Patents by Inventor Shenjia Zhang

Shenjia 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: 11958140
    Abstract: Aluminum welding alloys with improved welding performance are disclosed. The aluminum welding alloys include high loading levels of magnesium and one or more surface active elements and arc stabilizer elements. Methods of making and using the aluminum welding alloys are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Jean Bilodeau
  • Publication number: 20230197309
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy wires with improved electrical conductivity and improved ultimate tensile strength are disclosed. The aluminum alloys include magnesium, silicon, and copper and are formed without a solution heat treatment. The aluminum alloy wires are useful as conductors for overhead transmission lines. Methods of making the aluminum alloy wires are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Richard Stephen Baker, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Nhon Q. Vo, Francisco U. Flores
  • Patent number: 11559860
    Abstract: Aluminum-magnesium alloys useful as welding wire and mechanical support are disclosed. The aluminum-magnesium alloys exhibit improved cold wire drawing performance. Grain refiners and methods of forming the aluminum-magnesium alloys are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: GENERAL CABLE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, NANOAL, LLC
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Nhon Q. Vo, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Jean Bilodeau, Martin Lecours
  • Patent number: 11529697
    Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to consumable electrode wires and more particularly to consumable electrode wires having a core-shell structure, where the core comprises aluminum. In one aspect, a welding wire comprises a sheath having a steel composition and a core surrounded by the sheath. The core comprises aluminum (Al) at a concentration between about 3 weight % and about 20 weight % on the basis of the total weight of the welding wire, where Al is in an elemental form or is alloyed with a different metal element. The disclosed technology also relates to welding methods and systems adapted for using the aluminum-comprising electrode wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, John Benjamin Schaeffer, Badri K. Narayanan, Michael A. Kottman
  • Patent number: 11426824
    Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to consumable electrode wires and more particularly to consumable electrode wires having a core-shell structure, where the core comprises aluminum. In one aspect, a welding wire comprises a sheath having a steel composition and a core surrounded by the sheath. The core comprises aluminum (Al) at a concentration between about 3 weight % and about 20 weight % on the basis of the total weight of the welding wire, where Al is in an elemental form or is alloyed with a different metal element. The disclosed technology also relates to welding methods and systems adapted for using the aluminum-comprising electrode wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, John Benjamin Schaeffer, Badri K. Narayanan
  • Patent number: 10861616
    Abstract: Cables including conductors formed form ultra-conductive copper wires which have a lower temperature coefficient of resistance are disclosed. Methods of making the cables including conductors with ultra-conductive copper wires are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: General Cable Technologies Corporation, Ohio University
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Keerti Sahithi Kappagantula, Frank F. Kraft
  • Publication number: 20200357535
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy wires with improved electrical conductivity and improved ultimate tensile strength are disclosed. The aluminum alloys include magnesium, silicon, and copper and are formed without a solution heat treatment. The aluminum alloy wires are useful as conductors for overhead transmission lines. Methods of making the aluminum alloy wires are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Richard Stephen Baker, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Nhon Q. Vo, Francisco U. Flores
  • Publication number: 20200353573
    Abstract: Aluminum welding alloys with improved welding performance are disclosed. The aluminum welding alloys include high loading levels of magnesium and one or more surface active elements and arc stabilizer elements. Methods of making and using the aluminum welding alloys are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Jean Bilodeau
  • Publication number: 20200299809
    Abstract: An 8000-series aluminum alloy, useful to form wires, including a rare-earth element. The alloy exhibits improved creep resistance and stress relaxation resistance, as compared to the same alloy that is substantially free of the rare-earth element, while the electrical conductivity of the alloy is substantially unaffected by the addition of the rare-earth element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Nhon Q. VO, Francisco U. FLORES, Davaadorj BAYANSAN, Srinivas SIRIPURAPU, Shenjia ZHANG, Richard Stephen BAKER
  • Patent number: 10685760
    Abstract: Ultra-conductive wires having enhanced electrical conductivity are disclosed. The conductivity of an ultra-conductive wire is enhanced using cold wire drawing and annealing. Methods of making the ultra-conductive wires are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL CABLE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan
  • Publication number: 20200027624
    Abstract: Cables including conductors formed form ultra-conductive copper wires which have a lower temperature coefficient of resistance are disclosed. Methods of making the cables including conductors with ultra-conductive copper wires are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Keerti Sahithi Kappagantula, Frank F. Kraft
  • Publication number: 20190362864
    Abstract: Ultra-conductive wires having enhanced electrical conductivity are disclosed. The conductivity of an ultra-conductive wire is enhanced using cold wire drawing and annealing. Methods of making the ultra-conductive wires are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Sathish Kumar Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 10465270
    Abstract: A conductive element of a cable or a wire is formed of a high shear deformation processed aluminum alloy. The aluminum-zirconium alloy exhibits high electrical conductivity and high tensile strength. Methods of forming cables and wires are also further disclosed including the formation of all aluminum alloy cables having high ampacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: General Cable Technologies Corporation, NanoAI LLC, Manhattan Scientifics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Cornelius A. Muojekwu, Nhon Q. Vo, Terry C. Lowe
  • Publication number: 20190329363
    Abstract: Aluminum-magnesium alloys useful as welding wire and mechanical support are disclosed. The aluminum-magnesium alloys exhibit improved cold wire drawing performance. Grain refiners and methods of forming the aluminum-magnesium alloys are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Nhon Q. Vo, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Jean Bilodeau, Martin Lecours
  • Publication number: 20190153566
    Abstract: Improved 8000-series aluminum alloys exhibiting improved creep resistance and stress relaxation resistance are disclosed and are useful to form wires. The improved 8000-series aluminum alloys include a rare earth element. The electrical conductivity of the aluminum alloy is substantially unaffected by the addition of the rare earth element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Srinivas SIRIPURAPU, Shenjia ZHANG, Richard Stephen BAKER, Nhon Q. VO, Francisco U. FLORES, Davaadorj BAYANSAN
  • Publication number: 20190099822
    Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to consumable electrode wires and more particularly to consumable electrode wires having a core-shell structure, where the core comprises aluminum. In one aspect, a welding wire comprises a sheath having a steel composition and a core surrounded by the sheath. The core comprises aluminum (Al) at a concentration between about 3 weight % and about 20 weight % on the basis of the total weight of the welding wire, where Al is in an elemental form or is alloyed with a different metal element. The disclosed technology also relates to welding methods and systems adapted for using the aluminum-comprising electrode wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, John Benjamin Schaeffer, Badri K. Narayanan, Michael A. Kottman
  • Publication number: 20190099844
    Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to consumable electrode wires and more particularly to consumable electrode wires having a core-shell structure, where the core comprises aluminum. In one aspect, a welding wire comprises a sheath having a steel composition and a core surrounded by the sheath. The core comprises aluminum (Al) at a concentration between about 3 weight % and about 20 weight % on the basis of the total weight of the welding wire, where Al is in an elemental form or is alloyed with a different metal element. The disclosed technology also relates to welding methods and systems adapted for using the aluminum-comprising electrode wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, John Benjamin Schaeffer, Badri K. Narayanan