Patents by Inventor Shaowu ZHOU

Shaowu ZHOU 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: 20250084607
    Abstract: A self-maintaining and anti-scouring device for an offshore wind power pile foundation is provided. The self-maintaining and anti-scouring device comprises: a plurality of fixing parts configured to be fixedly disposed on seabed; an installation part disposed above the plurality of fixing parts and configured for installing wind power equipment; and a sand-screening part, comprising a sand-screening ring and an impeller both of which are disposed below the installation part, wherein a seawater inlet, a stirring chamber and a sand outlet are disposed on the sand-screening ring in sequence from a top to a bottom of the sand-screening ring, and a seawater outlet is disposed on a side surface of the sand-screening ring to communicate to the stirring chamber, wherein the impeller is rotatably disposed in the stirring chamber. The impeller is horizontally rotated in the sand-screening ring to separate sand and seawater in the stirring chamber through a centrifugal force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., China Three Gorges Corporation
    Inventors: Xu ZHANG, Shaowu ZHOU, Yifeng LIN, Juan JIANG
  • Patent number: 11264933
    Abstract: A sensorless control method and an apparatus for a three-phase switched reluctance motor. The sensorless control method obtains line inductances of three phases according to real-time phase inductances of the three-phase switched reluctance motor and then determines feature points of the line inductances of the three phases. A position angle of the rotor at any time in the next corresponding region is calculated according to an average rotation speed of the rotor in the region corresponding to two adjacent feature points. A control signal is output to realize a precise sensorless control for the three-phase switched reluctance motor. The control apparatus includes a microcontroller, a power conversion circuit, a drive module for the power conversion circuit, a current detection module, a voltage detection module, an input and output module and a direct current regulated power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hunan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Xiaoping Zhang, Sijian Kuang, Ping Liu, Zhu Zhang, Haipeng Jiang, Shaowu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210159835
    Abstract: A sensorless control method and an apparatus for a three-phase switched reluctance motor. The sensorless control method obtains line inductances of three phases according to real-time phase inductances of the three-phase switched reluctance motor and then determines feature points of the line inductances of the three phases. A position angle of the rotor at any time in the next corresponding region is calculated according to an average rotation speed of the rotor in the region corresponding to two adjacent feature points. A control signal is output to realize a precise sensorless control for the three-phase switched reluctance motor. The control apparatus includes a microcontroller, a power conversion circuit, a drive module for the power conversion circuit, a current detection module, a voltage detection module, an input and output module and a direct current regulated power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaoping ZHANG, Sijian KUANG, Ping LIU, Zhu ZHANG, Haipeng JIANG, Shaowu ZHOU