Patents by Inventor Caihua XIONG
Caihua XIONG 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).
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Publication number: 20230365760Abstract: A method for preparing a multifunctional hydrogel by yeast fermentation is provided. According to the present disclosure, graphene oxide is reduced by polydopamine to obtain a reduced graphene oxide solution first, and then a certain concentration of a gelatin-PCA-glucose mixed solution and an activated yeast liquid are prepared. The three solutions are uniformly mixed and stirred by a one pot reaction method, poured into a mold, and subjected to fermentation in a 30° C. water bath for a certain period of time, so as to obtain a Gel-PrGO-PCA-yeast multifunctional hydrogel material. The method is simple, convenient, rapid, and efficient. The obtained hydrogel has good air permeability, superior mechanical properties, electrical conductivity, and biocompatibility, and can be applied to different skin locations to achieve electrocardiograph and electromyographic detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: FUZHOU UNIVERSITYInventors: Shaoyun WANG, Jing CHENG, Lijun YOU, Caihua XIONG, Qianqian CAI, Xuan CHEN
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Patent number: 11696687Abstract: The disclosure provides a dynamic interaction-oriented subject's limb time-varying stiffness identification method and device. The method includes: the combination of subject's limb displacement and measured force data or the combination of angle and measured torque data is collected; based on the time-varying dynamic system constructed based on a second-order impedance model, the linear parameter varying method is utilized to substitute the time-varying impedance parameters and reconstruct the restoring force/torque expression; iterative identification is performed on variable weights, dynamic interaction force/torque, and restoring force/torque by using time-varying dynamic parameters based on the dynamic interaction force/torque expression expanded from basis function; the time-varying stiffness is solved by using variable weights and dynamic interaction force/torque according to expression with substituted the time-varying impedance parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Qin Zhang, Jihan Liu, Yusheng Chen, Caihua Xiong
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Patent number: 11638673Abstract: The disclosure belongs to the technical field of lower limb exoskeleton, and specifically discloses a hip-knee passive exoskeleton device based on clutch time-sharing control, comprising a waist support subassembly, connection subassemblies, thigh subassemblies, clutch subassemblies, shank subassemblies and elastic member subassemblies, the waist support subassembly is configured to be connected to the waist, the connection subassemblies are configured to include two connection subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry on two sides of the support subassembly, the thigh subassemblies are configured to include two thigh subassemblies which are respectively connected to the two connection subassemblies, the clutch subassemblies are configured to include two clutch subassemblies which are respectively mounted on the two thigh subassemblies, the shank subassemblies are configured to include two shank subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry below the two thigh subassemblies, the elasticType: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Wenbin Chen, Tongtong Wei, Tiancheng Zhou, Shuang Wu, Caihua Xiong
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Publication number: 20230028793Abstract: The disclosure provides a dynamic interaction-oriented subject's limb time-varying stiffness identification method and device. The method includes: the combination of subject's limb displacement and measured force data or the combination of angle and measured torque data is collected; based on the time-varying dynamic system constructed based on a second-order impedance model, the linear parameter varying method is utilized to substitute the time-varying impedance parameters and reconstruct the restoring force/torque expression; iterative identification is performed on variable weights, dynamic interaction force/torque, and restoring force/torque by using time-varying dynamic parameters based on the dynamic interaction force/torque expression expanded from basis function; the time-varying stiffness is solved by using variable weights and dynamic interaction force/torque according to expression with substituted the time-varying impedance parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Qin Zhang, Jihan Liu, Yusheng Chen, Caihua Xiong
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Patent number: 11241354Abstract: The present invention discloses a gravity balancing device for a rehabilitation robot arm, and belongs to the field of rehabilitation robots. The gravity balancing device includes a shoulder joint connecting member, an upper arm connecting member and a gravity balancing assembly; the shoulder joint connecting member and the upper arm connecting member are pivotally connected according to the human body bionic structure to simulate the rotational movement of the upper arm of the human body around the shoulder joint; the gravity balancing assembly includes a plurality of springs, wire ropes and guide pulleys, the wire ropes connect the springs to the shoulder joint connecting member and the upper arm connecting member, the spring tension is used to balance the gravity of the arm, and the guide pulleys are used to change the force directions of the wire ropes, thereby saving space and making the device structure more compact.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Caihua Xiong, Jianbo Tao, Xuan Wu, Chang He, Wenbin Chen, Chenbo Wang
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Patent number: 11147732Abstract: The present invention discloses a connecting rod-type lower limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot, comprising a treadmill, two pneumatic muscle frames, two transmission devices and two lower limb exoskeletons; the pneumatic muscle frame includes a thigh rotating shaft, a calf rotating shaft, a hip joint shaft, pneumatic muscles and a support frame; the transmission device includes a thigh transmission mechanism and a calf transmission mechanism; the thigh transmission mechanism is a parallel four-connecting-rod mechanism composed of a thigh rotating arm, a thigh connecting rod and a thigh skeleton; the calf transmission mechanism includes two four-connecting-rod mechanisms; and the lower limb exoskeleton is connected to the pneumatic muscle frame through the transmission device.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Huazhong University of Science & TechnologyInventors: Jian Huang, Haitao Zhang, Zhangbo Huang, Xikai Tu, Caihua Xiong
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Patent number: 11045334Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a knee joint power generation device based on bidirectional ball screw drive, and belongs to the field of biomechanical energy harvesting. The power generation device converts the rotary motion of the knee joint during human movement into a linear motion of the rope by the rope driving device, and then converts the linear motion into a rotary motion through a bidirectional ball screw to directly act on the motor, thereby converting the human biological energy into electric energy in the whole process to achieve power generation. The power generation device of the disclosure can meet the requirements of normal power generation during high-speed running and low-speed walking, has long-term high-efficiency and stable performance, can be easily worn on different people, has light overall weight and costs less loss of human walking metabolism.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Caihua Xiong, Zhongkui Huang, Jun Fan, Wenbin Chen
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Patent number: 11030455Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of 3D gaze point recognition and computer vision, and more particularly discloses a pose recognition method, device and system for an object of interest to human eyes, which respectively identifies centers of left and right pupils of a user by using a left eye camera and a right eye camera on an eye tracker to extract information of the user's eyes; maps the obtained centers of the left and right pupils to a left scene camera to obtain a 2D gaze point; extracts bounding boxes of objects in the left scene camera by using target recognition and tracking algorithms, and then determines an object of interest to the user according to a positional relationship between the 2D gaze point and the bounding boxes of the objects; performs 3D reconstruction and pose estimation of the object of interest to the user to obtain a pose of the object of interest in the left scene camera; and converts the pose of the object of interest in the left scene camera to a pose in the world coType: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Caihua Xiong, Shikai Qiu, Quanlin Li
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Patent number: 10987271Abstract: An upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation device having man-machine motion matching and side-to-side interchanging, includes a chassis bracket assembly, a shoulder girdle abduction assembly, a side-to-side interchanging assembly and a mechanical arm coupling member. The chassis bracket assembly includes a frame and a lifting unit mounted on the frame. The shoulder girdle abduction assembly is mounted on the lifting unit to be driven by the lifting unit to move up and down. The side-to-side interchanging assembly is rotatably connected to the shoulder girdle abduction assembly and the mechanical arm coupling member, and the mechanical arm coupling member is configured to mount the mechanical arm and drive the mechanical arm to rotate with the respective rotating joints.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Caihua Xiong, Xuan Wu, Chang He, Jianbo Tao, Chenbo Wang, Wenbin Chen
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Publication number: 20200311416Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of 3D gaze point recognition and computer vision, and more particularly discloses a pose recognition method, device and system for an object of interest to human eyes, which respectively identifies centers of left and right pupils of a user by using a left eye camera and a right eye camera on an eye tracker to extract information of the user's eyes; maps the obtained centers of the left and right pupils to a left scene camera to obtain a 2D gaze point; extracts bounding boxes of objects in the left scene camera by using target recognition and tracking algorithms, and then determines an object of interest to the user according to a positional relationship between the 2D gaze point and the bounding boxes of the objects; performs 3D reconstruction and pose estimation of the object of interest to the user to obtain a pose of the object of interest in the left scene camera; and converts the pose of the object of interest in the left scene camera to a pose in the world coType: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Caihua XIONG, Shikai QIU, Quanlin LI
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Patent number: 10682772Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of medical rehabilitation training equipment, and particularly discloses a reversible mechanical arm gravitational torque balancing device, comprising a counterweight guide groove module, a counterweight, a mechanical arm joint, a rope, a guide pulley block, a counterweight disc, a mechanical arm joint link and a rack.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Caihua Xiong, Chenbo Wang, Xuan Wu, Jianbo Tao, Chang He, Wei Mao
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Publication number: 20200100919Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a knee joint power generation device based on bidirectional ball screw drive, and belongs to the field of biomechanical energy harvesting. The power generation device converts the rotary motion of the knee joint during human movement into a linear motion of the rope by the rope driving device, and then converts the linear motion into a rotary motion through a bidirectional ball screw to directly act on the motor, thereby converting the human biological energy into electric energy in the whole process to achieve power generation. The power generation device of the disclosure can meet the requirements of normal power generation during high-speed running and low-speed walking, has long-term high-efficiency and stable performance, can be easily worn on different people, has light overall weight and costs less loss of human walking metabolism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Caihua XIONG, Zhongkui HUANG, Jun FAN, Wenbin CHEN
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Publication number: 20200085667Abstract: The disclosure belongs to the technical field of lower limb exoskeleton, and specifically discloses a hip-knee passive exoskeleton device based on clutch time-sharing control, comprising a waist support subassembly, connection subassemblies, thigh subassemblies, clutch subassemblies, shank subassemblies and elastic member subassemblies, the waist support subassembly is configured to be connected to the waist, the connection subassemblies are configured to include two connection subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry on two sides of the support subassembly, the thigh subassemblies are configured to include two thigh subassemblies which are respectively connected to the two connection subassemblies, the clutch subassemblies are configured to include two clutch subassemblies which are respectively mounted on the two thigh subassemblies, the shank subassemblies are configured to include two shank subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry below the two thigh subassemblies, the elasticType: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Wenbin Chen, Tongtong Wei, Tiancheng Zhou, Shuang Wu, Caihua Xiong
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Publication number: 20200000671Abstract: The present invention discloses an upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation device with man-machine motion matching and side-to-side interchanging, comprising a chassis bracket assembly, a shoulder girdle abduction assembly, a side-to-side interchanging assembly and a mechanical arm coupling member; the chassis bracket assembly includes a frame and a lifting unit mounted on the frame; the shoulder girdle abduction assembly is mounted on the lifting unit to be driven by the lifting unit to move up and down; the side-to-side interchanging assembly is rotatably connected to the shoulder girdle abduction assembly and the mechanical arm coupling member, the mechanical arm coupling member is configured to mount the mechanical arm and drive the mechanical arm to rotate with the respective rotating joints, and through an upper locking assembly and a lower locking assembly mounted on the side-to-side interchanging assembly, the side-to-side interchanging assembly is fixed or rotated relative to the shoulder girdle abductType: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Caihua XIONG, Xuan WU, Chang HE, Jianbo TAO, Chenbo WANG, Wenbin CHEN
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Publication number: 20200000670Abstract: The present invention discloses a gravity balancing device for a rehabilitation robot arm, and belongs to the field of rehabilitation robots. The gravity balancing device includes a shoulder joint connecting member, an upper arm connecting member and a gravity balancing assembly; the shoulder joint connecting member and the upper arm connecting member are pivotally connected according to the human body bionic structure to simulate the rotational movement of the upper arm of the human body around the shoulder joint; the gravity balancing assembly includes a plurality of springs, wire ropes and guide pulleys, the wire ropes connect the springs to the shoulder joint connecting member and the upper arm connecting member, the spring tension is used to balance the gravity of the arm, and the guide pulleys are used to change the force directions of the wire ropes, thereby saving space and making the device structure more compact.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Caihua XIONG, Jianbo TAO, Xuan WU, Chang HE, Wenbin CHEN, Chenbo WANG
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Publication number: 20190321986Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of medical rehabilitation training equipment, and particularly discloses a reversible mechanical arm gravitational torque balancing device, comprising a counterweight guide groove module, a counterweight, a mechanical arm joint, a rope, a guide pulley block, a counterweight disc, a mechanical arm joint link and a rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Caihua XIONG, Chenbo WANG, Xuan WU, Jianbo TAO, Chang HE, Wei MAO
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Publication number: 20180360685Abstract: The present invention discloses a connecting rod-type lower limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot, comprising a treadmill, two pneumatic muscle frames, two transmission devices and two lower limb exoskeletons; the pneumatic muscle frame includes a thigh rotating shaft, a calf rotating shaft, a hip joint shaft, pneumatic muscles and a support frame; the transmission device includes a thigh transmission mechanism and a calf transmission mechanism; the thigh transmission mechanism is a parallel four-connecting-rod mechanism composed of a thigh rotating arm, a thigh connecting rod and a thigh skeleton; the calf transmission mechanism includes two four-connecting-rod mechanisms; and the lower limb exoskeleton is connected to the pneumatic muscle frame through the transmission device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Jian HUANG, Haitao ZHANG, Zhangbo HUANG, Xikai TU, Caihua XIONG