Patents by Inventor Hengfeng LIU

Hengfeng LIU 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: 11339658
    Abstract: Provided is a method for recovering room-type coal pillars by cemented filling of reserved roadways, which is especially suitable for safe and efficient recovery of left coal pillars in room-type mining faces in mining areas where the ecological system is fragile, such as in western China. In the method, by constructing reserved roadways in two adjacent rows of room-type goafs, excavating coal pillar roadways in room-type coal pillars, and finally interconnecting the reserved roadways with the coal pillar roadways to form a U-shaped working face, room-type left coal pillars are recovered. Thus, not only the workload of roadway excavation is reduced, but also the recovery ratio of the coal resources is maximized. The method provides a novel technical model for the recovery of room-type left coal pillars in mining areas, such as in western China.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nan Zhou, Meng Li, Hao Yan, Jixiong Zhang, Hengfeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20210355826
    Abstract: Provided is a method for recovering room-type coal pillars by cemented filling of reserved roadways, which is especially suitable for safe and efficient recovery of left coal pillars in room-type mining faces in mining areas where the ecological system is fragile, such as in western China. In the method, by constructing reserved roadways in two adjacent rows of room-type goafs, excavating coal pillar roadways in room-type coal pillars, and finally interconnecting the reserved roadways with the coal pillar roadways to form a U-shaped working face, room-type left coal pillars are recovered. Thus, not only the workload of roadway excavation is reduced, but also the recovery ratio of the coal resources is maximized. The method provides a novel technical model for the recovery of room-type left coal pillars in mining areas, such as in western China.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Nan Zhou, Meng Li, Hao Yan, Jixiong Zhang, Hengfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11021954
    Abstract: A method of recovering a room-and-pillar coal pillar by using external replacement supports. In the recovery of a room-and-pillar coal pillar, a cement material wall is formed by performing pouring around a coal pillar having a width to height ratio of less than 0.6, by means of a single-pillar sack arrangement technique, such that a coal pillar resource may be mined while a wall made from a cement filling material supports an overlying stratum. After mining is complete, a coal pillar goaf region is filled with the cement filling material, and after the cement filling material solidifies and is stable, the single pillar can be recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: China University of Mining and Technology
    Inventors: Nan Zhou, Hengfeng Liu, Meng Li, Zhongya Wu, Jixiong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200378256
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a mine exploitation, separation, filling and treatment exploitation method, including main sources of gangue on a small-volume gangue exploitation working face and gangue reducing measures; system layout, equipment and separation technology for coal gangue separation; system layout, equipment and production technology for filling synergistic caving type coal efficient stoping; pretreatment and pre-control measures for environmental influence before and after gangue filling; and design principle and design steps of the mine “exploitation, separation, filling and treatment” exploitation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: China University of Mining and Technology, XUZHOU ZHONGKUANG BACKFILLING & MINING TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD
    Inventors: Jixiong ZHANG, Wenyue QI, Qiang ZHANG, Kai SUN, Nan ZHOU, Hengfeng LIU
  • Publication number: 20200318480
    Abstract: A method of recovering a room-and-pillar coal pillar by using external replacement supports. In the recovery of a room-and-pillar coal pillar, a cement material wall is formed by performing pouring around a coal pillar having a width to height ratio of less than 0.6, by means of a single-pillar sack arrangement technique, such that a coal pillar resource may be mined while a wall made from a cement filling material supports an overlying stratum. After mining is complete, a coal pillar goaf region is filled with the cement filling material, and after the cement filling material solidifies and is stable, the single pillar can be recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nan ZHOU, Hengfeng LIU, Meng LI, Zhongya WU, Jixiong ZHANG