Patents by Inventor Hua Xia

Hua Xia 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: 11536132
    Abstract: A multiple parameter sensing leak detection system may include one or more multi-parameter sensing modules capable of simultaneously measuring downhole temperature, pressure, and acoustic signals. The temperature and pressure detectors may include quartz based sensing elements, and the acoustic detector may include piezoelectric based sensing elements. In one or more embodiments, a plurality of sensing modules may be carried on a caliper for allowing radial identification of leak location. In one or more embodiments, multiple calipers, each carrying a circumferential arrangement of sensing modules may be used to identify annular or inter-annular leakage beyond production tubing using triangulation techniques. A leak analysis method identifies if relative pressure and temperature variation amplitudes fall outside leak thresholds and if power spectral density from noise has anomalous frequency signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Clovis S. Bonavides, Avinash V. Taware
  • Patent number: 11431802
    Abstract: In a method of data processing executed in a gateway, a communication protocol matched with a target device is selected from a device driver database of the gateway; a connection with the target device is established according to the matched communication protocol; a sensing data of the target device is acquired; a data cleaning processing is performed on the acquired sensing data; and the processed data is shared to a third-party platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Fugui Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liu-Qing Zhang, Fang-Hua Xia, Yuan-Bo Zhu, Cheng Li, Hong Zou
  • Patent number: 11382224
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed electronic package may include a thermal panel having a panel interior surface and a panel exterior surface with electronic device(s) in thermal communication with the panel interior surface. An enclosure, isolating environmental communication from internal electronic devices and modules, may be coupled to the thermal panel, and the enclosure may have an enclosure interior surface and an enclosure exterior surface. A plurality of electrical feedthroughs may be coupled to the package enclosure for signal and data transmission, and the conducting pin(s) in every electrical feedthrough may be bonded by a hydrophobic sealing material for harsh environmental electrical signal, data and power transmission. The ratio of sealing length over sealing bead diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 2 to 3; and the ratio of the sealing bead diameter over pin diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 1.5 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PA&E, HERMETIC SOLUTIONS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Nathan Foster, Nelson Settles, Steve Hall, David DeWire
  • Publication number: 20220037040
    Abstract: In a method of data processing executed in a gateway, a communication protocol matched with a target device is selected from a device driver database of the gateway; a connection with the target device is established according to the matched communication protocol; a sensing data of the target device is acquired; a data cleaning processing is performed on the acquired sensing data; and the processed data is shared to a third-party platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: LIU-QING ZHANG, FANG-HUA XIA, YUAN-BO ZHU, CHENG LI, HONG ZOU
  • Patent number: 11159607
    Abstract: In an approach to managing a load balancer cluster, one or more computer processors receive a packet comprising a source IP address of the packet. The one or more computer processors determine whether there is a record comprising the source IP address of the packet either in the load balancer or in the assistant. The one or more computer processors, responsive to determining there is no such record in the load balancer and there is the record in the assistant, obtain the record from the assistant, the record also comprising information of a first server in a server cluster and the first server being referred to as a destination server for any packet from the source IP address. The one or more computer processors send the packet to the first server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Ming Liu, Jian Hua Xia, Yuan Yuan Zhang, Guo Chun Bian
  • Publication number: 20210281637
    Abstract: In an approach to managing a load balancer cluster, one or more computer processors receive a packet comprising a source IP address of the packet. The one or more computer processors determine whether there is a record comprising the source IP address of the packet either in the load balancer or in the assistant. The one or more computer processors, responsive to determining there is no such record in the load balancer and there is the record in the assistant, obtain the record from the assistant, the record also comprising information of a first server in a server cluster and the first server being referred to as a destination server for any packet from the source IP address. The one or more computer processors send the packet to the first server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Qi Ming Liu, Jian Hua Xia, Yuan Yuan Zhang, Guo Chun Bian
  • Patent number: 10921476
    Abstract: A downhole formation fluid identification sensing module for measuring averaged gas molecular weight of wellbore formation fluid acquires simultaneous temperature, pressure, and density measurements. The sensing module includes two venturi-type gas sensors that both contain vibrating tubes. During operation, formation fluid flows through the vibrating tubes whereby resonant frequency measurements are acquired simultaneously with temperature and pressure measurements. Each measurement is then utilized to determine the gas molecular weight of the dry, wet or saturated formation fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Christopher Michael Jones, Robert Atkinson, Tian He, Bin Dai, Jing Shen
  • Publication number: 20210014986
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed electronic package may include a thermal panel having a panel interior surface and a panel exterior surface with electronic device(s) in thermal communication with the panel interior surface. An enclosure, isolating environmental communication from internal electronic devices and modules, may be coupled to the thermal panel, and the enclosure may have an enclosure interior surface and an enclosure exterior surface. A plurality of electrical feedthroughs may be coupled to the package enclosure for signal and data transmission, and the conducting pin(s) in every electrical feedthrough may be bonded by a hydrophobic sealing material for harsh environmental electrical signal, data and power transmission. The ratio of sealing length over sealing bead diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 2 to 3; and the ratio of the sealing bead diameter over pin diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 1.5 to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: PA&E, Hermetic Solutions Group, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Nathan Foster, Nelson Settles, Steve Hall, David DeWire
  • Patent number: 10811331
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed electronic package may include a thermal panel having a panel interior surface and a panel exterior surface with electronic device(s) in thermal communication with the panel interior surface. An enclosure, isolating environmental communication from internal electronic devices and modules, may be coupled to the thermal panel, and the enclosure may have an enclosure interior surface and an enclosure exterior surface. A plurality of electrical feedthroughs may be coupled to the package enclosure for signal and data transmission, and the conducting pin(s) in every electrical feedthrough may be bonded by a hydrophobic sealing material for harsh environmental electrical signal, data and power transmission. The ratio of sealing length over sealing bead diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 2 to 3; and the ratio of the sealing bead diameter over pin diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 1.5 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PA&E, HERMETIC SOLUTIONS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Nathan Foster, Nelson Settles, Steve Hall
  • Publication number: 20200312142
    Abstract: Provided is a system for improving road safety of a vehicle. The system comprises a central management platform for managing a plurality of network cooperation engine (NCE) modules. Each NCE module manages a plurality of edge gateway devices (EGWs) which are each located in a respective defined geographical area of limited size. Each EGW communicates with multiple roadside units (RSUs) in its area and exchanges real-time and low latency information with said RSUs and with any vehicle on-board data processing units (ICGWs) in vehicles presently within its area. Each ICGW is adapted to be installable in a vehicle. The ICGW is configured to receive real-time data from one or more on-board vehicle modules. The ICGW is also configured to receive data from its EGW and the RSUs which are themselves configured to receive data from a plurality of sources located within said defined geographical area and to transmit said received data and/or data derived from said received data to said ICGW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Dongzhe Su, Hang Chen, Hua Xia, Siu Ping Chan, Ka Ho Mui
  • Publication number: 20200273769
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed electronic package may include a thermal panel having a panel interior surface and a panel exterior surface with electronic device(s) in thermal communication with the panel interior surface. An enclosure, isolating environmental communication from internal electronic devices and modules, may be coupled to the thermal panel, and the enclosure may have an enclosure interior surface and an enclosure exterior surface. A plurality of electrical feedthroughs may be coupled to the package enclosure for signal and data transmission, and the conducting pin(s) in every electrical feedthrough may be bonded by a hydrophobic sealing material for harsh environmental electrical signal, data and power transmission. The ratio of sealing length over sealing bead diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 2 to 3; and the ratio of the sealing bead diameter over pin diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 1.5 to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: PA&E, Hermetic Solutions Group, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Nathan Foster, Nelson Settles, Steve Hall
  • Patent number: 10735250
    Abstract: A load balancer system having multiple load balancer machines working in parallel. At any given time, one of the load balancer machines is assigned to act as the current distributor that distributes web client communications and/or requests to the other load balancer machines in the load balancer system. However, these web client communications and/or requests are directed to a distributor module on all of the active, parallel load balancer machines in the system (for example, by the expedient of a common virtual IP address for layer 3/4 communications) in case the currently active distributor fails and one of the other active load balancer machines suddenly needs to take on the distributor role. In this way, web client communications are not lost when the current distributor machine fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Ming Liu, Yuan Yuan Zhang, Jian Hua Xia, Guo Chun Bian
  • Publication number: 20200177674
    Abstract: A load balancer system having multiple load balancer machines working in parallel. At any given time, one of the load balancer machines is assigned to act as the current distributor that distributes web client communications and/or requests to the other load balancer machines in the load balancer system. However, these web client communications and/or requests are directed to a distributor module on all of the active, parallel load balancer machines in the system (for example, by the expedient of a common virtual IP address for layer 3/4 communications) in case the currently active distributor fails and one of the other active load balancer machines suddenly needs to take on the distributor role. In this way, web client communications are not lost when the current distributor machine fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Qi Ming Liu, Yuan Yuan Zhang, Jian Hua Xia, Guo Chun Bian
  • Patent number: 10637973
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system receives, at a network virtualization edge (NVE), a set of Diffserv parameters comprising at least one classifier parameter, at least one meter parameter, at least one marker parameter, and at least one shaper/dropper parameter. The NVE performs a deep inspection on a plurality of data packets to classify the plurality of data packets at one or more classification levels. In turn, the NVE passes the set of Diffserv parameters and the one or more classification levels to underlay switch hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Jing Lin, Gang Tang, Jian Hua Xia, Ming Shuang Xian
  • Publication number: 20200032644
    Abstract: In distributed fiber-optic sensing within a borehole, the accuracy of correlating signal channels with depth along the borehole can be improved by taking the thermo-optic effect on the group velocity of light into account. In an example application, this allows, in turn, to more accurately localize acoustic sources via distributed acoustic sensing. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Kristoffer Thomas Walker, David Andrew Barfoot, Yinghui Lu
  • Publication number: 20190376359
    Abstract: A hydrophobic dielectric sealing material is provided that is especially suitable for use in extreme environments such as for enabling downhole electrical feedthrough integrated logging tools reliable operation, especially, in a water or water-mud filled wellbore as first scenario or in moisture-rich oil-mud filled wellbores. In some embodiments, a hydrophobic dielectric sealing material may include: H3BO3 10-60 mol %; Bi2O3 10-50 mol %; MO 10-50 mol %; SiO2 0-15 mol %; and optionally one or more rare earth oxides 0-5 mol %. A method for making hydrophobic sealing material includes selecting water insoluble raw materials, form tetragonal phase dominated phase, and enlarge band-gap with wide-band-gap material. The morphology of the sealing material is preferably a tetrahedral phase dominated covalent bond network for obtaining high electrical insulation resistance, dielectric strength and hydrophobicity, and high mechanical strength in against downhole 30,000 PSI/300° C. water-based hostile environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: PA&E, Hermetic Solutions Group, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Nelson Settles, Gaery Rutherford
  • Patent number: 10483745
    Abstract: A method for making a downhole electrical feedthrough package where the feedthrough package may include a metal shell forming a shell conduit. A metal web may be coupled to the metal shell, and the metal web may form a web conduit. A conducting pin may extend through the shell conduit and web conduit. A dielectric seal may electrically isolate the conducting pin from the metal web. The dielectric seal may be formed by a bismuth glass based dielectric sealing material system having at least two of the four components selected from Bi2O3, B2O3, MO, and optionally REO forming a bismuth glass system. MO may be selected from ZnO, BaO, TiO2, and Fe2O3, and their glass making pre-cursors. REO may be selected from CeO2, Y2O3, Sc2O3, Nd2O3, Pr2O3, and lanthanum series oxides. One or more isolators may be disposed within the shell conduit proximate to the dielectric seal and surrounding a portion of the conducting pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: PA&E, Hermetic Solutions Group, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Nelson Settles, Tucker Havekost, Don Larson
  • Publication number: 20190339410
    Abstract: A downhole formation fluid identification sensing module for measuring averaged gas molecular weight of wellbore formation fluid acquires simultaneous temperature, pressure, and density measurements. The sensing module includes two venturi-type gas sensors that both contain vibrating tubes. During operation, formation fluid flows through the vibrating tubes whereby resonant frequency measurements are acquired simultaneously with temperature and pressure measurements. Each measurement is then utilized to determine the gas molecular weight of the dry, wet or saturated formation fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Christopher Michael Jones, Robert Atkinson, Tian He, Bin Dai, Jing Shen
  • Patent number: 10458233
    Abstract: A downhole tool including a tube having an inner bore that receives a sample of fluid from a subterranean formation, a vibration source and a vibration receiver each at least partially coupled to the tube, and a controller coupled to the vibration source and the vibration receiver is provided. In situ measurements of thermo-physical properties including, but not limited to, fluid density/viscosity, thermal conductivity and heat capacity, and hydrocarbon molecular weight may be provided through the system. The vibrating sensor may include a sensor platform that can be incorporated into sensors purpose built to test different in situ thermo-physical properties that are technically difficult or expensive to test using typical sensors. The vibrating sensors may be modularized and incorporated as a suite of in situ downhole sensors into existing downhole fluid sampling tools, reducing the overall expense of in situ testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Hua Xia
  • Patent number: 10428648
    Abstract: A downhole formation fluid viscometer sensor and method therefor include a viscometer sensing package, a flexible diaphragm, a magnet and electric coil, and a signal pickup assembly. The viscometer sensor may also include a first cavity and a second cavity for mechanical and electric energy transfer. The magnet and electric coil may be driven by external alternating current to generate an electromagnetic force. Silicon oil may be used to fill the first cavity and/or a pressure balance hole may connect the first cavity to an external area. The diaphragm may be a titanium alloy and a ferromagnetic magnet may be attached to the diaphragm. The diaphragm preferably has a thickness from about 0.030 to about 0.040 inches and the magnet and electric coil can propel the diaphragm to vibrate at a frequency from 0 to 100 kHz. Formation fluid viscosity is determined using resonant frequency linewidth, with contributions from the sensor package intrinsic properties removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Xia, Lizheng Zhang, Robert Atkinson, Nestor Rodriguez, Christopher Michael Jones, Darren Gascooke