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: 10371152
    Abstract: A blood pump system includes a pump housing and an impeller for rotating in a pump chamber within the housing. The impeller has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The system includes a stator having drive coils for applying a torque to the impeller and at least one bearing mechanism for suspending the impeller within the pump chamber. The system includes a position control mechanism for moving the impeller in an axial direction within the pump chamber to adjust a size of a first gap and a size of a second gap, thereby controlling a washout rate at each of the first gap and the second gap. The first gap is defined by a distance between the first side and the housing and the second gap is defined by a distance between the second side and the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TC1 LLC
    Inventors: Masamichi Yanai, Shunzhou Yu, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190228538
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wildlife protection, and particularly relates to a method for observing wildlife population size through a remote sensing imagery. The method specifically comprises: a proportion of orthogonal projection area of animals in each pixel to pixel area is computed and summed through a linear correlation between a gray value of a remote sensing imagery pixel and a proportion of the orthogonal projection area of individual animals to the pixel area, to obtain the total orthogonal projection area of target animal population; and population size is obtained on the basis of dividing by the orthogonal projection area of animals of measured individual animals, thereby solving the problem that it is difficult to observe the wildlife population size and a distribution pattern at the same time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENC ES
    Inventors: Peng ZHAO, Hongsheng YANG, Jingchun SUN, Yi ZHOU, Tao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190230702
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for adding a secondary serving cell, an apparatus, a device, and a network system. The method includes: communicating, with each other to acquire a unified serial number of a random access preamble code, a unified serial number of a PRACH mask code, and a unified cell radio network temporary identifier of a terminal; scrambling the serial number of the random access preamble code and the serial number of the PRACH mask code, and then sending the serial number of the random access preamble code and the serial number of the PRACH mask code to the terminal,; and determining, a time advance command TAC according to a random access request message that carries the random access preamble code, and sending the TAC to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Bo LIN
  • Patent number: 10361613
    Abstract: A single phase motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core. The stator core includes an outer yoke and a plurality of stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a winding portion and a pole shoe coupled to the winding portion. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The permanent magnets are evenly spaced and embedded in the rotor core. An outer circumferential wall of the rotor core is an irregular cylinder and includes a plurality of spaced circular arc surfaces and transition surfaces. The starting of the single phase motor is stable and reliable. The present invention also provides a rotor for the single phase motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Tao Zhang, Jie Chai, Chui You Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190220273
    Abstract: Configuration data collection at a device is disclosed, including: detecting, with respect to a device, a data collection event, wherein the data collection event is specified by a configuration file, wherein the configuration file further specifies a set of target data information and a corresponding set of target data information providers from which to collect target data in response to a detection of the data collection event; in response to the detection of the data collection event, collecting the target data based at least in part on the set of target data information and the corresponding set of target data information providers; and controlling the device based at least in part on the collected target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Jingfu Ye, Zipeng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Xiaoning Wang
  • Patent number: 10355577
    Abstract: A control circuit and a control method of a switching power supply, according to feedback signals on a pin FB and a pin CS, a constant current control module generates and outputs a control signal to control an output current of the switching power supply, thereby regulating duty cycle of a first transistor adaptively and controlling an output current Io of a power supply system to be constant; according to the feedback signals on the pin FB and on the pin CS, a constant current precision compensation module adaptively regulates circuit parameters of the constant current control module and a sample-and-hold module, preventing precision of constant current output from being influenced by change of a working mode and/or by variation of input conditions; when an output voltage changes, QR mode keeps unchanged or depth of a CCM keeps approximately constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Wuxi Chipown Micro-Electronics Limited
    Inventors: Haisong Li, Changshen Zhao, Wenliang Liu, Yangbo Yi, Biao Zhou, Tao Zhang, Huazheng Rui
  • Patent number: 10350657
    Abstract: A medical waste treatment device for health-care facility includes a frame, a waste disposal device and a control system; wherein the waste disposal device comprises three or more waste disposal boxes which are arranged in a row; a feeding conveyor belt is disposed at one side of the waste disposal boxes and the feeding conveyor belt extends to positions above each of the waste disposal boxes; the feeding conveyor belt is driven by a motor; each of the waste disposal boxes is provided with a waste label identification component, a pushing component which is configured to push waste container into the waste disposal box, and a sealing component; a feeding access is opened on the top of each of the waste disposal boxes and a discharge access is opened on the bottom of each of the waste disposal boxes; a feeding access control system is provided at each of the feeding access and a discharge access control system is provided at each of the discharge access; a branch conveyor belt is disposed below the discharge a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: QINGDAO BRIGHT MEDICAL MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dezheng Zhao, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10351888
    Abstract: The invention discloses a high-efficiency synthesis method of difructose anhydride III. The method comprises the following steps: firstly converting sucrose into inulin by using inulosucrase without separating polysaccharide, and then converting inulin by using inulin fructotransferase to synthesize the functional disaccharide difructose anhydride III. The method has the advantages of simple process and high efficiency, and a conversion rate of synthesizing inulin into difructose anhydride III can reach 40%-54%. In order to obtain purer difructose anhydride III, yeast is utilized to remove small molecule monosaccharides in a reaction solution, and the finally obtained purer difructose anhydride III can be easily separated and purified. Thus, the method has broad market application prospects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Wanmeng Mu, Bo Jiang, Shuhuai Yu, Yingying Zhu, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190214753
    Abstract: An U2 female adapter with a special mask structure includes a terminal part, a conductive member, and a housing part. The terminal part includes a plurality of grounding terminals. The housing part internally includes a cavity. The grounding terminals are inserted in the cavity of the housing part. The conductive member is connected with a bottom portion of all the grounding terminals. The conductive member and the housing part are formed of a plastic material. The grounding terminals include a long row structure and a short row structure. With such configuration, the present invention is structurally improved. With the conductive member connected with the bottom portions of all the grounding terminals, all SAS and PCIe channels are applied simultaneously, so as to use six channels to achieve an x6 channel application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: FU-AN JIANG, Lei Liao, Yan-Bin Tan, Yi-Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10348753
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system maintain a list that includes identifiers of vehicles determined by the processor of a detective vehicle to have an innocent status. The processor selects, for each sub-period of a predefined time period, a target vehicle from a plurality of vehicles, where the detective vehicle communicates either directly or indirectly with each vehicle of the plurality and accepts communications from the plurality, where a portion of the plurality of vehicles and the detective vehicle are within a vehicle-to-vehicle communication range, and where vehicle-to-vehicle communication does not utilize infrastructure network connectivity. The processor obtains, over a vehicle-to-vehicle communication or a network connection, messages regarding a status of the target vehicle. The processor determines the status of the target vehicle, where the status is one of: malicious or innocent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventors: Eric van den Berg, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190205771
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a detective method, applied in a detective system comprising a activity-or-behavior model constructor, for activity-or-behavior model construction and automatic detection of activities of a subject system, comprising steps of: using an unsupervised machine learning technique to preprocess and analyze raw sensor data obtained from the monitored subject system to generate post data; with the post data as input, using a Natural Language Processing technique (NLP) to discover the activities or behaviors performed by the subject system; and with output data from the NLP technique as input, using a surprised machine learning technique to build an activity-or-behavior model for predicting the future behaviors of the subject system and automatically detecting abnormal activities or behaviors of the subject system; wherein the activity-or-behavior model is capable to handle multidimensional sensor data input from a plurality of sensor data streams and incorporate the senso
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Phone Lin, Tao Zhang, En-Hau Yeh, Xin-Xue Lin, Chia-Peng Lee, Brian Hu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10341158
    Abstract: A segment-based approach for fast fourier transforms of input signals is provided for the generation of baseband signals. A FFT is performed individually for each of the segments from the input signal and the FFT result from each segment is accumulated to provide a final FFT for an input signal symbol. After the samples are received for one segment, a FFT can be performed to generate an intermediate FFT result while samples for the additional segment(s) are received. The system accumulates the intermediate result from the segments into a final FFT result that can be used to generate the baseband signal. Segment-based processing of an input signal can provide faster and more efficient processing to generate a baseband signal. Segment-based processing can also decrease the required size of the input buffers for antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weizhong Chen, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10338174
    Abstract: A method for creating a first MRI image and a second MRI image is provided. A first echo is read out. A second echo is read out. The first echo readout is used to generate a first image set, with each image pixel being a first linear combination of the first species and the second species. The second echo readout is used to generate a second image set, with each image pixel being a second linear combination of the first species and the second species. The first image set and second image set are combined to obtain a first combined image containing only the first species and a second combined image containing only the second species, comprising combining the first image set and the second image set to generate two pairs of solutions and using a mathematical optimization to choose a correct pair of solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univesity
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Yuxin Chen, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20190200238
    Abstract: The method includes explicitly or implicitly notifying, by a network device, a terminal device of a mapping relationship, where the mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between information about target data sent by the terminal device and indication information for feeding back an acknowledgment ACK/negative acknowledgment NACK by the network device, receiving, by the network device, the target data sent by the terminal device, determining, by the network device, the corresponding indication information based on the information about the target data and the mapping relationship, and feeding back, by the network device, the ACK/NACK to the terminal device based on the indication information for determining to feed back the ACK/NACK.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Haifeng YU, Feng YU, Tao ZHANG, Guangwei YU
  • Publication number: 20190186029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a graphene material inlaid with single metal atoms, the preparation method thereof and its application of being used as the catalyst for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide. The graphene material inlaid with single metal atoms comprises single metal atoms and graphene; the single metal atoms are dispersed in the framework of the graphene; and the graphene is at least one selected from N doped graphene and N and S co-doped graphene. The material is used for the electrochemical reduction reaction of carbon dioxide, which significantly improves the utilization efficiency of the metal atoms and enhances the catalytic activity for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide, improves the catalytic stability, inhibits effectively the hydrogen evolution reaction, improves the selectivity for CO product, and broadens the electric potential window of reducing carbon dioxide to generate CO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Bin LIU, Hongbin YANG, Yanqiang HUANG, Song LIU, Tao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190191370
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for receiving D2D discovery information and an apparatus. The method for receiving D2D discovery information includes: sending, by an upper layer of a radio resource control RRC layer of a D2D communication device, a first instruction to a physical layer of the D2D communication device, where the first instruction is used to instruct the physical layer to switch from a D2D sleep state to a D2D listening state; and receiving, by the physical layer of the D2D communication device, the first instruction and switching from the D2D sleep state to the D2D listening state according to the first instruction, to listen to D2D discovery information. This reduces power consumption of the D2D communication device and prolongs a standby time of the D2D communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo LIN, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10324694
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for arranging binary code to reduce instruction cache conflict misses. These mechanisms generate a call graph of a portion of code. Nodes and edges in the call graph are weighted to generate a weighted call graph. The weighted call graph is then partitioned according to the weights, affinities between nodes of the call graph, and the size of cache lines in an instruction cache of the data processing system, so that binary code associated with one or more subsets of nodes in the call graph are combined into individual cache lines based on the partitioning. The binary code corresponding to the partitioned call graph is then output for execution in a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tong Chen, Brian Flachs, Brad W. Michael, Mark R. Nutter, John K. P. O'Brien, Kathryn M. O'Brien, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190182116
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to the communications field, and provide a configuration method, a network device, and user equipment, so as to correctly configure different types of radio bearers and correctly configure a MAC entity. The method includes determining, by the network device, a configuration type and generating a first message according to the configuration type. The method also includes sending the first message to the user equipment. The method embodiment is used to configure a radio bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Publication number: 20190174469
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a communication method, including: sending, by a user equipment, a request message to a micro network node, so that the micro network node sends an indication message to a macro network node; receiving an uplink resource (UG) sent according to the indication message by the macro network node; and sending uplink signaling or uplink data to the macro network node according to the uplink resource (UG). Embodiments of the present invention further provide a corresponding device and system. In technical solutions of the present invention, the micro network node participates in accessing the user equipment to a network, so that a UE can rapidly access the network, which reduces an access delay of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Bo LIN, Yongqiang GAO
  • Patent number: 10313288
    Abstract: A photo sharing method includes: receiving, from a user, a party photo sharing instruction regarding a to-be-shared party photo set, where the to-be-shared party photo set has party marker information and includes at least one party photo; acquiring a face recognition result by conducting face recognition on each party photo contained in the to-be-shared party photo set, and determining a face image set contained in the to-be-shared party photo set according to the face recognition result; determining, from each contact photo contained in a contact list, each target contact photo which matches with each face image in the face image set respectively; and sending the to-be-shared party photo set to each target contact respectively according to contact information corresponding to the each target contact photo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Fei Long, Zhijun Chen