Patents by Inventor Wengang Li

Wengang Li 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: 12179230
    Abstract: A coating device includes a first coating mechanism configured to coat a first surface of a substrate, a first oven drying mechanism arranged downstream of the first coating mechanism, a second coating mechanism arranged downstream of the first oven drying mechanism and configured to coat a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface, and a second oven drying mechanism arranged downstream of the second coating mechanism. The coating device further includes a third oven drying mechanism arranged downstream of the second oven drying mechanism and configured to further oven dry the coating on the second surface such that the coating on the first surface and the coating on the second surface are evenly dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Yinxiang Lin, Peng Jin, Chao Guo, Nengwu Liao, Xuefeng Kang, Lijun Li, Wengang Chen
  • Patent number: 12168717
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a semi-aromatic polyamide and a preparation method therefor. The semi-aromatic polyamide is obtained by polymerization reaction using a diamine, a dibasic acid and a monoacid as main raw materials while adding a special end-capping agent. The semi-aromatic polyamide prepared according to the present disclosure has good thermal stability, a yellowness index of less than 20, a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or above, and a melting point of 300° C. or above, and can be applied to spare parts for fuel pipelines in automobiles, and electronic and electrical industries such as LED panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG NHU SPECIAL MATERIALS CO., LTD., ZHEJIANG NHU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhirong Chen, Hong Yin, Hangjun Deng, Guiyang Zhou, Danqi Zhu, Xiaoxiao Wu, Wengang Hong, Guisheng Qiu, Qichuan Li
  • Publication number: 20240392050
    Abstract: Disclosed are a suspending agent for a negative electrode slurry of a lithium ion battery and a preparation method and application thereof. The suspending agent for the negative electrode slurry comprises the following ingredients in parts by weight: 87 parts to 94 parts of main suspending agent, 0.1 part to 1 part of solubilizing agent, 5 parts to 8 parts of synergist, and 0.1 part to 1 part of pH value regulator. According to the invention, by adding the suspending agent into the negative electrode slurry of the lithium ion battery, a traditional negative electrode suspending agent sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (hereinafter referred to as CMC) material can be replaced, the suspending agent has better suspension stability compared with the CMC material, an amount of the suspending agent is reduced compared with the CMC material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Wenlong Li, Jiandong Chen, Wengang Qi, Yonghe Wang
  • Patent number: 12146105
    Abstract: Methods and fracturing fluids for fracturing a subterranean formation using in situ proppant particulates. Methods include introducing a fracturing fluid into a subterranean formation at or above a fracture gradient. The fracturing fluid includes a non-phase-transition fluid comprising at least an aqueous fluid and a surfactant; and a phase-transition fluid comprising a phase-change material selected from the group consisting of styrene monomers, methyl methacrylate monomers, or a combination of styrene monomers and methyl methacrylate monomers, an initiator, and an optional accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Bader G. Alharbi, Edreese Alshaerah, Mohan Raj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 12129430
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions that include a substrate having attached thereto functional molecules capable of interacting with ions, and related methods. Examples of the substrate include graphene, boron nitride and a graphene-boron nitride hybrid. The compositions can reduce (e.g., prevent) scale formation and/or dissolve scale formations in oil and gas production, transportation, storage, and processing systems, such as scales caused by calcium, barium and/or strontium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bader Ghazi Al-Harbi, Edreese Alsharaeh, Wengang Li, Haneen Omar
  • Patent number: 12116525
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a low-density treatment fluid includes a base water-control system and at least one light-weight filler material. The base water-control system may include an inorganic material system comprising an aqueous colloidal silica and a water-soluble chemical activator for gelling the colloidal silica, or the base water-control system may include an organic material system comprising of polymeric material. The low-density treatment fluid may have a density of from 0.1 g/cm3 to 0.75 g/cm3. Also described are methods of recovering a target fluid from a subterranean cavity using such a low-density treatment fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Weishu Zhao, Jin Huang, Feng Liang, Wengang Li
  • Patent number: 12065614
    Abstract: Hydraulic fracturing fluids include an aqueous fluid, an acrylamide-based polymer, and a crosslinker that crosslinks the acrylamide-based polymer to form a crosslinked gel. The crosslinker includes a cellulose backbone functionalized with branch structures. The branch structures comprise oxiranylalkanol branches or polyoxiranylalkanol branches. Methods for preparing the hydraulic fracturing fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations with the hydraulic fracturing fluids are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Bader Ghazi Al-Harbi, Majad Khan, Muhammad Nawaz Tahir
  • Patent number: 12047267
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a bandwidth testing method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a sending end, service messages and operation administration and maintenance (OAM) messages, wherein a bandwidth of the OAM messages is a maximum bandwidth of the service messages; discarding, by the sending end, partial OAM messages, wherein the partial OAM messages are a part of the OAM messages which makes a sum of bandwidths of the service messages and the OAM messages exceed a maximum bandwidth; acquiring, by the sending end, a total bit number of the partial OAM messages that are discarded and time for sending the service messages and the OAM messages; and determining, a bandwidth occupied by the service messages according to the total bit number and the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Suzhou Centec Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhichuan He, Wengang Wang, Lei Li, Maocong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11959020
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to acidizing retarder compositions and methods of reducing the rate of carbonate dissolution in carbonate acidizing treatments of carbonate formations using the acidizing retarder compositions. The methods may include dissolving one or more retarder compounds in a solution comprising a strong acid to form acidizing retarder compositions, and introducing the acidizing retarder compositions to carbonate formations. The acidizing retarder compositions may include one or more retarder compounds and a strong acid. At least one of the one or more retarder compounds may be a poloxamer. A concentration of the strong acid in the acidizing retarder composition may be 5 weight percent or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jin Huang, Wengang Li, Bader Ghazi Al-Harbi, Ayman M. Almohsin
  • Patent number: 11912938
    Abstract: Coated proppants include a proppant particle, a surface copolymer layer surrounding the proppant particle, and a resin layer surrounding the surface copolymer layer. The surface copolymer layer includes a copolymer of at least two monomers chosen from styrene, methyl methacrylate, ethylene, propylene, butylene, imides, urethanes, sulfones, carbonates, and acrylamides, where the copolymer is crosslinked by divinyl benzene. The resin layer includes a cured resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Alfaisal University
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Edreese Alsharaeh, Mohan Raj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11851614
    Abstract: A coated proppant having a proppant particle, an intermediate cross-linked terpolymer layer encapsulating the proppant particle, and an outer resin layer encapsulating the intermediate cross-linked terpolymer layer. The proppant particle is selected from sand, ceramic, glass, and combinations thereof. The intermediate cross-linked terpolymer layer includes styrene, methyl methacrylate, and divinyl benzene. The outer resin layer includes a cured epoxy resin formed from an epoxy resin and a curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Alfaisal University
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Edreese Alsharaeh, Mohan Raj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11814580
    Abstract: Hydraulic fracturing fluids include an aqueous fluid, an acrylamide-based polymers, and a hyperbranched crosslinker that crosslinks the acrylamide-based polymer to form a crosslinked gel. The hyperbranched crosslinker includes a hyperbranched polyethyleneimine polyoxiranylalkanol having a weight-average molecular weight from 10 kDa to 1500 kDa. The hyperbranched crosslinker may be a product of reacting a hyperbranched polyethyleneimine with an oxiranylalkanol to obtain the hyperbranched polyethyleneimine polyoxiranylalkanol. In examples, the oxiranylalkanol is glycidol. Methods for preparing the hydraulic fracturing fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations with the hydraulic fracturing fluids are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Majad Khan, Muhammad Nawaz Tahir, Bader Ghazi Al-Harbi
  • Publication number: 20230313027
    Abstract: Coated proppants include a proppant particle, a surface copolymer layer surrounding the proppant particle, and a resin layer surrounding the surface copolymer layer. The surface copolymer layer includes a copolymer of at least two monomers chosen from styrene, methyl methacrylate, ethylene, propylene, butylene, imides, urethanes, sulfones, carbonates, and acrylamides, where the copolymer is crosslinked by divinyl benzene. The resin layer includes a cured resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Alfaisal University
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Edreese Alsharaeh, Mohan Raj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11760922
    Abstract: Methods of preparing a crosslinked hydraulic fracturing fluid include combining a hydraulic fracturing fluid comprising a polyacrylamide polymer with a plurality of coated proppants. The plurality of coated proppants include a proppant particle and a resin proppant coating on the proppant particle. The resin proppant coating includes resin and a zirconium oxide crosslinker. The resin includes at least one of phenol, furan, epoxy, urethane, phenol-formaldehyde, polyester, vinyl ester, and urea aldehyde. Methods further include allowing the zirconium oxide crosslinker within the resin proppant coating to crosslink the polyacrylamide polymer within the hydraulic fracturing fluid at a pH of at least 10, thereby forming the crosslinked hydraulic fracturing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Alfaisal University
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Edreese Alsharaeh, Mohammed Abdullah Bataweel
  • Publication number: 20230265333
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a low-density treatment fluid includes a base water-control system and at least one light-weight filler material. The base water-control system may include an inorganic material system comprising an aqueous colloidal silica and a water-soluble chemical activator for gelling the colloidal silica, or the base water-control system may include an organic material system comprising of polymeric material. The low-density treatment fluid may have a density of from 0.1 g/cm3 to 0.75 g/cm3. Also described are methods of recovering a target fluid from a subterranean cavity using such a low-density treatment fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Weishu ZHAO, Jin Huang, Feng Liang, Wengang Li
  • Publication number: 20230227357
    Abstract: The preparation device includes an upper main conveyor belt, and an aggregate box, a first silane emulsion container and a first paper mill sludge container sequentially arranged above the upper main conveyor belt in a conveying direction. A lower auxiliary conveyor belt is arranged below the upper main conveyor belt, and a second paper mill sludge container and a second silane emulsion container are sequentially arranged between the upper main conveyor belt and the lower auxiliary conveyor belt in a conveying direction of the lower auxiliary conveyor belt. A trolley is arranged at the conveying tail end of the lower auxiliary conveyor belt, a gravity sensing device is arranged below the trolley, a mixer is arranged beside the trolley, and a heater is arranged at the bottom of the mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Xi'an University of Technology
    Inventors: Yanlong LI, Yunhe LIU, Yang LI, Heng ZHOU, Wengang LI
  • Patent number: 11702587
    Abstract: Coated proppants include a proppant particle, a surface copolymer layer surrounding the proppant particle, and a resin layer surrounding the surface copolymer layer. The surface copolymer layer includes a copolymer of at least two monomers chosen from styrene, methyl methacrylate, ethylene, propylene, butylene, imides, urethanes, sulfones, carbonates, and acrylamides, where the copolymer is crosslinked by divinyl benzene. The resin layer includes a cured resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Alfaisal University
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Edreese Alsharaeh, Mohan Raj Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20230212452
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to acidizing retarder compositions and methods of reducing the rate of carbonate dissolution in carbonate acidizing treatments of carbonate formations using the acidizing retarder compositions. The methods may include dissolving one or more retarder compounds in a solution comprising a strong acid to form acidizing retarder compositions, and introducing the acidizing retarder compositions to carbonate formations. The acidizing retarder compositions may include one or more retarder compounds and a strong acid. At least one of the one or more retarder compounds may be a poloxamer. A concentration of the strong acid in the acidizing retarder composition may be 5 weight percent or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jin Huang, Wengang Li, Bader Ghazi Al-Harbi, Ayman M. Almohsin
  • Patent number: 11680200
    Abstract: According to embodiments disclosed herein, a gel fluid composite may include a nanosilica gel and a plurality of quantum dot tracers. The nanosilica gel may be configured to seal one or more downhole fractures in a wellbore. The plurality of quantum dot tracers may be dispersed in the nanosilica gel. The plurality of quantum dot tracers may each include a semiconductor particle core housed in a silica shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Wengang Li, Jin Huang
  • Patent number: 11655410
    Abstract: A silicon oxide Janus nanosheets relatively permeability modifier (RPM) for carbonate and sandstone formations. The silicon oxide Janus nanosheets RPM may be used to treat a water and hydrocarbon producing carbonate or sandstone formation to reduce water permeability in the formation and increase the production of hydrocarbons. The silicon oxide Janus nanosheets RPM for carbonate formations includes a first side having negatively charged functional groups and a second side having alkyl groups. The silicon oxide Janus nanosheets RPM for sandstone formations includes a first side having positively charged functional groups and a second side having alkyl groups. The negatively charged functional groups may include a negatively charged oxygen group groups and hydroxyl groups. The positively charged functional groups may include amino groups and an amine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jin Huang, Feng Liang, Wengang Li