Patents by Inventor Xiongwei Liu

Xiongwei Liu 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: 20240357709
    Abstract: A heater, an electrical heating system, and a seat for a vehicle that includes: a heating electrical conductor; and a circuit board, which has a first edge and a second edge, and which has a first electrical connection zone for electrically connecting to the heating electrical conductor and a second electrical connection zone for electrically connecting to an external circuit outside the circuit board; the heating electrical conductor crosses over the first edge to electrically connect to the first electrical connection zone, and a protective structure for protecting the heating electrical conductor is provided at the first edge; and/or the second electrical connection zone is electrically connected to the external circuit via an electrical connection structure, and the electrical connection structure is mechanically fixed to the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Haiming Yang, Wei Wang, Xiongwei Liu, Peng Wang
  • Publication number: 20240320787
    Abstract: Disclosed is a joint denoising and demosaicking method for a color RAW image guided by a monochrome image. The method comprises: constructing a synthetic image dataset of a monochrome-color binocular camera system for training and testing of network modules; constructing an aligned guidance image generation module by utilizing a structural correlation between a monochrome image and a color image, using a clean grayscale image corresponding to the RAW image as supervision, and training the aligned guidance image generation module by using a perceptual loss function to generate a high-quality aligned guidance image; using the generated aligned guidance image to guide the joint denoising and demosaicking process of the color RAW image; and training a guided denoising and demosaicking module ensure the accuracy of the color of the denoising and demosaicking result while accurately transferring the guidance image structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Huiliang SHEN, Xiongwei LIU, Runmin ZHANG, Siyuan CAO, Beinan YU
  • Patent number: 11597286
    Abstract: This specification describes a charging apparatus for use in an electric vehicle charging system which comprises an AC charging circuit connected to an AC power source, a DC charging circuit connected to a DC power source or the AC power source, the charging apparatus comprising: a first switch; a second switch; and a charging cable comprising a plurality of power lines, wherein each of the first switch and the second switch comprises a plurality of poles and a plurality of sets of contacts, wherein the plurality of poles corresponds to the plurality of power lines of the charging cable, the first switch is configured to move the plurality of poles of the first switch between a first position wherein the plurality of power lines of the charging cable is connected to a first set of contacts of the first switch connected to the AC charging circuit, and a second position wherein the plurality of power lines of the charging cable is not connected to the first set of contacts of the first switch connected to the A
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ENTRUST SMART HOME MICROGRID LTD
    Inventor: Xiongwei Liu
  • Publication number: 20220048396
    Abstract: This specification describes a charging apparatus for use in an electric vehicle charging system which comprises an AC charging circuit connected to an AC power source, a DC charging circuit connected to a DC power source or the AC power source, the charging apparatus comprising: a first switch; a second switch; and a charging cable comprising a plurality of power lines, wherein each of the first switch and the second switch comprises a plurality of poles and a plurality of sets of contacts, wherein the plurality of poles corresponds to the plurality of power lines of the charging cable, the first switch is configured to move the plurality of poles of the first switch between a first position wherein the plurality of power lines of the charging cable is connected to a first set of contacts of the first switch connected to the AC charging circuit, and a second position wherein the plurality of power lines of the charging cable is not connected to the first set of contacts of the first switch connected to the A
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventor: Xiongwei Liu
  • Patent number: 11025062
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in a microgrid, which comprises a DC bus with at least one DC power source connected thereto, an AC bus connected to a mains power grid that supplies the microgrid, and a DC/AC converter coupling the DC bus and the AC bus, wherein the DC/AC converter may be a one-way DC/AC inverter or a bidirectional DC/AC converter, the apparatus comprising a control system, which is configured to control number (at least one) DC power converters, each of which is configured to couple a respective controllable DC load to the DC bus, and to control the power flowing from the DC bus to each of the number controllable DC loads, so as to control each of the number controllable DC loads to fulfil its function and the voltage on the DC bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: ENTRUST SMART HOME MICROGRID LTD.
    Inventor: Xiongwei Liu
  • Patent number: 11018622
    Abstract: Electrical coupling apparatus for electrically coupling the output of a plurality of strings of photovoltaic modules to the input of a DC/AC inverter in parallel in a solar photovoltaic power system, the electrical coupling apparatus comprising a selective switching apparatus and at least one DC/DC converter. The selective switching apparatus may be configured to couple each of the plurality of strings of photovoltaic modules to the inverter either via a first electrical coupling path not comprising a DC/DC converter or via a second electrical coupling path comprising a DC/DC converter and selectively electrically couple any one of the plurality of strings of photovoltaic modules to the inverter via the second electrical coupling path by electrically coupling the string to the inverter via the at least one DC/DC converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ENTRUST SMART HOME MICROGRID LTD.
    Inventor: Xiongwei Liu
  • Publication number: 20190348838
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in a microgrid, which comprises a DC bus with at least one DC power source connected thereto, an AC bus connected to a mains power grid that supplies the microgrid, and a DC/AC converter coupling the DC bus and the AC bus, wherein the DC/AC converter may be a one-way DC/AC inverter or a bidirectional DC/AC converter, the apparatus comprising a control system, which is configured to control number (at least one) DC power converters, each of which is configured to couple a respective controllable DC load to the DC bus, and to control the power flowing from the DC bus to each of the number controllable DC loads, so as to control each of the number controllable DC loads to fulfil its function and the voltage on the DC bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventor: Xiongwei Liu
  • Publication number: 20190229673
    Abstract: Electrical coupling apparatus for electrically coupling the output of a plurality of strings of photovoltaic modules to the input of a DC/AC inverter in parallel in a solar photovoltaic power system, the electrical coupling apparatus comprising a selective switching apparatus and at least one DC/DC converter. The selective switching apparatus may be configured to couple each of the plurality of strings of photovoltaic modules to the inverter either via a first electrical coupling path not comprising a DC/DC converter or via a second electrical coupling path comprising a DC/DC converter and selectively electrically couple any one of the plurality of strings of photovoltaic modules to the inverter via the second electrical coupling path by electrically coupling the string to the inverter via the at least one DC/DC converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Xiongwei Liu