Patents by Inventor Ming Niu

Ming 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: 20090157361
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of establishing a geographical model of a wellbore that includes receiving a first geographical model of the wellbore and receiving measured log data and a trajectory of the wellbore. A first simulated tool response is simulated along the trajectory based on the first geographical model. A measured tool response is determined based on measured log data. A first portion of the first simulated tool response corresponding to a second portion of the measured tool response is found wherein the first portion and the second portion have substantially a same interval of length along the trajectory. The first portion and the second portion are compared to generate a second geographical model. The second geographical model can be used to geosteer a bottom hole assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Farid TOGHI, JianXiong CHEN, RuiXia LIU, WenYan MA, Ming NIU
  • Publication number: 20080175782
    Abstract: A plurality of carbide, such as silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, etc., nanofibrils predominantly having diameters substantially less than about 100 nm and a method for making such carbide nanofibrils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 7393514
    Abstract: A plurality of carbide, such as silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, etc., nanofibrils predominantly having diameters substantially less than about 100 nm and a method for making such carbide nanofibrils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20070290393
    Abstract: This invention relates to rigid porous carbon structures and to methods of making same. The rigid porous structures have a high surface area which are substantially free of micropores. Methods for improving the rigidity of the carbon structures include causing the nanofibers to form bonds or become glued with other nanofibers at the fiber intersections. The bonding can be induced by chemical modification of the surface of the nanofibers to promote bonding, by adding “gluing” agents and/or by pyrolyzing the nanofibers to cause fusion or bonding at the interconnect points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: HYPERION CATALYSIS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20070047279
    Abstract: A Middleware Apparatus and associated method and program storage device is functionally an/or operationally interposed between ‘one or more data sources’ and a corresponding ‘one or more applications’. When an application requests data from the data sources, the application transmits a set of ‘data descriptions’ which pertain to the set of requested data to the middleware apparatus, the middleware passing the data description to the data sources. The data sources respond by transmitting ‘all available data’ to the middleware apparatus. The adapters of the middleware will respond by generating ‘all available data pertaining to the data description’. The user will ‘map’ the set of ‘all available data pertaining to the data description’ with the set of ‘data descriptions’ thereby identifying ‘mapped available data’. The data sources will then generate the ‘mapped available data’.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Francine Evans, Richard Meehan, Eric Klumpen, Ming Niu, Clinton Chapman, Mathieu Will
  • Publication number: 20060051280
    Abstract: A plurality of carbide, such as silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, etc., nanofibrils predominantly having diameters substantially less than about 100 nm and a method for making such carbide nanofibrils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 6960389
    Abstract: This invention relates to rigid porous carbon structures and to methods of making same. The rigid porous structures have a high surface area which are substantially free of micropores. Methods for improving the rigidity of the carbon structures include causing the nanofibers to form bonds or become glued with other nanofibers at the fiber intersections. The bonding can be induced by chemical modification of the surface of the nanofibers to promote bonding, by adding “gluing” agents and/or by pyrolyzing the nanofibers to cause fusion or bonding at the interconnect points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20050036933
    Abstract: A plurality of carbide, such as silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, etc., nanofibrils predominantly having diameters substantially less than about 100 nm and a method for making such carbide nanofibrils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20040202603
    Abstract: Graphitic nanotubes, which includes tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”) and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution or by adsorption of functional moieties. More specifically the invention relates to graphitic nanotubes which are uniformly or non-uniformly substituted with chemical moieties or upon which certain cyclic compounds are adsorbed and to complex structures comprised of such functionalized nanotubes linked to one another. The invention also relates to methods for introducing functional groups onto the surface of such nanotubes. The invention further relates to uses for functionalized nanotubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Fischer, Robert Hoch, David Moy, Ming Lu, Mark Martin, Chun Ming Niu, Naoya Ogata, Howard Tennent, Liwen Dong, Ji Sun, Larry Helms, Fabian Jameison, Pam Liang, David Simpson
  • Patent number: 6665169
    Abstract: Graphitic nanofibers, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”), nanotubes and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as electrodes in electrochemical capacitors. The graphitic nanofiber based electrode increases the performance of the electrochemical capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20030092342
    Abstract: This invention relates to rigid porous carbon structures and to methods of making same. The rigid porous structures have a high surface area which are substantially free of micropores. Methods for improving the rigidity of the carbon structures include causing the nanofibers to form bonds or become glued with other nanofibers at the fiber intersections. The bonding can be induced by chemical modification of the surface of the nanofibers to promote bonding, by adding “gluing” agents and/or by pyrolyzing the nanofibers to cause fusion or bonding at the interconnect points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Applicant: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20030030963
    Abstract: Graphitic nanofibers, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”), nanotubes and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as electrodes in electrochemical capacitors. The graphitic nanofiber based electrode increases the performance of the electrochemical capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 6491789
    Abstract: Composite electrodes including carbon nanofibers (fibrils) and an electrochemically active material are provided for use in electrochemical capacitors. The fibril composite electrodes exhibit high conductivity, improved efficiency of active materials, high stability, easy processing, and increase the performance of the capacitor. A method for producing the composite electrodes for use in electrochemical capacitors is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 6432866
    Abstract: This invention relates to rigid porous carbon structures and to methods of making same. The rigid porous structures have a high surface area which are substantially free of micropores. Methods for improving the rigidity of the carbon structures include causing the nanofibers to form bonds or become glued with other nanofibers at the fiber intersections. The bonding can be induced by chemical modification of the surface of the nanofibers to promote bonding, by adding “gluing” agents and/or by pyrolyzing the nanofibeirs to cause fusion or bonding at the interconnect points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 6414836
    Abstract: Graphitic nanofibers, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”), nanotubes and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as electrodes in electrochemical capacitors. The graphitic nanofiber based electrode increases the performance of the electrochemical capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
  • Publication number: 20020008956
    Abstract: Composite electrodes comprising carbon nanofibers (fibrils) and an electrochemically active material are provided for use in electrochemical capacitors. The fibril composite electrodes exhibit high conductivity, improved efficiency of active materials, high stability, easy processing, and increase the performance of the capacitor. A method for producing the composite electrodes for use in electrochemical capacitors is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 6260543
    Abstract: A fuel delivery module with an integrated fuel filter is disclosed. The fuel delivery module can be mounted in a fuel tank for supplying fuel from the fuel tank to an engine. The fuel delivery module includes a fuel reservoir, a sealed main fuel filter housing, a fuel pump, a pressure regulator, and a jet pump. The main fuel filter housing is mounted to the fuel reservoir and defines a main fuel filter chamber that contains a main fuel filter. The fuel pump is located within the fuel reservoir for pumping fuel from the fuel reservoir through a fuel pump outlet conduit and into the main fuel filter chamber. A filter housing outlet conduit is provided for routing fuel from the main fuel filter chamber to the engine. The pressure regulator is in fluid communication with the main fuel filter chamber and a jet pump fuel inlet conduit for routing a portion of fuel from the main fuel filter chamber and to the jet pump fuel inlet conduit when a threshold pressure is reached in the main fuel filter chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Niu Chih
  • Patent number: 6205016
    Abstract: Composite electrodes including carbon nanofibers (fibrils) and an electrochemically active material are provided for use in electrochemical capacitors. The fibril composite electrodes exhibit high conductivity, improved efficiency of active materials, high stability, easy processing, and increase the performance of the capacitor. A method for producing the composite electrodes for use in electrochemical capacitors is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Ming Niu
  • Patent number: 6113819
    Abstract: The invention relates to an interpenetrating network of carbon fibrils and a polymer, which comprises a rigidized, three-dimensional macroscopic assemblage of a multiplicity of randomly oriented carbon fibrils and an innerpenetrating mass of an organic polymer. The invention also relates to methods of making and using such innerpenetrating networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard G. Tennent, Chun Ming Niu, Robert Hoch, Alan B. Fischer
  • Patent number: 6099960
    Abstract: A high surface area carbon nanofiber is provided. The carbon nanofiber has an outer surface on which a porous high surface area layer is formed. A method of making the high surface area carbon nanofiber includes pyrolizing a polymeric coating substance provided on the outer surface of the carbon nanofiber at a temperature below the temperature at which the polymeric coating substance melts. The polymeric coating substance used as the high surface area around the carbon nanofiber may include phenolics-formaldehyde, polyacrylonitrile, styrene, divinyl benzene, cellulosic polymers and cyclotrimerized diethynyl benzene. The high surface area polymer which covers the carbon nanofiber may be functionalized with one or more functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International
    Inventors: Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu