Patents by Inventor Xing Yu

Xing Yu 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: 20250128426
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent and flexible electronic skin with three-dimensional sensing capability. The electronic skin comprises: a substrate; an transparent and flexible electric field sensor disposed on the substrate; a control circuit disposed on the substrate; and a transparent and flexible protective layer encapsulating the electric field sensor and the control circuit. The electric field sensor includes a transmitter electrode; one or more receiver electrodes; and dielectric layer arranged between the transmitter electrode and receiver electrodes. The control circuit is connected to the electric field sensor and configured to: drive the transmitter electrode to transmit a reference signal to establish a quasi-static electrical near field; and process one or more measurement signals received by the one or more receiver electrodes respectively, each measurement signal is indicative of a distortion of the quasi-static electrical near field due to proximity of an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Xinge YU, Jingkun ZHOU, Jian LI, Huiling JIA
  • Patent number: 12279887
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stretchable and flexible sweat-activated graphene-coated Ni foam-based Mg—O2 battery capable of powering an intelligent and flexible electronics for health monitoring purposes with different biosensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Xinge Yu, Xingcan Huang, Yiming Liu
  • Patent number: 12282600
    Abstract: A wearable haptic modulation device for real-time simulation of texture properties of a material surface in mixed reality environments is provided. Particularly, it includes a U-shaped pneumatic actuator surrounds a user's fingertip, a finger-housing support creating a space for fingertip containment, a resonant actuator on the finger-housing support generating vibrotactile feedback to enhance perceived roughness on touched physical surfaces, and a pneumatic control system generating pneumatic actuation to reduce the perceived roughness on touched physical surface. Notably, the U-shaped pneumatic actuator allows direct contact of the user's fingerpad with the touched physical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Kening Zhu, Xinge Yu, Shaoyu Cai, Haichen Gao, Qi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250072821
    Abstract: A sweat extraction and monitoring system comprises a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) for inducing localized sweating for a human skin to generate sweat, iontophoresis electrodes electrically connected to the TENG and configured to be operably electrically contacting the human skin, at least one microfluidic channel for receiving the sweat, at least one biosensor for sensing the sweat received in the at least one microfluidic channel, and at least one sweat-activated battery configured to be actuatable by the sweat for powering the at least one biosensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Xinge YU, Guoqiang XU, Xingcan HUANG, Rui SHI, Yawen YANG, Pengcheng WU
  • Publication number: 20250075383
    Abstract: A biomimetic thermal regulating fabric (BTRF) imitating army and bivouacs and a method for constructing the same are provided. The BTRF comprises a plurality of yarns formed of textile fibres having a water-actuated crimp behaviour, wherein the plurality of yarns is knitted by means of transfer stitch to form an unsymmetrical fabric structure which has a positive water-actuated expansion rate along a first axis and a negative water-actuated expansion rate along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. Surfaces of the textile fibres are plasma-treated to have one or more hydrophilic functional groups. One or more colorimetric fabric sensors are incorporated to generate colours in response to one or more ambient environmental conditions or user physiological conditions respectively. The present invention has excellent scalability, biocompatibility, and great dynamic durability, and is advantageous for applications in athletic wear, outdoor wear, and medical textiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Xinge YU, Lung CHOW, Xingcan HUANG, Qiang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240382641
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device for providing or affecting smell. The wearable electronic device includes one or more odor manipulation units and a control circuit arrangement operably coupled with the one or more odor manipulation units for operating the one or more odor manipulation units. Each of the one or more odor manipulation units is respectively operable to provide or affect smell perceivable by a user of the wearable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Xinge Yu, Yiming Liu, Yanli Jiao, Wooyoung Park
  • Patent number: 12146930
    Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a magnetic resonance (MR) system. The MR system may include a magnet assembly, a gradient coil assembly, and a shim assembly. The magnet assembly may be configured to generate a main magnetic field. The magnet assembly may include a magnet and a cryostat configured to cool the magnet located inside the cryostat. The cryostat may form a bore. The gradient coil assembly may be configured to generate a gradient magnetic field. The gradient coil assembly may be located inside the bore. The shim assembly may be configured to at least partially shield a stray field which is generated by the gradient coil assembly and to which the magnet is subjected. The shim assembly may be located outside the gradient coil assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Qian, Shuguang Liu, Bo Li, Xing'en Yu
  • Patent number: 12141338
    Abstract: The present invention provides a virtual taste generator comprising: a virtual taste interface including: a housing having taste generation channels orthogonally extending through the housing from a top surface to a bottom surface; conductive tastable gels accommodated in the plurality taste generation channels respectively; each having a top end exposed on the top surface of the housing and a bottom end exposed on the bottom surface of the housing; a control system including: switches respectively connected to conductive tastable gels and configured for conducting or blocking electrical currents flowing through the conductive tastable gels respectively; and a controller connected to the switches and configured to generate electrical signals for turning on or off the switches respectively; and wherein each conductive tastable gel is embedded with one or more tastable ion electrophoresis tastable chemical agent and controllably to produce a specific taste through ion electrophoresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Xinge Yu, Yiming Liu, Wooyoung Park
  • Publication number: 20240309205
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of degradable materials and relates to a biodegradable material. Specifically, the present invention relates to a cellulose acetate-based degradable composite material and a film product thereof, and a preparation method and application thereof. The biodegradable material comprising: a) cellulose acetate and at least one biodegradable polyester material; and b) at least one compatibilizer that can improve interfacial compatibility between cellulose acetate and biodegradable polyester. The biodegradable composite material containing cellulose acetate and polyester has the beneficial effects of improving tensile strength of blends, increasing Young's modulus, and maintaining break elongation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Riting SU, Xing YU, Zhanping YANG, Kai SU, Yinchun LIANG, Xiaolu CHEN, Jianjun MIAO, Jingjing SHEN
  • Publication number: 20240278888
    Abstract: A fish-like shape robotic device includes a fish-like shape carrier portion, a vibrable tail portion, a wireless power receiving module, a driving module, and at least one functional sensor. The fish-like shape carrier portion includes a head portion and a pair of side portions. The wireless power receiving module is configured to receive a wireless power and disposed on the vibrable tail portion and the side portions. The driving module is disposed on the vibrable tail portion, in which the wireless power receiving module transmits the wireless power to the driving module, such that the driving module enables the vibrable tail portion vibrate. The at least one functional sensor is disposed at the head portion and configured to sense a characteristic of an aquatic environment, or detect a living body or a bio-like structure in the aquatic environment, so as to obtain at least one sensing electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Xinge YU, Dengfeng LI, Jingkun ZHOU, Xingcan HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240281520
    Abstract: Embodiments of this specification provide a container-based task execution method and apparatus. The method can be performed by a container management platform. When receiving a task description file that is for a to-be-executed task and that is submitted by a user, the container management platform can determine whether a first identifier of a first image file carried in the description file is in a whitelist, where the first identifier can be added to the whitelist when it is determined that specified executable file information included in the first image file is secure; and if the first identifier is in the whitelist, considers that the to-be-executed task is secure, and can execute the to-be-executed task based on a container group created by using the task description file and the specified executable file information included in the first image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Yu Fei LU, Ting Cheng WU, Xing Yu CHEN, Xiao Long HU
  • Publication number: 20240268690
    Abstract: A portable blood pressure sensor comprises a sensing device, a force generation device, a first processor, a first flexible layer, and a second flexible layer. The sensing device comprises a first piezoelectric layer, and a second piezoelectric layer. The force generation device provides back pressure to the first and second piezoelectric layers. The first processor is electrically connected to the sensing device and the force generation device. The second flexible layer encapsulates the sensing device, the force generation device, and the first processor on the first flexible layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Xinge YU, Jian LI, Huiling JIA, Jingkun ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240252914
    Abstract: An electronic device for providing or affecting a smell. The electronic device includes a device body, which has a chamber for containing one or more chemical substances and an interface through which the one or more chemical substances in the chamber can be released from the device body to provide or affect a smell perceivable by a user. The electronic device also includes a release control mechanism arranged at least partly in the device body and operable to control release of the one or more chemical substances from the device body through the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Xinge Yu, Yiming Liu, Wooyoung Park, Chunki Yiu
  • Publication number: 20240249426
    Abstract: A method for dynamic modeling and manipulation of multi-object scenes is described. The method includes using object-centric neural implicit scattering functions (OSFs) as object representations in a model-predictive control (MPC) framework for the multi-object scenes. The method also includes modeling a per-object light transport to enable compositional scene re-rendering under object rearrangement and varying lighting conditions. The method further includes applying inverse parameter estimation and graph neural network (GNN) dynamics models to estimate initial object poses and a light position in the multi-object scene. The method also includes manipulating an object perceived in the multi-object scene according to the applying of the inverse parameter estimation and the GNN dynamics models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Stephen TIAN, Yancheng CAI, Hong-Xing YU, Sergey ZAKHAROV, Katherine LIU, Adrien David GAIDON, Yunzhu LI, Jiajun WU
  • Patent number: 12042865
    Abstract: A high-throughput 3D printing system for preparing multi-component, small sized samples, includes a raw material supply module, providing a various kinds of metal powders for printing small sized samples; the first mixer module, mixing the metal powders obtained from the raw material supply module to generate the first blended metal powders; the second mixer module, mixing the first mixed metal powders, in order to generate the second blended metal powders for printing small sized samples; the first printing module, printing the secondary blended metal powder into a small-sized sample; a control module, controlling other functional modules of the high-throughput 3D printing system for generating small-size samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NCS TESTING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lei Zhao, Hui Wang, Lixia Yang, Haizhou Wang, Xuejing Shen, Yunhai Jia, Dongling Li, Xing Yu, Suran Liu
  • Publication number: 20240244833
    Abstract: A dynamic random access memory and a forming method therefor. The dynamic random access memory comprises: a substrate (100), which has opposite first surface (101) and second surface (102), and comprises several active regions (103), and each active region (103) comprises an isolation region (104), a channel region (105) and a word line region (106); a first isolation layer (108), which is located in the isolation region (104); a word line gate structure (111), which is located in the word line region (106); a first source/drain dope region (112), which is located in the channel region (105) on the first surface (101); a bit line layer (114) which is located on the first surface (101); a second source/drain dope region (116) which is located in the channel region (105) on the second surface (102); and several capacitor structures (119), which are located on the second surface (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: ICLEAGUE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenyu HUA, Xing YU
  • Publication number: 20240240519
    Abstract: A device controls opening and closing of window blinds connected to a headrail. A clamping module for securing the device to the headrail includes an upper clamp member for engaging an upper surface of the headrail and a lower clamp member for engaging a lower surface of the headrail. The upper clamp member and the lower clamp member are movably coupled to each other so as to enable clamping of the headrail by the upper clamp member and the lower clamp member. A drive module is coupled to the clamping module and includes an actuator for connecting to a tilting mechanism configured to open and close the window blinds. A drive mechanism is operatively coupled to the actuator and is configured to drive movement of the actuator such that the tilting mechanism is operated when connected to the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Bo Li, Xing Yu Wang, Ajay Raman
  • Patent number: 12036426
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for radiation therapy. The system may include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and a radiation therapy apparatus. The MRI apparatus may be configured to acquire magnetic resonance imaging data with respect to a region of interest (ROI). The radiation therapy apparatus may be configured to apply therapeutic radiation to at least one portion of the ROI when rotating with a gantry. The radiation therapy apparatus may include an eddy current reduction apparatus coupled to the gantry. The eddy current reduction apparatus may include at least one structure, wherein each of the at least one structure may include a plurality of internal structures and at least some of the plurality of internal structures are electrically disconnected from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Ni, Peng Wang, Xing'en Yu
  • Patent number: 12019025
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for preparing glow discharge sputtering samples for materials microscopic characterization are provided. The apparatus includes a glow discharge sputtering unit, a glow discharge power supply, a gas circuit automatic control unit, a spectrometer, and a computer. The structure of the glow discharge sputtering unit is optimized to be more suitable for sample preparation by simulation. By adding a magnetic field to the glow discharge plasma, uniform sample sputtering is realized within a large size range of the sample surface. The spectrometer monitors multi-element signal in a depth direction of the sample sputtering, so that precise preparation of different layer microstructures is realized. In conjunction with the acquisition of the sample position marks and the precise spatial coordinates (x, y, z) information, the correspondence between the surface space coordinates and the microstructure of the sample is conveniently realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NCS Testing Technology CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xing Yu, Haizhou Wang, Xuejing Shen, Xiaojia Li, Yifei Zhu, Weihao Wan, Yuhua Lu, Hui Wang, Qun Ren, Yongqing Wang, Zhenzhen Wan
  • Publication number: 20240180447
    Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated sweat sensing system including a multi-layered structure incorporating a flexible circuitry sensing layer with multiple electronic and mechanical components responsible for sensing certain physiological changes of a user and giving feedback signals to the user when a detectable biological, chemical or physiological signal exceeds certain threshold. The system further includes a microfluidic based biosensing platform responsible for sensing changes in sweat component composition including ions, glucose and pH changes, and subsequently trigger feedback signal outputs from the flexible circuitry sensing layer to provide the user with a corresponding change-of-state signal. The present system is bendable and detachably mountable on various skin regions of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Xinge YU, Yiming LIU, Xingcan HUANG