Patents by Inventor Tao Wang

Tao Wang 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: 20090203925
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for preparing himbacine analogs. The compounds are useful as thrombin receptor antagonists. The improved process may allow for at least one of easier purification by crystallization, easier scalability, and improved process yield on the desired enantiomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Tiruvettipuram K. Thiruvengadam, Tao Wang, Jing Liao, John S. Chiu, David Jieh-Shyh Tsai, Hong-Chang Lee, Wenxue Wu, Xiaoyong Fu
  • Publication number: 20090203936
    Abstract: This application discloses provides a process for the introduction of nitro-group functionality into a compound which contains also a site of unsaturation and/or oxygen functionality by direct (one step) oxidation of an oxime functional group mediated by a molybdenum VI/VII peroxo complex, the process comprising: (a) providing a substrate of Formula I containing an oxime functional group; wherein R1 and R2 are selected independently from linear, branched or cyclic alkyl and linear, branched or cyclic alkenyl groups, optionally substituted, with the proviso that at least one of R1 or R2 contains a carbon/carbon double bond; and (b) contacting said substrate of Formula I with a molybdenum oxidation complex, thereby oxidizing said oxime functional group to a nitro functional group to yield the structure of Formula III. Where R1 and R2 are as defined above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Tiruvettipuram K. Thiruvengadam, Tao Wang, John S. Chiu, Jing Liao
  • Patent number: 7572810
    Abstract: This disclosure provides compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and method of use. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with alkene piperidine derivatives that possess unique antiviral activity. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to compounds useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Ying Han, John F. Kadow, Zhongxing Zhang, Nicholas A. Meanwell
  • Publication number: 20090197467
    Abstract: An cable assembly (100) includes an insulated housing (1) extending along a front-to-back direction; a plurality of contacts (2) arranged in a row and supported by the insulated housing, said contacts including three grounding contact members spaced by two pair of signal contact members; a cable (4) including two juxtaposed differential wire pairs (41) respectively enclosed by conductive shielding portions (43); a grounding member (3) including a main portion (31), three finger portions (33) extending forwardly from a front side of the main portion and two arm portions (32) formed at lateral sides of a rear segment of the main portion, said grounding member (3) securely engaged with the cable via the two arm portions thereof griping the conductive shielding portions; and the finger portions soldered to the grounding contact members, and inner conductors of the differential pairs soldered to the signal contact members, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: David Tso-Chin Ko, Yen-Chao Tsai, Tao Wang
  • Publication number: 20090196727
    Abstract: An exemplary flipping apparatus includes a slider, a flipping member and a holding table. The slider is slanted relative to the horizon. A first end of the flipping member is connected to the slider. The flipping member includes a first flipping plate and a second flipping plate facing the first flipping plate. The first flipping plate and the second flipping plate are contoured to define a workplace groove to receive a workpiece to be flipped. An angle defined by the slider and an end section of the first flipping plate opposite to the slider is less than an angle between the slider and the horizon. The holding table is connected to a second end of the flipping member, and the second end is opposite to that of the first end of the flipping member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: PEI-CHIN KUO, JUEY-FONG CHANG, WEN-TAO WANG, ZHI-GANG HU, XUE-SHUN XING, JIN-WEN JIANG
  • Publication number: 20090191039
    Abstract: A transport arm of the present disclosure includes a pneumatic cylinder and an acting arm. The pneumatic cylinder includes a main body, a piston rod, a piston and a guiding pin. A chamber is defined in the main body. The piston rod is partially received in the chamber of the main body. The piston rod defines a guiding groove therein, and a section of the guiding groove is slanted relative to an axis of the piston rod. The piston is fixed to the piston rod and partitions the chamber of the main body into two chambers. The guiding pin is fixed to the main body, and an end of the guiding pin adjacent to the guiding groove of the piston rod moveably engages in the guiding groove. The acting arm is fixed to an end of the piston rod opposite to the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: PEI-CHIN KUO, JUEY-FONG CHANG, WEN-TAO WANG, ZHI-GANG HU, XUE-SHUN XING, XIAO-LING YU
  • Publication number: 20090188841
    Abstract: An exemplary automatic materials sorting device (100) includes an input belt (11) for transporting materials, a materials sorting mechanism (12), and a control system. The materials sorting mechanism is connected to the input belt, and includes two output belts (121, 122). The input belt and the output belts are configured to transport materials. The control system includes two acting mechanisms (14, 15) and a controller (16). The controller is configured to control the acting mechanisms. The acting mechanisms are capable of creating a force to push the materials to the output belts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: PEI-CHIN KUO, JUEY-FONG CHANG, WEN-TAO WANG, ZHI-GANG HU, CHAO-YANG SHEN, GENG-XIONG WANG
  • Publication number: 20090186933
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and method of use. In particular, the invention is concerned with amido piperazine derivatives. These compounds possess unique antiviral activity, whether used alone or in combination with other antivirals, antiinfectives, immunomodulators or HIV entry inhibitors. More particularly, the present invention relates to the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: JOHN F. KADOW, Qiufen May Xue, Tao Wang, Zhongxing Zhang, Nicholas A. Meanwell
  • Publication number: 20090179316
    Abstract: A flexible semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) chip having a silicon substrate, wherein an IC (integrated circuit) is formed on the silicon substrate; mounting the chip on a carrier board via the IC-laden side of the chip, wherein the IC-laden side of the chip is in contact with the carrier board; thinning the silicon substrate; forming a resilient plastic layer made of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) on the thinned silicon substrate; and removing the carrier board. The chip is flexible enough to expose testing pads on the front of the chip so as to facilitate wire bonding and probing. The resilient plastic layer enables uniform distribution of stress exerted on the chip and thereby guards the chip from cracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Shey-Shi Lu
  • Publication number: 20090168822
    Abstract: A laser control apparatus includes a detector and a switch module. The detector is for detecting states of a mechanism having a closed state in which the mechanism blocks a laser and an opened state in which the mechanism unblocks the laser. The switch module is for transmitting an emitting command to a laser unit to emit the laser. When the opened state is detected, the switch module stops transmitting the emitting command. An electronic device using the laser control apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUN-LUNG HUNG, TAO WANG, WANG-CHANG DUAN, WEN-MING CHEN, KUN HUANG, JIE LIU
  • Publication number: 20090166123
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle has a power system with a torsional coupling. The power system includes a battery system for receiving, storing and providing electrical power, an internal combustion engine configured to provide rotational power through a flywheel, a first motor-generator, a second motor-generator, a control system, and a torsional coupling. The torsional coupling may absorb rotational shock caused by angular or rotational speed differences between the engine and the first motor-generator. The torsional coupling includes a driven plate assembly, a cover assembly and an interconnecting plate assembly. The interconnecting plate assembly may include a plurality of shock absorbing elements that absorb shock and vibration between the engine and the motor-generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BYD CO. LTD.
    Inventors: HongBin Luo, Yi Ren, ShengLin Yang, Tao Wang, Yan Liu
  • Publication number: 20090169130
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for accelerating computation of a Hough transform of a plurality of digital images of known width and height dimensions. The method includes determining a plurality of Hough values for each pixel location based on the width and height dimensions. The method further includes generating a lookup table comprising an array of Hough values corresponding to one or more Hough parameters of at least one geometric shape in at least one digital image. Each element in the array of Hough values may be based on a value of one or more Hough parameters and at least one of a height value or a width value. The method may include receiving a plurality of digital images having known width and height dimensions. The method may further include selecting, for at least one nonzero pixel of at least one of the plurality of digital images, the Hough values from the lookup table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenlong Li, Tao Wang, Yimin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090169097
    Abstract: A method for generating a Markov stationary color (MSC) descriptor is disclosed. The MSC descriptor may be used for image/video content representation, which characterizes both intra-color and inter-color spatial relationships in images. The MSC descriptor has a low storage requirement, relative to some other color descriptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Jianguo Li, Tao Wang, Yurong Chen, Yimin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090169184
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a main body, a cover, and an infrared receiver. The main body is configured for reading information from an optical disc and generating display signals. The cover is connected to the main body. The screen is configured for receiving the display signals and displaying videos correspondingly. The infrared receiver is arranged at the cover for receiving control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: LUNG DAI, JIE LIU, TIAN-LONG HE, TAO WANG
  • Publication number: 20090169065
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and computer program products that detect and/or index characters of videos are disclosed. One or more embodiments comprise an apparatus an apparatus having a feature extraction module and a cast indexing module. The feature extraction module may extract features of a scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) for face sets of a video and the cast indexing module may detect one or more characters of the video via one or more associations of clusters of the features. Some alternative embodiments may include a cast ranking module to sort characters of the video, considering such factors as appearance times of the characters, appearance frequencies of the characters, and page rankings of the characters. The apparatus may associate or partition the clusters based on a normalized cut process, as well as detect the characters based on measures of distances of nodes associated with the features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Jianguo Li, Du Yangzhou, Yimin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090166113
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a battery system, an internal combustion engine, a first motor/generator, a second motor/generator, and an engageable clutch assembly. The engageable clutch assembly is disposed between the internal combustion engine and the first motor/generator. When engaged, the engageable clutch assembly couples the rotor spindle of the second motor/generator with the hollow rotor shaft of the first motor/generator. The engageable clutch assembly may also operate in a first mechanical mode that selectively engages and disengages the internal combustion engine from the second motor/generator, or operate in a second mechanical mode that dampens shock between the internal combustion engine and the first motor/generator when the international combustion engine operates at a rotational speed that is different than a rotational of the first motor/generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BYD Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: HongBin Luo, Yi Ren, ShengLin Yang, Tao Wang, Yan Liu
  • Publication number: 20090166122
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes two front wheels, two rear wheels, an internal combustion engine, a first motor/generator, and a second motor/generator. The first motor/generator may be rotatably coupled to the internal combustion engine, and the second motor/generator may be rotatably coupled to at least one wheel of the hybrid vehicle. The first motor/generator, the second motor/generator and a gear transmission are housed within the engine compartment and are located between two front wheels and arranged in a substantially linear manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BYD CO. LTD.
    Inventors: HongBing Luo, Yi Ren, ShengLin Yang, Tao Wang, Yan Liu
  • Patent number: 7553987
    Abstract: This application discloses provides a process for the introduction of nitro-group functionality into a compound which contains also a site of unsaturation and/or oxygen functionality by direct (one step) oxidation of an oxime functional group mediated by a molybdenum VI/VII peroxo complex, the process comprising: (a) providing a substrate of Formula I containing an oxime functional group; ?wherein R1 and R2 are selected independently from linear, branched or cyclic alkyl and linear, branched or cyclic alkenyl groups, optionally substituted, with the proviso that at least one of R1 or R2 contains a carbon/carbon double bond; and (b) contacting said substrate of Formula I with a molybdenum oxidation complex, thereby oxidizing said oxime functional group to a nitro functional group to yield the structure of Formula III. Where R1 and R2 are as defined above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Tiruvettipuram K. Thiruvengadam, Tao Wang, John S. Chiu, Jing Liao
  • Publication number: 20090161394
    Abstract: An exemplary electronic device includes a controller, a first convertor, a second convertor, and a switching unit. The first convertor is configured for receiving a first voltage from an external power supply and converting the first voltage into a second voltage. The controller is coupled to the first convertor for generating a start signal when receiving the second voltage. The second convertor is connected to the controller for receiving the first voltage, converting the first voltage into a third voltage to power an operating unit of the electronic device, and converting the first voltage into a fourth voltage to power the controller when receiving the start signal. The switching unit is coupled to the controller and the first convertor for disabling the first convertor when the controller receives the fourth voltage. A related power supply unit is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD ., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUN-LUNG HUNG, TAO WANG, WEN-MING CHEN, WANG-CHANG DUAN, QIANG HUANG, SHI-MING ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20090161967
    Abstract: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for obtaining and processing image features are described. In some embodiments, a Gabor representation of an image may be obtained by using a Gabor filter. A region may be determined from the Gabor representation, wherein the region comprises a plurality of Gabor pixels of the Gabor representation; and, a sub-region may be determined from the region, wherein the sub-region comprises more than one of the plurality of Gabor pixels. Then, a Gabor feature may be calculated based upon a magnitude calculation related to the sub-region and the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Jianguo Li, Tao Wang, Yimin Zhang