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: 20250096690
    Abstract: This application provides a control circuit, a power supply module, and an electronic device. The power supply module includes a rectifier circuit and an asymmetric half-bridge flyback converter circuit which includes a main power transistor, an auxiliary power transistor, and a transformer. The control circuit controls the main power transistor and the auxiliary power transistor to be alternately turned on and off, so that the asymmetric half-bridge flyback converter circuit supplies power to a load. The control circuit is configured to: control the rectifier circuit to discharge to the transformer within preset duration; and after the rectifier circuit stops discharging to the transformer, control the main power transistor to be turned on based on a comparison result of a preset voltage value and voltage difference between a drain and a source of the main power transistor. This application reduce switching loss of the main power transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Chenghao SUN, Liang WU, Baolei DAI, Zhiqiang GUO
  • Publication number: 20250088114
    Abstract: This application provides a control circuit of a power supply module, and an electronic device. In one example, the power supply module includes a rectifier circuit and an active clamp flyback converter circuit which includes a main power transistor, an auxiliary power transistor, and a transformer. The control circuit is configured to: control the active clamp flyback converter circuit to operate in a discontinuous conduction mode, and control the rectifier circuit to discharge to the transformer within preset duration after the auxiliary power transistor is turned off and before the main power transistor is turned on; and after the rectifier circuit stops discharging to the transformer, control the main power transistor to be turned on based on a comparison result of a voltage difference between a drain and a source of the main power transistor and a preset voltage value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Chenghao SUN, Liang WU, Baolei DAI, Zhiqiang GUO
  • Patent number: 12243756
    Abstract: Implementations described herein provide a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a heater assembly. The substrate support assembly comprises an upper surface and a lower surface; one or more main resistive heaters disposed in the substrate support; and a plurality of heaters in column with the main resistive heaters and disposed in the substrate support. A quantity of the heaters is an order of magnitude greater than a quantity of the main resistive heaters and the heaters are independently controllable relative to each other as well as the main resistive heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay D. Parkhe, Konstantin Makhratchev, Masanori Ono, Zhiqiang Guo
  • Patent number: 12236911
    Abstract: A display method is provided. The display method includes providing a display panel having a plurality of subpixels, a respective subpixel of the plurality of subpixels including a first area, n1 number of second areas, and n2 number of third areas, the first area being between the n1 number of second areas and the n2 number of third areas, n1?1, and n2?1; for displaying a first frame of image, controlling light emission of the respective subpixel to be limited in the first area, m1 number of the n1 number of second areas, and m2 number of the n2 number of third areas; and for displaying a second frame of image, controlling light emission of the respective subpixel to be limited in the first area, m1? number of the n1 number of second areas, and m2? number of the n2 number of third areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Kuanjun Peng, Kai Guo, Wanpeng Teng, Chunfang Zhang, Weixing Liu, Zhiqiang Xu, Tieshi Wang, Feihu Zhou
  • Patent number: 12236824
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 12194184
    Abstract: A decontamination device devised to accomplish decontamination with a proper amount of decontamination agent by employing a mist control mechanism to concentrate a mist for decontamination on the surface of an article to be conveyed, and to reduce duration of operations such as aeration increase efficiency of decontamination, and a pass box in which the decontamination device is disposed. The device also includes a mist supply means configured to convert a chemical for decontamination into the mist, and to supply the mist to the inside of a working chamber accommodating the article. The mist control mechanism includes vibration boards adjacent to internal wall surfaces of the working chamber, which are ultrasonically vibrated to generate sound flows from board surfaces by an ultrasound in the vertical direction. The mist supplied to the inside of the chamber is pressed by acoustic radiation pressure to be concentrated on external surfaces of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: AIREX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawasaki, Daisuke Kakuda, Jun Masudome, Haruka Futamura, Yukihiro Yazaki, Tsukasa Kitano, Zhiqiang Guo, Ayumi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12194185
    Abstract: A decontamination device configured to provide, on a short time scale, uniform decontamination of target articles without using expensive electron accelerators and to decontaminate such articles in large quantities. The device includes a device body composed of a decontamination region and an aeration region, a conveyance means for conveying an article, a mist supply means, a mist control means, and an aeration means. The mist supply means converts a decontamination agent into a corresponding mist and supplies the mist to the inside of the decontamination region. The mist control means includes vibration boards adjacent to internal wall surfaces of the decontamination region, and these boards are ultrasonically vibrated to generate sound flows from board surfaces by an ultrasound in the vertical direction. The mist inside the decontamination region is pressed by acoustic radiation to concentrate the mist on external surfaces of the article conveyed inside the decontamination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: AIREX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawasaki, Daisuke Kakuda, Jun Masudome, Haruka Futamura, Yukihiro Yazaki, Tsukasa Kitano, Zhiqiang Guo, Ayumi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240408264
    Abstract: A decontamination system configured to decontaminate an air supply space constructed between an air filter (which cleans air supplied to a work room with sterile environment) and a straightening plate (configured to straighten the clean air). Such system includes a decontamination agent discharging device provided in a work room, and a decontamination agent transfer device provided in the air supply space. When decontaminating an inside of the work room, the decontamination agent discharging device is operated to discharge the decontamination agent to the inside of the work room, and the decontamination agent transfer device is operated to suction, discharge, or circulate the decontamination agent between the work room and the air supply space. Consequently, both the air supply space and the work room are decontaminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Daisuke KAKUDA, Yoshitaka OGATA, Kazuhiko KITAHORA, Haruka FUTAMURA, Zhiqiang GUO, Tsukasa KITANO
  • Patent number: 12166366
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Alfred Criminale, Zhiqiang Guo, Andrew S. C. Ho, Rachel Sara Stolzman, Michael Carl Hankes
  • Patent number: 12102727
    Abstract: A continuous decontamination-and-sterilization device possessing high efficiency, reliability, and safety of operation to treat external surfaces of a package that is conveyed to a sterile working chamber. A decontamination chamber decontaminates (with a decontamination agent) bottom and lateral external surfaces of the package conveyed by a first conveyance, with an upper surface seal portion of the package being sealed. An aeration chamber removes residue of decontamination agent from an external surface of the package while the package is conveyed by a second conveyance means. A sterilization chamber sterilizes the upper surface seal portion of the package by irradiating electron beams as the package is conveyed by a third conveyance means, with the bottom or lateral external surface of the package being supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: AIREX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawasaki, Daisuke Kakuda, Yoshitaka Ogata, Jun Masudome, Haruka Futamura, Tsukasa Kitano, Zhiqiang Guo
  • Publication number: 20240321620
    Abstract: Implementations described herein provide a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a heating assembly. The substrate support assembly comprises a body having a substrate support surface and a lower surface, one or more main resistive heaters disposed in the body, a plurality of spatially tunable heaters disposed in the body, and a spatially tunable heater controller coupled to the plurality of spatially tunable heaters, the spatially tunable heater controller configured to independently control an output one of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters relative to another of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Vijay D. PARKHE, Steven E. BABAYAN, Konstantin MAKHRATCHEV, Zhiqiang GUO, Phillip R. SOMMER, Dan A. MAROHL
  • Publication number: 20240296343
    Abstract: Embodiments of this specification provide a data fusion method for distributed graph learning, applied to a distributed graph learning process for graph data in a distributed system. A single device in the distributed system is pre-allocated with a plurality of graph nodes of the graph data and a corresponding node connection relationship, a first device includes N graph nodes and M mirror nodes, a single mirror node and a single graph node in the N graph nodes are neighboring nodes of each other, and in a data fusion process for distributed graph learning, the first device performs a fusion operation on each of the M mirror nodes through a plurality of mutually independent mirror fusion threads, and separately adds a mirror fusion vector of a mirror node to a local aggregation data sequence. In addition, the first device sequentially sends, through a sending thread, mirror fusion vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventor: Zhiqiang GUO
  • Publication number: 20240289015
    Abstract: In a data access method, graph nodes in the first graph learning device are grouped into a plurality of graph node groups with a priority. A priority of the graph node group is determined based on a graph node dependency relationship, and the graph node dependency relationship is used to reflect dependency of the graph node relative to the mirror node during graph learning. A mirror node on which each graph node group depends is determined based on the graph node dependency relationship; and cache space is allocated, from a common buffer of the first graph learning device based on the priority of the graph node group, to the mirror node on which each graph node group depends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventor: Zhiqiang GUO
  • Publication number: 20240261452
    Abstract: A continuous decontamination-and-sterilization device possessing high efficiency, reliability, and safety of operation to treat external surfaces of a package that is conveyed to a sterile working chamber. A decontamination chamber decontaminates (with a decontamination agent) bottom and lateral external surfaces of the package conveyed by a first conveyance, with an upper surface seal portion of the package being sealed. An aeration chamber removes residue of decontamination agent from an external surface of the package while the package is conveyed by a second conveyance means. A sterilization chamber sterilizes the upper surface seal portion of the package by irradiating electron beams as the package is conveyed by a third conveyance means, with the bottom or lateral external surface of the package being supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Daisuke KAKUDA, Yoshitaka OGATA, Jun MASUDOME, Haruka FUTAMURA, Tsukasa KITANO, Zhiqiang GUO
  • Publication number: 20240238464
    Abstract: A pass box configured to carry out complete decontamination of an article in a short time without affecting thermal status of a thermosensitive substance that may be present at an outer surface of the article. The pass box includes several zones (a carrying-in zone, a decontamination zone, an aeration zone, and a carrying-out zone) and a carrying apparatus configured to transfer the article inside the pass box. A decontamination-agent applying device of the pass box includes means for generating compressed-gas, means for supplying a decontamination agent, a mixed gas-liquid regulator intermixing the compressed gas and the decontamination agent and regulating the resulting mixed gas-liquid, and a heater heating the mixed air-liquid and transforming it into a decontamination agent mist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Daisuke KAKUDA, Kazuhiko KITAHORA, Haruka FUTAMURA, Yoshitaka OGATA, Zhiqiang GUO, Tsukasa KITANO
  • Patent number: 12009244
    Abstract: Implementations described herein provide a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a heating assembly. The substrate support assembly comprises a body having a substrate support surface and a lower surface, one or more main resistive heaters disposed in the body, a plurality of spatially tunable heaters disposed in the body, and a spatially tunable heater controller coupled to the plurality of spatially tunable heaters, the spatially tunable heater controller configured to independently control an output one of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters relative to another of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay D. Parkhe, Steven E. Babayan, Konstantin Makhratchev, Zhiqiang Guo, Phillip R. Sommer, Dan A. Marohl
  • 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
  • Patent number: D1048474
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Linhai Beidi Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Guo