Patents by Inventor Zhi Zhou

Zhi Zhou 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: 20240374849
    Abstract: A fire protection device includes a housing, a valve body, a torsion spring, and a meltable member, a fluid passage is provided in the housing, the fluid passage is provided with a first opening and a second opening, the first opening and the second opening are used for connecting with a pipeline of an oxygen therapy instrument or a patient end, respectively; the valve body is located in the fluid passage and is rotatably connected to the housing; the valve body is provided with an accommodating cavity, and the fluid passage and the accommodating cavity are two spaces independent from each other; the torsion spring is embedded in the accommodating cavity so as to drive the relative rotation of the valve body and the housing; and the meltable member is disposed on an inner wall of the fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: BMC (TIANJIN) MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen LIU, Long HE, Yajie WANG, Mingzhao ZHOU, Zhi ZHUANG
  • Publication number: 20240357893
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display terminal. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The display panel includes a cathode signal trace and a cathode layer, the cathode signal trace includes a first trace part, and the first trace part is located in the display region, the cathode layer is located at one side of the cathode signal trace, covers the display region, and is electrically connected to the first trace part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Qin LIANG, Zhi YANG, Yangling TANG, Xiufeng ZHOU, Baohong KANG
  • Patent number: 12122489
    Abstract: This invention presents an ocean observation platform with an integrated, highly reliable wave energy generation mechanism, relevant to power supply technology in marine environments. It includes a platform floating body and a power generation mechanism located at the platform's bottom. The mechanism features disassemblable power generation piles, arranged in a circular array on the floating body. This design ensures that if one pile fails, the others continue generating electricity, enabling a long-term, stable, and continuous power supply. This is particularly useful for monitoring meteorological, temperature, salinity, and ocean current data in complex marine conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Binzhen Zhou, Xu Huang, Peng Jin, Zhi Zheng, Lei Wang, Hengming Zhang, Chusen Lin, Hongjie Wen
  • Publication number: 20240337085
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an annular anchor recycling instrument and an annular anchor recycling method, relating to the technical field of ocean engineering. The annular anchor recycling instrument includes a recycling tube, a pump body assembly, a lifting portion and an installation portion. One end of the recycling tube is provided with a cover body, and the other end of the recycling tube is configured to be an open end for cooperating with the top of the annular anchor. The pump body assembly is arranged on the cover body, and used to boost pressure to the interior of the recycling tube. The lifting portion is arranged on the cover body, and used to connect with a hoist. The installation portion are arranged on the cover body, and used to connect with the anchor chain on the annular anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Lunbo LUO, Changping SUN, Bojin TANG, Zengjuan LEI, Jianping ZENG, Zhi LI, Xingzheng ZHOU, Mengchao LI, Tong WANG, Liyan FAN, Yifeng LIN, Qiuju SUN, Min LIN
  • Patent number: 12109735
    Abstract: A computing system may include a design access engine configured to access an injection mold design and a channel construction engine configured to construct conformal cooling channels for the injection mold design. The channel construction engine may do so by extracting a cooling surface of the injection mold design, generating a central offset surface with a same shape as the cooling surface, projecting cooling lines on to the central offset surface, detecting sharp portions of the projected cooling lines, smoothing the detected sharp portions of the projected cooling lines, and generating the conformal cooling channels using the smoothed cooling lines along the central offset surface as a center line for the conformal cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Inc.
    Inventors: Zhi Li, Liwen Wang, Chee-keong Chong, Shunshun Zhou
  • Patent number: 12106389
    Abstract: A dispatching method for an electric-hydrogen energy system considering flexible hydrogen demand includes establishing an electric load flexibility equation, a power purchase and sale constraint equation, a renewable energy output constraint equation, a hydrogen load flexibility equation, an electricity-to-hydrogen production safety operation constraint equation and an electric power balance constraint equation, establishing an electric-hydrogen energy system dispatching model with the lowest operating cost of the electric-hydrogen energy system within the dispatching cycle as an objective function, and solving the electric-hydrogen energy system dispatching model to obtain an optimal dispatching result. As compared with the prior art, the present invention can effectively solve the problem of coordination between electric and hydrogen energy flows, while taking into account the flexibility of electric and hydrogen loads, further providing additional flexibility to the operation of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD., NANJING WOKESEN ELECTRIC POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Huachun Han, Xiaodong Yuan, Qun Li, Zhi Wu, Yongyong Jia, Chenyu Wu, Zhenhua Lv, Suyang Zhou, Weijia Tang, Shuai Lu, Chenggen Wang
  • Publication number: 20240322708
    Abstract: AC-DC-AC converter for delivering power to an electric motor from a power source is presented. The AC-DC-AC converter comprises a front-end converter and a motor-end converter connected through a DC link, the DC link voltage being generated and controlled by the front-end converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi ZHOU, Duro BASIC
  • Publication number: 20240322704
    Abstract: AC-DC-AC converter for delivering power to an electric motor from a power source is presented. The AC-DC-AC converter comprises a front-end converter and a motor-end converter connected through a DC link, the DC link voltage being generated and controlled by the front-end converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi ZHOU, Duro BASIC
  • Publication number: 20240305297
    Abstract: Provided is a signal driving system with a constant slew. The signal driving system with the constant slew includes: a step voltage generation unit configured to provide multiplex arithmetic gradient voltage signals; a multiplexer, wherein an input end of the multiplexer is connected to the step voltage generation unit to receive the multiplex arithmetic gradient voltage signals, and another input end of the multiplexer is connected to a control signal generation unit, and the multiplexer is configured to selectively output the multiplex arithmetic gradient voltage signals under a control of a control signal generated by the control signal generation unit; a voltage following unit connected to the multiplexer, wherein the voltage following unit is configured to serve as an isolation and improve a driving ability; and an output following unit connected to the voltage following unit, wherein the output following unit is configured to drive a subsequently-connected load unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Zhi LI, Jianzhong ZHAO, Yumei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240305211
    Abstract: A power supply system for arc furnace is described. The power supply system includes a power converter intended to be connected to a polyphase supply grid and a polyphase transformer comprising a primary circuit connected to the power converter and a secondary circuit intended to be connected to at least one electrode of the arc furnace. The power converter includes an input device, a link circuit that has a first bus and a second bus, and an output device. The power supply system further includes a command circuit configured to command the input device and the output device to supply the electrode and to stabilize the courant and the voltage delivered by the grid when the electrode of the arc furnace is supplied by the power supply system to reduce rejections in the grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Alfred PERMUY, Laurent FAHRNER, Duro BASIC, Sami SIALA, Cyrille BAVIERE, Zhi ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240304130
    Abstract: A driving method of a display panel and a display apparatus provided by embodiments of the present disclosure include: when a display mode switching startup instruction is received, a non-counting state is entered. The display panel is driven to display a first set picture, and a current display mode is switched to a target display mode. When a data mode switching completing instruction is received, a counting state is entered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yanting HUANG, Ke DAI, Chunyang NIE, Liugang ZHOU, Yunlu CHEN, Qing LI, Jun WANG, Zhi MENG, Wei SUN, Tianxun XIU, Yue YANG
  • Patent number: 12085840
    Abstract: A camera assembly is provided. The camera assembly includes an auxiliary mount, a rotatable camera module and a flexible heat conducting assembly, the rotatable camera module includes a rotatable mount and a camera function group disposed on the rotatable mount, the rotatable mount is rotatably connected to the auxiliary mount, the flexible heat conducting assembly is fixedly connected to one end of the camera function group, and the flexible heat conducting assembly is further configured to be connected to a non-rotatable camera module component, so that heat generated by the camera function group is transferred to the non-rotatable camera module component. A flexible heat conducting assembly performs a cross-region transfer of heat generated by the rotatable camera module, to help reduce an ambient temperature of the rotatable camera module, so as to improve photography quality of the camera module, and prolong a photography time period of the rotatable camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sen Wang, Jian Shi, Zhi Yuan, Weidong Tang, Along Zhou, Chenhan Liu
  • Publication number: 20240275286
    Abstract: Provided is a power converter that includes at least one leg having a first string that includes a plurality of switching units, a plurality of unidirectional current switches, a first connecting node, and a second connecting node, such that the first string is operatively coupled across a first and a second bus, and a second string operatively coupled to the first string via the first connecting node and the second connecting node such that the second string includes a plurality of unidirectional current switches and a fourth connecting node operatively coupled to a fourth bus. The power converter also includes a controller configured to control switching of the plurality of switching units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Zhi ZHOU, Jian LIU, Jayesh Kumar MOTWANI, Dong DONG, Rolando BURGOS
  • Publication number: 20240275263
    Abstract: Provided are modular multilevel converter and hybrid modular multilevel converters. Each of the modular multilevel converters and hybrid modular multilevel converters include submodules. Each submodule includes a first half bridge converter, a second half bridge converter, and a dual active bridge converter having a first connection, a second connection, a third connection and a fourth connection. The first half bridge converter is interconnected with the first and second connections via a first capacitor included in the first half bridge and the second half bridge converter is interconnected with the third and fourth connections via a second capacitor included in the second half bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhi ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240267677
    Abstract: An audio transducer includes a diaphragm assembly. The diaphragm assembly can include a diaphragm, an attachment portion that circumferentially surrounds the diaphragm, and a flexible surround extending between the diaphragm and the attachment portion. The audio transducer can include a voice coil coupled to the diaphragm where the voice coil has a voice coil lead. The audio transducer can include a carrier that circumferentially surrounds the voice coil. The carrier can include an annular mounting surface, with the attachment portion of the diaphragm assembly being able to attach to the mounting surface, and a channel formed in the mounting surface. The voice coil lead can extend through the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Charles LaColla, Paul Peace, Ruipan Chen, Xiaodong Zhou, Zhi Lu, Xingsu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20240262017
    Abstract: A computing system (100) may include a design access engine (108) configured to access an injection mold design (210) and a channel construction engine (110) configured to construct conformal cooling channels (510) for the injection mold design (210). The channel construction engine (110) may do so by extracting a cooling surface (600) of the injection mold design (210), generating a central offset surface (220) with a same shape as the cooling surface (600), projecting cooling lines (310) on to the central offset surface (220), detecting sharp portions (410) of the projected cooling lines (320), smoothing the detected sharp portions (410) of the projected cooling lines (320), and generating the conformal cooling channels (510) using the smoothed cooling lines (420) along the central offset surface (220) as a center line for the conformal cooling channels (510). It also relates to the method and a non-transitory machine-readable medium (820) comprising instructions (822, 824).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Industry Software Inc.
    Inventors: Zhi Li, Liwen Wang, Chee-keong Chong, Shunshun Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240259126
    Abstract: An audio and video synchronization method and device (100) for a playback module, an electronic device (10) and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The playback module includes an object-oriented program language standard library and an audio and video synchronization module of a kernel driver. The method includes: determining, in response to a playback instruction, a target player to build an audio module and a video module by the target player; creating, in the program language standard library, a synchronization instance corresponding to the target player, the synchronization instance having a unique instance identifier; and obtaining a reference clock corresponding to a real-time code stream of the synchronization instance based on the instance identifier, and controlling, according to a set synchronization mode, data outputs of the audio module and the video module corresponding to the target player based on the reference clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Lifeng Cao, Zhi Zhou, Yunmin Chen
  • Publication number: 20240252158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for extraction of a resected tissue or the like from a body comprising an elongate portion having a rounded end; a sleeve assembly comprising an anchor portion for contacting a region around the resected tissue when inflated, and a body portion shaped and dimensioned to receive the resected tissue; the body portion comprises a first end, a second end and a pliable sleeve; the first end and the second end each having a respective diameter greater than a desired diameter of the natural orifice or a tissue opening; wherein the pliable sleeve is disposed between the first end and the second end in a manner which a distance between the first end and the second end is adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Fangzhou ZHOU, Zhi Qi YONG, Kobby GREENBERG, Eric HAAS, Barry SALKY, Surendra Kumar MANTOO
  • Patent number: 12051349
    Abstract: A display panel adjustment method, display apparatus and storage medium. Detecting whether a persistence is created on a display panel by displaying a preset detection screen, locating all zones where a persistence has appeared in case where the persistence has been created on the display panel, and determining a target gate line which probably causes the persistence to appear on the display panel; by shortening the turn-on time of a target gate line, it is possible to decrease the probability of a parasitic capacitor being formed on the target gate line, or may decrease the charge held in the parasitic capacitor formed on the target gate line, and may further increase the discharge time of the parasitic capacitor, so as to mitigate or eliminate the persistence, and improve the display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Mancheng Zhou, Zhi Xiong, Baohong Kang
  • Publication number: 20240245671
    Abstract: The present application belongs to the technical field of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), and discloses a PROTAC molecule and a preparation method and use thereof. A ligand for a target protein in the PROTAC molecule of the present application is a pyridine carboxylic acid-1-oxide derivative. In cell and zebrafish experiments, the PROTAC molecule exhibits no toxic and side effects at a drug concentration allowing a desired effect. At a cellular level, an inhibition level of the PROTAC molecule for human tyrosinase (TYR) reaches less than or equal to 1 ?mol/L. The PROTAC molecule in the present application can significantly reduce the generation of melanin by degrading TYR, and has excellent solubility, safety, and efficacy and a low effective concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Du Feng, Wei Yi, Yongquan Hu, Junyuan Tang, Zhi Zhou, Haixia Zhuang