Patents by Inventor Xiaodong Cao

Xiaodong Cao 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: 11217219
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for preparing a sound-absorbing member and a sound-absorbing member. The method for preparing a sound-absorbing member includes: providing non-foaming sound-absorbing material powder and a foaming material; uniformly mixing the non-foaming sound-absorbing material powder with the foaming material and adding an auxiliary to form a sound-absorbing mixture; and foaming the sound-absorbing mixture to form foam with cells, wherein the non-foaming sound-absorbing material powder adheres to a surface and the cells of the foam. The foamed sound-absorbing material powder and the foam constitute a sound-absorbing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
  • Publication number: 20210406284
    Abstract: A method of a power user classification based on distributed K-means, a storage medium and a classification device are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by N load aggregators, power consumption data of power users managed by respective load aggregators; performing, by each load aggregator, a normalization operation on time series load data of the power users managed by the load aggregator; forming a N×N dimensional adjacency matrix A; performing K-means clustering on normalized time series load data, to obtain the respective centroids and user groups characterized by the respective centroids; sharing, by the respective load aggregators, the centroids and the number of users under the respective centroids based on the adjacency matrix A, and obtaining consistent centroids by multiple load aggregators; after an overall iteration ends, obtaining, by the respective load aggregators, the consistent centroids consistent with the K-means centroid based on global data, to realize user classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Gengfeng LI, Yuxiong HUANG, Liyin ZHANG, Jiangfeng JIANG, Qirui QIU, Shihai YANG, Xingying CHEN, Xiaodong CAO, Kun YU
  • Publication number: 20210364562
    Abstract: Provided is a live measurement method for three-winding transformer loss based on windowed frequency shift. The method includes: step 1: providing an improved live calculation equation of a three-winding transformer loss; step 2: processing a collected x(t) signal by windowed frequency shift calculation; step 3: solving an amplitude and a phase of the collected x(t) signal via discrete Fourier transform of a frequency shift signal; and step 4: calculating a no-load loss and a load loss of a three-winding transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Qifeng HUANG, Xiaoquan LU, Shihai YANG, Mingming CHEN, Zhixin LI, Bo LI, Huiling SU, Xiaodong CAO, Yuqin CHEN, Hanmiao CHENG, Tianchang LIU, Yixuan HUANG, Kaijie FANG
  • Patent number: 11128950
    Abstract: Disclosed is a speaker module, comprising a module housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the module housing. The speaker unit partitions a module cavity encircled by the module housing into two cavities, namely a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity. A separator component is provided within the rear acoustic cavity. The separator component partitions the rear acoustic cavity into an accommodating cavity and a sound-absorbing cavity. The sound-absorbing cavity is filled with sound-absorbing particles. An antistatic material is added into the housing material of the module housing at where the sound-absorbing cavity is located, or the antistatic material is coated on the surface of the module housing at where the sound-absorbing cavity is located, and the antistatic material is either an electrically-conductive material or an antistatic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Cao, Jinli Liu
  • Patent number: 11107451
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a sound-adsorbing material and a sound-adsorbing material. The method includes the following steps: S1, preparing a non-foaming material slurry and mixing the slurry uniformly; S2, forming the non-foaming material slurry by using an oil column forming method to form wet granules; S3, drying the wet granules to form dry granules; and S4, roasting the dry granules to form sound-adsorbing material granules. The method has the advantages of simple operation and high reliability. The formed granules can have a uniform size, a smooth surface and high sphericity, and the granules are in contact with each other in points and piled up uniformly, which can reduce the bed resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
  • Publication number: 20210218113
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a polymer separator and preparation method thereof, and a lithium-ion battery including the polymer separator and preparation method thereof. The polymer separator includes a porous substrate, a hydrophilic blocking layer, and a porous polar polymer bonding layer. The hydrophilic blocking layer is disposed between the porous substrate and the porous polar polymer bonding layer. Pore walls in the porous polar polymer bonding layer are provided with node structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Lina JIN, Bowen XUAN, Xiaodong CAO, Jinxiang WU, Jun SHAN, Gang HU, Long HE
  • Patent number: 11028023
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for preparing mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles and mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles. The preparation method comprises the following steps. In step 1, sound-absorbing material powder and a templating agent are mixed with a binding agent and water to form sol slurry, the templating agent is an organic monomer or a linear polymer, and the templating agent has a purity greater than 95%. In step 2, the sol slurry is dropped into forming oil, and the droplets of the sol slurry are aged in the forming oil to form gel particles. In step 3, the gel particles are taken out from the forming oil and the gel particles are dried to form mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles. In step 4, the mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles are roasted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: GOERTEK, INC.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
  • Patent number: 10913167
    Abstract: A sealing arrangement for application in a robot joint. The sealing arrangement includes: a circular sealing assembly arranged between a swing and a base of the robot joint in a longitudinal direction, the circular sealing assembly defining a tubular cavity in a circumferential direction and having a gas inlet and a gas outlet; and an air channel coupled to the gas inlet and operable to continuously conduct pressured air flow into the cavity to maintain an air pressure inside the cavity above an air pressure outside the cavity, and thereby a high-speed airflow out of the gas outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Yuhong Gong, Xiaodong Cao, Yun Ha, Xinguo Fu, Linjian Liang
  • Patent number: 10889525
    Abstract: A sound absorption material preparation method, a sound absorption material and a filling method thereof. The preparation method comprises: S1, preparing a non-foaming material slurry; S2, producing a combustible material framework and a cover-shape container, and placing the combustible material framework into the cover-shape container; S3, forming the non-foamed material slurry in the cover-shape container to form a wet formed body; S4, drying the wet formed body to form a dry formed body; and S5, calcining the dry formed body, wherein the combustible material framework is burned off during the calcining step to form connected channels with a three-dimensional structure in the sound absorption material. The preparation method is simple in operation. Connected channels with a three-dimensional structure are formed in the sound absorption material so that the sound absorption effect is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
  • Publication number: 20200322684
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video recommendation method and a video recommendation apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium. The video recommendation method includes: acquiring a target short video; identifying, from candidate long videos, a target long video that the target short video is from based on a video fingerprint feature of the target short video and video fingerprint features of the candidate long videos; and recommending the target long video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Liqiang DONG, Xiaodong CAO, Xinwei YU, Guoqing CHEN, Chunxin JIA, Su WANG, Jinsheng CHEN, Xi ZENG, Xin ZHANG, Jiaqi JIANG, Zhenhua LIU, Yueyang SONG, Shilei WEN, Fu LI, Hao SUN, Xiao LIU, Lixing GONG, Tianbao YU, Feng LI, Fei LI, Junling ZHAO, Haiping WANG, Yan XIA, Chao LI, Xiu WEI, Qi GAO
  • Patent number: 10785586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of electroacoustic products, and discloses sound-absorbing material, sound-absorbing particle, speaker module manufacturing processes, a particle and a module. The process comprises the following steps: placing a raw powder of a porous sound-absorbing material into a heating furnace to perform calcination, and introducing a processing gas during the calcination, wherein the calcination temperature is 120° C. to 800° C., and the calcination time is 6 h to 72 h.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Jinli Liu, Xiaodong Cao
  • Patent number: 10682755
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an arm for a multi joint robot, and a multi joint robot. The arm is formed by a first half portion and a second half portion engaged with each other, an upper portion of each of the first and second half portions being provided with a protrusion, the protrusions being substantially parallel to each other, a lower portion of the first half portion being provided with a supporting member, the two half portions being engaged with each other via an engagement surface which is between the two protrusions, the shape of a lower portion of the second half portion matching the shape of an outer circumference of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Xiaodong Cao, Zhu Zhu, Jiajie Sha
  • Patent number: 10661437
    Abstract: A stopper apparatus for robot rotary joint, for limiting the rotation angle of a turning shaft. The stopper apparatus includes: a rotary protrusion, fixed to the shaft and extended from an outer circumference surface of the shaft; a ring-like orbit, fixed to a mounting housing of the robot rotary joint, inserting the shaft therein; a first slider and a second slider, rotatably accommodated in the orbit and able to push each other to rotate; a stop protrusion, fixed to the housing of a robot rotary joint and extended in the direction of the center of the shaft; the rotary protrusion is able to directly push the second slider to rotate, while it is not able to directly push the first slider to rotate; the shaft, the rotary protrusion and the second slider cannot be obstructed by the stop protrusion when rotate, while the first slider is able to be obstructed by the stop protrusion when rotate, thereby the relative rotation between the shaft and the housing can be stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jiajie Sha, Xiaodong Cao, Kaiyuan Cao, Yun Ha, Zhu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200161844
    Abstract: A flexible innerduct having a seam region and a chamber region, where the innerduct structure contains at least two flexible, longitudinal chambers, each chamber designed for enveloping at least one cable. The flexible innerduct comprises at least one strip of textile material, where each strip of textile material comprises a first edge and a second edge and extends in the longitudinal direction. All of the first and second edges of the strips are located in the seam region. Each strip of textile material extends outwards from the seam region, folds about a fold axis located in the chamber margin region and returns to the seam region forming a chamber. The chamber length, defined to be the distance between the seam region and the fold axis of the chamber, is different between at least two of the flexible, longitudinal chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Steven L. Bedingfield, Xiaodong Cao, Kai Chen, Jun Liu
  • Patent number: 10647009
    Abstract: The present application discloses a routing unit. A routing unit comprises a first rotation portion, a second rotation portion and one or more baffles; and the routing unit is divided into two or more spaces by the baffles, thereby each space is capable of respectively enclosing a single member therein; wherein the first rotation portion rotates with respect to the second rotation portion; and a first portion of each single member is connected to the first rotation portion and a second portion of each member is connected to the second rotation portion. The present application also provides a rotary joint comprising the routing unit and a robot comprising the rotary joint. Compared with the existing prior arts, embodiments of the proposed solution are compact, easy for assembly or disassembly, and enable a large rotation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Kaiyuan Cao, Jianqiang Jia, Xiaodong Cao, Huafeng Mao
  • Patent number: 10633295
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sound-absorbing material particle and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: step 1, mixing a sound-absorbing raw material with a templating agent and water to prepare a sound-absorbing slurry, filling a reaction kettle with a porous ceramic substrate and the sound-absorbing slurry that are mixed together; step 2, performing hydrothermal crystallization in the reaction kettle to ensure that the sound-absorbing raw material is crystallized on the porous ceramic substrate and constitutes the sound-absorbing material particle together with the porous ceramic substrate; step 3, performing solid-liquid separation on the materials in the reaction kettle; and step 4, drying and roasting the sound-absorbing material particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Goertek, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
  • Patent number: 10632630
    Abstract: A robot joint and a robot using the robot joint is provided. The robot joint includes a first part and a second part configured to be rotatable with each other around a joint axis. A flexible printed circuit board is further included with a first fixing point and a second fixing point respectively fastened to the first part and the second part. The flexible printed circuit board is spiral-shaped prior to bending. With the relative rotation of the first part and the second part, the flexible printed circuit board is bent at various bending portions. This makes the robot joint more compact with a larger rotation range and a long lifetime in a cost effective way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Kaiyuan Cao, Xiaodong Cao, Yun Ha, Zhu Zhu, Jiajie Sha
  • Patent number: 10609471
    Abstract: The invention provides a speaker module and a sound-adsorbing material, comprising: a housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the housing, wherein the speaker unit separates a cavity formed by the housing into a front sound cavity and a rear sound cavity; the rear sound cavity is filled with a sound-adsorbing material; and heteroatoms are doped in a crystal structure of the sound-adsorbing material. The application of the above invention can reduce the adsorption of alien molecules by the sound-adsorbing material inside the speaker module, and even reject the alien molecules, thereby ensuring the long-term effectiveness of the sound-adsorbing material and improving the stability of the acoustic performance of the speaker module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
  • Patent number: 10603801
    Abstract: The present application discloses a protection apparatus. The protection apparatus is connected to an end effector which includes a casting, a fixed part fixed to the casting, a rotational part rotatable relative to the fixed part, and a sealing part provided in a circumference of the rotational part. The protection apparatus comprises a cover, an annular elastically deformable sealing member and a fixing member; the sealing member is partly accommodated between the cover and the rotational part; the cover is attached to the fixed part, the cover being adapted to cover the exterior of the fixed part by the fixing member, so as to prevent the fixed part from being exposed to an exterior; and the cover and the sealing member are configured to jointly cover the sealing part to prevent the sealing part from being exposed to an exterior. The present invention also provides an end effector and a robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Zhu Zhu, Xiaodong Cao, Yun Ha, Kaiyuan Cao
  • Patent number: 10567869
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sound-absorbing component, comprising a housing and sound-absorbing particles filled in the housing. An antistatic material is added to the materials from which the housing is made, or the antistatic material is coated on the surface of the housing. Also disclosed is a speaker module applying the sound-absorbing component. The sound-absorbing component of the present invention greatly increases the fill rate of the sound-absorbing particles in the housing, thus allowing the space of the rear acoustic cavity of the speaker module applying the sound-absorbing component to be fully utilized, and allowing the sound-absorbing particles to fully exert the effects thereof in improving the acoustic properties of the speaker module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Cao, Jinli Liu