Patents by Inventor Shukui Zhao

Shukui 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: 20210341224
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a integrated heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, external refrigeration systems, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Enflex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210190420
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a integrated heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, external refrigeration systems, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Enflex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210088278
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: EnFlex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Patent number: 10947171
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Enflex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210059642
    Abstract: The present disclosure related generally to ultrasound imaging, such as intravascular ultrasound imaging. For example, some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ultrasound imaging system with improved acoustic impedance matching between an ultrasonic transducer and a vessel of interest. For example, in some implementations, an ultrasound imaging device includes a flexible elongate member and an ultrasound scanner assembly disposed at a distal portion of the flexible elongate member. The ultrasound scanner assembly includes a plurality of ultrasound transducers arranged circumferentially, and an impedance matching structure is coupled to the plurality of ultrasound transducers. In some such embodiments, the impedance matching structure is disposed radially outward from the plurality of ultrasound transducers, and in some embodiments, the impedance matching structure is disposed radially inward from the plurality of ultrasound transducers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shukui ZHAO, Paul Douglas CORL
  • Patent number: 10859313
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: EnFlex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200275630
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: EnFlex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Patent number: 10633305
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Enflex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20190282216
    Abstract: Ultrasound image devices, systems, and methods are provided. In one embodiment, an intraluminal ultrasound imaging system includes a patient interface module (PIM) in communication with an intraluminal imaging device comprising an ultrasound imaging component, the PIM comprising a processing component configured to detect device information associated with the intraluminal imaging device, the device information identifying an ultrasound attribute associated with the ultrasound imaging component; and determine a waveform for ultrasound wave emissions at the ultrasound imaging component based on the identified ultrasound attribute; and a trigger signal generation component in communication with the processing component and configured to generate a trigger signal based on the determined waveform to control the ultrasound wave emissions at the ultrasound imaging component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: SHERWOOD KANTOR, SIDNEY RHODES, SHUKUI ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20190137172
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: EnFlex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Patent number: 10215190
    Abstract: A cooling system is provided for cooling a motor that drives a compressor in a liquefaction system. The coolant used for cooling the motor includes portions of a discharge from a compressor. The coolant for the motor is generated from a vapor component of the discharge from the compressor. The discharge from the compressor is cooled and the vapor component is separated from a liquid component and treated prior to being introduced into the motor. Remaining portions of the discharge from the compressor are routed to cold boxes producing a compressed refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Augy, Shukui Zhao, David Kennedy, Pierre Laboube, Ravikumar Vipperla
  • Publication number: 20180360423
    Abstract: The present disclosure related generally to ultrasound imaging, such as intravascular ultrasound imaging. For example, some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ultrasound imaging system with improved acoustic impedance matching between an ultrasonic transducer and a vessel of interest. For example, in some implementations, an ultrasound imaging device includes a flexible elongate member and an ultrasound scanner assembly disposed at a distal portion of the flexible elongate member. The ultrasound scanner assembly includes a plurality of ultrasound transducers arranged circumferentially, and an impedance matching structure is coupled to the plurality of ultrasound transducers. In some such embodiments, the impedance matching structure is disposed radially outward from the plurality of ultrasound transducers, and in some embodiments, the impedance matching structure is disposed radially inward from the plurality of ultrasound transducers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Shukui Zhao, Paul Douglas Corl
  • Publication number: 20180335254
    Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: EnFlex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
  • Patent number: 9936881
    Abstract: In an example, an optical system can include a polarization scrambler coupleable to a tunable first optical source configured to generate a coherent optical output. The system can include an intra-body optical sensor such as a an intravascularly-deliverable optical fiber transducer, configured to be coupled to the tunable first optical source through the polarization scrambler, the polarization scrambler configured to vary a polarization state of the optical energy provided by the tunable first optical source, the intravascularly-deliverable optical fiber transducer configured to reflect a portion of the optical energy modulated in response to a vibration, pressure, or strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Vascular Imaging Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Neil Rourke, Michael J. Eberle, Shukui Zhao, Diana Margaret Tasker
  • Publication number: 20170343012
    Abstract: A cooling system is provided for cooling a motor that drives a compressor in a liquefaction system. The coolant used for cooling the motor includes portions of a discharge from a compressor. The coolant for the motor is generated from a vapor component of the discharge from the compressor. The discharge from the compressor is cooled and the vapor component is separated from a liquid component and treated prior to being introduced into the motor. Remaining portions of the discharge from the compressor are routed to cold boxes producing a compressed refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Philippe Augy, Shukui Zhao, David Kennedy, Pierre Laboube, Ravikumar Vipperla
  • Publication number: 20170059241
    Abstract: A liquefaction system that is configured to use a single methane expander to provide primary refrigeration duty. The liquefaction system can include a heat exchanger and a fluid circuit coupled with the heat exchanger, the fluid circuit configured to circulate a process stream derived from an incoming feedstock of natural gas. The fluid circuit can comprise a methane expander coupled with the heat exchanger, a sub-cooling unit coupled with the methane expander, the sub-cooling unit configured to form a liquid natural gas (LNG) product from the process stream, and a first throttling device interposed between the heat exchanger and the sub-cooling unit. The methane expander and the first throttling device can be configured to expand the process stream to a process pressure that is between a first pressure of the incoming feedstock and a second pressure of the process that exits the sub-cooling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: David Allen Kennedy, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20150087986
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for producing intravascular images. In certain embodiments, systems and methods of the invention involve causing transducers of an intravascular ultrasound device to generate a plurality of different types of data, each type of data being based on a different manner of operation of the transducers. The systems and methods of the invention additionally involve adjusting the manner of operation of the transducers for one of the types of data to thereby adjust an acquisition frame rate of the one type of data to an adjusted acquisition frame rate. The one type of data at the adjusted acquisition frame rate is then received and an intravascular image that includes the one type of data at the adjusted acquisition frame rate is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: VOLCANO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anuja Nair, Andrew Hancock, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20150086098
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for producing composite intravascular images of multiple data types. In certain embodiments, systems and methods of the invention involve causing transducers of an intravascular ultrasound device to generate a plurality of different types of data, each type of data being based on a different manner of operation of the transducers. The manner of operation of the transducers is adjusted for one of the types of data to thereby cause the transducers to generate modified data for the one type of data. The modified data is received and an intravascular image is displayed that includes the modified data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: VOLCANO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anuja Nair, Andrew Hancock, Shukui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20140100462
    Abstract: In an example, an optical system can include a polarization scrambler coupleable to a tunable first optical source configured to generate a coherent optical output. The system can include an intra-body optical sensor such as a an intravascularly-deliverable optical fiber transducer, configured to be coupled to the tunable first optical source through the polarization scrambler, the polarization scrambler configured to vary a polarization state of the optical energy provided by the tunable first optical source, the intravascularly-deliverable optical fiber transducer configured to reflect a portion of the optical energy modulated in response to a vibration, pressure, or strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Vascular Imaging Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Neil Rourke, Michael J. Eberle, Shukui Zhao, Diana Margaret Tasker
  • Publication number: 20070071683
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and apparatus for localized delivery of compounds are provided. In certain embodiments, acoustic streaming force is used to direct carrier particles to a target site, mediate particle internalization, and release associate compounds. Ultrasound radiation is preferred as the source for the acoustic streaming force. Also encompassed are embodiments in which targeting and membrane permeability enhancement are combined with imaging of the treatment site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Paul Dayton, Katherine Ferrara, Shukui Zhao, Susannah Bloch, Terry Matsunaga