Patents Assigned to Southeast University
  • Patent number: 11717461
    Abstract: A palm-supported finger rehabilitation training device comprises a mounting base, a finger rehabilitation training mechanism mounted on the mounting base, and a driving mechanism for driving the finger rehabilitation training mechanism; wherein the finger rehabilitation training mechanism comprises four independent and structurally identical combined transmission devices for finger training corresponding to a forefinger, a middle finger, a ring finger and a little finger of a human hand, respectively, and the mounting base is provided with a supporting surface capable of supporting a human palm; wherein each combined transmission device for finger training comprises an MP movable chute, a PIP fingerstall, a DIP fingerstall and a connecting rod transmission mechanism; a force sensor is provided to acquire force feedback information to determine and control force stability, and a space sensor is provided to acquire space angle information to control space positions of fingers in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Jianwei Lai, Huijun Li, Hong Zeng, Baoguo Xu
  • Patent number: 11715456
    Abstract: It discloses a serial FFT-based low-power MFCC speech feature extraction circuit, and belongs to the technical field of calculation, reckoning or counting. The circuit is oriented toward the field of intelligence, and is adapted to a hardware circuit design by optimizing an MFCC algorithm, and a serial FFT algorithm and an approximation operation on a multiplication are fully used, thereby greatly reducing a circuit area and power. The entire circuit includes a preprocessing module, a framing and windowing module, an FFT module, a Mel filtration module, and a logarithm and DCT module. The improved FFT algorithm uses a serial pipeline manner to process data, and a time of an audio frame is effectively utilized, thereby reducing a storage area and operation frequency of the circuit under the condition of meeting an output requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Weiwei Shan, Lixuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11711008
    Abstract: A loss optimization control method for modular multilevel converters (MMCs) under fault-tolerant control is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: when a fault of a SM in a MMC occurs, bypassing the faulty SM to achieve fault-tolerant control; suppressing the fundamental circulating current using a fundamental circulating current controller; respectively calculating the loss of each SM in faulty arms and healthy arms by using loss expressions of different switching tubes in SMs of the MMC; aiming at the loss imbalance between the arms of the MMC, taking the loss of a healthy SM as the reference, adjusting the period of capacitor voltage sorting control in the faulty SMs, achieving the loss control over the working SMs in the faulty SMs, and finally achieving the loss balance of each SM in the faulty arms and the healthy arms. Compared with the conventional methods, the proposed method is easier to implement and does not increase the construction cost of MMCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fujin Deng, Mengyue Wang, Jifeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11709281
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-precision point positioning method and device based on a smartphone. The method of the present invention, which belongs to the technical field of satellite positioning, improves the conventional PPP uncombined positioning model, and only uses original GNSS observation values received by a smartphone to carry out high-precision positioning without GNSS reference stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chengfa Gao, Bo Chen, Yongsheng Liu, Puyu Sun
  • Patent number: 11709211
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power calculation method of a magnetic circuit. In view of the power problem of a magnetic circuit and the phase problem of a magnetomotive force (MMF) and a magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit, the present disclosure draws a magnetic circuit vector diagram based on an equivalent magnetic circuit vector model, and provides a method for calculating virtual magnetic active power, virtual magnetic reactive power, and virtual magnetic complex power of the magnetic circuit by analyzing the MMF, the magnetic flux, the reluctance, and the magnetic reactance in the magnetic circuit by using the magnetic circuit vector diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ming Cheng, Zheng Wang, Xinkai Zhu, Wei Qin
  • Patent number: 11703469
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a rapid evaluation method for quality of lignin-pyrolyzed bio-oil and an application thereof, and particularly relates to a rapid evaluation method for quality of lignin-pyrolyzed bio-oil based on radical detection and an application thereof. The method can be used to evaluate the quality of lignin-pyrolyzed bio-oil by detecting the spin concentration of radicals in lignin char obtained by lignin pyrolysis, thus avoiding the complex processes involved in the evaluation for the quality of conventional pyrolyzed bio-oils such as, extraction, separation and detection and reducing the detection costs substantially. The detection method of the present invention is simple and easy to operate, thus achieving the rapid evaluation for the quality of lignin-pyrolyzed bio-oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Rui Xiao, Yuyang Fan, Chao Liu, Ming Lei, Xiangchen Kong, Weicong Xu
  • Patent number: 11701289
    Abstract: A rehabilitation glove based on a bidirectional driver of a honeycomb imitating structure, including five bidirectional drivers and a cotton glove. The drivers are fixed to a back of the glove through hook and loop fasteners. Each driver includes a hollow buckling air bag in a continuous bent state, a middle guide layer in a continuous bent state and a hollow stretching air bag. The buckling air bag and the middle guide layer are symmetrically arranged, and the stretching air bag in a straightened state is arranged below the middle guide layer. A novel bidirectional driver of a honeycomb imitating structure is provided, which may provide a patient with rehabilitation training in two degrees of freedom: buckling and stretching. A control algorithm of the bidirectional driver is further provided to perform force control output for the driver, which may better help the patient recover hand functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Jianwei Lai, Huijun Li, Hong Zeng, Baoguo Xu, Ting Wu
  • Patent number: 11690773
    Abstract: A wearable upper limb rehabilitation training robot with precise force control includes a wearable belt, a multi-degree-of-freedom robot arm, and a control box. The robot is worn on the waist of a person by using a belt, and driven by active actuators, to implement active and passive rehabilitation training in such degrees of freedom as adduction/abduction/anteflexion/extension of left and right shoulder joints and anteflexion/extension of left and right elbow joints. In addition, a force/torque sensor is mounted on a tip of the robot arm, to obtain a force between the tip of the robot arm and the human hand during rehabilitation training as a feedback signal, to adjust an operating state of the robot, thereby realizing the precise force control during the rehabilitation training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Yiting Mo, Huanhuan Qin, Huijun Li, Baoguo Xu
  • Patent number: 11685547
    Abstract: An autonomous catapult-assisted take-off, recycling, and reuse device and method of a flapping-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. The device includes a base, an attitude adjusting mechanism, a catapult mechanism, a recycling mechanism, a control processing unit, a power supply module, and a sensor unit, where the attitude adjusting mechanism includes a connector, a counterweight, an adjusting motor, an attitude adjusting input gear, an attitude adjusting output gear, an attitude adjusting output gear shaft, and an installation platform; the catapult mechanism includes a catapult motor, a catapult motor frame, a pulley, a pull rope, a winch, a pull rope fixing part, a flapping-wing aircraft fixing part, two slide bars, two compression springs, and a catapult gear set; and the recycling mechanism includes a recycling motor, a recycling mechanical arm, a recycling platform, two sprockets, and a recycling gear set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Maozeng Zhang, Aiguo Song, Fanzhang Huang
  • Patent number: 11686860
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for quickly acquiring a highly reliable integer solution for satellite positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Xianwen Yu
  • Patent number: 11685868
    Abstract: A catalytic cracking gasoline upgrading method is provided. First, in the presence of a prehydrogenation catalyst, the full-range FCC gasoline undergoes prehydrogenation in a prehydrogenation reactor to remove diolefins, mercaptans and sulfides, and then the prehydrogenation product undergoes selective hydrodesulfurization in the presence of a hydrodesulfurization-isomerization catalyst, and straight-chain olefins are isomerized into single-branched olefins or single-branched alkanes, thus obtaining a low-olefin, ultralow-sulfur and high-octane clean gasoline product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tinghai Wang, Yuanyuan Yue, Xiaojun Bao, Xueli Wang, Jie Liu, Pei Yuan, Haibo Zhu, Zhengshuai Bai
  • Patent number: 11687699
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for modeling sequence impedance of a modular multilevel converter (MMC) under phase locked loop (PLL) coupling. The method includes the following steps: S1, establishing a circuit topology model; S2, establishing a PLL output characteristic model; S3, establishing a PI controller output control small signal model under a dq axis; S4, deducing a modulation small signal; and S5, calculating MMC port impedance. According to the method, a precise MMC port impedance model is established by analyzing a double mirror frequency coupling effect in the output of a modulation signal in a control link caused by a phase angle disturbance and comprehensively considering the combination of the multi-harmonic coupling effect of an MMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fujin Deng, Yun Zhou, Hanlu Zhang, Chengkai Liu, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11680863
    Abstract: A method for reducing hysteresis error and high frequency noise error of capacitive tactile sensors includes the following steps: step 1: calibration, specifically including positive stroke calibration to form n positive stroke curves and negative stroke calibration to form n negative stroke curves; step 2: averaging, specifically including positive stroke averaging to form an average positive stroke curve, negative stroke averaging to form an average negative stroke curve, and comprehensive averaging to form a comprehensive stroke curve; step 3: fitting modeling, to obtain a positive stroke fitting function, a negative stroke fitting function, and a comprehensive fitting function; step 4: measurement; step 5: noise filtering; step 6: stroke direction discrimination; and step 7: resolving, to obtain the force at the current time by using a corresponding fitting function based on the stroke direction discrimination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Shuyan Yang, Baoguo Xu, Huijun Li, Hong Zeng, Lifeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11664013
    Abstract: It discloses a speech feature reuse-based storing and calculating compression method for a keyword-spotting CNN, and belongs to the technical filed of calculating, reckoning or counting. If the updated row number of input data is equal to a convolution step size, every time new input data arrive, an input layer of a neural network replaces the earliest part of the input data with the new input data and meanwhile adjusts an addressing sequence of the input data, thereby performing an operation on the input data and corresponding convolution kernels in an arrival sequence of the input data, and an operation result is stored in an intermediate data memory of the neural network to update corresponding data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Weiwei Shan
  • Patent number: 11661573
    Abstract: A microfluidic chip for culturing and real-time monitoring of multicellular tissues and use method thereof. The chip comprises a glass substrate layer, and a PDMS microchannel layer located on the glass substrate layer, wherein the glass substrate layer comprises a glass substrate, and a plurality of microelectrodes thereon; the PDMS microchannel comprises a plurality of independent microfluidic channels; the microelectrodes on the glass substrate are in one-to-one correspondence with the microfluidic channels in the PDMS microchannel layer; and the microelectrodes are electrically connected to an external circuit. The use method comprises: cell capture, cell or tissue culture, electrical impedance spectroscopy detection, and tissue release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhen Zhu, Qiaodan Li, Dingxin Jin, Feng Yu, Yangye Geng
  • Patent number: 11658711
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a skywave large-scale MIMO communication method, model, and system. A skywave communication base station in a short waveband is constructed using a large-scale antenna array, wherein skywave large-scale MIMO communication is carried out between the skywave communication base station and a user terminal in a coverage area by ionospheric reflection. The skywave communication base station determines a spacing of the large-scale antenna array according to a maximum operating frequency, and communicates with the user terminal based on a TDD communication mode, wherein a skywave large-scale MIMO signal is transmitted based on an OFDM modulation mode or a power efficiency improvement modulation mode. The skywave communication base station selects a communication carrier frequency within a short waveband range according to a real-time ionospheric channel characteristic, and adaptively selects an OFDM modulation parameter and a signal frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiqi Gao, Xianglong Yu, Anan Lu
  • Publication number: 20230156072
    Abstract: An offloading method, of a satellite-to-ground edge computing task, assisted by a satellite and a high-altitude platform can offload a computing task of a ground user equipment (GUE) to a low earth-orbit satellite (LEO SAT), to meet a computing requirement of the GUE and to reduce latency and energy consumption. The method includes four main steps: 1. The GUE selects an associated high-altitude platform. 2. The GUE uses multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) transmission to offload the computing task to the high-altitude platform. 3. The high-altitude platform may also use the MIMO transmission to offload the computing task of the GUE to the LEO SAT. 4. The high-altitude platform and the LEO SAT cooperate to process the computing task of GUE, and reasonably allocate a computing resource to reduce energy consumption; and in MIMO edge computing, the GUE or the high-altitude platform uses the same time-domain and frequency-domain resource .
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junbo WANG, Changfeng DING, Hua ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230155449
    Abstract: A force-balancing magnetic bearing with an adjustable bias magnetic field for a stator permanent magnet motor is provided. The force-balancing magnetic bearing includes four permanent magnetic poles and four electromagnetic poles, wherein a magnetic field energy of the four permanent magnetic poles is sourced from a stator permanent magnet of the stator permanent magnet motor, each permanent magnetic pole is formed by a left permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a right permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a magnetic adjusting section, an electromagnetic pole stator, an electromagnetic pole and permanent magnetic pole isolation plate, a permanent-magnet two-side magnetic pole connection section, a left permanent-magnet magnetic pole and a right permanent-magnet magnetic pole, a magnetic flux of each permanent magnetic pole is adjusted by the magnetic adjusting section, and the four electromagnetic poles are adjusted by currents introduced into electromagnetic pole winding coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei HUA, Zhiheng ZHANG, Qifan XU
  • Publication number: 20230156963
    Abstract: The invention provides a two-phase flow active and passive multi-level data center cabinet cooling device and method, wherein the system includes a cabinet cooling device, a condensate system, a waste heat recovery device, a liquid reservoir, a liquid pump, a gas chamber, a fluid working medium, and a corresponding pipeline. The system constitute a closed loop, the loop is filled with nitrogen to maintain a low pressure state, and the pipeline fluid is driven by the liquid pump to flow; the gas chamber maintains a relatively stable air pressure in the two-phase flow loop; the liquid reservoir is connected with the gas chamber, providing an enough gas space to make a phase change occur more easily; the cabinet cooling device can be switched between an active mode and a passive mode to minimize PUE under good heat dissipation capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xu LIU, Junming DU, Haitao JIANG, Chengbin ZHANG, Dongping YIN
  • Publication number: 20230152418
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for estimating the air propagation delay of a direct wave, wherein an azimuth, an elevation angle and a total delay of a multipath wave reaching a receiving end are obtained through a receiving device; a departure angle of a reflected wave is obtained using a geometric relationship of wave reflection; a hypothetical point on a direct wave ray is selected as a transmitting end, and hereby the air propagation delay of the direct wave and the position of a reflection point of the reflected wave are calculated; the propagation delay and distance of the reflected wave are calculated according to the total delay of the direct wave and the reflected wave and the position of the hypothetical point. The invention can obtain the air propagation delay of the direct wave, thereby obtaining a propagation distance of the direct wave and fulfilling the requirements of ranging and positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Haiming WANG, Bensheng YANG, Wenhao WU