Patents by Inventor Xiaobing Xie
Xiaobing Xie 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: 20190071794Abstract: Example systems are described for producing solar grade silicon from a silicon-generating reaction and recycled silicon particles. In one example, a system for manufacturing high purity solid silicon includes a reactor and a cooling chamber. The reactor includes one or more outlets and a reactor chamber. The one or more outlets are configured to receive a silicon tetrahalide, a reducing agent, and recycled silicon particles. The reactor chamber is configured to react the silicon tetrahalide and the reducing agent to produce fresh silicon, a halide salt, and reaction heat. The reactor chamber heats the recycled silicon particles, the fresh silicon, and the halide salt using at least a portion of the reaction heat to form molten silicon and molten halide salt. The molten silicon includes melted fresh silicon and melted recycled silicon particles. The cooling chamber is configured to cool the molten silicon to form the solid silicon.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Jordi Perez Mariano, Angel Sanjurjo, Xiaobing Xie, Anoop Nagar, Marc Hornbostel
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Patent number: 9101896Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates generally to a method for thermally decomposing a complex precursor salt. In one embodiment, the method includes heating a salt in a reactor until a molten salt is formed, adding the complex precursor salt to the molten salt in the reactor and removing a volatile precursor halide formed from thermal decomposition of the complex precursor salt from the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: SRI INTERNATIONALInventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Marc Hornbostel, Xiaobing Xie, Lorenza Moro, Jordi Perez Mariano, Gopala N. Krishnan
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Patent number: 8903965Abstract: Embodiments disclose re-generating a configuration command of a network device. A method includes receiving a request to re-generate a configuration command previously issued to a network device, wherein the configuration command has one or more parameters; retrieving a template and a pattern associated with the configuration command, wherein the template represents a syntax for the configuration command, wherein the pattern represents a storage location for the configuration command; based on the pattern, retrieving from an object database all objects containing values for all the particular parameters from the storage location specified by the pattern; and creating a re-generated configuration command by substituting the values of the retrieved objects into the template.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Albert Meng Fong, Xiaobing Xie
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Patent number: 8709370Abstract: The present invention relates generally to production of a fluoride gas and equivalents thereof, and fluorine-doped sodium silicate glass, glass ceramics, vitro ceramics and equivalents thereof. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a salt and an oxide in a reactor, heating the reactor to produce a vapor and the vitro ceramic and removing the vapor.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Gopala Krishnan
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Patent number: 8475540Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates generally to a multi-stage system for performing melt coalescence and separation, the multi-stage system. In one embodiment, the multi-stage system includes a first container for mixing a powder with a salt, the first container having an opening, a heating means coupled to the first container for heating the first container and a second container coupled to the first container.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Lorenza Moro, Jordi Perez Mariano, Gopala N. Krishnan, Marc Hornbostel, Anoop Nagar
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Publication number: 20120009116Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates generally to a method for thermally decomposing a complex precursor salt. In one embodiment, the method includes heating a salt in a reactor until a molten salt is formed, adding the complex precursor salt to the molten salt in the reactor and removing a volatile precursor halide formed from thermal decomposition of the complex precursor salt from the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: ANGEL SANJURJO, Kai-Hung LAU, Marc HORNBOSTEL, Xiaobing XIE, Lorenza MORO, Jordi Perez MARIANO, Gopala N. KRISHNAN
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Patent number: 8090806Abstract: A method and apparatus for modifying the configuration of a network device, such as a router, using a two-stage configuration model is provided. A first request for a change in configuration of a network device is received. Configuration data that describes the change in configuration of the network device is stored in a buffer. A second request to modify the current operational state of the network device to reflect the configuration data stored in the buffer is received. An exclusive lock on the network device is obtained. The current operational state of the network device is modified to reflect the configuration data stored in the buffer. Multiple users may modify the network device without interfering with one another because conflicts are avoided through use of an exclusive lock. Requests of different management operations may be contained within XML documents that are transmitted from the client to the network device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mark A. Freskos, Michelle D. Hawke, Dhanendra Jain, Kapil Jain, Charles M. Letchworth, Neal McDonnell, Yassin Movassaghi, Sukumar Puvvala, Xiaobing Xie, David D. Ward
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Publication number: 20110225273Abstract: Embodiments disclose re-generating a configuration command of a network device. A method includes receiving a request to re-generate a configuration command previously issued to a network device, wherein the configuration command has one or more parameters; retrieving a template and a pattern associated with the configuration command, wherein the template represents a syntax for the configuration command, wherein the pattern represents a storage location for the configuration command; based on the pattern, retrieving from an object database all objects containing values for all the particular parameters from the storage location specified by the pattern; and creating a re-generated configuration command by substituting the values of the retrieved objects into the template.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventors: Albert Meng Fong, Xiaobing Xie
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Patent number: 7959707Abstract: Aspects of the invention include methods for producing purified semiconductor or metallic materials. In one embodiment, the methods include admixing a particulate composition of a material, for instance, a metal, with a metal halide to produce a metal-metal halide admixture. The admixture is then heated to a temperature that is above the material's melting point in a container that is chemically and physically stable at that temperature. The molten admixture is allowed to segregate into a lower of the material and an layer of the metal halide and cooled. The metal halide is then separated from the material and a purified semiconductor or metallic material is thereby produced. Also provided are purified material crystals, shaped ingots and/or taper, sheet, or ribbons produced by such methods, as well as the silicon chips and solar panels in which such products are employed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Anoop Nagar
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Patent number: 7949734Abstract: A method is disclosed for re-generating a configuration command of a network device. A method includes receiving a request to re-generate a configuration command previously issued to a network device, wherein the configuration command has one or more parameters; retrieving a template and a pattern associated with the configuration command, wherein the template represents a syntax for the configuration command, wherein the pattern represents a storage location for the configuration command; based on the pattern, retrieving from an object database all objects containing values for all the particular parameters from the storage location specified by the pattern; and creating a re-generated configuration command by substituting the values of the retrieved objects into the template.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2004Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Albert Meng Fong, Xiaobing Xie
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Patent number: 7947116Abstract: A method for separating a hydrogen-rich product stream from a feed stream comprising hydrogen and at least one carbon-containing gas, comprising feeding the feed stream, at an inlet pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and a temperature greater than 200° C., to a hydrogen separation membrane system comprising a membrane that is selectively permeable to hydrogen, and producing a hydrogen-rich permeate product stream on the permeate side of the membrane and a carbon dioxide-rich product raffinate stream on the raffinate side of the membrane. A method for separating a hydrogen-rich product stream from a feed stream comprising hydrogen and at least one carbon-containing gas, comprising feeding the feed stream, at an inlet pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and a temperature greater than 200° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Eltron Research & Development, Inc.Inventors: Michael Mundschau, Xiaobing Xie, Carl Evenson, IV, Paul Grimmer, Harold Wright
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Publication number: 20110038779Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates generally to a multi-stage system for performing melt coalescence and separation, the multi-stage system. In one embodiment, the multi-stage system includes a first container for mixing a powder with a salt, the first container having an opening, a heating means coupled to the first container for heating the first container and a second container coupled to the first container.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Lorenza Moro, Jordi Perez Mariano, Gopala N. Krishnan, Marc Hornbostel, Anoop Nagar
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Publication number: 20110008235Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates generally to a method for reutilizing ionic halides in a production of an elemental material. In one embodiment, the method includes reacting a mixture of an ionic halide, at least one of: an oxide, suboxide or an oxyhalide of an element to be produced and an aqueous acid solution at moderate temperature to form a complex precursor salt and a salt, forming a precursor halide from the complex precursor salt, reducing the precursor halide into the element to be produced and the ionic halide and returning the ionic halide into the mixture of the reacting step.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Lorenza Moro, Jordi Perez Mariano, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Anoop Nagar, Marc Hornbostel, Gopala N. Krishnan
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Publication number: 20100103765Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a liquid injector for silicon production. In one embodiment, the injector includes a tube having at least one opening at a first end of said tube, a moveable sealing means disposed inside the tube for sealing the at least one opening and a heating means coupled to the tube for controlling a temperature of a liquid exiting the tube through the at least one opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: MARC D. HORNBOSTEL, Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Gopala N. Krishnan, Anoop Nagar, Lorenza Moro, Jordi Perez Mariano, Xiaobing Xie, William C. Olson
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Publication number: 20100056353Abstract: The present invention relates generally to production of a fluoride gas and equivalents thereof, and fluorine-doped sodium silicate glass, glass ceramics, vitro ceramics and equivalents thereof. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a salt and an oxide in a reactor, heating the reactor to produce a vapor and the vitro ceramic and removing the vapor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Gopala Krishnan
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Publication number: 20080000350Abstract: A method for separating a hydrogen-rich product stream from a feed stream comprising hydrogen and at least one carbon-containing gas, comprising feeding the feed stream, at an inlet pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and a temperature greater than 200° C., to a hydrogen separation membrane system comprising a membrane that is selectively permeable to hydrogen, and producing a hydrogen-rich permeate product stream on the permeate side of the membrane and a carbon dioxide-rich product raffinate stream on the raffinate side of the membrane. A method for separating a hydrogen-rich product stream from a feed stream comprising hydrogen and at least one carbon-containing gas, comprising feeding the feed stream, at an inlet pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and a temperature greater than 200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2007Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: Eltron Research Inc.Inventors: Michael Mundschau, Xiaobing Xie, Carl Evenson, Paul Grimmer, Harold Wright
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Publication number: 20070266826Abstract: Aspects of the invention include methods for producing purified semiconductor or metallic materials. In one embodiment, the methods include admixing a particulate composition of a material, for instance, a metal, with a metal halide to produce a metal-metal halide admixture. The admixture is then heated to a temperature that is above the material's melting point in a container that is chemically and physically stable at that temperature. The molten admixture is allowed to segregate into a lower of the material and an layer of the metal halide and cooled. The metal halide is then separated from the material and a purified semiconductor or metallic material is thereby produced. Also provided are purified material crystals, shaped ingots and/or taper, sheet, or ribbons produced by such methods, as well as the silicon chips and solar panels in which such products are employed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kai-Hung Lau, Xiaobing Xie, Anoop Nagar
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Publication number: 20060230927Abstract: A method for separating hydrogen from a high pressure gas containing hydrogen and carbon dioxide using a vanadium/nickel alloy membrane having a palladium coating, the membrane containing from zero up to about 10 atomic percent nickel, and having a thickness of from about 75 to about 500 microns. The membrane is employed at a temperature of from about 300 to about 440° C., under a pressure of from about 250 to about 500 psia, and a hydrogen partial pressure gradient across the membrane is maintained to provide a hydrogen partial pressure on the permeate side of the membrane of from about 0.02 to about 2 psia.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Xiaobing Xie, Michael Mundschau
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Publication number: 20050241477Abstract: Composite hydrogen transport membranes used for extraction of hydrogen from gas mixtures are provided. Membranes are described comprising metals and metal alloys which exhibit high hydrogen permeability and which exhibit resistance to differential pressures across the membrane and wherein the metals and alloys are protected from embrittlement by hydrogen. Support materials of the membranes are selected in some cases to be lattice matched to the metals and alloys. In specific embodiments, membranes useful in the invention contain binary, ternary or quaternary alloys of vanadium which exhibit high hydrogen permeability and improved strength and/or longevity in application.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Michael Mundschau, Xiaobing Xie, Carl Evenson
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Patent number: 5872073Abstract: New amorphous molybdenum/tungsten sulfides with the general formula M.sup.n+.sub.2x/n (L.sub.6 S.sub.8)S.sub.x, where L is molybdenum or tungsten and M is a ternary metal, has been developed. Characterization of these amorphous materials by chemical and spectroscopic methods (IR, Raman, PES) shows that the (M.sub.6 S.sub.8).sup.0 cluster units are present. Vacuum thermolysis of the amorphous Na.sub.2x (Mo.sub.6 S.sub.8)S.sub.x .multidot.yMeOH first produces poorly crystalline NaMo.sub.6 S.sub.8 by disproportionation at 800.degree. C. and well-crystallized NaMo.sub.6 S.sub.8 at .gtoreq. 900.degree. C. Ion-exchange of the sodium material in methanol with soluble M.sup.2+ and M.sup.3+ salts (M=Sn, Co, Ni, Pb, La, Ho) produces the M.sup.n+.sub.2x/n (Mo.sub.6 S.sub.8)S.sub.x .multidot.yMeOH compounds. Additionally, the new reduced ternary molybdenum sulfides with the general formula M.sup.n+.sub.2x/n Mo.sub.6 S.sub.8+x (MeOH).sub.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1996Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of EnergyInventors: Shane J. Hilsenbeck, Robert E. McCarley, Glenn L. Schrader, Xiaobing Xie