Patents by Inventor Xiaochen ZHANG

Xiaochen 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: 11245337
    Abstract: A switch circuit includes n switching elements (n?2) connected in series between an input node and an output node. A control device is configured to convert DC power in a power storage device into AC power synchronized with AC power supplied from an AC power supply during a normal state and supply the AC power to the output node, by controlling a power converter, when an abnormality of at least one of the AC power supply and the switch circuit is sensed in a state where the control device outputs conduction commands for the n switching elements. The control device is further configured to produce cutoff commands for cutting off the n switching elements during execution of power conversion in the power converter, and sense a cutoff abnormality of the switch circuit based on terminal-to-terminal voltages of the n switching elements during production of the cutoff commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaochen Zhang, Toshihide Nakano
  • Publication number: 20210264584
    Abstract: A gas monitoring image recording device, a gas monitoring image recording method, and a gas monitoring image recording program according to the present invention involve: acquiring gas monitoring image data including a plurality of time-series images for use in monitoring a gas leak; extracting a leakage candidate area as a candidate for a gas leak based on the gas monitoring image data acquired; extracting predetermined features related to the gas leak in response to extracting the leakage candidate area; and causing a storage unit to store the features extracted in association with the gas monitoring image data from which the leakage candidate area has been extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaochen ZHANG, Shoji KOTANI
  • Publication number: 20210242770
    Abstract: The uninterruptible power supply device includes a switch (2) that includes first to Nth IGBT units (U1 to UN) connected in series, and a controller that turns on the switch by turning on the first to Nth IGBT units, and turns off the switch by firstly turning off the first to nth IGBT units and then turning off the (n+1)th to Nth IGBT units. Compared with the case where the first to Nth IGBT units are turned off at the same time, it is possible to reduce a surge voltage generated between the terminals of the switch (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaochen ZHANG, Toshihide NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210140775
    Abstract: Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for classifying vehicle vocation and benchmarking vehicle performance relative to other vehicles of the same vocation are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Javed Siddique, Robert Bradley, Xiaochen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210142596
    Abstract: Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for classifying vehicle vocation and benchmarking vehicle performance relative to other vehicles of the same vocation are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Javed Siddique, Robert Bradley, Xiaochen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210142595
    Abstract: Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for classifying vehicle vocation and benchmarking vehicle performance relative to other vehicles of the same vocation are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Javed Siddique, Robert Bradley, Xiaochen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210057997
    Abstract: A switch circuit includes n switching elements (n?2) connected in series between an input node and an output node. A control device is configured to convert DC power in a power storage device into AC power synchronized with AC power supplied from an AC power supply during a normal state and supply the AC power to the output node, by controlling a power converter, when an abnormality of at least one of the AC power supply and the switch circuit is sensed in a state where the control device outputs conduction commands for the n switching elements. The control device is further configured to produce cutoff commands for cutting off the n switching elements during execution of power conversion in the power converter, and sense a cutoff abnormality of the switch circuit based on terminal-to-terminal voltages of the n switching elements during production of the cutoff commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaochen ZHANG, Toshihide NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10928277
    Abstract: Automatic classifying vehicles by vocation and benchmarking vehicle performance relative to other vehicles of the same vocation are disclosed. Vehicles having a same vocation relative to each other and independent of vehicle fleet, industry vehicle application and vehicle type are benchmarked. Historical vehicle data that includes recurring vehicle usage data is stored. Using a learned trained classifier for each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, a predicted vocation based on vehicle usage data may be obtained. A grouping based on the predicted vocations and the historical vehicle data is made. A determination from the benchmarked vehicles having better performance characteristics than other vehicles of the same predicted vocations is made. Performance of the other vehicles relative to benchmarking vehicles is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Javed Siddique, Robert Bradley, Xiaochen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210039343
    Abstract: The invention discloses a tire building device and a tire building method. The tire building device includes a lateral-longitudinal-orthogonal 1 rail unit, a transferring ring, a carcass application unit, a bead placement unit, a belt application unit, a building unit, a shaping unit, and a tire unloading mechanism; the lateral and longitudinal orthogonal rail unit divides the tire building device into four areas, and also establishes the connection between the units through the transferring ring. The tire building method, including: 1) adhere the bead and tire carcass compound and then sent to the building unit; 2) send the belt compound to the building unit, 3) compound the carcass compound and belt compound into a carcass and sent to the shaping unit; 4) wind the carcass around the tread to form a green tire and sends it to the tire unloading mechanism for disassembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaochen ZHANG, Bo SUN, Songting YANG, Jian LI, Tao RONG, Peng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10916127
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320863
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320862
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320865
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320861
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320868
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to defining a road network used by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be employed for identifying portions of the road network via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320866
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to defining a road network used by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be employed for identifying portions of the road network via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200320867
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to defining a road network used by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be employed for identifying portions of the road network via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10739226
    Abstract: This gas leak position estimation device is provided with a specifying unit and a first determination unit. The specifying unit specifies a gas region image indicating a region in which the gas hangs in an image obtained by photographing a monitoring region. The first determination unit determines a pixel indicating a gas leak estimated position estimated to be a position at which the gas is leaking out from a plurality of pixels constituting an outline of the gas region image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaochen Zhang, Motohiro Asano, Toshitsugu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10699564
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Lewis, Xiaochen Zhang, Brenda Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20190249383
    Abstract: An example high pressure ice-breaking machine with a double row of wheels comprises: a frame, a plurality of wheels, and a plurality of spring mechanisms. The plurality of wheels comprises: a front ice-breaking wheel group and a rear ice-breaking wheel group. The plurality of wheels include a total of two rows of wheels, which include a front ice-breaking wheel group and a rear ice-breaking wheel group. The plurality of wheels are positioned horizontally under the frame. The front ice-breaking wheel group and the rear ice-breaking wheel group include a same number of wheels. The two rows of wheels are staggered in double rows from front to back. A first ice-breaking wheel from the front ice-breaking wheel group and a second ice-breaking wheel from the rear ice-breaking wheel group form a staggered wheel pair, and the first ice-breaking wheel and the first ice-breaking wheel are hinged to a same spring mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Snow Lion
    Inventors: Xiaochen Zhang, Mingju Zhang