Patents by Inventor Ming Zou

Ming Zou 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: 20190105693
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for high-toughness and plasticity hypereutectoid rail, including: a. hot rolling the steel billet into rail; b. blowing a cooling medium to the top surface of railhead, wherein, the two sides of railhead and the lower jaws on the two sides of railhead after the center of top surface of rail is air-cooled to 800-850° C., and cooling the rail until the center temperature of the top surface is 520-550° C.; c. stop blowing the cooling medium to the lower jaws on the two sides of railhead, continue blowing the cooling medium to the top surface of railhead and the two sides of railhead, and air cool the rail to room temperature after the surface temperature of railhead is cooled to 430-480° C. The resulting hypereutectoid rail has higher toughness and plasticity than existing products, which is suitable for heavy-haul railway, especially for small radius curve sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Hua GUO, Jun YUAN
  • Publication number: 20190106761
    Abstract: In view of the low comprehensive strength and toughness of pearlitic rail manufactured by existing techniques, the invention provides a manufacturing method for rail of railway with passenger and freight mixed traffic, including the following steps: a. hot roll steel billet into rail, with a final rolling temperature of 900-1000° C.; b. blow a cooling medium to the top surface of railhead, the two sides of railhead and the lower jaws on two sides of railhead when the center of top surface of rail is air-cooled to 800-850° C.; and then air-cool the rail to the room temperature after the center of top surface of rail is cooled to 520-550° C. By controlling the composition of steel and adopting a two-stage accelerated cooling, the invention is able to produce a rail with better performance which is suitable for railway with passenger and freight mixed traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Hua GUO, Jun YUAN
  • Patent number: 10214799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail, and belongs to the field of steel rail production process. The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to provide a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail and a steel rail obtained with the method. The method comprises the following steps: cooling a finished rolling steel rail by natural cooling, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 660˜730° C.; cooling the steel rail by accelerated cooling at 1.5˜3.5° C./s cooling rate, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 500˜550° C.; increasing the cooling rate by 1.0˜2.0° C./s and further cooling down the steel rail, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 450° C. or lower; then, stopping the accelerated cooling, and cooling down the steel rail by air cooling to room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan, Chongmu Chen
  • Patent number: 10196781
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing hypereutectoid steel rail in which the composition of the billets adopted is: C: 0.86-1.05 wt. %; Si: 0.3-1 wt. %; Mn: 0.5-1.3 wt. %; Cr: 0.15-0.35 wt. %; Cu: 0.3-0.5 wt. %; P: 0.02-0.04 wt. %; S: ?0.02 wt. %; Ni: ½-? of the content of Cu; at least one of V, Nb and Re; Fe and unavoidable impurities of the rest. The present invention further provides a hypereutectoid steel rail prepared by the foregoing method. By the hypereutectoid steel rail preparation method provided by the present invention, the high-carbon billets with a specific composition provided by the present invention can be made into hypereutectoid steel rails with good corrosion resistance and tensile properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA STEEL & VANADIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Hua Guo, Yuan Wang, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Jun Yuan
  • Publication number: 20180264364
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control-object spatial-location determining method and apparatus. The method includes: detecting, by a game engine of the game application, a spatial-location request, wherein the game engine is not applying physical collision, and the spatial-location request is a request for determining, based on a first spatial-location of a first control-object in the game application, a second spatial-location of a second control-object; determining, by the game engine, multiple candidate spatial-locations according to the first spatial-location of the first control-object, wherein the multiple candidate spatial-locations surround the first spatial-location, and any two of the multiple candidate spatial-locations and the first spatial-location do not overlap; and determining, by the game engine, an unoccupied candidate spatial-location among the multiple candidate spatial-locations as the second spatial-location of the second control-object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Ming ZOU
  • Patent number: 9777351
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for heat treatment of hypereutectoid steel rail, including the following steps: holding the temperature of the steel rail of which temperature is above 900° C. after finish rolling, conducting a first cooling stage for the steel rail at the first cooling speed after the temperature holding to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 700-750° C., conducting a second cooling stage for the steel rail at the second cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 550° C., conducting a third cooling stage for the steel rail at the third cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 450° C. or less, and continuing to cool the steel rail in the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Pangang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Zhenyu Han, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan, Hui Yao
  • Patent number: 9765414
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat treatment method of turnout track comprising performing an accelerated cooling on the turnout track to be treated having a railhead tread with a temperature of 650-900° C. so as to obtain the turnout track with full pearlite metallographic structure, wherein the accelerated cooling velocity performed on the working side of railhead of the turnout track is higher than that performed on the non-working side of the railhead of the turnout track. The present invention provides a turnout track obtained with a heat treatment process as depicted therein. The turnout track in present invention has good straightness; both the hardness and tensile strength of the working side of railhead are higher than that of the non-working side of railhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA STEEL & VANADIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Zhenyu Han, Dongsheng Mei, Yong Deng, Hua Guo, Quan Xu, Chunjian Wang
  • Patent number: 9710698
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a human-face feature vector from a video image sequence, comprising: detecting a same human-face image in a plurality of image frames of the video sequence; dividing the detected human-face image into a plurality of local patches with a predetermined size, wherein each local patch is around or near a human-face feature point; determining a correspondence relationship between respective local patches of the same human-face image in the plurality of image frames of the video sequence; and using human-face local feature vector components extracted from respective local patches having a mutual correspondence relationship to form human-face local feature vectors representing facial points corresponding to the local patches. Besides, the present invention further provides an apparatus for obtaining a human-face feature vector from a video image sequence and a corresponding computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yong Ma, Yan Ming Zou, Kong Qiao Wang
  • Publication number: 20170044721
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing hypereutectoid steel rail in which the composition of the billets adopted is: C: 0.86-1.05 wt. %; Si: 0.3-1 wt. %; Mn: 0.5-1.3 wt. %; Cr: 0.15-0.35 wt. %; Cu: 0.3-0.5 wt. %; P: 0.02-0.04 wt. %; S: ?0.02 wt. %; Ni: ½-? of the content of Cu; at least one of V, Nb and Re; Fe and unavoidable impurities of the rest. The present invention further provides a hypereutectoid steel rail prepared by the foregoing method. By the hypereutectoid steel rail preparation method provided by the present invention, the high-carbon billets with a specific composition provided by the present invention can be made into hypereutectoid steel rails with good corrosion resistance and tensile properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INST ITUTE CO., LTD., PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA STEEL & VANADIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Hua Guo, Yuan Wang, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Jun Yuan
  • Patent number: 9394581
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a heat treatment method for a bainitic turnout rail, which includes: naturally cooling the turnout rail at a temperature in an austenite region after being finishing rolled to 450-480° C. at a tread center of a rail head of the turnout rail; accelerated cooling the naturally cooled turnout rail to 230-270° C. at the tread center of the rail head, a cooling rate at the tread center and a non-working side of the rail head being 1.5-5.0° C./s, a cooling rate at the working side of the rail head increasing by 0.1-1.0° C./s based on 1.5-5.0° C./s; continuously accelerated cooling the working side, the tread center and the non-working side of the rail head at a cooling rate of 0.05-0.25° C./s to decrease a temperature of the tread center of the rail head to 265-270° C.; and finally, naturally cooling the turnout rail to an ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Yanzhong Wang, Jianhua Liu, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160194730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-impact-toughness steel rail and a production method thereof, and belongs to the field of steel rail material production. The present invention is to provide a high-impact-toughness steel rail. The high-impact-toughness steel rail provided in the present invention is a pearlite steel rail with 0.05˜0.09 ?m of inter-lamellar spacing and 30˜35 J of ballistic work at normal temperature; the chemical components of the steel rail in weight percentage are: C: 0.71-0.82 wt %, Si: 0.25-0.45 wt %, Mn: 0.75-1.05 wt %, V: 0.03-0.15 wt %, P: ?0.030 wt %, S: ?0.035 wt %, Al: ?0.020 wt %, and Fe and inevitable impurities of the remaining content. The U-type impact toughness of rail head of the steel rail manufactured with the method disclosed in the present invention can be 30 J or more, and the tensile strength is about 1,300 MPa or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicants: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun YUAN, Ming ZOU, Hua GUO, Dadong LI, Yong DENG, Zhenyu HAN, Yuan WANG, Chongmu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160194729
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-strength, highly wear-resistant, and highly contact-fatigue-resistant steel rail and a production method thereof, and belongs to the field of black steel manufacturing technology. The present invention provides a high-strength and highly fatigue-resistant steel rail, comprising the following chemical components by weight percentage: C: 0.76%˜0.86%; Si: 0.6%˜1%; Mn: 0.7%˜1.5%, Cr: 0.1%˜0.5%, and 0.8%?Mn %+Cr %?1.6%; V: 0.05%˜0.3%, Ni: 0.1%˜0.35%, and 0.15%?V %+Ni %?0.4%; Mo: ?0.03%; P: ?0.02%; S: ?0.015%; Fe and inevitable impurities: the remaining content, wherein, the metallurgical structure of the steel rail is fine pearlite+A, where, A is proeutectoid ferrite or proeutectoid cementite, and A?2%. The tensile strength of the obtained steel rail is 1,260 MPa˜1,420 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicants: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Deng, Hua Guo, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Chunjian Wang, Zhenyu Han, Jun Yuan
  • Publication number: 20160101363
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a message processing method and terminal device. The method includes: receiving a first message that carries displacement parameters and is sent by a client, the displacement parameters being generated by the client and used to indicate displacement of a virtual object in a virtual space; determining, according to the displacement parameters, whether the displacement conforms to a preset rule; and sending, if it is determined that the displacement does not conform to the preset rule, a second message used by the client to refuse the displacement. The present disclosure solves the technical problem in the existing technology that multiple terminal device resources need to be occupied to ensure appropriate movement of a virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ming ZOU, Zheng ZHANG, Zhenchao RU, Bailin AN
  • Publication number: 20160060736
    Abstract: A pearlitic steel rail with high strength and toughness and a producing method thereof. The producing method comprises: controlling the following processing conditions in a rolling procedure to produce the pearlitic steel rail with high strength and toughness: initial rolling temperature of 1,120-1,180° C., final rolling temperature of 840-880° C., rail profile reduction in last two rolling passes of 6%-12%; the steel rail is cooled to 600° C. or lower at a cooling rate ?2.0° C./s after final rolling, and then air-cooled to room temperature; the chemical composition of the steel rail meets the following requirements: C: 0.75%-0.84%, Si: 0.30%-0.80%, Mn: 0.50%-1.50%, V: 0.04%-0.12%, Ti: 0.004%-0.02%, and 0.10%?V+10Ti?0.25%, [N]?30 ppm, P?0.020%, S?0.008%, with the remaining content consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicants: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Gongming TAO, Hua GUO, Dadong LI, Yong DENG
  • Publication number: 20160010188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail, and belongs to the field of steel rail production process. The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to provide a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail and a steel rail obtained with the method. The method comprises the following steps: cooling a finished rolling steel rail by natural cooling, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 660˜730° C.; cooling the steel rail by accelerated cooling at 1.5˜3.5° C./s cooling rate, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 500˜550° C.; increasing the cooling rate by 1.0˜2.0° C./s and further cooling down the steel rail, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 450° C. or lower; then, stopping the accelerated cooling, and cooling down the steel rail by air cooling to room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicants: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan, Chongmu Chen
  • Publication number: 20150322553
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a bainitic steel rail containing trace amounts of carbides, wherein, the bainitic steel rail mainly consists of bainitic structures, the carbides have a length of 0.05-0.5 ?m, the major axis of carbides is oriented to a direction at a 50-70° included angle from the direction of the major axis of bainitic ferrite plates, and the carbides account for 1%-5% by volume. The present invention further discloses a method for producing a bainitic steel rail containing trace amounts of carbides, comprising: cooling a steel rail with residual heat after finish rolling by air cooling, till the temperature at the center of the rail head tread reaches 420-450° C.; cooling the rail head part of the steel rail by accelerated cooling at a 2.0-5.0° C./s cooling rate, till the temperature at the center of the rail head tread reaches 220-240° C.; loading the steel rail into a tempering furnace and tempering at 300-350° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan
  • Patent number: 9157131
    Abstract: A high carbon content and high strength heat-treated steel rail including by weight 0.80-1.20% carbon, 0.20-1.20% silicon, 0.20-1.60% manganese, 0.15-1.20% chromium, 0.01-0.20% vanadium, 0.002-0.050% titanium, less than or equal to 0.030% phosphorus, less than or equal to 0.030% sulfur, less than or equal to 0.010% aluminum, less than or equal to 0.0100% nitrogen, and iron. The steel rail has excellent wear resistance and plasticity and can satisfy the requirement for overloading. A method for producing the steal rail by heating a slab to a heating temperature, multi-pass rolling, and accelerated cooling, wherein a maximum heating temperature (° C.) of said slab is equal to 1,400 minus 100[% C], [% C] representing the carbon content (wt. %) of said slab multiplied by 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignees: PANGANG GROUP CO., LTD., PANGANG GROUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA STEEL & VANADIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Dongsheng Mei, Quan Xu, Yong Deng, Hua Guo, Ming Liu, Li Tang, Yun Zhao, Gongming Tao
  • Publication number: 20150232968
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for heat treatment of hypereutectoid steel rail, including the following steps: holding the temperature of the steel rail of which temperature is above 900° C. after finish rolling, conducting a first cooling stage for the steel rail at the first cooling speed after the temperature holding to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 700-750° C., conducting a second cooling stage for the steel rail at the second cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 550° C., conducting a third cooling stage for the steel rail at the third cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 450° C. or less, and continuing to cool the steel rail in the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Ming ZOU, Zhenyu HAN, Jihai JIA, Hua GUO, Yong DENG, Chunjian WANG, Jun YUAN, Hui YAO
  • Publication number: 20150205997
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a human-face feature vector from a video image sequence, comprising: detecting a same human-face image in a plurality of image frames of the video sequence; dividing the detected human-face image into a plurality of local patches with a predetermined size, wherein each local patch is around or near a human-face feature point; determining a correspondence relationship between respective local patches of the same human-face image in the plurality of image frames of the video sequence; and using human-face local feature vector components extracted from respective local patches having a mutual correspondence relationship to form human-face local feature vectors representing facial points corresponding to the local patches. Besides, the present invention further provides an apparatus for obtaining a human-face feature vector from a video image sequence and a corresponding computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yong Ma, Yan Ming Zou, Kong Qiao Wang
  • Publication number: 20140182751
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat treatment method of turnout track comprising performing an accelerated cooling on the turnout track to be treated having a railhead tread with a temperature of 650-900° C. so as to obtain the turnout track with full pearlite metallographic structure, wherein the accelerated cooling velocity performed on the working side of railhead of the turnout track is higher than that performed on the non-working side of the railhead of the turnout track. The present invention provides a turnout track obtained with a heat treatment process as depicted therein. The turnout track in present invention has good straightness; both the hardness and tensile strength of the working side of railhead are higher than that of the non-working side of railhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Zhenyu Han, Dongsheng Mei, Yong Deng, Hua Guo, Quan Xu, Chunjian Wang