Patents by Inventor Liwen Xu

Liwen Xu 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: 20240074354
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for producing raw cotton of machine-harvested long-staple cotton with a modal length of greater than or equal to 35 mm, including the steps: planting sea-island long-staple cotton and machining seed cotton, wherein planting the sea-island long-staple cotton includes preparation before machine harvesting, defoliation and ripening, choosing a cotton variety, etc.; and machining the seed cotton includes preparation before seed cotton ginning, mechanical separation of cotton seeds and raw cotton, and finishing the separated raw cotton. Raw cotton fibers obtained by the method of the present disclosure have main quality indexes that: a fiber length is 36.5-38.4 mm, a specific strength is 42.3-46.1 cN/tex, a uniformity is 86.2-87.0%, a foreign-fiber content is 0.2-0.4 g/t, and an impurity content is 2.6-3.4%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: Institute of Cash Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Awati Xinya Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liwen TIAN, Jie KONG, Honghai LUO, Liang WANG, Zhiwu XU, Bin ZHU, Guoling NI, Tongren WANG
  • Patent number: 11318843
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electric car and an active discharging module, a driving apparatus, and an electric drive system thereof. said active discharging module comprises a discharging subcircuit, which is connected in parallel with the DC-link capacitor of the electric car, and a first switch, which is connected to an actuating apparatus of the electric car and the discharging subcircuit respectively. The discharging subcircuit comprises a discharging resistor and a power switching transistor which are connected in series, wherein the first switch may turn off the power switching transistor after the actuating apparatus is turned on, and turn on the power switching transistor after the actuating apparatus is turned off. Said driving apparatus comprises any one of the above active discharging modules. Said electric drive system comprises any one of the above driving apparatuses. Said electric car comprises any one of the above electric drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NIO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinshan Wang, Wencheng Hong, Zhaohui Zhuang, Liwen Xu
  • Publication number: 20210285063
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a genome-wide maize SNP array and use thereof. In the present disclosure, by means of large-scale sequencing mining, aiming at the problems of the existing high-density arrays of maize, 400 broadly representative maize inbred lines inside and outside of China are deeply sequenced to mine excellent loci therefrom, and research results of six maize arrays are integrated; by adopting the steps of biological information data analysis, locus basic parameter evaluation, probe design evaluation, a set of SNP locus combination, containing 1,536 loci, is formed, and genotyping is realized on an Affymetrix axiom platform. The genome-wide maize SNP array of the present disclosure contains probes for the 1,536 SNP loci. The array of the present disclosure can be used in DNA fingerprint construction, cultivar identification and confirmation of maize cultivars, research on germplasm resources at a genomic level, and molecular marker-assisted selective breeding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
    Inventors: Fengge Wang, Hongli Tian, Jiuran Zhao, Yang Yang, Hongmei Yi, Liwen Xu, Rui Wang, Lu Wang, Jianrong Ge, Yaming Fan
  • Patent number: 10848020
    Abstract: The utility model discloses a motor stator assembly, a motor and an electric vehicle having the motor. The motor stator assembly comprises a stator iron core and at least two sets of symmetrical three-phase windings, which are arranged to wind the stator iron core respectively, wherein phase differences among three phases Ui, Vi and Wi of each set of the three-phase windings are a 120° electrical angle, and i is the set number of the three-phase windings. In order to address the problem of high output power of drive system, the motor stator assembly uses two sets of three-phase windings having a symmetrical spatial arrangement, and each set of windings is considered as an independent unit and is controlled via a power device respectively; finally, the output powers are superimposed so that the capacity of the inverter is increased while also avoiding problems of equalized current and over-voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: NIO NEXTEV LIMITED
    Inventors: Hongyu Lan, Shengchuan Zhang, Peng Li, Shixiang Zhang, Liwen Xu, Zhaohui Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20180337566
    Abstract: The utility model discloses a motor stator assembly, a motor and an electric vehicle having the motor. The motor stator assembly comprises a stator iron core and at least two sets of symmetrical three-phase windings, which are arranged to wind the stator iron core respectively, wherein phase differences among three phases Ui, Vi and Wi of each set of the three-phase windings are a 120° electrical angle, and i is the set number of the three-phase windings. In order to address the problem of high output power of drive system, the motor stator assembly uses two sets of three-phase windings having a symmetrical spatial arrangement, and each set of windings is considered as an independent unit and is controlled via a power device respectively; finally, the output powers are superimposed so that the capacity of the inverter is increased while also avoiding problems of equalized current and over-voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Hongyu LAN, Shengchuan ZHANG, Peng LI, Shixiang ZHANG, Liwen XU, Zhaohui ZHUANG
  • Patent number: 10109055
    Abstract: A machine vision system and method uses captured depth data to improve the identification of a target object in a cluttered scene. A 3D-based object detection and pose estimation (ODPE) process is use to determine pose information of the target object. The system uses three different segmentation processes in sequence, where each subsequent segmentation process produces larger segments, in order to produce a plurality of segment hypotheses, each of which is expected to contain a large portion of the target object in the cluttered scene. Each segmentation hypotheses is used to mask 3D point clouds of the captured depth data, and each masked region is individually submitted to the 3D-based ODPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liwen Xu, Joseph Chi Tai Lam, Alex Levinshtein
  • Publication number: 20180297478
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electric car and an active discharging module, a driving apparatus, and an electric drive system thereof. said active discharging module comprises a discharging subcircuit, which is connected in parallel with the DC-link capacitor of the electric car, and a first switch, which is connected to an actuating apparatus of the electric car and the discharging subcircuit respectively. The discharging subcircuit comprises a discharging resistor and a power switching transistor which are connected in series, wherein the first switch may turn off the power switching transistor after the actuating apparatus is turned on, and turn on the power switching transistor after the actuating apparatus is turned off. Said driving apparatus comprises any one of the above active discharging modules. Said electric drive system comprises any one of the above driving apparatuses. Said electric car comprises any one of the above electric drive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yinshan WANG, Wencheng HONG, Zhaohui ZHUANG, Liwen XU
  • Publication number: 20180144458
    Abstract: A machine vision system and method uses captured depth data to improve the identification of a target object in a cluttered scene. A 3D-based object detection and pose estimation (ODPE) process is use to determine pose information of the target object. The system uses three different segmentation processes in sequence, where each subsequent segmentation process produces larger segments, in order to produce a plurality of segment hypotheses, each of which is expected to contain a large portion of the target object in the cluttered scene. Each segmentation hypotheses is used to mask 3D point clouds of the captured depth data, and each masked region is individually submitted to the 3D-based ODPE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Liwen Xu, Joseph Chi Tai Lam, Alex Levinshtein
  • Publication number: 20180123435
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of electric motor, particularly to a motor rotor structure with copper conductive bars. This application aims at solving the problem existed in the art, which is how to reduce stress concentration of the rotor iron core and how to avoid deformation of the copper end rings. The motor rotor structure of this application comprises a rotor iron core provided with rotor slots, copper conductive bars provided within the rotor slots, rotor end rings respectively provided at two ends of the rotor iron core. Each rotor end ring includes copper end rings and steel end rings. The copper end rings are alternately laminated with the steel end rings and welded together into a piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Shixiang ZHANG, Shengchuan ZHANG, Liwen XU, Zhaohui ZHUANG, Peng LI, Hongyu LAN, Jingcai ZHANG, Yalan TANG
  • Patent number: 9372234
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods detect a current sensor error in an FOC electric machine system. A voltage command is monitored to detect the presence of an ac component that indicates that an error has occurred at a current sensor. For example, a sensor fault detection module can be configured to determine the deviation between an actual voltage command and an ideal voltage command to provide a complex deviation vector. By transforming the deviation vector to a reference frame rotating at the fundamental frequency of the command voltage, a dc component of the positive and negative sequences can be filtered, and their amplitudes determined. Error detection can be based on the total amplitude of the fundamental component, determined by positive and negative component amplitudes. Sensor error detection enables an FOC system to operate with two current sensors, rather than three, and provides a dedicated fault diagnostic for a current sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLc
    Inventors: Chang-jiang Wang, Michael Degner, Rimma Isayeva, Liwen Xu, Daniel R. Luedtke
  • Publication number: 20150061708
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods detect a current sensor error in an FOC electric machine system. A voltage command is monitored to detect the presence of an ac component can indicate that an error has occurred at a current sensor. By way of example, a sensor fault detection module can be configured to determine the deviation between an actual voltage command and an ideal voltage command to provide a complex deviation vector. By transforming the deviation vector to a reference frame rotating at the fundamental frequency of the command voltage, a dc component of the positive and negative sequences can be filtered, and their amplitudes determined. Error detection can be based on the total amplitude of the fundamental component, determined by positive and negative component amplitudes. The invention enables an FOC system to operate with two current sensors, rather than three, and provides a dedicated fault diagnostic for a current sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chang-jiang Wang, Michael Degner, Rimma Isayeva, Liwen Xu, Daniel R. Luedtke
  • Patent number: 7366602
    Abstract: A roll stability control system for an automotive vehicle includes an external environment sensing system, such as a camera-based vision system, or a radar, lidar or sonar-based sensing system that generates image, radar, lidar, and/or sonar-based signals. A controller is coupled to the sensing system and generates dynamic vehicle characteristic signals in response to the image, radar, lidar, or sonar-based signals. The controller controls the rollover control system in response to the dynamic vehicle control signal. The dynamic vehicle characteristics may include roll related angles, angular rates, and various vehicle velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Liwen Xu, Samir M. Beydoun, Gerald H. Engelman, Aaron L. Mills, Jianbo Lu, Keith Glenn Mattson
  • Publication number: 20070170667
    Abstract: A roll stability control system for an automotive vehicle includes an external environment sensing system, such as a camera-based vision system, or a radar, lidar or sonar-based sensing system that generates image, radar, lidar, and/or sonar-based signals. A controller is coupled to the sensing system and generates dynamic vehicle characteristic signals in response to the image, radar, lidar, or sonar-based signals. The controller controls the rollover control system in response to the dynamic vehicle control signal. The dynamic vehicle characteristics may include roll related angles, angular rates, and various vehicle velocities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Liwen Xu, Samir Beydoun, Gerald Engelman, Aaron Mills, Jianbo Lu, Keith Mattson
  • Patent number: 7197388
    Abstract: A roll stability control system (18) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes an external environment sensing system, such as a camera-based vision system, or a radar, lidar or sonar-based sensing system (43) that generates image, radar, lidar, and/or sonar-based signals. A controller (26) is coupled to the sensing system and generates dynamic vehicle characteristic signals in response to the image, radar, lidar, or sonar-based signals. The controller controls the rollover control system (18) in response to the dynamic vehicle control signal. The dynamic vehicle characteristics may include roll related angles, angular rates, and various vehicle velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Liwen Xu, Samir M. Beydoun, Gerald H. Engelman, Aaron L. Mills, Jianbo Lu, Keith Glenn Mattson
  • Patent number: 6972675
    Abstract: A turn signal system includes at least one sensor detecting road markers and generating therefrom road marker signals. A turn signal deactivates in response to a control command generated by a controller. The controller receives the road marker signals, and determines at least one of whether the system is undergoing a turning condition or has completed the turning condition from the road marker signals. The controller generates the control command when the system has completed the turning condition. A redundancy system verifies the control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron L. Mills, Gerald H. Engelman, Liwen Xu, Samir Mohamad Beydoun
  • Patent number: 6958683
    Abstract: A multipurpose sensing system (10) for a vehicle (12) includes an optic (14) that is directed at multiple viewing areas (18). A vision sensor (16) is coupled to the optic (14) and generates multiple object detection signals corresponding to the viewing areas (18). A controller (22) is coupled to the vision sensor (16) and generates multiple safety system signals in response to the object detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Aaron L. Mills, Gerald H. Engelman, Liwen Xu, Samir Mohamad Beydoun
  • Publication number: 20050162266
    Abstract: A turn signal system includes at least one sensor detecting road markers and generating therefrom road marker signals. A turn signal deactivates in response to a control command generated by a controller. The controller receives the road marker signals, and determines at least one of whether the system is undergoing a turning condition or has completed the turning condition from the road marker signals. The controller generates the control command when the system has completed the turning condition. A redundancy system verifies the control command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Aaron Mills, Gerald Engelman, Liwen Xu, Samir Beydoun
  • Publication number: 20050102083
    Abstract: A roll stability control system (18) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes an external environment sensing system, such as a camera-based vision system, or a radar, lidar or sonar-based sensing system (43) that generates image, radar, lidar, and/or sonar-based signals. A controller (26) is coupled to the sensing system and generates dynamic vehicle characteristic signals in response to the image, radar, lidar, or sonar-based signals. The controller controls the rollover control system (18) in response to the dynamic vehicle control signal. The dynamic vehicle characteristics may include roll related angles, angular rates, and various vehicle velocities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Liwen Xu, Samir Beydoun, Gerald Engelman, Aaron Mills, Jianbo Lu, Keith Mattson
  • Publication number: 20050090939
    Abstract: A wireless vehicle communication update system (10) for a vehicle (12) includes a vision sensor (14) that is coupled to a vehicle body (16) of the vehicle (12). The vision sensor (14) wirelessly detects a vehicle information signal from an off-board vehicle setting update device (20) that contains setting information for the vehicle (12). A vehicle controller (18) updates at least one vehicle setting in response to the vehicle information signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Aaron Mills, Frank MacKenzie, Gerald Engelman, Liwen Xu, Michael Richardson, Samir Beydoun
  • Publication number: 20050073396
    Abstract: A multipurpose sensing system (10) for a vehicle (12) includes an optic (14) that is directed at multiple viewing areas (18). A vision sensor (16) is coupled to the optic (14) and generates multiple object detection signals corresponding to the viewing areas (18). A controller (22) is coupled to the vision sensor (16) and generates multiple safety system signals in response to the object detection signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Mills, Gerald Engelman, Liwen Xu, Samir Beydoun