Patents by Inventor Nan Liu

Nan Liu 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: 10727689
    Abstract: A power outlet device including a first socket assembly coupled to an external power, a first switch, a detecting circuit coupled to first socket assembly through the first switch, and a controller is provided. The first switch is coupled to the first socket assembly for turning, on or off the power supply of the first socket assembly. The detecting circuit detects at least one power value of the first socket assembly. The controller is coupled to the first switch and the detecting circuit respectively, and averages the plurality of power values within a predetermined time for generating an average power value. The controller turns on or off the first switch according to the average power value and a current power value. A controlling method of the power outlet device is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: CYBER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Hsu, Yen-Nan Liu
  • Patent number: 10707627
    Abstract: Hybrid connectors that may transfer power and data with a variety of electronic devices having different types of connector interfaces, may consume a minimal amount of surface area, depth, and volume in an electronic device, and may be readily manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Blake R. Marshall, Liquan Tan, Florence W. Ow, Alex C. Yeung, John Raff, Robert Scritzky, Wei-Hsuan Chen, Eric S. Jol, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Nan Liu, Gianpaolo Lisi, YiBo Liu
  • Patent number: 10696258
    Abstract: A vehicle window structure for preventing a person from being thrown out, applied to a vehicle, includes a fixing frame. An inner frame surface of the fixing frame is provided with a plurality of fixing portions spaced apart from each other. An arresting net includes at least one plastic rope fixedly connected to the fixing portions in an interlaced manner. The fixing frame is provided with a light-permeable unit that is mounted and fixed within the inner frame surface and covers the arresting net. When the vehicle has an accidental rollover unfortunately, even if the light-permeable unit is damaged or the fixing frame is deformed during the overturning of the vehicle, the arresting net is still able to arrest the user effectively because the arresting net is directly fixed to the fixing frame, thereby preventing the user from being thrown out of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventor: Chun-Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20200202586
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging may include acquiring first k-space data that is generated by entering acquired magnetic resonance (MR) data into a plurality of first k-space locations. The method may further include synthesizing second k-space data for a plurality of second k-space locations that are not filled with the acquired MR data. The method may further include reconstructing an image from the first k-space data and the second k-space data by applying a reconstruction algorithm. The reconstruction algorithm is based at least in part on a neural network technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guobin LI, Nan LIU, Jinguang ZONG, Xiaoqian HUANG, Shu LIAO
  • Publication number: 20200196470
    Abstract: A floating rubber foot structure is provided herein. The floating rubber foot structure includes a floating rubber foot extending through an opening in a device case. The floating rubber foot is mounted to an inner surface of the device case at a mounting point proximate to the opening, and the floating rubber foot is disposed with a gap between the floating rubber foot and a wall of the opening in the device case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Chyun-Nan Liu
  • Patent number: 10657923
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure propose a display control circuit, a display control method thereof and a display apparatus, so that power supply to the display driving circuit is controlled to be disabled when the display driving circuit is in the sleep-in mode and is controlled to be enabled when the display driving circuit is in the wakeup mode by setting a switch circuit in the display control circuit and turning on and turning off the switch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nan Liu, Na An, Xin Wang, Xiaoping Zhang, Ying Liu, Yaodong Wang, Fangyi Liu, Yang Zhang, Yangli Zheng
  • Patent number: 10656469
    Abstract: A rubbing alignment device, assembly and a rubbing alignment method are disclosed. The rubbing alignment device comprises a friction member including at least two friction rollers, and a friction member controller connected to the friction member for controlling respective friction rollers of the friction member to perform rubbing alignment for the substrates of the motherboard having different sizes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wuwei An, Jaegwan Shin, Xu Wang, Hongye Zuo, Jiangzhou Du, Nan Liu, Xufeng Liu, Yan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10657303
    Abstract: This invention discloses a circuit encoding method and a circuit structure recognition method. The circuit encoding method is applied to a circuit structure recognition process of a circuit. The circuit is coupled to a voltage source and a reference voltage. The circuit encoding method includes: selecting a target transistor from the circuit; when a terminal of the target transistor is electrically connected to the voltage source or the reference voltage, adding a first value to a terminal value of the terminal; when the terminal of the target transistor is electrically connected to a terminal other than the voltage source and the reference voltage, adding a second value to the terminal value of the terminal; and taking a set of multiple terminal values of the target transistor as a transistor signature of the target transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Yun-Jing Lin, Meng-Jung Lee, Yu-Lan Lo, Shu-Yi Kao, Chien-Nan Liu, Yu-Kang Lou, Ching-Ho Lin
  • Publication number: 20200152233
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are sliders having air-bearing surface (ABS) designs to mitigate the effects of smear on near-field transducers used in data storage devices, and data storage devices comprising such sliders. A slider comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, a NFT, and an ABS with features to increase oxygen concentration near the NFT. The ABS comprises a channel configured to direct gas in a direction from the leading edge toward the trailing edge and a funnel region connected to the channel, disposed between the channel and the NFT, and configured to receive gas from the channel. In an ABS view of the slider, a width of the funnel region along a longitudinal axis passing through the NFT monotonically increases with distance from the NFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan LIU, Weidong HUANG
  • Patent number: 10644754
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the inductive charging of portable electronic devices. In particular, a charging assembly is disclosed that allows a portable electronic device to be charged in multiple orientations with respect to a charging device. The charging assembly includes two or more separate inductive receiving coils. The inductive receiving coils can be arranged orthogonally with respect to one another by wrapping one or more secondary receiving coils around a ferritic core having two legs extending in different directions from a joint region. By orienting the receiving coils orthogonally with respect to one another, the likelihood of at least one of the receiving coils being aligned with a charging field emitted by a charging device increases substantially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weihong Qiu, Stefan A. Kowalski, Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol, Zaki Moussaoui, Nan Liu
  • Patent number: 10639722
    Abstract: A preparation method for a silver-metal oxide electrical contact material, comprising: (1) mixing a silver-containing precursor solution with a metal oxide precursor solution; (2) reacting a reducing agent with the mixed solution to obtain silver powder coated with a metal oxide precursor; (3) heat treating the silver powder in a non-reducing atmosphere to obtain the silver-metal oxide electrical contact material. A preparation device for a silver-metal oxide electrical contact material, a silver-metal oxide electrical contact material prepared by the preparation method, and an electrical contact prepared by the silver-metal oxide electrical contact material. The electrical contact material prepared by the preparation method is at nanoscale, significantly prolonging electrical endurance of the electrical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Nan Liu, Yijian Lai, Binyuan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10629236
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are sliders having air-bearing surface (ABS) designs to mitigate the effects of smear on near-field transducers used in data storage devices, and data storage devices comprising such sliders. A slider comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, a NFT, and an ABS with features to increase oxygen concentration near the NFT. The ABS comprises a channel configured to direct gas in a direction from the leading edge toward the trailing edge and a funnel region connected to the channel, disposed between the channel and the NFT, and configured to receive gas from the channel. In an ABS view of the slider, a width of the funnel region along a longitudinal axis passing through the NFT monotonically increases with distance from the NFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Liu, Weidong Huang
  • Publication number: 20200090382
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A method may include obtaining k-space data associated with MR signals acquired by an MR scanner. The k-space data may corresponding to a first sampling rate. The method may also include generating one or more estimated images based on the k-space data and a target neural network model. The one or more estimated images may correspond to a second sampling rate that exceeds the first sampling rate. The method may further include determining one or more target images based on the one or more estimated images and the k-space data using a compressed sensing model. The compressed sensing model may be constructed based on the one or more estimated images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE CO., LTD., SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqian HUANG, Guobin LI, Nan LIU, Yang XIN
  • Publication number: 20200079928
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an insulation layer composition and an insulation layer for a plant tissue culture. The insulation layer composition includes polyvinyl acetate emulsion resin, water, a gel forming agent and a hyaluronic acid diluent, in which the gel forming agent is a mixture of glycerin and polyglycerol acrylate. The insulation layer for the plant tissue culture includes the insulation layer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventor: Jun-Nan LIU
  • Publication number: 20200083746
    Abstract: An inductive power transmitter is provided that includes a power transmitting coil which includes transmission circuitry coupled to the power transmitting coil. The inductive power transmitter is configured to produce an inductive power transfer (IPT) signal having an IPT power so that the power transmitting coil generates an IPT field to transfer wireless power to a power receiving coil of an inductive power receiver. The inductive power transmitter includes detection circuitry coupled to the transmission circuitry and is configured to detect one or more indications of a magnetic field strength of a leakage IPT field. The inductive power transmitter includes control circuitry configured to control the transmission circuitry while the transmission circuitry is increasing the IPT power towards a charge level sufficient to charge a battery associated with the inductive power receiver at a target charge rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Gianpaolo Lisi, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Nan Liu, Tianqi Li, YiBo Liu, Yasin Aalipour
  • Patent number: 10581207
    Abstract: A power outlet device including a first socket assembly coupled to an external power, a first switch, a detecting circuit coupled to the first socket assembly through the first switch, a controller is electrically coupled to the first switch and the detecting circuit, and a sensor is provided. The first switch is electrically coupled to the first socket assembly for turning on or oft power supply of the external power to the first socket assembly. The detecting circuit detects a first power value of the first socket assembly. A second power value of the first socket assembly is detected after detecting the first power value. The controller read the first and second power value. A first signal is received by the sensor for transmitting to the controller. The controller turns on or off the first switch according to the first signal, the first and second power value. A controlling method of the power outlet device is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CYBER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Nan Liu, Chih-Hao Hsu
  • Publication number: 20200062818
    Abstract: Bifunctional fusion proteins having Tumstatin active fragments and CD137L extracellular regions are provided. The proteins exhibit activities to inhibit the proliferation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells and to costimulate the proliferation of T cells. They can be used for the treatment of various tumor-related diseases and the regulation of angiogenesis and immunological effects in humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: China Pharmaceutical University
    Inventors: Shuzhen WANG, Yijun CHEN, Dongyang HE, Nan LIU, Chao MA, Zhenyue GAO
  • Publication number: 20200044491
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system has a wireless power receiving device that can be charged using multiple different types of wireless power transmitting devices. The different types of wireless power transmitting devices have power transmitting coils that exhibit different levels of magnetic coupling with the power receiving coil of the wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device may include capacitors, resistors, and/or other loading circuits that can be independently switched into use depending on the level of magnetic coupling that is detected, on a rectified voltage level, on the size of the output load, and/or on information conveyed during handshaking operations to present a desired impedance adjustment at the power receiving coil so that data signal can be properly conveyed between the power receiving device and the power transmitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Weihong Qiu, Nan Liu, Dmitry Berdnikov, Zaki Moussaoui, Rex Huang
  • Patent number: 10553984
    Abstract: A plug jack of a terminal device for an external component and a terminal device are provided. The plug jack of a terminal device for an external component includes a slot provided with a mouth, and a conductive layer connected to a low level is arranged on an inner wall of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na An, Nan Liu, Gang Ci, Hao Wu, Baolei Guo, Xinfeng Gong
  • Publication number: 20190347511
    Abstract: Systems and methods for training a machine learning (ML) ranking model to rank genealogy hints are described herein. One method includes retrieving a plurality of genealogy hints for a target person, where each of the plurality of genealogy hints corresponds to a genealogy item and has a hint type of a plurality of hint types. The method includes generating, for each of the plurality of genealogy hints, a feature vector having a plurality of feature values, the feature vector being included in a plurality of feature vectors. The method includes extending each of the plurality of feature vectors by at least one additional feature value based on the number of features of one or more other hint types of the plurality of hint types. The method includes training the ML ranking model using the extended plurality of feature vectors and user-provided labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Jiang, Tyler Folkman, Tsung-Nan Liu, Yen-Yun Yu, Ruhan Wang, Jack Reese, Azadeh Moghtaderi