Patents by Inventor Lu Xu

Lu 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: 20230098212
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a chuck structure of a semiconductor cleaning apparatus and a semiconductor cleaning apparatus. The chuck structure includes a chuck base, a gas inlet control device, and a first gas channel and a second gas channel arranged in the chuck base and both configured to spray a gas toward the to-be-processed workpiece. A gas spray direction of the first gas channel is inclined toward the outside of the surface of the to-be-processed workpiece that is opposite to the chuck base. A gas spray direction of the second gas channel is perpendicular to the surface of the to-be-processed workpiece that is opposite to the chuck base. The gas inlet control device is configured to selectively supply the gas to at least one of the first gas channel and the second gas channel to cause the to-be-processed workpiece to be able to float at different height positions over the chuck base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Lu XU, Hongyu ZHAO, Aibing LI, Songming ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11604288
    Abstract: A computer is programmed to determine a localization of a first vehicle, including location coordinates and an orientation of the first vehicle, based on first vehicle sensor data, and to wirelessly receive localizations of respective second vehicles, wherein a first vehicle field of view at least partially overlaps respective fields of view of each of the second vehicles. The computer is programmed to determine pair-wise localizations for respective pairs of the first vehicle and one of the second vehicles, wherein each of the pair-wise localizations defines a localization of the first vehicle relative to a global coordinate system based on a (a) relative localization of the first vehicle with reference to the respective second vehicle and (b) a second vehicle localization relative to the global coordinate system, and to determine an adjusted localization for the first vehicle that has a minimized sum of distances to the pair-wise localizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez, Codrin Cionca, Linjun Zhang, Lu Xu
  • Patent number: 11559265
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a medical device is provided. The method includes obtaining an initial trajectory of a component of the medical device. The initial trajectory of the component includes a plurality of initial positions. For each of the plurality of initial positions, the method further includes determining whether a collision is likely to occur between a subject and the component according to the initial trajectory of the component. In response to the determination that the collision is likely to occur, the method further includes updating the initial trajectory of the component to determine an updated trajectory of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lu Xu
  • Publication number: 20220339175
    Abstract: Disclosed is an application of Stachyose in preparation of a drug for treating castration-resistant prostate cancer, belonging to the technical field of biological medicine. The disclosure proposes a new strategy of using Stachyose in combination with an androgen receptor antagonist to prepare a drug for treating CRPC for the first time, and conducts multi-angle and multi-level verification research. The drug composition of the Stachyose in combination with the androgen receptor in the disclosure can be used for treating castration-resistant prostate cancer, and significantly improves the effect of Enzalutamide on inhibiting castration-resistant prostate cancer. The natural compound is applied to the advanced stage of cancer, and has important clinical therapeutic significance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yongquan CHEN, Rong WANG, Lu XU, Xiaoying WANG, Shenglong ZHU
  • Patent number: 11383263
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coating device including a first storage tank for storing a material to be coated, a needle cannula to which the first storage tank is connected by means of a corresponding first line, a gas output device for outputting a first pressurized gas from a gas source, including a first gas output line extending into the first storage tank, wherein the gas output device is capable of outputting the first pressurized gas to the first storage tank through the first gas output line such that the material to be coated stored in the first storage tank is discharged under a gas pressure and enters the needle cannula through the first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feiji Zhou, Haitao Long, Haitao Bai, Lu Cheng, Lingling Ge, Xiaoya Lu, Lu Xu, Xiaodong Yang, Kai Zhu, Chenchen Xiao, Wenxi Zhu, Jun Dai, Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11360714
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose example methods for processing data blocks and controllers. One example method includes configuring, by a controller, a counter of a global write stamp where the global write stamp is used to represent a total quantity of times that the controller performs writing on a storage medium. When a write operation is performed on a physical data block in the storage medium, a global write stamp can be used at a current moment as an instant write stamp of the physical data block, and the instant write stamp can be stored. Physical data blocks can be inspected periodically. When the physical data block is inspected, a determination as to whether the physical data block is a to-be-moved data block can be made based on the stored instant write stamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lu Xu
  • Publication number: 20220138957
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a first image associated with an image to be segmented, and performing an iteration process for obtaining a target image. The iteration process may include one or more iterations each of which includes: obtaining an image to be modified; obtaining one or more modifications performed on the image to be modified; generating a second image by inputting the image to be segmented, the image to be modified, and the one or more modifications into the image segmentation model; in response to determining that the second image satisfies the first condition, terminating the iteration process by determining the second image as the target image; or in response to determining that the second image does not satisfy the first condition, initiating a new iteration of the iteration process by determining the second image as the image to be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lu XU, Yifeng WANG
  • Patent number: 11322352
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for forming carbon hard masks to improve deposition uniformity and etch selectivity. The carbon hard mask may be formed in a PECVD process chamber and is a nitrogen-doped carbon hardmask. The nitrogen-doped carbon hardmask is formed using a nitrogen containing gas, an argon containing gas, and a hydrocarbon gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoquan Min, Lu Xu, Prashant Kumar Kulshreshtha, Kwangduk Douglas Lee
  • Patent number: 11247724
    Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to receive a vehicle path from a server computer and verify the vehicle path based on vehicle dynamics and vehicle constraints. The instruction can include further instructions to, when the vehicle path is verified as correct, operating the vehicle on the vehicle path and, when the vehicle path is verified as incorrect, stopping the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Linjun Zhang, Lu Xu, Codrin Cionca, Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez
  • Publication number: 20220020589
    Abstract: Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include forming a first plasma of a silicon-containing precursor and an oxygen-containing precursor within a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may also include depositing a coating from first effluents of the first plasma on surfaces defining the processing region to a target thickness greater than or about 0.5 ?m. Forming the first plasma may occur at a first power greater than or about 300 W. The surfaces defining the processing region may include a surface of a faceplate that faces the processing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Lu Xu, Ratsamee Limdulpaiboon, Kwangduk Douglas Lee
  • Patent number: 11227964
    Abstract: Luminescent solar concentrators in accordance with various embodiments of the invention can be designed to minimize photon thermalization losses and incomplete light trapping using various components and techniques. Cadmium selenide core, cadmium sulfide shell (CdSe/CdS) quantum dot (“QD”) technology can be implemented in such devices to allow for near-unity QDs and sufficiently large Stokes shifts. Many embodiments of the invention include a luminescent solar concentrator that incorporates CdSe/CdS quantum dot luminophores. In further embodiments, anisotropic luminophore emission can be implemented through metasurface/plasmonic antenna coupling. In several embodiments, red-shifted luminophores are implemented. Additionally, top and bottom spectrally-selective filters, such as but not limited to selectively-reflective metasurface mirrors and polymeric stack filters, can be implemented to enhance the photon collection efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of California, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David R. Needell, Noah Bronstein, Armand P. Alivisatos, Harry A. Atwater, Ralph Nuzzo, Haley Bauser, Ognjen Ilic, Junwen He, Lu Xu, Colton Bukowsky, Sunita Darbe, Zach Nett, Brent Koscher
  • Publication number: 20210379619
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coating device including a first storage tank for storing a material to be coated, a needle cannula to which the first storage tank is connected by means of a corresponding first line, a gas output device for outputting a first pressurized gas from a gas source, including a first gas output line extending into the first storage tank, wherein the gas output device is capable of outputting the first pressurized gas to the first storage tank through the first gas output line such that the material to be coated stored in the first storage tank is discharged under a gas pressure and enters the needle cannula through the first line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Feiji ZHOU, Haitao LONG, Haitao BAI, Lu CHENG, Lingling GE, Xiaoya LU, Lu XU, Xiaodong YANG, Kai Zhu, Chenchen XIAO, Wenxi ZHU, Jun DAI, Wei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210327713
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for forming carbon hard masks to improve deposition uniformity and etch selectivity. The carbon hard mask may be formed in a PECVD process chamber and is a nitrogen-doped carbon hardmask. The nitrogen-doped carbon hardmask is formed using a nitrogen containing gas, an argon containing gas, and a hydrocarbon gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaoquan MIN, Lu XU, Prashant Kumar KULSHRESHTHA, Kwangduk Douglas LEE
  • Patent number: 11147987
    Abstract: A method and system for using in a two-modality apparatus. The two-modality apparatus comprises a couch with a table top, a first modality unit and a second modality unit. A second image of a target portion of an object when the table top is at a second working position of the second modality unit may be acquired. A second sag of the table top at a second measurement point of the table top according to the second image may be determined based on the image. A difference between a first sag of the table top at a first measurement point of the table top and the second sag may be estimated based on the second sag and standard data. The standard data provides a relationship relating to a sag of the table top positioned between the first modality unit and second modality unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Johannes Stahl, Supratik Bose, Jonathan Maltz, Lu Xu, Hao Chen
  • Publication number: 20210264689
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and a method. In an example implantation, the system and the method can provide a message to a first communications module. The first communications module is configured to transmit the message. The system and the method can also include determining whether the message has been received from a second communications module, and determining whether to generate a warning message based on the determination of whether the message has been received from the second communications module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Linjun Zhang, Helen Elizabeth Kourous-Harrigan, Qi Chen, Lu Xu
  • Patent number: 11038275
    Abstract: A bicone antenna and methods for manufacture therefor can include a feed portion, a top section and a bottom section that can be centered on a vertical axis. The top section and bottom sections can each have a respective conical surface, which can extend radially outward from the vertical axis at an inner portion at a constant angle ?1 with respect to a horizontal antenna axis of the antenna. For both sections, the inner portion can merge into an outer portion that can have a curved surface, with the curved surface extending radially outward from the conical surface so that the curved surface has a logarithmic profile when viewed in side profile. The above structure can allow for a multi-directional antenna with a minimum of moving parts, which can be easily manufactured, including by additive manufacturing techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Dennis Bermeo, Peter Berens, David Brock, Yong Kho, Robbi Mangra, Dave Arney, Linda Hau, Brandon Wiedemeier, Jessica Watson, Lu Xu
  • Publication number: 20210159048
    Abstract: A plasma processing system is described. The system may include a showerhead. The system may further include a first RF generator in electrical communication with the showerhead. The first RF generator may be configured to deliver a first voltage at a first frequency to the showerhead. Additionally, the system may include a second RF generator in electrical communication with a pedestal. The second RF generator may be configured to deliver a second voltage at a second frequency to the pedestal. The second frequency may be less than the first frequency. The system may also include a terminator in electrical communication with the showerhead. The terminator may provide a path to ground for the second voltage. Methods of depositing material using the plasma processing system are described. A method of seasoning a chamber by depositing silicon oxide and silicon nitride on the wall of the chamber is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkata Sharat Chandra Parimi, Xiaoquan Min, Zheng John Ye, Prashant Kumar Kulshreshtha, Vinay K. Prabhakar, Lu Xu, Kwangduk Douglas Lee
  • Publication number: 20210150892
    Abstract: First area operating parameters specifying operation of a vehicle within a first area are determined based on traffic data received from a plurality of infrastructure sensors within the first area. Second area operating parameters specifying operation of the vehicle within a second area are determined based on traffic data received from the infrastructure sensor within the second area. The second area is within the first area. Upon the vehicle operating within the first area, the first area operating parameters are provided to the vehicle, and upon the vehicle operating within the second area, the second area operating parameters are provided to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lu Xu, Linjun Zhang, Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez, Codrin Cionca
  • Publication number: 20210141544
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose example methods for processing data blocks and controllers. One example method includes configuring, by a controller, a counter of a global write stamp where the global write stamp is used to represent a total quantity of times that the controller performs writing on a storage medium. When a write operation is performed on a physical data block in the storage medium, a global write stamp can be used at a current moment as an instant write stamp of the physical data block, and the instant write stamp can be stored. Physical data blocks can be inspected periodically. When the physical data block is inspected, a determination as to whether the physical data block is a to-be-moved data block can be made based on the stored instant write stamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Lu XU
  • Publication number: 20210137480
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for X-ray imaging. The method of calculating scatter in an X-ray image may include forming a modulated X-ray image. The method of forming the modulated X-ray image may include acquiring X-rays through a collimator module and an imaged object in sequence to generate an X-ray image group; the acquisition may be performed during a movement of the collimator module in a first direction and the X-ray image group may include a plurality of X-ray images acquired at different times during the movement of the collimator; extracting sub-zones from the plurality of X-ray images in the X-ray image group; combining the sub-zones in the first direction to form the modulated X-ray image. In the present disclosure, an intensity distribution of the X-rays may be adjusted flexibly using a collimator without adding any extra hardware. In addition, scatter components in the X-ray images may be calculated to eliminate the scatter in the X-ray images finally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gui LI, Lu XU, Hongcheng YANG