Patents by Inventor Mingyuan ZHOU

Mingyuan ZHOU 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: 20240140023
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for photo-curing 4D printing of a multi-layer structure with an adjustable shape recovery speed, and a multi-layer structure printed thereby. The multi-layer structure printed by the method for photo-curing 4D printing of the multi-layer structure with the adjustable shape recovery speed includes a plurality of deformation units sequentially connected in series, and each of the plurality of the deformation units includes two slow layers, a fast layer, and a transition layer; and the fast layer is arranged between the two slow layers, and the transition layer is arranged between at least one of the two slow layers and the fast layer. In the present disclosure, a low cross-linking layer is doped with a nanocarbon light-absorbing material to solve the problem that the low cross-linking layer is prone to over-curing when a high cross-linking layer is printed on the low cross-linking layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Shu HUANG, Hang ZHANG, Jianzhong ZHOU, Jie SHENG, Jiean WEI, Hongwei YANG, Cheng WANG, Mingyuan SHAN
  • Patent number: 11965412
    Abstract: A quantitative evaluation method for integrity and damage evolution of a cement sheath in an oil-gas well is provided based on a fractal theory, an image processing technology, structural features and failure mechanisms of a casing-cement sheath-formation combination. The method uses correlations among fractal dimensions of casing-cement sheath interface morphology, cement sheath microscopic pore morphology, particle morphology of an initial blank group, and macroscopic mechanical properties including a radial cementing strength of the cement sheath interface, a tensile strength, and a compressive strength to quantitatively evaluate the integrity of the cement sheath of the blank group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kuanhai Deng, Niantao Zhou, Yuanhua Lin, Mingyuan Yao, Ming Zhang, Deqiang Yi, Pengfei Xie, Yang Peng
  • Patent number: 11845896
    Abstract: A structural stabilizer for a fiber and proppant complex to enhance proppant migration and placement in a fractured well during propping and a preparation method thereof are provided. The structural stabilizer consists of: water, inorganic salt, kaolinite, nitrogen-doped modified graphene oxide, anionic surfactant, non-ionic alkyl polyglucoside, and polyacrylamide. The structural stabilizer improves bonding between a proppant and a fiber when slick water is used in stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) fracturing, prevents separation of the fiber and the proppant during migration, thereby reducing escape rate of the fiber from the fiber and proppant complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu LEPS Technology Co., Ltd, Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Jianchun Guo, Shan Ren, Hao Yang, Yingxian Ma, Kun Wang, Jiyu Wang, Cong Lu, Jiapeng Zhang, Zhihong Zhao, Shaobin Zhang, Qianli Lu, Qingsong Guo, Su Diao, Chi Chen, Xin Lei, Mingyuan Zhou, Chaojun Tang
  • Patent number: 11528427
    Abstract: An image capturing system includes a center point location, and a circular light source ring centered on the center point location. Light sources are on the circular light source ring, and each emit light in one of a number of spectral bandwidths. The image capturing system also includes circular camera rings, where each circular camera ring is centered on the center point location, where each circular camera ring includes camera locations which are equally spaced apart. The image capturing system also includes one or more cameras configured to capture images of an object from each of the camera locations of each particular circular camera ring, where the images captured from the camera locations of each particular circular camera ring are captured in one of the different spectral bandwidths, and where the object is illuminated by the light sources of the light source ring while each of the images are captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yu Ji, Mingyuan Zhou, Jingyi Yu
  • Publication number: 20220174224
    Abstract: An image capturing system includes a center point location, and a circular light source ring centered on the center point location. Light sources are on the circular light source ring, and each emit light in one of a number of spectral bandwidths. The image capturing system also includes circular camera rings, where each circular camera ring is centered on the center point location, where each circular camera ring includes camera locations which are equally spaced apart. The image capturing system also includes one or more cameras configured to capture images of an object from each of the camera locations of each particular circular camera ring, where the images captured from the camera locations of each particular circular camera ring are captured in one of the different spectral bandwidths, and where the object is illuminated by the light sources of the light source ring while each of the images are captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yu JI, Mingyuan ZHOU, Jingyi YU