Patents by Inventor Zhongyuan Chen

Zhongyuan Chen 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: 11603158
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scooter. The scooter includes a scooter body, a driving portion, a wheel portion, a photographing portion and a control portion; the driving portion is connected with the scooter body; at least part of wheel portion is movably connected with the driving portion; the photographing portion is connected with the scooter body, so that an environment around the scooter body is photographed through the photographing portion; the control portion is connected with the scooter body; the control portion is electrically connected with the photographing portion and the wheel portion; and the control portion controls the driving portion according to a signal collected by the photographing portion, thereby driving the at least part of wheel portion to drive the scooter body to move and avoid an obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weining Xi, Zichong Chen, Yubin Yuan, Zhongyuan Chen, Bin Shen
  • Patent number: 11415660
    Abstract: Disclosed are a positioning communication device, a positioning method, and a computer storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NINEBOT (BEIJING) TECH CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yubin Yuan, Ibraheem Inam, Guanjiao Ren, Zhu Hou, Zhongyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11325672
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling an electric scooter and electric scooter, wherein the method comprises: a first target operation performed on the electric scooter is detected in a case that the electric scooter is unlocked by using a target account; the electric scooter is set to be in a temporarily locked state in response to the first target operation, wherein the electric scooter in the temporarily locked state is set to allow to be unlocked only by the target account within a target duration after detecting the first target operation the electric scooter in the temporarily locked state is unlocked in a case that a second target operation performed on the electric scooter is detected within the target duration. The present disclosure solves the problem existed in the method for controlling an electric scooter in the related art that the electric scooter is easily used by others when the electric scooter is temporarily stopped using.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shen Deng, Yubin Yuan, Weining Xi, Zichong Chen, Zhongyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11161412
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for piloting an electric scooter, the electric scooter and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a driving instruction; and in response to the driving instruction, piloting the electric scooter to a target charging device according to a navigation path at least in one of the following manners: lowering a gravity center of the electric scooter; and under a condition in which an obstacle is detected, controlling the electric scooter to avoid the obstacle or wait for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhu Hou, Weining Xi, Yubin Yuan, Zichong Chen, Zhongyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11150661
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scooter. The scooter includes a scooter body and a photographing portion; the photographing portion is mounted on the scooter body; and the scooter body is provided with an avoidance space for avoiding a photographing view angle of the photographing portion, so that the photographing portion photographs a road condition around the scooter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weining Xi, Zichong Chen, Yubin Yuan, Zhongyuan Chen, Dongyan Zhai
  • Patent number: 10850182
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a resistance strain sheet, a sensing assembly, a force sensor and a skateboard, wherein the resistance strain sheet includes: a strain sheet body; and a resistance wire, the strain sheet body having an symmetry axis, a plurality of resistance wires being provided, and the plurality of resistance wires being divided into two groups, the two groups of resistance wires are electrically connected to each other and symmetrically arranged on both sides of the symmetry axis, and each of the plurality of resistance wire being arranged at an acute angle with the symmetry axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lai Ting Kwan, Yubin Yuan, Zhongyuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20200355783
    Abstract: Disclosed are a positioning communication device, a positioning method, and a computer storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Yubin YUAN, Ibraheem INAM, Guanjiao REN, Zhu HOU, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200183417
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for acquiring information and an electric scooter. The method comprises: acquiring position information and signal strength information of a target position on a moving path of an electric scooter unlocked by a target account, wherein the signal strength information is used for indicating a signal strength of a wireless signal at the target position; establishing a corresponding relationship between the position information and the signal strength information; sending the corresponding relationship to a target client logged in by using the target account to display the location information and the signal strength information on the target client. The present disclosure solves the problem in related art that the electric scooter is improperly parked due to the loose constraint on the parking point of the electric scooter, and achieves the effect of improving the parking effectiveness of the electric scooter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Shen DENG, Yubin YUAN, Weining XI, Zichong CHEN, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200180433
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for piloting an electric scooter, the electric scooter and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a driving instruction; and in response to the driving instruction, piloting the electric scooter to a target charging device according to a navigation path at least in one of the following manners: lowering a gravity center of the electric scooter; and under a condition in which an obstacle is detected, controlling the electric scooter to avoid the obstacle or wait for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Zhu HOU, Weining XI, Yubin YUAN, Zichong CHEN, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200182625
    Abstract: A position update method, a position display method and a vehicle. The position update method comprises: acquiring information of a target vehicle, wherein the information of the target vehicle comprises a first positioning position of the target vehicle detected by a GPS component of the target vehicle and a real image taken by a photographing device of the target vehicle; updating the first positioning position to a second positioning position according to the real image, wherein the second positioning position is configured to represent a current position of the target vehicle. The position of the target vehicle obtained by the position update method is more accurate, and the problem of low vehicle searching efficiency or difficulty searching caused by inaccurate position of the target vehicle in the prior art can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Yubin YUAN, Haiyang LIU, Weining XI, Zichong CHEN, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200180558
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling an electric scooter and electric scooter, wherein the method comprises: a first target operation performed on the electric scooter is detected in a case that the electric scooter is unlocked by using a target account; the electric scooter is set to be in a temporarily locked state in response to the first target operation, wherein the electric scooter in the temporarily locked state is set to allow to be unlocked only by the target account within a target duration after detecting the first target operation the electric scooter in the temporarily locked state is unlocked in a case that a second target operation performed on the electric scooter is detected within the target duration. The present disclosure solves the problem existed in the method for controlling an electric scooter in the related art that the electric scooter is easily used by others when the electric scooter is temporarily stopped using.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Shen DENG, Yubin YUAN, Weining XI, Zichong CHEN, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200183403
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scooter. The scooter includes a scooter body and a photographing portion; the photographing portion is mounted on the scooter body; and the scooter body is provided with an avoidance space for avoiding a photographing view angle of the photographing portion, so that the photographing portion photographs a road condition around the scooter body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Weining Xi, Zichong Chen, Yubin Yuan, Zhongyuan Chen, Dongyan Zhai
  • Publication number: 20200180723
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scooter. The scooter includes a scooter body, a driving portion, a wheel portion, a photographing portion and a control portion; the driving portion is connected with the scooter body; at least part of wheel portion is movably connected with the driving portion; the photographing portion is connected with the scooter body, so that an environment around the scooter body is photographed through the photographing portion; the control portion is connected with the scooter body; the control portion is electrically connected with the photographing portion and the wheel portion; and the control portion controls the driving portion according to a signal collected by the photographing portion, thereby driving the at least part of wheel portion to drive the scooter body to move and avoid an obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Weining XI, Zichong CHEN, Yubin YUAN, Zhongyuan CHEN, Bin SHEN
  • Publication number: 20200183418
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scooter scheduling method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: determining a first geographical position of a scooter to be scheduled and a second geographical position of a target scheduling place of the scooter; determining a first navigation path of the scooter based on the first geographical position and the second geographical position; and controlling the scooter to drive to the target scheduling place according to the first navigation path, wherein the scooter has an automatic driving ability. With the present disclosure, the problem that the scooter cannot be scheduled effectively because a lot of manpower and material resources need to be consumed to schedule the scooter in the related art is solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Ye WANG, Weining XI, Yubin YUAN, Zichong CHEN, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200070933
    Abstract: An electric scooter includes a front wheel, a footboard and a rear wheel successively connected to one another. At least one of the front wheel and the rear wheel is connected to a driving device, the electric scooter includes a stepping region disposed on the footboard and an acceleration control region located in the front of the stepping region. The acceleration control region is provided with a sensing component for sensing an acceleration signal from an operator. The sensing component is configured to send the acceleration signal to the driving device which in turn drives the front wheel or the rear wheel to accelerate. The acceleration signal includes at least one of the value of pressure applied on the footboard or the value of a distance from the sensing component to the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Zhongyuan CHEN, Yubin Yuan, Zhu Hou, Feiteng Wang
  • Publication number: 20200070037
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a resistance strain sheet, a sensing assembly, a force sensor and a skateboard, wherein the resistance strain sheet includes: a strain sheet body; and a resistance wire, the strain sheet body having an symmetry axis, a plurality of resistance wires being provided, and the plurality of resistance wires being divided into two groups, the two groups of resistance wires are electrically connected to each other and symmetrically arranged on both sides of the symmetry axis, and each of the plurality of resistance wire being arranged at an acute angle with the symmetry axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Lai Ting KWAN, Yubin YUAN, Zhongyuan CHEN
  • Patent number: 10414456
    Abstract: A two-wheel dynamic balance vehicle comprises two wheels, a vehicle body, a middle cabin, a steering mechanism, and a control rod. The vehicle body is disposed on the two wheels. A pedal is disposed on the vehicle body. The middle cabin is disposed right above the pedal. The middle cabin comprises a housing. A display device is disposed on the housing, so as to make human-machine interaction information visible to an operator standing on the pedal. The steering mechanism comprises a steering shaft and a sensor. The control rod is connected to the steering shaft at the rear end of the vehicle body and extends from the rear end of the vehicle body to a position suitable for leg control of the operator. The control rod is rotated under the control of the operator, so as to drive the steering shaft to rotate to control steering of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NINEBOT (BEIJING) TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Xudong Jiang, Lei Liu, Ye Wang, Zhongyuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20190256163
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide roller-skating device and electric balance vehicle, including: footboard, one or more ground contacting elements, first sensor, one or more driving elements and first controller. Footboard is coupled to first sensor and ground contacting elements which are coupled to driving element, and first controller is coupled to first sensor and driving element. Footboard is configured to stand on one foot, and to tile forwards or backwards in the case of one foot standing; one or more ground contacting elements are configured to act due to actuation of driving element; first sensor is configured to sense posture of driver on footboard; one or more driving elements are configured to generate output signal for controlling action of ground contacting elements and maintaining entire roller-skating device in balance; and first controller is configured to control generation of output signal depending on posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Zhongyuan CHEN, Xinjian Jl, Bin TU, Inam IBRAHEEM
  • Publication number: 20190126939
    Abstract: A method for vehicle control, comprising: inspecting an adjustable vehicle parameter of a vehicle terminal (101); notifying, via a communication connection with a display terminal, and according to the adjustable vehicle parameter of the vehicle terminal, the display terminal to display a configuration interface (102); acquiring, via the communication connection with the display terminal, a configuration action performed on the configuration interface (103); responding to the configuration action and updating the vehicle parameter stored in the vehicle terminal (104); and responding to a vehicle control instruction according to the updated vehicle parameter (105). The control method uses an efficient method to support vehicle parameter adjustment. Further provided is a device, vehicle, and storage medium for vehicle control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Jiankun ZHAO, Zhongyuan CHEN, Ye WANG
  • Publication number: 20190106176
    Abstract: Mobile apparatus comprises first brake component and second brake component. Control method comprises: obtaining first operation, and determining braking strategy according to the first operation; determining, according to the braking strategy, first parameter corresponding to the first brake component and second parameter corresponding to the second brake component; controlling the first brake component according to the first parameter to perform first braking procedure; generating control signal corresponding to the second parameter, and controlling the second brake component according to the control signal to perform second braking procedure. Brake lever device comprises: brake lever hood, brake lever mounted on the brake lever hood, and brake force detection device disposed in the brake lever hood. The brake force detection device generates corresponding braking intensity signal with respect to the distance moved by the brake lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jie LUO, Zhongyuan CHEN, Ye WANG, Fengxin WANG, Haibo ZHU, Weifeng MAO