Patents by Inventor Bi Shi

Bi Shi 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: 12264094
    Abstract: A method for chromium removal from post-tanning wastewater includes the following steps: (a) mixing pretreated post-tanning wastewater with an induction reagent to allow an induction reaction; and (b) adjusting a pH of a mixture obtained after the induction reaction to higher than 7.0 for precipitation; where the induction reagent includes a soluble metal salt. In the treatment method of the present disclosure, pretreated post-tanning wastewater is mixed with an induction reagent, a small amount of neutral chromium complexes remaining in the wastewater are converted into cationic chromium complexes under the action of the induction reagent (that is, a charge property of the chromium complex is changed), and then a pH is adjusted for precipitation to remove chromium, which greatly improves the removal efficiency of chromium in wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianfei Zhou, Liming Zhao, Bi Shi, Yuling Tang
  • Publication number: 20250086529
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide methods for calculating carbon footprints of leather chemical materials. In some examples, the method includes: determining a calculation range of a carbon footprint of a leather chemical material in a life cycle as “cradle to gate”; determining a system boundary, a functional unit, and cut-off criteria for the carbon footprint of the leather chemical material in the life cycle; dividing the carbon footprint into a raw chemical obtaining process, a production process of the leather chemical material, and a waste disposal process within the system boundary; determining a carbon footprint calculation model for the leather chemical material according to resource consumption and environmental emission of each process; collecting and determining a quantity and a value required by each parameter in the carbon footprint calculation model; and calculating the carbon footprint of the leather chemical material using the carbon footprint calculation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY, Sichuan Chuangzhiweiye Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianfei ZHOU, Wei LIN, Qianchuan ZHOU, Chunhua WANG, Bi SHI, Youcheng TANG, Hexiang DONG
  • Publication number: 20250078096
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide accounting methods for carbon footprints of leather products. In some examples, the accounting method includes the following steps: firstly, determining a system boundary for a carbon footprint in a life cycle of a leather product; dividing the carbon footprint into a raw material production and transportation stage, a leather product production stage, and a leather product transportation and distribution stage within the system boundary for the leather product; determining carbon emission source inventories of the stages and emission factors thereof in combination with process and flow characteristics of the stages, and then constructing carbon emission accounting models of the stages, and calculating carbon footprint data of the stages, and, finally, obtaining the carbon footprint of the leather product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chunhua WANG, Wei LIN, Le YANG, Jianfei ZHOU, Bi SHI
  • Patent number: 12129524
    Abstract: A chrome-free tanning process of an ecological leather is characterized by a TWS+sodium lignosulfonate+TWLZ ternary tanning process system. The sodium lignosulfonate added can not only have a fixation effect on a TWS tanning agent to make the TWS tanning not undergo detanning at a low pH, but also significantly improve the uniformity of distribution of a TWLZ tanning agent in a hide/skin and promote the formation of a stable cross-linked network structure by the TWLZ tanning agent in a collagen fiber, which effectively overcomes the defects of tanning performance of the existing tanning systems to obtain a leather with uniform and sufficient tanning, a high isoelectric point, a strong electropositivity, excellent absorption for post-tanning chemicals, and a prominent softness, and gives a leather a wide use range and a high quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yanan Wang, Yue Yu, Bi Shi, Jianfei Zhou, Yunhang Zeng, Wenhua Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240263257
    Abstract: A chrome-free tanning process of an ecological leather is characterized by a TWS+sodium lignosulfonate+TWLZ ternary tanning process system. The sodium lignosulfonate added can not only have a fixation effect on a TWS tanning agent to make the TWS tanning not undergo detanning at a low pH, but also significantly improve the uniformity of distribution of a TWLZ tanning agent in a hide/skin and promote the formation of a stable cross-linked network structure by the TWLZ tanning agent in a collagen fiber, which effectively overcomes the defects of tanning performance of the existing tanning systems to obtain a leather with uniform and sufficient tanning, a high isoelectric point, a strong electropositivity, excellent absorption for post-tanning chemicals, and a prominent softness, and gives a leather a wide use range and a high quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yanan WANG, Yue YU, Bi SHI, Jianfei ZHOU, Yunhang ZENG, Wenhua ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11834724
    Abstract: A light-colored polycarboxylated polysaccharide tanning agent, and a preparation method and use thereof are provided. The light-colored polycarboxylated polysaccharide tanning agent includes the following raw materials: a polysaccharide, an organic solvent, a catalyst, and hydrogen peroxide. Based on a weight of the polysaccharide, a weight of the organic solvent accounts for 1 wt % to 15 wt %, a weight of the catalyst accounts for 0.05 wt % to 2 wt %, and a weight of the hydrogen peroxide accounts for 30 wt % to 80 wt %. The preparation method provided by the present disclosure adopts a two-phase solution system. Compared with the existing preparation technologies, the preparation method of the present disclosure can efficiently extract and remove colored substances produced during an oxidation process, and can timely block a polymerization reaction of the colored substances with an oxidized polysaccharide, such as to significantly reduce a chromaticity of an oxidized product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yue Yu, Yanan Wang, Bi Shi, Xueru Guo, Jianfei Zhou, Yunhang Zeng, Wenhua Zhang, Mingrong Cao
  • Patent number: 11739390
    Abstract: A tanning agent-free leather making method is provided. A raw hide is subjected to controllable dehydration with a molecular sieve-polar organic solvent composite dehydration media to achieve a dehydrated hide, and then a tanning agent-free leather is prepared by increasing the surface roughness of the dehydrated hide and reducing the surface energy of the dehydrated hide. The present disclosure does not use any metal or non-metal tanning agent, which is eco-friendly. The present disclosure breaks the balance of water distribution between the raw hide and the polar organic solvent, which realizes a multi-medium self-driven directional controllable dehydration of the raw hide, effectively solving the problems during dehydration of the raw hide only using polar organic solvent. The molecular sieve-polar organic solvent dehydration system is easy to recover and can be recycled for the controllable dehydration of the raw hide multiple times. Therefore, a brand-new clean leather making technology is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xin Huang, Yawen Huang, Bi Shi
  • Patent number: 11674007
    Abstract: A modified collagen fiber preparation method and application are provided. The modified collagen fiber is prepared by modifying a collagen fiber with a plant tannin; and a method of the preparation includes: mixing the plant tannin with the collagen fiber in a liquid environment with a pH of 5 to 8 to allow a reaction, and washing and drying a product. In the present disclosure, a plant tannin rich in phenolic hydroxyl can be combined with a collagen fiber in various ways such as multi-point hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic bonding, such that the plant tannin structure is introduced into a natural multi-layer micro/nano-structure of the collagen fiber; and due to a large number of phenolic hydroxyl structures in the plant tannin, the collagen fiber introduced with the plant tannin structure shows improved compatibility with a waterborne resin, and can produce strong hydrogen bonding with polar groups in the waterborne resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shuangyang Li, Bi Shi, Jianfei Zhou, Weixing Xu
  • Publication number: 20220411887
    Abstract: A tanning agent-free leather making method is provided. A raw hide is subjected to controllable dehydration with a molecular sieve-polar organic solvent composite dehydration media to achieve a dehydrated hide, and then a tanning agent-free leather is prepared by increasing the surface roughness of the dehydrated hide and reducing the surface energy of the dehydrated hide. The present disclosure does not use any metal or non-metal tanning agent, which is eco-friendly. The present disclosure breaks the balance of water distribution between the raw hide and the polar organic solvent, which realizes a multi-medium self-driven directional controllable dehydration of the raw hide, effectively solving the problems during dehydration of the raw hide only using polar organic solvent. The molecular sieve-polar organic solvent dehydration system is easy to recover and can be recycled for the controllable dehydration of the raw hide multiple times. Therefore, a brand-new clean leather making technology is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xin HUANG, Yawen HUANG, Bi SHI
  • Publication number: 20220289610
    Abstract: A method for chromium removal from post-tanning wastewater includes the following steps: (a) mixing pretreated post-tanning wastewater with an induction reagent to allow an induction reaction; and (b) adjusting a pH of a mixture obtained after the induction reaction to higher than 7.0 for precipitation; where the induction reagent includes a soluble metal salt. In the treatment method of the present disclosure, pretreated post-tanning wastewater is mixed with an induction reagent, a small amount of neutral chromium complexes remaining in the wastewater are converted into cationic chromium complexes under the action of the induction reagent (that is, a charge property of the chromium complex is changed), and then a pH is adjusted for precipitation to remove chromium, which greatly improves the removal efficiency of chromium in wastewater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianfei ZHOU, Liming ZHAO, Bi SHI, Yuling TANG
  • Publication number: 20220259389
    Abstract: A modified collagen fiber preparation method and application are provided. The modified collagen fiber is prepared by modifying a collagen fiber with a plant tannin; and a method of the preparation includes: mixing the plant tannin with the collagen fiber in a liquid environment with a pH of 5 to 8 to allow a reaction, and washing and drying a product. In the present disclosure, a plant tannin rich in phenolic hydroxyl can be combined with a collagen fiber in various ways such as multi-point hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic bonding, such that the plant tannin structure is introduced into a natural multi-layer micro/nano-structure of the collagen fiber; and due to a large number of phenolic hydroxyl structures in the plant tannin, the collagen fiber introduced with the plant tannin structure shows improved compatibility with a waterborne resin, and can produce strong hydrogen bonding with polar groups in the waterborne resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shuangyang LI, Bi SHI, Jianfei ZHOU, Weixing XU
  • Publication number: 20220251672
    Abstract: A light-colored polycarboxylated polysaccharide tanning agent, and a preparation method and use thereof are provided. The light-colored polycarboxylated polysaccharide tanning agent includes the following raw materials: a polysaccharide, an organic solvent, a catalyst, and hydrogen peroxide. Based on a weight of the polysaccharide, a weight of the organic solvent accounts for 1 wt % to 15 wt %, a weight of the catalyst accounts for 0.05 wt % to 2 wt %, and a weight of the hydrogen peroxide accounts for 30 wt % to 80 wt %. The preparation method provided by the present disclosure adopts a two-phase solution system. Compared with the existing preparation technologies, the preparation method of the present disclosure can efficiently extract and remove colored substances produced during an oxidation process, and can timely block a polymerization reaction of the colored substances with an oxidized polysaccharide, such as to significantly reduce a chromaticity of an oxidized product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yue YU, Yanan WANG, Bi SHI, Xueru GUO, Jianfei ZHOU, Yunhang ZENG, Wenhua ZHANG, Mingrong CAO
  • Publication number: 20190294279
    Abstract: The problem addressed by the present invention lies in providing a touch panel capable of suppressing the occurrence of moiré without causing graining to occur, and a display device onto which the touch panel has been stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kanae BANI, Takahiro HARADA, Bi SHI
  • Patent number: 9554106
    Abstract: A projector in which a liquid crystal display panel modulates light emitted from a light source and the modulated image light is projected, the projector includes a temperature detector that detects a temperature in the projector and a controller that determines the amount of overdrive based on the temperature detected by the temperature detector in accordance with a driven state of the projector and performs overdrive control on the liquid crystal display panel based on the amount of overdrive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Sagawa, Bi Shi