Patents by Inventor Lei Tan

Lei Tan 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).

  • Patent number: 12683625
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an analog-to-digital converter and an operating method thereof. The analog-to-digital converter includes a plurality of sub-periods in one conversion frame, and performs at least the following operations in each sub-period: a residual charge storage phase, an integration phase, a charge redistribution phase, and an SAR conversion phase. The analog-to-digital converter includes a capacitive digital-to-analog converter and an auxiliary capacitor. The auxiliary capacitor stores residual charge generated by the capacitive digital-to-analog converter in a previous sub-period at the residual charge storage phase. A weight capacitor array of the capacitive digital-to-analog converter integrates an input current signal at the integration phase. The integration charge of the current sub-period is transferred to the weight capacitor array at the charge redistribution phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: SG MICRO CORP
    Inventor: Lei Tan
  • Patent number: 12651969
    Abstract: A power conversion circuit of a multi-phase power supply, a multi-phase power supply and a control method is provided. The power conversion circuit includes a PWM signal generating circuit, a driving circuit and a power circuit. The PWM signal generating circuit receives a counting code, generates a pulse width modulation signal when a count value characterized by the counting code is equal to their identification numbers, and controls on and off states of the switching transistor in the power circuit. Therefore, a plurality of phases of power conversion circuits in the multi-phase power supply may share one timing circuit to control on times of respective ones of the power conversion circuits, which is beneficial for reducing complexity and cost of the controller, and reducing circuit size and cost of the multi-phase power supply, and for implementation of a multi-phase power supply with higher phase numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SG MICRO CORP
    Inventors: Lei Tan, Xiang Yu, Junzhe Hao
  • Patent number: 12597870
    Abstract: A control circuit for a multi-phase power conversion circuit and a multi-phase power supply are provided. The conversion circuit includes a plurality of switching circuits which have output terminals being coupled together to supply power to a load. The control circuit includes an error amplifier, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a multi-phase logic control circuit. The multi-phase logic control circuit generates a plurality of PWM signals according to an on time signal, which are delayed phase by phase and control on and off states of the plurality of switching circuits, and each of which has a pulse width being consistent with the on time signal. This reduces the circuit size and cost of the multi-phase power supply controller, and solves the problem of phase-to-phase current oscillation in a case that the switching circuits operate under duty ratios independent for various phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: SG MICRO CORP
    Inventors: Lei Tan, Junzhe Hao, Xiang Yu, Zhongwei Qian, Bin Chen
  • Patent number: 12456980
    Abstract: Disclosed in an interface circuit, in which: a current input circuit receives an input current signal of a signal input terminal, an input voltage detection circuit compares an input voltage signal of the signal input terminal with a reference voltage, and provides a detection signal to the current input circuit according to the comparison result, a phase-inversion output circuit is connected with the current input circuit at the first node, and generates a voltage conversion signal according to a voltage potential of the first node, and a buffer circuit performs signal shaping on the voltage conversion signal to obtain an output signal. The current input circuit pulls up the voltage potential of the first node when the detection signal indicates that the input voltage signal is greater than the reference voltage and the input current signal is greater than a reference current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: SG MICRO CORP
    Inventors: Fei Xiao, Lei Tan
  • Patent number: 12449167
    Abstract: Disclosed is a controller and a control method of a thermoelectric cooler-heater device. The controller includes a switching power supply coupled to the thermoelectric cooler-heater device to provide a first driving current; and a constant-current constant-voltage power supply coupled to the thermoelectric cooler-heater device to provide a second driving current. According to a temperature detection signal, one of the switching power supply and the constant-current constant-voltage power supply operates, the first driving current is a continuous driving current flowing from an anode end to a cathode end of the thermoelectric cooler-heater device, the second driving current is a pulse driving current flowing from the cathode end to the anode end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: SG MICRO CORP
    Inventor: Lei Tan
  • Publication number: 20250307528
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a web page generation method and a device, and relates to the field of front-end development technologies. The method includes: obtaining requirement description information of a web page; inputting the requirement description information into an outline generation model to obtain web page outline information for describing web page logic; rendering the web page based on the web page outline information and a preset web page template; and generating the web page based on the web page outline information and the preset web page template in response to the web page being successfully rendered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: Zhijun FEI, Deqi SUN, Shuai ZHU, Lei TAN
  • Publication number: 20250132682
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multiphase switching converter and control circuit thereof. The multiphase switching converter includes a plurality of control circuits forming a daisy chain architecture, and to generate a preparatory output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit when receiving a clock signal from a communication bus in the preparatory state, the control circuit is configured to operate in a preparatory state when receiving a preparatory input signal. Only preparatory signals are transmitted between the plurality of control circuits, and a signal for controlling circuit being on is participated by the clock signal generated by a host controller, so that the host controller does not need to track a position of a current unit in real time during a control process of all units, thus greatly simplifying a design of the host controller and reducing a circuit cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventor: Lei Tan
  • Publication number: 20250070641
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power conversion circuit and a power conversion method. The power conversion circuit includes: a flying capacitor; an energy storage capacitor; and a rectifier configured to turn on a charge path through which the flying capacitor is charged by the AC input voltage or a transfer path from the flying capacitor to the energy storage capacitor selectively according to a direction of the AC input voltage, so as to provide the DC output voltage across ends of the energy storage capacitor, wherein the rectifier is further configured to stabilize the DC output voltage within a set range by controlling a discharge path of the flying capacitor to ground. Compared with conventional AC-DC converters, no high-voltage device and other rectifying circuit is needed in the power conversion circuit of the present disclosure, so as to reduce structure complexity and cost of the circuit greatly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Lei Tan, Lijun Liu
  • Publication number: 20250020705
    Abstract: The present application discloses a detection circuit and a power management system including the detection circuit. The detection circuits include a threshold voltage generation circuit, a voltage-to-current conversion circuit, and a current-type successive approximation quantizer. The voltage-to-current conversion circuit converts an offset voltage of a signal to be detected into a proportional current with respect to a threshold voltage which is generated by the threshold voltage generation circuit. The current-type successive approximation quantizer obtains a comparison result between the signal to be detected and the threshold voltage, or a quantization result of the signal to be detected within a window by quantizing the proportional current. Thus, the circuit structure is simplified and the cost is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Lei Tan, Changyan Chen, Haibo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240356560
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an analog-to-digital converter and an operating method thereof. The analog-to-digital converter includes a plurality of sub-periods in one conversion frame, and performs at least the following operations in each sub-period: a residual charge storage phase, an integration phase, a charge redistribution phase, and an SAR conversion phase. The analog-to-digital converter includes a capacitive digital-to-analog converter and an auxiliary capacitor. The auxiliary capacitor stores residual charge generated by the capacitive digital-to-analog converter in a previous sub-period at the residual charge storage phase. A weight capacitor array of the capacitive digital-to-analog converter integrates an input current signal at the integration phase. The integration charge of the current sub-period is transferred to the weight capacitor array at the charge redistribution phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Lei Tan
  • Publication number: 20240322710
    Abstract: A control circuit for a multi-phase power conversion circuit and a multi-phase power supply are provided. The conversion circuit includes a plurality of switching circuits which have output terminals being coupled together to supply power to a load. The control circuit includes an error amplifier, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a multi-phase logic control circuit. The multi-phase logic control circuit generates a plurality of PWM signals according to an on time signal, which are delayed phase by phase and control on and off states of the plurality of switching circuits, and each of which has a pulse width being consistent with the on time signal. This reduces the circuit size and cost of the multi-phase power supply controller, and solves the problem of phase-to-phase current oscillation in a case that the switching circuits operate under duty ratios independent for various phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Lei Tan, Junzhe Hao, Xiang Yu, Zhongwei Qian, Bin Chen
  • Publication number: 20240170391
    Abstract: A device module includes first and conductive second conductive layers, and first and second functional layers between the first and second conductive layers. The first functional layer includes a plurality of capacitors and a plurality of via electrodes isolated from the plurality of capacitors. A plurality of inductors are formed in the second functional layer, each arranged along a thickness direction of the second functional layer. Thus, a first terminal of the inductor is electrically coupled with the first conductive layer through corresponding one of the via electrodes, and a second terminal of the inductor is electrically coupled with the second conductive layer. The device module simplifies the layout and wiring of a multi-phase circuit by directly installing the driver on the multi-inductor array with the pins being arranged longitudinally, and improves the effective utilization of inductor and capacitor materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: Lei Tan
  • Publication number: 20240154531
    Abstract: A power conversion circuit of a multi-phase power supply, a multi-phase power supply and a control method is provided. The power conversion circuit includes a PWM signal generating circuit, a driving circuit and a power circuit. The PWM signal generating circuit receives a counting code, generates a pulse width modulation signal when a count value characterized by the counting code is equal to their identification numbers, and controls on and off states of the switching transistor in the power circuit. Therefore, a plurality of phases of power conversion circuits in the multi-phase power supply may share one timing circuit to control on times of respective ones of the power conversion circuits, which is beneficial for reducing complexity and cost of the controller, and reducing circuit size and cost of the multi-phase power supply, and for implementation of a multi-phase power supply with higher phase numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Lei Tan, Xiang Yu, Junzhe Hao
  • Publication number: 20240056079
    Abstract: Disclosed in an interface circuit, in which: a current input circuit receives an input current signal of a signal input terminal, an input voltage detection circuit compares an input voltage signal of the signal input terminal with a reference voltage, and provides a detection signal to the current input circuit according to the comparison result, a phase-inversion output circuit is connected with the current input circuit at the first node, and generates a voltage conversion signal according to a voltage potential of the first node, and a buffer circuit performs signal shaping on the voltage conversion signal to obtain an output signal. The current input circuit pulls up the voltage potential of the first node when the detection signal indicates that the input voltage signal is greater than the reference voltage and the input current signal is greater than a reference current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Fei Xiao, Lei Tan
  • Publication number: 20230324090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a controller and a control method of a thermoelectric cooler-heater device. The controller includes a switching power supply coupled to the thermoelectric cooler-heater device to provide a first driving current; and a constant-current constant-voltage power supply coupled to the thermoelectric cooler-heater device to provide a second driving current. According to a temperature detection signal, one of the switching power supply and the constant-current constant-voltage power supply operates, the first driving current is a continuous driving current flowing from an anode end to a cathode end of the thermoelectric cooler-heater device, the second driving current is a pulse driving current flowing from the cathode end to the anode end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Lei Tan
  • Patent number: 11686646
    Abstract: A pressure-adjustable auxiliary control system for high-pressure gas sealing detection includes: a high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit configured to construct high-pressure test gas sealing environment and to test sealing performance of a sealing member; a first gas pipeline divided into two branches, of which one branch is connected to the high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit as a first gas replacement path; a second gas pipeline which is connected to a test gas pressurization path together with the other branch of the first gas pipeline, where a first booster pump processing unit and a second booster pump processing unit are sequentially arranged in the test gas pressurization path for pressurizing the test gas, and are connected to the high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit; a system air control module configured for control of respective air control valves; and a booster pump air control module and a driving air source preprocessing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Fei Guo, Yijie Huang, Chong Xiang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Ganlin Cheng, Lei Tan, Xiaohong Jia, Yuming Wang
  • Patent number: 11494578
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated imaging and evaluation of image based features are disclosed herein. Method for automated imaging and evaluation of image based features can include receiving time-lapse images of at least one human embryo contained in a multi-well culture dish that can have a plurality of micro-wells. Image based features can be automatically generated from the time-lapse images of the human embryo. The image based features, which can include a cavitation feature, can be inputted into a classifier. The classifier can automatically and directly generate a viability prediction with the classifier from the image-based features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ARES TRADING S.A.
    Inventors: Martin T. Chian, Lei Tan, Yan Zhou, Daniel E. Koppel
  • Patent number: 11466020
    Abstract: Provided are compounds and compositions for prevention and/or elimination of Zika virus infection. Also provided are methods for preventing and treating a subject in need of prevention or treatment of Zika virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: Cornell University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Shuibing Chen, Ting Zhou, Lei Tan, Qisheng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220136925
    Abstract: A pressure-adjustable auxiliary control system for high-pressure gas sealing detection includes: a high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit configured to construct high-pressure test gas sealing environment and to test sealing performance of a sealing member; a first gas pipeline divided into two branches, of which one branch is connected to the high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit as a first gas replacement path; a second gas pipeline which is connected to a test gas pressurization path together with the other branch of the first gas pipeline, where a first booster pump processing unit and a second booster pump processing unit are sequentially arranged in the test gas pressurization path for pressurizing the test gas, and are connected to the high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit; a system air control module configured for control of respective air control valves; and a booster pump air control module and a driving air source preprocessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Fei GUO, Yijie HUANG, Chong XIANG, Zhaoxiang ZHANG, Ganlin CHENG, Lei TAN, Xiaohong JIA, Yuming WANG
  • Patent number: 11305007
    Abstract: The present application relates a composite multi-epitope expression cassette, a recombinant virus composed thereof and application thereof, and in particular to a chimeric recombinant Newcastle disease virus inserted with an IBV epitope cassette and a vaccine prepared by using the virus. The expression cassette comprises: (a) T cell epitopes derived from S1 proteins of avian infectious bronchitis virus Holte strain and avian infectious bronchitis virus QX-like strain; and (b) B cell epitopes derived from S1 protein of avian infectious bronchitis virus Australian T strain. In the present application, the multi-epitope chimeric ST/B gene of avian infectious bronchitis virus is inserted into the backbone of LaSota strain, so that the LaSota strain can express S1-T/B protein. Thus, the purpose of preventing both ND and IB diseases is achieved. In addition, the T cell epitopes and B cell epitopes act synergistically to produce an earlier and more comprehensive immune response against virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (NATIONAL CENTER FOR ANIMAI HEALTH SHANGHAI)
    Inventors: Chan Ding, Huabin Shao, Lei Tan, Guoyuan Wen, Shengqing Yu, Xusheng Qiu, Ying Liao, Chunchun Meng, Yingjie Sun, Cuiping Song