Patents by Inventor Richard Yao

Richard Yao 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: 12256775
    Abstract: A vaping device including a water chamber for filtering smoke or vapor prior to inhalation of the smoke or vapor. The device including a replaceable vaporization module with a vaporization chamber that contains a substance to be heated or burned. The device including an air flow chamber, herein the air flow chamber connects the vaporization chamber, wherein the air flow chamber is configured to provide a tunnel between an upper edge and a lower edge of the air flow chamber, for passage of air/vapor from an air/vapor entry port to a filtered air exit port for air/vapor at the water chamber, in a snake like manner; wherein the air/vapor entry port is located at a point where the vaporization chamber is joined to the water chamber. Also disclosed is a vaping system, including a device body and a plurality of interchangeable vaporization modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Patent number: 12214357
    Abstract: An herb grinder includes: a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation; a cutting section with top and bottom cutting parts, a magnet, and a ferromagnetic part; a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation, a center interior, traversal ridges, a flow blocker, an exit canal, and an exit aperture; a slidable exit lid that covers the dispensing aperture; a window, a light source, a rotatable dispensing spout assembly with a dispensing arm and a dispensing spout that is configured to connect with an empty cigarette tube; a dispensing vibrator, and a vibration button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20240415188
    Abstract: A water-filtering vaping system includes a replaceable vaporization module and a water-filtering vaping device, including a water chamber, a main body with an inner member, an intermediate member, and an outer shell; and a device base with a base receiving connector; such that a lower portion of the main body is configured to receive an upper portion of the replaceable vaporization module, such that an upper portion of the replaceable vaporization module protrudes into a lower portion of the main body when the replaceable vaporization module is mounted in the base receiving connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20230413735
    Abstract: A pair of electric scissors and a control system thereof are provided, which relate to the technical field of garden equipment. The electric scissors include a shell, a fixed blade, a movable blade, a drive mechanism, and an actuator; the fixed blade is arranged on the shell; the movable blade is rotatably connected to the fixed blade; the drive mechanism is arranged on the shell; the drive mechanism is connected to the movable blade; the drive mechanism is configured to cause the movable blade to rotate relative to the fixed blade; the movable blade and the fixed blade are connected to the drive mechanism in a plugging fit manner, so as to achieve detachable connection between the movable blade and the fixed blade; the actuator is connected to the drive mechanism. The present disclosure has an effect of replacing the fixed blade and the movable blade more easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Yao Tien Huang, Dominick Volpini
  • Patent number: 11627761
    Abstract: A vaping device includes: a main body with a heating chamber, an air entry aperture, a vapor exit aperture, a heating canal, a herb loading shovel with a sliding knob, a residue tray; a mouthpiece with a vapor exit aperture, a vapor canal, a vapor cooler; such that a herb material is insertable into an interior of the heating chamber, such that the herb material is heated by the heating element, such that a vapor is produced by the herb material, and such that an external surface of the heating chamber is heated; such that the air is heated from a convective heat emitted by the external surface of the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20220161270
    Abstract: A herb grinder includes: a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation; a cutting section with top and bottom cutting parts, a magnet, and a ferromagnetic part; a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation, a center interior, traversal ridges, a flow blocker, an exit canal, and an exit aperture; a slidable exit lid that covers the dispensing aperture; a window, a light source, a rotatable dispensing spout assembly with a dispensing arm and a dispensing spout that is configured to connect with an empty cigarette tube; a dispensing vibrator, and a vibration button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Patent number: 11203021
    Abstract: A herb grinder includes: a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation; a cutting section with top and bottom cutting parts, a magnet, and a ferromagnetic part; a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation, a center interior, traversal ridges, a flow blocker, an exit canal, and an exit aperture; a slidable exit lid that covers the dispensing aperture; a window, a light source, a rotatable dispensing spout assembly with a dispensing arm and a dispensing spout that is configured to connect with an empty cigarette tube; a dispensing vibrator, and a vibration button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Cloudious9 Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20210084967
    Abstract: A vaping device including a water chamber for filtering smoke or vapor prior to inhalation of the smoke or vapor. The device including a replaceable vaporization module with a vaporization chamber that contains a substance to be heated or burned. The device including an air flow chamber, herein the air flow chamber connects the vaporization chamber, wherein the air flow chamber is configured to provide a tunnel between an upper edge and a lower edge of the air flow chamber, for passage of air/vapor from an air/vapor entry port to a filtered air exit port for air/vapor at the water chamber, in a snake like manner; wherein the air/vapor entry port is located at a point where the vaporization chamber is joined to the water chamber. Also disclosed is a vaping system, including a device body and a plurality of interchangeable vaporization modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20210023568
    Abstract: A herb grinder includes: a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation; a cutting section with top and bottom cutting parts, a magnet, and a ferromagnetic part; a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation, a center interior, traversal ridges, a flow blocker, an exit canal, and an exit aperture; a slidable exit lid that covers the dispensing aperture; a window, a light source, a rotatable dispensing spout assembly with a dispensing arm and a dispensing spout that is configured to connect with an empty cigarette tube; a dispensing vibrator, and a vibration button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20210022410
    Abstract: A vaping device includes: a main body with a heating chamber, an air entry aperture, a vapor exit aperture, a heating canal, a herb loading shovel with a sliding knob, a residue tray; a mouthpiece with a vapor exit aperture, a vapor canal, a vapor cooler; such that a herb material is insertable into an interior of the heating chamber, such that the herb material is heated by the heating element, such that a vapor is produced by the herb material, and such that an external surface of the heating chamber is heated; such that the air is heated from a convective heat emitted by the external surface of the heating chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Patent number: 10760401
    Abstract: A method of determining a rate of penetration of a downhole tool. The method comprises introducing a downhole tool including a drill bit configured to drill through a subterranean formation in a wellbore, the downhole tool comprising at least one reader configured to communicate with identification tags using electromagnetic radiation. The method includes advancing the wellbore with the drill bit and placing, with a component of a bottomhole assembly of the downhole tool, a first identification tag at a first location proximate the wellbore and at least a second identification tag at a second location proximate the wellbore and separated from the first location by a distance. An interrogation signal is transmitting from the at least one reader toward a wall of the wellbore and response signals from the identification tags are received by the at least one reader to determine proximity of the identification tags to the reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: R. Keith Glasgow, Jr., Eric C. Sullivan, Navish Makkar, Otto Fanini, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Jason R. Habernal, Richard Yao
  • Patent number: 10704376
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a shank. The shank may include a central bore extending partially through the shank. An end-cap may be disposed within the central bore, and the end-cap may include a first flange, a second flange, and a body portion extending between the first flange and the second flange. An annular chamber may be defined between the body portion of the end-cap and an interior wall of the central bore of the shank. At least one strain gauge may be secured to an outer surface of the body portion of the end-cap. At least one stain gauge may be secured to a cap portion welded over a recess formed in the earth-boring tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC, Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Yao, Kenneth R. Evans, Chaitanya K. Vempati, R. Keith Glasgow, Jr., Navish Makkar, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Eric C. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20200182044
    Abstract: A shank assembly includes a neck portion, a shank portion defining a cylindrical aperture extending therethrough, and an anchor tube secured to the neck portion and extending through the shank portion, the anchor tube and the shank portion defining an annular cavity therebetween, and an electronics module disposed within the annular cavity. The annular cavity is formed to maximize space for electronics while maintaining structural integrity of a crown and shank of an earth-boring tool. A method includes disposing the anchor tube of a shank assembly through the cylindrical aperture and securing the anchor tube to a neck portion of the shank assembly, disposing the electronics module within the annular cavity, and disposing the shank portion and anchor tube of the shank assembly at least partially within a crown of the earth-boring tool such that annular cavity extends into the crown in an axial direction a distance that is between about 10% and about 80% of an overall axial length of the crown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Yao, Eric C. Sullivan, Navish Makkar
  • Patent number: 10662755
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a shank. The shank may include a central bore extending partially through the shank. An end-cap may be disposed within the central bore, and the end-cap may include a first flange, a second flange, and a body portion extending between the first flange and the second flange. An annular chamber may be defined between the body portion of the end-cap and an interior wall of the central bore of the shank. At least one strain gauge may be secured to an outer surface of the body portion of the end-cap. At least one stain gauge may be secured to a cap portion welded over a recess formed in the earth-boring tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC, Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Yao, Kenneth R. Evans, Chaitanya K. Vempati, R. Keith Glasgow, Jr., Navish Makkar, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Eric C. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190242237
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a shank. The shank may include a central bore extending partially through the shank. An end-cap may be disposed within the central bore, and the end-cap may include a first flange, a second flange, and a body portion extending between the first flange and the second flange. An annular chamber may be defined between the body portion of the end-cap and an interior wall of the central bore of the shank. At least one strain gauge may be secured to an outer surface of the body portion of the end-cap. At least one stain gauge may be secured to a cap portion welded over a recess formed in the earth-boring tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Yao, Kenneth R. Evans, Chaitanya K. Vempati, R. Keith Glasgow, JR., Navish Makkar, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Eric C. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190242238
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a shank. The shank may include a central bore extending partially through the shank. An end-cap may be disposed within the central bore, and the end-cap may include a first flange, a second flange, and a body portion extending between the first flange and the second flange. An annular chamber may be defined between the body portion of the end-cap and an interior wall of the central bore of the shank. At least one strain gauge may be secured to an outer surface of the body portion of the end-cap. At least one stain gauge may be secured to a cap portion welded over a recess formed in the earth-boring tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Yao, Kenneth R. Evans, Chaitanya K. Vempati, R. Keith Glasgow, JR., Navish Makkar, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Eric C. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190100992
    Abstract: A method of determining a rate of penetration of a drill bit using acoustic technology. The method comprises providing a drill string including a drill bit configured to drill through a subterranean formation in a wellbore and operably coupling an array of acoustic transducers to a member of the drill string. Acoustic waves are emitted toward a wall of the wellbore with at least one acoustic transducer and a frequency of the acoustic waves reflected from the wall of the wellbore are measured with at least one acoustic transducer. The array of acoustic transducers is operably coupled to a controller comprising a memory and a processor to determine a frequency shift between the emitted acoustic waves and the reflected acoustic waves. A rate of penetration of the drill bit is determined with the processor based at least in part on the frequency shift. Downhole acoustic systems for determining a rate of penetration of a drill string are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: R. Keith Glasgow, Jr., Eric C. Sullivan, Navish Makkar, Otto Fanini, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Jason R. Habernal, Richard Yao
  • Publication number: 20190100986
    Abstract: A method of determining a rate of penetration of a downhole tool. The method comprises introducing a downhole tool including a drill bit configured to drill through a subterranean formation in a wellbore, the downhole tool comprising at least one reader configured to communicate with identification tags using electromagnetic radiation. The method includes advancing the wellbore with the drill bit and placing, with a component of a bottomhole assembly of the downhole tool, a first identification tag at a first location proximate the wellbore and at least a second identification tag at a second location proximate the wellbore and separated from the first location by a distance. An interrogation signal is transmitting from the at least one reader toward a wall of the wellbore and response signals from the identification tags are received by the at least one reader to determine proximity of the identification tags to the reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: R. Keith Glasgow, JR., Eric C. Sullivan, Navish Makkar, Otto Fanini, Priscila Farias Ronqui, Jason R. Habernal, Richard Yao
  • Patent number: D924018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Patent number: D924474
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang