Patents by Inventor Dong Du

Dong Du 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: 12472577
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electro-conduction devices and methods for submerged arc welding of straight-seam steel pipes and in particular to a lateral electro-conduction device and method for multi-wire submerged arc inner/outer welding of a straight-seam steel pipe. The present disclosure aims to overcome the problem of poor closing of the electromagnetic field resulting from the existing negative-pole electro-conduction mechanism and the problem of unstable welding process resulting from bending deformation in the steel pipe welding process. The device includes: a floating surface contact electro-conduction device, capable of forming a surface contact with an outer surface of the straight-seam steel pipe; a lateral electro-conduction brush device, including multiple electro-conduction brushes and electrically connected with the floating surface contact electro-conduction device; a lateral electro-conduction metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Harbin Welding Institute Limited Company
    Inventors: Zhanli Yang, Dong Du, Shanbao Zhang, Kai Xu, Bing Du, Yajun Wu, Qilong Tang, Zhongwang Gong, Debin Bai, Zekun Yang, Xiucheng Xiao, Dakui Fei, Guangnan Zhao, Wei Li, Yongbo Yang
  • Publication number: 20250176820
    Abstract: An ocular parameter evaluation apparatus is disclosed, including a measurement unit and a human-computer interaction unit. the measurement unit and the human-computer interaction unit are on a base. The measurement unit includes at least one camera module, at least one canthal positioning arm, and a light source module. The camera module collects data of the eyes. The human-computer interaction unit adjusts position(s) of the canthal positioning arm(s) at the lateral canthus of the eye(s). The canthal positioning arm(s) are connected to obliquely-arranged mirrors. The light source module includes discretely distributed light bars and a near-infrared light source. The near-infrared light source is selectively coordinated with the light bars to assist the camera module in operation. When the apparatus is used as an exophthalmos examination device, the operation is simple and easy. After localization at the lateral canthus, measurement can include simply recording a video or taking an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Chaonan TIAN, Dong DU, Zhongchun HE
  • Publication number: 20250157633
    Abstract: A method, a device and a storage medium for quantitatively evaluating conjunctival congestion or inflammation are disclosed. The method for quantitatively evaluating conjunctival congestion or inflammation includes obtaining a video of ocular movement from the inside out or from the outside in; segmenting an eye image in the video to obtain an eye conjunctiva image, and extracting a red channel value and a blue channel value of each pixel in a conjunctival area of the eye conjunctiva image; and determining the percentage of conjunctival congestion or inflammation from the ratio of the red channel value to the blue channel value of each pixel. A precise value and/or a percentage of conjunctival congestion or inflammation can be obtained by the quantitative evaluation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Weiqing WANG, Guang NING, Liyun SHEN, Chaonan TIAN, Dong DU
  • Publication number: 20250152004
    Abstract: A method, system and storage medium for evaluating the angle of ocular movement are disclosed. The evaluation method includes capturing a first gaze bitmap of the user looking straight ahead at a position in front of the eyes in a near-infrared light band of 700-1200 nm, capturing a second eye gaze bitmap and a third eye gaze bitmap of the user's eye moving to a limit position in the direction(s) to be measured, comparing the first gaze bitmap respectively with the second eye gaze bitmap and the third eye gaze bitmap, and calculating the angle of ocular movement. The eye images are taken in near-infrared light, which effectively differentiates the iris from the pupil so as to accurately identify the pupil edge, and then calculates the angle of ocular movement by comparing different eye gaze bitmaps, and further improves the calculation accuracy of the angle of ocular movement through compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Chaonan TIAN, Youxiang WANG, Youzhi WANG, Dong DU
  • Publication number: 20250057415
    Abstract: A device for evaluating exophthalmia includes a left displacement platform, a left canthal latch point, a left mirror, a camera, a near infrared light source, a right canthal latch point, a right mirror, a right displacement platform, a visible light column and a shell or housing. A method for evaluating exophthalmia includes positioning the outer canthus of the eye, emitting light from the near-infrared light source and successively emitting light from multiple visible light columns, recording video of the eyeball looking straight ahead through the camera, and obtaining the video frame of the longest reflected light of the visible light columns on the eyeball in the mirror from the video; The corneal vertex is determined from the video frame, and the pupil center is determined by a neural network. The exophthalmia is calculated from known positions and the mirror tilt angle, the corneal vertex, and the pupil center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Chaonan TIAN, Youxiang WANG, Youzhi WANG, Dong DU
  • Publication number: 20250054149
    Abstract: The application relates to a method, device and storage medium for measuring palpebral fissure height. The method comprises capturing the first eye position image of the user looking straight ahead in a near-infrared light field of 700-1200 nm at the position in front of the eye; and segmenting the background, the iris, the sclera and the pupil from the first eye position image by the training method of a neural network. The pupil center was extracted from the segmented pupil, and the vertical pupil center line was obtained. The distance between the junction point of the sclera, the iris or the pupil on the center line of the pupil and the background is obtained, and the palpebral fissure height is calculated using the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Weiqing WANG, Guang NING, Liyun SHEN, Chaonan TIAN, Dong DU
  • Publication number: 20240207965
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electro-conduction devices and methods for submerged arc welding of straight-seam steel pipes and in particular to a lateral electro-conduction device and method for multi-wire submerged arc inner/outer welding of a straight-seam steel pipe. The present disclosure aims to overcome the problem of poor closing of the electromagnetic field resulting from the existing negative-pole electro-conduction mechanism and the problem of unstable welding process resulting from bending deformation in the steel pipe welding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Zhanli YANG, Dong DU, Shanbao ZHANG, Kai XU, Bing DU, Yajun WU, Qilong TANG, Zhongwang GONG, Debin BAI, Zekun YANG, Xiucheng XIAO, Dakui FEI, Guangnan ZHAO, Wei LI, Yongbo YANG
  • Patent number: 11541483
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a control device and method for formation of a weld seam based on frontal visual sensing of a weld pool. In the present disclosure, structural light is adopted to irradiate the concave surface of the weld pool, and a visual sensor is adopted to acquire corresponding structured light images. The weld pool depression feature is acquired through image processing. The welding current is adjusted in real time to maintain the weld pool depression feature constant, and thus the uniform backside width of the weld seam can be acquired to achieve uniform and consistent penetration of the weld seam. The present disclosure only relies on the structural light information on the topside of the weld pool to achieve the control of formation of the weld seam and can be applied to the filler-wire-free DC gas tungsten arc welding of tight butt joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Dong Du, Guodong Peng, Boce Xue, Li Wang, Baohua Chang
  • Publication number: 20220169134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a mobile charging device, which comprises the following steps: receiving an order information from the user, the order information comprising the charging location where the electric vehicle will be charged; determining a navigation route between the mobile charging device and the charging location according to the order information; navigating the mobile charging device to the charging location according to the navigation route and connecting the mobile charging device with the charging interface; and charging the electric vehicle through the charging interface. The invention relates to a system of the same. Through the invention, the mobile charging device can be intelligently dispatched according to user needs and make it autonomously travel to the user's electric vehicle and charge it, thereby greatly optimizing the charging resources of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Envision Energy CO.,LTD
    Inventors: Xinyu XU, Dong DU, Yang Hu
  • Publication number: 20220091911
    Abstract: A method for inter-process communication, a related apparatus for implementing the method, a computer device, and the like are provided. The method may be applied to an intelligent terminal, a self-driving device, and the like. The method mainly includes: A communication engine running at a hardware layer or a high-level software layer provides a context switching instruction, and when a caller running in a user mode calls a callee, context switching is directly implemented by calling the context switching instruction without trapping into a kernel mode. Therefore, kernel intervention in context switching is avoided to some extent, and an execution time of inter-process communication IPC is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Dong DU, Haibo CHEN, Yubin XIA
  • Publication number: 20200406404
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a control device and method for formation of a weld seam based on frontal visual sensing of a weld pool. In the present disclosure, structural light is adopted to irradiate the concave surface of the weld pool, and a visual sensor is adopted to acquire corresponding structured light images. The weld pool depression feature is acquired through image processing. The welding current is adjusted in real time to maintain the weld pool depression feature constant, and thus the uniform backside width of the weld seam can be acquired to achieve uniform and consistent penetration of the weld seam. The present disclosure only relies on the structural light information on the topside of the weld pool to achieve the control of formation of the weld seam and can be applied to the filler-wire-free DC gas tungsten arc welding of tight butt joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Dong DU, Guodong PENG, Boce XUE, Li WANG, Baohua CHANG
  • Patent number: 10553323
    Abstract: A fuel ball detecting method and system with a self-diagnosis function are provided. The method includes: exciting a first detecting coil and a second detecting coil of a fuel ball sensor disposed outside a pipeline; obtaining a first voltage signal U1 from the first detecting coil and a second voltage signal U2 from the second detecting coil; processing U1 and U2 by differential amplification, band pass filtering, phase sensitive detection and low pass filtering by a signal processor to obtain a fuel ball waveform signal U0; determining whether the fuel ball passes the pipeline according to U0 by a single chip microcomputer; determining whether the first and the second detecting coils, the signal processor and the single chip microcomputer work normally; outputting a result showing whether the fuel ball passes the pipeline, when the first and the second detecting coils, the signal processor and the single chip microcomputer work normally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zandong Han, Haiquan Zhang, Dong Du, Xiaoyang Li, Haipeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10332271
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for detecting multilayer multipass welding trajectory are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging component, a first and a second directional light source group, a structured light source and a control and processing component. The imaging component is disposed in front of a welding gun and above a weld pass. The first and the second directional light source group are disposed symmetrically above the weld pass and at two sides of the weld pass. The structured light source is disposed above the weld pass. The control and processing component is configured to control the imaging component to capture an image of the workpiece surface separately when the first directional light source group, the second directional light source group or the structured light source emits the light to the workpiece surface and to obtain a multilayer multipass welding trajectory according to the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dong Du, Jinle Zeng, Li Wang, Baohua Chang, Shuhe Chang, Guodong Peng, Wenzhu Wang
  • Publication number: 20180268562
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for detecting multilayer multipass welding trajectory are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging component, a first and a second directional light source group, a structured light source and a control and processing component. The imaging component is disposed in front of a welding gun and above a weld pass. The first and the second directional light source group are disposed symmetrically above the weld pass and at two sides of the weld pass. The structured light source is disposed above the weld pass. The control and processing component is configured to control the imaging component to capture an image of the workpiece surface separately when the first directional light source group, the second directional light source group or the structured light source emits the light to the workpiece surface and to obtain a multilayer multipass welding trajectory according to the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Dong DU, Jinle ZENG, Li WANG, Baohua CHANG, Shuhe CHANG, Guodong PENG, Wenzhu WANG
  • Publication number: 20160329115
    Abstract: A fuel ball detecting method and system with a self-diagnosis function are provided. The method includes: exciting a first detecting coil and a second detecting coil of a fuel ball sensor disposed outside a pipeline; obtaining a first voltage signal U1 from the first detecting coil and a second voltage signal U2 from the second detecting coil; processing U1 and U2 by differential amplification, band pass filtering, phase sensitive detection and low pass filtering by a signal processor to obtain a fuel ball waveform signal U0; determining whether the fuel ball passes the pipeline according to U0 by a single chip microcomputer; determining whether the first and the second detecting coils, the signal processor and the single chip microcomputer work normally; outputting a result showing whether the fuel ball passes the pipeline, when the first and the second detecting coils, the signal processor and the single chip microcomputer work normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: ZANDONG HAN, HAIQUAN ZHANG, DONG DU, XIAOYANG LI, HAIPENG ZHOU
  • Patent number: 7364102
    Abstract: A pill crusher having a rack and pinion advancing a platen. Pill crushers are used to crush pills into powder for various medicinal reasons, such as ease of mixing or dosing. A rack on a slide way is linearly advanced by rotational movement of a pinion on a handle. The slide way is attached to a platen that advances towards an anvil. A pill in a pouch placed adjacent the anvil is crushed by the advancing platen. In one embodiment, a shaped anvil insert surface is mated to a complementary shaped platen surface and aids in crushing the pill. The present invention provides an efficient and sturdy pill crusher for commercial as well as personal use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Tiger Medical Products (U.S.), Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Engel, Song Yang, Dong Du
  • Publication number: 20080061175
    Abstract: A pill crusher having a rack and pinion advancing a platen. Pill crushers are used to crush pills into powder for various medicinal reasons, such as ease of mixing or dosing. A rack on a slide way is linearly advanced by rotational movement of a pinion on a handle. The slide way is attached to a platen that advances towards an anvil. A pill in a pouch placed adjacent the anvil is crushed by the advancing platen. In one embodiment, a shaped anvil insert surface is mated to a complementary shaped platen surface and aids in crushing the pill. The present invention provides an efficient and sturdy pill crusher for commercial as well as personal use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Engel, Song Yang, Dong Du