Patents by Inventor Yigang Du

Yigang Du 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: 11963819
    Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Shuangshuang Li
  • Patent number: 11966683
    Abstract: A method and a system for comprehensively evaluating reliability of a multi-chip parallel IGBT module are provided. The method includes: establishing a gate-emitter voltage reliability model of the multi-chip parallel IGBT module, performing a chip fatigue failure test, and selecting a gate-emitter voltage as a failure characteristic quantity; establishing a transconductance reliability model of the multi-chip parallel IGBT module, performing a bonding wire shedding failure test, and selecting a transmission characteristic curve of the module as a failure characteristic quantity; using a Pearson correlation coefficient to characterize a degree of health of the IGBT module, and respectively calculating degrees of health PPMCCC and PPMCCB in different degrees of chip fatigue and bonding wire shedding failure states; and comprehensively evaluating the reliability of the multi-chip parallel IGBT module according to PPMCCC and PPMCCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang He, Chenyuan Wang, Lie Li, Bolun Du, Hui Zhang, Liulu He
  • Patent number: 11967872
    Abstract: An electric machine stator includes a stator core having annular stator laminations arranged in a stack with each lamination includes a plurality of stator teeth, adjacent teeth defining corresponding tooth slots on an inner periphery. Each stator tooth slot includes a winding area and an opening area leading to the inner periphery and including a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side each have an inner and outer tooth top, the inner and outer tooth top of the first side and the inner and outer tooth top of the second side are respectively symmetrical with respect to a center line of the opening area, and the first side and the second side are asymmetric with respect to the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Deng, Guohua Du, Yigang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11944497
    Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow imaging display method and an ultrasonic imaging system. The system comprises: a probe (1); a transmitting circuit (2), configured to excite the probe (1) to transmit an ultrasonic beam to a scanning target; a receiving circuit (4) and a beam forming module (5), configured to receive an echo of the ultrasonic beam to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal; a data processing module (9), configured to obtain, according to the ultrasonic echo signal, blood flow velocity vector information and Doppler blood flow velocity information about a target point in the scanning target and at least part of ultrasonic images of the scanning target, and superposing the ultrasonic images and the Doppler blood flow velocity information to form a Doppler color blood flow graph; and a display (8), configured to contrastively display the blood flow velocity vector information and the Doppler color blood flow graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Rui Fan, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11916343
    Abstract: There is provided a current transferring device for an electric machine comprising a rotary bearing member fixed in a rotor shaft and rotating with it and a non-rotary component. The rotary bearing member includes a first compartment filled with a conducting fluid and having a first opening and a rotor positive connector that is in electrical contact with the conducting fluid therein and electrically connected to a rotor positive pole, and a second compartment filled with a conducting fluid and electrically insulated from the first compartment and having a second opening and a rotor negative connector that is in electrical contact with the conducting fluid therein and electrically connected to a rotor negative pole. The non-rotary component closes the first and second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Deng, Guohua Du, Yigang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11903757
    Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Shuangshuang Li
  • Patent number: 11896427
    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus, a method for detecting a shear index of a vascular wall using ultrasonic waves, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method comprises: transmitting ultrasonic waves to an region of interest comprising a vessel; receiving the ultrasonic waves to obtain echo signals; acquiring an ultrasonic image according to the echo signals; acquiring particle jet velocities of a plurality of points in the vessel, the particle jet velocity comprising flow velocity and flow direction; determining a vascular wall in the ultrasonic image; acquiring a position to be detected of the vascular wall; calculating, according to particle jet velocities of a plurality of points near the position to be detected, the shear index of the position to be detected of the vascular wall; and displaying the ultrasonic image and the shear index of the vascular wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Yingying Shen
  • Patent number: 11890141
    Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow parameter displaying method, comprises: acquiring, by means of a probe, an ultrasonic signal from an object to be scanned; acquiring, according to the ultrasonic signal, a plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow within the object to be scanned; extracting the plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow; quantifying the dispersion of the plurality of velocities and directions of the blood flow extracted; and displaying the quantization result of the dispersion. The present invention provides a method for quantifying and evaluating the direction of the motion of blood flow, and provides a better perspective of observation for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yigang Du
  • Publication number: 20230380795
    Abstract: An non-Doppler flow imaging system is disclosed that overlays a B-flow imaging sequence over B-mode ultrasound image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Yigang DU
  • Patent number: 11826205
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasound imaging method and system, the method may include transmitting a plurality of plane wave ultrasound beams to a scan target and acquiring corresponding plane wave echo signals; transmitting focused ultrasound beams to the scan target and acquiring corresponding focused beam echo signals; acquiring a plurality of velocity components of a target point in the scan target using the plane wave echo signals, and acquiring velocity vectors of the target point according to the plurality of velocity components; acquiring an ultrasound image of the scan target using the focused beam echo signals; and displaying the velocity vector and the ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Rui Fan, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11602324
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a flow imaging processing method, which may include determining flow imaging parameters, where the flow imaging parameters include a sound speed for calculation, a center frequency of the transmitting pulse for exciting a probe and a imaging depth; obtaining a velocity measurement range; and determining the first target number of the different transmit angles according to the sound speed for calculation, the center frequency of the transmitting pulse, the imaging depth and the velocity measurement range. The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide an ultrasound imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Wei Fan, Lanxi Xiang, Yuan Wang, Yingying Shen, Kai Wang, Donghai Qin
  • Publication number: 20220233169
    Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow parameter displaying method, comprises: acquiring, by means of a probe, an ultrasonic signal from an object to be scanned; acquiring, according to the ultrasonic signal, a plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow within the object to be scanned; extracting the plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow; quantifying the dispersion of the plurality of velocities and directions of the blood flow extracted; and displaying the quantization result of the dispersion. The present invention provides a method for quantifying and evaluating the direction of the motion of blood flow, and provides a better perspective of observation for a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Yigang DU
  • Publication number: 20220233173
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasound imaging method and system, the method may include transmitting a plurality of plane wave ultrasound beams to a scan target and acquiring corresponding plane wave echo signals; transmitting focused ultrasound beams to the scan target and acquiring corresponding focused beam echo signals; acquiring a plurality of velocity components of a target point in the scan target using the plane wave echo signals, and acquiring velocity vectors of the target point according to the plurality of velocity components; acquiring an ultrasound image of the scan target using the focused beam echo signals; and displaying the velocity vector and the ultrasound image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Rui FAN, Yong LI
  • Patent number: 11304677
    Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow parameter displaying method, comprises: acquiring, by means of a probe (1), an ultrasonic signal from an object to be scanned (S100); acquiring, according to the ultrasonic signal, a plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow within the object to be scanned (S200); extracting the plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow (S300); quantifying the dispersion of the plurality of velocities and directions of the blood flow extracted (S400); and displaying the quantization result of the dispersion (S500). The present invention provides a method for quantifying and evaluating the direction of the motion of blood flow, and provides a better perspective of observation for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yigang Du
  • Patent number: 11259784
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasound imaging method and system, the method may include transmitting a plurality of plane wave ultrasound beams to a scan target and acquiring corresponding plane wave echo signals; transmitting focused ultrasound beams to the scan target and acquiring corresponding focused beam echo signals; acquiring a plurality of velocity components of a target point in the scan target using the plane wave echo signals, and acquiring velocity vectors of the target point according to the plurality of velocity components; acquiring an ultrasound image of the scan target using the focused beam echo signals; and displaying the velocity vector and the ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Rui Fan, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11259773
    Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yigang Du, Shuangshuang Li
  • Publication number: 20220031279
    Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Shuangshuang LI
  • Publication number: 20220031280
    Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Shuangshuang LI
  • Publication number: 20210378626
    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging system and an imaging method. The imaging method comprises: transmitting a divergent ultrasonic beam to a scanning object, and scanning the scanning object with the divergent ultrasonic beam (S11); a self-scanning object receiving an echo of the divergent ultrasonic beam, and obtaining divergent ultrasonic echo signals by means of beam synthesis (S12); obtaining blood flow velocity vector information of the scanning object according to the divergent ultrasonic echo signals (S13); and displaying the blood flow velocity vector information of the scanning object (S14). Using a divergent ultrasonic beam to perform blood flow imaging can ensure that there is a sufficiently large scanning area for covering a scanning object, thereby achieving ultrasonic blood flow imaging at a high frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Yongqiang DONG, Wei FAN, Lanxi XIANG
  • Publication number: 20210236086
    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus, a method for detecting a shear index of a vascular wall using ultrasonic waves, and a computer readable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Yingying SHEN