Patents by Inventor Xiaopeng Li
Xiaopeng Li 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: 20250073876Abstract: A unidirectional clutch device for an electric nail gun, comprising a motor, an annular gear fixed above the motor, and a clutch seat. The annular gear contains a central gear and planetary gears. The central gear forms a transmission connection with the motor and meshes with the annular gear through the planetary gears. A lower shim is fixedly attached to the lower part of the annular gear, and an upper shim is positioned at the upper part of the annular gear, movably abutting between the annular gear and the clutch seat. The upper shim has through holes for the pins of the planetary gears. Inside the clutch seat, there is a planet carrier with a cylindrical outer surface, machined with mounting holes for the assembly of the pins. The internal circumference of the clutch seat is machined with needle roller grooves containing needle roller pins.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Xuejun Xu, Zhonghua Jiang, Xiaorong Li, Xiaopeng Li, Fazheng Yang
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Publication number: 20250073878Abstract: A safety frame travel adjustment device for a nail gun, comprising a firing plate. The safety frame has a long slot machined into it. A positioning sleeve is fixed to the side of the firing plate and interacts with the long slot to ensure the safety frame can slide along the direction of the firing plate. Also on the side of the firing plate is a first spring that supports the safety frame. Additionally, an adjustment seat is fixed to the side of the firing plate, housing an adjustment component for modifying the position of the safety frame. This adjustment component consists of a connecting bolt, a threaded sleeve, an adjustment wheel, and an opening and closing rod. The connecting bolt is secured to the safety frame with a locking nut and is threadedly connected to the threaded sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Xuejun Xu, Zhonghua Jiang, Xiaorong Li, Xiaopeng Li, Fazheng Yang
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Publication number: 20250073734Abstract: An arm support structure for a handheld integrated spray painting device, comprising a gun body, a lithium battery, an adaptor box, and an arm support. The arm support and the adaptor box form a rotatable connection through a rotating element, and the adaptor box has internal locking and unlocking mechanisms. The locking mechanism can lock the arm support at a preset position, and the unlocking mechanism allows for the adjustment of the supporting angle of the arm support after unlocking. The adaptor box serves as an intermediate connector, enabling electrical connection between the lithium battery and the gun body, and becomes part of the spray painting device. The adaptor box is equipped with an arm support with an adjustable supporting angle, which better serves the purpose of supporting the arm, relieving the wrist strain of the holder, and facilitating improved work efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Bo Chen, Xiaorong Li, Xiaopeng Li, Fazheng Yang
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Patent number: 12228353Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate a tunable heat transfer system. The tunable heat transfer system includes a controller, a first body, and a second body. The first body is communicatively coupled to the controller. The second body is communicatively coupled to the controller and spaced apart from the first body. The second body has a plurality of semimetal layers and a dielectric portion positioned between each of the plurality of semimetal layers. Each of the dielectric portions has a thickness to define a gap between each the plurality of semimetal layers in an expanded state and permitting each of the plurality of semimetal layers to abut each other in a contracted state. The controller is configured to change a near-field radiative heat transfer between the first body and the second body by changing the thickness of each of the dielectric portions between the expanded state and the contracted state.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ziqi Yu, Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Hideo Iizuka
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Patent number: 12225825Abstract: A flexural wave absorption system includes a base member connected to a beam that may be subject to flexural waves, an arm member, connected to the base, disposed substantially in parallel alignment with the beam, a mass member connected to a distal end of the arm member, a piezoelectric patch, connected to the arm member, that generates electricity in response to a flexural wave propagating through the beam, and a shunting circuit, connected to the piezoelectric patch, that dissipates electricity generated by the piezoelectric patch to absorb the flexural wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Hideo Iizuka
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Patent number: 12203469Abstract: A device for canceling acoustic noise generated includes, in one example, an inlet channel configured to be fluidly connected to an inlet port of a pump and an outlet channel configured to be fluidly connected to an outlet port of the pump. The device also includes an inlet resonator and an outlet resonator, both having open ends and closed ends. The open ends of the inlet and outlet resonators are fluidly connected to the inlet and outlet channels, respectively. When in operation, the inlet and outlet resonators can cancel noise generated by the operation of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Taehwa Lee, Xiaopeng Li, Ryohei Tsuruta, Michael Paul Rowe, Danil V. Prokhorov
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Publication number: 20240426129Abstract: A system and method are provided for manufacturing a tower structure. Accordingly, a first printed layer of a wall element is deposited with a printhead assembly, and an actual midline perimeter length of the first printed layer is determined. A horizontal reinforcement assembly is then formed based, at least in part, on the actual midline perimeter length. The formed horizontal reinforcement assembly is positioned in a horizontal orientation on the first printed layer and in axial alignment with the vertical axis of the tower structure. With the horizontal reinforcement assembly positioned on the first printed layer, a second printed layer of the wall element is deposited via the printhead assembly on the horizontal reinforcement layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Christopher James Kenny, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Pascal Meyer, Biao Fang, Juan Pablo Cilia, Xiaopeng Li, Collin McKee Sheppard
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Publication number: 20240429703Abstract: Provided are a method and system for protecting the HVDC line, device, and storage medium. The method for protecting the HVDC line includes that: a DC line parameter and a DC system operation parameter are acquired, and a DC line protection installation position operation parameter is sampled; a line-mode fault voltage of a sampling point, a zero-mode fault voltage of the sampling point, a line-mode fault current of the sampling point, and a continuous rate of change of the line-mode fault current are calculated; in response to starting the line protection, the line-mode fault voltage is compensated based on the DC line parameter, the DC system operation parameter, and a first peak value of the line-mode fault voltage; and in response to determining that the HVDC line is faulty, a line fault polarity is determined based on the zero-mode fault voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Xiaopeng LI, Yufei TENG, Lei LIU, Yuexiao YU, Dalin MU, Sheng LIN, Huajie ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240410975Abstract: A method and a device for direction of arrival estimation based on one-bit quantization antenna array, the method including: designing a received signal model of robust one-bit radar, designing an optimal objective function of the robust one-bit radar, replacing a first function in the optimal objective function with a second objective function to obtain a new optimal objective function, and according to the new optimal objective function, adopting a proximal alternating minimization method and a gradient descent method to solve the optimization problem and obtain an incident angle of a target echo signal. The embodiments reshape the received signal model of the one-bit radar, enabling the received signals to preserve or reflect the distribution information of noise data. The embodiments utilize a specific norm to describe the distribution of noise, effectively suppressing quantization error bits generated by low signal-to-noise ratio when estimating DoA with one-bit algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiaopeng LI, Lei HUANG
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Patent number: 12141037Abstract: A method for performing data recovering operation is provided. The method includes: identifying a plurality of first values and a plurality of first indexes of a plurality of first entries of an incomplete matrix in a received object data, and one or more second values and one or more second indexes of one or more second entries of the incomplete matrix; inputting the first values, the first indexes, a preset first parameter, a preset second parameter and a preset third parameter into an analysis model using Adaptive Rank-One Matrix Completion (AROMC) algorithm; and obtaining a recovered complete matrix corresponding to the incomplete matrix from the analysis model, so as to obtain optimized one or more second values of the second entries, wherein the optimized one or more second values are determined as original values of the second entries, such that the incomplete matrix is recovered to the recovered complete matrix.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: City University of Hong KongInventors: Zhiyong Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Hing Cheung So, Abdelhak M. Zoubir
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Publication number: 20240371350Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a high-Q resonant state embedded system in a continuous body. In one embodiment, a system includes a longitudinally extending body that is subject to a flexural wave. The longitudinally extending body is attached to a fixed structure at a first end. The system also includes a mechanical resonator coupled to a surface of the longitudinally extending body along a length dimension of the longitudinally extending body. The mechanical resonator is located at a distance away from a second end of the longitudinally extending body to exhibit an infinite Q factor based on physical properties of the mechanical resonator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Ziqi Yu
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Publication number: 20240371349Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to absorbing flexural waves. In one embodiment, a system includes a longitudinally extending body that is subject to a flexural wave and a bandpass filter. The bandpass filter transmits a target flexural wave having a particular wavelength and blocks a non-target flexural wave. The bandpass filter includes at least two mechanical resonators coupled to a surface of the longitudinally extending body and aligned in a first linear array along a length dimension of the longitudinally extending body. The at least two mechanical resonators of the first linear array are separated by a distance based on the particular wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Ziqi Yu
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Publication number: 20240372530Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to tuning an absorption system based on an exceptional point for a shunted mechanical resonator of the absorption system. In one embodiment, the absorption system includes a first mechanical resonator having a beam connected to a body that is subject to a flexural wave. The first mechanical resonator has a latent absorption. The absorption system includes a first electrical resonator that includes a piezoelectric device, bonded to the beam, that generates electricity in response to the flexural wave propagating through the body. The absorption system also includes a shunting circuit connected to the piezoelectric device and tuned based on a calculated exceptional point for the absorption system. The shunting circuit alters an absorption of the first mechanical resonator and controls a voltage and current shunted to the piezoelectric device to absorb the flexural wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Ziqi Yu
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Publication number: 20240333028Abstract: A system can be configured to harvest energy from sound waves. The system can include a resonator and an acoustic energy harvester located in the resonator. The acoustic energy harvester can be configured to convert acoustic energy into electrical energy. In some instances, the resonator can be a central resonator, and a plurality of surrounding resonators can be arrayed about the central resonator. The surrounding resonators do not include an acoustic energy harvester.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taehwa Lee, Xiaopeng Li, Ziqi Yu
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Publication number: 20240319491Abstract: Described herein are alterable optical structures. Also described herein are methods of altering same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Dhanushkodi Durai Mariappan, Gregory Daniel Dreifus, Xiaopeng Li, James William Bray, Greg Alan Radighieri
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Publication number: 20240290314Abstract: A light-activated acoustic resonator and associated methods are described herein. One embodiment measures the level of ambient light in the environment of the light-activated acoustic resonator; causes a moveable member of an electromagnet disposed within a Helmholtz resonator of the light-activated acoustic resonator to be in an extended position that places the Helmholtz resonator in a first acoustic state, when the level of ambient light is less than a predetermined amount; and causes the moveable member to be in a retracted position that places the Helmholtz resonator in a second acoustic state different from the first acoustic state, when the level of ambient light is at least the predetermined amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taehwa Lee, Xiaopeng Li, Ziqi Yu
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Publication number: 20240280432Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to tuning a mechanical resonator for detecting a significant value using an electrical resonator that enhances sensitivity. In one embodiment, a system includes a mechanical resonator having a beam coupled to a body. The system also includes an electrical resonator coupled through a patch to the mechanical resonator, the electrical resonator operating as a shunt and having an inductor and a resistor (LR) circuit in series. The system also includes the electrical resonator that detects, associated with a perturbation of the body, an exceptional point (EP) of the mechanical resonator by varying the LR circuit according to a model.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Ziqi Yu, Yuyang Song
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Publication number: 20240280426Abstract: Systems described herein relate to sensing pressure. In one arrangement, a pressure sensor is disclosed. The pressure sensor includes a circuit including a resistor, an inductor, and a capacitor. The circuit generates an electrical resonance. The resistor is an elastomer having a resistance and connected to an outer surface of an inflatable. The pressure sensor also includes a resonator connected to the circuit. The resonator generates a mechanical resonance coupling with the electrical resonance to create a detuning frequency having a sublinear dependence on the resistance of the elastomer. A pressure of the inflatable correlates with the detuning frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Ziqi Yu, Yuyang Song
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Patent number: 12067965Abstract: A device for superscattering a target acoustic wave may include a body having an outer surface, at least one resonator being defined within the body and extending to an opening defined within the outer surface and configured to cause the superscattering of the target acoustic wave impinging upon the body, and a motor connected to the body and configured to selectively rotate the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Taehwa Lee, Xiaopeng Li, Ziqi Yu
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Publication number: 20240264125Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods provide for measuring elastic modulus usable with a tubular object. A sound signal is propagated within the tubular object via a speaker coupled to a proximal end of an impedance tube. The propagated sound signal is measured within the tubular object via a pair of microphones coupled to the impedance tube. An elastic modulus of the tubular object is determined in response to the measurement of the propagated sound signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taehwa Lee, Xiaopeng Li, Ziqi Yu