Patents by Inventor Jingming Hou

Jingming Hou 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).

  • Publication number: 20230169243
    Abstract: The invention discloses a numerical simulation method for the overflowing of river channel structures based on finite volume method. The method firstly acquires plane geometric data, river section data and structure geometric sizes of the river channel. The river channel is discretized by using the one-dimensional finite volume element, and the primitive variable values are stored in the center of the element, wherein the position of the river channel structures is taken as the element special interface. The amount of water passing through the structure interface in each time step is calculated according to the structure overflowing formula. This amount of water is respectively deducted from and increased to the upstream element and the downstream element adjacent to the interface by applying the source item method. The primitive variable values at the special interface are reconstructed by adopting the non-reflection boundary conditions in order to ensure the continuity of calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Dawei ZHANG, Juan LV, Dongya SUN, Qin JU, Jingming HOU, Liping MA, Donglai LI
  • Publication number: 20140277967
    Abstract: A distributed worksite data management system is provided. The system includes a plurality of machines, each having a data communication device and a controller on-board the machine. The controller is configured to read sensor data associated with the machine and transmit the sensor data to the data communication device. A worksite datacenter is accessible by the plurality of machines. The worksite datacenter is situated remotely from the worksite. The worksite datacenter includes a plurality of databases and application servers. An end user device is associated with the plurality of machines. The end user device is configured to visualize results of an execution of an application of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Sprock, Thomas F. Doherty, Ryan Baumann, Daniel A. Daiber, Douglas R. Blaine, Jonathon D. Ronna, Daniel J. Long, Jingming Hou