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: 10299559
    Abstract: A single phase motor and a hair dryer are provided. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes an outer ring portion, teeth extending inwardly from the outer ring portion, and two pole shoes extending from a distal end of each tooth. A winding slot is formed between each two adjacent teeth. A slot opening is disposed between the pole shoes of the adjacent teeth, and is offset from one of the two adjacent teeth. The air supplying unit includes the single phase motor and an impeller. The startup angle and cogging torque of the motor are adjustable by adjusting the position/width of the slot opening, without the need of additional positioning slots or positioning holes defined at the pole shoes, which makes the motor structure simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Chui You Zhou, Jie Chai, Tao Zhang, Qiang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190152977
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel heteroaryl compounds, pharmaceutical acceptable salts and formulations thereof. They are useful in preventing, managing, treating or lessening the severity of a protein kinase-mediated disease. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of protein kinase-mediated disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Northern Industrial Area,
    Inventors: Ning Xi, Minxiong Li, Ju Peng, Xiaobo Li, Tao Zhang, Haiyang Hu, Wuhong Chen, Changlin Bai, Donghua Ke, Peng Chen
  • Patent number: 10297015
    Abstract: A method for identifying a feature of an image is provided. The method includes: segmenting an image into a plurality of blocks, wherein each block includes a plurality of cells; transforming pixels of each cell from a spatial domain to a frequency domain; and identifying a Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature of the image in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Long, Zhijun Chen, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190149927
    Abstract: In an audio signal, one or more processing circuits recognize spoken content in a user's own speech signal using speech recognition and natural language understanding. The spoken content describes a listening difficulty of the user. The one or more processing circuits generate, based on the spoken content, one or more actions for hearing devices and feedback for the user. The one or more actions attempt to resolve the listening difficulty. Additionally, the one or more processing circuits convert the user feedback to verbal feedback using speech synthesis and transmit the one or more actions and the verbal feedback to the hearing devices via a body-worn device. The hearing devices are configured to perform the one or more actions and play back the verbal feedback to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Eric Durant, Dean G. Meyer, Martin McKinney, Matthew D. Kleffner, Dominic Perz, Karrie Recker
  • Publication number: 20190148061
    Abstract: A synchronous rectification module includes a transformer, a first conducting member and a synchronous rectification unit. The transformer includes plural secondary winding assemblies. The outlet ends of the secondary winding assemblies are protruded out from a first lateral region and a second lateral region of the transformer. The first conducting member is located at a third lateral region of the transformer. The synchronous rectification unit includes a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The first circuit board is connected with the first conducting member and located at the first lateral region. The second circuit board is connected with the first conducting member and located at the second lateral region. The outlet ends of the secondary winding assemblies are penetrated through corresponding first insertion holes of the first circuit board and corresponding second insertion holes of the second circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Hao Lu, Tianding Hong, Tao Zhang, Bo Shen, Zhongwei Ke
  • Patent number: 10287125
    Abstract: A banknote rolling-out control method and apparatus and a banknote storage device are provided for solving the technical problem of device failure caused by the case where a banknote can easily be stuck in the device after being stored on a reel for a long time. The method includes: storing a rolling-in time at which a banknote enters a device and a corresponding banknote sequence number; obtaining a rolling-out time of a current banknote which needs to be rolled out; obtaining the rolling-in time corresponding to the banknote sequence number of the current banknote; and determining whether the rolling-in time and the rolling-out time satisfies a preset time condition, and rolling out the current banknote at a rolling-out speed lower than a preset speed in a case of a positive determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: GRG Banking Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Zhiqiang Sun, Hanfeng Xiao, Wenqing Wu
  • Publication number: 20190133981
    Abstract: Formulations, methods of manufacturing, methods of stabilizing, kits, and uses as medicament are provided, for example for the treatment of pain. The formulations can comprise gabapentin optionally combined with at least one non-opioid pain drug in an aqueous carrier. The pharmaceutical formulation can have a pH of about 2.0 to about 10.0. The at least one non-opioid pain drug can be acetaminophen. The components can be included in any amount suitable for purposes of obtaining properties desirable for an injectable infusion, for example an intravenous infusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Varun KHURANA, Vlvek Yadav, Jack Martin Lipman, Tao Zhang, Iouri V. Illtchev, Tushar Hingorani, Navneet Puri, Kumaresh Soppimath
  • Publication number: 20190136219
    Abstract: A genetically engineered arginine deiminase reconstructed by site-directed mutagenesis belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering technology. Its amino acid sequence is shown as SEQ ID No. 1. In the amino acid sequence of the arginine deiminase reconstructed by site-directed mutagenesis, glycine at position 264 is mutated to proline, compared to an amino acid sequence of native arginine deiminase. Compared with wild type enzyme, the effective pH range effect of the mutated arginine deiminase according to the present invention is broadened to a certain extent, and especially a good enzyme activity is achieved at physiological pH 7.4. With the broadening of the effective pH effect range, the mutant enzyme still has higher stability under the condition of pH 5.5-7.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Bo JIANG, Hangyu JIANG, Wanmeng MU, Ming MIAO
  • Patent number: 10285199
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 10279440
    Abstract: A precision forming method of a high-efficiency and near-net hollow valve blank of an engine is provided, wherein the precision performing is realized by the cross wedge rolling mold, under the rolling the metal tubing for the valve deforms, with a middle part sunken and two ends elongating, the middle part forms a stem part of a hollow valve, the two ends form disk parts to be machined, and the connection sections between the disk parts and the stem part form neck parts having arced concave faces and a frustoconical lateral face in structure, achieving better consistency among the acquired hollow valve blanks. The disk part of each acquired hollow valve preformed blank is machined by the die-forging forming mold that is matched with the disk structure of the manufactured hollow valve, the hollow valve preformed blank is directly placed in the cavities of the die-forging forming mold for forging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: HUAIJI DENGYUN AUTO-PARTS (HOLDING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinping Liu, Hongchao Ji, Zhenghuan Hu, Baoyu Wang, Tao Zhang, Dongqiang Mo, Huahuan Luo, Ge Sun, Zhengrong Zhang, Wanqi Qiu
  • Patent number: 10282597
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image classification and clustering method and device. Two images containing human faces may be classified into one cluster or different clusters based on a cluster merging threshold adaptively determined according to the combinational face poses in the two images. The adaptive cluster merging threshold help reduce false positive and false negative classification of human face containing images into clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Fei Long, Zhijun Chen
  • Patent number: 10282637
    Abstract: A method for characteristic extraction includes dividing an image into a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of cells. The method also includes performing sparse signal decomposition for each cell to obtain a sparse vector corresponding to each cell. The method further includes extracting characteristics of Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) of the image according to the sparse vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Long, Zhijun Chen, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190130926
    Abstract: A system comprises an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The ear-worn electronic device comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store an annoying sound dictionary representative of a plurality of annoying sounds pre-identified by the wearer. A microphone is coupled to the processor and configured to monitor an acoustic environment of the wearer. A speaker or a receiver is coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to identify different background noises present in the acoustic environment, determine which of the background noises correspond to one or more of the plurality of annoying sounds, and attenuate the one or more annoying sounds in an output signal provided to the speaker or receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ritwik Giri, Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190132812
    Abstract: A hearing assistance system including a hearing instrument designated as a master device and at least another hearing instrument designated as a slave device. The master device is communicatively coupled to the slave device via a wireless link. The master device has a master clock and generates master time stamps for specified events timed by the master clock. The master time stamps are sent to the slave device via the wireless link. The slave device has a slave clock and generates slave time stamps for specified events timed by the slave clock. The slave clock is adjusted for synchronization to the master clock using the master time stamps and the slave time stamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Jon S. Kindred, Tao Zhang, Ivo Merks, Jeffrey Paul Solum, Mihran H. Touriguian
  • Publication number: 20190132687
    Abstract: A method, comprising receiving at least one sound at an electronic device. The at least one sound is enhanced for the at least one user based on a compound metric. The compound metric is calculated using at least two sound metrics selected from an engineering metric, a perceptual metric, and a physiological metric. The engineering metric comprises a difference between an output signal and a desired signal. At least one of the perceptual metric and the physiological metric is based at least in part on input sensed from the at least one user in response to the received at least one sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Joao F. Santos, Tao Zhang, Yan Zhao, Buye Xu, Ritwik Giri
  • Patent number: 10277102
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing; a fixed component accommodated in the housing; a vibrating component comprising a counterweight and a pole plate; and an elastic connecting piece for suspending the vibrating component in the housing. One of the fixed component and the vibrating component includes coils, and the other includes a magnet component. The pole plate includes a pole plate body part adhered to the counterweight and a fixation part positioned on two sides of the pole plate body, further, the fixation part is at least partially inserted into the counterweight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Hongfu Xu, Jinquan Huang, Yan Shao
  • Publication number: 20190124683
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing transfer block indications in uplink (UL) grant-free transmissions may include a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to transmit a first transport block (TB) to a base station (BS) during a first transmission time interval (TTI) using a grant-free UL transmission, receive a UL grant from the BS in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) region during a time window, determine a target of the UL grant, the target including at least one of the first TB, a second TB, or a previously transmitted TB, based on the UL grant, and transmitting the target of the UL grant to the BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicants: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Nokia Technologies OY
    Inventors: Yuan Tao Zhang, Emad N. FARAG, Sigen YE, Zexian LI, Joseph H. KANG, Karri RANTA-AHO
  • Patent number: 10271350
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing transfer block indications in uplink (UL) grant-free transmissions may include a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to transmit a first transport block (TB) to a base station (BS) during a first transmission time interval (TTI) using a grant-free UL transmission, receive a UL grant from the BS in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) region during a time window, determine a target of the UL grant, the target including at least one of the first TB, a second TB, or a previously transmitted TB, based on the UL grant, and transmitting the target of the UL grant to the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: Nokia Technologies Oy, Nokia of America Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Tao Zhang, Emad N. Farag, Sigen Ye, Zexian Li, Joseph H. Kang, Karri Ranta-Aho
  • Patent number: 10266521
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel heteroaryl compounds, pharmaceutical acceptable salts and formulations thereof. They are useful in preventing, managing, treating or lessening the severity of a protein kinase-mediated disease. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of protein kinase-mediated disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: CALITOR SCIENCES, LLC, SUNSHINE LAKE PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Xi, Minxiong Li, Xiaobo Li, Wuhong Chen, Tao Zhang, Haiyang Hu, Weilong Dai, Yanjun Wu
  • Patent number: 10262466
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a combined image. The combined image includes a combination of images captured from one or more image sensors. The method also includes obtaining depth information. The depth information is based on a distance measurement between a depth sensor and at least one object in the combined image. The method further includes adjusting a combined image visualization based on the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Feng Guo, Ning Bi, Bijan Forutanpour, Tao Zhang, Jianfeng Ren