Patents by Inventor Zhengning Tang

Zhengning Tang 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: 11485027
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electric-pneumatic hybrid-driving flexible manipulator with spring framework from plates of special-shaped thickness, including a screw shaft motor, an upper seat plate, guide coupling rods, linear bearings, a driving plate, a push plate, short push rods, connecting rods, a bottom seat plate, flexible fingers, a rotating finger holder, a long push rod, a small support, tension springs, single-head bellows muscles and a ridged push plate. The framework of the flexible fingers is a thickness special-shaped plate spring designed according to the principle of equal strength. In the disclosure, through the control of a motor, an angle between a finger knuckle and a grasped object can be adjusted to realize the adjustment of the position of a contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Qiang Wang, Chengpo Wang, Zhengning Tang, Bing Lv
  • Publication number: 20210347063
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chain plate flexible finger including a chain plate framework, a pneumatic elastic bellows artificial muscle, and a plastic annular frame. The axial expansion of the elastic bellows artificial muscle is restricted by the chain plate framework to overcome the elastic force of a tension spring to bend, to generate conformal contact between one or more chain plates and an object to be gripped and generate a contact force for a gripping state. With the control of a high-speed on-off valve, the air pressure in an inner cavity of the elastic bellows artificial muscle is accurately controlled to vertically or horizontally grip a cylindrical object, a cuboid object, a spherical object or an ellipsoid object. The flexible finger has adequate flexible adaptability and a simple structure, and is reliable to use, and adapts to differently shaped objects to be gripped and vertically and transversely placed objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Jun ZHANG, Qiang WANG, Dingfeng XU, Zhengning TANG, Bing LV
  • Publication number: 20210046658
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electric-pneumatic hybrid-driving flexible manipulator with spring framework from plates of special-shaped thickness, including a screw shaft motor, an upper seat plate, guide coupling rods, linear bearings, a driving plate, a push plate, short push rods, connecting rods, a bottom seat plate, flexible fingers, a rotating finger holder, a long push rod, a small support, tension springs, single-head bellows muscles and a ridged push plate. The framework of the flexible fingers is a thickness special-shaped plate spring designed according to the principle of equal strength. In the disclosure, through the control of a motor, an angle between a finger knuckle and a grasped object can be adjusted to realize the adjustment of the position of a contact point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Qiang Wang, Chengpo Wang, Zhengning Tang, Bing Lv