Patents by Inventor Han Lin

Han Lin 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: 12630364
    Abstract: A goods storage method and apparatus, a robot, a warehousing system, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: moving to a position corresponding to a first target region according to a storage instruction of goods to be stored, where the first target region is a storage region corresponding to the goods to be stored, and the first target region is determined according to size information of the goods to be stored and a dynamic goods storage space on a rack corresponding to the goods to be stored; moving toward a direction of an unoccupied region in the first target region, in a case that the first target region is occupied; and placing the goods to be stored in a second target region, where the second target region is a corresponding storage region after the robot moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: HAI Robotics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Lin, Jui-chun Cheng
  • Patent number: 12605843
    Abstract: A photographing method for picking or placing, applied includes: obtaining first multi-dimensional image information of a target position in a target shelf; determining, according to the first multi-dimensional image information, whether there is a first item in the target position; and determining a photographing strategy of the photographing module according to a determining result, wherein the photographing strategy includes one of: the photographing module not moving with the handling apparatus in a telescopic direction for continued photographing, the photographing module moving a preset distance along the telescopic direction with the handling apparatus, and performing an operation of starting a solution; the solution includes at least one of stopping photographing, sending a warning signal, and reporting to a server to which the transport robot belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Lin, Jui-chun Cheng
  • Patent number: 12602657
    Abstract: A tote processing method includes: obtaining at least one to-be-processed order corresponding to a target workstation; determining target totes and a carrying sequence of each of the target totes according to an order demand of the at least one to-be-processed order and a processing sequence corresponding to each to-be-processed order; and generating a carrying instruction according to the target totes and the carrying sequence of each of the target totes, to control, based on the carrying instruction, a robot to carry each of the target totes, where the order demand of the to-be-processed order includes a type and a quantity of target items corresponding to the to-be-processed order, and the processing sequence of the to-be-processed order is a processing sequence of each of the target items in the order demand of the to-be-processed order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignees: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD., SHENZHEN KUBO SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Lin, Runfang Yu, Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 12591094
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical device that is arranged to emit electromagnetic radiation and a method of forming an optical device. In one embodiment, the optical device comprises an optical fibre that is arranged to transmit electromagnetic radiation between a source of electromagnetic radiation and an area of interest of a sample material. The optical device also comprises an optical element coupled to an end portion of the optical fibre. The optical element comprises a graphene lens that is arranged to focus the electromagnetic radiation transmitted by the optical fibre to a focal region within the area of interest of the sample material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Baohau Jia, Han Lin
  • Patent number: 12566449
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot control method, a robot, a control terminal, and a control system. The method includes: obtaining an environment feature around the first robot when the first robot detects no positioning identifier; determining a deviation distance and a deviation angle between the first robot and a target traveling route of the first robot according to the environment feature and traveling information of the first robot; and controlling the first robot to perform route correction according to the deviation distance and the deviation angle, to cause the first robot to move to the target traveling route again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenna Jia, Han Lin, Huixiang Li
  • Publication number: 20250388312
    Abstract: Agricultural robot systems and methods are disclosed. Embodiments include a robot that maneuvers at the top of a crop field while minimizing disturbance and damage to the crops. Some embodiments include a housing coupled to a balloon that provides buoyancy to the robot system, which can reduce frictional contact with the crops and increase energy efficiency. The housing can include a processor, an energy source and/or a control unit. Embodiments include a repositioning system, and the repositioning system can include one or more arms that can contact a crop to alter the position and/or direction of the agricultural robot system while avoiding crop damage and/or crop disturbance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Dongming GAN, Xiaotong HUANG, Han LIN, Jiayu LUO
  • Publication number: 20250328060
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to an image capturing device including: a body, a loading shell rotatably connected to the main body, a side of which facing the main body may be provided with a rotation avoidance portion and a side of which away from the main body may be provided with a cambered surface portion, and a drive module connected to the loading shell to drive the loading shell to rotate from a first limit position to a second limit position of the rotation avoidance portion. During rotation, an edge part of the cambered surface portion need not be exposed outside the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Inventors: Miaolin Zhong, Xin Liu, Han Lin, San Chen
  • Patent number: 12391087
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot and an adjustment method for a suspension system of a robot. The robot includes a robot body, a detection system, and a controller. The robot body includes a mobile chassis. The mobile chassis includes a suspension system. The detection system and the suspension system are electrically connected to the controller. The detection system is configured to detect operating information of the robot body. The controller is configured to control the suspension system to adjust a suspension hardness of the suspension system based on the operating information. The operating information includes at least one of ground information during operation of the robot body and pose information of the robot body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han Lin
  • Publication number: 20250229984
    Abstract: A method for controlling a warehouse robot to store or retrieve an inventory item on a shelf. The method includes: receiving an instruction to transport the inventory item, obtaining a position of the inventory item from the received instruction, directing the warehouse robot to move to the location of the inventory item, detecting a position shift of the inventory item away from the obtained position based on the location and the orientation of the inventory item, adjusting a position of the warehouse robot to compensate for the position shift, retrieving the inventory item from storage, and transporting the inventory item to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han LIN
  • Patent number: 12291396
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for controlling a warehouse robot to store and fetch inventory materials. The method includes: instructing a material handling device to fetch a second inventory material located in the front row, and placing the second inventory material on a first tray; instructing the material handling device to fetch a first inventory material located in the back row, and placing the first inventory material on a second tray; and instructing the material handling device to return the second inventory material to the front row. By instructing the material handling device to fetch the inventory materials and storing the inventory materials in the trays, the inventory materials can be extracted from a designated shelf and stored in a warehouse, navigation is realized in a crowded warehouse filled with obstacles, and the inventory materials whose positions have been transferred can be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han Lin
  • Publication number: 20250128882
    Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus goods sorting, a server, a system for goods sorting, and a storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han LIN, Xiao FENG
  • Patent number: 12275193
    Abstract: A fiber core auto-tracing method, system, and storage medium are for fabricating fiber gratings. The method includes acquiring the image of the optical fiber to be processed on the three-dimensional translation stage in real-time, adjusting the relative position of the optical fiber and the microscope objective in the Z-axis direction, until it is recognized that two boundary lines are formed between the fiber core and the cladding in the currently collected image calculating the position of the center point of the two boundary lines on the three-dimensional translation stage and adjusting the position of the fiber to be processed on the three-dimensional translation stage accordingly until the center point coincides with the XY coordinates of the laser focus. The method can quickly and accurately find the center point of the fiber core to be processed through the image recognition technology, to ensure processing accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: INNOFOCUS PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD
    Inventors: Han Lin, Baohua Jia, Jinchuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 12272496
    Abstract: A method, including irradiating graphene oxide (GO) with a beam of light or radiation to form reduced graphene oxide (RGO) in a three-dimensional (3D) pattern, wherein the RGO is porous RGO with pores having sizes tuned by controlling the beam of light or radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Han Lin, Baohua Jia
  • Patent number: 12271863
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a material inventory counting method and apparatus, a warehousing robot, and a warehousing system. The material inventory counting method is applied to the warehousing robot. The method includes: capturing an inventory counting image of a target box through the warehousing robot; and determining an inventory count of a material in the target box according to the inventory counting image. According to the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, an inventory counting image of a target box is captured through a warehousing robot, and a count for a material in the target box is determined through image identification on the inventory counting image, to implement in-situ and automatic inventory counting for the material, without the need for cross-zone movement of the box, such that the efficiency of material inventory counting is greatly improved and the cost of inventory counting is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Lin, Lang Zhou
  • Patent number: 12235647
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of intelligent warehousing, and discloses a navigation method, a moving carrier, and a navigation system. The navigation method is applied to the moving carrier capable of traveling in a preset space including a roadway formed by at least two rows of shelving units opposite to each other. The navigation method includes: acquiring deviated position information of the moving carrier in a non-traveling direction relative to the shelving units in the roadway, and navigating the moving carrier according to the deviated position information. The moving carrier is prevented from hitting the shelving units, and, besides, can be reliably navigated in the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han Lin
  • Publication number: 20250051272
    Abstract: A method for continuously synthesizing N-Boc-2,5-dihydropyrrole is provided. The method includes the following steps: cis-1,4 dichloro-2 butene is dissolved in an organic solvent, to prepare solution A; urotropine is dissolved in an organic solvent, to prepare solution B; the solution A and solution B are fed into a first continuous reaction device; a product overflow system is transferred to a second continuous reaction device, and concentrated hydrochloric acid is fed into the same; a product overflow system of the second continuous reaction device is transferred to a third continuous reaction device, and potassium carbonate is fed into the same; a product overflow system of the third continuous reaction device is transferred to a fourth continuous reaction device, and Boc acid anhydride solution is fed into the same; and a product of the fourth continuous reaction device is subjected to continuous solid-liquid separation, concentration and distillation, to obtain N-Boc-2,5-dihydropyrrole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Hao Hong, Gage James, Yi Xiao, Jianye Jiao, Honglei Yan, Tao Zhang, Bin Liu, Han Lin, Zhengchang Xiong
  • Publication number: 20250019173
    Abstract: A warehousing shelving unit has at least one storage layer and at least one temporary storage layer. The storage layer has at least one storage location for storage of goods, and the temporary storage layer has at least one temporary storage location for temporary storage of goods. The temporary storage location is defined by a first support member and a second support member, and a moving area for a first robot to walk is arranged below the temporary storage location. The first support member and the second support member each include a first end and a second end opposite to each other. A first opening is formed between the first end of the first support member and the first end of the second support member, and a second opening is formed between the second end of the first support member and the second end of the second support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han LIN, Shengdong XU
  • Publication number: 20240354698
    Abstract: A tote processing method includes: obtaining at least one to-be-processed order corresponding to a target workstation; determining target totes and a carrying sequence of each of the target totes according to an order demand of the at least one to-be-processed order and a processing sequence corresponding to each to-be-processed order; and generating a carrying instruction according to the target totes and the carrying sequence of each of the target totes, to control, based on the carrying instruction, a robot to carry each of the target totes, where the order demand of the to-be-processed order includes a type and a quantity of target items corresponding to the to-be-processed order, and the processing sequence of the to-be-processed order is a processing sequence of each of the target items in the order demand of the to-be-processed order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Han LIN, Runfang YU, Kui WANG
  • Patent number: 12093047
    Abstract: An obstacle avoidance method and apparatus, and a warehousing robot. The method includes: obtaining working state information, where the working state information includes a working mode and a working region; determining a detection region according to the working state information; and performing braking if an obstacle exists in the detection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han Lin
  • Patent number: D1048209
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Han Lin