Patents by Inventor Laihao Yang

Laihao Yang 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: 20260072429
    Abstract: An aeroengine remaining useful life prediction method based on a neural ordinary differential equation under symmetric regularization includes the steps of: collecting monitoring parameters of a full-lifecycle of an aeroengine with sensors; establishing a first-order neural ordinary differential equation to perform continuous temporal modeling on a degradation process in a latent variable space, calculating a residual signal as a time-varying signal; establishing a Fourier neural operator to approximate a transfer function of a physical system, mapping an operating condition parameter and a latent variable to a sensor response parameter, so as to construct a loss function of the neural network; considering a time-scale transformation between different degradation processes, constructing a symmetry regularization term to constrain the invariance of the neural ordinary differential equation to the time-scale transformation, obtaining a latent variable process with a consistent structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Ruqiang YAN, Zheng ZHOU, Laihao YANG, Chenye HU
  • Publication number: 20260042227
    Abstract: Disclosed is a torque sensing bionic clamping jaw. In the torque sensing bionic clamping jaw, a left clamping jaw skeleton is movably connected to a substrate, the left clamping jaw skeleton includes a first left groove and a second left groove which are in a side facing a right jaw, a left sensor quick-release connecting piece is detachably connected to the first left groove, a left torque measuring sensor is mounted on the left sensor quick-release connecting piece, a left flexible gasket quick-release connecting piece is detachably connected to the second left groove, and a left flexible gasket is mounted on the left flexible gasket quick-release connecting piece; a right torque measuring sensor is mounted on a right sensor quick-release connecting piece and opposite to the left torque measuring sensor, and a right flexible gasket is mounted on a right flexible gasket quick-release connecting piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: February 12, 2026
    Inventors: Yu SUN, Ling WANG, Laihao YANG, Yuxuan SUN, Xuefeng CHEN
  • Patent number: 12459112
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit and a continuum robot. In the rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit, structural unit blocks are staggered and interconnected to constitute an entire manipulator; two ends of a flexible nickel-titanium rod are respectively connected with two adjacent structural unit blocks; a front-end unit block is arranged at a foremost end of the manipulator; and a rear-end unit block is arranged at a rearmost end of the manipulator. When in use, a memory alloy nickel-titanium rod forms a flexible joint, a limiting clamping jaw and a limiting boss form a rigid joint, the two complement each other, after a drive wire applies pressure, the limiting clamping jaw and the limiting boss are in a wrapping relationship, a motion trail of the robot unit is limited, such that the robot unit always rotates around a center of rotation along an arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Laihao Yang, Yinchong Peng, Yu Sun, Xuefeng Chen
  • Publication number: 20250296225
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit and a continuum robot. In the rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit, structural unit blocks are staggered and interconnected to constitute an entire manipulator; two ends of a flexible nickel-titanium rod are respectively connected with two adjacent structural unit blocks; a front-end unit block is arranged at a foremost end of the manipulator; and a rear-end unit block is arranged at a rearmost end of the manipulator. When in use, a memory alloy nickel-titanium rod forms a flexible joint, a limiting clamping jaw and a limiting boss form a rigid joint, the two complement each other, after a drive wire applies pressure, the limiting clamping jaw and the limiting boss are in a wrapping relationship, a motion trail of the robot unit is limited, such that the robot unit always rotates around a center of rotation along an arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Inventors: Laihao YANG, Yinchong PENG, Yu SUN, Xuefeng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250296224
    Abstract: Disclosed is a birfield flexible variable-stiffness continuum robot unit and a continuum robot. In the birfield flexible variable-stiffness continuum robot unit, main structural units are interconnected to constitute a continuum manipulator; joint connecting structures connect the two adjacent main structural units; a front-end unit is arranged at a foremost end of the manipulator; and a rear-end unit is arranged at a rearmost end of the manipulator. When in use, birfield joint design is adopted, a single joint has two degrees of freedom, is more flexible and variable, and the adjacent structural units rotate around a center of a sphere, so that modeling is simpler and more convenient; connection design of flexible springs is further adopted, certain stiffness is provided for the manipulator, and thus the manipulator has a variable-stiffness characteristic; and meanwhile, a roll ball structure makes the manipulator have high torsional resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Inventors: Laihao YANG, Yinchong Peng, Yu Sun, Xuefeng Chen
  • Patent number: 12420404
    Abstract: Disclosed is a birfield flexible variable-stiffness continuum robot unit and a continuum robot. In the birfield flexible variable-stiffness continuum robot unit, main structural units are interconnected to constitute a continuum manipulator; joint connecting structures connect the two adjacent main structural units; a front-end unit is arranged at a foremost end of the manipulator; and a rear-end unit is arranged at a rearmost end of the manipulator. When in use, birfield joint design is adopted, a single joint has two degrees of freedom, is more flexible and variable, and the adjacent structural units rotate around a center of a sphere, so that modeling is simpler and more convenient; connection design of flexible springs is further adopted, certain stiffness is provided for the manipulator, and thus the manipulator has a variable-stiffness characteristic; and meanwhile, a roll ball structure makes the manipulator have high torsional resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Laihao Yang, Yinchong Peng, Yu Sun, Xuefeng Chen
  • Patent number: 12370671
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a bearing-type twin-pivot continuum robot, including: an actuating device, used for driving a continuum manipulator through a driving cable such that the continuum manipulator performs a bending motion; a continuum manipulator, connected with the actuating device through the driving cable, the continuum manipulator comprising M sections, adjacent sections being able to be deflected, and the continuum manipulator performing the bending motion under the driving of the actuating device; and a linear slide module, disposed at the bottom of the actuating device, the linear slide module having a predetermined feed slide in a feed direction such that the actuating device performs a feed motion within the predetermined slide. The above continuum robot greatly improves the resistance to torsion of the manipulator by adopting a rigid-compliant coupling mode, and creatively introduces a micro-bearing design that avoids adverse effects due to friction between conventional rigid hinges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Laihao Yang, Zheshuai Yang, Yu Sun, Xuefeng Chen
  • Publication number: 20240230597
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for detecting a natural frequency of a blade by a single blade tip timing sensor. In the method, two segments of displacement data vectors are subjected to dot product to obtain a product data vector after multiplication of corresponding serial numbers, the product data vector is subjected to low-frequency filtering, the filtered product vector is subjected to Hilbert transform to obtain an instantaneous phase, the instantaneous phase is subjected to discrete Fourier transform, an absolute value of a natural frequency difference between blades is extracted from amplitude frequency data, blades on a bladed disk are subjected to permutation and combination to obtain absolute values of the natural frequency differences between all the blades, a sum of the absolute values of the natural frequency differences between each blade and other blades is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zhibo YANG, Jiahui CAO, Haoqi LI, Shaohua TIAN, Laihao YANG, Zengkun WANG, Xuefeng CHEN, Shuming WU
  • Publication number: 20240133845
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for detecting a natural frequency of a blade by a single blade tip timing sensor. In the method, two segments of displacement data vectors are subjected to dot product to obtain a product data vector after multiplication of corresponding serial numbers, the product data vector is subjected to low-frequency filtering, the filtered product vector is subjected to Hilbert transform to obtain an instantaneous phase, the instantaneous phase is subjected to discrete Fourier transform, an absolute value of a natural frequency difference between blades is extracted from amplitude frequency data, blades on a bladed disk are subjected to permutation and combination to obtain absolute values of the natural frequency differences between all the blades, a sum of the absolute values of the natural frequency differences between each blade and other blades is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhibo YANG, Jiahui CAO, Haoqi LI, Shaohua TIAN, Laihao YANG, Zengkun WANG, Xuefeng CHEN, Shuming WU
  • Publication number: 20240109184
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a bearing-type twin-pivot continuum robot, including: an actuating device, used for driving a continuum manipulator through a driving cable such that the continuum manipulator performs a bending motion; a continuum manipulator, connected with the actuating device through the driving cable, the continuum manipulator comprising M sections, adjacent sections being able to be deflected, and the continuum manipulator performing the bending motion under the driving of the actuating device; and a linear slide module, disposed at the bottom of the actuating device, the linear slide module having a predetermined feed slide in a feed direction such that the actuating device performs a feed motion within the predetermined slide. The above continuum robot greatly improves the resistance to torsion of the manipulator by adopting a rigid-compliant coupling mode, and creatively introduces a micro-bearing design that avoids adverse effects due to friction between conventional rigid hinges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Laihao YANG, Zheshuai YANG, Yu SUN, Xuefeng CHEN
  • Patent number: 11898453
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for extracting a natural frequency difference between blades by a single blade tip timing sensor or uniformly distributed blade tip timing sensors. The method includes the following steps: acquiring actual arrival time of a rotating blade by using a single blade tip timing sensor or uniformly distributed blade tip timing sensors, and converting a difference between theoretical arrival time and the actual arrival time into displacement data of a blade tip according to a rotational speed and a blade length of the rotating blade; selecting displacement data of blade tips of two rotating blades with the same blade length at the same rotational speed; intercepting the displacement data, performing discrete Fourier transform respectively, and making a sampling frequency approximate to an average rotational speed to obtain spectrum data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhibo Yang, Jiahui Cao, Xuefeng Chen, Zengkun Wang, Laihao Yang, Shaohua Tian, Haoqi Li, Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 11860066
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a dynamic strain field measuring method and system for a rotor blade based on blade tip timing. The method includes the following steps: establishing a three-dimensional finite element model of a to-be-measured rotor blade, and extracting modal parameters of the three-dimensional finite element model; determining the number and circumferential mounting positions of blade tip timing sensors; establishing a mapping relationship between single-point displacement and full-field dynamic strains of the blade; acquiring blade tip single-point displacement of the rotor blade based on the blade tip timing sensors; and realizing, by the single-point displacement, dynamic strain measurement in any position and direction of the rotor blade based on the mapping relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Baijie Qiao, Xuefeng Chen, Chunyan Ao, Weifeng He, Laihao Yang
  • Publication number: 20210278312
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a dynamic strain field measuring method and system for a rotor blade based on blade tip timing. The method includes the following steps: establishing a three-dimensional finite element model of a to-be-measured rotor blade, and extracting modal parameters of the three-dimensional finite element model; determining the number and circumferential mounting positions of blade tip timing sensors; establishing a mapping relationship between single-point displacement and full-field dynamic strains of the blade; acquiring blade tip single-point displacement of the rotor blade based on the blade tip timing sensors; and realizing, by the single-point displacement, dynamic strain measurement in any position and direction of the rotor blade based on the mapping relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Baijie Qiao, Xuefeng Chen, Chunyan Ao, Weifeng He, Laihao Yang