Patents by Inventor Mingjun Zhao

Mingjun Zhao 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: 20240183500
    Abstract: A distributed low energy dynamic thermal management system for solid matter prevention and control in oil and gas transportation pipeline includes pipeline data monitoring terminal, current and electric pulse control terminal, land console, electric heating terminal, wiring flange, oil and gas transportation pipeline, valve structure. The system monitors the state of the pipeline in real time by the pipeline data monitoring terminal, and transmits the monitoring data to the current and electric pulse control terminal in real time, the current and electric pulse control terminal produces different thermal responses to the electric heating terminal according to the state in the tube, raises the temperature inside the tube by generating a continuous current, unblocks pipeline by generating high power electric pulse, so as to realize real-time monitoring and local temperature dynamic control of oil and gas transportation pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Yongchen SONG, Cong CHEN, Yingying CUI, Jiafei ZHAO, Mingjun YANG, Weiguo LIU, Yu LIU, Yi ZHANG, Yan QIN, Lanlan JIANG, Zheng LING, Yubai LI, Yuechao ZHAO, Lunxiang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240108225
    Abstract: A noncontact, multi-wavelength time-resolved laser speckle contrast imaging (MTR-LSCI) technique provides for continuous, fast and high-resolution 2D mapping of tissue blood flow (BF) and tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2) at different depths of target tissue. MTR-LSCI illuminates the tissue with picosecond-pulsed, coherent, widefield light at least at two different wavelengths in the near-infrared range (600-1100 nm) and synchronizes a high-resolution, gated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) camera to capture BF and StO2 maps at different depths of target tissue, wherein the imaging depth depends on light propagation inside a tissue volume, captured by the time-gated camera. The reconstruction of BF and StO2 maps can be dramatically expedited by incorporating highly parallelized computation and convolution functions. The performance of MTR-LSCI was evaluated using head-simulating phantoms with known properties and in-vivo rodents with varied hemodynamic challenges to the brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Guoqiang Yu, Faraneh Fathi, Chong Huang, Siavash Mazdeyasna, Mingjun Zhao, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 11948284
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum exploitation engineering, and discloses a 3D modeling method for pore-filling hydrate sediment based on a CT image. Indoor remolding rock cores or in situ site rock cores without hydrate can be scanned by CT; a sediment matrix image stack and a pore image stack are obtained by gray threshold segmentation; then, a series of pore-filling hydrate image stacks with different saturations are constructed through image morphological processing of the pore image stack such as erosion, dilation and image subtraction operation; and a series of digital rock core image stacks of the pore-filling hydrate sediment with different saturations are formed through image subtraction operation and splicing operation to provide a relatively real 3D model for the numerical simulation work of the basic physical properties of a reservoir of natural gas hydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Yanghui Li, Peng Wu, Xiang Sun, Weiguo Liu, Jiafei Zhao, Mingjun Yang, Lei Yang, Zheng Ling
  • Patent number: 11926538
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and provides a wastewater treatment method and apparatus based on hydrate-based water vapor adsorption. The apparatus includes a wastewater evaporation zone, a hydrate formation zone, a hydrate decomposition zone, and a data acquisition and control system. Rising water vapor and condensed water formed during evaporation of wastewater at normal temperature react with a hydrate former on a cooling wall surface to form a hydrate, continuous evaporation of the wastewater is promoted, the hydrate is scraped off to a collecting zone below by a scraper after being formed, and the hydrate is decomposed into fresh water, thereby realizing wastewater treatment. The present disclosure provides a method for treating complex wastewater containing a plurality of pollutants, where water vapor is consumed to form the hydrate to promote wastewater evaporation, and water obtained from the decomposition does not contain pollutants theoretically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Lunxiang Zhang, Huilian Sun, Zheng Ling, Jiafei Zhao, Lingjie Sun, Lei Yang, Mingjun Yang, Yu Liu, Weiguo Liu, Yanghui Li, Xiang Sun, Lanlan Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230025849
    Abstract: An electric machine including a housing assembly including a first end and a second end, a stator, a rotor, and a fan is provided. The housing assembly includes a terminal box positioned at the first end, an end plate coupled to the terminal box and including a plurality of inlet apertures, and a casing coupled to the end plate and extending toward the second end. The stator is fixedly secured to the housing assembly and positioned within the casing. The rotor is rotatably secured to the housing assembly and positioned within the casing such that the stator and the rotor are separated within the casing by an air gap. The fan is positioned inside the casing and is configured to draw air into the housing assembly through the plurality of inlet apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Wenbing Li, Jiannan Wu, Hongbo Tang, Jianbo Zhao, Xiaoqun Zhang, Mingjun Zhao
  • Patent number: 7454143
    Abstract: A reconfigurable thin film based dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) device is described for hitless switching of wavelengths by employing a reconfigurable filtering device. The reconfigurable filtering device is based on a mechanical switching of a filtering chip which has a thin film coated a first one-half of a first face for interference wavelength filtering and has a gold-mirror coated on a second one-half of the first face for high reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Avanex Corporation
    Inventors: Xuehua Wu, Mingjun Zhao, John Feng, Giovanni Barbarossa
  • Patent number: 7340130
    Abstract: The present invention describes a structure and method for a multi-ports WDM device for compensating the filter distortion while reducing insertion loss. The multi-ports WDM device comprises a 4-fiber collimator having a grin lens and a 2-fiber collimator having a lens where the focal plane of the second lens is shorter than the focal plane of the first grin lens Ands with aspheric surface. When a light signal travels through the first lens in the 4-fiber collimator to a filter, the film on the filter causes distortion to the light signal resulting in a large insertion loss. To compensate for the insertion loss, the lens on the 2-fiber collimator has a aspheric function and a shorter focal plane than the grin lens on the 4-fiber collimator. The type of grin lens used in the 4-fiber collimator is different than the lens used in the 2-fiber collimator. Effectively, the lens in the 2-fiber collimator operates to de-focus a light signal relative to the grin lens in the 4-fiber collimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Avanex Corporation
    Inventors: Xuehua Wu, Mingjun Zhao, John Feng
  • Patent number: 7171073
    Abstract: The present invention describes a structure and method for a multi-ports WDM device for compensating the filter distortion while reducing insertion loss. The multi-ports WDM device comprises a 4-fiber collimator having a grin lens and a 2-fiber collimator having a lens where the focal plane of the second lens is shorter than the focal plane of the first grin lens Ands with aspheric surface. When a light signal travels through the first lens in the 4-fiber collimator to a filter, the film on the filter causes distortion to the light signal resulting in a large insertion loss. To compensate for the insertion loss, the lens on the 2-fiber collimator has a aspheric function and a shorter focal plane than the grin lens on the 4-fiber collimator. The type of grin lens used in the 4-fiber collimator is different than the lens used in the 2-fiber collimator. Effectively, the lens in the 2-fiber collimator operates to de-focus a light signal relative to the grin lens in the 4-fiber collimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Avanex Corporation
    Inventors: Xuehua Wu, Mingjun Zhao, John Feng