Patents by Inventor JUANHAO ZOU

JUANHAO ZOU 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: 20220333305
    Abstract: A shoe press has a shoe on which a radial inner surface of a press jacket slides. In a method of operating the shoe press, lubricating fluid is introduced between the shoe and the press jacket for lubricating purposes. The press jacket has at least one polymer layer into which a reinforcing structure is integrated, the reinforcing structure including at least one reinforcing thread. The lubricating fluid, the at least one polymer layer, and/or the at least one reinforcing thread is/are designed such that the lubricating fluid reaches the at least one reinforcing thread of the reinforcing structure and produces a color change in same in the event the polymer layer breaks. There is also described a shoe press, the inclusion of a press jacket in such a shoe press, and a machine with such a shoe press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Juanhao Zou
  • Patent number: 11306438
    Abstract: A press cover has at least one polymer layer in which a reinforcing structure is embedded. The reinforcing structure has at least one reinforcing thread as a longitudinal thread which runs in the longitudinal direction of the press cover. The at least one reinforcing thread itself is produced by interlacing a plurality of fibers or fiber bundles with one another. There is also described the use of such a press cover, as well as a press roll and a shoe press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Juanhao Zou, Richard Westerholz, Simon Ermert
  • Publication number: 20220034036
    Abstract: A press cover contains at least one polymer layer in which a reinforcing structure is embedded. The reinforcing structure contains at least one reinforcing thread, wherein the material of the reinforcing structure and that of the at least one polymer layer are selected such that the visible light transmittances thereof differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: THOMAS FRUEHAUF, KLAUS HERMANN, MICHAEL WOKUREK, JUANHAO ZOU
  • Publication number: 20210324579
    Abstract: A press cover has at least one polymer layer in which a reinforcing structure is embedded. The reinforcing structure has at least one reinforcing thread as a longitudinal thread which runs in the longitudinal direction of the press cover. The at least one reinforcing thread itself is produced by interlacing a plurality of fibers or fiber bundles with one another. There is also described the use of such a press cover, as well as a press roll and a shoe press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: JUANHAO ZOU, RICHARD WESTERHOLZ, SIMON ERMERT
  • Patent number: 9771684
    Abstract: A woven-fabric belt for a fibrous web machine includes longitudinal and cross threads forming crossing points, top and bottom sides and a seam segment. Each longitudinal thread has end segments with ends. A segment is formed by weaving end segments with cross threads. Some end segments follow a weaving path with the cross threads, along which an end segment forms floats on the sides in alternation in direction of the thread end and a float is disposed on the bottom side between two adjacent floats on the top side and vice versa. A last float before the thread end is formed on one side and the end segment switches from one side to the other following the last float before the thread end. The end segment is bonded to a cross thread at one thread crossing point in one float lying before the last float in the weaving path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Juanhao Zou, Scott D. Quigley
  • Publication number: 20160312407
    Abstract: A woven-fabric belt for a fibrous web machine includes longitudinal and cross threads forming crossing points, top and bottom sides and a seam segment. Each longitudinal thread has end segments with ends. A segment is formed by weaving end segments with cross threads. Some end segments follow a weaving path with the cross threads, along which an end segment forms floats on the sides in alternation in direction of the thread end and a float is disposed on the bottom side between two adjacent floats on the top side and vice versa. A last float before the thread end is formed on one side and the end segment switches from one side to the other following the last float before the thread end. The end segment is bonded to a cross thread at one thread crossing point in one float lying before the last float in the weaving path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: JUANHAO ZOU, SCOTT D. QUIGLEY