Patents by Inventor Ping Fu

Ping Fu 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: 20170058908
    Abstract: A liquid pump includes a motor and an impeller. The motor includes a stator, a rotor, a base body and a shaft sleeve unit supporting the rotor for rotation. The shaft sleeve unit includes a fixing member fixed in the base body, a bearing received in the fixing member and surrounding the rotary shaft, and a resilient buffering member disposed between the fixing member and the bearing. The impeller is coupled to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Min LI, Zhi Ping FU, Moola Mallikarjuna REDDY, Kok Ang CHONG
  • Publication number: 20170051299
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants comprising a plurality of nucleic acids heterologous to said plant, each of said nucleic acid comprising a coding sequence operably linked to one or more regulatory elements for directing expression of said coding sequence in said plant, said nucleic acid being stably integrated at or adjacent to rDNA sequences, or a seed, organ, tissue, part or cell thereof, or a descendant of said plant, seed, organ, tissue, part or cell; methods of producing the transgenic plants; and methods of producing oil using the transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Agrisoma Biosciences Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Fabijanski, Michael Lindenbaum, Ping Fu, Elizabeth-France Marillia
  • Patent number: 9502986
    Abstract: A voltage conversion device includes a voltage conversion unit and a control unit. The voltage conversion unit includes an input rectifier circuit, a storage capacitor, a storage inductor, a transformer, a switch, and a rectifier component. A first end of the storage inductor is electrically coupled to a first output end of the input rectifier circuit. A first end of the transformer is electrically coupled to a second output end of the input rectifier circuit. A second end of the transformer is electrically coupled to a second end of the storage inductor. The switch is electrically coupled to a third end of the transformer. The control unit is configured to provide a control signal to the switch according to a current passing through the switch and at least one of an output voltage and an output current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Xiao-Ping Fu, Xing-Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 9485886
    Abstract: A drive module is inserted into an extraction opening of a server and includes a casing, a circuit board, a fixing member fixed on the casing, a plurality of drives, and a cover having a clamping portion and forming a space cooperatively with the casing. The fixing member has engaging and pressing arms. The engaging arm is engaged with the circuit board when the clamping portion and the casing clamp the circuit board. The pressing arm has a hole for engaging with a protruding portion of the server to fix the drive module. The plurality of drives is inserted into the space and plugged into the circuit board. When the pressing arm is pulled toward a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, the hole is disengaged from the protruding portion or the pressing arm drives the engaging arm to be separate from the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Publication number: 20160308450
    Abstract: A voltage conversion device includes a voltage conversion unit and a control unit. The voltage conversion unit includes an input rectifier circuit, a storage capacitor, a storage inductor, a transformer, a switch, and a rectifier component. A first end of the storage inductor is electrically coupled to a first output end of the input rectifier circuit. A first end of the transformer is electrically coupled to a second output end of the input rectifier circuit. A second end of the transformer is electrically coupled to a second end of the storage inductor. The switch is electrically coupled to a third end of the transformer. The control unit is configured to provide a control signal to the switch according to a current passing through the switch and at least one of an output voltage and an output current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Xiao-Ping FU, Xing-Hua ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9406077
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for advertisement keyword scoring. A processing circuit receives a request for an advertisement to be provided to a user during a user session. The advertisement is to be provided alongside other content that is associated with a first plurality of keywords. A processing circuit identifies a plurality of advertisements based on the first plurality of keywords. Each of the plurality of advertisements is associated with a second plurality of keywords. The processing circuit calculates a keyword score for each of the second plurality of keywords for each of the plurality of advertisements. Based on the keyword score, one of the keywords for each of the plurality of the plurality of advertisements is selected. Based on a comparison of the selected keywords, the advertisement to be provided to the user is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gaofeng Zhao, Ping Fu
  • Publication number: 20160169248
    Abstract: A pump and a cleaning apparatus are provided. The pump includes a pump housing having a pump chamber, an inlet and an outlet in communication with the pump chamber, an impeller rotatably disposed in the pump chamber, and a motor for driving the impeller. The motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a motor cover body fixed to the pump housing. The motor cover body includes a sidewall connected to the pump housing, the pump housing includes at least one pair of positioning protrusions, and the sidewall is inserted between the pair of positioning protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Min Li, Moola Mallikarjuna Reddy, Zhi Ping Fu
  • Publication number: 20160050787
    Abstract: A drive module is inserted into an extraction opening of a server and includes a casing, a circuit board, a fixing member fixed on the casing, a plurality of drives, and a cover having a clamping portion and forming a space cooperatively with the casing. The fixing member has engaging and pressing arms. The engaging arm is engaged with the circuit board when the clamping portion and the casing clamp the circuit board. The pressing arm has a hole for engaging with a protruding portion of the server to fix the drive module. The plurality of drives is inserted into the space and plugged into the circuit board. When the pressing arm is pulled toward a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, the hole is disengaged from the protruding portion or the pressing arm drives the engaging arm to be separate from the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Patent number: 9192073
    Abstract: A fixing mechanism includes a base, a substrate and a latch. The base includes a constraining component and a contacting component. The substrate is slidably disposed on the base. The substrate includes a body, a fixing hole structure and a connecting portion. The base and the body respectively hold circuit boards. The fixing hole structure is disposed on the body for sheathing the constraining component. The fixing hole structure includes a first opening and a second opening, the second opening is connected to the first opening in a linearly stretching manner. The latch is rotatably disposed on the substrate. The latch includes a bar and a driving portion. The driving portion is disposed on an end of the bar and movably contacts against the contacting component. The driving portion slides relative to the contacting component with rotation of the bar to connect the connectors of the circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Publication number: 20150326116
    Abstract: A frequency jittering control circuit includes a frequency jittering circuit, a feedback compensation circuit, a comparator and a control circuit. The frequency jittering circuit generates a frequency jittering signal. The feedback compensation circuit generates a feedback compensation signal in response to the frequency jittering signal and an output signal. The comparator outputs a comparison output signal according to the feedback compensation signal and an oscillation signal. The control circuit outputs a frequency jittering control signal for switching a main switch in a power supply apparatus, according to the comparison output signal, such that the power supply apparatus correspondingly generates the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Xing-Hua ZHANG, Xiao-Ping FU
  • Patent number: 9155218
    Abstract: A frame structure of an electronic apparatus for containing a plurality of power supply units is disclosed. The frame structure includes a main frame, a tray, and at least one elastic element. The tray includes at least one fixing portion and is connected pivotally to the main frame to be in a first position or a second position. One end of each elastic element is fixed to the main frame, and the other end of each elastic element includes a fastening structure. When the tray is in the first position, each fixed portion is between the main frame and each elastic element. When the power supply units are placed into the main frame, each elastic element is pushed by the power supply units, and each fastening structure passes through the fixing portion and the main frame, for fixing the tray in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Patent number: 9145972
    Abstract: A coupling structure for connecting an impeller to a motor shaft of a liquid pump, includes a carrier rod sleeved on the shaft, and a seal assembly connecting the carrier rod to a housing of the pump. The carrier rod is fixed to the shaft by way of a screw thread structure. The seal assembly includes a rotating seal sealingly fixed on an outer surface of the carrier rod and fixed to the carrier rod for rotation there with by an interlocking structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Zhi Ping Fu, Min Li
  • Patent number: 9148039
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a working part, a synchronous motor having a shaft, and a mechanical coupling joining the working part to the motor. The coupling has two driving teeth fixed relative to the shaft, two driven teeth fixed relative to the working part, and two middle members. The coupling provides a predetermined range of angular movement between the motor and the working part. The middle members are circumferentially distributed between the two driving teeth and between the two driven teeth, thereby each of the middle members is movable by the driving teeth to contact the driven teeth and provides an interference between a driving tooth and a driven tooth to drive the working part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC S.A
    Inventors: Zhi Ping Fu, Po Lun Cheng, Min Li
  • Patent number: 9006659
    Abstract: A method for detecting spectral characteristics of multi-band moving objects. The method includes: 1) dividing a full field of view into several subfields of view, and scanning and extracting suspected objects in each subfield one by one; 2) correlating interrelated suspected objects in adjacent subfields via coordinates to determine objects of interest that exist in the full field of view; 3) calculating the speeds of the objects of interest; 4) calculating average speed of all of the objects of interest and classifying the objects of interest according to their average speed; 5) compensating and rectifying the objective spectrum obtained from calculation; and 6) matching the compensated and rectified objective spectrum with a spectrum fingerprint database whereby realizing recognition of the multi-band moving objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Zheng Fang, Xiangyan Liu, Wei Zhang, Ping Fu, Xiaoyong Bian, Hao Li, Gaofei Li, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20150091423
    Abstract: A carrying device and a self-lock structure thereof are provided, which are adapted for a server to bear a human-computer interface device. The carrying device includes a carrying-component and a receiving cage. The self-lock structure consists of a cantilever fixed on the carrying component and an interference portion formed on the receiving cage. A structural interference is generated between a protruding portion formed on the cantilever and a lock slot formed in the interference portion while the carrying-component being inserted to the receiving cage. The cantilever may generate a corresponding elastic force to serve as power resource for self-locking, thereby the functions of self-locking and overload protection are achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: ZHAO-PING FU, CHONG-XING ZHU
  • Publication number: 20150020357
    Abstract: A tool set includes a disassembling tool and an elastic pin having a disassembly end and disposed through first and second parts. The disassembling tool includes a T-shaped rod and a sleeve member having top and bottom ends. The T-shaped rod penetrates the sleeve member and has first and second screw-rod portions and a handle portion. The first screw-rod portion is screwed into a connecting thread in the disassembly end for fixing the elastic pin to the first screw-rod portion. When the sleeve member is pressed to make the bottom end abut against the first and second parts, the handle portion is rotated in a spiral direction of the connecting thread opposite to that of a guiding thread in the top end to make the second screw-rod portion unscrewed from the sleeve member along the guiding thread for rotating the elastic pin out of the first and second parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Publication number: 20140307387
    Abstract: A frame structure of an electronic apparatus for containing a plurality of power supply units is disclosed. The frame structure includes a main frame, a tray, and at least one elastic element. The tray includes at least one fixing portion and is connected pivotally to the main frame to be in a first position or a second position. One end of each elastic element is fixed to the main frame, and the other end of each elastic element includes a fastening structure. When the tray is in the first position, each fixed portion is between the main frame and each elastic element. When the power supply units are placed into the main frame, each elastic element is pushed by the power supply units, and each fastening structure passes through the fixing portion and the main frame, for fixing the tray in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: ZHAO-PING FU
  • Publication number: 20140293568
    Abstract: A fixing mechanism includes a base, a substrate and a latch. The base includes a constraining component and a contacting component. The substrate is slidably disposed on the base. The substrate includes a body, a fixing hole structure and a connecting portion. The base and the body respectively hold circuit boards. The fixing hole structure is disposed on the body for sheathing the constraining component. The fixing hole structure includes a first opening and a second opening, the second opening is connected to the first opening in a linearly stretching manner. The latch is rotatably disposed on the substrate. The latch includes a bar and a driving portion. The driving portion is disposed on an end of the bar and movably contacts against the contacting component. The driving portion slides relative to the contacting component with rotation of the bar to connect the connectors of the circuit boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Patent number: 8847067
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) including a substrate having a dye sensitized layer thereon, an opposite substrate having a catalyst layer thereon, a spacer disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate to define a space, and an electrolyte in the space. The spacer is formed by reacting a photo curable glue including a main oligomer, a photo initiator, a photo curing accelerator agent, a softener, an adhesion enhancer, and a chemical resistance additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Meng-Chin Tsui, Yung-Liang Tung, Chuan-Ya Hung, Sz-Ping Fu, Chih-Chou Chang
  • Publication number: 20140171668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants comprising a plurality of nucleic acids heterologous to said plant, each of said nucleic acid comprising a coding sequence operably linked to one or more regulatory elements for directing expression of said coding sequence in said plant, said nucleic acid being stably integrated at or adjacent to rDNA sequences, or a seed, organ, tissue, part or cell thereof, or a descendant of said plant, seed, organ, tissue, part or cell; methods of producing the transgenic plants; and methods of producing oil using the transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: AGRISOMA BIOSCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Steven Fabijanski, Michael Lindenbaum, Ping Fu, Elizabeth-France Marillia