Patents by Inventor Ruimin Wu

Ruimin Wu 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: 20240044751
    Abstract: Provided are a sampling probe and a sampling probe automatic separation device, and a use method thereof. The sampling probe comprises a probe tail area (1) and a probe sampling area (2) connected to the top of the probe tail area (1). The probe sampling area (2) comprises a two-piece mold housing component (3) and a sample (4) disposed inside the two-piece mold housing component (3). The two-piece mold housing component (3) is wound and fixed by means of an adhesive tape capable of burning and melting. The automatic separation device comprises a cutting device (5) for cutting a sampling probe, and an inclined bottom plate. The front end of the inclined bottom plate is placed close to the cutting device (5). The inclined bottom plate gradually inclines downwards from the front end to the rear end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye DING, Ruimin WU, Changhong YE, Chen SHEN
  • Patent number: 11813707
    Abstract: A metallurgical technology probe insertion calibration method employing visual measurement and an insertion system thereof are provided. A vision sensor (5), a cylindrical rod (1), and a metallurgical technology probe (2) are used to construct an agreed region (6). In the agreed region (6), the vision sensor (5) acquires relative positions and orientations of the cylindrical rod (1) and the metallurgical technology probe (2), and an acquired position and orientation result is used to control a driving device (3) to insert the cylindrical rod (1) into the metallurgical technology probe (2). To improve the accuracy and reliability of the insertion, a standard probe (7) and a fixing device (4) are used together to perform effective calibration on an initial position, orientation, and axis in the insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenhong Wei, Ruimin Wu, Xitao Song, Changhong Ye, Junjiang Liu, Guodong Xu
  • Publication number: 20230221109
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an elongated metallurgical tool based on a laser distance sensor (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xitao SONG, Ruimin WU, Zhenhong WEI, Xingdong GONG
  • Publication number: 20230204341
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a method for plugging/unplugging a probe of a metallurgical automatic sublance. A laser distance sensor is mounted on an end-effector of a drive device; the drive device drives the laser distance sensor to scan the automatic sublance according to setting areas; position and orientation information of the automatic sublance is calculated by a calculation unit; according to the position and orientation information of the automatic sublance, a gripper on the end-effector implements a process of plugging/unplugging the probe of the automatic sublance. According to the present invention, an existing automatic sublance does not need to be improved, and only external sensors need to be used for plugging/unplugging detection, so that the plugging/unplugging process can be accurately carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xitao SONG, Ruimin WU, Zhenhong WEI
  • Publication number: 20210323104
    Abstract: A metallurgical technology probe insertion calibration method employing visual measurement and an insertion system thereof are provided. A vision sensor (5), a cylindrical rod (1), and a metallurgical technology probe (2) are used to construct an agreed region (6). In the agreed region (6), the vision sensor (5) acquires relative positions and orientations of the cylindrical rod (1) and the metallurgical technology probe (2), and an acquired position and orientation result is used to control a driving device (3) to insert the cylindrical rod (1) into the metallurgical technology probe (2). To improve the accuracy and reliability of the insertion, a standard probe (7) and a fixing device (4) are used together to perform effective calibration on an initial position, orientation, and axis in the insertion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenhong WEI, Ruimin WU, Xitao SONG, Changhong YE, Junjiang LIU, Guodong XU
  • Patent number: 10850353
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for enabling synchronous sheet transfer to follow laser cutting dynamically. A laser-cutting method for the system for enabling synchronous sheet transfer to follow laser cutting dynamically is also provided. With the system and method of the present invention, dynamic following of sets of magnetic belts during the cutting procedure is implemented, thereby accelerating the processing pace, and further improving the throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruimin Wu, Saidan Yang, Zhaodong Liang, Ye Ding
  • Patent number: 10759003
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for enabling magnetic belts to follow laser-cutting dynamically to achieve flexible designs and facilitating processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Saidan Yang, Ruimin Wu, Junliang Qiao, Ye Ding
  • Publication number: 20180257176
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for enabling synchronous sheet transfer to follow laser cutting dynamically. A laser-cutting method for the system for enabling synchronous sheet transfer to follow laser cutting dynamically is also provided. With the system and method of the present invention, dynamic following of sets of magnetic belts during the cutting procedure is implemented, thereby accelerating the processing pace, and further improving the throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruimin WU, Saidan YANG, Zhaodong LIANG, Ye DING
  • Publication number: 20180243862
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for enabling magnetic belts to follow laser-cutting dynamically to achieve flexible designs and facilitating processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saidan YANG, Ruimin WU, Junliang QIAO, Ye DING
  • Patent number: 9815104
    Abstract: An uncoiling, blanking and forming method includes the steps of: 1) uncoiling a steel coil, wherein a steel strip uncoiled from the steel coil is cleaned and straightened and is fed by a pinch roller to a blanking region; 2) laser blanking, wherein the steel coil enters the blanking region, is cut by a laser cutting head by way of laser blanking to form sheets with a required shape, with waste materials falling down and being conveyed to the outside; 3) outputting the sheets, wherein the sheets pass over a magnetic telescopic belt conveyor, and then carried by means of a manipulator or a robot to a stamping process; 4) stamping forming, wherein the sheets are stamped to form workpieces; and 5) checking, wherein the workpieces are checked and put in storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chengguo Jin, Saidan Yang, Guoqiang Dai, Junliang Qiao, Shengbo Pan, Ruimin Wu, Qian Xiang
  • Patent number: 9770782
    Abstract: An uncoiling and blanking method includes uncoiling a coiled strip, straightening, cutting off the leading end, moving into a looper, moving out of the looper, then cleaning the surface of the coiled strip, and flattening; conveying the coiled strip on a pinch roller to perform laser cutting and blanking, wherein dual static laser cutting heads are used for cutting the coiled strip during the laser cutting, and the cut-away waste materials fall down from the cutting region and are conveyed to the outside; and after the completion of cutting, finally cutting off the obtained sheets from each other, receiving them by a receiving device and conveying same on a conveying belt to a picking up and stacking region to stack the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruimin Wu, Chengguo Jin, Wenhai Jin, Saidan Yang, Junliang Qiao, Shengbo Pan, Yuming Wang
  • Patent number: 9713858
    Abstract: A metal plate loading/unloading and cutting method and system comprises: a block cart and a sheet cart both of which are arranged on a guide rail; a cutting operation unit arranged at one side of the guide rail; a carrying and stacking robot arranged between the cutting operation unit and the guide rail of the block cart and the sheet cart, a robot external shaft being parallel to the cart guide rail and extending over two fast moving table waiting stations of the cutting operation unit; and a waste material conveying device arranged below the two cutting stations of the cutting operation unit. The present invention can effectively increase material utilization efficiency and further enlarge the range in production and machining, and is especially suitable for providing production of small-batch vehicle models and trial production of new vehicle models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Saidan Yang, Ruimin Wu, Wenhai Jin, Yuming Wang, Shengbo Pan, Qian Xiang, Qi Yan, Chengguo Jin, Junliang Qiao
  • Patent number: 9700962
    Abstract: A longitudinal metal plate loading/unloading and cutting method and a system thereof involve two longitudinally moving loading/unloading and cutting operation lines arranged in parallel, each of the operation lines comprising a block loading station, a cutting station, a sheet unloading station, and a carrying and stacking robot arranged between the two operation lines, which are arranged in succession, wherein the two operation lines have block loading directions opposite to each other. The present invention can effectively increase the cutting production rate and yield, and also provide a more reasonable layout of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Saidan Yang, Junliang Qiao, Wenhai Jin, Shengbo Pan, Ruimin Wu, Chengguo Jin, Yuming Wang
  • Patent number: 9662723
    Abstract: A method for combined shearing of a steel plate adopts a combination of unrolling and pendulum shearing with laser cutting, wherein after a steel roll is cut by unrolling and pendulum shearing to obtain sheets having a specified length, a part or all of the sheets are directly conveyed to a stack as finished sheet materials and the other part or all of the sheets are transferred to a laser cutting line by means of lateral material discharge from a unrolling and pendulum cutting line, and are picked up by a loading robot and moved to a laser cutting position to subject to a secondary cutting, so as to finally obtain profiled sheet materials which are picked up by a discharged material handling and stacking robot for an operation of stacking the finished products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saidan Yang, Junliang Qiao, Qi Yan, Shengbo Pan, Ruimin Wu, Chengguo Jin, Qian Xiang
  • Patent number: 9566677
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of motor vehicle sheet blanking and a system of the same, wherein the blanking method comprises: firstly, nesting for motor vehicle sheet material, and cutting it into group sheets with a shape and size confirmed by the multi length of the sheet; next, designing a backing die depending on scraps to be cut from the group sheet, and hollowing in areas corresponding to blanking openings in the backing die, in which the dimensions of the blanking openings are greater than that of the actual scraps to be cut; then, placing a group sheet onto the backing die; laser cutting the group sheet based on the shape of motor vehicle sheet, the cut scraps dropping through the blanking openings in the backing die onto a scrap conveyor belt underneath; stacking the cut sheets. The present invention can effectively process scraps cut from sheets and improve the blanking efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruimin Wu, Wenhai Jin, Qi Yan, Chengguo Jin, Saidan Yang, Yuming Wang, Junliang Qiao, Shengbo Pan, Changqing Lv
  • Publication number: 20160089731
    Abstract: A method for combined shearing of a steel plate adopts a combination of unrolling and pendulum shearing with laser cutting, wherein after a steel roll is cut by unrolling and pendulum shearing to obtain sheets having a specified length, a part or all of the sheets are directly conveyed to a stack as finished sheet materials and the other part or all of the sheets are transferred to a laser cutting line by means of lateral material discharge from a unrolling and pendulum cutting line, and are picked up by a loading robot and moved to a laser cutting position to subject to a secondary cutting, so as to finally obtain profiled sheet materials which are picked up by a discharged material handling and stacking robot for an operation of stacking the finished products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Saidan YANG, Junliang QIAO, Qi YAN, Shengbo PAN, Ruimin WU, Chengguo JIN, Qian XIANG
  • Publication number: 20160039047
    Abstract: An uncoiling and blanking method includes uncoiling a coiled strip, straightening, cutting off the leading end, moving into a looper, moving out of the looper, then cleaning the surface of the coiled strip, and flattening; conveying the coiled strip on a pinch roller to perform laser cutting and blanking, wherein dual static laser cutting heads are used for cutting the coiled strip during the laser cutting, and the cut-away waste materials fall down from the cutting region and are conveyed to the outside; and after the completion of cutting, finally cutting off the obtained sheets from each other, receiving them by a receiving device and conveying same on a conveying belt to a picking up and stacking region to stack the sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Ruimin WU, Chengguo Jin, Wenhai Jin, Saidan Yang, Junliang Qiao, Shengbo Pan, Yuming Wang
  • Publication number: 20160039049
    Abstract: A metal plate loading/unloading and cutting method and system comprises: a block cart and a sheet cart both of which are arranged on a guide rail; a cutting operation unit arranged at one side of the guide rail and comprising a first and a second fast moving table arranged in parallel and a laser cutting head, the two fast moving tables being arranged perpendicular to the guide rail and each provided with a cutting station and a waiting station, the laser cutting head moving over the two cutting stations along its guide rail, and the waiting stations corresponding to the side of the guide rail of the block cart and the sheet cart; a carrying and stacking robot arranged between the cutting operation unit and the guide rail of the block cart and the sheet cart, a robot external shaft being parallel to the cart guide rail and extending over the two fast moving table waiting stations of the cutting operation unit; and a waste material conveying device arranged below the two cutting stations of the cutting operati
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Saidan Yang, Ruimin Wu, Wenhai Jin, Yuming Wang, Shengbo Pan, Qian Xiang, Qi Yan, Chengguo Jin, Junliang Qiao
  • Publication number: 20160039050
    Abstract: A longitudinal metal plate loading/unloading and cutting method and a system thereof involve two longitudinally moving loading/unloading and cutting operation lines arranged in parallel, each of the operation lines comprising a block loading station, a cutting station, a sheet unloading station, and a carrying and stacking robot arranged between the two operation lines, which are arranged in succession, wherein the two operation lines have block loading directions opposite to each other; the block loading station and the sheet unloading station are respectively provided with a block cart and a sheet cart and guide rails; the cutting station is provided with at least two laser cutting heads and a moving quick table; the moving quick tables move longitudinally and allow feeding and discharging in two directions, and are each provided with two waiting stations and a cutting station; the external shaft of the carrying and stacking robot extends over the block loading station of the respective operation line and a
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Saidan Yang, Junliang Qiao, Wenhai Jin, Shengbo Pan, Ruimin Wu, Chengguo Jin, Yuming Wang
  • Publication number: 20160030995
    Abstract: An uncoiling, blanking and forming method includes the steps of: 1) uncoiling a steel coil, wherein a steel strip uncoiled from the steel coil is cleaned and straightened and is fed by a pinch roller to a blanking region; 2) laser blanking, wherein the steel coil enters the blanking region, is cut by a laser cutting head by way of laser blanking to form sheets with a required shape, with waste materials falling down and being conveyed to the outside; 3) outputting the sheets, wherein the sheets pass over a magnetic telescopic belt conveyor, and then carried by means of a manipulator or a robot to a stamping process; 4) stamping forming, wherein the sheets are stamped to form workpieces; and 5) checking, wherein the workpieces are checked and put in storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Chengguo Jin, Saidan Yang, Guoqiang Dai, Junliang Qiao, Shengbo Pan, Ruimin Wu, Qian Xiang