Patents by Inventor Bodong An

Bodong An 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: 10591874
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10587201
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling smooth switching of an operation direction of a bidirectional resonant CLLC circuit, which applies to the bidirectional resonant CLLC circuit. The method includes the following steps: Step 1: detecting a current circuit state and controlling the bidirectional resonant CLLC circuit to operate in a forward operation state by means of a primary bridge and a secondary bridge, by a controller; Step 2: performing Step 3 when an externally transmitted reference signal received by the controller or an internal preset reference signal in the controller is an operation direction switching signal; Step 3: performing frequency conversion control, by the controller; Step 4: performing preparation of phase shift control and generating a driving signal of the secondary bridge, by the controller; Step 5: performing the phase shift control, by the controller; and Step 6: switching a circuit operation state to an inverse operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Zhejiang University
    Inventors: Min Chen, Bodong Li, Ning Chen, Xiaoqing Wang, Lei Jing, Xinnan Sun, Dongbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10563469
    Abstract: Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Saud Al-Badran, Bodong Li
  • Patent number: 10563470
    Abstract: Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Saud Al-Badran, Bodong Li
  • Patent number: 10560038
    Abstract: A high temperature downhole power generating device includes a power generator including a first material of one polarity and a second material that is fixed in position and is of opposite polarity of the first material, wherein the first material is propelled toward the second material based on motion of the high temperature downhole power generating device so that the two materials have a maximized point of contact to generate maximum power, at least one electrode that is connected to the first material or second material, a bridge rectifier connected to the at least one electrode to transform the power generated into direct current from alternating current, a storage unit for storing the power generated by the power generator, a sensor that gathers information concerning a downhole environment, and a microcontroller and transceiver unit to manage the power generated by the power generator and transmit information gathered by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Bodong Li, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10551800
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190368340
    Abstract: A system for wirelessly monitoring well conditions includes a set of wireless transceivers placed along a drill string inside a well, each transceiver placed within at least half the maximum distance that each transceiver can transmit data, and a power generator attached to each transceiver that powers the respective transceiver, the power generator including a first material that is of one polarity and a second material that is fixed in position and is of opposite polarity of the first material, wherein the first material is propelled toward the second material based on the motion of the power generator so that the two materials have a maximized point of contact to generate maximum power. The wireless transceivers may communicate using any wireless communication technology, including but not limited to Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and BLE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Bodong Li, Shaohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190370656
    Abstract: A method of pruning a batch normalization layer from a pre-trained deep neural network model is proposed. The pre-trained deep neural network model is inputted as a candidate model. The candidate model is pruned by removing the at least one batch normalization layer from the candidate model to form a pruned candidate model only when the at least one batch normalization layer is connected to and adjacent to a corresponding linear operation layer. The corresponding linear operation layer may be at least one of a convolution layer, a dense layer, a depthwise convolution layer, and a group convolution layer. Weights of the corresponding linear operation layer are adjusted to compensate for the removal of the at least one batch normalization. The pruned candidate model is then output and utilized for inference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Bike Xie, JUNJIE SU, BODONG ZHANG, Chun-Chen Liu
  • Publication number: 20190370658
    Abstract: A method of compressing a pre-trained deep neural network model includes inputting the pre-trained deep neural network model as a candidate model. The candidate model is compressed by increasing sparsity of the candidate, removing at least one batch normalization layer present in the candidate model, and quantizing all remaining weights into fixed-point representation to form a compressed model. Accuracy of the compressed model is then determined utilizing an end-user training and validation data set. Compression of the candidate model is repeated when the accuracy improves. Hyper parameters for compressing the candidate model are adjusted, then compression of the candidate model is repeated when the accuracy declines. The compressed model is output for inference utilization when the accuracy meets or exceeds the end-user performance metric and target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Bike Xie, JUNJIE SU, JIE WU, BODONG ZHANG, Chun-Chen Liu
  • Publication number: 20190368341
    Abstract: A system for wirelessly monitoring well conditions includes a set of wireless transceivers placed along a drill string inside a well, each transceiver placed within at least half the maximum distance that each transceiver can transmit data, and a power generator attached to each transceiver that powers the respective transceiver, the power generator including a first material that is of one polarity and a second material that is fixed in position and is of opposite polarity of the first material, wherein the first material is propelled toward the second material based on the motion of the power generator so that the two materials have a maximized point of contact to generate maximum power. The wireless transceivers may communicate using any wireless communication technology, including but not limited to Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and BLE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Bodong Li, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10451076
    Abstract: A ventilating fan includes a frame, a casing in which a fan motor is mounted, an adapter connected to an air outlet of the casing, a switch, and a junction box for connection of electric wires, where the frame has a bottom surface formed with an air inlet and a side surface provided with an air outlet, wherein any one of surfaces of the junction box is formed with an opening for mounting of the switch and the switch is fixed directly to the opening of the junction box. With the ventilating fan according to the embodiments of the present invention, although a switch is disposed, the cost is not increased and the area of an air path is not narrowed, and the switch can also be conveniently operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: PANASONIC ECOLOGY SYSTEMS GUANGDONG CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yefan Weng, Shouyong Gao, Bodong Zhong, Zhengnan Zeng, Min Long, Daisuke Tsubosa
  • Publication number: 20190309587
    Abstract: Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Saud Al-Badran, Bodong Li
  • Publication number: 20190309588
    Abstract: Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Saud Al-Badran, Bodong Li
  • Patent number: 10436022
    Abstract: A system for wirelessly monitoring well conditions includes a set of wireless transceivers placed along a drill string inside a well, each transceiver placed within at least half the maximum distance that each transceiver can transmit data, and a power generator attached to each transceiver that powers the respective transceiver, the power generator including a first material that is of one polarity and a second material that is fixed in position and is of opposite polarity of the first material, wherein the first material is propelled toward the second material based on the motion of the power generator so that the two materials have a maximized point of contact to generate maximum power. The wireless transceivers may communicate using any wireless communication technology, including but not limited to Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and BLE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Bodong Li, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10428606
    Abstract: Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Saud Al-Badran, Bodong Li
  • Publication number: 20190265656
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10394193
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190227499
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10320311
    Abstract: High temperature miniature mobile device includes a power generator including a first material of one polarity and a second material that is fixed in position and is of opposite polarity of the first material, wherein the first material is propelled towards or slid against the second material based on motion of the miniature mobile device so that the two materials have a maximized point of contact to generate maximum power, an electrode that is connected to the first material or second material, a bridge rectifier connected to the electrode to transform the power generated into direct current from alternating current, a storage unit for storing the power generated by the power generator, a sensor that gathers information concerning a downhole environment, and a microcontroller and transceiver unit to manage the power generated by the power generator and transmit information gathered by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Bodong Li, Shaohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10274191
    Abstract: A ventilator illumination device, including a light-emitting module for housing a light-emitting unit and a power box module for housing a power supply supplying direct current for the light-emitting unit, wherein an anti-reversal installation structure is provided on the light-emitting module and the power box module, the anti-reversal installation structure limiting the light-emitting unit to be installed only in a state that the light-emitting unit faces towards one predetermined direction. The illumination device is easy to install and prevents inversion of the light-emitting unit, thus ensuring proper brightness of the light irradiated by the light-emitting unit into the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: PANASONIC ECOLOGY SYSTEMS GUANGDONG CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gangyi Li, Bodong Zhong, Guancheng Hou, Daisuke Tsubosa