Patents by Inventor Mingfu Zhang

Mingfu Zhang 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).

  • Patent number: 10722907
    Abstract: A water outlet mechanism, includes at least two diversion waterway sets connected to the water source and an outlet, each diversion waterway set has at least two diversion waterways and at least two water diversion passages; water from the at least two diversion waterways impact and converge and then enter the water diversion passages, the flowing direction of the at least two water diversion passages intersect, and water from the at least two water diversion passages impact and then spray out of the outlet. Water from at least two diversion waterways impacts and converges and then enters the water diversion passage, the water particles are refined and shaken; the direction of the at least two water diversion passages intersect, and water in the cavity of the inlet impact again to form wavy water type and then sprays out of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wencong Xu, Zhaoxing Lan, Mingfu Zhang, Wenxing Chen
  • Publication number: 20200230898
    Abstract: A thermoplastic prepreg includes a mat, web, or fabric of fibers and hollow glass microspheres that are positioned atop the mat, web, or fabric of fibers or dispersed therein. The thermoplastic prepreg also includes a thermoplastic polymer that is fully impregnated through the mat, web, or fabric of fibers and the hollow glass microspheres so that the thermoplastic prepreg has a void content of less than 3% by volume of the thermoplastic prepreg. The thermoplastic material is polymerized monomers and oligomers in which greater than 90% by weight of the monomers or oligomers react to form the thermoplastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10717245
    Abstract: A thermoplastic prepreg includes a mat, web, or fabric of fibers and hollow glass microspheres that are positioned atop the mat, web, or fabric of fibers or dispersed therein. The thermoplastic prepreg also includes a thermoplastic polymer that is fully impregnated through the mat, web, or fabric of fibers and the hollow glass microspheres so that the thermoplastic prepreg has a void content of less than 3% by volume of the thermoplastic prepreg. The thermoplastic material is polymerized monomers and oligomers in which greater than 90% by weight of the monomers or oligomers react to form the thermoplastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10718102
    Abstract: A switching valve for discharging cold water includes: an operating member, a first switching member, and a water outlet switching member. The switching valve for discharging cold water has a cold water discharging passage and a head water outflow passage. When the operating member is in the initial position, the switching valve for discharging cold water is in the first position, the joint between the head water outflow passage and the water inlet end is sealed, the cold water discharging passage opens; when the operating member switches to the shower position, the first switching member is moved by the operating member to the second position, a second joint between the cold water discharging passage and the water inlet end is sealed, and the head water outflow passage opens, engaging the operating member with the water outlet switching member. The operating member drives the water outlet switching member to open one or both of the first and second water outlet passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xi Huang, Donghai Chen, Mingfu Zhang, Wenxing Chen
  • Publication number: 20200223161
    Abstract: A system for manufacturing a thermoplastic prepreg includes a double belt mechanism that is configured to compress a fiber mat, web, or mesh that is passed through the double belt mechanism, a resin applicator that is configured to apply monomers or oligomers to the fiber mat, web, or mesh, and a curing oven that is configured to effect polymerization of the monomers or oligomers and thereby form the thermoplastic polymer as the fiber mat, web, or mesh is moved through the curing oven. The double belt mechanism compresses the fiber mat, web, or mesh and the applied monomers or oligomers as the fiber mat, web, or mesh is passed through the curing oven so that the monomers or oligomers fully saturate the fiber mat, web, or mesh. Upon polymerization of the monomers or oligomers, the fiber mat, web, or mesh is fully impregnated with the thermoplastic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Edwing Chaparro-Chavez, Jawed Asrar
  • Publication number: 20200207053
    Abstract: A thermoplastic product includes a fabric-based reinforcing sheet and a polymerized thermoplastic material. The fabric-based reinforcing sheet is wound about a mandrel to form a plurality of layers having a cross-sectional shape that corresponds to the mandrel. The fabric-based reinforcing sheet includes a plurality of fiber bundles, which may have a bidirectional orientation or configuration. A polymerized thermoplastic material is disposed within each layer of the fabric-based reinforcing sheet. The polymerized thermoplastic material bonds each layer of the fabric-based reinforcing sheet to an adjacent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10696588
    Abstract: A curable formaldehyde-free binding composition for use with fiberglass is provided. Such curable composition comprises an aldehyde or ketone and an amine salt of an inorganic acid. The composition when applied to fiberglass is cured to form a water-insoluble binder which exhibits good adhesion to glass. In a preferred embodiment the composition when applied to fiberglass provides a sufficient blackness required in facer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Bernd Christensen, Kiarash Alavi, Souvik Nandi, Jawed Asrar, Mingfu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10688693
    Abstract: A reinforced thermoplastic product may include a main body and a fabric reinforcing sheet that is disposed within a wall of the main body. The wall of the main body may be formed of or from a cast thermoplastic material and the fabric reinforcing sheet may extend circumferentially around the main body in order to reinforce the wall. The fabric reinforcing sheet may include a plurality of fiber bundles and a thermoplastic material that impregnates each fiber bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10683406
    Abstract: Fiber-containing polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) prepregs are described that include a first and second plurality of fibers. The second plurality of fibers is made from a different material than the first plurality of fibers. The PMMA prepregs also contain a polymerized resin that includes polymethyl methacrylate that has been formed from a reactive resin composition that includes methyl methacrylate. Methods of making fiber-containing PMMA prepregs are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Asheber Yohannes, Michael John Block, Jawed Asrar, Derek Cooper Bristol, Christopher P Sandoval
  • Publication number: 20200130232
    Abstract: A thermoplastic prepreg includes a fabric, mat, web, or mesh of fibers and a thermoplastic material that fully impregnates the fibers such that the thermoplastic prepreg has a void content of less than 5 percent. The thermoplastic material includes or consists of polymers that are formed by polymerization of monomers or oligomers in which greater than 90 percent of the monomers or oligomers polymerize to form the thermoplastic material and in which less than 100 percent of the monomers or oligomers polymerize to form the thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic prepreg includes residual monomers or oligomers since less than 100 percent of the monomers or oligomers polymerize and the thermoplastic prepreg includes between 15 and 85 weight percent of the thermoplastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10625486
    Abstract: A thermoplastic product includes a fabric-based reinforcing sheet and a polymerized thermoplastic material. The fabric-based reinforcing sheet is wound about a mandrel to form a plurality of layers having a cross-sectional shape that corresponds to the mandrel. The fabric-based reinforcing sheet includes a plurality of fiber bundles, which may have a bidirectional orientation or configuration. A polymerized thermoplastic material is disposed within each layer of the fabric-based reinforcing sheet. The polymerized thermoplastic material bonds each layer of the fabric-based reinforcing sheet to an adjacent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10618064
    Abstract: A multi-functional shower includes body unit, a switch unit, a rain shower unit, a head shower unit and a connecting pipe. The body unit has connecting portion to connect a straight portion and a sloping portion. The rain shower unit is disposed inside the straight portion, and the switch unit and the head shower unit are disposed inside the sloping portion, the connecting pipe is disposed inside the connecting portion and is connected to the switch unit and the rain shower unit. The body unit is disposed with an inlet waterway. By rotating the switch unit, the inlet waterway is connected to the rain shower unit or the head shower unit, or is connected to the rain shower unit and the head shower unit at the same time, making water flow out of the rain shower unit or the head shower unit or both at the same time, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaojin Yin, Mingfu Zhang, Bin Cao, Huasong Zhou
  • Patent number: 10576479
    Abstract: A net water outlet device includes a main body and an outlet cover plate. The outlet cover plate is disposed at one end of the main body, the other end of the main body is an inlet end. The outlet cover plate is disposed with a first outlet hole group and a second outlet hole group arranged concentrically; therein, the outlet direction of the first outlet holes are configured so that: the axis of the outlet cover plate projects to the circumference of each first outlet hole, making the axis of the outlet cover plate and the tangent line of the circumference of each first outlet hole jointly define a first plane, the outlet direction of the first outlet holes are in the first plane, forming a first intersection angle with the projection of the axis of the outlet cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongchuan Cai, Donghai Chen, Mingfu Zhang, Wenxing Chen
  • Patent number: 10578222
    Abstract: A multi-button waterway switching mechanism includes a fixed portion provided with a waterway switching unit and a driving mechanism. The waterway switching unit includes two valve cores that can move relative to the fixed portion, and the driving mechanism is provided with three buttons spaced side by side and parallel to the sliding direction of the fixed portion, the three buttons are divided into two first button and a second button, the two first button respectively drivingly connected to the two valve cores, the driving mechanism further comprises a transmission member, the second button drivingly connects the transmission member, and the transmission member drivingly connected to the two valve cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xi Huang, Mingfu Zhang, Weilong Luo, Wenxing Chen
  • Publication number: 20200061658
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a self-cleaning water outlet device, which comprises: a body, a deposit removal needle plate disposed in the body, a water outlet cover comprising a plurality of water outlet holes, and a rotatable member driven about an axial direction of the rotatable member by flowing water. An axial direction of the deposit removal needle plate and an axial direction of the water outlet cover are coaxial, and the deposit removal needle plate has a plurality of needles. The deposit removal needle plate is swingably connected with the rotatable member. When water flows into the water outlet device, the water flow drives the rotatable member to rotate, and the rotatable member drives each of the plurality of needles to swing about the axial direction of the deposit removal needle plate in a corresponding one of the plurality of water outlet holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Qihua FAN, Donghai Chen, Mingfu Zhang, Wenxing Chen
  • Patent number: 10569483
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for manufacturing a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) prepreg includes a mechanism for continuously moving a fabric or mat and a resin application component that applies a methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin to the fabric or mat. The system also includes a press mechanism that presses the fabric or mat during the continuous movement subsequent to the application of the MMA resin to ensure that the MMA resin fully saturates the fabric or mat. The system further includes a curing oven through which the fabric or mat is continuously moved. The curing oven is maintained at a temperature of between 40° C. and 100° C. to polymerize the MMA resin and thereby form PMMA so that upon exiting the curing oven, the fabric or mat is fully impregnated with PMMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Asheber Yohannes, Michael John Block, Jawed Asrar, Derek Cooper Bristol, Christopher P Sandoval
  • Publication number: 20200004499
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present technology may include a method of making a thermoplastic composite concentrates. The method may include melting a low-viscosity reactive resin to form a molten reactive resin. The method may also include fully impregnating a plurality of continuous fibers with the molten reactive resin in an impregnation device. The method may further include polymerizing the molten reactive resin to form a thermoplastic composite strand. In addition, the method may include chopping the thermoplastic composite strand into a plurality of pellets to form a plurality of thermoplastic composite concentrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Asheber Yohannes, Michael Block, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Daniel P De Kock, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10500596
    Abstract: A combination showerhead with push button switching comprises a fixing holder, two showerheads and a switching mechanism. The first showerhead is mounted to the fixing holder; the fixing holder comprises an inlet passage connected to a supporting arm and two diversion passages connected to two showerheads respectively. The switching mechanism comprises a diversion plate, a valve core, a push button and an elastomer. The diversion plate is connected to the fixing holder movably and cooperates with the inlet and diversion passages to switch waterways by rotating a predetermined angle. The valve core is slidably connected to the fixing holder and connected to the diversion plate to drive the diversion plate to rotate by back-and-forth sliding. The push button is movably connected to the fixing holder and connected to the valve core to drive the valve core to slide by a user's pushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengde Lin, Mingfu Zhang, Wenxing Chen
  • Patent number: 10464077
    Abstract: A combination showerhead with swing button switching includes a fixing holder mounted to a supporting arm and including an inlet passage connected to the supporting arm and at least two diversion passages; a first showerhead mounted to the fixing holder and connected to at least one of the at least two diversion passages; a second showerhead connected to another of the at least two diversion passages; and a switching mechanism including a diversion plate rotatable relative to the fixing holder and cooperating with the inlet passage and the at least two diversion passages to switch waterways; a transmission part fixed on the diversion plate; and a swing button that is swingable relative to the fixing holder and that is connected to the transmission part so that swinging of the swing button drives the transmission part and causes the diversion plate to rotate. The fixing holder further includes a fixing seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengde Lin, Mingfu Zhang, Jincan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190322822
    Abstract: Methods of making fiber-resin compositions are described. The methods may include the providing of a thermoplastic resin to an extruder, where the thermoplastic resin may include at least one reactive moiety capable of forming a covalent bond with a coupling agent on a plurality of reactive fibers. The methods may further include combining the thermoplastic resin with the plurality of reactive fibers also supplied to the extruder. The reactive fibers are sized with the coupling agent that reacts with the thermoplastic resin to form the fiber-resin composition, which may be extruded from the extruder. Methods of making fiber-reinforced composite articles from the fiber-resin composition are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Michael J Block, Mingfu Zhang, Asheber Yohannes, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Jawed Asrar