Patents by Inventor Wenbo Huang

Wenbo Huang 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: 11408646
    Abstract: A ladder-structural gravity-assisted-heat-pipe geothermal energy recovery system without liquid-accumulation effect, comprises a ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe, a condenser, and a liquid tank. The ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe comprises a return pipe, an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The return pipe is provided in a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe and communicated with the liquid tank, and the space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe is divided to form a ladder structure. A liquid working medium flows from the liquid tank through the return pipe into each section sequentially, absorbs heat from a high-temperature rock through a wall of the outer pipe, vaporizes into a gaseous working medium, gets into the inner pipe, and rises to the condenser to condense and flows to the liquid tank to circulate. Such design greatly improves the heat transfer efficiency in geothermal energy recovery using ultra-long heat pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Fangming Jiang, Wenbo Huang, Wenjiong Cao, Yiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11332341
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic elevator call system and a method for requesting an elevator service, belonging to the field of elevator intelligent control technologies. The automatic elevator call system of the present invention includes a wireless signal apparatus that is installed in an elevator system and broadcasts a corresponding wireless signal around, wherein the automatic elevator call system detects the wireless signal and a signal strength value thereof by using a personal mobile terminal carried by a passenger, and automatically sends an elevator service request command to the wireless signal apparatus when the signal strength value is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. The wireless signal apparatus wireless signal apparatus. The present invention can further improve elevator call experience of passengers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Jingyu Tong, Lieping Wei
  • Publication number: 20210382281
    Abstract: The present application discloses an optical camera system, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens and a ninth lens having refractive powers. The first lens has a convex object side surface; the fifth lens and the ninth lens have negative refractive powers; and a distance TTL from an object side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of the optical camera system on the optical axis and a half ImgH of a diagonal length of an effective pixel region of the optical camera system satisfy: TTL/ImgH<1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbo HUANG, Lingbo HE, Fujian DAI, Liefeng ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210263276
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical imaging lens assembly. From an object side to an image side along an optical axis, the optical imaging lens assembly sequentially includes: a first lens having a refractive power; a second lens having a refractive power, and an object-side surface of the second lens is a convex surface, and an image-side surface of the second lens is a concave surface; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, an object-side surface of the sixth lens is a convex surface, and an image-side surface of the sixth lens is a convex surface; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, an object-side surface of the seventh lens is a concave surface, and an image-side surface is a concave surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Wenbo HUANG, Lingbo HE, Fujian DAI, Liefeng ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210254862
    Abstract: A ladder-structural gravity-assisted-heat-pipe geothermal energy recovery system without liquid-accumulation effect, comprises a ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe, a condenser, and a liquid tank. The ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe comprises a return pipe, an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The return pipe is provided in a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe and communicated with the liquid tank, and the space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe is divided to form a ladder structure. A liquid working medium flows from the liquid tank through the return pipe into each section sequentially, absorbs heat from a high-temperature rock through a wall of the outer pipe, vaporizes into a gaseous working medium, gets into the inner pipe, and rises to the condenser to condense and flows to the liquid tank to circulate. Such design greatly improves the heat transfer efficiency in geothermal energy recovery using ultra-long heat pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Fangming JIANG, Wenbo HUANG, Wenjiong CAO, Yiwei WANG
  • Publication number: 20210173186
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens having a negative focal power, and provided with an object-side surface, the object-side surface is concave surface; a second lens having a focal power; a third lens having a focal power; a fourth lens having a positive focal power; a fifth lens having a negative focal power, and provided with an image-side surface, the image-side surface is concave surface; a sixth lens having a positive focal power; and a seventh lens having a focal power; at least one aspherical mirror surface is included in the object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the seventh lens; and a maximum Field of View (FOV) of the optical imaging lens meets 105°?FOV?135°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Wenbo HUANG, Lingbo HE, Fujian DAI, Liefeng ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210109324
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging system including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens, each of which has refractive power. Each of the first lens, the third lens and the fourth lens has positive refractive power. Half of a diagonal length ImgH on an imaging plane of the optical imaging system satisfies ImgH>5 mm. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging system and an effective focal length f3 of the third lens satisfy 2.0<f3/f<3.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Wenbo HUANG, Lingbo HE
  • Publication number: 20200385234
    Abstract: A Bluetooth wireless communication system and method for communication in an elevator hoistway, and belongs to the technical field of elevators. The Bluetooth wireless communication system of the present invention comprises: a first Bluetooth module, a second Bluetooth module, and one or more diffusion Bluetooth modules disposed in the elevator hoistway; wherein the first Bluetooth module, the second Bluetooth module and the diffusion Bluetooth modules are networked to form a Bluetooth MESH network such that data transmission between the first Bluetooth module and the second Bluetooth module is performed via at least one of the diffusion Bluetooth modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Lieping Wei, Wenbo Huang, XiaoBin Tang
  • Publication number: 20200385235
    Abstract: Acquisition of position information of an elevator car. The system for acquiring the position information of an elevator car of the invention comprises: a first Bluetooth module travelling in an up-down direction of an elevator hoistway following the elevator car, and a second Bluetooth module disposed in the elevator hoistway; wherein the second Bluetooth module broadcasts a Bluetooth signal containing an identifier of the second Bluetooth module to the elevator hoistway, and the first Bluetooth module senses signal strength information of the Bluetooth signal it receives and determines the identifier corresponding to the second Bluetooth module broadcasting the received Bluetooth signal; the system is configured to determine the position information of the elevator car according to received signal strength information of the Bluetooth signal and a corresponding identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Lieping Wei, Wenbo Huang, XiaoBin Tang
  • Publication number: 20200095090
    Abstract: A system and a method for detecting passenger movement, an elevator-calling control method, a readable storage medium and an elevator system are provided by the present disclosure. The system for detecting passenger movement includes: a Bluetooth matrix installed in an elevator landing area, the Bluetooth matrix including at least three Bluetooth modules, and each of the Bluetooth modules being configured to broadcast a Bluetooth signal to the elevator landing area respectively; wherein the system for detecting passenger movement acquires location information of a passenger carrying a personal mobile terminal by using Bluetooth signals broadcast by at least three Bluetooth modules; the system for detecting passenger movement further includes: a movement prediction unit configured to fit a movement trajectory of the passenger in the elevator landing area based on multiple sets of the location information, and predict the movement trajectory to be a calling trajectory or a non-calling trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Lieping Wei, Wenbo Huang, Heping Qiu
  • Publication number: 20200087107
    Abstract: A notification system and a notification method for an elevator, and an elevator system are provided by the present disclosure. The notification system for an elevator includes: a wake-up module, which is configured to wake up a user mobile terminal when the user mobile terminal enters a specified area, so that the user mobile terminal sends a request to a server; and the server, which is configured to receive a reminder item setting from an administrator, and which is configured to push a reminder item to the user mobile terminal upon receiving the request from the user mobile terminal, the reminder item including elevator repair or maintenance information. The system and method according to the present disclosure allows a user to conveniently know about elevator repair or maintenance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Lieping Wei, Wenbo Huang, Heping Qiu, Jingyu Tong
  • Patent number: 10589961
    Abstract: This invention relates to the maintenance monitoring of passenger transport systems. The maintenance monitoring device for passenger transport systems of this invention comprises a radio/wireless beacon and personal mobile terminal, the radio beacon is roughly installed at an on-site check point of a passenger transport system and is used to broadcast radio signals toward its surroundings, and the personal mobile terminal is carried by the maintenance workers and is used to sense radio signals when the maintenance workers approach the corresponding radio beacon; wherein the personal mobile terminal and/or the radio beacon is configured to calculate the time period information of radio signals broadcast by the corresponding radio beacon and continuously sensed by the personal mobile terminal. This invention can automatically achieve monitoring of maintenance operations, features a good user experience for maintenance operations, and is beneficial to boosting compliance in maintenance operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Ke Yang, Wenbo Huang
  • Publication number: 20190263627
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic elevator call system and a method for requesting an elevator service, belonging to the field of elevator intelligent control technologies. The automatic elevator call system of the present invention includes a wireless signal apparatus that is installed in an elevator system and broadcasts a corresponding wireless signal around, wherein the automatic elevator call system detects the wireless signal and a signal strength value thereof by using a personal mobile terminal carried by a passenger, and automatically sends an elevator service request command to the wireless signal apparatus when the signal strength value is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. The wireless signal apparatus wireless signal apparatus. The present invention can further improve elevator call experience of passengers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Jingyu Tong, Lieping Wei
  • Publication number: 20190193988
    Abstract: The present invention relates to automatic elevator call control, and belongs to the field of elevator intelligent control technologies. An automatic elevator call system provided in the present invention calculates duration information from the moment when the personal mobile terminal leaves coverage of the wireless signal to the moment when the personal mobile terminal enters the coverage again, and when the duration information is less than or equal to a preset time threshold, causes the personal mobile terminal to be incapable of automatically sending an elevator call request command in a time period from the moment when the personal mobile terminal enters the coverage again to the moment when the personal mobile terminal leaves the coverage again. The present invention can effectively avoid invalid or abnormal elevator call request operations, and the elevator system achieves high running efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Xiaofei Guo, Haiyan Xue, Renxiang Chen, Heping Qiu, Lieping Wei, Tan Liu, Jingyu Tong
  • Publication number: 20190193989
    Abstract: An automatic elevator call system includes: a wireless signal apparatus installed in an elevator landing zone of an elevator system and broadcasting a corresponding wireless signal around; a counting unit configured to count, after an elevator call request corresponding to an identity of the personal mobile terminal is sent or received, the number of times the elevator call request corresponding to the identity is made within a predetermined time period; and an abnormal elevator call request judgment unit configured to judge, based on a comparison result between the number of times the elevator call request is made and a predetermined threshold, whether the elevator call request corresponding to the identity is a normal elevator call request operation. The present invention can effectively determine an intentional or unintentional abnormal elevator call request operation of a passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Xiaofei Guo, Haiyan Xue, Renxiang Chen, Heping Qiu, Lieping Wei, Tan Liu, Jingyu Tong
  • Publication number: 20190185292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to maintenance of a passenger transport system. An apparatus for maintaining a passenger transport system according to the present invention includes a wireless beacon and a personal mobile terminal. The wireless beacon is mounted substantially at a registration entrance for entering the passenger transport system to perform a maintenance operation and configured to broadcast a wireless signal to the surrounding area. The personal mobile terminal is carried by the maintenance operator and configured to sense the wireless signal when the maintenance operator approaches the wireless beacon. At least one of the wireless beacon and the personal mobile terminal is configured to automatically generate and send, based on successful sensing of the wireless signal by the personal mobile terminal, maintenance register information indicating that the corresponding maintenance operator has checked into a maintenance operation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Ke Yang, Wenbo Huang
  • Publication number: 20190185293
    Abstract: This invention relates to the maintenance monitoring of passenger transport systems. The maintenance monitoring device for passenger transport systems of this invention comprises a radio/wireless beacon and personal mobile terminal, the radio beacon is roughly installed at an on-site check point of a passenger transport system and is used to broadcast radio signals toward its surroundings, and the personal mobile terminal is carried by the maintenance workers and is used to sense radio signals when the maintenance workers approach the corresponding radio beacon; wherein the personal mobile terminal and/or the radio beacon is configured to calculate the time period information of radio signals broadcast by the corresponding radio beacon and continuously sensed by the personal mobile terminal. This invention can automatically achieve monitoring of maintenance operations, features a good user experience for maintenance operations, and is beneficial to boosting compliance in maintenance operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Ke Yang, Wenbo Huang
  • Publication number: 20190077631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the tracking of a maintenance trajectory in an elevator system. An apparatus provided by the present invention for tracking a maintenance trajectory in an elevator system is configured to generate, based on acquired relative height information of a maintenance worker entity in a lifting passage corresponding to the elevator system, maintenance trajectory information corresponding to the maintenance worker entity. The present invention makes it easy to implement monitoring or management of each maintenance operation of each maintenance worker entity, and also makes it easy to judge the compliance status of the maintenance operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Ke Yang
  • Publication number: 20180370760
    Abstract: The present invention relates to determining the movement of a passenger relative to an elevator landing area, which belongs to the field of elevator intelligent control technologies. An automatic elevator calling system of the present invention comprises: a first wireless signal module installed in an elevator car, which is used for broadcasting a first wireless signal; wherein the first wireless signal module is further used for receiving information regarding the movement of a passenger relative to the elevator car, and the information regarding the movement is determined based on the change in a signal strength of the first wireless signal received by a personal mobile terminal carried by the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Xiaofei Guo
  • Publication number: 20180370758
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system and a communication method for use in an elevator system, which belong to the field of elevator intelligent control technologies. The communication system of the present invention comprises: a first bluetooth module mounted in an elevator landing area of the elevator system and a second bluetooth module mounted in an elevator car of the elevator system. The communication system and the communication method of the present invention can realize that a passenger completes an elevator calling operation in a completely hand-free mode, which is easy to realize and is low in cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Xiaofei Guo