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).

  • Publication number: 20190107278
    Abstract: A catalytic flameless combustion apparatus has a fuel inlet, a combustion-supporting gas inlet, a gas premixer, a combustion plate, an igniter, a gas deflector, a flameless combustion cavity, a catalyst filled in the flameless combustion cavity, a gas collection chamber and an exhaust port. The method for starting the catalytic flameless combustion apparatus includes initially combusting and heating the flameless combustion cavity and the catalyst filled therein with low power flame; and then increasing flow velocity and switching to high power flame for conducting catalytic flameless combustion. The catalytic flameless combustion apparatus can be used for various non-solid fuel combustion and heat extraction processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Weizhen LI, Zhiqiang CHEN, Jingcai ZHANG, Chuntian WU, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10251875
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Nevakar Inc.
    Inventors: Navneet Puri, Prem Sagar Akasapu, Irfan A. Mohammed, Kumaresh Soppimath, Iouri V. Ilitchev, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10253430
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing polycrystalline silicon ingot. The preparation method comprises: randomly laying seed crystals with unlimited crystal orientation at the bottom of crucible to form a layer of seed crystals and obtaining disordered crystalline orientations; providing molten silicon above the layer of seed crystals, controlling the temperature at the bottom of the crucible, making the layer of seed crystals not completely melted; controlling the temperature inside the crucible, making the molten silicon growing above the seed crystals, the molten silicon inheriting the structure of the seed crystals, then obtaining polycrystalline silicon ingot. By adopting the preparation method, a desirable initial nucleus can be obtained for a polycrystalline silicon ingot, so as to reduce dislocation multiplication during the growth of the polycrystalline silicon ingot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: JIANG XI SAI WEI LDK SOLAR HI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongli Hu, Liang He, Yuepeng Wan, Qi Lei, Hongrong Chen, Tao Zhang, Dejing Zhong
  • Publication number: 20190101693
    Abstract: An optical fiber comprises, from a center to a periphery, a fiber core of undoped silica; a cladding layer; and a coating of polyacrylate, wherein the fiber core has a radius of 5 to 7 ?m and an ellipticity of less than 1.5%, the cladding layer with an ellipticity of less than 0.4% comprises inner, intermediate, and outer cladding layers, the inner cladding layer being doped with fluorine of 5 to 12 ?m thickness, and refractive index difference to fiber core of ?0.4 to ?0.2%, the outer cladding layer being undoped quartz of 25 to 45 ?m thickness, and the coating comprises an inner coating of 25 to 40 ?m thickness, and an outer coating of 25 to 35 ?m thickness and an ellipticity of less than 2%. The optical fiber has high durability and large effective transmission area, a method and system for preparing such optical fiber are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: SHAN-SHAN CAO, ZHI-ZHONG LIU, YI-CHUN SHEN, XIAO-XING ZHU, ZHEN WANG, HAI-TAO ZHANG, HAI-TAO XU, JI-GANG HU, HAI-YAN SU
  • Publication number: 20190099674
    Abstract: A method is provided for updating a virtual application attribute. The method includes, in a running process of a virtual application client, obtaining, by a computing device, a first event resource that is in a temporary state and that is generated by executing a first event by a first account of the virtual application client; converting, by the computing device, a second event resource that is in the temporary state and that is obtained before the first event resource into the second event resource in a normal state; adding, by the computing device, the second event resource to event resources that are in the normal state and that have been obtained previously; and, when a predetermined operation performed on the event resources in the normal state is detected, updating, by the computing device, a virtual application attribute of the first account in the virtual application client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Jin YU, Tian LIU, Chunhe WANG, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10251240
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DC concentrated illumination system, including a DC distribution box configured for converting a command specification that controls the state of lamps into a voltage signal with a varying amplitude, and outputting the voltage signal via a power line; and a plurality of lamp units, each includes a lamp, a power conversion unit and a simulated load unit, wherein the power conversion unit is coupled to the lamp and the simulated load unit, and is coupled to the DC distribution box via the power line. The power conversion unit receives the voltage signal and collects the state information of the lamps when the voltage signal matches a preset convention rule successfully; and the power conversion unit controls the action of the simulated load unit to get a current signal, the DC distribution box parses the current signal to obtain the state information of the lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Tao Zhang, Xiaojing Shi, Xiaojun Xia
  • Publication number: 20190098691
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information transmission method, user equipment, an access network device, and a core network device. The method includes: determining, by user equipment UE when the UE is in an idle state, whether there is to-be-transmitted uplink information; and sending, by the UE, a first request message to a first access network device when the UE determines that there is to-be-transmitted uplink information, where the first request message is a first air interface message for the UE to switch from the idle state to a connected state, and the first request message carries uplink non-access stratum NAS information and air interface identity information that is stored on the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Feng YU, Tao ZHANG, Haifeng YU, Guangwei YU
  • Publication number: 20190097986
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a counter check and reconfiguration method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: sending a second identity information and a second count information to a terminal, so that the terminal compares, according to the second identity information, the second count information with third count information maintained by the terminal itself to obtain first comparison result information or second comparison result information; receiving the first comparison result information sent by the terminal, or the second identity information and second comparison result information sent by the terminal; and determining counter check result information according to the received first comparison result information, or the received second identity information and second comparison result information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin, Dongmei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10244471
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Lin, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10244333
    Abstract: A hearing system includes a pair of first and second hearing devices wirelessly coupled to a remote device that includes a microphone. One or more gains can each be calculated as a function of a first microphone signal received from the first hearing device, a second microphone signal received from the second hearing device, and a remote microphone signal received from the remote device. The function can be designed to improve speech intelligibility in a noisy environment. The one or more gains are applied to the first and second microphone signals to produce output sounds by the first and second hearing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederic Philippe Denis Mustiere, Jumana Harianawala, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190087150
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quiet zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Patent number: 10235603
    Abstract: Method, device and computer-readable medium for sensitive picture recognition are provided in the disclosure. Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for sensitive picture recognition. The method includes receiving a picture to be processed from a picture library associated with a user account, applying a sensitive picture recognition model to the picture to determine whether the picture is a sensitive picture or not, and providing a privacy protection associated with the user account to the picture when the picture is the sensitive picture. In an example, the method includes storing the picture in a private album under the user account with access security protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Fei Long, Zhijun Chen
  • Patent number: 10237132
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 10227711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing polycrystalline silicon ingot. The preparation method comprises: coating inner wall of the crucible with a layer of silicon nitride, followed by laying a layer of crushed silicon and feeding silicon in the crucible; the crushed silicon is laid in random order, and the layer of crushed silicon forms a supporting structure having numerous holes; melting the silicon to form molten silicon by heating, when solid-liquid interface reach the surface of the layer of crushed silicon or when the layer of crushed silicon melt partially, regulating thermal field to achieve supercooled state to grow crystals; after the crystallization of molten silicon is completely finished, performing annealing and cooling to obtain polycrystalline silicon ingot. By adopting the preparation method, a desirable initial nucleus can be obtained for a polycrystalline silicon ingot, so as to reduce dislocation multiplication during the growth of the polycrystalline silicon ingot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JIANG XI SAI WEI LDK SOLAR HI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongli Hu, Liang He, Yuepeng Wan, Qi Lei, Hongrong Chen, Tao Zhang, Dejing Zhong
  • Patent number: 10231229
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a communication method, including: sending, by a user equipment (UE), 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 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. The present disclosure further describes a corresponding device and system. The micro network node participates in accessing the user equipment (UE) to a network so that a UE can rapidly access the network and reduce access delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin, Yongqiang Gao
  • Patent number: 10225830
    Abstract: Embodiments of present invention provide a processing method of a data packet, a terminal, a base station and a system, the terminal comprises: a receiving unit, configured to receive a first instruction sent by a first base station; a processing unit, configured to stop reordering data packets according to the first instruction received by the receiving unit, or start reordering the data packets according to the first instruction received by the receiving unit. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention are used to achieve that an orderliness of the data packets in the terminal is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 10223951
    Abstract: A scanning direction control circuit includes a selection control circuit configured to output a first control signal to a start signal reception control circuit and output a second control signal to a direction control circuit; the start signal reception control circuit configured to, under the control of the first control signal, enable a scanning pulse signal input end to be electrically coupled to a forward scanning start signal input end during forward scanning, and enable the scanning pulse signal input end to be electrically coupled to a backward scanning start signal input end during backward scanning; and the direction control circuit configured to, under the control of the second control signal, output a forward scanning control signal to a scanning direction control end during forward scanning, and output a backward scanning control signal to the scanning direction control end during backward scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hao Shang, Zhidong Yuan, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190050118
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, an apparatus and a terminal for implementing a function interface of an application by pressure. The method includes: extending an application component attribute according to a preset pressure information specification; extending a parsing mechanism and a packaging mechanism according to the extended application component attribute; acquiring data of a preset pressure operation function interface menu carried in an installation package of an application when the application is installed or updated by using the extended parsing mechanism and packaging mechanism, and storing the data of the preset pressure operation function interface menu of the application in a storage unit; when determining in a desktop application that a pressure operation is to select the function interface of the application, retrieving the data of the corresponding preset pressure operation function interface menu from the storage unit according to icon information of the application; and presenting the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10199886
    Abstract: A single phase brushless motor and a power tool are provided. The single phase brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and windings wound around the stator core. The stator core includes a yoke and at least two teeth. The tooth includes a tooth body and a tooth tip. The tooth tip includes first and second pole shoes. The two pole shoes of each tooth are symmetrical about a center line of the tooth body. Each tooth defines a positioning groove facing the rotor between the two pole shoes. Pole shoes of adjacent two of the at least two teeth are spaced apart by a slot opening. A width of the positioning groove is greater than a width of the slot opening. The peak value of the cogging torque of the motor is increased, and the motor has a large startup torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRICS S.A.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Tao Zhang, Chui You Zhou, Jie Chai, Jun Jie Chu, Xiao Bing Zuo, Yong Wang, Yong Li
  • Publication number: 20190037475
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a radio access control method. The method includes that a terminal device receives access control information sent by an access network device, wherein the access control information indicates a barred service type and a barred data transmission attribute to the terminal device; and the terminal device determines whether to send a radio resource control (RRC) connection request to the access network device based on the barred service type and the barred data transmission attribute; wherein the data transmission attribute comprises a transmission scheme type, the transmission scheme type is used to indicate a transmission scheme used by the terminal device for transmitting service data used by the terminal device. Thereby improving network resource utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Yan Wang, Yinghui Yu