Patents Assigned to THE FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY
  • Publication number: 20240152662
    Abstract: A method for reckoning the environmental background water temperature and calculating the temperature rise in a temperature rise area of a newly-built coastal power plant is provided. The reckoning method includes: S01, before an operation of the newly-built coastal power plant, building a water temperature reference station; S02, continuously observing and recording water temperature data of the water temperature reference station and other water temperature observation stations; S03, analyzing the water temperature data obtained in S02; and S04, reckoning a sea surface natural water temperature of the other water temperature observation stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, QINGDAO GUOHAIHAOHAN OCEAN ENGINEERING CONSULTING CO. LTD
    Inventors: Yongzhi WANG, Shuangwen SUN, Peng JI, Jun DU, Ziwen TIAN, Huifeng SUN
  • Patent number: 11966001
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a calculation method, a storage medium and a device for a seabed reflection coefficient of point source elastic wave. The method includes initializing a calculation accuracy and a calculation range of the seabed reflection coefficient; discretizing a parameter space and obtaining the seabed reflection coefficient of point source elastic wave; combining an equivalent equation and a traditional calculation equation for the seabed reflection coefficient of point source elastic wave; solving an undetermined coefficient of the equivalent equation; obtaining a concise expression for the seabed reflection coefficient of point source under an accuracy in the first step; calculating the seabed reflection coefficient of point source elastic wave within a given calculation accuracy range using an obtained expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MNR
    Inventor: Yangting Liu
  • Patent number: 11913972
    Abstract: Disclosed is a LADCP and USBL combined observation device and a use method thereof. The device includes a cable winch system, a mounting frame, a LADCP system, a USBL beacon and a correction system. The LADCP system, the USBL beacon and the correction system can be mounted to the mounting frame by adopting a hardware support platform. The cable winch system can drive the LADCP system to deploy or recover along a vertical section. The LADCP system is used to obtain the current velocity of a single small profile, and the USBL beacon can locate the underwater position information, and the correction system can obtain data information in the seawater where the mounting frame is located, so as to calculate an absolute current velocity according to the velocity obtained by the LADCP system and the current data obtained by the correction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
    Inventors: Jingsong Guo, Xin Zhou, Zhixin Zhang, Dapeng Qu
  • Patent number: 11853038
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimal control method of pollutant flux into the coastal waters based on virtual discharge amount, comprising: setting water quality control points and water quality control objectives in target sea areas; constructing response matrix of coastal water quality to pollution source discharged from land, and extracting response coefficient matrix of different pollution sources and different control points for the water quality control points through the response coefficient matrix of coastal water quality to pollution source discharged from land; and establishing a control model for total discharge amount of pollutants into the coastal waters through the response coefficient matrix; and calculating an optimal control amount of flux of the different pollution sources into the coastal waters based on the control model for total discharge amount of pollutants into the coastal waters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Honghua Shi, Wei Zheng, Yongzhi Wang, Pei Huang
  • Publication number: 20230400849
    Abstract: A water surface and underwater dual-purpose automatic positioning and tracking system and method, which belongs to the field of marine environment observation technologies. The positioning and tracking system includes: a rope winding and unwinding structure, arranged on a main hull structure; where the rope winding and unwinding structure includes a rope roller and a winding and unwinding rope wound around the rope roller; an auxiliary positioning remote control ship, located outside a main body of the main hull structure, where the auxiliary positioning remote control ship is in transmission and fixed connection with the winding and unwinding rope away from the rope roller; communication control units, arranged on the main hull structure and the auxiliary positioning remote control ship; and an automatic positioning tracker unit, arranged on the hull structure, where the automatic positioning tracker unit is in remote communication connection with the communication control units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Guanlin WANG, Yanfeng WANG, Guanhui LIANG, Shujiang LI
  • Patent number: 11830635
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for determining a background water temperature of thermal discharge from operating nuclear power plants based on the remote sensing. The system includes a station selection module, a model construction module, a background water temperature calculation module and a temperature rise calculation module; the general idea: constructing linear regression coefficients between water temperature reference station and water temperature estimation stations before the operation of the nuclear power plant based on historical satellite remote sensing water temperature data, and establishing a linear relationship model to calculate the background water temperature of the water temperature estimation of the operating nuclear power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Yuxiu Jin, Yongzhi Wang, Jun Du, Peng Ji, Guoqiang Xu, Xiaolong Zhao, Jinling Luo
  • Patent number: 11829132
    Abstract: A water surface and underwater dual-purpose automatic positioning and tracking system and method, which belongs to the field of marine environment observation technologies. The positioning and tracking system includes: a rope winding and unwinding structure, arranged on a main hull structure; where the rope winding and unwinding structure includes a rope roller and a winding and unwinding rope wound around the rope roller; an auxiliary positioning remote control ship, located outside a main body of the main hull structure, where the auxiliary positioning remote control ship is in transmission and fixed connection with the winding and unwinding rope away from the rope roller; communication control units, arranged on the main hull structure and the auxiliary positioning remote control ship; and an automatic positioning tracker unit, arranged on the hull structure, where the automatic positioning tracker unit is in remote communication connection with the communication control units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Guanlin Wang, Yanfeng Wang, Guanhui Liang, Shujiang Li
  • Patent number: 11828830
    Abstract: An LADCP and combined inertial navigation system combined observation system and method. The system includes an LADCP, combined inertial navigation system host, data processing unit, wireless transmission module, voltage-resistant wireless antenna, battery cabin, first and second GNSS antennae and an instrument support. The data processing unit is connected to the LADCP and the system host through serial ports to obtain ocean current profile measurement data, a GNSS position, GNSS orientation data, three-axis acceleration data, a three-axis gyroscope angular velocity, a roll angle, a pitch angle and a course angular rate. Real-time high-precision correction is performed on a three-dimensional flow velocity of an ocean current profile observed by the LADCP based on the orientation data, roll angle, pitch angle and the course angular rate. Accordingly, measurement precision of flow velocity and flow direction by the LADCP is improved, and working costs to carry out profile flow observation are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Shujiang Li, Guanhui Liang, Guanlin Wang, Fei Teng, Tengfei Xu, Yonggang Wang, Zexun Wei
  • Publication number: 20230288578
    Abstract: A new GNSS-based real-time high-precision wave measurement method, wherein the GNSS phase, pseudo-range, Doppler frequency shift observations and broadcast ephemerides are collected by a GNSS receiver, and antenna carried by a sea surface carrier; the three-dimensional speeds of a carrier are acquired using an epoch difference of phase observations; and wave element information are then solved. The wave element information can also be obtained by integrating the speeds for a certain duration and removing a linear trend term to obtain a time-dependent displacement variations. No additional precise differential correction is needed, thereby saving on service costs and communication costs of precise differential corrections. High-precision wave element information is obtained in real time, and locally stored in a buoy or periodically returned by communication, thereby expanding the working range of GNSS-based ocean wave measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Yang LIU, Menghao LI, Fangli QIAO, Li TIAN, Guanxu CHEN, Yanxiong LIU
  • Patent number: 11753118
    Abstract: Disclosed is a submersible buoy device and a control method thereof. The submersible buoy device includes an encapsulated housing, a watertight penetration socket, an underwater acoustic communication body, a data acquisition body, a control body and a mounting bracket. By integrally integrating the watertight penetration socket, the underwater acoustic communication body, the data acquisition body and the control body on the encapsulated housing, different types of multi-sensor data in the submersible buoy device can be automatically collected and processed. Adaptive scheduling and linkage control are carried out by the control body to the unity of each functional module, thereby achieving one-stop automatic operation of all measurement data to acoustic transmission communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
    Inventors: Huiwu Wang, Qinglei Su, Yanliang Guo
  • Patent number: 11747497
    Abstract: The present application provides a seafloor multi-wave seismic source including: a pressure chamber mechanism; a high-voltage pulse generator with four discharge pathways; a thrust mechanism with a thrust rod and a thrust head; four vibrators are evenly distributed around a periphery of the thrust head, and each vibrator is connected with one discharge pathway of the high-voltage pulse generator; a power supply unit to power the seismic source; and a processor, a memory and a program, wherein the program is stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor; and the program includes: pulse emission instructions generated by the processor based on user settings and received by the high-voltage pulse generator, for switching on four or any two of the four discharge pathways at the same time, to enable the corresponding vibrators to vibrate to excite seismic waves in compression wave mode or shear wave mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MNR
    Inventors: Yanliang Pei, Kai Liu, Mingming Wen, Chenguang Liu, Yifan Huang, Liancheng Zhang, Keping Yan, Baohua Liu
  • Publication number: 20230237214
    Abstract: Disclosed is a near-seabed video data positioning correction method based on an ultra-short baseline, comprising the following steps: acquiring ultra-short baseline positioning data; eliminating abnormal data in the ultra-short baseline positioning data, establishing a four-dimensional elimination model, and eliminating the abnormal data in X, Y and Z directions; modeling the correction method of the recombined ultra-short baseline positioning data after removing abnormal data; obtaining the positioning data of the camera drag with specified precision by simulation. The application realizes the positioning correction of video data under the existing conditions and established operation modes, and eliminates, simulates and corrects the error data generated by the time change of ultra-short baseline data used for video positioning in the heading and other directions by integrating and using various survey data, so as to position the near-bottom video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicants: The First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), National Marine Data Information Center
    Inventors: Shijuan YAN, Yue ZHAO, Chuanshun LI, Gang YANG, Dewen DU, Jun YE, Zhiwei ZHU, Xiangwen REN, Chunhua HAN, Fengdeng SHI, Qiukui ZHAO, Xinyu SHI
  • Patent number: 11691696
    Abstract: A device for launching and recovering a box sampler includes a suspension coop, a rail assembly, a moving mechanism, a power unit, and a lifting frame. The rail assembly is fixedly arranged on a deck. The moving mechanism is arranged on the rail assembly and can move along the rail assembly. A fixed end of the power unit is articulated with a top end of the moving mechanism, and an extending end of the power unit is articulated with an open end of an upper frame of the lifting frame. A closed end of the upper frame of the lifting frame is articulated with a front end of the moving mechanism. According to the device for launching and recovering a box sampler, the box sampler can be smoothly launched and recovered. The sampler in the suspension coop can be kept horizontal and is prevented from severely shaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
    Inventors: Zhiyuan Li, Qijun Yu, Daojian Zhang, Haiquan Zhang, Binbin Zhang, Jiaheng Zheng
  • Patent number: 11686873
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a new submerged buoy data acquisition system, including a battery compartment, a main control processor, a GPS receiver, a gigabit Ethernet interface module, and a plurality of data acquisition boards, where the GPS receiver is connected to the main control processor, and the main control processor is connected to a host computer by using the gigabit Ethernet interface module; the data acquisition board includes a hydrophone sensor, a front-end drive circuit, an AD conversion circuit, a clock module, a DA conversion circuit, an FPGA, an ARM processor, and a storage module; the hydrophone sensor is connected to the AD conversion circuit by using the front-end drive circuit, the AD conversion circuit is connected to the FPGA, the FPGA is connected to the ARM processor, the storage module is connected to the ARM processor, the DA conversion circuit is connected to the FPGA and the clock module, the clock module is connected to the FPGA, and the ARM processor is connected to the ma
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: The First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Xi'an Hong Lu Yang Electrical Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangming Kan, Zili Chen, Baohua Liu, Yanliang Pei, Yanhong Lian
  • Publication number: 20230116865
    Abstract: Disclosed is a LADCP and USBL combined observation device and a use method thereof. The device includes a cable winch system, a mounting frame, a LADCP system, a USBL beacon and a correction system. The LADCP system, the USBL beacon and the correction system can be mounted to the mounting frame by adopting a hardware support platform. The cable winch system can drive the LADCP system to deploy or recover along a vertical section. The LADCP system is used to obtain the current velocity of a single small profile, and the USBL beacon can locate the underwater position information, and the correction system can obtain data information in the seawater where the mounting frame is located, so as to calculate an absolute current velocity according to the velocity obtained by the LADCP system and the current data obtained by the correction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
    Inventors: Jingsong GUO, Xin ZHOU, Zhixin ZHANG, Dapeng QU
  • Publication number: 20230002014
    Abstract: A device for launching and recovering a box sampler includes a suspension coop, a rail assembly, a moving mechanism, a power unit, and a lifting frame. The rail assembly is fixedly arranged on a deck. The moving mechanism is arranged on the rail assembly and can move along the rail assembly. A fixed end of the power unit is articulated with a top end of the moving mechanism, and an extending end of the power unit is articulated with an open end of an upper frame of the lifting frame. A closed end of the upper frame of the lifting frame is articulated with a front end of the moving mechanism. According to the device for launching and recovering a box sampler, the box sampler can be smoothly launched and recovered. The sampler in the suspension coop can be kept horizontal and is prevented from severely shaking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
    Inventors: Zhiyuan LI, Qijun YU, Daojian ZHANG, Haiquan ZHANG, Binbin ZHANG, Jiaheng ZHENG
  • Patent number: 11543537
    Abstract: An ocean current measurement method, includes: acquiring three-dimensional coordinates measured by four GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning modules on the surface drifting buoy and attitude data of the surface drifting buoy measured by an attitude sensor; correcting the three-dimensional coordinates measured by the four GNSS positioning modules based on the attitude data; optimizing the corrected three-dimensional coordinates of the four GNSS positioning modules according to the mounting positions; converting the optimized three-dimensional coordinates of the four GNSS positioning modules into latitude and longitude coordinates; and calculating coordinates of the surface drifting buoy, an instantaneous flow velocity and flow direction of ocean current and sea surface elevation through the latitude and longitude coordinates of the four GNSS positioning modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Shujiang Li, Guanhui Liang, Guanlin Wang, Fengye Zhang, Zexun Wei
  • Patent number: 11499875
    Abstract: An anti-surge floating body, a seawater temperature measuring device and an integrated measuring system are provided. The floating material of the anti-surge floating body is in form of a closed loop, the floating material includes a first side close to a central axis of the floating material and a second side away from the central axis, and the wave-proof plate is connected with the second side of the floating material. The hollow space formed by the end-to-end connection of the floating material facilitates normal reception of solar radiation by the seawater, and avoids the influence on the temperature or other seawater parameters of the seawater below the floating material resulting from the floating material blocking solar radiation; moreover, the wave-proof plate can reduce the undulation and heaving of the waves of the seawater, and prevent turbulences of the seawater from affecting the seawater temperature or other seawater parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: First Institute of Oceanography, MNR
    Inventors: Jingsong Guo, Xin Zhou, Hongyu Ma, Li Li
  • Patent number: 11473335
    Abstract: An acoustic-electric remote control release hook used on water and underwater includes a first shell and a cylindrical framework. The cylindrical framework is fixedly connected with the first shell in a detachable mode; the first underwater transducer is remotely matched with a second water transducer which extends to the underwater through a cable, and the second water transducer is connected with a control switch through a cable. An acoustic command receiving module is arranged inside the first shell, and a power supply end of the acoustic command receiving module is connected with the power supply. A signal input end of the acoustic command receiving module is connected with the first underwater transducer through a cable and a watertight connector assembly, and a signal output end of the acoustic command receiving module is connected with the driver of the direct-current motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Guanlin Wang, Shujiang Li, Guanhui Liang, Fengjun Wang
  • Patent number: 11333585
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an ocean surface water continuous sampling device, the device comprises a support that ascends and descends along the stern, on the support a sampling pipe for drawing and sampling the surface water, and hydraulic tanks for driving the support up and down to send the sampling pipe to where the surface water is are provided, and a buffer mechanism for avoiding damage due to constant water resistance to the sampling pipe during sailing is provided on the support too. Configuration of the depth transducer, control unit and hydraulic tanks, promises surface water accurate and continuous collection during research vessel travelling; the buffer mechanism works effectively in avoiding radial and axial damage to the sampling pipe due to continuous water current resistance, which successfully relieves the resistance, and prolongs sampling pipe life; and automatic surface water collection is realized with the automatic control design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: THE FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY
    Inventors: Zhiping Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Yang Li