Patents by Inventor Xiaoping Zhu

Xiaoping Zhu 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: 20210203103
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electric connector, which is used for being electrically connected with another adaptive connector (socket). The electric connector comprises a first shell, a lock plate, a second shell and an actuating assembly, wherein at least one electric connection point capable of being connected with the other connector is accommodated in the first shell; the lock plate is relatively fixed with the first shell; the second shell is at least partially located on the outer side of the lock plate and can move between a first position and a second position, the part of the second shell deforms the lock plate towards the inner side, so that the lock plate is tightly pressed with the outer surface of an outer shell of the other connector for frictional locking. According to the electric connector, the locking and pressing frictional force between the electric connectors can, be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Xiaoping Zhu
  • Patent number: 11031817
    Abstract: A wireless charging system is configured to charge one or more receiver devices simultaneously. The wireless charging system includes a plurality of coils for wireless charging the one or more receiver devices. The wireless charging system may use a machine learning algorithm to detect the one or more receiver devices and select which of the multiple coils to activate for charging the multiple coils. Based on measurements made from signal through the coils within the wireless charging system, the machine learning algorithm determines a subset of the coils to activate for charging the detected one or more receiver devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventors: William Paul Abajian, Jules Marie Xavier Laffitte, John MacDonald, Viswajit Natarajan, Lixin Shi, Xiaoping Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210038675
    Abstract: An application of Longhu Rendan in preparing a medicament for preventing and/or treating liver fibrosis. The Longhu Rendan has significant effect in improving fibrosis, and its effect in anti-liver fibrosis and liver protection is equivalent to those of a positive drug silybin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Shanghai Zhonghua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jiahua JIN, Biye WANG, Liqin DING, Wujie CAO, Xiaoping ZHU, Tian LAN
  • Publication number: 20200336009
    Abstract: A wireless charging system is configured to charge one or more receiver devices simultaneously. The wireless charging system includes multiple coils that may be driven independently based on a feedback system with one or more feedback channels. One of the feedback channels may be demodulated communication signals from the one or more receiver devices. The demodulation may be performed by a communication demodulation circuit with configurable gain. The demodulated communication signals are processed for error correction at a bit level and a packet level, which improves accuracy despite presence of multiple receiver devices and noisy conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: William Paul Abajian, Jules Marie Xavier Laffitte, John MacDonald, Lixin Shi, Jake Lee Vander Ploeg, Xiaoping Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200336008
    Abstract: A wireless charging system is configured to charge one or more receiver devices simultaneously. The wireless charging system includes multiple coils that may be driven independently based on a feedback system with one or more feedback channels. Each coil is driven by a coil driving signal selected based on a set of target characteristics. A coil drive circuit receives an input of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal and outputs the coil driving signal to a corresponding coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: William Paul Abajian, Jules Marie Xavier Laffitte, John MacDonald, Viswajit Natarajan, Christopher William Sarli, Lixin Shi, Jake Lee Vander Ploeg, Xiaoping Zhu, Mark Huan Mekkittikul
  • Publication number: 20200336018
    Abstract: A wireless charging system is configured to charge one or more receiver devices simultaneously. The wireless charging system includes a plurality of coils for wireless charging the one or more receiver devices. The wireless charging system may use a machine learning algorithm to detect the one or more receiver devices and select which of the multiple coils to activate for charging the multiple coils. Based on measurements made from signal through the coils within the wireless charging system, the machine learning algorithm determines a subset of the coils to activate for charging the detected one or more receiver devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: William Paul Abajian, Jules Marie Xavier Laffitte, John MacDonald, Viswajit Natarajan, Lixin Shi, Xiaoping Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200333387
    Abstract: A wireless charging system is configured to charge one or more receiver devices simultaneously. The wireless charging system includes multiple coils that may be driven independently based on a feedback system with one or more feedback channels. One of the feedback channels may be a voltage and/or current measurement of coil driving signals from the coils that are indicative of receiver device presences on the wireless charging system. A coil driving signal may be sampled and processed using discrete Fourier transform to determine amplitude and phase information of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: William Paul Abajian, Jules Marie Xavier Laffitte, John MacDonald, Viswajit Natarajan, Lixin Shi, Jake Lee Vander Ploeg, Xiaoping Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200297839
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to HCMV US11 based therapeutics that can be used to target and reduce the activity of the FcRn protein. The disclosure provides a method of treating auto-immune mediated and albumin-mediated diseases in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising HCMV US11 (herein after referred to as “US11”) polypeptide, polypeptide fragments, or variants thereof. The disclosure also provides methods for preventing, or treating, infections of HCMV through administration of a US11 inhibitor. US11 containing vaccine compositions are also provided for stimulation of an anti-US11 immune response for protection against HCMV infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaoping ZHU, Xiaoyang LIU
  • Publication number: 20200288551
    Abstract: A COB illuminating device includes a light source component, a control module, and a base plate component. The light source component includes multiple illuminating sets that are electrically coupled in series. The control module includes multiple control terminals, an input control terminal, an output control terminal and a constant current control unit. The multiple control terminals are respectively and electrically coupled to intersections between the multiple illuminating sets. The input control terminal is electrically coupled to a head illuminating set. The output control terminal is electrically coupled to a tail illuminating set. The constant current control unit is electrically coupled to the multiple control terminals, the input control terminal and the output control terminal. Besides, the constant current control unit activates a dynamic number of illuminating sets starting from the head illuminating set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Changhe ZHONG, Digen SHEN, Jingjing SU, Xiaoping ZHU, Zhongkai CHEN
  • Patent number: 10763619
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a locking electrical connector for electrical connection with an outlet connector. The adapter outlet connector includes a first housing, the locking electrical connector includes a second housing, an actuating assembly, and a locking member. At least one electrical connection point enclosing in the second housing, which can be electrically connected to the outlet connector. The locking member is rotatably fixed to the second housing and capable of being driven by the actuating assembly, so as to rotate relative to the second housing, such that the locking member is frictionally locked with the side surface of the first housing, thereby enabling the locking electrical connector to be electrically locked with the outlet connector. The present disclosure can better prevent the electrical connection from failing and loosening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaoping Zhu
  • Patent number: 10732696
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for wake-up control of an intelligent terminal. At least two alarm set indications are sent by one or more applications of the intelligent terminal. The alarm set indication is used to indicate a first alarm wake-up time determined by the application for waking up the intelligent terminal. At least two of the at least two first alarm wake-up times corresponding to the at least two alarm set indications are delayed until a second alarm wake-up time. The second alarm wake-up time is determined according to preset adjustment control information. The intelligent terminal is woken at the second alarm wake-up time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoping Zhu, Yonghong Qiao, Bingtian Han
  • Publication number: 20200235523
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical connection plug, comprising: a housing; an electrical connection point provided on the housing, to achieve electrical connection with a receptacle, wherein the receptacle has a jack; a locking component and an actuating component, both of which are provided on the housing, wherein the locking component is used to be inserted into the jack. The locking component comprises a latch, which is connected to the actuation component to be driven by the actuation component to move with respect to the housing, wherein the latch is provided with a first inclined surface; a locking plate, which is provided outside the latch, wherein the locking plate is provided with a second inclined surface corresponding to the first inclined surface. The present invention achieves the locking between the electrical connection plugs in a new way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaoping Zhu
  • Patent number: 10581674
    Abstract: A method for expanding a high-availability server cluster is disclosed. The method includes configuring at least two nodes comprised in a server cluster to be expanded as one or more server units, each server unit consisting of at least two nodes; configuring a newly added node into the server cluster, and configuring the newly added node as at least one newly added server unit in the server cluster; and broadcasting routing information of the newly added server unit. The method realizes an expansion of a server cluster by adding a newly added server unit to the server cluster, i.e., increasing the number of server units in the server cluster, so that the number of sessions and processing performance of the expanded server cluster can be improved, with a relatively low expansion cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Xiaoping Zhu
  • Publication number: 20190359655
    Abstract: Disclosed are peptides comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by a neonatal receptor (FcRn); an influenza HA protein; and a trimerization domain. Disclosed are compositions comprising one or more of the peptides described herein. Disclosed are nucleic acid sequences capable of encoding any one of the peptides described herein. Disclosed are methods for eliciting a protective immune response against influenza comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of a composition comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by a FcRn; an influenza HA protein; and a trimerization domain, wherein the administering is to a mucosal epithelium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaoping Zhu, Susan Park-Ochsner, Weizhong Li
  • Patent number: 10433403
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reporting brightness-adjusting data from a smart lighting device, a smart lighting device, and a gateway. The method includes: receiving a brightness-adjusting command from a smart terminal, the brightness-adjusting command containing brightness-adjusting data having a desired brightness value; adjusting a brightness value to the desired brightness value according to the brightness-adjusting command; and reporting the brightness-adjusting data and a serial number corresponding to the brightness-adjusting data to a gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SHENGHUI LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ge Zhu, Xiaoping Zhu, Jinxiang Shen
  • Patent number: 10423560
    Abstract: A hot plug method, a host controller, a host, and a PCIe bridge device. The method includes: generating, by a host controller, a first notification packet, where the first notification packet includes hot plug interruption information, and the hot plug interruption information indicates that a first PCIe device is to be hot-plugged; sending, by the host controller, the first notification packet to a host, so that the host performs, according to the first notification packet, a hot plug operation corresponding to the PCIe device; and receiving, by the host controller, a second notification packet sent by the host, and sending the second notification packet to a user equipment controller, to facilitate the user equipment controller to instruct a user to insert or remove the PCIe device, where the second notification packet is for indicating that the hot plug operation corresponding to the PCIe device is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Benhua Peng, Fu Wang, Pei Wu, Huaifeng Xiao, Xiaoping Zhu
  • Patent number: 10419361
    Abstract: A method and device for interworking between a physical network and a virtual network is provided. The implementations may include creating a network connection container. The network connection container may include a first virtual LAN interface configured to connect to a physical network, a second virtual LAN interface configured to connect to a virtual network, and a virtual extensible LAN interface configured to connect the first virtual LAN interface and the second virtual LAN interface. The implementations may further include configuring corresponding routing information for the network connection container and transmitting packets between the physical network and the virtual network via the network connection container based on the routing information. Thus, the network connection container may be added to various network interfaces to achieve physical network and virtual network interworking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xiaoping Zhu, Zhiyuan Zhou, Na Na
  • Publication number: 20190275100
    Abstract: An application of Longhu Rendan in preparing a medicament for preventing and/or treating liver fibrosis The Longhu Rendan has significant effect in improving liver fibrosis, and its effect in anti-liver fibrosis and liver protection is equivalent to those of a positive drug silybin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Shanghai Zhonghua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jiahua JIN, Biye WANG, Liqin DING, Wujie CAO, Xiaoping ZHU, Tian LAN
  • Patent number: 10261393
    Abstract: A method for controlling an infrared illuminator and a related image-recording device are provided. The method for controlling an infrared illuminator includes: turning on the infrared illuminator in a filming environment to provide light; filtering out light-reflection interference caused by the light to obtain an actual visible illuminance value; and controlling on and off states of the infrared illuminator based on the actual visible illuminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SENGLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengli Xie, Xiaoping Zhu, Jinxiang Shen
  • Patent number: 10257913
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a lighting control method, a related lighting apparatus and system are provided. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a lighting control method. The method includes detecting a connection status of a wireless network component of a lighting apparatus and controlling a working status of an illumination component of the lighting apparatus based on the connection status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SHENGHUI LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yi Xu, Xiaoping Zhu, Chaoqun Sun, Jinxiang Shen