Patents by Inventor Zhiqiang Guo

Zhiqiang Guo 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: 20240153231
    Abstract: An example device for image processing includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to determine a region of interest (ROI) within a first frame and a second frame of a plurality of frames, apply a first amount of filtering on the ROI of the first frame and the second frame to generate a filtered ROI, apply a second amount of filtering on a remaining region of the first frame and the second frame to generate a filtered remaining region, combine the filtered ROI and the filtered remaining region to generate a filtered frame, and output the filtered frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Peiguang Ge, Changsheng Guo, Zhiqiang Jin
  • Patent number: 11957057
    Abstract: A CaTiO3-based oxide thermoelectric material and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The CaTiO3-based oxide thermoelectric material has a chemical formula of Ca1-xLaxTiO3, where 0<x?0.4. The present disclosure makes it possible to prepare a CaTiO3-based thermoelectric material with properties comparable to n-type ZnO, CaTiO3, SrTiO3 and other oxide thermoelectric materials. Among them, the La15 sample has a power factor reaching up to 8.2 ?Wcm?1K?2 (at about 1000 K), and a power factor reaching up to 9.2 ?Wcm?1K?2 at room temperature (about 300 K); and a conductivity reaching up to 2015 Scm?1 (at 300 K). The CaTiO3-based oxide thermoelectric material exhibits the best thermoelectric performance among calcium titanate ceramics. The method for preparing the CaTiO3-based oxide thermoelectric material of the present disclosure is simple in process, convenient in operation, low in cost, and makes it possible to prepare a CaTiO3-based ceramic sheet with high thermoelectric performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dalian University of Technology
    Inventors: Huijun Kang, Tongmin Wang, Jianbo Li, Zhiqiang Cao, Zongning Chen, Enyu Guo, Yiping Lu, Jinchuan Jie, Yubo Zhang, Tingju Li
  • Publication number: 20240105091
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate driving circuit, a method of driving a gate driving circuit, and a display panel. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of driving units connected in cascade. Each driving unit includes: N shift register units; and a mode control circuit connected to the N shift register units, wherein the mode control circuit is configured to receive a control signal for the driving unit, and connect the N shift register units in one of a plurality of resolution modes under the control of the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weixing Liu, Wei Qin, Kuanjun Peng, Tieshi Wang, Chunfang Zhang, Hui Zhang, Changfeng Li, Shunhang Zhang, Kai Hou, Hongrun Wang, Liwei Liu, Yunsik Im, Wanpeng Teng, Xiaolong Li, Kai Guo, Zhiqiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20240092584
    Abstract: A conveying device (100) and an inspection system (1000) are provided. The conveying device includes: a first support frame (1); a first conveying mechanism (2) and a second conveying mechanism (3) which are installed on the first support frame; and a switching mechanism (4) configured to selectively lift the first conveying mechanism or the second conveying mechanism in a vertical direction, such that the first conveying mechanism or the second conveying mechanism carries goods (401) and conveys the goods in a first horizontal direction or a second horizontal direction different from the first horizontal direction. The conveying device may achieve a positioning and a smooth continuous conveying of goods, and achieve a smooth conveying and a calibrated positioning of the goods in different postures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Li ZHANG, Zhiqiang CHEN, Yuanjing LI, Qingping HUANG, Weijun GUO, Liming YAO, Hui DING, Junhao LIU, Jiajia ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240089639
    Abstract: A global shutter image sensor with improved pixel failure coverage detects failures caused by the pixel chip of the image sensor. The global shutter image sensor includes a pixel chip including an array of photodiodes and associated logic, and a logic chip, bonded to the pixel chip, including an array of logic blocks for processing the images detected by the photodiodes. A failure detection circuit coupled to a reference voltage node of the image sensor detects a failure in the pixel chip by capturing a first level of pixel bias current and a second level of pixel bias current wherein a difference between the first level and the second level drives an output of the failure detection circuit either as logic high or as logic low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Liang ZUO, Zhenfu TIAN, Jiayu GUO, Dennis LEE, Zhiqiang SONG
  • Patent number: 11929241
    Abstract: Temperature measurement is described for a substrate carrier using a heater element array. In one example a method includes measuring a first combined current load of each of a plurality of heating elements in the electrostatic chuck, changing a power status of a first heating element of the plurality of heating elements, measuring a second combined current load of each of the plurality of heating elements after changing the power status of the first heating element, determining the difference between the first and second combined current loads, determining a temperature of the first heating element using the difference, and reverting the power status of the first heating element to that before the change and repeating changing power, measuring a current load, determining a difference, and determining a temperature for each of the other heating elements of the plurality to determine a temperature at each of the heating elements of the plurality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo
  • Patent number: 11924972
    Abstract: A diagnostic disc includes a disc-shaped body having raised walls that encircle the interior of the disc-shaped body and at least one protrusion extending outwardly from the disc-shaped body. The raised walls of the disc-shaped body define a cavity of the disc-shaped body. A non-contact sensor is attached to each of the at least one protrusion. A a printed circuit board (PCB) is positioned within the cavity formed on the disc-shaped body. A vacuum and high temperature tolerant power source is disposed on the PCB along with a wireless charger and circuitry that is coupled to each non-contact sensor and includes at least a wireless communication circuit and a memory. A cover is positioned over the cavity of the disc-shaped body and shields at least a portion of the PCB, circuitry, power source, and wireless charger within the cavity from an external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip A. Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew Myles, Martin Perez-Guzman
  • Publication number: 20240030815
    Abstract: A control circuit for a switch-mode power supply, a power circuit, and an electronic device. The control circuit outputs a control signal to control a switching frequency of the switch-mode power supply. The control circuit adjusts, in a plurality of cycles, a frequency of the control signal based on a plurality of ranges, and controls, in each cycle, the frequency of the control signal to change with time in a range corresponding to each cycle. In the embodiments, a frequency-domain energy dispersion degree of the control signal output by the control circuit can be increased, electromagnetic interference generated by the control signal output by the control circuit is reduced, and finally, it is ensured that the power circuit and the electronic device including the power circuit can pass a related security test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenghao SUN, Baolei DAI, Bo WANG, Zhiqiang GUO
  • Publication number: 20240023246
    Abstract: A method includes establishing, by a diagnostic disc, a secure wireless connection with a computing system using a wireless communication circuit of the diagnostic disc before or after the diagnostic disc is placed into a processing chamber. The method further includes generating, by at least one non-contact sensor of the diagnostic disc, sensor data of a component disposed within the processing chamber. The method further includes storing the sensor data in a memory of the diagnostic disc. The method further includes wirelessly transmitting the sensor data to the computing system, using the wireless communication circuit. The method further includes terminating the secure wireless connection with the computing system and clearing the sensor data from the memory of the diagnostic disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Phillip A. Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew Myles, Martin Perez-Guzman
  • Publication number: 20240022083
    Abstract: A system includes an enclosure configured to couple to an equipment front end module (EFEM) of a substrate processing system, a charging assembly, and one or more support structures within the enclosure. The one or more support structures are configured to support a validation wafer in a charging position to charge the validation wafer via the charging assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Phillip Alfred Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew S.C. Ho, Rachel Sara Stolzman, Michael Carl Hankes
  • Publication number: 20230413446
    Abstract: A method includes causing, by a computing system comprising at least one processing device, a diagnostic disc placed within a processing chamber to generate sensor data of at least one component of the processing chamber using a set of non-contact sensors of the diagnostic disc, receiving, by the computing system, the sensor data from the diagnostic disc via a wireless connection established between the computing system and the diagnostic disc, determining, by the computing system based on the sensor data, whether at least one of alignment concentricity is skewed with respect to the at least one component, and in response to determining that at least one of alignment or concentricity is skewed with respect to the at least one component, initiating, by the computing system, correction of at least one of alignment or concentricity of the at least one component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Phillip A. Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew Myles, Martin Perez-Guzman, Nelson Joseph Gaspard, Timothy Joseph Franklin, Michael A. Stearns
  • Patent number: 11817724
    Abstract: An enclosure system includes multiple walls forming an interior volume. The enclosure system is configured to couple to an equipment front end module (EFEM) of a substrate processing system. The enclosure system further includes a charging assembly including a first charging coil. The enclosure system further includes one or more first support structures disposed within the interior volume under the first charging coil. The one or more first support structures are configured to support a first validation wafer within a threshold distance of the first charging coil to charge the first validation wafer via the charging assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Alfred Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew S. C. Ho, Rachel Sara Stolzman, Michael Carl Hankes
  • Publication number: 20230347002
    Abstract: A decontamination device capable of confirming accurate operations of a mist circulation dispersion means before and after or during a decontamination operation and guaranteeing the overall operation as a decontamination device. The device includes a mist supply means, a mist circulation dispersion means, and an ultrasonic detection means. The mist supply means converts a chemical for decontamination of the inside of a working chamber of the device into a mist for decontamination and supplies such mist to the inside of the working chamber. The mist circulation dispersion means subjects a vibrating board (which includes a plurality of ultrasonic transmitters) to ultrasonic vibration to generate sound flows with ultrasound from board surfaces in the vertical direction and presses the mist with acoustic radiation pressure of the sound flows in order to circulate and disperse the mist for decontamination in the working chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tsukasa KITANO, Zhiqiang GUO, Kazuhiko KITAHORA, Yoshitaka OGATA, Daisuke KAKUDA, Yoshiaki OKADA, Koji KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11759829
    Abstract: A method for decontaminating a low-temperature article, the method comprising: an applying step including applying a decontamination agent to external surfaces of a low-temperature article and supplying a mist of decontamination agent to a first external surface of said low-temperature article to form a condensed film of the decontamination agent on said first external surface; and a drying step including ultrasonically vibrating vibration boards disposed on a periphery of the low-temperature article to generate sound flows from board surfaces by an ultrasound in a vertical direction, irradiating with ultrasonic waves the low-temperature article with the decontamination agent applied thereto, subjecting said first external surface of the low-temperature article to ultrasonic vibration and acoustic radiation pressure, supplying dry air to the first external surface and drying said first external surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Kawasaki, Daisuke Kakuda, Jun Masudome, Haruka Futamura, Yukihiro Yazaki, Tsukasa Kitano, Zhiqiang Guo, Ayumi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20230283086
    Abstract: An enclosure system includes multiple walls forming an interior volume. The enclosure system is configured to couple to an equipment front end module (EFEM) of a substrate processing system. The enclosure system further includes a charging assembly including a first charging coil. The enclosure system further includes one or more first support structures disposed within the interior volume under the first charging coil. The one or more first support structures are configured to support a first validation wafer within a threshold distance of the first charging coil to charge the first validation wafer via the charging assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Phillip Alfred Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew S.C. Ho, Rachel Sara Stolzman, Michael Carl Hankes
  • Publication number: 20230199992
    Abstract: A method includes establishing, by a diagnostic disc, a secure wireless connection with a computing system using a wireless communication circuit of the diagnostic disc before or after the diagnostic disc is placed into a processing chamber. The method further includes generating, at a vacuum of about 0.1 mTorr to about 50 mTorr and a temperature of about ?20° C. to about 120° C., by at least one non-contact sensor of the diagnostic disc, sensor data of a component disposed within the processing chamber. The method further includes wirelessly transmitting the sensor data to the computing system via the secure wireless connection using the wireless communication circuit. The diagnostic disc includes a disc-shaped body, a printed circuit board (PCB), a power source coupled to the PCB, a casing that encapsulates the power source, and a cover positioned over the PCB and the power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Phillip A. Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Philip A. Kraus, Andrew Myles, Martin Perez-Guzman
  • Publication number: 20230132065
    Abstract: The present invention can provide an incubator having not only a favorable cell culture function but also an autonomous decontamination function that saves the need for connection to an external decontamination device. The incubator provided with a culture vessel, a circulating means, a temperature-regulating means, and a gas supplying means for supplying a decontamination gas or a humidifying water vapor. The gas supplying means includes a compressed gas generating means, a decontamination solution supplying means, a water supplying means, a mixed gas/liquid regulator, and a vaporizer for generating a decontamination gas or a water vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Yoshitaka OGATA, Hideo NISHIWAKI, Daisuke KAKUDA, Jun MASUDOME, Yukihiro YAZAKI, Zhiqiang GUO, Tsukasa KITANO
  • Patent number: 11589474
    Abstract: A diagnostic disc includes a disc-shaped body having raised walls that encircle the interior of the disc-shaped body and at least one protrusion extending outwardly from the disc-shaped body. The raised walls of the disc-shaped body define a cavity of the disc-shaped body. A non-contact sensor is attached to each of the at least one protrusion. A printed circuit board (PCB) is positioned within the cavity formed on the disc-shaped body. A vacuum and high temperature tolerant power source is disposed on the PCB along with a wireless charger and circuitry that is coupled to each non-contact sensor and includes at least a wireless communication circuit and a memory. A cover is positioned over the cavity of the disc-shaped body and shields at least a portion of the PCB, circuitry, power source, and wireless charger within the cavity from an external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip A. Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Philip A. Kraus, Andrew Myles, Martin Perez-Guzman
  • Publication number: 20220378964
    Abstract: The present invention achieves a decontamination effect with a proper amount of hydrogen peroxide mist supplied to a room to be decontaminated by further refining such hydrogen peroxide mist supplied to the room for dispersion/diffusion, and reducing the duration of operations such as aeration to increase efficiency of decontamination. The decontamination system includes a mist generation means, a mist discharge port, and a mist dispersion/diffusion means. The mist generation means converts a decontamination liquid into a mist to generate a mist for decontamination. The mist discharge port is opened at an upper portion on an internal side wall surface of the room to discharge a such mist into the inside of the room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Gun SOU, Tsukasa KITANO, Zhiqiang GUO, Haruka FUTAMURA, Yukihiro YAZAKI, Daisuke KAKUDA, Jun MASUDOME
  • Publication number: 20220370666
    Abstract: A decontamination system not requiring large-scale equipment such as large-diameter ducts and anti-condensation heaters and for that reason capable of efficiently using a decontamination liquid. Long pipes can be installed for each of a plurality of rooms to be decontaminated, a decontamination liquid is not present in supply pipes as a residual dead liquid, and a proper amount of decontamination liquid can essentially be supplied for each room to cause no failure of an ultrasonic vibrator. The decontamination system employs a decontamination mist and includes a compressed air generating means and a decontamination liquid supplying means, and each room to be decontaminated is provided with a primary mist generating means and a secondary mist generating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Gun SOU, Tsukasa KITANO, Zhiqiang GUO, Haruka FUTAMURA, Yukihiro YAZAKI, Daisuke KAKUDA, Jun MASUDOME