Patents by Inventor Zhi Wei
Zhi Wei 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).
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Publication number: 20230039412Abstract: A rearview mirror system for a vehicle providing a direct reflection of scenes in good light and an enhanced display of scenes in bad lighting includes a housing defining an opening, a display screen arranged at the opening, a camera, a fill light lamp, and a controller. The display screen is light-pervious at only one side. The camera and the fill light lamp are arranged on the housing. An image processing chip and the controller are arranged between the display screen and the housing. When ambient brightness is below a preset brightness value, the camera and the fill light lamp are activated, the camera captures images of side and rear scenes of the vehicle and generates an optical signal, the image processing chip, based on the optical signal, outputs an enhanced image on the display screen for better driving safety. A vehicle including the rearview mirror system is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: HUI-ZHI WEI, JIAN-LONG XU
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Publication number: 20230006254Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrolyte comprising at least one magnesium salt having a polyatomic anion, an aluminium halide salt and a solvent comprising at least one ether group. The electrolyte described herein does not comprise magnesium chloride. The electrolyte described herein may be used in magnesium ion electrochemical cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Dan Thien NGUYEN, Zhi Wei SEH
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Publication number: 20220416301Abstract: There is a liquid electrolyte composition comprising: i) a magnesium salt comprising a trifluoromethane sulfonate anion; ii) an additive comprising an organic halide salt, an inorganic halide salt or a mixture thereof; and iii) a solvent comprising one or more ethers, wherein the organic halide salt comprises a halide anion and a cation selected from an optionally substituted quaternary ammonium or a three to nine membered N-heterocyclic cation, and the cation comprises at least one protonated nitrogen capable of dissociating the trifluoromethane sulfonate anion from the magnesium salt, and wherein the total concentration of cations of the inorganic halide salt and magnesium ions of the magnesium salt divided by the concentration of anions of the inorganic halide salt is greater than 1 in the electrolyte composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Dan Thien NGUYEN, Zhi Wei SEH
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Publication number: 20220389445Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: DAVID CHARLES CERF, JAMES J ENGLISH, CAROL A HENDRICK, LU LIU, JARRED KENNETH ORAL, PHILLIP A PATTEN, BARBARA ROSEN, UTE SCHELLENBERGER, INGRID UDRANSZKY, JUN-ZHI WEI, GENHAI ZHU
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Publication number: 20220393182Abstract: A method of forming a sulfur-based cathode material includes: 1) providing a sulfur-based nanostructure; 2) coating the nanostructure with an encapsulating material to form a shell surrounding the nanostructure; and 3) removing a portion of the nanostructure through the shell to form a void within the shell, with a remaining portion of the nanostructure disposed within the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Weiyang Li, Yi Cui, Zhi Wei Seh, Guangyuan Zheng, Yuan Yang
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Patent number: 11523510Abstract: A battery charger may include a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first portion supporting alternating current (AC) electrical components and a second portion supporting direct current (DC) electrical components; an indicator including a light-emitting diode (LED) supported on the first portion of the PCB and operable to emit light; and an isolating member positioned on the first portion between the AC electrical components and the LED. A trace on the PCB may be electrically connected to the second portion of the PCB, the trace extending from the second portion and along the first portion, and the LED may be electrically connected to and receiving DC power through the trace, the LED being selectively positioned along a length of the trace. The LED may be positioned more than about 8 mm from the AC electrical components.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Wyatt R. Silha, Cameron R. Schulz, Kyle C. Fassbender, Zhi Wei Meng
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Publication number: 20220367923Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrolyte comprising: a) a sodium salt; b) an additive comprising at least one additional metallic/metalloid cation having a standard reduction potential which is at least 2.5V more positive than that of sodium cation; wherein said sodium salt and said additive are dispersed in a solvent comprising at least one alkyl carbonate, and wherein the concentration of said metallic/metalloid cation in the electrolyte is 15 mM to 250 mM. The present disclosure also relates to a sodium-sulfur cell comprising a sodium anode, a microporous sulfur cathode, and the electrolyte as described herein. The present disclosure further provides a method of improving cycling life of a sodium-sulfur cell, wherein the sodium-sulfur cell comprising a sodium anode, a sulfur cathode, and an electrolyte containing a sodium salt dispersed in an alkyl carbonate solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Vipin KUMAR, Zhi Wei SEH
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Publication number: 20220340620Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: SCOTT DIEHN, JAMES J. ENGLISH, LU LIU, AZALEA S. ONG, JARRED KENNETH ORAL, BARBARA ROSEN, UTE SCHELLENBERGER, INGRID UDRANSZKY, JUN-ZHI WEI, WEIPING XIE, GENHAI ZHU
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Publication number: 20220322998Abstract: A sleep state sensing method and a sleep state sensing system are provided. The sleep state sensing method includes: sensing a designated physiological state through an electronic device to generate a first physiological signal group and sensing the designated physiological state through a physiological signal sensing instrument to generate a second physiological signal group; calibrating the electronic device based on the first physiological signal group and the second physiological signal group such that the electronic device generates a third physiological signal group; and determining a sleep state through the third physiological signal group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Osense Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: You-Kwang Wang, Zhi-Wei Wang
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Publication number: 20220325092Abstract: There is provided a composite comprising a) a short chain sulfur; and b) a carbon-supported conductive polymer such as polyacrylonitrile, wherein sulfur atoms of said short chain sulfur are covalently linked to the conductive polymer of said carbon-supported conductive polymer via a C—S bond. A method of preparing said composite comprising polymerizing a plurality of monomers in the presence of a carbon scaffold, mixing elemental sulfur and heating the mixture to obtain said composite is also disclosed. An electrochemical cell comprising said composite as cathode, a sodium anode and a liquid electrolyte such as sodium trifluoromethanesulfonate dissolved in a mixture of solvents is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Alex Yong Sheng ENG, Zhi Wei SEH
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Publication number: 20220302453Abstract: A carbonized composite comprising a sulfur chain and a conductive network, wherein said sulfur chain is covalently bonded to said conductive network via one or more C—S bonds. The present disclosure also provides a method of preparing the carbonized composite disclosed herein. The carbonized composite may be used in electrochemical cells comprising a reactive metal anode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Yong Sheng Alex Eng, Zhi Wei Seh
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Patent number: 11429574Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a computer-implemented technique for creating a log chain from multiple software component logs. The log chain can include log information from multiple software components that interact with each other. In embodiments, a locality-sensitive hashing technique is used to create a signature of a log chain. Machine-learning systems are trained with log chains generated from test execution, and/or log chains from incidents with deployed software. In embodiments, logs are pre-processed by tokenizing and trimming. Logs from various components that interact with each other may be combined into a temporally sequential log chain. The signature of the log chain may be used to identify additional information about the error from a machine-learning process that was trained on previously generated log chains. In this way, the time required to identify a problem can be significantly reduced, resulting in increased reliability and availability of complex computer systems.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Quan Q C Cheng, Xiang Qiu, Zhi Wei Du, Peng Hui Jiang
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Publication number: 20220260655Abstract: A magnetic particle imaging system that includes a magnetic field generating system with at least one magnet and providing a gradient magnetic field within an observation region such that the gradient magnetic field has a dynamic field-free region (FFR) for an object under observation having strongly-interacting magnetic particles distributed therein. The magnetic field generating system also includes a drive field and a slow shift field that dynamically shifts the FFR across a field of view (FOV) within the observation region, where the trajectory of the drive field accommodates for a coercivity of the strongly-interacting magnetic particles by ensuring that the particles in the FOV are saturated to a full coercivity field prior to traversing to an opposite-polarity of coercivity. The magnetic particle imaging system also includes a detection system proximate the observation region and configured to detect a signal from the strongly-interacting magnetic particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicants: The Regents of the University of California, University of Florida Research Foundation, IncorporatedInventors: Steven Conolly, Carlos Rinaldi, Bo Zheng, Prashant Chandrasekharan, Daniel Hensley, Shehaab Savliwala, Zhi Wei Tay, Rohan Deepak Dhavalikar
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Publication number: 20220251597Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: HEATHER KOZY, JARRED KENNETH ORAL, UTE SCHELLENBERGER, JUN-ZHI WEI, WEIPING XIE, XIAOHONG ZHONG, GENHAI ZHU
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Patent number: 11402407Abstract: A positionable probe card includes a space transformer, a plurality of positioning pins, and a probe head. The space transformer includes a space transforming substrate, the space transforming substrate includes a plurality of apertures, and the positioning pins are respectively fixed in the apertures. The probe head includes a plurality of positioning holes, and the positioning pins are respectively inserted into corresponding positioning holes. In addition, a method of manufacturing a positionable probe card is also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: MPI CorporationInventors: Zhi-Wei Su, Tzung-Je Tzeng, Wen-Chi Chen, Huo-Kang Hsu, Hsueh-Chih Wu, Sheng-Wei Lin, Chin-Yi Lin, Che-Wei Lin, Jian-Kai Hong, Shu-Jui Chang
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Patent number: 11396660Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Inventors: Heather Kozy, Jarred Kenneth Oral, Ute Schellenberger, Jun-Zhi Wei, Weiping Xie, Xiaohong Zhong, Genhai Zhu
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Publication number: 20220221537Abstract: A pulsed magnetic particle imaging system includes a magnetic field generating system that includes at least one magnet, the magnetic field generating system providing a spatially structured magnetic field within an observation region of the magnetic particle imaging system such that the spatially structured magnetic field will have a field-free region (FFR) for an object under observation having a magnetic nanoparticle tracer distribution therein. The pulsed magnetic particle imaging system also includes a pulsed excitation system arranged proximate the observation region, the pulsed excitation system includes an electromagnet and a pulse sequence generator electrically connected to the electromagnet to provide an excitation waveform to the electromagnet, wherein the electromagnet when provided with the excitation waveform generates an excitation magnetic field within the observation region to induce an excitation signal therefrom by at least one of shifting a location or condition of the FFR.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Steven M. Conolly, Patrick W. Goodwill, Daniel Hensley, Zhi Wei Tay, Bo Zheng
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Publication number: 20220195454Abstract: Biological strains, compositions, and methods of using the strains and compositions for reducing overall insect damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: BRIAN J GIBBONS, STEVEN D GRUVER, LU LIU, YOUNG-JUN PARK, JUN-ZHI WEI, GENHAI ZHU
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Patent number: 11325949Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Inventors: Scott Diehn, James J English, Lu Liu, Azalea S Ong, Jarred Kenneth Oral, Barbara Rosen, Ute Schellenberger, Ingrid Udranszky, Jun-Zhi Wei, Weiping Xie, Genhai Zhu
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Publication number: 20220056082Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: STEVEN D GRUVER, HEATHER KOZY, JESSICA O'REAR, BARBARA ROSEN, UTE SCHELLENBERGER, JUN-ZHI WEI, WEIPING XIE, XIAOHONG ZHONG, GENHAI ZHU