Patents by Inventor Yanfei ZHANG

Yanfei ZHANG 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).

  • Patent number: 11985780
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device, an expansion card assembly and a server device. The electronic device comprises a hard disk slot and the expansion card assembly. The expansion card assembly is arranged in the hard disk slot in a pluggable manner; the hard disk slot comprises a first type of interface and a second type of interface. The first type of interface is used for communicating with the hard disk, and the second type of interface is used for communicating with the expansion card assembly. Therefore, the expansion card assembly is expanded by means of the hard disk slot in the electronic device, so that the expansion requirement of the expansion card assembly is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honghai Zhang, Yanfei Zhang, Jie Yan, Chuan Chen, Rui Chen
  • Publication number: 20240153296
    Abstract: A method of categorizing text entries on a document can include determining, for each of a plurality of text bounding boxes in the document, respective text, respective coordinates, and respective input embeddings. The method may further include defining a graph of the plurality of bounding boxes, the graph comprising a plurality of connections among the plurality of bounding boxes, each connection comprising a first and second bounding box and zero or more respective intermediate bounding boxes. The method may further include determining a respective attention value for each connection according to a quantity of intermediate bounding boxes in the connection and, based on a the respective attention values and a transformer-based machine learning model applied to the respective input embeddings and respective coordinates, determining output embeddings for each bounding box and, based on the respective output embeddings, generating a bounding box label for each bounding box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yanfei Dong, Yuan Deng, Jiazheng Zhang, Francesco Gelli, Ting Lin, Yuzhen Zhuo, Hewen Wang, Soujanya Poria
  • Patent number: 11958189
    Abstract: A single-layer three-section rail-type planar robot containing a double parallelogram, is composed of a stationary platform, a motion platform and three branched chains with the same structure connecting the stationary platform and the motion platform, the stationary platform is provided with three planar curved rails, each planar curved rail is connected to the motion platform through a branched chain, and each branched chain includes a slider, two link bars I arranged in parallel, two link bars II arranged in parallel, and link bar III, select one revolute joint I in each branched chain to form three revolute joints I as the main driving joint or three sliders as the driving parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yubin Lan, Jinliang Gong, Yanfei Zhang, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11948983
    Abstract: A SiC ohmic contact preparation method is provided and includes: selecting a SiC substrate; preparing a graphene/SiC structure by forming a graphene on a Si-face of the SiC substrate; depositing an Au film on the graphene of the graphene/SiC structure; forming a first transfer electrode pattern on the Au film by a first photolithography; etching the Au film uncovered by the first transfer electrode pattern through a wet etching; etching the graphene uncovered by the Au film through a plasma etching after the wet etching; forming a second transfer electrode pattern on the SiC substrate by a second photolithography; depositing an Au material on the Au film exposed by the second transfer electrode pattern and forming an Au electrode and then annealing. The graphene reduces potential barrier associated with the SiC interface, specific contact resistance of ohmic contact reaches the order of 10?7˜10?8 ?·cm2, and the method has high repeatability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yanfei Hu, Hui Guo, Yuming Zhang, Jiabo Liang, Yanjing He, Hao Yuan, Yuting Ji
  • Patent number: 11923857
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe correcting nonlinearity in a Digital-to-Time Converter (DTC) by relaxing a DTC linearity requirement, which results in the correction being co-adapted with a DTC gain calibration loop which can operate in parallel with a DTC integral nonlinearity (INL) correction loop. In one embodiment, the DTC gain calibration loop and the DTC INL correction loop are constrained when determining a nonlinearity correction code to improve the likelihood they converge. Once determined, the nonlinearity correction code can be combined with an digital code output by a time-to-digital converter (TDC) to generate a phase difference between a reference clock and a feedback clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Hongtao Zhang, Ankur Jain, Yanfei Chen, Ronan Sean Casey, Winson Lin, Hsung Jai Im
  • Publication number: 20230385222
    Abstract: A high-speed low-latency interconnect interface (HLII) for silicon interposer interconnection is provided. The HLII is configured to perform large-scale input/output (I/O) interconnection on a silicon interposer, and includes a physical link (PL) and an LL (LL). The LL receives a data signal, a configuration signal, and a control signal of logical resource inside a chiplet, and can complete data conversion, parity check, training, channel repair, instruction stream generation, and other functions for the PL. The PL receives and transmits a data signal converted by the LL. The PL includes a high-speed I/O port, a first input first output (FIFO), and related control logic. The high-speed I/O port of the PL is compatible with both a double date rate (DDR) transmission mode and a single data rate (SDR) transmission mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojie MA, Yanfeng XU, Yuting XU, Boyin CHEN, Yanfei ZHANG, Yueer SHAN
  • Publication number: 20230367683
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for testing a multi-channel high-speed low-latency interconnect interface (HLII) for a silicon interposer are provided. The apparatus includes: a standard test port configured to exchange a test instruction; an asynchronous bypass port configured to directly access an input/output (I/O) port of a channel of a physical layer of the interconnection interface; a built-in self-test (BIST) engine configured to implement inter-level loopback testing and data verification; a redundant data channel configured to repair a damaged data channel; and a delay chain testing circuit configured to test a function and linearity of a delay chain. The apparatus embeds test and repair logic into the physical layer and a link layer, achieving internal test control without any external controller. In this way, a sample can be tested and quickly screened to ensure its performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojie MA, Xiaochen HU, Yanfeng XU, Yuting XU, Yanfei ZHANG, Yueer SHAN
  • Publication number: 20230347507
    Abstract: A single-layer three-section rail-type planar robot containing a double parallelogram, is composed of a stationary platform, a motion platform and three branched chains with the same structure connecting the stationary platform and the motion platform, the stationary platform is provided with three planar curved rails, each planar curved rail is connected to the motion platform through a branched chain, and each branched chain includes a slider, two link bars I arranged in parallel, two link bars II arranged in parallel, and link bar III, select one revolute joint I in each branched chain to form three revolute joints I as the main driving joint or three sliders as the driving parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yubin Lan, Jinliang Gong, Yanfei Zhang, Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230352096
    Abstract: A configuration control circuit of a flash-type FPGA capable of suppressing programming interference is provided. The configuration control circuit adds a programming selection circuit compared with a conventional configuration control circuit. When a programming operation is performed on a flash memory cell located in a target row and a target column, the programming selection circuit controls a path between a programming bit line (BL) voltage and a BL voltage obtaining terminal of the flash memory cell located in the target row and the target column to be turned on, and a path between the programming BL voltage and a BL voltage obtaining terminal of a flash memory cell located in another row and the target column to be turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengzhou CAO, Yueer SHAN, Bo TU, Xiaofei HE, Yanfei ZHANG, Zhenkai JI
  • Publication number: 20230347504
    Abstract: Disclosed is a two-layer three-rail planar robot with a parallelogram, including a fixed platform, a moving platform, and three branched chains. Three planar curved rails I are provided on the fixed platform. Three planar curved rails II are fixedly connected to the moving platform. Each planar curved rail I is connected to a planar curved rail II corresponding to the planar curved rail I by one of the branched chains. Each of the branched chains includes a slider I, two connecting rods provided in parallel, a slider II. The slider I is slidably connected to the planar curved rail I. The slider I is rotatably connected to one end of each connecting rod by a revolute pair I, the other end of the connecting rod is rotatably connected to the slider II by a revolute pair II. The slider II is slidably connected to the planar curved rail II.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yanfei Zhang, Jinliang Gong, Yubin Lan, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11776915
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an FPGA device forming a network-on-chip by using a silicon connection layer. An active silicon connection layer is designed inside the FPGA device. A silicon connection layer interconnection framework is arranged inside the silicon connection layer. Bare die functional modules inside an FPGA bare die are connected to the silicon connection layer interconnection framework to jointly form the network-on-chip. Each bare die functional module and a network interface and a router that are in the silicon connection layer interconnection framework form an NOC node. The NOC nodes intercommunicate with each other, so that the bare die functional modules in the FPGA bare die without a built-in NOC network can achieve efficient intercommunication by means of the silicon connection layer interconnection framework, reducing the processing difficulty on the basis of improving the data transmission bandwidth and performance inside the FPGA device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jicong Fan, Yanfeng Xu, Yueer Shan, Hua Yan, Yanfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11761017
    Abstract: The invention discloses a rice temperature sensitive male sterile gene mutant tms18 and its uses. During the study of TMS18 gene, the inventors found that the changing of fertility was related to the structural integrity of the second layer of pollen outer wall. The inventors accidentally found the thermo sensitive male sterile mutant tms18. The fertility of the mutant was affected by different temperatures and can be restored under low temperature treatment. More importantly, the fertility sensitive period of the mutant was different from that of other thermo sensitive male sterile genes. This unique feature of the gene can provide a new theoretical basis and apply value for two-line hybrid rice breeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhongnan Yang, Jun Zhu, Yueling Li, Yanfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11750510
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an FPGA device for implementing a network-on-chip transmission bandwidth expansion function, and relates to the technical field of FPGAs. When a predefined functional module with built-in hardcore IP nodes is integrated in an FPGA bare die, soft-core IP nodes are configured and formed by using logical resource modules in the FPGA bare die and are connected to the hardcore IP nodes to form an NOC network structure, so as to increase nodes and expand the transmission bandwidth of the predefined functional module. On the other hand, the soft-core IP nodes can be additionally connected to input and output signals in the predefined functional module and also can expand the transmission bandwidth of the predefined functional module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanfeng Xu, Yueer Shan, Jicong Fan, Yanfei Zhang, Hua Yan
  • Publication number: 20230025219
    Abstract: In an anti-fuse memory reading circuit with controllable reading time, a reading time control circuit generates a control signal corresponding to reading time. Based on a clock signal, a programmable reading pulse generation circuit generates a reading pulse with a pulse width corresponding to the control signal. Based on the reading pulse and the control signal, the reading amplification circuit selects a pull-up current source corresponding to the reading time, pulls up a voltage on a bit line (BL) of an anti-fuse memory cell, reads data stored in the anti-fuse memory cell starting from a rising edge of the reading pulse, and latches the read data at a falling edge of the reading pulse. The anti-fuse memory reading circuit can generate a reading pulse with a corresponding pulse width and a pull-up current source with a corresponding size based on the required reading time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengzhou CAO, Jie ZHU, Yanfei ZHANG, Jing SUN, Zhenkai JI, Zhengnan DING
  • Publication number: 20230016311
    Abstract: A delay adjustment cell is disposed in a channel of at least one regional clock of a chip clock architecture, and the delay adjustment cell includes a plurality of parallel delay paths with different delay values. The delay adjustment cell gates one of the delay paths based on an obtained configuration signal such that a connected regional clock has a corresponding target delay, and a target delay of each regional clock corresponds to a clock skew mode of the programmable logic chip. A clock skew between different regional clocks is adjusted by controlling the gated delay path in the delay adjustment cell, such that a clock skew of the chip can be adjusted in a relatively large range. Under the same resource configuration, different path choices of the delay adjustment cell lead to different clock skews to meet different clock skew modes in different application scenarios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenguang KUANG, Yanfei ZHANG, Boyin CHEN, Jicong FAN
  • Publication number: 20230020524
    Abstract: A configuration circuit of a flash FPGA for realizing external monitoring and configuration is provided. In the configuration circuit, a positive high-voltage output terminal of a positive high-voltage charge pump is connected to a positive high-voltage external monitoring port through a positive high-voltage bidirectional switch circuit, and the positive high-voltage output terminal of a positive high-voltage charge pump is further configured as a positive output end of a voltage supply circuit. A negative high-voltage output terminal of a negative high-voltage charge pump is connected to a negative high-voltage external monitoring port through a negative high-voltage bidirectional switch circuit, and the negative high-voltage output terminal of a negative high-voltage charge pump is further configured as a negative output end of the voltage supply circuit. Based on a received mode adjustment signal, a mode control circuit controls to enter an external monitoring mode or an external configuration mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueer SHAN, Zhengzhou CAO, Wenhu XIE, Yanfei ZHANG, Ting JIANG, Bo TU
  • Publication number: 20220415422
    Abstract: In an anti-fuse programming control circuit based on a master-slave charge pump structure, a master charge pump module obtains an external voltage and is connected to a plurality of slave charge pump modules. Each slave charge pump module is connected to an anti-fuse bank. The distance between the layout position of each slave charge pump module and the layout position of the connected anti-fuse bank does not exceed a predetermined distance. Based on a programming voltage output by each slave charge pump module to the connected anti-fuse bank, the feedback network outputs a feedback signal corresponding to the slave charge pump module to the master charge pump module. Based on the feedback signal corresponding to each slave charge pump module, the master charge pump module adjusts a master drive signal provided to the slave charge pump module to stabilize the programming voltage output by the slave charge pump module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: WUXI ESIONTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengzhou CAO, Yueer SHAN, Yanfei ZHANG, Yan JIANG, Yuting XU, Hui XU
  • Publication number: 20220344268
    Abstract: The present application discloses a multi-die FPGA implementing a built-in analog circuit using an active silicon connection layer, and relates to the field of FPGA technology. The multi-die FPGA allows multiple small-scale and small-area dies to cascade to achieve large-scale and large-area FPGA products, reducing processing difficulties and improving chip production yields. Meanwhile, due to the existence of the active silicon connection layer, some circuit structures that are difficult to implement within the die and/or occupy a large die area and/or have a low processing requirement can be laid out in the silicon connection layer, solving the existing problems of making these circuit structures directly within the die. Part of the circuit structures can be implemented within the silicon connection layer and the rest in the die, which helps optimize the performance of FPGA products, improve system stability, and reduce system area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yueer SHAN, Yanfeng XU, Jicong FAN, Yanfei ZHANG, Hua YAN
  • Publication number: 20220328452
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an active silicon connection layer therewithin to integrate a die. A power terminal of a die functional module within the die is connected to a connection point lead-out terminal through a silicon stack connection point. A power gating circuit is arranged within the silicon connection layer. A power output terminal of the power gating circuit within the silicon connection layer is connected to the corresponding connection point lead-out terminal of the die and thus connected to the power terminal of the die function module, so that the power gate circuit can control power supply to the die function module according to an obtained sleep control signal, and the idle die function module can enter into a sleep state to save power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jicong FAN, Yueer SHAN, Yanfeng XU, Yanfei ZHANG, Hua YAN
  • Patent number: 11464158
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an opposite belt-type precise seeding device. The opposite belt-type precise seeding device comprises a seed metering tube consisting of a U-shaped shell and a cover plate, two conveying devices provided inside the seed metering tube in parallel, and a conveying plate provided at the lower end of the seed metering tube. The opposite belt-type precise seeding device belongs to the field of agricultural machinery. In a seeder, a tubular seed conveying tube is usually used for guiding movement of seeds, but the movement of the seeds in the seed conveying tube has certain randomness, so that the seed distance consistency of the seeds in a seed bed is reduced. Through control of the seeds by the conveying devices, the stable movement of the seeds is achieved and the seed distance consistency of the seeds in the seed bed is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: Shandong University of Technology, Hefeng Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yulong Chen, Longmei Zhang, Yubin Lan, Jianyong Li, Bing Wang, Yanfei Zhang, Duanyang Geng, Ruijun Liu, Huaqiang Zhang