Patents by Inventor Zhenbin ZHANG

Zhenbin 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).

  • Patent number: 12266920
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a thermal protection and warning method and system based on junction temperature prediction for a power device of an offshore wind power converter. The method includes: calculating a thermal resistance and a thermal capacitance corresponding to each layer inside the power device, and establishing a corresponding Cauer thermal network model; calculating power consumption at n future moments according to state variables at the n future moments corresponding to a minimized cost function, that is, calculating a variation trajectory of a heat flux parameter; calculating a variation trajectory of a junction temperature of the power device according to the Cauer thermal network model and the variation trajectory of the heat flux parameter; and comparing the calculated variation trajectory of the junction temperature with a warning temperature, and determining a current operating state of the power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenbin Zhang, Jin Zhang, Ruiqi Wang, Yu Li, Zhen Li
  • Publication number: 20250096576
    Abstract: A predictive control method of a grid-connected converter based on a structurally adaptive extended state observer (ESO) is provided. The method includes: obtaining data of a grid current and a grid voltage and converting the data to data in a dq coordinate system; calculating a selected voltage vector based on a voltage in the dq coordinate system; adaptively inputting the current in the dq coordinate system to a parallel ESO, a cascade ESO, or a hybrid cascade-parallel ESO, so as to obtain a current predicted current value and estimated total disturbance; carrying out a two-step grid current prediction based on the current predicted current value, the estimated total disturbance and the selected voltage vector; and taking minimizing a cost function as a control target, so as to obtain an optimal voltage vector based on a two-step grid current prediction result, and carrying out switching control of the grid-connected converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenbin ZHANG, Oluleke BABAYOMI, Zhen LI, Cungang HU, Zhonggang YIN
  • Publication number: 20250035587
    Abstract: A surface-confined aqueous reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (SCARAFT) polymerization method was developed to coat capillaries for use in capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). This coating produced an electroosmotic an order of magnitude lower than that of commercial linear polyacrylamide (LPA)-coated capillaries. Coated capillaries were evaluated for bottom-up proteomic analysis using CZE. The very low electroosmotic mobility results in a 200 min separation and improved single-shot analysis. Various types of coatings were prepared by simply changing the functional vinyl monomers in the polymerization mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Norman DOVICHI, Zhenbin ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220224105
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a thermal protection and warning method and system based on junction temperature prediction for a power device of an offshore wind power converter. The method includes: calculating a thermal resistance and a thermal capacitance corresponding to each layer inside the power device, and establishing a corresponding Cauer thermal network model; calculating power consumption at n future moments according to state variables at the n future moments corresponding to a minimized cost function, that is, calculating a variation trajectory of a heat flux parameter; calculating a variation trajectory of a junction temperature of the power device according to the Cauer thermal network model and the variation trajectory of the heat flux parameter; and comparing the calculated variation trajectory of the junction temperature with a warning temperature, and determining a current operating state of the power device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenbin ZHANG, Jin ZHANG, Ruiqi WANG, Yu LI, Zhen LI
  • Patent number: 11056329
    Abstract: An electrokinetically pumped sheath flow nanospray interface for capillary electrophoresis coupled to negative mode electrospray mass spectrometer is described. At this interface, application of an electric field generates electro-osmotic flow at the interior of a glass emitter having an orifice. Electroosmotic flow pumps liquid around the distal tip of the separation capillary, ensheathing analyte into the electrospray electrolyte. In negative ion mode, negative potential applied to an untreated emitter drives sheath flow away from the emitter orifice, decreasing the stability and efficiency of the spray. In contrast, when the interior of the electrospray emitter is grafted with aminoalkylsilanes, the amines have a positive charge, which reverses electroosmosis and generates stable sheath flow to the emitter orifice under negative potential. Limits of detection were about 150 to 900 attomoles injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: University of Notre Dame du Lac
    Inventors: Norman Dovichi, Scott Sarver, Nicole Schiavone, Zhenbin Zhang, Liangliang Sun
  • Publication number: 20200273693
    Abstract: An electrokinetically pumped sheath flow nanospray interface for capillary electrophoresis coupled to negative mode electrospray mass spectrometer is described. At this interface, application of an electric field generates electro-osmotic flow at the interior of a glass emitter having an orifice. Electroosmotic flow pumps liquid around the distal tip of the separation capillary, ensheathing analyte into the electrospray electrolyte. In negative ion mode, negative potential applied to an untreated emitter drives sheath flow away from the emitter orifice, decreasing the stability and efficiency of the spray. In contrast, when the interior of the electrospray emitter is grafted with aminoalkylsilanes, the amines have a positive charge, which reverses electroosmosis and generates stable sheath flow to the emitter orifice under negative potential. Limits of detection were about 150 to 900 attomoles injected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: University of Notre Dame du Lac
    Inventors: Norman DOVICHI, Scott SARVER, Nicole SCHIAVONE, Zhenbin ZHANG, Liangliang SUN
  • Publication number: 20200088681
    Abstract: A surface-confined aqueous reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (SCARAFT) polymerization method was developed to coat capillaries for use in capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). This coating produced an electroosmotic an order of magnitude lower than that of commercial linear polyacrylamide (LPA)-coated capillaries. Coated capillaries were evaluated for bottom-up proteomic analysis using CZE. The very low electroosmotic mobility results in a 200 min separation and improved single-shot analysis. Various types of coatings were prepared by simply changing the functional vinyl monomers in the polymerization mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: University of Notre Dame du Lac
    Inventors: Norman DOVICHI, Zhenbin ZHANG