Patents by Inventor Zhen Song

Zhen Song 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: 20230118975
    Abstract: A sintered composite ceramic includes a lithium-garnet major phase; and a lithium dendrite growth inhibitor minor phase, such that the lithium dendrite growth inhibitor minor phase comprises lithium tungstate. A method includes sintering a metal oxide component and a garnet component at a temperature in a range of 750° C. to 1500° C. to form a sintered composite ceramic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, Jun Jin, Zhen Song, Jianmeng Su, Zhaoyin Wen, Tongping Xiu, Chujun Zheng
  • Patent number: 11625016
    Abstract: Methods for predictive maintenance with using machine learning in a building automation system and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving device event data corresponding to a device and executing an inference engine to determine root cause fault data corresponding to the device event data. The method includes executing a predictive maintenance engine to produce a survival analysis for the physical device based on the root cause fault data. The method includes producing updated failure data by the predictive maintenance engine, based on the survival analysis, and providing the updated failure data to the inference engine. The inference engine thereafter uses the updated failure data in a subsequent root cause analysis. The method includes outputting the survival analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Mingzhi Cao, Zhen Song, Megan McHugh, Yubo Wang
  • Publication number: 20230094026
    Abstract: A lithium-metal battery includes: a cathode; a garnet solid-state electrolyte disposed on the cathode; and a lithium anode disposed on the garnet solid-state electrolyte, such that a modification layer is disposed at an interface of the lithium anode and garnet solid-state electrolyte, the modification layer comprising an inorganic lithium salt. A method of forming a lithium-metal battery includes treating garnet solid-state electrolyte with an acid solution; and exposing the acid-treated garnet solid-state electrolyte to hydrogen fluoride to form a modification layer atop the garnet solid-state electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, Mingli Cai, Jun Jin, Zhen Song, Zhaoyin Wen, Tongping Xiu
  • Publication number: 20230090892
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte including: a lithium ion inorganic conductive layer; and an amorphous phase on a surface of the lithium ion inorganic conductive layer, wherein the amorphous phase is an irradiation product of the lithium ion inorganic conductive layer. Also, the method of preparing the same, and a lithium battery including the solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jusik KIM, Michael Edward BADDING, Hyunseok KIM, Zhen SONG, Taehwan YU
  • Publication number: 20230087701
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel, including: a substrate provided with a display region and a non-display region disposed at a periphery of the display region; a plurality of first power signal lines and a plurality of drive signal lines that are disposed in the display region; and a power connection bus, a plurality of first fan-out leads, and a plurality of second fan-out leads that are disposed in the non-display region, wherein the power connection bus is electrically connected to the first power signal line and the first fan-out lead respectively; the plurality of second fan-out leads are electrically connected to the plurality of drive signal lines in a one-to-one correspondence; each first fan-out lead is disposed between every two adjacent second fan-out leads; and the plurality of first fan-out leads and the plurality of second fan-out leads are both configured to be electrically connected to a driving chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Guoying WANG, Pan XU, Yicheng LIN, Ying HAN, Xing ZHANG, Zhen SONG, Dacheng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11605836
    Abstract: A lithium-metal battery, includes: a substrate; a cathode disposed on the substrate; a garnet solid-state electrolyte disposed on the cathode; and a lithium anode disposed on the garnet solid-state electrolyte, such that a discoloration layer is disposed at an interface of the lithium anode and garnet solid-state electrolyte, the discoloration layer includes: a first portion; and a second portion, such that the first portion has a lithium component and the second portion has a garnet component. A method of forming a lithium-metal battery, includes: stacking a garnet source with at least one lithium source; and heating the stack at a temperature of at least 300° C. for a time in a range of 1 sec to 20 min to form a discoloration layer, such that the discoloration layer is disposed at an interface of the garnet source and the lithium source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, Jun Jin, Zhen Song, Jianmeng Su, Zhaoyin Wen, Tongping Xiu
  • Publication number: 20230042951
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to an array substrate. The array substrate may include a base substrate and a pixel defining layer on the base substrate. The pixel defining layer may include a plurality of thickness thinning regions. The thickness thinning regions may have a smaller height than other areas of the pixel define layer on the base substrate. The plurality of the thickness thinning regions may be configured to guide flow of fillers to form an encapsulating layer on the pixel defining layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongda Sun, Youngsuk Song, Zhen Song, Guoying Wang
  • Patent number: 11570916
    Abstract: A server casing assembly includes a casing, a first cage, a second cage, and a latch. The casing has two accommodation spaces spaced apart from each other. The first cage and the second cage are respectively accommodated in the accommodation spaces. The latch is slidably disposed on the casing. The latch is movable between a first unlocked position and a second unlocked position. When the latch is in the first unlocked position, the latch is engaged with the second cage, and the first cage is released from the latch. When the latch is in the second unlocked position, the latch is engaged with the first cage, and the second cage is released from the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Er-Zhen Song
  • Patent number: 11548811
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are graphene coatings characterized by a porous, three-dimensional, spherical structure having a hollow core, along with methods for forming such graphene coatings on glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramics, and crystalline materials. Such coatings can be further coated with organic or inorganic layers and are useful in chemical and electronic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: Corning Incorporated, ICFO—THE INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC SCIENCES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS (ICREA)
    Inventors: Connie Li, Xinyuan Liu, Miriam Marchena Martín-Francés, Valerio Pruneri, Wageesha Senaratne, Zhen Song, Kamal Kishore Soni
  • Patent number: 11539032
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel are provided. The organic light emitting diode includes a light emitting structure and a first electrode structure. The first electrode structure is configured to drive the light emitting structure to emit light and includes a first electrode and a light reflecting layer, the light reflecting layer is disposed on a side of the first electrode away from the light emitting structure, wherein the first electrode and at least a portion of the light reflecting layer are overlapped with each other in a first direction, an insulating layer is at least partially disposed between the at least part of the light reflecting layer and the first electrode overlapped with each other, and the first direction is perpendicular to a plane on which the light reflecting layer is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhen Song, Guoying Wang
  • Patent number: 11531669
    Abstract: Methods for data quality analysis and aggregation in a building automation system and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving input data and receiving a configuration file that defines data quality (DQ) processes to be performed on the input data. The method includes dynamically building a configurable pipeline based on the configuration file, the pipeline including one or more Data Quality Indicator (DQI) or Data Quality Aggregation (DQA) process components from a DQ core library. The method includes performing DQ processes on the input data, including executing each of the DQI or DQA process components included in the pipeline, producing one or more DQ results based on the DQ processes, and returning the one or more DQ results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Donal O'Farrell, Zhen Song, Megan McHugh, Alexander Guiterrez
  • Patent number: 11532754
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a substrate, an active layer, and an amorphous silicon shielding layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, which are opposing to each other. The active layer is over the first surface of the substrate. The amorphous silicon shielding layer includes amorphous silicon, and is between the active layer and the substrate, or alternatively is disposed over a side of the substrate proximal to the second surface of the substrate. An orthographic projection of the amorphous silicon shielding layer on the first surface at least partially and preferably completely covers an orthographic projection of the active layer on the first surface such that the amorphous silicon shielding layer shields a light from shedding onto the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Song, Guoying Wang
  • Publication number: 20220384841
    Abstract: Passivated Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) particles, tape casting powders and slip compositions including the particles, methods of forming the particles, methods of tape casting using the particles, green tapes including the particles, cast LLZO films formed from the particles, and lithium batteries including the cast LLZO film. A passivated LLZO particle includes an LLZO core, wherein the LLZO is optionally doped with one or more elements. The passivated LLZO particle also includes a shell including H-LLZO, H3O+-LLZO, and/or Li2CO3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Zhen Song, Michael Edward Badding, Jacquie L. Brown, Brent D. Conway, Aaron D. DeGeorge, Yinghong Chen, Jason A. Brown
  • Publication number: 20220384542
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a substrate, a light-emitting element, and a pixel defining layer. The light-emitting element includes a cathode, an anode and a light-emitting layer, the pixel defining layer defines a plurality of openings, the light-emitting layer is disposed in the openings and covers a predetermined area on a side of the pixel defining layer facing towards the openings, and hydrophilicity of the pixel defining layer at each position of the predetermined area is substantially identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Guoying WANG, Zhen SONG
  • Patent number: 11508939
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method of the array substrate and a display device. The array substrate provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure includes sub-pixel units with multiple light-emitting colors; each sub-pixel unit includes a resonant cavity formed by a reflective layer and a cathode which are oppositely arranged, and the resonant cavity further includes: an anode positioned between the reflective layer and the cathode, and a light-emitting function layer positioned between the anode and the cathode; lengths of resonant cavities of the sub-pixel units with a same one of the light-emitting colors are the same, and lengths of resonant cavities of the sub-pixel units with different light-emitting colors are different; thicknesses of anodes of the sub-pixel units with different light-emitting colors are the same, thicknesses of light-emitting function layers of the sub-pixel units with different light-emitting colors are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoying Wang, Zhen Song
  • Patent number: 11502330
    Abstract: A method of forming a solid, dense, hermetic lithium-ion electrolyte membrane comprises combing an amorphous, glassy, or low melting temperature solid reactant with a refractory oxide reactant to form a mixture, casting the mixture to form a green body, and sintering the green body to form a solid membrane. The resulting electrolyte membranes can be incorporated into lithium-ion batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Michael Edward Badding, George Halsey Beall, Curtis Robert Fekety, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Robert Michael Morena, Zhen Song
  • Publication number: 20220359908
    Abstract: A composite ceramic including: a lithium garnet major phase; and a grain growth inhibitor minor phase, as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of making composite ceramic, pellets and tapes thereof, a solid electrolyte, and an electrochemical device including the solid electrolyte, as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, Yinghong Chen, Xiao Huang, Cai Liu, Xinyuan Liu, Yanxia Ann Lu, Zhen Song, Zhaoyin Wen, Tongping Xiu, Nathan Michael Zink
  • Patent number: 11488988
    Abstract: A display backplane includes a substrate, a thin film transistor over the substrate, and a pixel capacitor assembly over a side of the thin film transistor away from the substrate, and an orthographic projection of the pixel capacitor assembly on the substrate covers at least one portion of an orthographic projection of the thin film transistor on the substrate. The pixel capacitor assembly includes a first electrode, a passivation layer, and a second electrode, sequentially over a side of the thin film transistor away from the substrate, and an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the substrate is overlapped with the orthographic projection of the thin film transistor on the substrate. A display panel including the display backplane can further include an OLED component, arranged over a side of the pixel capacitor assembly away from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Song, Guoying Wang
  • Patent number: 11489020
    Abstract: An optical sensor device, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are disclosed. The optical sensor device includes a display region and a non-display region. In the display non-display region, the optical sensor device includes a thin film transistor, including an active layer, a gate insulating layer, a gate layer, a source and drain layer, and an interlayer dielectric layer. In the non-display display region, the optical sensor device includes a first insulating layer, a conductive layer and a second insulating layer which are stacked sequentially. The conductive layer is arranged in a same layer as the source and drain layer or the gate layer. In the non-display display region, the first insulating layer is provided with a first through-hole, and the optical sensor device further includes a photo-sensitive device in the first through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guoying Wang, Zhen Song
  • Patent number: 11489029
    Abstract: A transparent display substrate includes a first base and a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on the first base. At least one sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels has a light-emitting region and a transparent region. In the at least one sub-pixel, each sub-pixel includes at least one thin-film transistor, a capacitor and a self-luminescent device that are located in the light-emitting region of the sub-pixel. The self-luminescent device is disposed on a side of the capacitor away from the at least one thin film transistor in a direction perpendicular to the first base. The at least one thin film transistor and the capacitor are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Song, Guoying Wang