Patents by Inventor Yuan Zhu

Yuan 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: 20240128550
    Abstract: The present application discloses a battery casing and a lithium battery. The battery casing comprises a casing, a housing bottom, and a housing cover, wherein the housing is a cylindrical structure which has openings at two ends, the housing is formed by bending and welding plates, the plates are provided with first side edges and second side edges which are welded and connected, and the first side edges and second side edges are provided with a positioning structure. The housing bottom is welded to a first end of the housing, and the housing bottom is configured to seal the first end of the housing. The housing cover is welded to a second end of the housing, and the housing cover is configured to seal the second end of the housing distant from the housing bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Liangliang LIU, Yuan ZHU, Rongjiang LIU
  • Patent number: 11961926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for metallizing a front electrode of an N-type solar cell, including: treating an N-type crystalline silicon substrate to form a p+ doped region and a front surface passivation anti-reflection coating on a front surface of the N-type crystalline silicon substrate in an inside-out sequence, printing an aluminum paste on the front surface passivation anti-reflection coating to form a first finger, overprinting a silver paste on the first finger to form a second finger, and printing a front silver paste on the first finger to form a busbar. In the present invention, the superposition of the second finger on the first finger can reduce line resistance while ensuring a good ohmic contact, which further improves the photoelectric conversion efficiency of solar cells. Moreover, since no grooving procedure is required, the process is simplified and cost-efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NANTONG T-SUN NEW ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Zhu, Yuan Liu, Mengxue Liu
  • Patent number: 11960051
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide a method of fabricating a meta-lens structure. The method may include forming a first dielectric layer in contact with a silicon wafer. The method may also include forming a second dielectric layer in contact with the first dielectric layer. A refractive index of the second dielectric layer may be different from a refractive index of the first dielectric layer. The method may further include, in patterning the second dielectric layer. The method may additionally include removing at least a portion of the silicon wafer to expose the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Shiyang Zhu, Chih-Kuo Tseng, Ting Hu, Zhengji Xu, Yuan Dong, Alex Yuandong Gu
  • Publication number: 20240121840
    Abstract: This application discloses a network connection method, a related apparatus, and a system. In the method, an electronic device may continuously borrow a network connection capability of another device to continuously access the internet, may temporarily borrow a web capability of another device to access a captive portal wireless network, or may temporarily borrow a network connection capability of another device to activate an eSIM or a blank SIM. According to the method, the electronic device may smoothly connect to the internet by using the network connection capability or the web capability of the another device, and communicate with the internet, to provide various services for a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Xingchen Wu, Wenchao Zhu, Yuan Wang, Yufeng Mao
  • Patent number: 11956971
    Abstract: A fabrication process for an STT MTJ MRAM device includes steps of cooling the device at individual or at multiple stages in its fabrication. The cooling process, which may be equally well applied during the fabrication of other multi-layered devices, is demonstrated to produce an operational device that is more resistant to adverse thermal effects during operation that would normally cause a similar device not so fabricated to lose stored data and otherwise fail to operate properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Huanlong Liu, Guenole Jan, Ru-Ying Tong, Jian Zhu, Yuan-Jen Lee, Jodi Mari Iwata, Sahil Patel, Vignesh Sundar
  • Publication number: 20240104216
    Abstract: A method for setting a boot disk of a HBA card comprises acquires a physical layer port number corresponding to a slot of a target hard disk. A first identifier for the physical layer port number in a BIOS configuration page in the HBA card is configured. A second identifier for the target hard disk in the BIOS configuration page is configured. The second identifier is written into boot device items of the BIOS configuration page for fixing the target hard disk as a boot disk of the HBA card. The HBA card fails to identify other hard disk as the boot disk under any conditions. Drive letters of the HBA card and the rule of distributing the drive letters are unchanged, and a stability of a system is maintained. An apparatus and a computer readable storage medium applying the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: JIAN-HUA ZHU, JIE YUAN
  • Publication number: 20240104044
    Abstract: A method for adjusting system drive letters comprises acquires a system drive letter of an action hard disk in response to the identified action hard disk. If a plugging position of the action hard disk is the extension slot, the slot value corresponding to the action hard disk is acquired. The system drive letter is changed to a slot drive letter based on the slot value. If the system drive letter is shifted, the system drive letter is adjusted to be the slot drive letter for reducing the condition of failing to search or call the files in the action hard disk based on the original system drive letter. A convenience of searching or calling the files in the action hard disk is improved. An electronic device and a computer readable storage medium applying the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: JIAN-HUA ZHU, JIE YUAN
  • Publication number: 20240105351
    Abstract: A method for measuring drop time of a control rod cluster integrated with a rod position measurement device is provided, wherein the method is used to measure the drop time of each control rod cluster, and includes: Si, monitoring a voltage Ua of coils in Group A to capture a rod cluster drop signal; S2, searching a point (tmax, Vmax) with a maximum drop speed or with a local maximum drop speed; S3, retroactively calculating, from tmax, an end of a time period T4 when the control rod cluster starts to drop; S4, retroactively searching, from a minimum value point of a drop reference signal DROPref, a start of the time period T4 when the drop reference signal DROPref drops from a maximum value to 33% thereof; and S5, determining, from tmax forward, a time point t6 when a drop speed of the control rod cluster is lower than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NPRI)
    Inventors: Zhengke CHANG, Minghui ZHANG, Yuan HUANG, Ye TIAN, Shaohua XU, Xinxin LIU, Weijian ZHU, Yiming MA, Shengfeng XU, Bo CHAO, Ning TAO, Zihua YANG, Desong LANG, Qichao WANG
  • Publication number: 20240107640
    Abstract: An LED driving device with an adjustable dimming depth is provided. The LED driving device includes an LED driver and a dimming depth control circuit. The LED driver includes a dimming control circuit and a driving circuit. The dimming control circuit generates a first pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal according to a first brightness indication signal. The driving circuit drives a first light source and adjusts a brightness of the first light source. A duty ratio of the first PWM signal and the first driving current have a first relationship therebetween. The dimming depth control circuit includes a first variable resistance circuit, and the first variable resistance circuit controls a magnitude of a first variable resistance between a first current sampling terminal and a ground terminal according to a first dimming depth control signal. The first relationship defines a first dimming depth that varies with the first variable resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: XIAO-LEI ZHU, YUAN-YUAN LIN, SHENG-JU CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20240095005
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing sets of compatible firmware versions (e.g., cross-compatibility solution) for flashing (e.g., programming or re-programming) different devices of a network of devices (e.g., an industrial automation system) when using a flashing application. Providing the compatible firmware versions of such network of devices may facilitate flashing the devices with compatible firmware, based on a topology of the network of devices, to prevent functional errors in the network of devices. The present systems and methods may also be applicable to determining and providing cross-compatibility solution between different firmware, as well as software, used by different devices of a network of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Fabio Malaspina, James A. Bizily, Chunhui Zhu, Yuan Wei, Jingfeng Chen, Emily J. Smith
  • Publication number: 20240080732
    Abstract: The first circuitry may be operable to establish a first UE Receive (Rx) beam as being for reception of data from a first eNB. The second circuitry may be operable to process a transmission including Downlink Control Information (DCI), wherein the DCI carries an eNB cell-switching indicator. The first circuitry may also be operable to establish a second UE Rx beam as being for reception of data from a second eNB based on the eNB cell-switching indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Wenting Chang, Shirish Nagaraj, Bishwarup Mondal, Yuan Zhu, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240066549
    Abstract: A battery pole piece forming apparatus includes a conveying mechanism configured to convey a substrate; a feeding mechanism; and a press roller mechanism. The press roller mechanism includes a first press roller, a second press roller, a third press roller, and a fourth press roller arranged side by side in sequence. The first press roller and the second press roller are configured to roll-press active substance particles conveyed by the feeding mechanism to form a first membrane. The third press roller and the fourth press roller are configured to roll-press active substance particles conveyed by the feeding mechanism to form a second membrane. The second press roller and the third press roller are configured to roll-press the first membrane and the second membrane onto one side of the substrate (and another side of the substrate respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Liang ZHU, Ruirui ZHAO, Junhua LI, Yuan ZHU, Jianhua LIU, Jincheng LIU
  • Patent number: 11917678
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for facilitating simultaneous poll responses. A method may include assigning respective subsets of subcarrier frequencies to a plurality of user devices for communication over a wireless channel. The method may also include transmitting, simultaneously, a channel status request poll to the user devices. Additionally, the method may include determining, based at least in part on a first channel status response received via a first subset of subcarrier frequencies over the wireless channel, that the first channel status response is received from the first user device. Similarly, the method may also include determining a second channel status response is received from a second user device. Furthermore, the method may include determining, based at least in part on the first channel status response and the second channel status response, to schedule simultaneous data communication for the first device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Po-Kai Huang, Hujun Yin, Xiaogang Chen, Yuan Zhu, Xintian Lin
  • Publication number: 20240039090
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery cap and a battery. The battery cap includes a cap body and a pole assembly sealingly connected to the cap body and including a pole body and a connection member. The pole body is disposed on a side of the cap body, and the connection member is disposed on another side of the cap body; the pole body includes a limiting portion and a socket portion that are connected to each other, the socket portion being disposed on a side of the limiting portion, and a side of the connection member close to the pole body is recessed to define a mounting groove; the socket portion is inserted into and fixed to the mounting groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: LIANGLIANG LIU, YUAN ZHU, ZIXIA WANG
  • Publication number: 20240014370
    Abstract: The present application provides an electrode plate and a preparation method therefor, and a battery. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) mixing and granulating an active substance, a conductive agent, a solvent and a binder to obtain mixed particles; and (2) performing lamination on the mixed particles in step (1) and a current collector in a laminator to obtain an electrode plate, wherein the laminator has three or more rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Liang ZHU, Ruiru ZHAO, Xinbin QIU, Yuan ZHU, Jianhua LIU, Jincheng LIU
  • Patent number: 11870716
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) over an OFDMA-based uplink. In some embodiments, UCI symbols are mapped to resource elements (REs) in the time/frequency resource grid to maximize frequency diversity. In some embodiments, UCI is mapped in a manner that takes into account channel estimation performance by mapping UCI symbols to those REs that are closest (in terms of OFDM subcarriers/symbols) to REs that carry reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralf Matthias Bendlin, Gang Xiong, Jong-Kae Fwu, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Seunghee Han, Yuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11864016
    Abstract: An invention to perform a method of cell measurement in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network comprises a plurality of frequency layers, the invention configured to: determine a Measurement Gap Length, MGL, for each one of the plurality of frequency layers operational in the wireless network; determine a gap bitmap to indicate a measurement gap availability in a time sequence for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network; and transmit gap assistance information for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network to a User Equipment, wherein the gap assistance information comprises at least the determined Measurement Gap Length and the determined gap bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Rui Huang, Yuan Zhu, Shuang Tian
  • Patent number: 11864042
    Abstract: The first circuitry may be operable to establish a first UE Receive (Rx) beam as being for reception of data from a first eNB. The second circuitry may be operable to process a transmission including Downlink Control Information (DCI), wherein the DCI carries an eNB cell-switching indicator. The first circuitry may also be operable to establish a second UE Rx beam as being for reception of data from a second eNB based on the eNB cell-switching indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenting Chang, Shirish Nagaraj, Bishwarup Mondal, Yuan Zhu, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11843440
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB). The apparatus comprises a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry associates a first Beam Reference Signal (BRS) for a first Transmit (Tx) beam having a first beamwidth with one or more second BRSes for one or more respectively corresponding second Tx beams having a second beamwidth. The second circuitry generates a first BRS transmission carrying the first BRS, and generates one or more second BRS transmissions carrying the one or more respectively corresponding second BRSes. The third circuitry provides information regarding the first BRS and the second BRSes to the second circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Wenting Chang, Gang Xiong, Yuan Zhu, Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11838085
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to antenna configuration parameters. A device may determine one or more antennas having one or more phases. The device may determine a first delay associated with a first antenna of the one or more antennas. The device may determine a second delay associated with a second antenna of the one or more antennas. The device may cause to send a frame to a first station device using the first antenna, wherein the frame comprises a first indication of the delay associated with the first antenna and a second indication of the delay associated with the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xintian Lin, Yuan Zhu, Jonathan Segev, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Feng Jiang