Patents by Inventor Bo Fan

Bo Fan 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: 20240064538
    Abstract: This application provides a beam failure recovery method and an apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives configuration information of a cell, where the configuration information of the cell includes M beam failure detection resource groups and M candidate beam resource groups, the M beam failure detection resource groups are in a one-to-one correspondence with the M candidate beam resource groups, and M is an integer. When M is an integer greater than 1, and a beam failure occurs in at least one of the M beam failure detection resource groups, the terminal device sends, by using a first media access control control element (MAC CE), beam failure recovery information corresponding to the cell. According to the beam failure recovery method provided in this application, beam failure recovery can be performed in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Xi Zhang, Shitong Yuan
  • Publication number: 20240049143
    Abstract: This application provides a power control parameter determining method and an apparatus, to simplify a beam indication process and a power control parameter indication process, and reduce signaling overheads. The method and apparatus may be applied to a 5G communication system and a future communication system. The method includes: A terminal device receives, from a network device, first signaling that includes a first value of a DCI field, where the first value indicates a first TCI state in at least one activated TCI state; and obtains, based on a mapping relationship, a power control parameter set corresponding to the first TCI state. The mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between an identifier of at least one mapping parameter subset and at least one value of the DCI field, or a mapping relationship between an identifier of at least one mapping parameter subset and the at least one activated TCI state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shitong Yuan, Fengwei Liu, Xi Zhang, Lei Chen, Bo Fan
  • Publication number: 20240031845
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo FAN, Xi ZHANG, Lei CHEN, Shitong YUAN, Fengwei LIU, Yongping ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11881771
    Abstract: A controller for a half-bridge power circuit includes a measurement circuit, a controller circuit, a high-side delay circuit, and a low-side delay circuit. The measurement circuit connects to the half-bridge node, measures the half-bridge voltage, and generates a multi-bit status signal indicative of the measured half-bridge voltage. The controller circuit connects to the measurement circuit, and receives the status signal therefrom. The controller circuit generates at least a delay control signal based on the status signal. The high-side delay circuit connects to the controller circuit to receive the delay control signal. The high-side delay circuit provides a high-side control signal in response to the delay control signal, to switch on/off the high-side switch. The low-side delay circuit connects to the controller circuit to receive the delay control signal. The low-side delay circuit provides a low-side control signal in response to the delay control signal, to switch on/off the low-side switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Meng Wang, Pengcheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11874023
    Abstract: A humidifier includes a first housing, a second housing, a water atomization module, an essential oil delivery module, and an essential oil container. The first housing includes an outer wall including a recess. The second housing is fixedly embedded in an upper part of the recess. The water atomization module is disposed in the first housing. The water atomization module includes a first container, a water passage, and an ultrasonic atomizer. The water flows out of the first container, enters the water passage into the ultrasonic atomizer, and is atomized to produce mist. The essential oil delivery module is disposed in the second housing. The essential oil container is connected to the essential oil delivery module. The essential oil delivery module is configured to transfer essential oil from the essential oil container to the water passage so that the essential oil and the water are atomized together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN JINGXINTAI HOUSEWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinshan Zou, Shouyong Zheng, Bo Fan
  • Patent number: 11864464
    Abstract: A method for polarizing a piezoelectric film is described. In this method, a piezoelectric film is formed by using an injection deposition method. The piezoelectric film is flat adhered to a surface of a conductive substrate. A polarization process is performed on the piezoelectric film while the piezoelectric film is flat adhered to the surface of the conductive substrate by generating static electricity on the adhesion surface of the piezoelectric film, and generating the static electricity on the adhesion surface of the piezoelectric film comprises using a pressurized gas to blow the adhesion surface, and the adhesion surface of the piezoelectric film is adhered to the even surface of the conductive substrate by an electrostatic adsorption method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CREATING NANO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ji-Yung Lee, Andrew Ronaldi Tandio, Bo-Fan Tsai
  • Publication number: 20230421273
    Abstract: This application discloses a channel measurement method and apparatus. A network device sends downlink signaling, to indicate or activate a beam. A terminal device determines the beam indicated or activated by using the downlink signaling, determines, based on an association relationship between a beam and a channel measurement configuration, a channel measurement configuration associated with the beam, performs channel measurement based on the channel measurement configuration, to obtain a channel measurement result, and reports the channel measurement result to the network device. According to the channel measurement solution in this application, when channel quality of a new beam needs to be measured, the network device does not need dedicated signaling to indicate a channel measurement configuration associated with the new beam. When the beam is indicated or activated, the terminal device is triggered to perform channel measurement, to implement low-latency and low-overhead channel measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Lei Chen, Xi Zhang, Shitong Yuan, Fengwei Liu
  • Patent number: 11835674
    Abstract: A sonic tool is activated in a well having multiple casings and annuli surrounding the casing. Detected data is preprocessed using slowness time coherence (STC) processing to obtain STC data. The STC data is provided to a machine learning module which has been trained on labeled STC data. The machine learning module provides an answer product regarding the states of the borehole annuli which may be used to make decision regarding remedial action with respect to the borehole casings. The machine learning module may implement a convolutional neural network (CNN), a support vector machine (SVM), or an auto-encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Maja Skataric, Sandip Bose, Shuchin Aeron, Smaine Zeroug
  • Publication number: 20230361827
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a beam management method and an apparatus, to efficiently notify a beam, avoid a complex and redundant indication instruction, and reduce signaling overheads. The method includes: A terminal device receives beam configuration information from a network device, where the beam configuration information includes configuration information of one or more common beams, and the one or more common beams include any one of the following: a separate common beam used for uplink transmission or downlink transmission and a joint common beam used for uplink transmission and downlink transmission. The terminal device receives beam activation information from the network device, where the beam activation information is used to activate some of the one or more common beams. The terminal device receives beam indication information from the network device, where the beam indication information indicates one or more of the some common beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Bo FAN, Xi ZHANG, Lei CHEN, Shitong YUAN, Fengwei LIU
  • Publication number: 20230354117
    Abstract: A cell handover method and an apparatus. Indication information is received from a source cell, where the indication information indicates to a first transmission configuration indicator TCI state and cell handover; initiating random access to a target cell according to the indication information. In response to first response information returned by the target cell being received, second response information is returned to the source cell, where the second response information indicates that the first TCI state is successfully activated. Cell handover is implemented through beam switch to reduce a delay of a terminal device during the cell handover. The terminal device returns the second response information to the source cell only after receiving the first response information returned by the target cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shitong YUAN, Peng GUAN, Bo FAN, Xi ZHANG, Lei CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230345570
    Abstract: This application provides a beam failure recovery method, an apparatus, and a system. In this solution, a terminal device receives first configuration information from a network device, and performs cell-level beam failure recovery or transmission reception point level (TRP-level) beam failure recovery based on the first configuration information. The first configuration information is used to configure a plurality of sets of beam failure detection resources and a plurality of sets of candidate beam resources. Based on this solution, the terminal device may perform partial beam failure recovery based on the plurality of sets of beam failure detection resources and the plurality of sets of candidate beam resources, so that the terminal device can detect a TRP-level beam failure and recover the TRP-level beam failure in time. This effectively improves smooth system evolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Xi Zhang, Lei Chen, Shitong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11760659
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and process for separating sand and gravel in sediments of a sewage pipe network and recycling organic matters. The system includes a conveying grid plate, a mud outlet is provided below the conveying grid plate, and a masonry conveying area is provided at one side of the conveying grid plate; a fiber crushing tank, disposed below the mud outlet, and a crushing device is disposed below the mud outlet; a masonry scouring and recycling tank, provided with an interception grille located at one side of the masonry conveying area, a flushing device is disposed above the interception grille, a masonry outlet is provided in the masonry scouring and recycling tank, the masonry scouring and recycling tank is communicated with a muddy water return pipe, and the muddy water return pipe is communicated with the mud outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Yongli Sun, Xingcan Zheng, Pengfeng Li, Ying Mu, Peng Huang, Wei Shang
  • Publication number: 20230268973
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a beam switching method and an apparatus. A terminal device receives first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first beam. Then, the terminal device performs one or more of the following behaviors based on the first beam: measuring downlink time-frequency offset information and path loss information corresponding to the first beam, sending, based on the first beam, a signal for uplink timing measurement, and receiving uplink timing adjustment information from the network device, where the timing adjustment information is determined based on the first beam. Further, the terminal device receives second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information indicates to switch to the first beam. The terminal device first measures timing information and/or the path loss information of the first beam to be switched to.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Xi Zhang, Peng Guan, Xiaoyu Luo
  • Publication number: 20230262678
    Abstract: This application provides a wireless communication method. The method includes: receiving first information, where the first information is for configuring a parameter of a first beam set, the first beam set includes at least one first beam, and the first beam is a beam shared by a plurality of channels and/or a plurality of reference signals; receiving second information, and determining information about a first beam subset based on the second information, where the first beam subset belongs to the first beam set; and receiving third information, and determining information about the first beam based on the third information, where the first beam belongs to the first beam subset, and the first beam is a common beam. In this application, beams of all channels/reference signals can be uniformly indicated by configuring, activating, and indicating a common beam. This simplifies implementation and reduces signaling overheads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Bo FAN, Shitong YUAN, Xi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230254030
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a beam-based communication method. The method includes: receiving configuration information of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a network device, wherein the PDCCH is corresponding to a control resource set 0 (CORESET0); receiving indication information from the network device, wherein the indication information indicates a first beam; where the configuration information of the PDCCH includes a first parameter, the first parameter indicates that the PDCCH uses the first beam; and receiving the PDCCH by using the first beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Bo FAN, Xi ZHANG, Shitong YUAN, Peng GUAN
  • Publication number: 20230247618
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and an apparatus, and relate to the communication field, to support a terminal device in performing beam failure detection in a common beam scenario. The method includes: A terminal device receives a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) from an access network device, where the TCI may indicate a common beam. For example, the first TCI includes information about a first uplink reference signal and/or information about a first downlink reference signal, a spatial transmission filter corresponding to the first uplink reference signal is used for sending a plurality of uplink channels, and the first downlink reference signal and demodulation reference signals DMRSs of a plurality of downlink channels meet a quasi co-location QCL relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shitong YUAN, Bo FAN, Xi ZHANG, Lei CHEN, Peng GUAN
  • Publication number: 20230192509
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and process for separating sand and gravel in sediments of a sewage pipe network and recycling organic matters. The system includes a conveying grid plate, a mud outlet is provided below the conveying grid plate, and a masonry conveying area is provided at one side of the conveying grid plate; a fiber crushing tank, disposed below the mud outlet, and a crushing device is disposed below the mud outlet; a masonry scouring and recycling tank, provided with an interception grille located at one side of the masonry conveying area, a flushing device is disposed above the interception grille, a masonry outlet is provided in the masonry scouring and recycling tank, the masonry scouring and recycling tank is communicated with a muddy water return pipe, and the muddy water return pipe is communicated with the mud outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Bo FAN, Yongli SUN, Xingcan ZHENG, Pengfeng LI, Ying MU, Peng HUANG, Wei SHANG
  • Publication number: 20230194137
    Abstract: A refrigerant charge controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment includes a processing circuit configured to analyze usage data for the HVAC equipment using a machine learning model to estimate an amount of refrigerant used by the HVAC equipment, identify a refrigerant deficiency based on the amount of refrigerant, and initiate a corrective action in response to identifying the refrigerant deficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Bo Fan, Zhigang Wu, Hayato Mori, Zhongyue Sun, Liming Yang, Robert D. Turney
  • Patent number: 11680974
    Abstract: A method for monitoring polarization quality of a piezoelectric film is described. In this method, a detection step is performed on a piezoelectric film by using a detection device with a non-contact method during a polarization process of the piezoelectric film, to obtain a static electricity information or a transmittance information. A determination step is performed by using the static electricity information or the transmittance information to determine a polarization degree of the piezoelectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CREATING NANO TECHNOLOGIES. INC.
    Inventors: Ji-Yung Lee, Andrew Ronaldi Tandio, Hung-Chan Chiang, Bo-Fan Tsai
  • Publication number: 20230189157
    Abstract: An antenna panel management method, an apparatus, and a system, implement management of a plurality of antenna panels, and reduce power consumption of a terminal device. In this solution, a terminal device switches a state of a first antenna panel from a first state to a second state. The terminal device includes a plurality of antenna panels. The plurality of antenna panels may support one or more of an activated state, a semi-activated state, or a deactivated state, and the first antenna panel is one or more of the plurality of antenna panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo FAN, Xi ZHANG