Patents by Inventor Lili Niu

Lili Niu 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: 20240150748
    Abstract: Provided is an acoustic microfluidic system for cell fusion, a preparation method therefor and use thereof, which relates to the technical field of cell fusion. The acoustic microfluidic system of the present invention comprises a signal generator, a power amplifier, a PDMS cavity, a micro-injection pump, a pipeline, an EP tube, a cell recovery container, and a bulk wave transducer/surface acoustic wave transducer. The side wall/bottom of the PDMS cavity is provided with identical microporous structures disposed in a staggered manner The system of the present invention has the advantages of extremely low heat production quantity, simple operation, high repeatability and strong stability, and is suitable for the fusion of homologous cells and non-homologous cells. The system is not only suitable for the fusion of two cells, but also for the fusion of a plurality of cells, and can be widely applied to various types of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Long MENG, Xiufang LIU, Hairong ZHENG, Lili NIU, Ning RONG
  • Publication number: 20230314377
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a real-time ultrasonic stimulation electric signal recording chip and a preparation method thereof, where the preparation method includes the following steps: S1 manufacturing an interdigital electrode on a piezoelectric substrate to obtain a surface acoustic wave chip, and manufacturing a recording electrode and an electrode lead; S2, manufacturing an insulation protection layer on the chip obtained in the S1, and processing the insulation protection layer to form the recording electrode, so as to obtain a chip combining the interdigital electrode and the recording electrode; S3, preparing a PDMS cavity; and S4, bonding the PDMS cavity prepared in the S3 and the chip obtained in the S2. In the present invention, combining the interdigital electrode generating a surface acoustic wave ultrasound with a multi-channel recording electrode, such that real-time recording of a multi-channel electric signal under ultrasonic stimulation is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Long MENG, Wei ZHOU, Hairong ZHENG, Lili NIU, Zhengrong LIN, Benxian PENG, Farooq UMAR, Yingjian CUI
  • Publication number: 20230293914
    Abstract: The present application provides an ultrasonic wake-up system. The system includes an ultrasonic imaging device, an ultrasound stimulation device, and an ultrasound stimulation effect evaluation device, and acquires an ultrasonic image of a target object through the ultrasonic imaging device, transmits an ultrasound to the target object based on the ultrasonic image through the ultrasound stimulation device, and adjusts the transmitted ultrasound required through the ultrasound stimulation effect evaluation device. Therefore, peripheral nerves are accurately stimulated, an uplink reticular wake-up system is activated, so as to wake up patients with disorders of consciousness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong ZHENG, Wei ZHOU, Long MENG, Lili NIU, Zhengrong LIN, Xiaowei HUANG, Junjie ZOU
  • Patent number: 11707635
    Abstract: Provided is a conscious animal ultrasonic neural regulation device, including a pulse signal generation module, a transducer module and a fixing module. The pulse signal generation module is configured to generate a pulse signal with high energy. The ultrasonic transducer module is configured to convert the pulse signal into an ultrasound. The fixing module includes an upper fixing module and a lower fixing module. The upper fixing module is configured to fix the ultrasonic transducer module, and the lower fixing module is configured to be fixed on an animal neural regulation target point. The upper fixing module and the lower fixing module are connected by a connecting component. The conscious animal neural regulation device of the present disclosure can perform accurate ultrasonic stimulation on a cerebral cortex and subcortex of the animal, thereby exploring and verifying the stimulation effect of the ultrasound on the animal, which is easy in operation and convenient in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Hui Zhou, Lili Niu, Ruibiao Guo, Long Meng, Yongchuan Li, Min Su, Jiqing Huang, Ming Qian
  • Publication number: 20230151313
    Abstract: A biological sample sorting method, a surface acoustic wave microfluidic chip, a system, a terminal, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: injecting a mixed solution containing biological samples into a surface acoustic wave microfluidic chip, and applying a first sinusoidal signal thereto forming a standing wave sound field therein to aggregate the biological samples; collecting images of the aggregated biological samples; performing moving target identification and tracking on the images of the biological samples using a deep learning model, performing cluster analysis and classification on a tracked moving target to obtain a target sample, and generating a delay enabling signal of the target sample according to a moving speed of the target sample; and applying a second sinusoidal signal to the surface acoustic wave microfluidic chip according to the delay enable signal to move the target sample thus sorting out the target sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: HAIRONG ZHENG, Long Meng, Weixing Chen, Lili Niu, Xiaoyu Cui
  • Patent number: 11511277
    Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic apparatus, a method and system for introducing a substance into a cell. The microfluidic apparatus includes a cavity channel, a bulk wave generating device and a surface acoustic wave generating device; a microstructure is arranged on an inner wall of the cavity channel, and the microstructure is constructed for forming a bubble by a solution at the microstructure when the solution is injected into the cavity channel; the bulk wave generating device is configured to generate a bulk wave, the bulk wave enables the bubble to resonate for generating a flow field; and the surface acoustic wave generating device is configured to generate a surface acoustic wave and control a position of at least one particle in the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Wei Zhou, Long Meng, Lili Niu, Zhengrong Lin, Kaiyue Wang, Xiaowei Huang
  • Patent number: 11452502
    Abstract: A method and a device for acquiring biomechanical parameters based on an ultrasonic elastomyogram are provided, wherein the method includes: synchronously collecting a dynamic myodynamics image sequence and a dynamic elasticity image sequence of a single skeletal muscle under continuous stretching; acquiring a myodynamics parameter corresponding to each myodynamics image in the dynamic myodynamics image sequence and an elasticity modulus value corresponding to each elasticity image in the dynamic elasticity image sequence respectively; and generating an ultrasonic elastomyogram curve with the myodynamics parameter as the abscissa and the synchronized elasticity modulus value as the ordinate, and estimating a muscle biomechanical parameter based on the ultrasonic elastomyogram curve. Dynamically changing biomechanical parameters can be obtained, and the obtained muscle biomechanical parameters have relatively high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yang Xiao, Hairong Zheng, Congzhi Wang, Lili Niu, Zhiting Deng
  • Patent number: 11433392
    Abstract: A microfluidic chip (100), an apparatus, a system, and a control and preparation method therefor. The method comprises: a substrate (101), and an electrode layer (102) and a functional layer (103) sequentially formed on the substrate (101), said electrode layer (102) comprising a plurality of electrode groups (1021) arranged in an array, the electrode groups (1021) being used for converting electrical signals into acoustic signals when an electrode group is activated, and transmitting the acoustic signals to the functional layer (103); and the functional layer (103) being used for carrying a sample to be tested, and for absorbing the acoustic wave signals emitted by the activated electrode group (1021) and converting same into thermal energy for heating the sample to be tested that is carried at the position corresponding to the activated electrode group (1021).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Long Meng, Hairong Zheng, Kaiyue Wang, Wei Zhou, Lili Niu, Xiaowei Huang
  • Patent number: 11253730
    Abstract: An ultrasound deep brain stimulation method and system, the ultrasound deep brain stimulation method comprises: medically imaging a head of an animal or a human being, to generate image data; creating a head 3D digital model according to the image data; creating a 3D digital model of an ultrasound transducer array according to structure, density and acoustic parameters information of the ultrasound transducer array; generating a first ultrasound transmitting sequence according to the head 3D digital model, the 3D digital model of the ultrasound transducer array, structure, density and acoustic parameters of the skull and brain tissues, and structure, density and acoustic parameters of the ultrasound transducer array; and controlling the ultrasound transducer array to transmit ultrasound waves in accordance with the first ultrasound transmitting sequence, to implement ultrasound deep brain stimulation to the brain nucleus to be stimulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GREENVALLEY BRAINTECH (SHENZHEN) MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Lili Niu, Congzhi Wang, Ming Qian, Yang Xiao, Long Meng
  • Publication number: 20220033853
    Abstract: The gene transfection system includes an acoustothermal module and a signal generating module; the acoustothermal module includes a piezoelectric substrate, an acoustothermal chip arranged on the piezoelectric substrate and N sound-absorbing vessels arranged on the acoustothermal chip and used for cultivating recipient cells, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; the signal generating module is used to output basic frequency signals; the acoustothermal chip is used to convert the basic frequency signal to an acoustic wave signal, establish a temperature gradient field with the acoustic wave signal, and control the temperature of the recipient cell in the sound-absorbing vessels with the temperature gradient field, so that the pores are opened on the membranes of the recipient cell, and the nucleic acids or other substances can go into the cells through these pores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hairong ZHENG, Long MENG, Congzhi WANG, Xiufang LIU, Yuchen WANG, Wei ZHOU, Lili NIU, Xiaowei HUANG
  • Patent number: 10888462
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic wave generation device for hearing recovery treatment, including an ultrasonic wave generation part. The ultrasonic wave generation part comprises a reference time-delay determination module, an emission sequence parameter determination module and an ultrasonic transducer module. The ultrasonic transducer module is used for emitting actual ultrasonic waves, and the efficiency and precision are improved by focusing by means of a plurality of array elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Zhengrong Lin, Lili Niu, Long Meng, Wei Zhou, Xiaowei Huang, Kaiyue Wang
  • Publication number: 20200338548
    Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic apparatus, a method and system for introducing a substance into a cell. The microfluidic apparatus includes a cavity channel, a bulk wave generating device and a surface acoustic wave generating device; a microstructure is arranged on an inner wall of the cavity channel, and the microstructure is constructed for forming a bubble by a solution at the microstructure when the solution is injected into the cavity channel; the bulk wave generating device is configured to generate a bulk wave, the bulk wave enables the bubble to resonate for generating a flow field; and the surface acoustic wave generating device is configured to generate a surface acoustic wave and control a position of at least one particle in the solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Wei Zhou, Long Meng, Lili Niu, Zhengrong Lin, Kaiyue Wang, Xiaowei Huang
  • Publication number: 20200316585
    Abstract: A microfluidic chip (100), an apparatus, a system, and a control and preparation method therefor. The method comprises: a substrate (101), and an electrode layer (102) and a functional layer (103) sequentially formed on the substrate (101), said electrode layer (102) comprising a plurality of electrode groups (1021) arranged in an array, the electrode groups (1021) being used for converting electrical signals into acoustic signals when an electrode group is activated, and transmitting the acoustic signals to the functional layer (103); and the functional layer (103) being used for carrying a sample to be tested, and for absorbing the acoustic wave signals emitted by the activated electrode group (1021) and converting same into thermal energy for heating the sample to be tested that is carried at the position corresponding to the activated electrode group (1021).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: LONG MENG, Hairong Zheng, Kaiyue Wang, Wei Zhou, Lili Niu, Xiaowei Huang
  • Patent number: 10780437
    Abstract: Disclosed is a microfluidic system based on an artificially structured acoustic field, comprising a microcavity used to accommodate a solution containing particles and a ultrasonic emission device used to emit ultrasound, and further comprising a phononic crystal plate placed in the microcavity. The phononic crystal plate has an artificial cycle structure, and is used to modulate the acoustic field so as to control the particles. Also disclosed is a method of controlling microfluid particles based on an artificially structured acoustic field. In the particular embodiments, since a microcavity, an ultrasonic emission device and a phononic crystal plate are comprised, the ultrasonic emission device is used to emit ultrasound, and the phononic crystal plate has an artificial cycle structure, and is used to modulate the acoustic field so as to control the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Fei Li, Feiyan Cai, Long Meng, Chen Wang, Chengxiang Zhang, Weibao Qiu, Yongchuan Li, Fei Yan, Lili Niu, Liufeng Geng, Chaowei Xu
  • Publication number: 20200229794
    Abstract: A method and a device for acquiring biomechanical parameters based on an ultrasonic elastomyogram are provided, wherein the method includes: synchronously collecting a dynamic myodynamics image sequence and a dynamic elasticity image sequence of a single skeletal muscle under continuous stretching; acquiring a myodynamics parameter corresponding to each myodynamics image in the dynamic myodynamics image sequence and an elasticity modulus value corresponding to each elasticity image in the dynamic elasticity image sequence respectively; and generating an ultrasonic elastomyogram curve with the myodynamics parameter as the abscissa and the synchronized elasticity modulus value as the ordinate, and estimating a muscle biomechanical parameter based on the ultrasonic elastomyogram curve. Dynamically changing biomechanical parameters can be obtained, and the obtained muscle biomechanical parameters have relatively high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
    Inventors: Yang XIAO, Hairong ZHENG, Congzhi WANG, Lili NIU, Zhiting DENG
  • Publication number: 20200038692
    Abstract: Provided is a conscious animal ultrasonic neural regulation device, including a pulse signal generation module, a transducer module and a fixing module. The pulse signal generation module is configured to generate a pulse signal with high energy. The ultrasonic transducer module is configured to convert the pulse signal into an ultrasound. The fixing module includes an upper fixing module and a lower fixing module. The upper fixing module is configured to fix the ultrasonic transducer module, and the lower fixing module is configured to be fixed on an animal neural regulation target point. The upper fixing module and the lower fixing module are connected by a connecting component. The conscious animal neural regulation device of the present disclosure can perform accurate ultrasonic stimulation on a cerebral cortex and subcortex of the animal, thereby exploring and verifying the stimulation effect of the ultrasound on the animal, which is easy in operation and convenient in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Hui Zhou, Lili Niu, Ruibiao Guo, Long Meng, Yongchuan Li, Min Su, Jiquing Huang, Ming Qian
  • Publication number: 20190321229
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic wave generation device for hearing recovery treatment, including an ultrasonic wave generation part. The ultrasonic wave generation part comprises a reference time-delay determination module, an emission sequence parameter determination module and an ultrasonic transducer module. The ultrasonic transducer module is used for emitting actual ultrasonic waves, and the efficiency and precision are improved by focusing by means of a plurality of array elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Hairong ZHENG, Zhengrong LIN, Lili NIU, Long MENG, Wei ZHOU, Xiaowei HUANG, Kaiyue WANG
  • Publication number: 20180369815
    Abstract: Disclosed is a microfluidic system based on an artificially structured acoustic field, comprising a microcavity and a ultrasonic emission device, wherein the microcavity is used to accommodate a solution containing particles, the ultrasonic emission device is used to emit ultrasound, and characterized in further comprising a phononic crystal plate placed in the microcavity, wherein the phononic crystal plate has an artificial cycle structure, and is used to modulate the acoustic field so as to control the particles. Also disclosed is a method of controlling microfluid particles based on an artificially structured acoustic field. In the particular embodiments, since a microcavity, an ultrasonic emission device and a phononic crystal plate are comprised, the ultrasonic emission device is used to emit ultrasound, and the phononic crystal plate has an artificial cycle structure, and is used to modulate the acoustic field so as to control the particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hairong ZHENG, Fwi LI, Felyan CAI, Long MENG, Chen WANG, Chengxiang ZHANG, Weibao QIU, Yongchuan LI, Fei YAN, Lili NIU, Liufeng GENG, Chaowei XU
  • Publication number: 20170291044
    Abstract: An ultrasound deep brain stimulation method and system, the ultrasound deep brain stimulation method comprises: medically imaging a head of an animal or a human being, to generate image data; creating a head 3D digital model according to the image data; creating a 3D digital model of an ultrasound transducer array according to structure, density and acoustic parameters information of the ultrasound transducer array; generating a first ultrasound transmitting sequence according to the head 3D digital model, the 3D digital model of the ultrasound transducer array, structure, density and acoustic parameters of the skull and brain tissues, and structure, density and acoustic parameters of the ultrasound transducer array; and controlling the ultrasound transducer array to transmit ultrasound waves in accordance with the first ultrasound transmitting sequence, to implement ultrasound deep brain stimulation to the brain nucleus to be stimulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hairong ZHENG, Lili NIU, Congzhi WANG, Ming QIAN, Yang XIAO, Long MENG
  • Patent number: 9330461
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes an image-based method for measuring elasticity of biological tissues including following steps: obtaining N successive grayscale images of a testing biological tissue, where N is a positive integer; obtaining regions of interest (ROI) of the grayscale images; dividing the regions of interest into a grid of small sections; calculating relative displacement vector of each interrogation window using texture matching method; and calculating elastic modulus of each interrogation window according to the relative displacement vectors. The present disclosure also proposes an image-based system for measuring elasticity of biological tissues. The present disclosure applies to various resolutions of grayscale images obtaining in ultrasound imaging, optical imaging, photoacoustic imaging, CT imaging, magnetic resonance imaging ect. The system can be integrated into a traditional clinical imaging system as an image post-processing software module to characterize tissue elasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Lili Niu, Ming Qian