Patents by Inventor Xiqiang ZHANG

Xiqiang ZHANG 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: 20240167888
    Abstract: In an indoor environment on fire, automatic deployment of sensors disposed on, beneath or over the floor to look upward the ceiling to observe a body of smoke and flame risen near the ceiling allows important information regarding states and dynamics of the body of smoke and flame to be gathered at an early stage of fire (e.g. before arrival of firefighters). By distributing the sensors over the indoor environment, the states and dynamics of the body of smoke and flame are monitored holistically (i.e. as a whole) even at the early stage of fire. Such information is useful to predict development of the fire. In one implementation, a sensor is held in an infrastructure sensor holder mounted on the ceiling during normal time. Upon detecting occurrence of fire, the sensor drops from the holder to land on the floor and orients a sensing direction vertically upward to perform monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Qixin WANG, Xinyan HUANG, Muhammad SHAHEER, Tamzid MOHAMMAD, Xiaoning ZHANG, Mingchun LUO, Li-Ta HSU, Xiqiang WU, Fu XIAO, Asif USMANI
  • Patent number: 11946783
    Abstract: The present application relates to a photon measuring and reading device, which belongs to the field of detection equipment, including a mounting seat and a photon counter. The photon counter can move up and down on the mounting seat. The mounting seat is provided with a vertically arranged sliding trough, and the photon counter is provided with a sliding rod slidably connected with the sliding trough. A double head motor is arranged on the mounting base, and a linkage mechanism is arranged between the output shaft at the tail end of the double head motor and the sliding rod. The bottom end of the photon counter is fixed with a box body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SOPHONIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuiliang Han, Shiliang Zhou, Xiqiang Zhang, Yongcheng Sun, Haiyang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220134388
    Abstract: The present application relates to a cleaning device, including an inverted U-shaped frame body, which includes a horizontal beam, and both ends of the beam are respectively connected with vertical beams perpendicular to the beam; a horizontal bearing plate for bearing a cleaning mechanism and a first driving mechanism for driving the bearing plate to move up and down are provided in the frame body; the cleaning mechanism comprises a magnetic sleeve assembly and a magnetic rod in a sleeve connection with it, and the magnetic rod is connected with a second driving mechanism for driving it to move up and down relative to the magnetic sleeve assembly; and movements between the first driving mechanism and the second driving mechanism are coordinated by a PLC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SOPHONIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiliang ZHOU, Kuiliang HAN, Xiqiang ZHANG, Yongcheng SUN, Haiyang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220128385
    Abstract: The present application relates to a photon measuring and reading device, which belongs to the field of detection equipment, including a mounting seat and a photon counter. The photon counter can move up and down on the mounting seat. The mounting seat is provided with a vertically arranged sliding trough, and the photon counter is provided with a sliding rod slidably connected with the sliding trough. A double head motor is arranged on the mounting base, and a linkage mechanism is arranged between the output shaft at the tail end of the double head motor and the sliding rod. The bottom end of the photon counter is fixed with a box body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SOPHONIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuiliang HAN, Shiliang ZHOU, Xiqiang ZHANG, Yongcheng SUN, Haiyang ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11118733
    Abstract: Method of constructing a vault of a large storage tank for liquefied natural gas by first modeling the vault with a 3-D modeling software application, then partially building the vault with a framework and a first set of covering panels fixed on the framework where the panels do not touch each other, but leave a number of gaps between them, measuring the dimensions of the actual gaps between the panels using a 3-D scanner, producing a second set of panels according to the scanned dimensional data, and finally filled the gaps between the first set of panels with the second set of panels, which are much smaller than the first set of panels, making the building process earlier and more accurate, which are difficult issues in building large tanks for liquefied natural gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA NATIONAL OFFSHORE OIL CORP., OFFSHORE OIL ENGINEERING CO., LTD., TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhongzhi Ye, Jing Lu, Xiqiang Zhang, Juan Su, Jian Su, Qing Zhang, Yu Sun, Fudan Zhou, Yu Wang, Wenduo He
  • Publication number: 20190178443
    Abstract: Method of constructing a vault of a large storage tank for liquefied natural gas by first modeling the vault with a 3-D modeling software application, then partially building the vault with a framework and a first set of covering panels fixed on the framework where the panels do not touch each other, but leave a number of gaps between them, measuring the dimensions of the actual gaps between the panels using a 3-D scanner, producing a second set of panels according to the scanned dimensional data, and finally filled the gaps between the first set of panels with the second set of panels, which are much smaller than the first set of panels, making the building process earlier and more accurate, which are difficult issues in building large tanks for liquefied natural gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: CHINA NATIONAL OFFSHORE OIL CORP., OFFSHORE OIL ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Tianjin University
    Inventors: Zhongzhi YE, Jing LU, Xiqiang ZHANG, Juan SU, Jian SU, Qing ZHANG, Yu SUN, Fudan ZHOU, Yu WANG, Wenduo HE