Patents by Inventor Hongchao Li

Hongchao Li 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: 12148846
    Abstract: A solar cell and a manufacturing method of the solar cell are provided. The solar cell includes a silicon substrate, the silicon substrate is deposited with a plurality of fine-grids, the plurality of fine-grids have ohmic contact with the silicon substrate; a plurality of main-grids are disposed on the silicon substrate; the plurality of main-grids intersect and electrically contact with the plurality of fine-grids; at least a part of the plurality of main-grids is formed by sintering an electrode slurry. The plurality of fine-grids and the plurality of main-grids are formed by a combination of a high temperature metallization (sintering) and a low temperature metallization (depositing), to overcome a high cost by using screen printing of silver slurry, in addition, due to the plurality of fine-grids having ohmic contact with the silicon substrate, the solar cell has advantages of small contact resistance and high current collection efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LONGI SOLAR TECHNOLOGY (TAIZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Hongbo Tong, Hongchao Zhang, Jiyu Liu
  • Publication number: 20240376627
    Abstract: An electroplating device includes a process chamber, a paddle plate and a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism is used for driving the paddle plate to move back and forth to make the paddle plate stir the electroplating solution in the process chamber when a substrate is electroplated. The electroplating device further includes a cleaning assembly and a connecting bracket. The cleaning assembly is used for spraying a cleaning solution onto the electroplated substrate. One end of the connecting bracket is connected to the paddle plate, and the other end of the connecting bracket is connected to the driving mechanism, and the driving mechanism drives the paddle plate to move back and forth via the connecting bracket. The connecting bracket is opened with a hollowed-out area, and the cleaning solution sprayed onto the substrate is collected after passing through the hollowed-out area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: ACM RESEARCH (SHANGHAI), INC.
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Chen Wang, Hongchao Yang, Chenhua Lu, Jiaqi Li, Zhaowei Jia, Ling Qin, Hui Wang
  • Publication number: 20240380548
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication device, a scheduling device, and respective methods for a communication device and a network node. More specifically, communication device comprises a transceiver, which in operation, receives a signalling. The communication device further comprises circuitry, which, in operation, (i) obtains from the signalling an availability indication, and (ii) determines, out of a plurality of configured reference signals (RSs), one or more RSs, for which the availability indication indicates an availability state. The circuitry determines the one or more RSs based on at least one of (i) a number of the plurality of configured RSs, (ii) a subset configuration received via radio resource control, RRC, or from a system information Block (SIB), (iii) a quasi co-location (QCL) reference of the signalling, and (iv) a timing occasion where the signalling is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hongchao LI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 12143974
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transceiver device and scheduling device, and communication methods for transceiver device and scheduling device. The transceiver device comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives, over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a sub-band occupancy indicator indicating sub-bands determined to be available for a transmission, and a resource allocation indicator indicating resources included in the available sub-bands and assigned to the transceiver device for the transmission. The transceiver device further comprises circuitry which, in operation, determines the assigned resources according to the resource allocation indicator and the sub-band occupancy indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li
  • Publication number: 20240373430
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that can appropriately transmit an uplink signal. In a terminal (200), a control unit (211) determines a processing mode with respect to uplink data and uplink control information according to a requirement for at least one of uplink data and uplink control information when transmission of an uplink data channel that includes the uplink data and transmission of an uplink control channel that includes the uplink control information temporally overlap. A transmission unit (218) transmits the at least one of the uplink data and the uplink control information on the basis of the determined processing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hongchao LI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Takashi IWAI
  • Patent number: 12137465
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a processor that operates a monitoring function that involves monitoring of a downlink control channel of an unlicensed radio cell based on one of a plurality of groups of search space sets (SSS). The unlicensed radio cell operates in an unlicensed spectrum and is controlled by a base station that is in communication with the user equipment. Further, one of the plurality of groups of SSSs is configured to be a default group of SSSs. The processor determines one group of the plurality of SSS groups for performing the monitoring function, depending on the downlink control channel. The monitoring function is not performed during a non-monitoring time period. The processor determines to perform the monitoring function based on the default group of SSSs, when performing the monitoring function subsequent to the non-monitoring time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li, Rikin Shah
  • Patent number: 12133253
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a base station, and uplink transmission and reception methods. The user equipment comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives an indication indicating a priority level to be enforced, and circuitry which, in operation, compares a priority level of a first uplink transmission with the indicated priority level to be enforced, the first uplink transmission being granted to the UE prior to scheduling of a second uplink transmission allocated to resources overlapping with resources allocated to the first uplink transmission, wherein the transceiver, in operation, performs the first uplink transmission based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Rikin Shah, Ming-Hung Tao, Hongchao Li, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12113619
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to downlink retransmission control. A terminal includes a control circuit that performs retransmission control for a plurality of transport blocks in units of code block groups including at least one code block, and a communication circuit that performs communication according to the retransmission control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240334431
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) config information element (IE) in form of radio resource control (RRC) signaling; configures a table which is defined by a PUSCH time domain resource allocation list IE carried in the received PUSCH config IE, the table comprising rows, each with a value indicating a PUSCH mapping type, a value K2 indicating a slot offsets, and a value SLIV indicating a start and length indicator value; and receives downlink control information (DCI) in form of medium access control (MAC) signaling carrying a time-domain resource assignment filed with value m, wherein the value m provides a row index m+1 to the RRC configured table. The UE determines allocated resources for an initial PUSCH transmission and allocated resources for at least one repetition thereof, and performs a PUSCH transmission using the respectively determined allocated resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Ankit BHAMRI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hongchao LI
  • Publication number: 20240323852
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE), which comprises a receiver, which in operation, receives power saving signals, PoSS, from a serving base station on which the UE is camping, processing circuitry, which, in operation, monitors the reception of PoSS to determine a UE behavior regarding processing of a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, wherein the POSS comprises a behavior indication indicating for the UE to follow a first behavior or a second behavior, and wherein the POSS further comprises a configuration indication indicating at least one configuration parameter associated with the first or second behavior, and wherein the processing circuitry, in operation, determines to perform PDCCH monitoring in case the first behavior is indicated and to skip PDCCH monitoring in case the second behavior is indicated, and accordingly applies the at least one configuration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Hongchao LI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Quan KUANG, Ankit BHAMRI, Yihui LI
  • Patent number: 12101716
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a processing circuitry, for determining assistance information to be transmitted to a base station. A transmitter transmits an assistance report to the serving base station comprising the determined assistance information. The assistance information indicates one or more of the following assistance information types: a number of information bits, to be transmitted by the UE to the serving base station; transport block size of a transport block to be used by the UE to transmit the information bits to the serving base station; a power level, indicating a minimum power to be used by the UE to transmit the information bits to the serving base station; one or more Discontinued Reception, DRX, configuration parameters to be used by the UE to operate a DRX mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Yihui Li, Quan Kuang, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 12101825
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a receiver, which receives a plurality of random access type threshold values. A processing circuitry of the UE determines a random value and then selects a type of a random access procedure to be performed by the UE. The selecting comprises at least selecting one out of the plurality of random access type threshold values, comparing the determined random value against the selected random access type threshold value, and selecting a type of the random access procedure based on the result of the comparison. The UE then performs the random access procedure of the selected type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Rikin Shah, Hongchao Li, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240306158
    Abstract: A terminal with which it is possible to appropriately transmit uplink control information. In a terminal (200), a control unit (211) determines a processing format for a response signal or for an uplink control channel used for transmission of the response signal, in accordance with request conditions for a response signal of downlink data. A transmission unit (216) uses the uplink control channel to transmit the response signal on the basis of the determined processing format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hongchao LI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Takashi IWAI
  • Patent number: 12082193
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for sidelink control information indication. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives a second control information message from a remote unit over sidelink communication. Here, the second control information is in response to the remote unit receiving one or more data processes scheduled by a first control information message from a relay unit. The apparatus also includes a processor that determines a transmission-reception pattern for the sidelink communication and generates an indicator of the determined transmission-reception pattern. The apparatus further includes a transmitter that transmits the indicator of the determined transmission-reception pattern to the remote unit in a third control information message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yu, Haipeng Lei, Chenxi Zhu, Zhi Yan, Hongchao Li
  • Patent number: 12078848
    Abstract: An optical module includes a shell, a circuit board, a light-emitting chip, a lens assembly, an optical fiber ferrule assembly and a fastener. The fastener fixes the optical fiber ferrule assembly to the lens assembly. The fastener includes a fastening body, a first clamping portion and a second clamping portion. The first clamping portion is disposed at one end of the fastening body, and is clamped with the optical fiber ferrule assembly. The second clamping portion is disposed at the other end of the fastening body, and is clamped with the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HISENSE BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fenglai Wang, Wei Cui, Xuejian Li, Yan Zhong, Hongchao Pan, Sigeng Yang, Xuxia Liu
  • Patent number: 12075424
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that can appropriately transmit an uplink signal. In a terminal (200), a control unit (211) determines a processing mode with respect to uplink data and uplink control information according to a requirement for at least one of uplink data and uplink control information when transmission of an uplink data channel that includes the uplink data and transmission of an uplink control channel that includes the uplink control information temporally overlap. A transmission unit (218) transmits the at least one of the uplink data and the uplink control information on the basis of the determined processing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Takashi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20240281395
    Abstract: An embedded-oriented configurable many-core processor is disclosed, which includes: an on-chip data-bus system, an on-chip event-bus system, a data connection line, a routing unit and a core. The on-chip data-bus system includes multiple transverse data-bus and vertical data-bus. The multiple transverse data-bus and vertical data-bus are staggered transversely and vertically to form N intersections, each intersection of the N intersections is correspondingly provided with a routing unit, and adjacent routing units are connected by transverse data-bus or vertical data-bus. The on-chip event-bus system includes: an event control unit, an event bus and an event signal line. Each event control unit is connected with the event bus, and is connected with the corresponding core and routing unit through the event signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Liguo SONG, Lei CHEN, Liang WANG, Hui QIN, Chunxue LIU, Hongchao ZHENG, Xiao BI, Tongde LI, Chunqing YU
  • Patent number: 12052706
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) config information element (IE) in form of radio resource control (RRC) signaling; configures a table which is defined by a PUSCH time domain resource allocation list IE carried in the received PUSCH config IE, the table comprising rows, each with a value indicating a PUSCH mapping type, a value K2 indicating a slot offsets, and a value SLIV indicating a start and length indicator value; and receives downlink control information (DCI) in form of medium access control (MAC) signaling carrying a time-domain resource assignment filed with value m, wherein the value m provides a row index m+1 to the RRC configured table. The UE determines allocated resources for an initial PUSCH transmission and allocated resources for at least one repetition thereof, and performs a PUSCH transmission using the respectively determined allocated resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hongchao Li
  • Patent number: 12047880
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE), which comprises a receiver, which in operation, receives power saving signals, PoSS, from a serving base station on which the UE is camping, processing circuitry, which, in operation, monitors the reception of PoSS to determine a UE behavior regarding processing of a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, wherein the PoSS comprises a behavior indication indicating for the UE to follow a first behavior or a second behavior, and wherein the PoSS further comprises a configuration indication indicating at least one configuration parameter associated with the first or second behavior, and wherein the processing circuitry, in operation, determines to perform PDCCH monitoring in case the first behavior is indicated and to skip PDCCH monitoring in case the second behavior is indicated, and accordingly applies the at least one configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, Ankit Bhamri, Yihui Li
  • Publication number: 20240242656
    Abstract: A power supply circuit, a driving method thereof, a printed circuit board, a display module and a display apparatus are disclosed, which relates to a technical field of displaying. The power supply circuit includes a first power management chip and a second power management chip configured to be respectively connected with a display panel and provide different driving signals to the display panel, and the driving signals are configured for driving the display panel to display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Jin Sha, Can Shen, Xiang Fang, Bo Ran, Chao Gao, Yao Chen, Yiming Cheng, Jinxiang Li, Shifei Huang, Shengjie Yin, Pan Chen, Jun Tao, Wendi Zhang, Zhou Zhang, Qiuju Xie, Jun Wei, Hongchao Su