Mei Y Li

6566853, May 20, 2003

Mar 27, 2001

09/817291

Mei Li - Dearborn MI
Roderick I. L. Guthrie - Montreal, CA

Limca Research Inc. - Montreal

G01N 2700

324 714, 324 711, 324717, 324724, 164 41

Molten metal inclusion sensor probes have a sensing passage through which the molten metal passes, while direct current passes through the passage between two electrodes. The passage of an inclusion through the passage changes the resistance in the path, resulting in a pulse indicating its size, and enabling the number of particles in a sample to be counted. Previously the passage has been cylindrical, with or without a conical entrance, or of randomly smoothed profile produced by melting the probe material. High levels of background noise make pulse detection difficult, and operation is improved by the passage decreasing smoothly in cross-section in the flow direction, preferably with a parabolic or elliptical profile, and preferably with the exit of the same profile. The wall surface is formed to a smoothness of better than 1. 016 micrometers (40 microinches), preferably 0.

20130103493, Apr 25, 2013

Dec 16, 2011

13/328924

Jianfeng Gao - Woodinville WA, US
Xuedong Huang - Bellevue WA, US
Mei Li - Redmond WA, US
Zhenghao Wang - Redmond WA, US
Christopher John Brockett - Bellevue WA, US
William B. Dolan - Kirkland WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06Q 30/02
G06F 17/30

705 1446, 707769, 707706, 705 1449, 707E17108

The subject disclosure is directed towards developing a translation model for mapping search query terms to document-related data. By processing user logs comprising search histories into word-aligned query-document pairs, the translation model may be trained using data, such as probabilities, corresponding to the word-aligned query-document pairs. After incorporating the translation model into model data for a search engine, the translation model is used may used as features for producing relevance scores for current search queries and ranking documents/advertisements according to relevance.

20150183471, Jul 2, 2015

Dec 31, 2013

14/144888

- Dearborn MI, US
Fubang Wu - Troy MI, US
Jacob Wesley Zindel - Ann Arbor MI, US
Mei Li - Canton MI, US
Yijung Chen - Ypsilanti MI, US

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

B62D 27/02
B62D 65/02

The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a vehicle roof structure which includes a cast node including a pillar portion for receiving a pillar and a roof-rail portion for receiving a roof rail, the roof-rail portion having first and second ends, which may have a closed first cross-section and a closed second cross-section, respectively. The closed first cross-section may be different from the closed second cross-section such that the first and second ends are to receive two individual roof rails of different dimensions. The closed first cross-section may be larger in opening dimension than the closed second cross-section, when the first end is positioned closer to a front of the vehicle than the second end.