Patents by Inventor Ziran Zhao

Ziran Zhao 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: 10701787
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to an X-ray conversion target. In one aspect, the X-ray conversion target includes target body and a target part arranged within the target body, the target part having a first face configured to produce X-rays. The X-ray conversion target further comprises a cooling passage having a side wall, at least a part of the side wall being consisted of a portion of the target part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: Nuctech Company Limited, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Yaohong Liu, Ziran Zhao, Jinsheng Liu, Huaibi Chen, Liang Zhang, Dongsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10663413
    Abstract: A method for inspecting a container and an inspection device are disclosed. X-ray scanning is performed on the inspected container to obtain a scanned image. The scanned image is processed to obtain a region of interest. Features of texture units included in the region of interest are calculated. Local descriptions of the texture units are formed based on the features of the texture units. Distinction of each local point is calculated from a local description of each of the texture units so as to obtain a local distinct map of the region of interest. It is determined whether there is an article which is secretly carried in the inspected container using the local distinct map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Nuctech Company Limited, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Jianping Gu, Bin Xu, Yaohong Liu, Ziran Zhao
  • Patent number: 10663429
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for collecting semi-volatile or non-volatile substance, including an air nozzle, a front cavity and a collecting body. The air nozzle is configured to eject air to a sample attachment surface. The front cavity has an upper port. The collecting body is sealingly connected to a lower end of the front cavity, inside of which is provided with a cylindrical cavity and a conical cavity arranged vertically coaxially, and bottom of which is provided with a sample outlet. The collecting body is provided with an air intake passage which is non-coplanar with respect to an axis of the cylindrical cavity and is disposed obliquely downward and inward. The collecting body is further provided with an air exhaust passage one end of which is a discharge port connected to the interior of the cylindrical cavity, the other end is connected to an air pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Yinong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Ge Li, Jingli Xie, Qiufeng Ma, Biao Cao
  • Patent number: 10654196
    Abstract: A mold and a method of manufacturing GOS ceramic scintillator by using the mold are provided. The mold comprises: a female outer sleeve having a cavity disposed inside; a plurality of female blocks disposed inside the cavity, the plurality of female blocks being put together to form a composite structure having a vertical through hole; and a male upper pressing head and a male lower pressing head, wherein each of the male upper pressing head and the male lower pressing head has a shape consistent with that of the vertical through hole. The disclosure may reduce defects of the related art in hot-pressing-sintering such as a mold has a short retirement period and a high material waste, significantly reduce the cost for production of the GOS ceramic scintillator, and significantly improve a process economy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yanchun Wang, Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Yinong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Nan Bai
  • Publication number: 20200150086
    Abstract: A gas path flow monitoring apparatus for an ion mobility spectrometer includes: an ion migration tube, a sensor group, and monitoring device. The ion migration tube has a drift gas inlet, a carrier gas inlet for a sample gas, and an exhaust outlet. The sensor group comprises a drift gas intake quantity sensor connected to the drift gas inlet, a carrier gas intake quantity sensor connected to the carrier gas inlet, and an exhaust quantity sensor connected to the exhaust outlet. The monitoring device is connected to the sensor group to monitor a drift gas intake quantity sensed by the drift gas intake quantity sensor, a carrier gas intake quantity sensed by the carrier gas intake quantity sensor, and an exhaust quantity sensed by the exhaust quantity sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicants: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Qingjun ZHANG, Yuanjing LI, Zhiqiang CHEN, Ziran ZHAO, Yinong LIU, Yaohong LIU, Honghui XIN, Biao CAO, Nan BAI, Wei WANG, Qiufeng MA
  • Patent number: 10649104
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reconstructing an incident energy spectrum for a detector are disclosed. In this method, an object to be inspected is illuminated with rays, and then rays transmitted through the object to be inspected are received by the detector to convert the received rays into data of a detected energy spectrum. The incident energy spectrum for the detector is reconstructed based on the data of the energy spectrum using a statistical iterative algorithm with a pre-established detector response function. With the above solution of the embodiments, the incident energy spectrum for the detector can be more accurately acquired, thereby reducing a distortion of the incident energy spectrum caused by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Li Zhang, Ziran Zhao, Yuxiang Xing, Kejun Kang, Lan Zhang, Ruizhe Li
  • Patent number: 10646179
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for recognizing an article using a multi-energy spectrum X-ray imaging system and a multi-energy spectrum X-ray imaging system. The method comprises: recognizing an application scenario and/or priori information of the article; selecting a parameter mode suitable for the article from a plurality of parameter modes stored in the multi-energy spectrum X-ray imaging system based on the recognized application scenario and/or priori information; and recognizing the article using the selected parameter mode, wherein the plurality of parameter modes are obtained by optimizing system parameters of the multi-energy spectrum X-ray imaging system under a specific condition using a training sample library for various articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guangming Xu, Bicheng Liu, Ziran Zhao, Lan Zhang, Jianping Gu
  • Patent number: 10634780
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave imaging system and a method of correcting an antenna array signal are disclosed. In an example, the electromagnetic wave imaging system may include an antenna array, configured to receive electromagnetic wave from a target object and convert the electromagnetic wave into an electrical signal; a signal processing unit, configured to process the electrical signal to obtain an image of the target object; and a distance measuring device, configured to measure a distance of the target object from the antenna array, wherein the signal processing unit corrects the electrical signal based at least in part on the measured distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: Nuctech Company Limited, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Wanlong Wu, Zongjun Shen, Yinong Liu, Jieqing Yang
  • Patent number: 10634627
    Abstract: An autonomously mobile backscatter detection apparatus and method is disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a mobile platform configured to move freely in a horizontal plane. The apparatus further includes a backscatter detection imaging apparatus, arranged on the mobile platform, configured to acquire an image of an item to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Zhiqiang Chen, Dong Lin, An Cang, Jin Cui, Bin Hu, Chaoyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10623531
    Abstract: A Raman spectroscopic device and a communication method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, an example Raman spectroscopic device comprises a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one of a server and a management terminal through one or more types of communication interfaces for one or more respective purposes. One or more communication interfaces are established based on a User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Hongqiu Wang, Nei Yang, Xiaodong Qin
  • Patent number: 10620336
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a system for inspecting a moving object based on cosmic rays, pertaining to the field of radiation imaging and safety inspection techniques. The method includes: detecting whether a speed of the inspected moving object is within a preset range; recording a motion trajectory of the moving object with a monitoring device; acquiring information about charged particles in the cosmic rays with a position sensitive detector, the information about charged particles including track information of the charged particles; determining the moving object by matching positions of the motion trajectory and the track information; reconstructing the track of the charged particles according to the information about the charged particles; and recognizing the material inside the moving object based on the track reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Jianping Cheng, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Junli Li, Xuewu Wang, Zhi Zeng, Qingjun Zhang, Jianping Gu, Xi Yi, Bicheng Liu, Guangming Xu, Yongqiang Wang
  • Publication number: 20200110056
    Abstract: A sampling tube bundle includes a tube bundle body and a joint assembly. The tube bundle body includes a gas sampling tube for transmitting sampling gas; a metal woven layer wrapping an outer circumference of the gas sampling tube; a heating pad comprising a heat tracing cable wrapping an outer circumference of the metal woven layer, for heating the sampling gas in the gas sampling tube; a flame resistant tape wound around an outer circumference of the of the heating pad; a plurality of signal transmission lines circumferentially spaced apart from one another are arranged outside the flame resistant tape; and a sheath located outside the signal transmission line. The joint assembly is arranged on an end of the tube bundle body, for connecting to an analysis device or a sampling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicants: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, Nuctech Company Limited, WUHU JIAHONG NEW MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang CHEN, Chunan XU, Qingjun ZHANG, Fengfeng XIONG, Yuanjing LI, Ziran ZHAO, Yinong LIU, Yaohong LIU, Ge LI, Qiufeng MA, Biao CAO
  • Patent number: 10613247
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method, apparatus and system for inspecting an object based on a cosmic ray, pertaining to the technical field of radiometric imaging and safety inspection. The method includes: recording a movement trajectory of an inspected object by using a monitoring device; acquiring information of charged particles in the cosmic ray by using a position-sensitive detector, the information of charged particles comprising trajectory information of the charged particles; performing position coincidence for the movement trajectory and the trajectory information to determine the object; performing trajectory remodeling for the charged particles according to the information of charged particles; and identifying a material inside the moving object according to the trajectory remodeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Junli Li, Xuewu Wang, Yaohong Liu, Zhi Zeng, Jianping Gu, Song Liang, Bicheng Liu, Guangming Xu, Yongqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10607483
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle identification method and system. The method includes: acquiring appearance information of an inspected vehicle; obtaining external features of the vehicle based on the appearance information; acquiring a transmission image of the vehicle and obtaining internal features of the vehicle from the transmission image; forming descriptions on the vehicle at least based on the external features and the internal features; and determining a vehicle model of the vehicle from a vehicle model databased by utilizing the descriptions. This method merges various types of modality information, especially introducing the transmission image, and combines the internal structure information with the appearance information, so that the present disclosure can identify a vehicle model more practically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nutech Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Li Zhang, Jianmin Li, Ziran Zhao, Yaohong Liu, Qiang Li, Zheng Hu, Jianping Gu, Ying Li
  • Patent number: 10586324
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an inspection device and a method for inspecting a container. Transmission scanning is performed on the inspected container using a scanning device including a sparse area array detector to obtain scan data. Digital focusing is performed at a specific depth position in a depth direction. Defocused pixel values are filtered out to obtain a slice image at the specific depth position. It is judged whether dangerous articles or suspicious articles are included in the slice image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Jianping Gu, Qian Yi, Bicheng Liu
  • Patent number: 10585052
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a security inspection apparatus and method, relates to the technical field of radiation, wherein the security inspection apparatus of the disclosure includes: radiation emitting device, back-scatter detector, size-distance detecting device, orientation adjusting device; the back-scatter detector located between the radiation emitting device and an inspected object; the size-distance detecting device located between the radiation emitting device and the inspected object, for detecting a size of the inspected object and/or a distance between the inspected object and the size-distance detecting device; and the orientation adjusting device adjusts orientation of the radiation emitting device according to the size of the inspected object and/or the distance from the inspected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Jin Cui, Dong Lin, Bin Hu, Xianshun Tan, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 10578765
    Abstract: This invention provides a scan method, scan system and radiation scan controller, and relates to the field of radiation. The scanning method includes obtaining detection data of an object to be inspected under radiation scanning using a detector, adjusting an accelerator output beam dose rate and/or an output electron beam energy level of a radiation emission device according to the detection data. With this method, working conditions of the accelerator of the radiation emission device may be adjusted according to the detection data detected by the detector, so that for a region having a larger mass thickness, a higher output beam dose rate or a higher electron beam output energy level is adopted to guarantee satisfied imaging technical indexes, for a region having a smaller mass thickness, a lower output beam dose rate or a lower electron beam output energy level is adopted to reduce the environmental dose level while guaranteeing satisfied imaging technical indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Yaohong Liu, Ziran Zhao, Wei Jia, Jianping Gu, Chuanxiang Tang, Huaibi Chen, Jianjun Gao, Wei Yin, Xiying Liu
  • Patent number: 10539531
    Abstract: A detection apparatus and a detection method are disclosed. In one aspect, the detection apparatus includes a sampling device for collecting samples to be checked. It further includes a sample pre-processing device configured to pre-process the sample from the sampling device. It further includes a sample analyzing device for separating samples from the pre-processing device and for analyzing the separated samples. The detection apparatus is miniaturized and highly precise, and is capable of quickly and accurately detecting gaseous phase or particulate substances, and it has applications for safety inspections at airports, ports, and subway stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Yinong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Huishao He, Qiufeng Ma, Weiping Zhu, Xiang Zou, Jianping Chang, Song Liang
  • Patent number: 10535509
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ion migration tube and a method of operation the same. The ion migration tube includes an interior space and an ion gate disposed within the interior space, the interior space includes an ionization region having an absolute value of potential V1 and a migration region. An ion gate is disposed between the ionization region and the migration region and includes a first ion gate grid having an absolute value of potential V2 and a second ion gate grid having an absolute value of potential V3, the migration region comprises at least a first migration region electrode having an absolute value of potential V4 and a second migration region electrode having an absolute value of potential V5. When the ion gate is opened, a potential well is formed for ionized ions between the first ion gate grid and the first migration region electrode so as to compress an ion group entering the migration region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: Nuctech Company Limited, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Weiping Zhu, Huishao He, Xianghua Li, Qiufeng Ma
  • Publication number: 20200012010
    Abstract: A human body security inspection apparatus, a method of operating the same, and an associated filter device are disclosed. The human body security inspection apparatus includes a radiation beam exit configured for emitting a radiation beam; a beam guiding box configured for guiding the radiation beam; and a filter device configured between the radiation beam exit and the beam guiding box. The filter device includes a housing and a filter cage having a central axis. The filter cage is formed by arranging two or more pairs of filtering sheets, which are made of different materials and/or have different thicknesses, in an encircling way. The filter cage is rotatable about its central axis such that at least one pair of filtering sheets is capable of filtering the radiation beam to adjust an outputted dosage of the radiation beam of the human body security inspection apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Zhiqiang CHEN, Yuanjing LI, Ziran ZHAO, Wanlong WU, Ming RUAN, Yingkang JIN, Guangwei DING, Zongjun SHEN, Jiajiang ZHAO