Patents by Inventor Heping Zhu

Heping Zhu 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).

  • Patent number: 11988645
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dynamic true triaxial electromagnetic Hopkinson bar system, including a central cubic box, a horizontal cruciform support platform, and a central support platform, wherein the central cubic box is disposed in the center of the upper surface of the central support platform; the central cubic box and the horizontal cruciform support platform form an orthogonal coordinate system for precisely positioning and centering the dynamic true triaxial electromagnetic Hopkinson bar system; the confining-pressure loading systems, electromagnetic pulse generators, circular bulges, square bars, and self-lubricating square bar fixation and support frames in the directions X, Y, and Z are respectively symmetrically arranged by taking the central cubic box as a symmetric center; and the systems in the directions X, Y, and Z together construct the dynamic true triaxial electromagnetic Hopkinson bar system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Heping Xie, Yulong Li, Jianbo Zhu, Tao Zhou, Jian Zhao, Tao Suo, Zhongbin Tang
  • Patent number: 11982649
    Abstract: A shear testing system and method of thermo-seepage-mechanical field and engineering disturbance coupling under deep and complex condition are provided. The shear testing system can be used in conjunction with an axial pressure application device to simplify the structure, save costs, and facilitate a triaxial confining pressure—temperature—axial pressure—torsional shear coupled test on a rock specimen. The shear testing system can achieve the following three purposes. First, the shear testing system can convert an axial pressure into a torsional shear force through a transmission mechanism of a power conversion assembly. Second, the shear testing system can apply an axial pressure to the rock specimen fixed between two specimen fixing heads, through a pressure shaft of an axial pressure mechanism. Third, the shear testing system can apply a triaxial confining pressure and a temperature field to the rock specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Heping Xie, Chao Ma, Fujun Xue, Jingjing Dai, Jianxiong Yang, Lu Wang, Zhijun Wu, Xiangchao Shi, Houquan Zhang, Yinghui Ma, Tao Meng, Defu Zhu, Shaoqi Kong
  • Patent number: 11921088
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thermal-stress-pore pressure coupled electromagnetic loading triaxial Hopkinson bar system and test method, the system mainly consists of an electromagnetic pulse generation system, a servo-controlled axial pressure loading system, a servo-controlled confining pressure loading system, a thermal control system, a pore pressure loading system, a bar system, and a data monitoring and acquisition system. Based on the conventional Hopkinson bar, the present disclosure creatively introduces a real-time loading and control system for confining pressure, thermal, and pore pressure, aiming to solve the technical problem that the existing test apparatus cannot be used to study dynamic response of deep rock mass under the coupling effect of thermal-stress-pore pressure and dynamic disturbance during dynamic impact loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tao Zhou, Heping Xie, Jianbo Zhu, Jian Zhao, Tianqi Zhai, Mingzhong Gao, Cunbao Li, Zhiyi Liao, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11913915
    Abstract: A uniaxial bidirectional synchronous control electromagnetic loaded dynamic shear test system and method, a test apparatus thereof including a support platform, a loading bar system, an electromagnetic pulse generation system, a servo-controlled normal pressure loading system, and a data monitoring and acquisition system. The test apparatus can be used to conduct a dynamic shear test research on a rock-like material under a constant normal pressure close to an actual operating condition, and can also be applied to carry out dynamic shear tests on intact rock-like test specimens in various sizes or jointed rock-like test specimens containing a single structural surface to study dynamic shear mechanical property and shear failure behavior under strain rate of 101?103 s?1, thereby providing an important theoretical and technical support for the design, construction, protection, and safety and stability evaluation of geotechnical engineering, structural engineering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Heping Xie, Jianbo Zhu, Tao Zhou, Mingzhong Gao, Cunbao Li, Zhiyi Liao, Kai Zhang, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20220310377
    Abstract: A two-volume cryoablation cell apparatus and an ablation method thereof for LA-ICP-MS analysis of a fluid inclusion are provided. The two-volume cryoablation cell apparatus includes an ablation cell base having a square metal substrate and a metal abutment disposed on the metal substrate and shaped as a hollow cylinder; a cryogenic component including a cryogenic stage disposed on an axis of the metal abutment and configured to hold a sample; a small-volume ablation cell positioned above the cryogenic stage and in contact with an upper surface of the sample during use, wherein the small-volume ablation cell is of a hollow cylindrical shape with a transparent closed upper portion and an open lower portion; and an ablation cell cover body capable of being buckled on an upper opening of the metal abutment during use and configured to seal the sample within the metal abutment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Liangliang HUANG, Hongrui FAN, Heping ZHU
  • Patent number: 11443931
    Abstract: A two-volume cryoablation cell apparatus and an ablation method thereof for LA-ICP-MS analysis of a fluid inclusion are provided. The two-volume cryoablation cell apparatus includes an ablation cell base having a square metal substrate and a metal abutment disposed on the metal substrate and shaped as a hollow cylinder; a cryogenic component including a cryogenic stage disposed on an axis of the metal abutment and configured to hold a sample; a small-volume ablation cell positioned above the cryogenic stage and in contact with an upper surface of the sample during use, wherein the small-volume ablation cell is of a hollow cylindrical shape with a transparent closed upper portion and an open lower portion; and an ablation cell cover body capable of being buckled on an upper opening of the metal abutment during use and configured to seal the sample within the metal abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Liangliang Huang, Hongrui Fan, Heping Zhu
  • Patent number: 6708900
    Abstract: An HVLP spray gun includes a coaxial combination air valve assembly 30 for controlling total air flow as well as pattern air flow which is frictionally retained in the gun body 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Heping Zhu, Harold D. Johnson, Steven P. Plager, Dale C. Pemberton, Keith A. Christensen, Vicky J. Lubenow