Patents by Inventor Ming Gao

Ming Gao 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: 9772104
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circulating fluidized bed boiler, comprising: furnace side walls; a ceiling; an air distribution plate provided at a bottom of a furnace; and at least one air distribution cone provided on the air distribution plate, wherein each air distribution cone extends upwards from the air distribution plate into an interior of the furnace and has a shape gradually tapered in an extending direction, cone side walls which form the air distribution cone are provided with secondary air ports, the cone side walls are separated from the furnace side walls, and a furnace combustion space is formed and surrounded by the ceiling, the furnace side walls, the air distribution plate, and the cone side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qinggang Lv, Ming Gao, Guoliang Song, Xiaofang Wang, Yunkai Sun, Dongyu Wang, Tuo Zhou
  • Patent number: 9623694
    Abstract: Disclosed are a ribbon cartridge, a thermal transfer printer, and a method for installing the ribbon cartridge. The ribbon cartridge (2) comprises a bracket (23), a supply cylinder (21) arranged on the bracket and used for accommodating an unused ribbon, and a winding cylinder (22) arranged on the bracket and used for accommodating a used ribbon, where the supply cylinder and the winding cylinder are placed in parallel, and have an initial state in which the supply cylinder and the winding cylinder are close to each other and an open state in which the supply cylinder and the winding cylinder are away from each other under the action of an external force. Compared with a ribbon cartridge whose supply cylinder and winding cylinder are arranged at a fixed interval in the prior art, the ribbon cartridge as disclosed is more compact and needs less installation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gao, Haiyun Deng, Shuxun Dong, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 9619492
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for data migration includes: receiving intermediate data and corresponding key value-row location information mapping list; importing each row of the intermediate data to a corresponding row of a target data table, where each row of the target data table has a target physical row ID; and establishing, by a computer processor, a target index of the target data table based on the target physical row IDs and the key value-row location information mapping list. With the method or system of this invention, the efficiency of reestablishing a data index after data migration can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying Ming Gao, Ang Li, Jian Liu, Zhuo Yin, Xian Zou
  • Patent number: 9599331
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a water-cooled column formed by side walls connected together to define an enclosed space, each side wall is formed of a water-cooled membrane wall, a working medium is passed through a tube of the water-cooled membrane wall from bottom to top, the water-cooled column comprising: a lower part having a cross section reduced segment, which has a cross section gradually reduced in a direction from bottom to top; and an upper part, wherein the upper part connects with the cross section reduced segment at a connection position, and a cross sectional area of the cross section reduced segment at the connection position is identical to a cross sectional area of the upper part at the connection position. Embodiments of the invention also provide a furnace for defining a reaction space, which comprises a water-cooled column defined as above disposed along a vertical direction therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Qinggang Lv, Ming Gao, Dongyu Wang, Xiaofang Wang
  • Patent number: 9538767
    Abstract: A door mechanism for disposing on a bin body, which has an inner periphery defining an opening, includes a door panel unit configured to be pivoted to the inner periphery of the bin body to openably close the opening, a hinge unit configured to pivotally connect the door panel unit to the inner periphery of the bin body, a rotary wheel unit for controlling rotation of the hinge unit, a drive unit pivoted between the rotary wheel unit and the hinge unit, and a motor unit for driving rotation of the rotary wheel unit. When the rotary wheel unit is driven by the motor unit to rotate, the rotary wheel unit drives rotation of the drive unit which in turn drives the hinge unit to rotate said door panel unit to an open or a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Tsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Lung Pai, Zhong-Hua Zhang, Yong-Mou Zhang, Jian-Ming Gao
  • Publication number: 20170003820
    Abstract: A capacitive touchscreen panel and a method for etching an indium tin oxide film on a gap portion of a capacitive touchscreen panel, the method for etching comprises using a laser etching line to cut ITO on the gap portion into a plurality of ITO segments, the ITO segments are independent of each other and are not connected to each other. The method for etching an indium tin oxide film on a capacitive touchscreen panel and a gap portion thereof of the present invention has high production efficiency, and the touchscreen product has a good display effect after etching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Leping AN, Yao HONG, Long WANG, Ming GAO, Peisheng YOU
  • Patent number: 9518730
    Abstract: A large-size circulating fluidized bed boiler, comprising: a furnace having a vertical furnace center line; and at least two groups of cyclones, each cyclone of each group of cyclones having an inlet gas pass communicated with the furnace. A furnace cross section formed by outer sidewalls and located at the inlet gas pass of the cyclone is a polygon having 2×n sides, and n is a positive integer greater than 1. The polygon is axially symmetric with respect to a perpendicular bisector of each side of the polygon, and when n is 2, the polygon is a square. Triangles formed by two endpoints of an inlet of the inlet gas pass of each cyclone at the cross section and an intersection of the furnace center line and the cross section are congruent. A single flow field in communication with each of the inlet is formed in the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Qinggang Lu, Ming Gao, Yunkai Sun, Guoliang Song, Xiaofang Wang, Yongjie Na, Dongyu Wang, Haigang Wang
  • Publication number: 20160330829
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board comprises a base portion and a grounding soft board extending from the base portion, the grounding soft board comprising a board body connected to the base portion and a contact end provided at a free end of the board body, the contact end comprising a bonding region and a windowing copper exposure region arranged inside the bonding region, and the board body being in a curved shape. According to the present invention, by making improvements on the bonding area between the grounding soft board and the shielding layer and on the shape of the soft board, and by increasing the bonding power and dispersing the folding stress, the grounding soft board is prevented from falling off at portions contacting the shielding layer when folded or transported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: KUNSHAN VISIONOX DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Leping AN, Long WANG, Ming GAO, Yao HONG, Bin PU
  • Publication number: 20160320051
    Abstract: A water-cooled column (4) used in a circulating fluidized bed boiler furnace is disclosed, wherein the water-cooled column is formed by connecting membrane water-cooled walls (41). The water-cooled column (4) includes a lower section (A), an upper section and a transition section. The lower section (A) is a single column and is provided with inner secondary air ports (400) on a side wall thereof. The upper section includes a plurality of sub-columns (B, C). The membrane water-cooled walls at the lower section (A) extend to the upper section through the transition section. Each of the sub-columns (B, C) is formed by connecting extension portions extending upward from respective membrane water-cooled walls (41) in the membrane water-cooled walls (41), which are connected to form the lower section (A), and the plurality of sub-columns (B, C) are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Qinggang LV, Xiaofang WANG, Ming GAO, Guoliang SONG, Dongyu WANG
  • Patent number: 9476585
    Abstract: A water-cooling U-valve is composed of a downcomer (1), a riser (2), and a return chute (3), which are sequentially connected. An intermediate partition (4) is disposed between the downcomer (1) and the riser (2), the lower parts of the downcomer (1) and the riser (2) are interconnected. A material returning partition (5) is disposed between the riser (2) and the return chute (3), the upper parts of the riser (2) and the return chute (3) are interconnected. The casing of U-valve comprises membrane walls, the inside of the membrane walls are laid with refractory. Some water-cooling tubes of the membrane walls extend into the inside of the U-valve, forming the water cooing intermediate partition (4) and material returning partition (5). The headers (40, 50) are connected with the headers (33, 13) formed by some water-cooling tubes of membrane walls by connecting tubes (7, 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qinggang Lu, Yunkai Sun, Ming Gao, Shaolin Bao, Shiyuan Li, Dongyu Wang, Yongjie Na
  • Publication number: 20160201898
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for distributing gas for oxy-fuel combustion on a circulating fluidized bed. In the method, the gas is provided by three stages into a furnace of the circulating fluidized bed. The method includes: blowing in a first-stage gas containing oxygen and recycled flue gas from the bottom of the furnace; blowing in a second-stage gas containing recycled flue gas from a transition zone between a dense-phase zone and a dilute-phase zone of the furnace; and blowing in a third-stage gas containing oxygen from a side wall of the furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Shiyuan Li, Jingzhang Liu, Qiangqiang Ren, Ming Gao, Qinggang Lv, Jianguo Zhu, Wei Li, Haoyu Li, Yongjie Na, Shaolin Bao
  • Publication number: 20160178191
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a water-cooled column formed by side walls connected together to define an enclosed space, each side wall is formed of a water-cooled membrane wall, a working medium is passed through a tube of the water-cooled membrane wall from bottom to top, the water-cooled column comprising: a lower part having a cross section reduced segment, which has a cross section gradually reduced in a direction from bottom to top; and an upper part, wherein the upper part connects with the cross section reduced segment at a connection position, and a cross sectional area of the cross section reduced segment at the connection position is identical to a cross sectional area of the upper part at the connection position. Embodiments of the invention also provide a furnace for defining a reaction space, which comprises a water-cooled column defined as above disposed along a vertical direction therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Qinggang Lv, Ming Gao, Dongyu Wang, Xiaofang Wang
  • Publication number: 20160149650
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for pulse interference suppression, and a computer readable storage medium in a communication system are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: judging a location where pulse interference occurs according to a power of a signal; and performing suppression processing on a data segment interfered by a pulse in the location. After judging that the pulse interference exists in the location, a receiver in the communication system discards the data segment interfered by the pulse in the location, and feeds back an indication that the data are not received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Ming GAO, Bin LI, Hongfeng YUAN, Ou LI
  • Publication number: 20160103186
    Abstract: An integrated DC/DC converter includes a first DC/DC converter, a second DC/DC converter, a first voltage sensor, a second voltage sensor, a first current sensor, a second current sensor, a third current sensor, and a controller. The first DC/DC converter has an input end and an output end. The input end of the first DC/DC converter is to be electrically connected to an output end of an electrochemical energy storage apparatus. The output end of the first DC/DC converter is to be electrically connected to an input end of an electrical load. The second DC/DC converter connects the first DC/DC converter in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: PO HONG, JIAN-QIU LI, LIANG-FEI XU, MING-GAO OUYANG
  • Publication number: 20160081355
    Abstract: A door mechanism for disposing on a bin body, which has an inner periphery defining an opening, includes a door panel unit configured to be pivoted to the inner periphery of the bin body to openably close the opening, a hinge unit configured to pivotally connect the door panel unit to the inner periphery of the bin body, a rotary wheel unit for controlling rotation of the hinge unit, a drive unit pivoted between the rotary wheel unit and the hinge unit, and a motor unit for driving rotation of the rotary wheel unit. When the rotary wheel unit is driven by the motor unit to rotate, the rotary wheel unit drives rotation of the drive unit which in turn drives the hinge unit to rotate said door panel unit to an open or a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Wen-Lung Pai, Zhong-Hua Zhang, Yong-Mou Zhang, Jian-Ming Gao
  • Publication number: 20160067991
    Abstract: Disclosed are a ribbon cartridge, a thermal transfer printer, and a method for installing the ribbon cartridge. The ribbon cartridge (2) comprises a bracket (23), a supply cylinder (21) arranged on the bracket and used for accommodating an unused ribbon, and a winding cylinder (22) arranged on the bracket and used for accommodating a used ribbon, where the supply cylinder and the winding cylinder are placed in parallel, and have an initial state in which the supply cylinder and the winding cylinder are close to each other and an open state in which the supply cylinder and the winding cylinder are away from each other under the action of an external force. Compared with a ribbon cartridge whose supply cylinder and winding cylinder are arranged at a fixed interval in the prior art, the ribbon cartridge as disclosed is more compact and needs less installation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Ming GAO, Haiyun DENG, Shuxun DONG, Xin WANG
  • Publication number: 20160063507
    Abstract: A method, system and program product comprise capturing a product identifier for a product obtained by a user. The product identifier is compiled by a cloud based server system as instructed by a one of a plurality business users of a plurality of different businesses. Extracted information from the product identifier at least comprises a code which uniquely identifies the product and a network address for establishing a communication with the cloud based server system. Personal information is obtained from the user. A communication is established with the cloud based server system using the network address. The code and the personal information is communicated to the cloud based server system. The cloud based server system transmits the code and the personal information to a support center of a business of the business user to use in a registration of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Ming Gao, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 9189506
    Abstract: Managing database indexes includes creating a main index and creating at least one service index that is configured for recording a change to a node to be updated in the main index. Managing database indexes also includes detecting whether an operation that involves the main index and is performed on the database appears in the database, and maintaining the main index using at least one service index in response to the operation that involves the main index and is performed on the database, appearing in the database. The maintaining is performed based on changes to a node to be updated in the main index that are recorded in the at least one service node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Ming Gao, Jia Huo, Kai Zhang, Xian Zou
  • Publication number: 20150226602
    Abstract: A load cell wireless kit as disclosed can include a load cell and a kit component removably attached to an outside of the load cell. Exemplary embodiments are free of cables and a junction box, and can provide a great convenience for use and save power consumption, without affecting normal system functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicants: METTLER TOLEDO (CHANGZHOU) MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY LTD., METTLER TOLEDO (CHANGZHOU) PRECISION INSTRUMENT LTD., METTLER TOLEDO (CHANGZHOU) SCALE & SYSTEM LTD.
    Inventors: Feng DAI, Ming GAO, Guo Yu SHI, Hong Wei LIU
  • Publication number: 20150184847
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circulating fluidized bed boiler, comprising: furnace side walls; a ceiling; an air distribution plate provided at a bottom of a furnace; and at least one air distribution cone provided on the air distribution plate, wherein each air distribution cone extends upwards from the air distribution plate into an interior of the furnace and has a shape gradually tapered in an extending direction, cone side walls which form the air distribution cone are provided with secondary air ports, the cone side walls are separated from the furnace side walls, and a furnace combustion space is formed and surrounded by the ceiling, the furnace side walls, the air distribution plate, and the cone side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Qinggang Lv, Ming Gao, Guoliang Song, Xiaofang Wang, Yunkai Sun, Dongyu Wang, Tuo Zhou