Patents by Inventor Weining Ni

Weining Ni 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: 11913324
    Abstract: An apparatus for downhole multi-dimensional imaging includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a formation resistivity signal, an ultrasonic echo signal and an orientation signal regularly; a sector calculation unit configured to calculate, based on said orientation signal, a sector where a currently acquired signal is from; and a multi-dimensional imaging unit, configured to calculate, based on the signals acquired by the acquisition unit, data of resistivity, distance from a drilling tool to a borehole wall and ultrasonic echo amplitude, and distribute said data into all sectors for feature recognition and extraction, thus obtaining key features characterizing a current formation being drilled, said key features being transmitted to ground for guiding drilling process. The structural complexity and the length of the downhole imaging measurement instrument can be reduced, and feature recognition can be directly performed on the imaging data underground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yijin Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weining Ni, Xin Li, Lipeng Yan, Jinping Wu, Yuefa Hu, Lishuang Wang, Zuyang Zhu, Jintai Mi
  • Publication number: 20220333478
    Abstract: An apparatus for downhole multi-dimensional imaging includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a formation resistivity signal, an ultrasonic echo signal and an orientation signal regularly; a sector calculation unit configured to calculate, based on said orientation signal, a sector where a currently acquired signal is from; and a multi-dimensional imaging unit, configured to calculate, based on the signals acquired by the acquisition unit, data of resistivity, distance from a drilling tool to a borehole wall and ultrasonic echo amplitude, and distribute said data into all sectors for feature recognition and extraction, thus obtaining key features characterizing a current formation being drilled, said key features being transmitted to ground for guiding drilling process. The structural complexity and the length of the downhole imaging measurement instrument can be reduced, and feature recognition can be directly performed on the imaging data underground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Yijin ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Weining NI, Xin LI, Lipeng YAN, Jinping WU, Yuefa HU, Lishuang WANG, Zuyang ZHU, Jintai MI
  • Patent number: 10571596
    Abstract: A resistivity measurement while drilling (MWD) device, including: a transmitting module arranged on an outer surface of a drill collar, for generating an induced current between the drill collar and surrounding formation by inductive coupling; a receiving electrode group including at least two electrodes, for receiving a measured current that reaches the electrode from the induced current through corresponding formation, two electrodes in the receiving electrode group being multiplexing electrodes; a resistivity calculation module configured to be connected to all or a part of the electrodes in the receiving electrode group in a measurement mode of the resistivity MWD device, to calculate the measured current received by a corresponding electrode and obtain resistivity of formation corresponding to the corresponding electrode; and a data transmission module configured to be connected to the multiplexing electrodes in a transmission mode of the resistivity MWD device, for transmitting calculated resistivity to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yijin Zeng, Weining Ni, Xin Li, Wei Zhang, Jintai Mi, Jianhua Liu, Jibo Li, Jinping Wu, Meiling Zhan, Wenli Wang, Sanguo Li, Yiting Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180045847
    Abstract: A resistivity measurement while drilling (MWD) device, including: a transmitting module arranged on an outer surface of a drill collar, for generating an induced current between the drill collar and surrounding formation by inductive coupling; a receiving electrode group including at least two electrodes, for receiving a measured current that reaches the electrode from the induced current through corresponding formation, two electrodes in the receiving electrode group being multiplexing electrodes; a resistivity calculation module configured to be connected to all or a part of the electrodes in the receiving electrode group in a measurement mode of the resistivity MWD device, to calculate the measured current received by a corresponding electrode and obtain resistivity of formation corresponding to the corresponding electrode; and a data transmission module configured to be connected to the multiplexing electrodes in a transmission mode of the resistivity MWD device, for transmitting calculated resistivity to
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicants: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Engineering
    Inventors: Yijin ZENG, Weining NI, Xin LI, Wei ZHANG, Jintai MI, Jianhua LIU, Jibo LI, Jinping WU, Meiling ZHAN, Wenli WANG, Sanguo LI, Yiting ZHENG
  • Patent number: 9739141
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission system and a method for transmission of downhole measurement data to the ground. The system includes a drill string mounted with a logging while drilling measurement tool, and a throw while drilling section, which accommodates a micromemory. The throw while drilling section includes a housing which is mounted outside of the drill string as a sleeve to form a clearance space therebetween; a control circuit; and a wireless transceiver. The throw while drilling section releases, under function of a micromemory release instruction transmitted by the control circuit, the micromemory loaded with the downhole measurement data to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yijin Zeng, Wei Zhang, Jibo Li, Weining Ni, Huangsheng Lu, Sanguo Li, Dawei Deng, Zuyang Zhu, Yiting Zheng, Xin Li, Yongjie Li
  • Publication number: 20160115783
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission system and a method for transmission of downhole measurement data to the ground. The system includes a drill string mounted with a logging while drilling measurement tool, and a throw while drilling section, which accommodates a micromemory. The throw while drilling section includes a housing which is mounted outside of the drill string as a sleeve to form a clearance space therebetween; a control circuit; and a wireless transceiver. The throw while drilling section releases, under function of a micromemory release instruction transmitted by the control circuit, the micromemory loaded with the downhole measurement data to the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicants: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yijin Zeng, Wei Zhang, Jibo Li, Weining Ni, Huangsheng Lu, Sanguo Li, Dawei Deng, Zuyang Zhu, Yiting Zheng, Xin Li, Yongjie Li