Patents by Inventor NING TAN

NING TAN 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: 11973479
    Abstract: Disclosed are a two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion and an audio terminal. The two-stage audio gain circuit includes a PGA configured to receive an analog audio signal and perform programmable gain amplification processing on the received analog audio signal; an ADC configured to convert the analog audio signal after the programmable gain amplification processing into a digital audio signal and output the digital audio signal; a first AGC gain unit configured to perform a first AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a first gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal; and a second AGC gain unit configured to perform a second AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a second gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuan Zhang, Yulin Tan, Jon Sweat Duster, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng, Erkan Alpman
  • Publication number: 20240124451
    Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of NLRP3 and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by NLPR3. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of diseases, disorders and conditions mediated by NLRP3 such as, but not limited to, gout, pseudogout, CAPS, NASH fibrosis, heart failure, idiopathic pericarditis, atopic dermatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and traumatic brain injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Donna A.A.W. Hayes, Prabha Karnachi, Madeleine Eileen Kieffer, Kyle S. McClymont, Rohan Rajiv Merchant, Essam Metwally, Anilkumar G. Nair, Ning Qi, Jillian Rose Sanzone, Nunzio Sciammetta, Emma H. Southgate, Zheng Tan, Brandon M. Taoka
  • Publication number: 20240112283
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ecological governance method based on erosion prevention and control for a gentle slope farmland and relates to the technical field of ecological governance of farmlands. The ecological governance method based on erosion prevention and control for a gentle slope farmland includes the following steps: sampling a gentle slope farmland to investigate erosion thereof; and determining erosion of a gentle slope cultivated land and selecting a corresponding recovery strategy based on a detection result of a sample, a soil quality index (SQI), and a comprehensive vegetation quality index (VQI), where the recovery strategy includes a natural recovery method and a biological-farming comprehensive recovery method; enclosing the gentle slope cultivated land, fallowing the gentle slope cultivated land and reducing tillage; exterminating insect pests and poisonous weeds in the enclosed area; and turning over straws under soil by a cultivator. The growth of poisonous weeds is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Weiping Yan, Shaofeng Bian, Yongjun Wang, Hongxiang Zhao, Lihua Zhang, Baoyu Chen, Hongjun Wang, Tiehua Cao, Xuanhe Liang, Guobo Tan, Ning Sun, Chen Xu, Fei Li, Xiangmeng Meng, Jinghua Wang, Qingge Wang
  • Patent number: 11944116
    Abstract: A device for removing unwanted objects from cut tobacco in a cut tobacco production line is disclosed, which includes: a raw cut tobacco feeding and conveying unit (N1), a heavy unwanted object removal unit (N2), a cut tobacco dispersion and recovery unit (N3), a moderate unwanted object removal unit (N4), a cut tobacco humidification unit (N5) and a light unwanted object removal unit (N6). An unwanted object removal method using the cut tobacco unwanted object removal device is also disclosed. The device and method of the disclosure can effectively remove unwanted objects from cut tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Tang, Banghua He, Bin Yi, Bing Zhou, Wenqiang Lin, Bo Cai, Hao Wang, Xiaohua Gao, Ze Liu, Ning Ma, Guozhi Tan, Wenqi Li, Li Tang, Huitian Li
  • Publication number: 20240093342
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is an aluminum plated steel sheet, comprising a substrate and a plating layer on the surface of the substrate. The microstructure of the plating layer comprises a Mg2Si phase and an AlMgSiFe phase; and an average grain diameter of the Mg2Si phase is 0.001-5 ?m. The present invention can alleviate the problem of melting-induced roller sticking and hydrogen embrittlement risk in a thermoforming process of the aluminum plated steel sheet. The present invention further provides a manufacturing method for the aluminum plated steel sheet, and a thermoformed component and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning TAN, Hao LIU, Xinyan JIN
  • Patent number: 11655401
    Abstract: A butyl rubber reactive bonding layer for a pre-applied reactive-bonding waterproofing coiled material, a preparation method therefor, and a pre-applied reactive-bonding waterproofing coiled material, relating to the technical field of high-molecular pre-applied materials, are disclosed. The butyl rubber reactive bonding layer is prepared mainly from the following raw materials: 100 parts of a raw rubber, 9.5-15.5 parts of a linear tackifier containing a terminal hydroxyl structure and 12.5-19.5 parts of an active filler. The active filler includes active silicon dioxide and aluminium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING ORIENTAL YUHONG WATERPROOF TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuqin Xiong, Ning Yang, Ning Tan, Yang Liu
  • Publication number: 20230066792
    Abstract: A digital microfluidic (DMF) system based on an electrowetting-on-dielectric mechanism includes a substrate, and at least one dielectric layer comprising diamond-like carbon over the substrate. The DMF system also includes a plurality of electrodes connected to the dielectric layer. A voltage source is selectively couplable to different electrodes of the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Xiong Liu, Barish Chakravarty, Lihong Zhang, Akhil Namboori, Hui Ning Tan
  • Publication number: 20230002850
    Abstract: A high-performance thermoformed component provided with a coating, and a manufacturing method therefor. The thermoformed component comprises a substrate and a coating thereon. The substrate comprises the following ingredients in percentage by weight: 0.01-0.8% of C, 0.05-1.0% of Si, 0.1-5% of Mn, 0.001-0.3% of P, 0.001-0.1% of S, 0.001-0.3% of Al, 0.001-0.5% of Ti, 0.0005-0.1% of B, 0.001-0.5% of Nb, 0.001-0.5% of V, and the remainder being Fe and other unavoidable impurities. The appearance of the thermoformed component has no color difference and no mottling. The surface oxygen content of the thermoformed component is 0.1-20 wt. %, and the ratio of the standard deviation to the average value of the surface oxygen content satisfies: 0<standard deviation of oxygen content/average value of oxygen content ?0.3. In the manufacturing method, a coated steel plate that has undergone heat treatment, transfer processing, and hot stamping is not treated with oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning TAN, Junxiang LIU, Caigen HUANG, Lei JIANG, Chao WANG
  • Publication number: 20230002843
    Abstract: Disclosed are thermoformed component having excellent coating adhesion and a method for manufacturing the same. The thermoformed component comprises a substrate layer and an aluminum coating coated on at least one surface of the substrate layer, wherein the average roughness Ra of a surface of the thermoformed component is between 1.0 ?m and 3.0 ?m, the peak height and the peak-to-valley height Rt are between 8 ?m and 30 ?m, and the roughness peak count Rpc is greater than or equal to 50. The thermoformed component has good paintability, good coating adhesion and good corrosion resistance, and is very suitable for automotive parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning TAN, Hao LIU, Jiyao HONG, Xinyan JIN
  • Publication number: 20220314445
    Abstract: A kinematics model-free trajectory tracking method for a robotic arm includes the following steps. Obtain an actual trajectory equation ra(t) of the robotic arm at time t according to a sensor, and combines the actual trajectory equation ra(t) with a predetermined target trajectory equation rd(t) to obtain a first error function e(t). Obtain a differential equation (I) of a state change rate of a driver of the robotic arm. Obtain a second error function ?(t). Pass the second error function c(t) through the applied gradient neural network to obtain equation (IV). Jointly solve equation (I) and equation (IV) to obtain an joint state vector ?(t) of the robotic arm. Drive a motion of the robotic arm by a controller according to the joint state vector ?(t) of the robotic arm to complete trajectory tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ning TAN, Mao ZHANG, Peng YU
  • Publication number: 20210357800
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for distributed decentralized machine learning model training. In certain embodiments, a first node in a network may comprise a circuit configured to receive an initial machine learning model having an initial parameter set, apply the local data to update parameters of the initial machine learning model to generate an updated machine learning model, transmit a copy of the updated machine learning model from the first node to a plurality of neighboring nodes in the network via a network interface, receive, via the network interface, a modified machine learning model from a first neighboring node, the modified machine learning model having parameters set based on local data of the first neighboring node, modify the updated machine learning model based on the modified machine learning model, and apply the updated machine learning model to control operations at the first node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Naman Sharma, Varun Reddy Boddu, Alphonsus John Kwok Kwong Heng, Hui Ning Tan
  • Publication number: 20210252579
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a hot stamping component having an aluminium-silicon alloy coating, and a hot stamping component, said method comprising the following steps: a steel plate coated with an aluminium-silicon alloy coating is machined into a blank having a shape required for a part, and the blank is subjected to heat treatment and hot stamping. The blank heat treatment is two-stage or three-stage heating, and the temperature of the heating increases in steps. The steel plate coated with the aluminium-silicon alloy coating comprises a substrate, and the aluminium-silicon alloy coating on at least one surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning TAN, Jiang FU, Jiyao HONG, Xuehua FANG
  • Publication number: 20200270489
    Abstract: A butyl rubber reactive bonding layer for a pre-applied reactive-bonding waterproofing coiled material, a preparation method therefor, and a pre-applied reactive-bonding waterproofing coiled material, relating to the technical field of high-molecular pre-applied materials, are disclosed. The butyl rubber reactive bonding layer is prepared mainly from the following raw materials: 100 parts of a raw rubber, 9.5-15.5 parts of a linear tackifier containing a terminal hydroxyl structure and 12.5-19.5 parts of an active filler. The active filler includes active silicon dioxide and aluminium oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: BEIJING ORIENTAL YUHONG WATERPROOF TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuqin XIONG, Ning YANG, Ning TAN, Yang LIU
  • Patent number: 10731266
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite anode unit, comprising: a metal core rod; a metal layer coated on the metal core, wherein the metal layer is lead or lead alloy; a conductive ceramic layer coated on the metal layer, wherein the conductive ceramic layer comprises ?-PbO2—Al2O3 composite oxide; an active ceramic layer is coated on the conductive ceramic layer, wherein the active ceramic layer comprises ?-MnO2—Ti4O7 composite oxide. Methods for preparing the composite anode unit and an anode plate made from the composite anode unit are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: KUNMING HENDERA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JINNING HENDERA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongcheng Guo, Hui Huang, Buming Chen, Xuelong Li, Panlong Zhu, Jin Dong, Mingxi Pan, Feng Huang, Taixiang Huang, Ning Tan, Chutao Huang
  • Patent number: 10683561
    Abstract: Method for directly producing a pickling-free hot-plated sheet strip product from molten steel comprising: obtaining a refined molten steel; thin strip continuous casting: a mixed gas of an inert gas and a reducing gas is used for protection in the billet casting process; hot rolling: the cast strip is levelled at a high temperature so as to improve the sheet shape and rolled to a suitable thickness so as to change the product specification, or provide a mechanical disruption action on the iron oxide skin on the surface of the cast strip; reduction annealing: a sectional reduction method is used to perform sectional reductions with the temperature held within two ranges, i.e., 450-600° C. and 700-1000° C., wherein the reduction is performed within a range of 450-600° C. for 1-5 minutes and within a range of 700-1000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Ning Tan, Chuang Guan, Yuan Fang, Xinjian Ma
  • Publication number: 20190078224
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite anode unit, comprising: a metal core rod; a metal layer coated on the metal core, wherein the metal layer is lead or lead alloy; a conductive ceramic layer coated on the metal layer, wherein the conductive ceramic layer comprises ?-PbO2—Al2O3 composite oxide; an active ceramic layer is coated on the conductive ceramic layer, wherein the active ceramic layer comprises ?-MnO2—Ti4O7 composite oxide. Methods for preparing the composite anode unit and an anode plate made from the composite anode unit are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Zhongcheng GUO, Hui HUANG, Buming CHEN, Xuelong LI, Panlong ZHU, Jin DONG, Mingxi PAN, Feng HUANG, Taixiang HUANG, Ning TAN, Chutao HUANG
  • Patent number: 10209297
    Abstract: An apparatus with a burn-in board containing a microcontroller unit and a heater socket for insitu testing of a packaged integrated circuit while under stress. A method for insitu testing of a packaged integrated circuit while under stress. A method for insitu testing of multiple packaged integrated circuits while under stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Ning Tan, Jose Abdiel Rodriguez-Latorre
  • Patent number: 10211303
    Abstract: An integrated circuit contains a flash cell in which the top gate of the sense transistor is a metal sense gate over the floating gate. The source/drain regions of the sense transistor extend under the floating gate so that the source region is separated from the drain region by a sense channel length less than 200 nanometers. The floating gate is at least 400 nanometers wide, so the source/drain regions of the sense transistor extend under the floating gate at least 100 nanometers on each side. The integrated circuit is formed by forming the sense transistor source and drain regions before forming the floating gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ning Tan, Weidong Tian
  • Publication number: 20170199238
    Abstract: An apparatus with a burn-in board containing a microcontroller unit and a heater socket for insitu testing of a packaged integrated circuit while under stress. A method for insitu testing of a packaged integrated circuit while under stress. A method for insitu testing of multiple packaged integrated circuits while under stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Ning Tan, Jose Abdiel Rodriguez-Latorre
  • Publication number: 20170114427
    Abstract: Method for directly producing a pickling-free hot-plated sheet strip product from molten steel comprising: obtaining a refined molten steel; thin strip continuous casting: a mixed gas of an inert gas and a reducing gas is used for protection in the billet casting process; hot rolling: the cast strip is levelled at a high temperature so as to improve the sheet shape and rolled to a suitable thickness so as to change the product specification, or provide a mechanical disruption action on the iron oxide skin on the surface of the cast strip; reduction annealing: a sectional reduction method is used to perform sectional reductions with the temperature held within two ranges, i.e., 450-600° C. and 700-1000° C., wherein the reduction is performed within a range of 450-600° C. for 1-5 minutes and within a range of 700-1000° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Ning Tan, Chuang Guan, Yuan Fang, Xinjian Ma