Patents by Inventor Wenchao Zhou
Wenchao Zhou 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).
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Publication number: 20240132152Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-learning collaborative control method for active steering and yaw moment for a motor vehicle, including a first step of constructing fundamental formulas which are stored in a vehicle ECU, and a second step of calculating an active steering angle ?C and a yaw moment Mc on line by the vehicle ECU according to following sub-steps during a driving process of the motor vehicle, and controlling a driving state of the motor vehicle according to ?C and Mc. The second step includes a first sub-step of collecting raw real-time parameter values, a second sub-step of performing calculation by the identifier and the control target reference model, a third sub-step of calculating ?C and Mc. The present disclosure can realize the self-learning collaborative control of active steering and yaw moment without requiring a system control model and correct a driver's steering operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Zhijun Fu, Yaohua Guo, Dengfeng Zhao, Jinquan Ding, Chaohui Liu, Wenbin He, Wenchao Yang, Lei Yao, Fang Zhou, Hui Wang, Wuyi Ming
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Publication number: 20240132747Abstract: A coated substrate comprising a coating extending over at least a part of the substrate. The coating is obtainable from a coating composition comprising (a) a polymeric binder; and (b) a feathering reducing agent comprising a carboxylic acid reactive functional group. The coated portion of the substrate comprises a pretreatment layer. The pretreatment layer is obtainable from a pretreatment composition that comprises a trivalent chromium compound. The invention extends to a method of coating a pre-treated substrate and a coated package, such as a metal can.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Adam Bradley Powell, Jr., Elzen Kurpejovic, Fengshuo Hu, Carl A. Seneker, Wenchao Zhang, Hongying Zhou, Edward R. Millero, Jr., Dennis A. Simpson, Michael G. Olah, Rudolf Baumgarten, Kareem Kaleem, Nigel F Masters, William H. Retsch, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240109249Abstract: A 3D printer for printing continuous carbon fibers comprising a mechanical system and control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Yadong Chen
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Publication number: 20240101860Abstract: A coating composition comprising (a) a polyester binder material; and (b) a feathering reducing agent. The feathering reducing agent is selected from (i) an acrylic feathering reducing agent comprising a functional group selected from hydroxyl, epoxide, phosphatized epoxide and/or acid-functional; (ii) a hydroxy-functional polyester feathering reducing agent; (iii) a feathering reducing agent comprising a functional group selected from amine, amide, imine and/or nitrile; (iv) a phosphatized epoxy feathering reducing agent; (v) a phenolic resin feathering reducing agent; and/or (vi) a feathering reducing agent comprising an oxazolyl functional group. The invention extends to a substrate coated with the coating composition and use of the coating composition to reduce feathering.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Adam Bradley Powell, Jr., Elzen Kurpejovic, Fengshuo Hu, Carl A. Seneker, Wenchao Zhang, Hongying Zhou, Edward R. Millero, Jr., Dennis A. Simpson, Michael G. Olah, Rudolf Baumgarten, Kareem Kaleem, Nigel F Masters, William H. Retsch, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240071607Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a medical ETL task dispatching method, system and apparatus based on multiple centers. The method includes following steps: step S1: testing and verifying ETL tasks; step S2: deploying the ETL tasks to a hospital center, and dispatching the ETL tasks to a plurality of executors for execution; step S3: screening an executor set meeting resource demands of ETL tasks to be dispatched; step S4: calculating a current task load of each executor in the executor set; step S5: selecting the executor with a minimum current task load to execute the ETL tasks; and step S6: selecting, by the dispatching machine, the ETL tasks from executor active queues according to a priority for execution. The present disclosure selects the most suitable executor by analyzing a serving index as a task to be dispatched on a current dispatching machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Jingsong LI, Wenchao XIANG, Guangyuan DENG, Tianshu ZHOU, Yu TIAN
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Publication number: 20230410393Abstract: A method for graph drawing includes: performing graph drawing on a graphical user interface in response to a first touch operation on the graphical user interface, wherein the first touch operation comprises a sliding operation; obtaining a second touch operation on the graphical user interface in response to a dwelling action of the sliding operation; adjusting a drawing parameter and/or switching a drawing function in response to the second touch operation; and continuing to perform the graph drawing on the graphical user interface using the drawing parameter being adjusted and/or the drawing function being switched according to the first touch operation in response to ending of the second touch operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenchao ZHOU
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Patent number: 11717752Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a virtual camera in a game are disclosed. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a virtual camera is controlled to shift in response to a first touch operation for a visual field control area, the virtual camera is controlled, in response to the ending of the first touch operation, to return from a second position to a first position, a game operation instruction is received during the returning process, and a corresponding action is performed in response to the game operation instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenchao Zhou, Kun Shao
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Patent number: 11718041Abstract: A 3-D printing system comprising a plurality of printers. The printers are motorized to allow movement in X and Y directions or to rotate freely. Each printer may have one or more printheads. Also provided is a surface independent from said printers adapted to receive a printed object.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Board Of Trustees Of The University Of ArkansasInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Lucas Galvan Marques, Robert Austin Williams
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Publication number: 20230120878Abstract: The present invention provides a swarm manufacturing platform, based on a swarm 3D printing and assembly (SPA) platform as a model for future smart factories, consisting of thousands of IoT-based mobile robots performing different manufacturing operations with different end effectors (e.g., material deposition, energy deposition, pick and place, removal of materials, screw driving, etc.) and real-time monitoring. The swarm manufacturing platform transforms a 1-D factory into a 2-D factory with manufacturing robots that can move across the 2-D factory floor, work cooperatively with each other on the same production jobs, and re-configure in real-time (i.e., the manufacturing robots can be digitally controlled to move, re-group, calibrate, and work on a new job in real-time).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Marques Lucas, Zachary Hyden, Pablo Guerra
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Patent number: 11602690Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a virtual camera in a game are disclosed. In the present disclosure, it is detected whether a movement of a virtual character toward a first direction satisfies a preset condition, when the preset condition is satisfied, a shifting direction of the virtual camera is determined, and the virtual camera is controlled to shift toward the shifting direction while moving according to a change of position of the virtual character, thereby a game scene image captured by the shifted virtual camera is displayed on a Graphical User Interface (GUI).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenchao Zhou, Kun Shao
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Publication number: 20220250315Abstract: A system and method that enables 3D printing of ballistics gel and other low melting point materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Edidiong Nseowo Udofia, Brian Luttrell, Robert Jacobson, Sameer Kulkarni, Salman Khalid, John Bardsley
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Publication number: 20220143911Abstract: A system that uses autonomous robots for 3D manufacturing an object where the robots have different tool heads for performing different manufacturing operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Lucas Galvan Marques, Zachary Hyden
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Publication number: 20220143910Abstract: A 3D printer comprising a pump, stepper motor adapted to drive the pump and a printing arm connected to a curing source and nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Casey Trent Lindbloom
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Patent number: 11318384Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a virtual camera in a game are disclosed. In the present application, a virtual camera is controlled to shift in response to a first touch operation for a visual field control region, and the virtual camera is controlled to enter a locked state according to a locking operation, thereby locking a game scene captured by the shifted virtual camera as a game scene rendered on a graphical user interface until restoring to control the movement of the virtual camera according to the position change of a virtual character when the locked state is unlocked.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenchao Zhou, Kun Shao
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Publication number: 20220088926Abstract: A system and method for selective heating and/or sintering of a material including first and second substrates, an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of a substrate and material to be heated located on the other substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Austin Van Horn, Nicholas Holt, Lucas Galvan Marques
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Publication number: 20220063203Abstract: A 3-D printing system comprising a plurality of printers. The printers are motorized to allow movement in X and Y directions or to rotate freely. Each printer may have one or more printheads. Also provided is a surface independent from said printers adapted to receive a printed object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Lucas Galvan Marques, Robert Austin Williams
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Publication number: 20220055298Abstract: A 3D printer for printing continuous carbon fibers comprising a mechanical system and control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Yadong Chen
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Patent number: 11256943Abstract: A method and an apparatus for verifying an identity document, an electronic device, and a storage medium include: collecting an identity document image of a current identity document by means of a first camera; recognizing characters in the identity document image to obtain first identity document data; obtaining second identity document data of the identity document by means of an identity document reader; and verifying authenticity of the identity document according to the first identity document data and the second identity document data.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Miaoran Xu, Zhongfu Zhang, Zhonghua She, Xubo Xiang, Kun Ma, Wenchao Zhou
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Patent number: 11247462Abstract: A system and method for selective heating and/or sintering of a material including first and second substrates, an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of a substrate and material to be heated located on the other substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of ArkansasInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Austin Van Horn, Nicholas Holt, Lucas Galvan Marques
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Patent number: 11235523Abstract: A 3D printer comprising a pump, stepper motor adapted to drive the pump and a printing arm connected to a curing source and nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of ArkansasInventors: Casey Trent Lindbloom, Wenchao Zhou