Patents by Inventor Liang Jia

Liang Jia 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: 20240145749
    Abstract: Microcapsule and microsphere controlled release forms of antioxidants such as cerium oxide to improve durability, and extend the lifetime of fuel cells are disclosed. Membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) employing the controlled release forms and methods of mitigating or suppressing cerium migration in fuel cells are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Hongfei Jia
  • Patent number: 11973250
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are membrane-electrode assemblies and fuel cells comprising an anode comprising a first catalyst; a cathode comprising a second catalyst; and a proton exchange membrane between the anode and cathode; wherein at least one of the proton exchange membrane, anode, and cathode comprise an antioxidant comprising yttrium doped cerium oxide and a metal doped cerium oxide that has a faster release time of cerium ions compared to yttrium doped cerium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Hongfei Jia, Naoki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240136857
    Abstract: An example device (204) includes a wireless charging receive coil (222) configured to transduce, into an alternating current—AC—power signal, a magnetic field generated by a wireless charging transmit coil (218) of an external device (202); an active rectifier (224) configured to convert the AC signal into a direct current—DC—power signal; and circuitry (226) configured to: obtain a target level of the DC power signal; and control the active rectifier (224) to output the DC power signal with the target level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Li Wang, Liang Jia
  • Publication number: 20240128805
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for wireless charging using time-division multiplexing. In some implementations, a wireless charger is configured to concurrently charge multiple devices by providing power wirelessly to individual devices in different time periods. The wireless charger can perform time-division multiplexing by selectively directing the output of a single driver circuit to different power transfer coil segments at different times. The wireless charging sessions of multiple devices can be maintained by repeating a pattern of activating different power transfer coil segments one by one in successive time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11962054
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a phase shifter and an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Li, Tienlun Ting, Ying Wang, Jie Wu, Haocheng Jia, Cuiwei Tang, Qiangqiang Li, Chuncheng Che
  • Publication number: 20240110933
    Abstract: Provided is a method for detecting ammonia nitrogen content by using a nitrification biological reaction. In the present disclosure, the nitrifying microorganisms have high specificity for ammonia nitrogen, a metabolism and oxygen consumption capacity closely related to the ammonia nitrogen concentration, high accuracy and high sensitivity of ammonia nitrogen detection, and are not easily disturbed by water body chromaticity, suspended matters, and the like. In addition, the activity of the nitrification microorganism membrane reactor can be kept stable for a long term, and the stability of a sensor is good for long-term use. In the present disclosure, with a mono-component or multi-component solution containing inorganic nitrogen and inorganic carbon as a nitrification nutrient solution, a nitrification microorganism membrane with strong adaptability to the environment, a stable structure, a high selectivity for ammonia nitrogen, and an ability of efficiently degrading ammonia nitrogen can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Changyu LIU, Liang WANG, Jianbo JIA, Xiaolong XU, Mengchen ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11949251
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a wearable device having a wireless power receiving system that may inductively receive or transmit power. The wireless power receiving system includes a receiver coil having a profile that follows a contour of a bottom cover of the wearable device. A transmitter coil from a wireless charging device has a complementary profile that mates with the profile defined by the receiver coil. In one example, the wireless power receiving system includes a shielding, and a receiver coil attached to the shielding. The receiver coil further includes an inner wall and an outer wall connected by a top surface of a coil body. The inner wall defines a center opening in the receiver coil, wherein the receiver coil is conical in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Qi Tian, Liang Jia, Tressa Christie Scott, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11949142
    Abstract: A feeding structure is provided, which includes first and second substrates opposite to each other, a reference electrode, and a dielectric layer between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a coupling branch and a delay branch, which are respectively connected to two output terminals of a power divider and form a current loop with the reference electrode, on a side of a first base plate proximal to the dielectric layer. The second substrate includes a receiving electrode on a side of a second base plate proximal to the dielectric layer, the receiving electrode and the coupling branch form a coupling structure, and their orthographic projections on the first base plate at least partially overlap each other. A length of an orthographic projection of both the coupling branch and the receiving electrode on the first base plate is different from a length of the delay branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haocheng Jia, Tienlun Ting, Ying Wang, Jie Wu, Liang Li, Cuiwei Tang, Qiangqiang Li
  • Patent number: 11936083
    Abstract: There is provided a phase shifter including a first substrate, a second substrate and a dielectric layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate includes a first base and a first electrode layer on a side, of the first base, the second substrate includes a second base, a second electrode layer and a reference voltage leading-in end on a side of the second base, the reference voltage leading-in end is coupled to the second electrode layer, one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer includes a body structure and branch structures; an orthographic projection of an end of each branch structure away from the body structure on the first base is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the second electrode layer or the first electrode layer on the first base. An antenna is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cuiwei Tang, Jie Wu, Tienlun Ting, Ying Wang, Haocheng Jia, Liang Li, Qiangqiang Li, Chuncheng Che
  • Patent number: 11929159
    Abstract: Method of determining insulin injection amount, computer storage medium, and devices, the method includes including: obtaining characteristic information and a blood glucose content at a current time of a target user; and determining an insulin injection amount at each time of the target user based on the characteristic information of the target user, the blood glucose content at the current time of the target user, a predetermined blood glucose prediction model, and a predetermined insulin injection amount prediction model. The method can facilitate the determination of the insulin injection amount at each time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: SHANGHAI SIXTH PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL, SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Weiping Jia, Bin Sheng, Jian Zhou, Ruhan Liu, Liang Wu, Huating Li
  • Patent number: 11923696
    Abstract: This document describes a passive adapter for wireless charging of an electronic device and associated methods and systems. The described passive adapter includes two coils connected by a capacitor and separated by a core material that prevents mutual coupling between the coils. These two coils may have differing sizes, such that one coil can size-match to a transmitter coil of an existing wireless charger and the second coil can size-match to a smaller (or larger) receiver coil in a wireless-power receiver to charge a battery of the wireless-power receiver. In aspects, these two coils may be separated by a distance that enables the passive adapter to act as a passive repeater by bridging a space between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Srenik Suresh Mehta, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11923706
    Abstract: This disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for a switched multi-cell battery system for electronic devices. In some aspects, a switched multi-cell battery system may transfer, via a plurality of power control switches electrical power from a power adapter to components of the electronic device by charging battery cells in series and by discharging the battery cells in parallel or as a single battery cell. As a result, the switched multi-cell battery system may reduce or eliminate a voltage step-down conversion stage to increase a power-transfer efficiency of an electronic device. By doing so, charging times may be reduced or operating times may be increased, thereby improving users' experience with their electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Liang Jia
  • Patent number: 11916478
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device that includes a power storage device, an electrical load, and a first regulated power converter including components configured to generate, during a first time period and using electrical energy received from a power source external to the device, a first power signal to charge the power storage device. A second regulated power converter includes components configured to determine a charging current at which to charge the power storage device, determine a total amount of current flowing to the power storage device that includes current sourced by the second power converter less current sinked by the electrical load, and generate, during a second time period that is non-overlapping with the first time period, using electrical energy from the power source and based on determined the total amount of current, a second power signal to charge the power storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liang Jia, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11881730
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for wireless charging using time-division multiplexing. In some implementations, a wireless charger is configured to concurrently charge multiple devices by providing power wirelessly to individual devices in different time periods. The wireless charger can perform time-division multiplexing by selectively directing the output of a single driver circuit to different power transfer coil segments at different times. The wireless charging sessions of multiple devices can be maintained by repeating a pattern of activating different power transfer coil segments one by one in successive time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11876576
    Abstract: The technology provides for a wearable device including a body and an accessory adapted to be attached to the body. The body includes a first coil configured to inductively transmit power. The body may further include first power management circuitry configured to control the first coil to transmit power according to a wireless charging standard, and to modulate the power transmitted through the first coil to transmit data according to a wireless communication standard. The accessory may include a second coil configured to inductively receive power. The accessory may further include second power management circuitry configured to control the second coil to receive the power transmitted through the first coil according to the wireless charging standard, and to control the second coil to receive the data transmitted through the first coil according to the wireless communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Jae-Won Hwang
  • Publication number: 20230221813
    Abstract: An example active stylus includes a core comprising: a main cylinder having a first end, a second end; a first supplemental cylinder disposed at the first end of the main cylinder and having a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the main cylinder; a second supplemental cylinder disposed between the first supplemental cylinder and the second end of the main cylinder and having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the main cylinder; and a wireless charging receive coil configured to transduce flux of a magnetic field generated by a wireless charging transmit coil into electrical current, wherein the wireless charging receive coil is positioned around a longitudinal axis of the main cylinder of the core and between the first supplemental cylinder and the second supplemental cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liyu Yang
  • Publication number: 20230105296
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for wireless charging using time-division multiplexing. In some implementations, a wireless charger is configured to concurrently charge multiple devices by providing power wirelessly to individual devices in different time periods. The wireless charger can perform time-division multiplexing by selectively directing the output of a single driver circuit to different power transfer coil segments at different times. The wireless charging sessions of multiple devices can be maintained by repeating a pattern of activating different power transfer coil segments one by one in successive time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11612028
    Abstract: The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Hongxin Chen, Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti, Marcin Gramza, Liang Jia, Qing Li, Daniel J. Piotrowski, Marek Zbigniew Szczerba, Marcin Krzysztof Szczodrak, Qin Zhao, Hongqiang Zhai, Michael Alex Van Hartskamp, Martin Elixmann, Zhong Huang, Fulong Ma, Xianneng Peng, Jianfeng Wang, Yi Qiang Yu, Kiran Srinivas Challapali
  • Publication number: 20220302734
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described that are directed to a device that includes a power storage device, an electrical load, and a first regulated power converter including components configured to generate, during a first time period and using electrical energy received from a power source external to the device, a first power signal to charge the power storage device. A second regulated power converter includes components configured to determine a charging current at which to charge the power storage device, determine a total amount of current flowing to the power storage device that includes current sourced by the second power converter less current sinked by the electrical load, and generate, during a second time period that is non-overlapping with the first time period, using electrical energy from the power source and based on determined the total amount of current, a second power signal to charge the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chao Fei, Douglas Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan, Liang Jia, Li Wang
  • Publication number: 20220278710
    Abstract: The technology provides for a wearable device including a body and an accessory adapted to be attached to the body. The body includes a first coil configured to inductively transmit power. The body may further include first power management circuitry configured to control the first coil to transmit power according to a wireless charging standard, and to modulate the power transmitted through the first coil to transmit data according to a wireless communication standard. The accessory may include a second coil configured to inductively receive power. The accessory may further include second power management circuitry configured to control the second coil to receive the power transmitted through the first coil according to the wireless charging standard, and to control the second coil to receive the data transmitted through the first coil according to the wireless communication standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Jae-Won Hwang