Patents by Inventor Zhen Ji

Zhen Ji 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: 20240377543
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for radio-luminescent imaging dosimetry of variable dose rate radiation beams at high spatial resolution. Exemplary embodiments include time-gating one or more camera shutters such that one image frame from a plastic scintillator detector (PSD) is captured per camera shutter for each radiation beam pulse produced from a pulsed beam accelerator directed toward the PSD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Washington University
    Inventors: Sreekrishna Goddu, Arash Darafsheh, Zhen Ji
  • Patent number: 12005271
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of treatment targeting includes receiving magnetic resonance (MR) images of a subject including a target region, generating at least one contour of at least one surrogate element apart from the target region in the MR images, and determining a location of the target region in each of the MR images based on a location of the at least one contour in the MR images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Taeho Kim, Geoffrey Hugo, Zhen Ji, Matthew Schmidt, Yu Wu
  • Publication number: 20220362584
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of treatment targeting includes receiving magnetic resonance (MR) images of a subject including a target region, generating at least one contour of at least one surrogate element apart from the target region in the MR images, and determining a location of the target region in each of the MR images based on a location of the at least one contour in the MR images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Taeho Kim, Geoffrey Hugo, Zhen Ji, Matthew Schmidt, Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 10975294
    Abstract: An injection stimulation agent for water injection well and the preparation method and application thereof are described. The raw material composition of the injection stimulation agent for water injection well comprises: 5.0%-10.0% of sulfamic acid, 10.0%-20.0% of methanol, 10.0%-20.0% of tartaric acid, 10.0%-20.0% of ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphoric acid, 5.0%-10.0% of sodium polyacrylate, 5.0%-8.0% of cocoyl hydroxyethyl sulfonic acid and the balance of water. Embodiments include a preparation method of the above injection stimulation agent. The injection stimulation agent for water injection well can be used in acidizing treatment process of the reservoir, and can be used directly. The injection stimulation agent can play the role of shrinking swelled clay at the same time of dissolving scale, and finally achieve the purpose of depressurization and enhanced production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventors: Lijun Mu, Xianwen Li, Hongjun Lu, Yong Wang, Bin Yao, Zhenning Ji, Suiwang Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Zhaojie Song, Lei Sui, Zhiying Deng, Erzhen Wang, Wei Wang, Juntao Wang
  • Patent number: 10961442
    Abstract: On-line diverting acids for continuous injection into water injection wells and methods of preparing the diverting acid are disclosed. The on-line diverting acids have a raw material composition of: 5.0-25.0% of hydrochloric acid, 3.0%-6.0% of ammonium fluoride, 4.0%-8.0% of a diverting agent, 3.0%-7.0% of a chelating agent, 1.0-3.0% of a corrosion inhibitor, 1.0-3.0% of an anti-swelling/swelled-clay-shrinking agent and a balance of water. The on-line diverting acids can remove plugging from deep zones of high and low permeability layers, and can be continuously injected to simplify the construction process, to achieve the purpose of reducing the pressure and stimulating the injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: PetroChina Company Limited
    Inventors: Lijun Mu, Xianwen Li, Hongjun Lu, Zhiying Deng, Yong Wang, Bin Yao, Zhenning Ji, Suiwang Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Zhaojie Song, Lei Sui, Erzhen Wang
  • Patent number: 10876043
    Abstract: A chelating agent may be used for reservoir acidification and stimulating injection. The raw material composition of the chelating agent comprises: 10.0%-20.0% of methanesulfonic acid, 10.0%-20.0% of methanol, 10.0%-20.0% of polyaspartic acid, 10.0%-15.0% of epoxy succinic acid, 5.0%-10.0% of sodium cetyl sulfonate, 10.0%-15.0% of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and the balance of water. The present disclosure also provides a preparation method of the above chelating agent. The chelating agent for reservoir acidification and stimulating injection may be used in an acidizing and stimulating injection process, wherein it can effectively dissolve rock cracks, be used directly without need to be reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PetroChina Company Limited
    Inventors: Lijun Mu, Xianwen Li, Hongjun Lu, Yong Wang, Bin Yao, Zhenning Ji, Suiwang Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Zhiying Deng, Lei SUi, Erzhen Wang, Zhaojie Song
  • Patent number: 10862127
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode capable of maintaining superior capacity retention without destruction of an electrode structure, even in the case of using an active material including silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION, FUJIFILM WAKO PURE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Zhen-ji Han, Takeo Sasaki, Shota Hashimoto, Kuniaki Okamoto, Tsuneaki Maesawa
  • Publication number: 20190330519
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chelating agent for reservoir acidification and stimulating injection and its preparation method and application. The raw material composition of the chelating agent comprises: 10.0%-20.0% of methanesulfonic acid, 10.0%-20.0% of methanol, 10.0%-20.0% of polyaspartic acid, 10.0%-15.0% of epoxy succinic acid, 5.0%-10.0% of sodium cetyl sulfonate, 10.0%-15.0% of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and the balance of water. The present invention also provides a preparation method of the above chelating agent. The chelating agent for reservoir acidification and stimulating injection of the invention is used in an acidizing and stimulating injection process, wherein it can effectively dissolve rock cracks, be used directly without need to be reversed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Lijun MU, Xianwen LI, Hongjun LU, Yong WANG, Bin YAO, Zhenning JI, Suiwang ZHANG, Xiaobing LU, Zhiying DENG, Lei SUI, Erzhen WANG, Zhaojie SONG
  • Publication number: 20190316031
    Abstract: The present invention provides an injection stimulation agent for water injection well and the preparation method and application thereof. The raw material composition of the injection stimulation agent for water injection well comprises: 5.0%-10.0% of sulfamic acid, 10.0%-20.0% of methanol, 10.0%-20.0% of tartaric acid, 10.0%-20.0% of ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphoric acid, 5.0%-10.0% of sodium polyacrylate, 5.0%-8.0% of cocoyl hydroxyethyl sulfonic acid and the balance of water. The present invention further provides a preparation method of the above injection stimulation agent. The injection stimulation agent for water injection well of the present invention can be used in acidizing treatment process of the reservoir, and can be used directly. The injection stimulation agent can play the role of shrinking swelled clay at the same time of dissolving scale, and finally achieve the purpose of depressurization and enhanced production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Lijun Mu, Xianwen Li, Hongjun Lu, Yong Wang, Bin Yao, Zhenning Ji, Suiwang Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Zhaojie Song, Lei Sui, Zhiying Deng, Erzhen Wang, Wei Wang, Juntao Wang
  • Publication number: 20190276730
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an on-line diverting acid for continuous injection into water injection wells and a preparation method thereof. The on-line diverting acid for continuous injection into water injection wells has a raw material composition of: 5.0-25.0% of hydrochloric acid, 3.0%-6.0% of ammonium fluoride, 4.0%-8.0% of a diverting agent, 3.0%-7.0% of a chelating agent, 1.0-3.0% of a corrosion inhibitor, 1.0-3.0% of an anti-swelling/swelled-clay-shrinking agent and a balance of water. The present disclosure also provides a preparation method of the above-mentioned on-line diverting acid. The on-line diverting acid of the present disclosure can remove plugging from deep zones of high and low permeability layers, and can be continuously injected to simplify the construction process, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing the pressure and stimulating the injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Lijun Mu, Xianwen Li, Hongjun Lu, Zhiying Deng, Yong Wang, Bin Yao, Zhenning Ji, Suiwang Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Zhaojie Song, Lei Sui, Erzhen Wang
  • Publication number: 20190276731
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a diverting agent for diversion acidizing in water injection wells and a preparation method thereof. The diverting agent for diversion acidizing in water injection wells has a raw material composition including: 3%-6% of ethylenediamine, 12%-25% of bromododecane, 10%-20% of a solvent, 10%-20% of an assistant, 14%-28% of oleic acid, 5%-10% of stearic acid salt, 1%-2% of a dispersing agent and a balance of water. The present disclosure also provides a method for preparing the above-mentioned diverting agent for diversion acidizing in water injection wells. The diverting agent for diversion acidizing in water injection wells of the present disclosure can be used for temporary plugging diverting of acid solution in on-line acidification of water injection wells or in acidification operation of oil reservoir with a greater heterogeneity, which has good compatibility with the acid solution and can be used for temporary plugging of high-permeability zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Lijun Mu, Xianwen Li, Hongjun Lu, Zhiying Deng, Yong Wang, Bin Yao, Zhenning Ji, Suiwang Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Zhaojie Song, Erzhen Wang, Lei Sui
  • Patent number: 10044040
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode capable of maintaining superior capacity retention without destruction of an electrode structure, even in the case of using an active material including silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION, WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Zhen-Ji Han, Takeo Sasaki, Shota Hashimoto, Kuniaki Okamoto, Tsuneaki Maesawa
  • Publication number: 20180138508
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode capable of maintaining superior capacity retention without destruction of an electrode structure, even in the case of using an active material including silicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicants: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES,LTD., TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Zhen-ji Han, Takeo Sasaki, Shota Hashimoto, Kuniaki Okamoto, Tsuneaki Maesawa
  • Publication number: 20170212980
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a construction method for heuristic metabolic co-expression network and the system thereof. Based on the max-dependent criteria, the present invention treats the characterized multivariate mutual information of a plurality of metabolites as mutual function value, and applies an optimization searching for the best feature subset, with a heuristics computational intelligence multimodal optimization algorithm. And by running the optimization process in a plurality of times, combining and studying the results in each time running, a co-expression network structure is built. Finally, a threshold for segmentations is calculated through probability models, and an exact and stable metabolic co-expression network is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: ZHEN JI, JIARUI ZHOU, FU YIN, ZEXUAN ZHU
  • Publication number: 20170213000
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a metabolic mass spectrometry screening method for diseases based on deep learning and the system thereof. The present invention is based on the prior metabolic mass spectrometry database, and by extracting and integrating specific types of metabolic mass spectrometry samples (such as a disease), which are applied to train a deep learning network, and make it be able to determinate a plurality of types or states simultaneously. Then applying the specific network into screening a real input metabolic mass spectrometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: ZHEN JI, JIARUI ZHOU, FU YIN, ZEXUAN ZHU
  • Publication number: 20150287993
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode capable of maintaining superior capacity retention without destruction of an electrode structure, even in the case of using an active material including silicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicants: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo University of Science Foundation
    Inventors: Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Zhen-Ji Han, Takeo Sasaki, Shota Hashimoto, Kuniaki Okamoto, Tsuneaki Maesawa
  • Publication number: 20140347004
    Abstract: A control circuit of minimal size for quickly charging a large-capacity battery of an electronic device is connected between a charging port and the battery. The charging control unit includes a charging control chip, a first resistor, and a current adjusting unit. The charging control chip provides a predefined voltage to charge the battery. The current adjusting unit includes a second resistor and a switching unit connected between the charging control chip and the battery, in parallel with the first resistor. The switching unit detects whether the electronic device is on or off. If the electronic device is on, the switching unit turns off to disconnect the second resistor from the battery. If the electronic device is off, the switching unit turns on to connect the second resistor to the battery. An electronic device including the charging control circuit is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: ZHEN-JI XU
  • Publication number: 20130282677
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a data compression system for DNA sequence, which is a lossless compression system for DNA sequence data, based on the MA-ARV codebook, which is able to search the approximate repeat fragment of the MA-ARV code vector in the whole sequence, and use a heuristic optimization algorithm of memetic algorithm to optimize the construction process of the compressed codebook, so as to fully use the repeat nature of DNA sequence data, and eliminate the redundancy effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Zhen Ji, Jiarui Zhou, Zexuan Zhu, Ying Chu
  • Publication number: 20130279218
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a power supply, a load, and a switch circuit controlling the power supply. The switch circuit includes a control unit and a key switch capable of establishing an electrical connection between the power supply and the control unit in response to an operation by a user. When the key switch establishes the electrical connection, the control unit receives a supply voltage from the power supply and is charged-up by the supply voltage to generate a first control signal, the first control signal enables the power supply to power the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: ZHEN-JI XU, YONG-SONG SHI
  • Publication number: 20130259276
    Abstract: An earphone jack includes a left channel audio terminal for receiving a left audio channel signal, a right channel audio terminal for receiving a right audio channel signal, a first detecting terminal, a second detecting terminal, and an anti-interference unit connected between the first detecting terminal and the second detecting terminal. When the earphone plug is not received in a connecting hole of the earphone jack, the first detecting terminal is electrically connected to the right channel audio terminal, the second detecting terminal is electrically connected to the left channel audio terminal, the anti-interference unit prevents the left audio channel signal from being transmitted to the right channel audio terminal and prevents the right audio channel signal from being transmitted to the left channel audio terminal; and the first detecting terminal outputs an electrical signal for indicating that the earphone plug is not plugged into the earphone jack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: ZHEN-JI XU