Patents by Inventor Xu Wang

Xu Wang 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: 20220185054
    Abstract: A semi-active anti-yaw damper (100), a damping system and a vehicle are provided. When a piston (2) of the semi-active anti-yaw damper (100) reciprocates in the hydraulic cylinder (1), an interior of the hydraulic cylinder (1) is divided into two cylinder blocks (PA, PB). The semi-active anti-yaw damper (100) includes at least two parallel branches (B1, B2), the two ends of each of the parallel branches (B1, B2) are connected to the two cylinder blocks (PA, PB), respectively, and each of the parallel branches (B1, B2) is provided with an adjustable solenoid valve (PV), and the adjustable solenoid valve (PV) is configured to adjust a damping coefficient of the semi-active anti-yaw damper (100) when the semi-active anti-yaw damper (100) is in a semi-active mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Xu WANG, Haipeng KONG, Hongyong CAO, Pingyu ZHOU, Xiaowen SONG
  • Patent number: 11345254
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery and a controller. The controller is programmed to executed a parameter estimation strategy for the battery during time intervals when the current flowing through the battery is sufficiently dynamic. During periods of generally constant current, the parameters are derived from the last valid parameters from the parameter estimation strategy. During periods of generally constant current in which a battery temperature and/or a state of charge of the battery changes by a predetermined amount, the parameters are derived from historical parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xu Wang, John Paul Gibeau
  • Patent number: 11344192
    Abstract: An illuminating device and an endoscope having the same are described. The illuminating device includes a light source assembly, and the light source assembly includes a first light source, a diffusion sheet and a dichroic mirror. The diffusion sheet is disposed between the first light source and the dichroic mirror, and the diffusion sheet is used to diffuse light of the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ANKON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Duan, Xu Wang, Yi Yang, Qinghu You
  • Patent number: 11344273
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a region of interest (ROI) in an image associated with a subject are provided. Slice information of multiple slices of an image are identified and multiple slice ranges are determined based on the slice information. Based on the slice ranges, multiple sub-images of the image are then determined. For each sub-image, a template and a corresponding probability graph are acquired, a registration result is determined by registering the sub-image with the template, and a ROI in the sub-image is identified based on the registration result. A ROI of the image can be determined by combining the ROIs of the sub-images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Wang, Wenjun Yu, Yufei Mao, Xu Wang, Ke Wu, Ce Wang, Peng Zhao, Chuanfeng Lv
  • Publication number: 20220160897
    Abstract: A method of promoting axonal regeneration can include directing neuronal lipid synthesis away from triglyceride synthesis and toward phospholipid synthesis. The method can include administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of a Lipin-1 inhibitor, a diglyceride acyltransferase inhibitor, and combinations thereof or administering a gene editing therapy to the patient that reduces expression of LIPIN1 or a diglyceride acyltransferase gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Chao YANG, Xu WANG, Kai LIU
  • Patent number: 11342563
    Abstract: An electrode includes a soft substrate, a metal layer in direct contact with the soft substrate, and a lithium layer formed directly on the metal layer, wherein the metal layer comprises wrinkles. The wrinkles are of a substantially uniform height, and the height is in a range of 100 nm to 20 ?m. The wrinkles are typically separated by a substantially uniform distance, and the distance is in a range of 100 nm to 1000 ?m. The wrinkles may be one dimensional or two dimensional. Fabricating an electrode includes forming a metal layer on a soft substrate, and forming a lithium layer on the metal layer. Forming the lithium layer on the metal layer yields uniform wrinkles in the metal layer. A battery may include the electrode as described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Hanqing Jiang, Wei Zeng, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 11338613
    Abstract: A wheel and a rim with weight reduction sockets are provided. The rim includes an inner flange, a middle portion and an outer flange, the inner flange, middle portion and outer flange are all annular and are connected end to end to form a cylindrical rim, in which the middle portion of the rim includes weight reduction sockets; and the weight reduction sockets are of regular hexagons, and are arranged adjacently on the outer side of the middle portion of the rim in the shape of a honeycomb. The weight of the hub is reduced by designing the weight reduction sockets in a specific shape for the outer rim of the hub and selecting the size of the weight reduction sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuo Xu, Zhen Li, Xu Wang, Kaiqing Wang, Yule Zhou, Chuan Cheng, Changhai Li, Tiefeng Hu, Hui Chi
  • Patent number: 11338614
    Abstract: A wheel and a rim with weight reduction sockets are provided. The rim is made of an aluminum alloy and includes an inner flange, a middle portion and an outer flange, the inner flange, middle portion and outer flange are all annular and are connected end to end to form a cylindrical rim, in which weight reduction sockets are provided on the outer surface of the middle portion of the rim; the weight reduction sockets are rectangular ones, and are arranged in lattices in turn; and 3-5 rows of weight reduction sockets are arranged annularly on the outer surface of the middle portion of the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuo Xu, Xu Wang, Hanqi Wu, Zhen Li, Kaiqing Wang, Yule Zhou, Chuan Cheng, Changhai Li, Tiefeng Hu, Hui Chi
  • Publication number: 20220153168
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a traction battery and a controller. The controller, responsive to some cells of the traction battery achieving a first state of charge threshold, discharge other cells of the traction battery, each having a capacity greater than each of the some of the cells, to a second state of charge threshold that is greater than the first state of charge threshold without discharging the some of the cells. The controller then charges all of the cells at the same time such that the some of the cells and the other of the cells achieve a same predetermined target state of charge at a same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Rui Hu, Rui Wang, Xu Wang, Baojin Wang
  • Publication number: 20220156297
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for query matching of sentences based on co-attention scores. Two or more query inputs to a neural network are received. A correlation factor between the two or more query input is identified based on attention weights. A feature vector is generated based on the attention weights. A probability value corresponding to the two or more query inputs is determined based on the generated feature vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Zeyu YOU, Tao YANG, Shangqing ZHANG, Min TU, Xu WANG, Lianyi HAN, Wei FAN
  • Publication number: 20220154796
    Abstract: An active control anti-yaw damper (100) is provided. When a piston (2) of the active control anti-yaw damper (100) reciprocates inside a hydraulic cylinder (1), an interior of the hydraulic cylinder (1) is divided into two cylinder blocks (PA, PB) which communicate with an oil reservoir through two main oil lines respectively to form a primary loop between the hydraulic cylinder (1) and the oil reservoir; a reversing valve (PV3) is installed between the two main oil lines and the oil reservoir and is configured to change a flow direction of the primary loop when the active control anti-yaw damper (100) is in an active mode and adjust a displacement of the piston (2) within the hydraulic cylinder (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Xu WANG, Haipeng KONG, Xiaoning CAO, Zhenxian ZHANG, Haixiao LIANG
  • Patent number: 11332038
    Abstract: Methods and system are described for estimating an amount of battery usage for a traction battery of a vehicle. The traction battery usage estimate may be based on or a function of a distance per gallon of gasoline-equivalent so that the usage estimate may be more familiar to vehicle operators. In addition, the traction battery usage estimate may also be based on traction battery current and traction battery voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Xiao Guang Yang, Baojin Wang, Xu Wang
  • Publication number: 20220142232
    Abstract: A smoking path simulation system includes a case, the robotic arm fixedly provided in the case and a cigarette holder mounted at a working end of the robotic arm, and further includes a feeding device, a cigarette tapping device and a cigarette lighting device provided in the case and located at a periphery of the robotic arm, as well as an image acquisition device mounted at the working end of the robotic arm. With the smoking path simulation system, an action path of smoking a cigarette by a consumer may be simulated, and consistency of the simulated action paths may be guaranteed, thus effectively improving precision of test of indexes of a cigarette-combustion performance, such as cigarette-combustion ash integration characteristics, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Han ZHENG, Jianbo ZHAN, Hao WANG, Zhenhua YU, Ying ZHANG, Geng LI, Tingting YU, Liang CHENG, Liwei LI, Tao WANG, Xu WANG, Haiyan DING, Jiao XIE, Baoshan YUE, Jiang YU
  • Patent number: 11325987
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for identifying and quantifying sulfated glycosaminoglycans, including for example heparin, by passing a sample through nanopores. The glycosaminoglycans sample is measured in microliter quantities, at nanomolar concentrations with detection of impurities below 0.5%, and a dynamic range over five decades of magnitude with a trained machine learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peiming Zhang, Xu Wang, Jong One Im, Stuart Lindsay
  • Patent number: 11325243
    Abstract: A flexible-rope-driven hybrid spray painting robot mechanism includes a static platform framework, a flexible-rope-guided pulley train, flexible transmission ropes, a moving platform, and drive mechanisms. A moving platform casing is driven by eight flexible ropes in parallel, to realize three degrees of freedom of translation thereof. A spray gun is connected in series to the moving platform casing via a universal joint cross, and is driven by four flexible ropes in parallel, to realize two degrees of freedom of rotation thereof. Beneficial technical effect of the present invention: The flexible ropes are used in parallel to control three degrees of freedom of translation and two degrees of freedom of rotation of the end spray gun, achieving advantages of a small movement inertia and flexible movement. Electric drive devices are placed together in a bottom layer of the static platform framework and are isolated from a spraying space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin Zi, Xu Wang, Zhengyu Wang, Daoming Wang, Sen Qian, Wei You, Lei Zheng
  • Patent number: 11326954
    Abstract: A device for measuring the internal temperature of heap fermentation includes an infrared thermal imaging camera, a distance detection camera, and a controller. The infrared thermal imaging camera obtains a temperature distribution image of a surface of a fermentation heap. The distance detection camera obtains a distance between the surface of the fermentation heap and the distance detection camera. The controller matches the temperature distribution image of the surface of the fermentation heap with the distance between the surface of the fermentation heap and the distance detection camera, performs semantic segmentation on the image after matching is completed, extracts a three-dimensional (3D) contour temperature map of the surface of the fermentation heap, corrects a surface temperature of the fermentation heap, and predicts an estimated internal temperature of the fermentation heap, such that the internal temperature of the fermentation heap is effectively and accurately predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jizhang Wang, Han Mao, Xu Wang, Pingping Li, Jing Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220140300
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric machine, a battery, an electrical circuit, an overcharge limit device, and a controller. The electric machine is configured to propel the vehicle. The battery has a plurality of cells and is configured to provide electrical power to the electric machine. The electrical circuit is configured to deliver the electrical power from the battery to the electric machine. The overcharge limit device is configured to individually disconnect each of the plurality cells from the circuit in response to an internal pressure of a respective cell exceeding a pressure threshold. The controller is programmed to, in response to detecting a first set of parameters that are indicative of a first of the cells being disconnected from the electrical circuit via the overcharge limit device, discontinue control the first of the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Xiao Guang Yang, Pratima Addepalli, Bogdan Adrian Bude, Xu Wang, Connor McCann
  • Patent number: 11312175
    Abstract: An automobile wheel having a multilayer rim includes a wheel disc and a rim that is composed of at least two layers of metal rings by nesting, and a gap is preset between two adjacent metal rings; an outer side of one end of the wheel disc includes axial rim mounting grooves, and one end of the rim is inserted into the rim mounting grooves to fix the rim to the wheel disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuan Cheng, Changhai Li, Xu Wang, Hongbiao Li, Zhen Li, Yule Zhou, Zenglei He
  • Patent number: 11289803
    Abstract: An antenna element includes a base body. The base body includes a plate portion, a support column, and a metal layer. The plate portion is formed by non-metallic material. The at least one support column, each of the support column is connected to the plate portion. The metal layer covers the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: ROSENBERGER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., ROSENBERGER TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Yongzhong Li, Xu Wang, Tao Jiang, Jing Sun
  • Publication number: 20220088792
    Abstract: A flexible-rope-driven hybrid spray painting robot mechanism includes a static platform framework, a flexible-rope-guided pulley train, flexible transmission ropes, a moving platform, and drive mechanisms. A moving platform casing is driven by eight flexible ropes in parallel, to realize three degrees of freedom of translation thereof. A spray gun is connected in series to the moving platform casing via a universal joint cross, and is driven by four flexible ropes in parallel, to realize two degrees of freedom of rotation thereof. Beneficial technical effect of the present invention: The flexible ropes are used in parallel to control three degrees of freedom of translation and two degrees of freedom of rotation of the end spray gun, achieving advantages of a small movement inertia and flexible movement. Electric drive devices are placed together in a bottom layer of the static platform framework and are isolated from a spraying space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Bin ZI, Xu WANG, Zhengyu WANG, Daoming WANG, Sen QIAN, Wei YOU, Lei ZHENG