Patents by Inventor Wei Zhu

Wei Zhu 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: 20240067869
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fracturing propping agent and a preparation method thereof. The fracturing propping agent comprises the following raw materials: dry sludge, quartz sand, coal ash, bauxite and clay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Changming Su, Zhanqing Qu, Xinwu Zhu, Zuochen Li, Yuping Fan, Wei Liu, Wen Su, Kai Weng
  • Publication number: 20240072424
    Abstract: A transparent combination antenna is disclosed that provides bandwidth at both sub 6 GHz and the above 24 GHz spectra. For example, the transparent combination antenna can include a first layer of transparent conductive material, and a second layer of transparent conductive material. In some implementations, both of the first layer and the second layer can have different pitches. Additionally, in some implementations, a substrate may be positioned in between the first layer and the second layer. Various other systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Huang, Yasuo Morimoto, Jiang Zhu, Boon Shiu, Diaaaldin J. M. Bisharat
  • Publication number: 20240067799
    Abstract: An esterification method for improving the dispersibility of a hydroxyl-containing nano-material is disclosed herein. The method comprises: S1, thoroughly stirring and uniformly mixing a hydroxyl-containing nano-material precursor and an organic solvent to obtain a mixture; S2, heating and fully pre-reacting the mixture in step S1; and S3, adding an acyl halide to the solution which is heated and fully pre-reacted in step S2, and then further reacting same to finally obtain a surface-modified hydroxyl-containing nano-material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: SMART LIQUID CRYSTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiabin WANG, Wei ZHU, Yichen ZHANG, Yao WANG, Jiayue NIU
  • Publication number: 20240072981
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for downlink control information having a transmission configuration indicator bitmap. One method (400) includes transmitting (402) downlink control information with a transmission configuration indicator, spatial information, or a combination thereof and a transmission configuration indicator bitmap field. Each bit in the transmission configuration indicator bitmap field indicates whether the transmission configuration indicator, the spatial information, or the combination thereof applies to a channel or resource group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20240072263
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode catalyst layer and a preparation method and use thereof, and a fuel cell. The method includes: mixing a catalyst, water, and an alcohol with a pore-forming agent to obtain a mixture; dispersing the mixture into a Nafion solution to obtain a slurry; and coating the slurry onto a surface of a diffusion layer to obtain a coated diffusion layer, and subjecting the coated diffusion layer to calcination and freeze-drying in sequence to obtain the cathode catalyst layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jiaping XIE, Wei ZHU, Ziqi SHANG, Jun SHEN
  • Patent number: 11913324
    Abstract: An apparatus for downhole multi-dimensional imaging includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a formation resistivity signal, an ultrasonic echo signal and an orientation signal regularly; a sector calculation unit configured to calculate, based on said orientation signal, a sector where a currently acquired signal is from; and a multi-dimensional imaging unit, configured to calculate, based on the signals acquired by the acquisition unit, data of resistivity, distance from a drilling tool to a borehole wall and ultrasonic echo amplitude, and distribute said data into all sectors for feature recognition and extraction, thus obtaining key features characterizing a current formation being drilled, said key features being transmitted to ground for guiding drilling process. The structural complexity and the length of the downhole imaging measurement instrument can be reduced, and feature recognition can be directly performed on the imaging data underground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yijin Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weining Ni, Xin Li, Lipeng Yan, Jinping Wu, Yuefa Hu, Lishuang Wang, Zuyang Zhu, Jintai Mi
  • Patent number: 11914889
    Abstract: A current cycle count associated with a memory sub-system is determined. The current cycle count is compared to a set of cycle count threshold levels to determine a current lifecycle stage of the memory sub-system. A temperature associated with the memory sub-system is measured. The temperature is compared to a set of temperature levels to determine a current temperature level of the memory sub-system. A write-to-read delay time corresponding to the current lifecycle stage and the current temperature level is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Murong Lang, Tingjun Xie, Wei Wang, Frederick Adi, Zhenming Zhou, Jiangli Zhu
  • Patent number: 11912814
    Abstract: A preparation method of a flexible polyurethane foam includes the following steps of: (1) subjecting an epoxidized vegetable oil, a benzoylformic acid, a basic catalyst, and an inert solvent to a ring-opening reaction in a first microchannel reactor of a microchannel reaction device to obtain a vegetable oil polyol; (2) subjecting the vegetable oil polyol obtained in the step (1), a propylene oxide and an inert solvent to an addition polymerization reaction in a second microchannel reactor of the microchannel reaction device to obtain a vegetable oil polyol for flexible polyurethane foam; and (3) using the vegetable oil polyol for flexible polyurethane foam obtained in the step (2) as the unique polyol, and subjecting the same and an isocyanate polyol to a foaming reaction to obtain the flexible polyurethane foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kai Guo, Zheng Fang, Junjie Tao, Wei He, Chengkou Liu, Jindian Duan, Xin Li, Ning Zhu, Jiangkai Qiu, Shiyu Guo, Pingkai Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11912729
    Abstract: Provided are a boron-silicon heterocyclic compound having a structure represented by formula 1, a display device and a display apparatus. In formula 1, L1 and L2 are each a single bond, C6-C30 arylene, C6-C30 fused arylene, C4-C30 heteroarylene, or C4-C30 fused heteroarylene; D1 and D2 are each a substituted or unsubstituted C6-C60 aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted C4-C60 heteroaryl, a substituted or unsubstituted C10-C60 fused aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted C8-C30 fused heteroaryl, or a substituted or unsubstituted diphenylamino. The compound has a strong inductive effect and can reduce the driving voltage of the device. The silacyclopentadiene having a silicon atom as spiro-atom can effectively improve the solubility of the material, which is beneficial to the cleaning of the vapor deposition mask. In addition, the compound has a higher triplet energy level to effectively transfer energy to the luminous body, and improves the efficiency of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Wei Gao, Jinghua Niu, Ying Liu, Dongyang Deng, Yan Lu, Hongyan Zhu, Xia Li
  • Patent number: 11913085
    Abstract: A method for preparing a press-hardened steel component is provided. The method includes forming a heated blank by heating a steel alloy blank to a first temperature in a first zone of a furnace having two or more zones, and after the heating of the steel alloy blank to the first temperature, heating the steel alloy blank to a second temperature in a second zone of the furnace. The second temperature is greater than the first temperature. The first zone has a first flow rate for a protective gas, and the second zone has a second flow rate for the protective gas that is greater than the first flow rate. The method further includes stamping and quenching the heated blank at a constant rate to a temperature between a martensite finish temperature of the steel alloy defining the steel alloy blank and room temperature to form the press-hardened steel component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Northeastern University
    Inventors: Zhisong Chai, Tingdong Ren, Jinlong Zhu, Wei Xu, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11907329
    Abstract: A convolution calculation apparatus applied for convolution calculation of a convolution layer includes a decompression circuit, a data combination circuit and a calculation circuit. The decompression circuit decompresses compressed weighting data of a convolution kernel of the convolution layer to generate decompressed weighting data. The data combination circuit combines the decompressed weighting data and non-compressed data of the convolution kernel to restore a data order of weighting data of the convolution kernel. The calculation circuit performs calculation according to the weighting data of the convolution kernel and input data of the convolution layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Fabo Bao, Donghao Liu, Wei Zhu, Chengwei Zheng
  • Patent number: 11902740
    Abstract: A piezoelectric microphone, includes: a wafer substrate including a cavity; a plurality of cantilever beams with a piezoelectric deck structure; a fixed column; a plurality of flexible elastic members; and a connecting section. The plurality of cantilever beams each includes a fixed end and a free end suspended above the cavity. The plurality of cantilever beams is of a structure in which one end is narrow and the other end is wide, and the fixed end is relatively narrow. The fixed column is disposed at the center of the bottom surface of the cavity. The fixed ends of the plurality of cantilever beams are all connected to the top surface of the fixed column. A gap is provided between every two adjacent cantilever beams. The plurality of flexible elastic members is connected to free ends of two adjacent cantilever beams to enable the cantilever beams to vibrate synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan MEMSonics Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chengliang Sun, Bohao Hu, Binghui Lin, Zhipeng Wu, Wei Zhu, Lei Wang, Yu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11883148
    Abstract: A system and method for performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), or magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging (MRSI) at multiple resonant frequencies using a coil system. The coil system includes at least one conductive loop and a capacitor forming a radiofrequency (RF) resonant antenna and a tuning-matching circuit electrically connected to the RF resonant antenna to operate at multiple resonant frequencies across a desired operational range. The coil system also includes two legs electrically connecting the tuning-matching circuit to the RF resonant antenna and having a length selected to generate at least two selected resonant frequencies with a selected frequency difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Guangle Zhang, Wei Zhu, Xiao-Hong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11873292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the fields of medicinal chemistry and pharmacotherapy, and specifically relates to the chemical compound of formula (I), and its racemate, R-isomer, S-isomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and mixtures thereof, as well as its method for preparation, a pharmaceutical composition containing said chemical compound, and use as a lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD 1) inhibitor. The cyclopropylamine chemical compound to which the present invention relates may be used in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Jia Li, Wei Zhu, Yubo Zhou, Jiang Wang, Mingbo Su, Shuni Wang, Wei Xu, Chunpu Li, Weijuan Kan, Hualiang Jiang, Kaixian Chen
  • Patent number: 11871672
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for fabricating 3D piezoelectric materials. In one aspect, a method includes photopolymerizing a selected portion of a two dimensional plane in a sample of a photolabile polymer solution containing piezoelectric nanoparticles to form a layer of a piezoelectric material, the photopolymerizing including directing light from a light source based on a pattern design in the selected portion of the photolabile polymer solution; and moving one or both of the sample and the directed light to photopolymerize another selected portion of another two dimensional plane in the sample to form another layer of the piezoelectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Donald J. Sirbuly, Shaochen Chen, Kanguk Kim, Wei Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230415035
    Abstract: A method for implementing an HTML5-based motion sensing game includes: in response to determining, upon a client is started, that a main program of the HTML5-based motion sensing game is not buffered locally in a user terminal, the client establishing web-view communication with the main program in a server; the client obtaining user's motion pose data from the user terminal and converting the motion pose data into a game operation instruction based on a preset algorithm; the client sending the game operation instruction to the server for execution thereof; the client buffering the main program from the server to the user terminal locally while accessing the main program in the server; and in response to determining that the buffering of the main program cache is completed, the client disconnecting from the server and accessing the main program locally to send the game operation instruction thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Shenzhen Shimi Network Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei ZHU, Jun LI
  • Publication number: 20230385084
    Abstract: A display device control method includes when an operation on an on-screen display (OSD) input device is received, determining whether a signal generated by operating the OSD input device is currently sent to an OSD system or an operating system (OS); and when the signal generated by operating the OSD input device is currently sent to the OS-system, switching, according to a control signal generated by the OSD input device, the control signal from being sent to the OSD system to being sent to the OS-system. This application further provides a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhu, Xingyang Sun, Li Fu, Qinghai Liang, Chiahsing Chung
  • Patent number: 11826779
    Abstract: Wet-on-wet coating processes are provided to produce multilayer articles. First and second coating materials are sequentially applied on to a structured substrate surface to form a skin layer directly over the structured substrate surface and a bulk layer over the skin layer. The conformability of the skin layer can be adjusted to provide desired surface and bulk properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Brittni M. Schiewer, Eric A. Vandre, Chris A. Pommer, Kara A. Meyers, Anish Kurian, Michelle Ji, Hyacinth L Lechuga, Ross E. Behling, Dong-Wei Zhu, Robert B. Secor, Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
  • Publication number: 20230369920
    Abstract: A motor component, a motor and a motor vehicle are disclosed. The motor component has a body extending along a rotation axis of the motor, the body being formed by a set of laminations, and an axially extending cavity being provided on the body; and wherein at least one elongated lamination-holding component is provided in the body, and the lamination-holding component is inserted into the axially extending cavity and is coupled to the body inside the axially extending cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Automotive ePowertrain Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huafeng MAO, Renlong YING, Xuehua ZHANG, Wei ZHU, Robin BUESCH, Andreas ECKERT
  • Publication number: 20230352277
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate retainer for retaining a substrate thereon, and a ring assembly including an upper ring which has a plurality of upper ring segments that are angularly displaced from each other. Each of the upper ring segments is movable between an inner position and an outer position so as to adjust a gap between an outer periphery of the substrate and an inner edge of each of the upper ring segments when the substrate is retained on the substrate retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Zi-Wei ZHU, Shao-Yong CHEN