Patents by Inventor Zhiming Han

Zhiming Han 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: 20250171211
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a container and a cap assembly. The container includes a component having an opening, and the cap assembly. The cap assembly includes a cap and an elastic arm. The elastic arm is disposed on the cap and extends obliquely with respect to a radial direction of the cap. At least a portion of the elastic arm is capable of being received in a recess and abuts against a second protrusion to prevent the cap assembly from rotating in a first direction relative to the component having the opening, such that the cap assembly is locked with the component having the opening; and the at least a portion of the elastic arm is capable of being released from the recess to unlock the component having the opening. The cap assembly of the present disclosure is capable of engaging with the component having the opening, such that the cap assembly cannot be unlocked without a specific tool (e.g., an operating tool).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Zhiming HAN, Mingqi YAN, Michael HENKER
  • Publication number: 20250058251
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a venting tank, a cooling system having the venting tank, and a motor vehicle having the cooling system. The venting tank comprises a tank body, a connecting pipe, a connecting pipe separator, and a bypass structure. The tank body has a degassing space therein. The connecting pipe is connected to the tank body and located outside the tank body. The connecting pipe separator is provided in the connecting pipe and extends along a length direction of the connecting pipe to separate an inlet channel and an outlet channel in the connecting pipe, wherein the inlet channel and the outlet channel are fluidly connected with the degassing space. The bypass structure forms a bypass flow path connecting the inlet channel with the outlet channel, wherein the bypass flow path is isolated from the degassing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hui HUANG, Zhiming HAN
  • Publication number: 20250058252
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a venting tank, a venting tank assembly, a cooling system having the venting tank and/or the venting tank assembly, and a motor vehicle having the cooling system. The venting tank assembly comprises a venting tank and a fluid connector. The venting tank comprises a tank body having a degassing space, and a connecting pipe having connecting pipe inlet and outlet channels. The fluid connector comprises an inlet section, an outlet section, and a connecting section which enables the inlet and outlets sections to be in fluid communication with the connecting pipe inlet and outlet channels, respectively. The fluid connector forms a bypass flow path communicating the inlet section with the outlet section such that part of a heat transfer fluid from the inlet section is guided into the degassing space, and the rest flows directly to the outlet section via the bypass flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hui HUANG, Zhiming HAN
  • Patent number: 11644139
    Abstract: A female connector for receiving a male connector includes a housing, a support ring, a clip, and a clip blocking member. The male connector includes a groove. The housing includes an outer surface and housing openings. The support ring includes support ring openings. The clip includes an operation portion between a pair of clip legs. The pair of clip legs can pass through the housing and support ring openings. The clip blocking member is located outside the housing and has a pair of blocking faces which face the pair of clip legs. When the groove aligns with the housing and support ring openings, the pair of clip legs enter the groove, and the operation portion moves to a travel end position. In the travel position, the distal ends of the pair of clip legs are between the pair of blocking faces and the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Zhiming Han, Yue Gu
  • Publication number: 20210332923
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a female connector for receiving a male connector. The female connector includes a housing, a support ring, a clip having legs, and a clip blocking member having blocking faces. The male connector includes a groove and can be at least partially inserted into an internal space of the support ring located in a fluid channel of the female connector. When the groove is aligned with housing openings and support ring openings, the clip legs can enter the groove, and an operation portion of the clip can get into a travel end position. When the groove is not aligned with the housing openings and the support ring openings, and the clip legs abut against an outer surface of the male connector, the blocking faces can prevent the operation portion from getting into the travel end position by abutting against distal ends of the clip legs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Zhiming HAN, Yue GU
  • Publication number: 20090138979
    Abstract: The observed over-expression of Sp1 target genes has inspired inventors to formulate a specific strategy for correcting many gene expression defects, and thus improve clone development. The invention is based on the belief that manipulating Sp1 activity can improve cloning. Inventors believe that cloning is inefficient in large part because of the continued expression of Sp1 target genes in the early cloned embryos, which causes clones to be very unlike normal embryos, and so makes them very unhealthy. Inventors propose that if over-expression of Sp1 target genes is prevented in early stage clones, this would greatly improve cloning efficiency by making the cloned embryos healthy again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Temple University - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Keith Latham, Rita Vassena, Zhiming Han