Patents by Inventor Xuemei Zhang

Xuemei 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).

  • Publication number: 20230344031
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a disassembly mechanism, a disassembly system of a power battery pack with the disassembly mechanism and a disassembly method of the power battery pack. The above disassembly mechanism includes a die base assembly, a pressing assembly and a removal tool assembly. The pressing assembly is movably connected to the die base assembly, and is used to abut against and press a single battery of a power battery pack. The removal tool assembly is slidably connected to the die base assembly and elastically connected to the die base assembly. The removal tool assembly is used to squeeze and separate a casing and the single battery of the power battery pack. The above disassembly mechanism can realize automatic disassembly of the power battery pack with few manual intervention, and solves the problem of low efficiency in the recycling and disassembly process of the power battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Changdong Li, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang, Kang Chen
  • Publication number: 20230335818
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of lithium battery recycling, and discloses a method for separating and recovering valuable metals from waste ternary lithium batteries. The method includes the following steps: adding a persulfate to a waste ternary lithium battery powder, and conducting oxidative acid leaching to obtain a leaching liquor and a leaching residue; adding an alkali to the leaching liquor to allow a precipitation reaction; adding a sulfide salt to allow a reaction; adjusting a pH to allow a precipitation reaction to obtain a nickel hydroxide precipitate and a liquid phase A; adding a carbonate to the liquid phase A to allow a reaction, and conducting solid-liquid separation (SLS) to obtain lithium carbonate; and subjecting the leaching residue to calcination, adding a chlorate, heating a resulting mixture, and conducting SLS to obtain manganese dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yinghao Xie, Haijun Yu, Aixia Li, Xuemei Zhang, Changdong Li
  • Publication number: 20230335817
    Abstract: A method for recycling a lithium battery cathode material. Residual aluminum on the positive electrode sheet is dissolved by a sodium hydroxide solution, and lithium in the cathode material enters the solution during the dissolution of aluminum, such that an ionic potential is vacated on the cathode material; a residue is washed to avoid sodium ion contamination, then dried, and allowed to react with metallic lithium and lithium sulfide under heating, such that crystal lattices of the material change; a product after first-stage lithium supplementation is directly sintered with a lithium source in an oxygen atmosphere to obtain monocrystalline ternary cathode material agglomerates, where a sintering method and a sintering temperature are controlled; and the agglomerates are crushed, then washed to remove residual lithium on the surface, and dried to obtain a monocrystalline ternary cathode material, which has the performance close to that of the initially synthesized monocrystalline cathode material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Yinghao Xie, Aixia Li, Xuemei Zhang, Changdong Li
  • Publication number: 20230332268
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for recovering and purifying nickel from ferronickel, comprising the following steps: (1) mixing ferronickel with hydrochloric acid, and heating for dissolution; subjecting a resulting slurry to solid-liquid separation to obtain a liquid phase; and adding an oxidant to the liquid phase to obtain a hydrochloric acid-leaching liquor; (2) subjecting the hydrochloric acid-leaching liquor to evaporation, and adding a precipitating agent to allow a reaction; separating out a liquid phase, adding ammonia water to adjust a pH, and adding a water-soluable alcohol solution; and cooling for precipitation to obtain a nickel complex crystal; and (3) dissolving the nickel complex crystal, and adding an oxidant; and subjecting a resulting mixture to a light treatment, and adjusting a pH with an acid to obtain a nickel chloride solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Yingsheng Zhong, Yinghao Xie, Aixia Li, Xuemei Zhang, Changdong Li
  • Publication number: 20230331571
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wet process for recovering valuable metals from a lithium battery. In the method, a waste lithium battery powder is subjected to selective leaching under the condition that a hydrogen sulfide gas is introduced through pressurization, such that Mn2+, Li+, and Al3+ metal ions enter a first-stage leaching liquor and nickel, cobalt, copper, and iron exist in a first-stage leaching residue in the form of a sulfide; then a pH of the first-stage leaching liquor is adjusted to remove aluminum and manganese, which achieves extremely thorough metal separation and leads to relatively pure products; a first-stage leaching residue is subjected to leaching in an acid liquor under a negative pressure, such that the sulfides of nickel, cobalt, iron, and copper are dissolved in a second-stage leaching liquor, and a hydrogen sulfide gas produced can be recycled in the first-stage leaching procedure through pressurization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yinghao Xie, Haijun Yu, Aixia Li, Xuemei Zhang, Changdong Li
  • Publication number: 20230300783
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for monitoring event configuration. A method performed by a first mobile management node comprises receiving information regarding a first interworking service capability exposure function (IWK-SCEF) from a second mobile management node. The method further comprises determining whether the first mobile management node and the second mobile management node use a same IWK-SCEF based on the information regarding the first IWK-SCEF. The method further comprises sending an indication of whether the first mobile management node and the second mobile management node use the same IWK-SCEF to the second mobile management node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yan Du, Wenliang Xu, Yunjie Lu, Xiaoming Li, Xuemei Zhang, Lei Xia
  • Patent number: 11764390
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic production line for cascade utilization of power batteries, which is sequentially provided along the transmission direction of materials with: an appearance detection system, a screening device, a transport system, a residual energy detection device, a tab installation device and an assembling system, and in addition, is provided with a grouping device and a film sticking device, where the grouping device is located among the residual energy detection device, the tab installation device and a grouping station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN, BRUNP EV RECYCLING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Jindong Wu, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230290988
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic production line for cascade utilization of power batteries, which is sequentially provided along the transmission direction of materials with: an appearance detection system, a screening device, a transport system, a residual energy detection device, a tab installation device and an assembling system, and in addition, is provided with a grouping device and a film sticking device, where the grouping device is located among the residual energy detection device, the tab installation device and a grouping station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun YU, Jindong WU, Yinghao XIE, Xuemei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230272503
    Abstract: Disclosed is an incomplete extraction method for recycling batteries, which may include: introducing a pretreatment gas into a device loaded with a waste battery powder, and bringing a gas outlet into communication with absorption liquid A and absorption liquid B in order; raising the temperature and introducing the pretreatment gas; reducing the temperature and introducing a reaction gas; raising the temperature, introducing the reaction gas, and then introducing the pretreatment gas; and reducing the temperature, and turning off the pretreatment gas; adding an extractant to absorption liquid A, mixing the mixture, taking organic phase A, adding a stripping agent, and taking aqueous phase A; and adjusting the pH to acidity, then adding an extractant, taking organic phase B, adding a stripping agent to obtain a stock solution enriched in Li, Mn, Ni and Co.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun YU, Ting PENG, Yinghao XIE, Xuemei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230264974
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of battery materials, and discloses a coated nickel-rich ternary material and a preparation method and application thereof. The coated nickel-rich ternary material has a chemical formula of LiNixCoyMnzO2·a[M3(PO4)2·bH2O], Where 0.6?x?0.8, 0.1?y?0.2, 0.1?z?0.2, x+y+z=1, 0.01?a?0.03, 3?b?8, M3(PO4)2·bH2O is at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel phosphate, cobalt phosphate and manganese phosphate; the coated nickel-rich ternary material has a flower-like structure. The preparation method of the present disclosure provides phosphate ions through the prepared phosphate solution, performs coating in a liquid phase environment, and synthesizes the precursor simultaneously by microwave hydrothermal synthesis, which is beneficial to the full contact between the phosphates and the precursor, and ensures the surface of the nickel-rich ternary precursor is uniformly coated with the phosphates. The method is simple and has good coating effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP EV RECYCLING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaolin Du, Peng Hou, Haijun Yu, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang, Banglai Ming
  • Publication number: 20230264975
    Abstract: Disclosed are a doped nickel-rich ternary material and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) Mixing a nickel source, a cobalt source, and a manganese source in a solvent to obtain a solution A, adding oxidant and doping elements to the solution A, and stirring to obtain solution B; (2) Adding a complexing agent and nitric acid to the solution B and stirring to obtain solution C; (3) Drying the solution C to obtain aerogel D; (4) Grinding the aerogel D, and subjecting it to low-temperature pre-calcinating, and heating the aerogel to perform first calcinating to obtain precursor powder E; (5) Mixing the precursor powder E with a lithium source to obtain a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to second calcinating, grinding, and screening to obtain the doped nickel-rich ternary material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Shaolin Du, Haijun Yu, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang, Banglai Ming, Peng Hou
  • Patent number: 11699796
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recycling a hydrogen fuel cell of a new energy vehicle, including the following steps of: (1) discharging and disassembling a hydrogen fuel cell in turn to obtain a hydrogen supply system, an air supply system, a cooling system and a galvanic pile; (2) disassembling the galvanic pile into a catalyst and carbon cloth, and ashing to obtain ash; (3) adding an auxiliary agent into the ash, mixing, introducing inert gas, heating, introducing oxidizing gas, and absorbing tail gas by using an ammonium salt solution; and (4) adding a reducing agent into the ammonium salt solution absorbing the tail gas in step (3) to react, filtering, taking and cleaning a filter residue to obtain Pt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP EV RECYCLING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Ting Peng, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230191371
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photocatalyst and application thereof in environmentally friendly photocatalytic treatment of a power battery. The photocatalyst is obtained by loading Ag-TaON on a hollow glass microsphere, wherein a mass ratio of the Ag-TaON to the hollow glass microsphere is 1: 5 to 10. According to the invention, the Ag-TaON and the hollow glass microsphere are compounded, the hollow glass microsphere has better light permeability, which avoids mutual shielding between catalysts, such that the photocatalyst filled in a reactor is fully excited, which is capable of effectively improving a light utilization rate, thus improving the catalytic conversion efficiency of the photocatalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun YU, Ting PENG, Yinghao XIE, Xuemei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230197976
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recycling a hydrogen fuel cell of a new energy vehicle, including the following steps of: (1) discharging and disassembling a hydrogen fuel cell in turn to obtain a hydrogen supply system, an air supply system, a cooling system and a galvanic pile; (2) disassembling the galvanic pile into a catalyst and carbon cloth, and ashing to obtain ash; (3) adding an auxiliary agent into the ash, mixing, introducing inert gas, heating, introducing oxidizing gas, and absorbing tail gas by using an ammonium salt solution; and (4) adding a reducing agent into the ammonium salt solution absorbing the tail gas in step (3) to react, filtering, taking and cleaning a filter residue to obtain Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Haijun YU, Ting PENG, Yinghao XIE, Xuemei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11591525
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for anaerobically cracking a power battery, which includes the following steps: disassembling a waste power battery to obtain a battery cell; taking out a diaphragm from the battery cell for later use, and pyrolyzing the battery cell to obtain electrode powder; extracting nickel, cobalt and manganese elements from the electrode powder with an extraction buffer, filtering, taking the filtrate, then adjusting the filtrate with a nickel solution, a cobalt solution and a manganese solution to obtain a solution A, adding the solution A dropwise into ammonium hydroxide under stirring, and then adding an alkali solution under stirring to obtain a solution B; subjecting the solution B to a hydrothermal reaction, filtering, and roasting to obtain a catalyst, such that a chemical formula of the catalyst is Ni2+1-x-yCo2+xMn2+yO, where 0.25?x<0.45, 0.25?y<0.45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Ting Peng, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230000111
    Abstract: This invention discloses method for feeding Hermetia illucens and used as for preparing composite material of puparium, which comprises the following steps: S1, dry Hermetia illucens pupariums and grind them into powdery, S2, adding powdery of Hermetia illucens pupariums into sodium hydroxide aqueous solution, stirring, separating and filtering, S3, adding the pupariums into hydrochloric acid solution, stirring, separating and filtering; S4, placing the pupariums into sodium hydroxide aqueous solution, stirring, separating and filtering; S5, drying the pupariums, and screening out the granular pretreated powder of the Hermetia illucens pupariums. The invention also disclose preparation method of composite material and thin film of Hermetia illucens pupariums and antibacterial and antimildew additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chi-Hui Tsou, Manuel Reyes De Guzman, Pranut Potiyaraj, Xuemei Zhang, Ya-Li Sun, Chen Gao, Xuefei Hu, Fei-Fan Ge, Juan Du, Chunyan Zeng, Tao Yang, Ya-Ling Lee, Chih-Yuan Tsou, Jian Chen, Zhijun Chen, Shuai Yuan, Yi-Hua Wen, Chin-San Wu
  • Patent number: 11488374
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to techniques for image processing. One such technique comprises a method for image selection, comprising obtaining a sequence of images, detecting one or more objects in one or more images of the sequence of images, determining a location for each detected object in the one or more images, determining a trajectory for each detected object based on a determined location for each respective detected object in two or more images of the sequence of images, determining a trajectory waypoint score for the trajectory of each detected object, determining a set of selected images based on an aggregation of trajectory waypoint scores for each detected object in each respective image, and outputting the set of selected images for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Jun Hu, Marius Tico, Xuemei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210380886
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for anaerobically cracking a power battery, which includes the following steps: disassembling a waste power battery to obtain a battery cell; taking out a diaphragm from the battery cell for later use, and pyrolyzing the battery cell to obtain electrode powder; extracting nickel, cobalt and manganese elements from the electrode powder with an extraction buffer, filtering, taking the filtrate, then adjusting the filtrate with a nickel solution, a cobalt solution and a manganese solution to obtain a solution A, adding the solution A dropwise into ammonium hydroxide under stirring, and then adding an alkali solution under stirring to obtain a solution B; subjecting the solution B to a hydrothermal reaction, filtering, and roasting to obtain a catalyst, such that a chemical formula of the catalyst is Ni2+1-x-yCo2+xMn2+yO, where 0.25?x<0.45, 0.25?y<0.45.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicants: GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP EV RECYCLING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HAIJUN YU, TING PENG, YINGHAO XIE, XUEMEI ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11195247
    Abstract: An electronic image capture device captures a first image of a scene at a first time. A first local tone mapping operator for a first portion of the first image is determined. The electronic image capture device further captures a second image of the scene at a second time. A motion of the electronic device between the first time and the second time is determined. A second local tone mapping operator for a second portion of the second image is determined. The second portion is determined to correspond to the first portion based, at least in part, on the determined motion of the electronic device. The second local tone mapping operator is determined based, at least in part, on the first local tone mapping operator. At least the second local tone mapping operator is applied to the second portion of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Henryk K. Blasinski, Xuemei Zhang, Yingjun Bai
  • Publication number: 20210376305
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for purification and lattice reconstruction of graphite in a power battery, which includes the following steps: subjecting a waste power battery to discharging, coarse breaking, pyrolysis, fine breaking and sorting sequentially to obtain electrode material powder; mixing the electrode material powder with a metal extractant, standing still, then washing with a purifying agent A, filtering to obtain a filter residue A, mixing the filter residue A with the metal extractant, standing still, then washing with a purifying agent B, and filtering to obtain a crude graphite; subjecting the crude graphite to the de-organic treatment, cooling, ball milling, and ventilation replacement to obtain a primary purified graphite; and introducing a rare gas into a primary purified graphite to repair the graphite lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Ting Peng, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang, Yunguang Yang, Yingnan Wang