is arranged to shut down the boost converter circuit when a shutdown voltage at the voltage input port is detected. During the shutdown of the boost converter circuit, the voltage output port still provides an operation voltage for the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Yongchang Dai, Xiaoming Fu, Xiangyin Hao, Kun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20200010319
    Abstract: A method of controlling a chemical reaction is disclosed. The method may include feeding a solution at a first flow rate into a reactor and detecting a sound in the reactor using a sound sensor that is adjacent to the reactor. The sound sensor may convert the sound into a sound signal. After the sound signal is acquired, it is compared to a stored sound signal or a stored sound threshold to detect a reaction event. The method may include adjusting the flow rate of solutions into the reactor in response to the reaction event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Nicholas Ryan Denny, Stephen Joseph Hinterlong, Emily Rader, David R. Papanek, Shawn Dalke
  • Patent number: 10501345
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods of treating process water using a reactor for generating chlorine dioxide onsite. The onsite generation system may include double ensured precursor feeding, effective reactor, automated control/alarm, and effective product delivery. The reactor may include a mixing device, a first feed line connected to the mixing device, and a second feed line connected to the mixing device. The reactor may include a proximal portion in fluid communication with the mixing device and a distal portion in fluid communication with a motive water line. The mixing device, the reactor, a portion of the first feed line, and a portion of the second feed line may be positioned within the motive water line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Emily Rader, James L. Jefferson, Felice DiMascio, Donald O'Brien, Nicholas Ryan Denny, Gary Tabor, David R. Papanek
  • Patent number: 10481127
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining accuracy in the measurement of one or more parameters of industrial water in industrial water systems are provided. The methods include the use of physical and/or chemical procedures to prevent and/or remove deposition from one or more surfaces utilized in measurement of the one or more parameters. The deposition may be caused by, for example, corrosion, fouling, or microbiological growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Brandon M. Davis, William A. Von Drasek
  • Publication number: 20190230759
    Abstract: Method and device for PWM dimming of an LED lamp. The LED lamp comprises one or more LEDs and an LED lamp driver for operating the LEDs. The method comprises: generating a PWM signal; and supplying the PWM signal to the LED lamp driver; wherein the PWM signal comprises a mixture of two or more different frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yang LIU, Kun XIONG
  • Patent number: 10285230
    Abstract: Driver for an LED lamp, including an LED driver for driving an LED, a voltage input port adapted to connect the driver to a multi switch as a power source, a voltage output port connecting the LED to the LED driver, and a bleeder circuit suppressing leakage current provided by the multi switch, wherein the bleeder circuit is connected in series between the voltage input port and the LED driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Kun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20190104582
    Abstract: Driver for an LED lamp, including an LED driver for driving an LED, a voltage input port adapted to connect the driver to a multi switch as a power source, a voltage output port connecting the LED to the LED driver, and a bleeder circuit suppressing leakage current provided by the multi switch, wherein the bleeder circuit is connected in series between the voltage input port and the LED driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yang LIU, Kun XIONG
  • Publication number: 20190098726
    Abstract: A lamp driver for an LED lamp includes a voltage input port which is adapted to connect the lamp driver to a power source. A boost converter circuit is connected to the voltage input port. A voltage output port is adapted for connecting an LED to the lamp driver. A shutdown circuit provides a shutdown signal, which is connected to the voltage input port for detecting an input voltage of the voltage input port and is connected to the boost converter circuit for controlling at least one active component of the boost converter. The shutdown circuit is arranged to shut down the boost converter circuit when a shutdown voltage at the voltage input port is detected. During the shutdown of the boost converter circuit, the voltage output port still provides an operation voltage for the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yongchang DAI, Xiaoming FU, Xiangyin HAO, Kun XIONG
  • Publication number: 20190065576
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods related to converting unlabeled data into structured and labeled data for answering one or more single-entity-single-relation questions. The systems and methods automates the labeling of data to generate training data for machine learning. The systems and methods identify and import question and answer pairs from an user generated discussion platform and access a knowledge base questions to extract questions by supervised extraction. The extracted questions are further filtered to remove mislabeled questions. When a question is posed, it is parsed for entity and relation, and an answer is identified by searching through the knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Zhongyu PENG, Kun XIONG, Anqi CUI
  • Publication number: 20190055146
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods of treating process water using a reactor for generating chlorine dioxide onsite. The onsite generation system may include double ensured precursor feeding, effective reactor, automated control/alarm, and effective product delivery. The reactor may include a mixing device, a first feed line connected to the mixing device, and a second feed line connected to the mixing device. The reactor may include a proximal portion in fluid communication with the mixing device and a distal portion in fluid communication with a motive water line. The mixing device, the reactor, a portion of the first feed line, and a portion of the second feed line may be positioned within the motive water line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Ecolab USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Emily Rader, James L. Jefferson, Felice DiMascio, Donald O'Brien, Nicholas Ryan Denny, Gary Tabor, David R. Papanek
  • Publication number: 20180329884
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus is provided for generating a response string based at least on a received inquiry string using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder-decoder architecture, the apparatus comprising: a first RNN configured to receive the inquiry string as a sequence of vectors x and to encode a sequence of symbols into a fixed length vector representation, vector c; a contextual neural network (CNN) for inferring topic distribution from a training set having a plurality of training questions and a plurality of training labels, the CNN configured to extract word features, compute syntactic features and infer semantic representation based on interconnections derived from the training set to generate a fixed length topic vector representation of a probability distribution in a topic space, the topic space inferred from a concatenated utterance of historical conversation; and a second RNN used as a RNN contextual decoder for estimating a conditional probability distribution of a plurality of resp
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Anqi Cui, Zefeng Zhang, Ming Li
  • Publication number: 20180273381
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to producing chloride dioxide. A chlorine dioxide reactor, methods for producing chlorine dioxide, and treating aqueous systems are disclosed. The reactor may include a mixing device, a first feed line in fluid communication with the mixing device, and a second feed line in fluid communication with the mixing device. The reactor may include a proximal portion in fluid communication with the mixing device and a distal portion in fluid communication with a motive water line. The mixing device, the reactor, a portion of the first feed line, and a portion of the second feed line may be positioned within the motive water line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Felice DiMascio, Nicholas Ryan Denny, Shawn Dalke
  • Publication number: 20180163020
    Abstract: A cationic polymer salt composition is provided that includes a reaction product derived from reaction of a polyamine or a polyalkyleneimine and a substituted alkyl trialkyl quaternary ammonium salt. Also provided are surfactant compositions. The compositions may also include carriers, such as water, methanol, ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, butanol, isobutanol, monoethyleneglycol, an ethyleneglycol monobutyl ether, and hexylene glycol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Ecolab USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhengang Zong, Kun Xiong, Jeffrey R. Cramm, Xiaodong Huang, Jeremy Moloney, Ashish Dhawan
  • Publication number: 20180017522
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining accuracy in the measurement of one or more parameters of industrial water in industrial water systems are provided. The methods include the use of physical and/or chemical procedures to prevent and/or remove deposition from one or more surfaces utilized in measurement of the one or more parameters. The deposition may be caused by, for example, corrosion, fouling, or microbiological growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Brandon M. Davis, William A. Von Drasek
  • Patent number: 9810676
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining accuracy in the measurement of one or more parameters of industrial water in industrial water systems is disclosed. The methods comprise the use of physical and chemical means to prevent and/or remove deposition from one or more surfaces utilized in measurement of the one or more parameters. The deposition may be caused by, for example, corrosion, fouling, or microbiological growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Brandon M. Davis
  • Patent number: 9772303
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining accuracy in the measurement of one or more parameters of industrial water in industrial water systems are provided. The methods include the use of physical and/or chemical procedures to prevent and/or remove deposition from one or more surfaces utilized in measurement of the one or more parameters. The deposition may be caused by, for example, corrosion, fouling, or microbiological growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Brandon M. Davis, William A. Von Drasek
  • Publication number: 20160202229
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining accuracy in the measurement of one or more parameters of industrial water in industrial water systems is disclosed. The methods comprise the use of physical and chemical means to prevent and/or remove deposition from one or more surfaces utilized in measurement of the one or more parameters. The deposition may be caused by, for example, corrosion, fouling, or microbiological growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Brandon M. Davis