Patents by Inventor Tao Zhang

Tao Zhang 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: 11311043
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a glucan-based shell-core structure carrier material and preparation and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of modern food processing. Spherical hyperbranched water-soluble amylum grains are used as the raw material, and an enzymatic grafting and chain extending process is adopted for treatment to modify the surfaces of water-soluble glucan molecules into a firm shell structure with densely cumulated crystal structures, and form the glucan-based carrying material with the shell-core structure of which an inner core cavity has an amorphous state and an outer shell layer has a crystalline state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ming Miao, Bo Jiang, Yang Qi, Zhengyu Jin, Chen Chen, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220119599
    Abstract: A hybrid hydrogel carrier for high-salinity wastewater treatment and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The hybrid hydrogel carrier includes a functional microorganism and a conductive hydrogel carrier, wherein the functional microorganism is a halotolerant species; the conductive hydrogel carrier is a compatible conductive hybrid hydrogel, and magnetic triiron tetraoxide (Fe3O4) particles and a compatible substance are uniformly distributed on the surface and inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Tongji University
    Inventors: Yalei ZHANG, Xuefei ZHOU, Xiaogang YOU, Jiabin CHEN, Tao ZHANG, Yinchuan YANG
  • Publication number: 20220119717
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing low carbon olefins and/or aromatics from feedstock comprising naphtha. The method can include the following steps: a) feeding feedstock comprising naphtha into a fast fluidized bed reactor; b) contacting the feedstock with a catalyst under conditions to produce a gas product and spent catalyst; c) separating the gas product to produce a stream comprising primarily one or more low carbon olefins and/or one or more aromatics; d) transporting the spent catalyst to a regenerator; e) regenerating the spent catalyst in the regenerator to form regenerated catalyst; and f) returning the regenerated catalyst to the fast fluidized bed reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yinfeng ZHAO, Mao YE, Zhongmin LIU, Hailong TANG, Jing WANG, Jinling ZHANG, Tao ZHANG, Talal Khaled AL-SHAMMARI
  • Publication number: 20220123320
    Abstract: Disclosed are a lithium metal composite electrode material for a lithium metal battery, a preparation method for the same, and an electrode, battery, battery module, battery pack and apparatus comprising the same. The lithium metal composite electrode material comprises: lithium metal particles and a lithium-containing conductive layer serving as a supporting framework, the supporting framework being filled with the lithium metal particles; wherein the lithium-containing conductive layer comprises an inorganic lithium compound and a lithium alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Chengdu LIANG, Yongsheng GUO, Tao ZHANG, Chengyong LIU, Jun YANG
  • Publication number: 20220119719
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system for producing low carbon olefins and/or aromatics from raw material comprising naphtha. The system can include a reaction unit that includes a fast fluidized bed reactor, a stripping unit that includes a stripper, and a regeneration unit. The reactor unit is adapted to allow the catalytic cracking of naphtha and to output reaction unit effluent material (spent catalyst and product gas) into the stripping unit, which is adapted to output product gas. The stripping unit is connected to and in fluid communication with the regeneration unit such that the stripping unit supplies the spent catalyst from the reaction unit to regeneration unit. The regeneration unit is adapted to regenerate the spent catalyst to form regenerated catalyst. The regeneration unit is connected to and in fluid communication with the fast fluidized bed reactor such that, in operation, regenerated catalyst can be sent to the fast fluidized bed reactor of the reaction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Mao YE, Yinfeng ZHAO, Zhongmin LIU, Hailong TANG, Jing WANG, Jinling ZHANG, Tao ZHANG, Talal Khaled AL-SHAMMARI
  • Patent number: 11305263
    Abstract: A method for preparing a supported carbon catalyst, the method includes at least the following steps: contacting a gas containing an organic silicon source with a silicon oxide-based material to obtain a precursor; contacting the precursor with a gas containing an organic carbon source to obtain the supported carbon catalyst. The temperature and energy consumption of the chemical vapor deposition of heteroatom-containing carbon material on silica-based materials can be greatly reduced in this method, and the cost of the catalyst can be effectively reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinming Xu, Sisi Fan, Yanqiang Huang, Tao Zhang, Chin Lien Huang, Wan Tun Hung, Yu Cheng Chen, Chien Hui Wu, Ya Wen Cheng, Ming Hsien Wen, Chao Chin Chang, Tsao Cheng Huang
  • Publication number: 20220113132
    Abstract: A method for sampling wheel acceleration, a method for determining rotation angular position of a wheel, and a tire pressure monitoring system are disclosed. The method for sampling wheel acceleration may include: acquiring a real-time wheel acceleration value of a target wheel and calculating a time length required to rotate for a preset number of revolutions of the target wheel according to a first association relationship between the wheel acceleration and the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions of the target wheel; obtaining a time interval between any two adjacent sampling points according to the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions; and sampling the wheel acceleration of the target wheel once every the time interval starting from any time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Tao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220115689
    Abstract: The present application discloses a functionalized separator, a method for preparing the same, a lithium metal battery, and a device comprising the lithium metal battery. The functionalized separator comprises a porous substrate and a functional film layer provided on at least one side of the porous substrate, wherein the functional film layer comprises inorganic particles which are able to reversibly react with metal lithium to form a lithium alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Chengyong Liu, Yongsheng Guo, Quan Fan, Tao Zhang, Chengdu Liang, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 11303191
    Abstract: A three-degree-of-freedom bearingless switched reluctance motor excited by a constant current source includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor consisting of a rotating shaft and a rotor core, where a plurality of rotor teeth is uniformly distributed on an outer circumference of the rotor core. The stator includes a stator core, a magnetic isolation ring, an axial suspension winding, and a magnetic conduction ring that are sequentially connected, and axial control cores and annular constant current source windings which are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the stator core. Outer edges of the axial control cores are connected to the magnetic conduction ring, and inner edges extend to the rotor core. The stator core and the magnetic isolation ring both consist of an axial part and a radial part of which an outer end is connected to an inner wall of the axial part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAIYIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Wei Ni, Yue Zhang, Zhujun Ding, Yeqing Wang, Zhongyi Tang, Weihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11301301
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for offloading a workload between computing environments. According to the method, a workload of a target function of a service provisioned in a first computing environment is determined. A processing capacity of the service available for the target function in the first computing environment is determined. In accordance with a determination that the workload exceeds the processing capacity, at least one incoming request for the target function is caused to be routed to a target instance of the target function, the target instance of the target function being provisioned in a second computing environment different from the first computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Tang, Yue Wang, Liang Rong, Wen Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11301759
    Abstract: A detective method, applied in a detective system comprising an activity-or-behavior model constructor, for activity-or-behavior model construction and automatic detection of activities of a subject system, comprises steps of using an unsupervised machine learning technique, a Natural Language Processing technique (NLP) and a supervised machine learning technique. As such, an activity-or-behavior model is built for predicting the future behaviors of the subject system and automatically detecting abnormal activities or behaviors of the subject system. The activity-or-behavior model is capable to handle multidimensional sensor data input from a plurality of sensor data streams and incorporate the sensor data values and a selected temporal information about at least one sensor data stream and between different sensor data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Phone Lin, Tao Zhang, En-Hau Yeh, Xin-Xue Lin, Chia-Peng Lee, Brian Hu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220108603
    Abstract: A detection method of key road-sections based on Ricci flow is provided and includes: building a weighted road network according to static road network data and actual traffic flow data; calculating initial values of Olivier Ricci curvature at different times; obtaining a weight system of making edges of the weighted road network be with a same value of Olivier Ricci curvature by a Ricci flow iterative process; and calculating direction and degree of weight change of each of the edges corresponding to road-sections, and setting a threshold to extract key road-sections. The method solves problems that the existing methods analyze the key road-sections from the topological structure of the road network without fully considering the actual distribution and transmission characteristics of the traffic flow in the network, is simple and easy; and the detection result more meet the traffic distribution and the flow of the actual road-sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Haifeng LI, Jian PENG, Penglong LI, Zezhong MA, Yi DING, Zelie ZHANG, Ding LUO, Jiawei ZHU, Silu HE, Yan LI, Zhenqi CUI, He XIAO, Ying AO, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11297328
    Abstract: A method that is performed by a video encoding device is provided. The method includes identifying N image frames in a sliding window of an image frame sequence, the N image frames including N?1 encoded image frames and a to-be-encoded image frame; obtaining a motion amplitude difference of the N image frames in the sliding window, the motion amplitude difference indicating a difference between a corresponding image frame motion amplitude and a previous image frame motion amplitude; updating a static variable based on the motion amplitude difference of each of the N image frames in the sliding window, the static variable indicating a number of consecutive static image frames; and encoding the to-be-encoded image frame as an I frame based on the updated static variable not being less than a first preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Yao Yao Guo, Xu Nan Mao, Chen Chen Gu, Xin Wei Gao, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220102740
    Abstract: An electrode structure of a flow battery. A density of the vertical tow in the electrode fiber is larger than the density of the parallel tow. In the electrode fiber per unit volume, the quantity ratio of the vertical tow to the parallel tow is at least 6:4. The electrode structure includes an odd number of layers of the electrode fibers, and the porosity of other layers is larger than that of the center layer. The electrode structure includes the vertical tows, so that, the contact area between the outer surface of the electrode and the adjacent component is increased and the contact resistance is reduced; the electrode has good mechanical properties; the contact resistance of such structure is reduced by 30%-50%; and the layers of the electrode have different thickness depending on the porosity. After compression, the layers with optimized thickness have a consistent porosity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shenglin LIU, Hongdong JIANG, Huamin ZHANG, Xiangkun MA, Tao ZHANG, Shan JIANG, Zhenkun YANG, Dan SUN, Kuanrong YI
  • Publication number: 20220098395
    Abstract: An emulsion composition, a polystyrene nano-fiber, a polystyrene nano-fiber product and a preparation method and use thereof, wherein the emulsion composition comprises a dispersed phase and a continuous phase, the dispersed phase contains a soluble salt and a first solvent, the continuous phase contains polystyrene, a second solvent and sulfonated polystyrene being syndiotactic polystyrene and/or isotatic polystyrene; the preparation of the emulsion composition: under heating and stirring, dropwise adding the dispersed phase into the continuous phase; the preparation of the polystyrene nano-fiber or polystyrene nano-fiber product: crystallize the above emulsion composition; the polystyrene nano-fiber prepared by the above emulsion composition has a pore structure, and the prepared product has a stable and controllable three-dimensional structure and multi-level and/or intercommunicated pore structure, and also has a high preparation efficiency, therefore the above polystyrene nano-fiber or product has excell
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Haoguan GUI, Guohong GAO
  • Publication number: 20220091818
    Abstract: A data feature processing method and a data feature processing apparatus are provided, which perform the following operations: sorting a plurality of groups of business data to obtain a business data sorting sequence, and determining a cross-time validation set and modeling sample data to establish a recognition model by using a preset classifier; calculating feature importance values of data features in the business data based on the recognition model and a gain indicator of the recognition model, and calculating a correlation matrix by taking the modeling sample data as a benchmark; determining to-be-selected model features based on the correlation matrix; and importing the to-be-selected model features into the preset classifier in batches to determine model benchmark performance data. In this way, a highly-correlated feature can be deleted based on an order of the feature importance values. This can reduce operation time and memory demands in a model establishment process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Shanghai IceKredit, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingyun GU, Minqi XIE, Wan DUAN, Hui LIU, Shuai TAO, Jun PAN, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11281823
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prediction model for a lip sticking force of a cigarette tipping paper, a construction method and a prediction method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of analysis and detection. In the method, the stepwise regression analysis is performed on the lip sticking force and values of the dynamic friction coefficient and the grammage of the cigarette tipping paper to obtain a model for predicting the lip sticking force of the cigarette tipping paper. When checking the accuracy of the model, it is found that the predicted value and the measured value basically fall near the 1:1 line, R2 index is 0.99, and the normalized root mean square error (nRMSE) is 2.64%. The present invention provides a method capable of quickly and simply quantifying a sticking force of the cigarette tipper paper to lips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ji Yang, Zhihua Liu, Chunbo Liu, Ruizhi Zhu, Tao Zhang, Xiaoxi Si, Fengmei Zhang, Pei He, Wei Jiang, Zhenjie Li, Zhongbi Su
  • Publication number: 20220085673
    Abstract: The invention discloses a magnetic core, which includes a ring-shaped body portion and a plurality of magnetic pole portions connected to the body portion. The magnetic pole portions are arranged on an inner surface of the body portion in a circumferential direction. The body portion and the magnetic pole portions are connected to each other. Each of the magnetic pole portions is triangular and includes a top end and two free ends. The top end is connected to the body portion. Two side surfaces on both sides of the top end of the magnetic pole portion are respectively opposite to and spaced apart from an inner surface of the body portion to form a first receiving groove and a second receiving groove, the first receiving groove and the second receiving groove are used for receiving magnets, and the first receiving groove and the second receiving groove have open ends in an inner surface of the magnetic core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Junjie CHU, Min LI, Quantong MA
  • Publication number: 20220082572
    Abstract: The subject invention pertains to systems and methods diagnosing, monitoring and treating women for successful embryo implantation and establishment of pregnancy using peripheral blood cytokine profiling and administration of immune-modulators to establish an implantation-promoting microenvironment in the uterus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tin Chiu LI, Chi Chiu WANG, Tao ZHANG, Yiwei ZHAO, Xiaoyan CHEN
  • Patent number: D948484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN DOSHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tao Zhang