Patents by Inventor Robin Lu

Robin Lu 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: 20190281878
    Abstract: A method includes: generating a first nutritional plan for a first user to be implemented in a first time period; monitoring events relevant to real-world implementation of the first nutritional plan by the first user; detecting, via a first kitchen appliance, a first user action associated with the first kitchen appliance; determining a first deviation between the first nutritional plan and a projected nutritional outcome derived based on the monitored events that occurred during a first portion of the first time period up to detection of the first user action; in accordance with the first deviation, revising the first nutritional plan to obtain a second nutritional plan to be implemented in a remainder portion of the first time period; generating a first suggestion regarding a second user action associated with the first kitchen appliance based on the second nutritional plan; and outputting the first suggestion via the first kitchen appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tian Tang, Robin Lu, Xin Liu, Chen Zhang, Dongyan Wang
  • Patent number: 10020604
    Abstract: A connection device employs a plurality of housing portions that are formed separately from one another and further includes a plurality of conductors. The plurality of conductors are situated on a first housing portion, and a second housing portion and a third housing portion are then affixed at opposite ends of the first housing portion to retain the conductors in place on the first housing portion. The first, second, and third housing portions, being connected together, are then received in a receptacle of a fourth housing portion to form the connection device. The conductors each have an elongated shank that is received in an elongated channel formed in the first housing portion before the second and third housing portions are attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Dai Vo, Erik Jeffrey Gouhl, Robin Lu
  • Publication number: 20170214164
    Abstract: A connection device employs a plurality of housing portions that are formed separately from one another and further includes a plurality of conductors. The plurality of conductors are situated on a first housing portion, and a second housing portion and a third housing portion are then affixed at opposite ends of the first housing portion to retain the conductors in place on the first housing portion. The first, second, and third housing portions, being connected together, are then received in a receptacle of a fourth housing portion to form the connection device. The conductors each have an elongated shank that is received in an elongated channel formed in the first housing portion before the second and third housing portions are attached thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai VO, Erik Jeffrey GOUHL, Robin LU
  • Patent number: 9583864
    Abstract: A connection device employs a plurality of housing portions that are formed separately from one another and further includes a plurality of conductors. The plurality of conductors are situated on a first housing portion, and a second housing portion and a third housing portion are then affixed at opposite ends of the first housing portion to retain the conductors in place on the first housing portion. The first, second, and third housing portions, being connected together, are then received in a receptacle of a fourth housing portion to form the connection device. The conductors each have an elongated shank that is received in an elongated channel formed in the first housing portion before the second and third housing portions are attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai Vo, Erik Jeffrey Gouhl, Robin Lu
  • Patent number: 9105426
    Abstract: An electrical wiring device includes dampening member placed in contact with a stationary contact. The dampening member absorbs and thus decreases at least a portion of the vibration that occurs in the stationary contact when it is impacted by a movable contact in the electrical wiring device. Thus, the noise associated with the impact is lessened. In certain exemplary embodiments, the dampening member is a bumper cap which partially encases a portion of the stationary contact. In certain exemplary embodiments, the dampening member is a bumper pad intimately disposed between an edge of the stationary contact and a wall of the housing, such that movement or vibration of the stationary contact is lessened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Erik Gouhl, Robin Lu
  • Patent number: 8941021
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wiring device having a color change kit. The color change kit includes a removable skirt and switch cover. The skirt and switch cover, which are disposed on the wiring device and accessible by an end-user, are easily detachable from the wiring device. Thus, the skirt and the switch cover are replaced without replacing the entire wiring device. Further, the skirt and switch cover is replaced without removing the wiring device from a wall box or further disassembling the entire wiring device. In certain exemplary embodiments, the skirt is disposed within a housing of the wiring device, and the switch cover is disposed within the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Erik Gouhl, Yogesh Vitthal Borkar, Robin Lu, Rohit Sumerchand Dodal, Oscar Neundorfer, Jerry Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140251774
    Abstract: An electrical wiring device includes dampening member placed in contact with a stationary contact. The dampening member absorbs and thus decreases at least a portion of the vibration that occurs in the stationary contact when it is impacted by a movable contact in the electrical wiring device. Thus, the noise associated with the impact is lessened. In certain exemplary embodiments, the dampening member is a bumper cap which partially encases a portion of the stationary contact. In certain exemplary embodiments, the dampening member is a bumper pad intimately disposed between an edge of the stationary contact and a wall of the housing, such that movement or vibration of the stationary contact is lessened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Erik Gouhl, Robin Lu
  • Publication number: 20140151203
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wiring device having a color change kit. The color change kit includes a removable skirt and switch cover. The skirt and switch cover, which are disposed on the wiring device and accessible by an end-user, are easily detachable from the wiring device. Thus, the skirt and the switch cover are replaced without replacing the entire wiring device. Further, the skirt and switch cover is replaced without removing the wiring device from a wall box or further disassembling the entire wiring device. In certain exemplary embodiments, the skirt is disposed within a housing of the wiring device, and the switch cover is disposed within the skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Erik Gouhl, Yogesh Vitthal Borkar, Robin Lu, Rohit Sumerchand Dodal, Oscar Neundorfer, Jerry Zhang
  • Patent number: 8502593
    Abstract: A circuit and method for debouncing an electrical signal are disclosed. A representative embodiment of the present invention may be set to remove (i.e., filter) noise or glitches in the low and high portions of an input signal, where the width of the noise or glitches while in the high or low state may be set using a programming interface. The filtering is done in a manner that results in a clean, debounced output signal having a low portion approximately equal to the low portion of the input signal, and a high portion approximately equal to the high portion of the input signal. Noise or glitches of less than programmable high or low glitch widths are filtered from the input signal and do not appear in the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Lu, Yan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20060076984
    Abstract: A circuit and method for debouncing an electrical signal are disclosed. A representative embodiment of the present invention may be set to remove (i.e., filter) noise or glitches in the low and high portions of an input signal, where the width of the noise or glitches while in the high or low state may be set using a programming interface. The filtering is done in a manner that results in a clean, debounced output signal having a low portion approximately equal to the low portion of the input signal, and a high portion approximately equal to the high portion of the input signal. Noise or glitches of less than programmable high or low glitch widths are filtered from the input signal and do not appear in the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Robin Lu, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: D788708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai Vo, Erik Jeffrey Gouhl, Robin Lu