Patents by Inventor Zhengyang Dong

Zhengyang Dong 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: 20240227267
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an ultrasonic online nondestructive measurement method for a melt density in injection molding, which solves the problems of difficult installation, high cost, influence on product surface quality, and the like existing in an existing density measurement method. According to the present disclosure, an ultrasonic velocity is obtained from a time domain signal with reference to time domain and frequency domain signal analysis of ultrasonic echo signals, an acoustic impedance is calculated by full spectrum analysis of a frequency domain signal, and the melt density is calculated from a correlation of the ultrasonic velocity, the acoustic impedance, and the density. The method has the advantages of having high measurement accuracy and being nondestructive, online and low in cost, and has a great application value in the injection molding industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Zhengyang Dong, Kaipeng Ji, Jianfeng Zhang, Ruoxiang Gao, Jianzhong Fu
  • Patent number: 11860590
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a model-free optimization method of process parameters of injection molding to solve the problems of frequent tests required and performing adaptive adjustment on different parameters in the existing optimization method. The method need not build a surrogate model between a product quality index and a process parameter to render the process parameter to converge nearby the optimal solution by an on-line iteration method. The present invention calculates the gradient direction of a current point by an iterative gradient estimation method, and uses adaptive moment estimation algorithm to allocate an adaptive step for each parameter. The method can significantly reduce the cost and time required in the process parameter, which greatly helps improving the optimization efficiency of process parameters of injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Zhengyang Dong, Kaipeng Ji, Hongwei Zhou, Jianguo Zheng, Tingyu Wang, Jianzhong Fu
  • Patent number: 11752677
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for on-line measurement of the polymer melt temperature, comprising: on-line measurement of ultrasonic sound velocity c of melt in an injection molding process, on-line measurement of melt pressure P in the injection molding process, and obtaining melt temperature T in the injection molding process by formula (1). The present disclosure also discloses an apparatus for on-line measurement of the polymer melt temperature. The method and the apparatus provided in the present disclosure may enable on-line and in-situ characterization of the melt density and further enable on-line quantitative measurement of the melt quality. Compared with infrared measurement methods, the method provided herein is significantly reduced in cost, which is of great significance to theoretical researches of crystallization process and shear heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Jianfeng Zhang, Kaipeng Ji, Zhengyang Dong, Neng Xia, Hongwei Zhou, Jianzhong Fu
  • Publication number: 20210389737
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a model-free optimization method of process parameters of injection molding to solve the problems of frequent tests required and performing adaptive adjustment on different parameters in the existing optimization method. The method need not build a surrogate model between a product quality index and a process parameter to render the process parameter to converge nearby the optimal solution by an on-line iteration method. The present invention calculates the gradient direction of a current point by an iterative gradient estimation method, and uses adaptive moment estimation algorithm to allocate an adaptive step for each parameter. The method can significantly reduce the cost and time required in the process parameter, which greatly helps improving the optimization efficiency of process parameters of injection molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Peng ZHAO, Zhengyang DONG, Kaipeng JI, Hongwei ZHOU, Jianguo ZHENG, Tingyu WANG, Jianzhong FU
  • Publication number: 20210316489
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for on-line measurement of the polymer melt temperature, comprising: on-line measurement of ultrasonic sound velocity c of melt in an injection molding process, on-line measurement of melt pressure P in the injection molding process, and obtaining melt temperature T in the injection molding process by formula (1). The present disclosure also discloses an apparatus for on-line measurement of the polymer melt temperature. The method and the apparatus provided in the present disclosure may enable on-line and in-situ characterization of the melt density and further enable on-line quantitative measurement of the melt quality. Compared with infrared measurement methods, the method provided herein is significantly reduced in cost, which is of great significance to theoretical researches of crystallization process and shear heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Jianfeng Zhang, Kaipeng Ji, Zhengyang Dong, Neng Xia, Hongwei Zhou, Jianzhong Fu