Patents by Inventor Shu An

Shu An 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: 10678770
    Abstract: Data records may be managed in a relational database by monitoring, a record length for a first data record in a page of memory, an amount of free space in the page, and a page length. In response to receiving an operator command to replace the first data record with a second data record, a database management system may determine whether an estimated record length of a compressed second data record is outside of the amount of free space in the page. In response to determining the estimated record length of a compressed second data record is outside of the amount of free space in the page, the database management system may determine whether an estimated length of a compressed page is outside of the page length. In response to determining the estimated length of a compressed page is within the page length, the page may be compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Min Fang, Di Jin, Zhen Yu Shi, Nigel G. Slinger, Shu Wang, Li Fei Zheng, Wen Jie Zhu
  • Patent number: 10678969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting usage based lifing and low cycle fatigue consumption are provided. In one example embodiment, a method can include obtaining historical flight data associated with one or more gas turbine engines of an aerial vehicle; obtaining data indicative of one or more operational conditions of the aerial vehicle during an operating period; determining whether the flight data is indicative of a usable flight; and constructing a model correlating low cycle fatigue consumption with flight data using a machine learning technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Craig Wesley Stevens, Simon Shu Kong Chan, Siyu Wu, Lauren Ashley Vahldick, Ronald Burton Wight, Robert Alan Clements
  • Publication number: 20200176318
    Abstract: A conductive gate over a semiconductor fin is cut into a first conductive gate and a second conductive gate. An oxide is removed from sidewalls of the first conductive gate and a dielectric material is applied to the sidewalls. Spacers adjacent to the conductive gate are removed to form voids, and the voids are capped with a dielectric material to form air spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Shu-Uei Jang, Chen-Huang Huang, Ryan Chia-Jen Chen, Shiang-Bau Wang, Shu-Yuan Ku
  • Publication number: 20200172478
    Abstract: An online continuous flow production process for directly preparing organic peroxides by using hydrogen peroxide as a raw material. This production process uses hydrogen peroxide, catalyst, and an oxidation substrate as a raw material. Substrate will be turned to designated peroxides sequentially through oxidation and workup. This process is performed in a plug-and-produce integrated continuous flow reactor, and the raw materials are continuously fed to the reactor. So, specified peroxide can be continuously obtained at the outlet of the plug-and-produce integrated continuous flow reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Bing MA, Shuai PAN, Xinlin SHU
  • Publication number: 20200172474
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds which activate the Kv7 potassium channels. Separate aspects of the invention are directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and uses of the compounds to treat disorders responsive to the activation of Kv7 potassium channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Mario Rottlander, Anette Graven Sams, Xiaofang Wang, Debasis Das, Jian Hong, Shu Hui Chen
  • Publication number: 20200171578
    Abstract: A method is provided to fabricate a high-power module. A non-touching needle is used to paste a slurry on a heat-dissipation substrate. The slurry comprises nano-silver particles and micron silver particles. The ratio of the two silver particles is 9:1˜1:1. The slurry is pasted on the substrate to be heated up to a temperature kept holding. An integrated chip (IC) is put above the substrate to form a combined piece. A hot presser processes thermocompression to the combined piece to form a thermal-interface-material (TIM) layer with the IC and the substrate. After heat treatment, the TIM contains more than 99 percent of pure silver with only a small amount of organic matter. No volatile organic compounds would be generated after a long term of use. No intermetallic compounds would be generated while the stability under high temperature is obtained. Consequently, embrittlement owing to procedure temperature is dismissed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: In-Gann Chen, Hung-Cheng Chen, Chia-Ming Yang, Steve Lien-Chung Hsu, Chang-Shu Kuo
  • Publication number: 20200174886
    Abstract: One embodiment described herein provides a method and system for handling errors in a storage system. During operation a data-placement module of the storage system detects an error occurring at a first physical location within the storage system. In response to determining that the error occurs during a write access, the system writes to-be-written data into a second physical location within the storage system, and updates a mapping between a logical address and a physical address associated with the to-be-written data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Shu Li
  • Publication number: 20200170940
    Abstract: The invention provides a microneedle array easily applied to an oral cavity and may exert an anesthetic effect according to an application site. Provided are an immediate-acting dental local anesthetic preparation including a microneedle array containing a local anesthetic, in which a needle part dissolves in a mucous membrane when being applied to an oral mucous membrane or gums, the microneedle array containing the local anesthetic, in which a height of a microneedle is 50 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less, a rip of the microneedle is a circle having a diameter of 1 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less or a plane having the same area, and a thickness of a substrate of the microneedle array is 5 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less, and a microneedle patch including the microneedle array and a support provided on a back surface of the microneedle array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Ying-shu Quan, Fumio Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20200177027
    Abstract: This is a technology for non-contact power transmission to the laboratory animal biological information acquisition device 12 embedded in the multiple laboratory animals in the breeding cage 14, and provides the power reception device, which can observe the behavior of laboratory animals from outside without covering the breeding cage 14 with the power transmission side, and which can continuously supply power regardless of the direction and position of the laboratory animals. The secondary coil part 22 includes a magnetic core 31 having a circular cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of spiral coils 40a and 40b formed by winding a conductor so that the outer shape is substantially rectangular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Fumihiro Sato, Jun Shibuya, Akifusa Yuyama, Shu Sasaki, Yoshiki Furuya, Takehiko Sone, Kenichi Sagara
  • Publication number: 20200174590
    Abstract: There is provided a gesture detection device including two linear image sensor arrays and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to compare sizes of pointer images in the image frames captured by the two linear image sensor arrays in the same period or different periods so as to identify a click event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: SHU-SIAN YANG, HAN-PING CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200174564
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light source that emits light to irradiate an object, a light emission driver that drives the light source to emit light at a predetermined light emission period, a position detector that outputs a detection signal corresponding to reflected light that is the light reflected by the object, and a signal extractor that extracts, from the detection signal, a signal with a period corresponding to the light emission period by using a reference signal with a period corresponding to the light emission period, and outputs the extracted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Suguru SANGU, Tatsuya SHIMOKAWA, Shu TANAKA, Shuichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200175590
    Abstract: The field of this invention relates to a network users electronic digital data item transaction process and a method to transform the transaction process into a in-subscription based trading process. More particularly, it relates to a computer implemented method that turn digital data items transacted on network into a subscription network where the former standalone digital data item buyer-renter who can only consume the rental items, will be transformed to a subscriber-buyer-renter and will be able to sell the digital data items bought as rental to target markets at appealing prices and earn revenue together with stakeholders, including at least the digital data item owner, the marketplace owner and technology vendor, beside just consume of it. While the sold digital rental data item could be purchased by subscribers within or outside of the subscription network worldwide for increased business revenue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Shu Ya Huo
  • Publication number: 20200171660
    Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for surgical robotic arm setup. In one aspect, there is provided a system including a first robotic arm configured to manipulate a medical instrument, a processor, and a memory. The processor may be configured to: determine a minimum stroke length of the first robotic arm that allows advancing of the medical instrument by the first robotic arm to reach a target region from an access point via a path, determine a boundary for an initial pose of the first robotic arm based on the minimum stroke length and a mapping stored in the memory, and during an arm setup phase prior to performing a procedure, provide an indication of the boundary during movement of the first robotic arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Mingyen Ho, David Paul Noonan, Shu-Yun Chung, Allen Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200174698
    Abstract: A computer receives, at a target node, a replication target update, wherein the replication target update comprises a write frequency of a replication target and a size of the replication target. The computer creates a replication task to perform replication based upon the replication target update. The computer calculates a priority value of the replication task wherein the priority value is based upon the write frequency of the replication target and the size of the replication target. The computer inserts the replication task into a priority queue. The computer processes the replication task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Min Fang, Qing Chuan Sun, Jiang Yu, Si Cong Zhou, Shu Ting Chen
  • Publication number: 20200176870
    Abstract: An antenna structure of few components and reduced size which functions by switching between components to achieve radiation in three different frequency bands includes two radiating portions, a feeding portion, a matching circuit, and a first switching circuit. With the first switching circuit closed, current flows along a first radiating portion to activate a first frequency band. A second radiating portion obtains the current from the first switching circuit by coupling with the first radiating portion, to activate a second frequency band. Current in the first radiating portion can activate a third frequency band. With the first switching circuit open, current in the first radiating portion activates radiation in the first frequency band. The second radiating portion can radiate in second frequency band by coupling current from the first radiating portion. Frequency multiplication of the first frequency band can activate the third frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: TUN-YUAN TSOU, SHU-WEI JHANG, YI-TE CHOU, CHANG-CHING HUANG
  • Patent number: 10674363
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an access control method, user equipment, and a network device. The UE is connected to the network device, and the method includes: receiving, by the UE, access control information sent by the network device; and determining, according to obtained first application information in a service establishment request and the access control information, whether to send non-access stratum signaling to the network device, so as to determine whether a first application corresponding to the first application information is allowed to access a network. In this way, network resources are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Lin Shu
  • Patent number: 10670244
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising a transparent substrate which light can pass through and at least one LED chip emitting light omni-directionally. Wherein the LED chip is disposed on one surface of the substrate and the light emitting angle of the LED chip is wider than 180°, and the light emitted by the LED chip will penetrate into the substrate and at least partially emerge from another surface of the substrate. According to the present invention, the light emitting device using LED chips can provide sufficient lighting intensity and uniform lighting performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Chih Pu, Chen-Hong Lee, Shih-Yu Yeh, Wei-Kang Cheng, Shyi-Ming Pan, Siang-Fu Hong, Chih-Shu Huang, Tzu-Hsiang Wang, Shih-Chieh Tang, Cheng-Kuang Yang
  • Patent number: 10672613
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a metal gate stack over a shallow trench isolation (STI) material in a semiconductor substrate, forming an interlayer dielectric over the STI material, recessing the interlayer dielectric to a height lower than a top surface of the metal gate stack, forming a helmet structure over the recessed interlayer dielectric, and after forming the helmet structure, etching the metal gate stack until reaching the STI material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu-Uei Jang, Chien-Hua Tseng, Chung-Shu Wu, Ya-Yi Tsai, Ryan Chia-Jen Chen, An-Chyi Wei
  • Patent number: 10672763
    Abstract: The present invention provides an epitaxial structure of Ga-face group III nitride, its active device, and the method for fabricating the same. The epitaxial structure of Ga-face AlGaN/GaN comprises a substrate, a Buffer layer (C-doped) on the substrate, an i-GaN (C-doped) layer on the Buffer layer (C-doped), an i-Al(y)GaN buffer layer on the i-GaN (C-doped) layer, an i-GaN channel layer on the i-Al(y)GaN buffer layer, and an i-Al(x)GaN layer on the i-GaN channel layer, where x=0.1˜0.3 and y=0.05˜0.75. By using the p-GaN inverted trapezoidal gate or anode structure in device design, the 2DEG in the epitaxial structure of Ga-face group III nitride below the p-GaN inverted trapezoidal structure will be depleted, and thus fabricating p-GaN gate enhancement-mode (E-mode) AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), p-GaN anode AlGaN/GaN Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs), or hybrid devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Inventor: Chih-Shu Huang
  • Patent number: D886491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SAN HSIN PLASTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shu-Yuan Huang