Patents by Inventor Xiaohua Zhang

Xiaohua 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).

  • Publication number: 20250137529
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a gearbox assembly that includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3. The lubricant extraction volume ratio defined by: V G V GB . V G is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume. The gas turbine engine includes a lubrication system that includes a lubricant tank that stores lubricant, one or more primary gearbox lubricant supply lines, one or more secondary gearbox lubricant supply lines, and a lubricant pump for supplying the lubricant to the gearbox assembly through the primary gearbox lubricant supply lines and the secondary gearbox lubricant supply lines. The lubrication system modulates a mass flow rate of the lubricant to the gearbox assembly through the primary gearbox lubricant supply lines or the secondary gearbox lubricant supply lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach
  • Publication number: 20250122835
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, inclusive of the endpoints. The lubricant extraction volume ratio is defined by V G V GB . VG is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume of the gearbox. A gas turbine engine includes the gearbox assembly and a lubrication system. The lubrication system includes a tank that stores a lubricant therein, one or more lubricant pumps for generating a flow of lubricant from the tank to the gearbox assembly, and a flow rate control valve. The flow rate control valve has a flow inlet and a flow outlet and defines a variable throughput from the flow inlet to the flow outlet for controlling a flowrate of the lubricant to the gearbox assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach
  • Publication number: 20250122848
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3 that is defined by V G V G ? B . VG is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume. A gas turbine engine includes the gearbox assembly, a fan, a combustor that generates combustion gases, a turbine, a nacelle that surrounds the fan, and a steam system. The combustor and the turbine define a core air flowpath. Core air flows through the core air flowpath. The steam system that extracts water from the combustion gases, vaporizes the water to generate steam, and injects the steam into the core air flowpath to add mass flow to the core air. A bypass ratio of the gas turbine engine is in a range of 18:1 to 100:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach
  • Publication number: 20250122836
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, and given by V G V G ? B . VG is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume. A gas turbine engine includes a combustion section and the gearbox assembly. A fuel delivery system includes a fuel supply line for delivering fuel to the combustion section. A lubrication system includes a lubricant supply line for delivering lubricant to the gearbox assembly. A thermal management system includes a fuel-lubricant heat exchanger for cooling the lubricant with the fuel. The thermal management system selectively directs the fuel through fuel bypass lines or the lubricant through lubricant bypass lines to bypass the fuel-lubricant heat exchanger based on a fuel temperature or a lubricant temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach, Brandon W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20250122842
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, inclusive of the endpoints. The lubricant extraction volume ratio defined by: VG/VGB. VG is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume. A gas turbine engine includes the gearbox assembly. The gas turbine engine includes an electric power system including at least one electric machine. The electric power system includes a plurality of power converters and a plurality of power distribution management units. At least two of the plurality of power converters or the plurality of power distribution management units are integrated together in a single housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach
  • Publication number: 20250102058
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox having a gear assembly and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, inclusive of the endpoints. The lubricant extraction volume ratio is defined by V G V GB . VG is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume. A gas turbine engine includes the gearbox assembly and a lubrication system. The lubrication system includes a sump that is a primary reservoir having a first lubricant level and a secondary reservoir in the gearbox assembly. The secondary reservoir has a second lubricant level. The lubrication system fills the secondary reservoir with a lubricant between the first lubricant level and the second lubricant level. The gear assembly collects the lubricant in the secondary reservoir to supply the lubricant to the gear assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach, Brandon W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20250101916
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a gearbox assembly that includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, inclusive of the endpoints. The lubricant extraction volume ratio defined by: V G V G ? B · V G is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume. The gas turbine engine includes a lubricant flow control system that includes a variable flow lubricant pump that generates a pump variable flow of lubricant to the gearbox assembly. The gearbox assembly has a variable consumption demand for delivery of lubricant. A lubricant flow controller is configured to generate a pump control command for the variable flow lubricant pump to produce the pump variable flow of lubricant based on the variable consumption demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach, Brandon W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20250101911
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan, a combustor positioned in a core air flowpath that generates combustion gases, a steam system that extracts water from the combustion gases and generates steam, and a gearbox assembly. The steam system includes water storage devices that store the water therein. The water storage devices include a first state in which a level of the water increases or is maintained and a second state in which the level of the water decreases as the water flows through the water storage devices. The gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, inclusive of the endpoints. The lubricant extraction volume ratio defined by: V G V G ? B · V G is a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Bugra H. Ertas, Xiaohua Zhang, Miriam Manzoni, Flavia Turi, Andrea Piazza, Arthur W. Sibbach
  • Publication number: 20250098894
    Abstract: Provided are a cooking device, a control method and apparatus thereof, and a computer-readable storage medium. The cooking device includes a microwave module, a hot air module, a heating tube module, and a fan module. The method includes: obtaining a characteristic parameter of a food material and a cooking stage of the cooking device; determining a cooking parameter of the cooking device according to the characteristic parameter of the food material; and controlling at least one of the microwave module, the hot air module, the heating tube module, and the fan module according to the cooking parameter and the cooking stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Peiyao ZHANG, Tianyi LIU, Xu LU, Guoyang SHEN, Xiaohua ZHANG, Shuangxia YUAN, Xiaojiang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250089935
    Abstract: Provided are a cooking device, a control method and apparatus thereof, and a computer-readable storage medium. The cooking device includes an air frying module and a microwave module. The method includes: obtaining a characteristic parameter of a food material and a cooking stage of the cooking device; determining a cooking parameter of the cooking device based on the characteristic parameter of the food material; and controlling the air frying module or the microwave module based on the cooking stage and the cooking parameter to accelerate cooking of the food material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Tianyi LIU, Zhi ZHANG, Peiyao ZHANG, Xiaojiang CHEN, Xu LU, Shuangxia YUAN, Xiaohua ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12252682
    Abstract: A bioprocessing system includes a first fluid assembly having a first fluid assembly line connected to a first port of a first bioreactor vessel though a first bioreactor line of a first bioreactor vessel, a second fluid assembly having a second fluid assembly line connected to a second port of the first bioreactor vessel through a second bioreactor line of the first bioreactor vessel, and an interconnect line providing for fluid communication between the first fluid assembly and the second fluid assembly, and for fluid communication between the second bioreactor line of the first bioreactor vessel and the first bioreactor line of the first bioreactor vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20250009184
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a storage box with time memory, including a box body, a first time marker provided with a plurality of first time marks, a second time marker provided with a plurality of second time marks, and an indicator. The first time marker and the second time marker are rotatably arranged on the box body. The second time marker is connected with the first time marker in a unidirectional driving manner. When the second time marker rotates in a driving direction, the second time marker drives the first time marker to rotate synchronously, and when the second time marker rotates in a reverse direction, the second time marker rotates, and the first time marker does not rotate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventor: Xiaohua ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12191754
    Abstract: A method for suppressing a narrow pulse is provided. The method is applied to a bridge switch circuit having at least one bridge arm which has an upper switch transistor and a lower switch transistor, and includes: detecting whether an original comparison value of a modulated wave in a current cycle is in a preset narrow pulse interval of the upper switch transistor, and if so, determining an adjustment interval of the upper switch transistor to which the original comparison value of the modulated wave currently pertains; and adjusting the original comparison value of the modulated wave to an adjusted comparison value of the modulated wave corresponding to the adjustment interval of the upper switch transistor to which the original comparison value of the modulated wave currently pertains according to a corresponding relationship between adjustment intervals of the upper switch transistor and adjusted comparison values of the modulated wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TIANJIN EMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Wei, Shenping Hong, Honglei Sha, Tianye Yu, Aiguo Peng, Xiaohua Zhang, Shaofeng Kang, Lingsi Xia
  • Patent number: 12077743
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a tubing module for a bioprocessing system includes a first tubing holder block configured to receive at least one pump tube and hold the at least one pump tube in position for selective engagement with a peristaltic pump, a second tubing holder block configured to receive a plurality of pinch valve tubes and hold each pinch valve tube of the plurality of pinch valve tubes in position for selective engagement with a respective actuator of a pinch valve array, and wherein the first tubing holder block and the second tubing holder block are interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20240279585
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a tubing module for a bioprocessing system includes a first tubing holder block configured to receive at least one pump tube and hold the at least one pump tube in position for selective engagement with a peristaltic pump, a second tubing holder block configured to receive a plurality of pinch valve tubes and hold each pinch valve tube of the plurality of pinch valve tubes in position for selective engagement with a respective actuator of a pinch valve array, and wherein the first tubing holder block and the second tubing holder block are interconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D. Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20240223068
    Abstract: A method for suppressing a narrow pulse is provided. The method is applied to a bridge switch circuit having at least one bridge arm which has an upper switch transistor and a lower switch transistor, and includes: detecting whether an original comparison value of a modulated wave in a current cycle is in a preset narrow pulse interval of the upper switch transistor, and if so, determining an adjustment interval of the upper switch transistor to which the original comparison value of the modulated wave currently pertains; and adjusting the original comparison value of the modulated wave to an adjusted comparison value of the modulated wave corresponding to the adjustment interval of the upper switch transistor to which the original comparison value of the modulated wave currently pertains according to a corresponding relationship between adjustment intervals of the upper switch transistor and adjusted comparison values of the modulated wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TIANJIN EMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing WEI, Shenping HONG, Honglei SHA, Tianye YU, Aiguo PENG, Xiaohua ZHANG, Shaofeng KANG, Lingsi XIA
  • Publication number: 20240200012
    Abstract: A bioprocessing system includes a first module configured for enriching and isolating a population of cells, a second module configured for activating, genetically modifying, and expanding the population of cells, and a third module configured for harvesting the expanded population of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20240132826
    Abstract: An apparatus for bioprocessing includes a housing, a drawer receivable within the housing, the drawer including a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom defining a processing chamber, and a generally open top, the drawer being movable between a closed position in which the drawer is received within the housing, and an open position in which the drawer extends from the housing enabling access to the processing chamber through the open top, and at least one bed plate positioned within the processing chamber and configured to receive a bioreactor vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Patent number: 11967823
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for monitoring a short-term voltage stability of a power system. The method includes: obtaining a topology and time series of a current power system; inputting the topology and the time series of the current power system into a trained spatial-temporal graph network model, the trained spatial-temporal graph network model being obtained by classification learning on a spatial-temporal graph network model based on a simulation sample dataset; outputting a status of the short-term voltage stability of the power system; and sending an alarm signal in response to outputting an unstable status of the short-term voltage stability of the power system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STATE GRID LIAONING POWER CO., LTD., STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Chao Lu, Yonghong Luo, Xiaohua Zhang, Changyou Feng, Fangwei Duan, Yingxuan Yang, Ruitong Liu, Yue Han
  • Patent number: 11932842
    Abstract: An apparatus for bioprocessing includes a housing, a drawer receivable within the housing, the drawer including a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom defining a processing chamber, and a generally open top, the drawer being movable between a closed position in which the drawer is received within the housing, and an open position in which the drawer extends from the housing enabling access to the processing chamber through the open top, and at least one bed plate positioned within the processing chamber and configured to receive a bioreactor vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh