Patents by Inventor Liqing Liu

Liqing Liu 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: 20240084203
    Abstract: A heat recovery apparatus and process for cracked gas are provided. The cracked gas comprises liquid feedstock cracked gas and gaseous feedstock cracked gas, and the apparatus comprises a heat recovery device for liquid feedstock cracked gas, a heat recovery device for gaseous feedstock cracked gas and a heavy component removal unit. The invention solves the problems in the art, i.e., incomplete heat recovery technology for cracked gas, insufficient control of viscosity of quench oil, high capital investment and large footprint of the equipment, as well as unstable operation and high energy consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Zhenwei WANG, Liqing YANG, Bairen ZHAO, Mingrui ZHAO, Gang LIU
  • Patent number: 11920676
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for controlling the state switching of a fluid torque converter, a vehicle and a storage medium, the method including: obtaining a target instruction when the torque converter of the vehicle is in a locked state, the target instruction triggering a change in the torque transmission direction of a transmission system of the vehicle; obtaining a state parameter, and determining whether the current vehicle is in a target operating condition according to the state parameter; and if the current vehicle is in the target operating condition, switching the fluid torque converter to an open state, and switching the torque converter back to the locked state after maintaining the open state for a preset period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Zhejiang Liankong Technologies Co., Ltd, Zhejiang Geely Holdings Group Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Guojie Tang, Lei Liu, Yan Sun, Wenyu Hu, Liqing Shao
  • Publication number: 20240073876
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from abase station, system information including a first RRC parameter, wherein the first RRC parameter provides a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set; and determining a second PUCCH resource set for transmission of HARQ-ACK information on a PUCCH in a first case that the system information provides a second RRC parameter providing the second PUCCH resource set; and determining the first PUCCH resource set for transmission of HARQ-ACK information on the PUCCH in a second case that the system information does not provide the second RRC parameter, wherein each PUCCH resource set includes one or more PUCCH resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Meng CHENG
  • Patent number: 11910417
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus of the present invention receives setting of an initial DL BWP by using an RRC message, the setting of the initial DL BWP comprises setting a first parameter and a second parameter of a CORESET #0, a value of an identifier of the CORESET #0 is 0, the first parameter represents the size of the CORESET #0, and the second parameter represents the size of the initial DL BWP. The terminal apparatus of the present invention receives a DCI format that schedules a PDSCH in an active DL BWP, and identifies, based on a field in the DCI format, a resource block set to which the PDSCH is allocated. A value of the field is determined based on the size of the DL BWP, the start resource block, and the number of consecutively allocated resource blocks. The size of the DCI format in a USS is determined based on the size of the CORESET #0, and when the field is applied to the active DL BWP, the size of the DL BWP is the size of the CORESET #0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20240049292
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit, to a base station, a random access preamble with a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) in a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion; and reception circuitry configured to receive, from the base station, a random access response (RAR), wherein the RAR contains a MAC subPDU with a RAPID corresponding to the transmitted preamble, the MAC subPDU provides a RAR uplink (UL) grant, a fixed 4 bit field of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) in the RAR UL grant is reduced by one or more bits, and the one or more bits of the MCS field is used to indicate a repetition number of a PUSCH scheduled by the RAR UL grant; and transmission circuitry further configured to transmit the PUSCH with the repetition number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, Meng CHENG
  • Publication number: 20240049278
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information, wherein the PRACH configuration information includes a list of preamble index ranges, where each preamble index range is associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB), wherein each preamble index range comprises one or a plurality of sub-ranges; and selecting, based on one or a plurality of reference signal received power (RSRP) values of a set of SSBs and a first RSRP threshold configured by a radio resource control (RRC) layer, an SSB from the set of SSBs; and selecting, based on the RSRP value associated with the selected SSB and one or more second RSRP thresholds configured by the RRC layer, a subrange from the one or a plurality of sub-ranges associated with the selected SSB; and selecting a preamble index from the selected sub-range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, SHOHEI YAMADA, LIQING LIU, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240048275
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a downlink control information (DCI) format with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by TC-RNTI; and transmission circuitry configured to transmit, to the base station, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with a repetition number wherein the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format, a field of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) in the DCI format is reduced by one or more bits, and the one or more bits of the MCS field is used to indicate the repetition number for the PUSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, Meng CHENG
  • Patent number: 11888764
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or more code blocks and generate coded bit(s) by coding the one or more code blocks; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bit(s) by using a channel, wherein multiplex bit(s) are given based on at least coupling of the coded bit(s) generated by coding of the one or more code blocks, the coding unit maps the multiplex bit(s) to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads the multiplex bit(s) from the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or in a second-axis prioritized manner, and whether the first axis or the second axis is prioritized in a case that the multiplex bit(s) are read from the matrix is given based on at least whether a signal waveform applied to a prescribed channel is an OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Liqing Liu, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20240023185
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a search space set configuration, wherein the first RRC parameter includes one or more second RRC parameters, indicating a number of monitoring occasions R associated to each DCI; and monitoring circuity configured to monitor, based on the first RRC parameter, a set of PDCCH candidates for the search space set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230413288
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes transmitting, to a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter indicating first zero power channel state information reference signal (ZP CSI-RS) resource sets and a second RRC parameter indicating second ZP CSI-RS resource sets, and to receive a DCI format scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and performing the PDSCH rate matching around unavailable resource elements (REs) for the PDSCH. The one or more REs of the PDSCH overlapped with REs of the first ZP CSI-RS resource sets or REs of the second ZP CSI-RS resource sets are determined as available REs or not available for the PDSCH at least based on the one, more or all of the first RRC parameter, the second RRC parameter, the DCI format type, and/or a DCI trigger field in the DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, Meng CHENG
  • Patent number: 11849449
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a higher layer parameter and a PDSCH, and generates a HARQ-ACK codebook and transmits the generated HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH. In a case that a first parameter is configured, a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook are generated, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH A, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH B. In a case that the first parameter is not configured, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is generated, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit the HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Masayuki Hoshino, Hiroki Takahashi, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230389039
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, Meng CHENG
  • Publication number: 20230389108
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a search space set configuration, wherein the first RRC parameter includes a plurality of second RRC parameters for a list of combinations, each of the second RRC parameters indicates a number of PDCCH candidates associated with a combination; and control circuitry configured to determine, based on the first RRC parameter, the number of PDCCH candidates for the search space set, and to monitor the PDCCH candidates determined by the number of PDCCH candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230371022
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, PDCCH with a first DCI format scheduling PUSCH repetitions, and a RRC parameter indicating slot format per slot, and control circuitry configured to determine, based on the first DCI format and the RRC parameter, multiple PUSCH transmission occasions with a first number for transmission of the PUSCH repetitions, wherein in a case that one or more symbols of a PUSCH transmission occasion in a slot overlap with one or more symbols indicated as downlink symbol by the RRC parameter, the PUSCH transmission occasion is not included in the multiple PUSCH transmission occasions for transmission of the PUSCH repetitions, and transmission circuitry further configured to transmit the PUSCH repetitions in the multiple PUSCH transmission occasions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, Meng CHENG
  • Patent number: 11799589
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, first information indicating a slot format and second information indicating a maximum number of PDCCH repetition, and to monitor, based on the second information, PDCCH repetitions for a first search space set in a first CORESET, and processing circuitry configured to determine, based on the first information, whether to omit monitoring a PDCCH repetition for each PDCCH repetition among the PDCCH repetitions, wherein Downlink Control Information (DCI) is carried by the PDCCH repetition, the DCI schedules a PDSCH, and the DCI includes third information indicating a first number and forth information indicating timing of the PDSCH, and to determine, based on the third information, a first slot in which the last one PDCCH repetition of the PDCCH repetitions with the first number is located, and to determine a starting slot of a PDSCH transmission based on the forth information and the first slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11785599
    Abstract: A communication method used by a base station apparatus includes: transmitting a PDCCH, a PDSCH, and a higher layer signaling to configure threshold values; and receiving HARQ-ACKs and an SR, the HARQ-ACKs including a HARQ-ACK. When a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK is equal to or less than two, a resource of the PUCCH is provided from PUCCH resources included in a first PUCCH resource set based on a first value provided based on a number of bits of the HARQ-ACKs received in the PUCCH, regardless of a number of resources of the SR that overlap with the PUCCH, and when the number of bits of the HARQ-ACK exceeds two, the resource of the PUCCH is provided from PUCCH resources included in a second PUCCH resource set based on threshold values, a sum of the number of bits of the HARQ-ACKs, and the number of resources of the SR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20230319834
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a configuration of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a configuration of an additional UL BWP via a radio resource control (RRC) message and receive a random access response (RAR) message including an RAR UL grant; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an active UL BWP, wherein one of the initial UL BWP and the additional UL BWP is activated as the active UL BWP, the PUSCH is scheduled by using the RAR UL grant, a first field included in the RAR UL grant is used to indicate frequency resource allocation of the PUSCH, and whether the first field is to be truncated or whether a bit is to be inserted into the first field is determined based on a bandwidth of the initial UL BWP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, MASAYUKI HOSHINO, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI
  • Patent number: 11778603
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus efficiently communicate. A terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an RRC message including first configuration information and to receive DCI on a PDCCH, a determination unit configured to determine a time parameter for transmitting a PUSCH, based on a bit sequence indicated by a first field of the DCI, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUSCH, based on the time parameter. A relationship between the bit sequence and the time parameter is defined by a first parameter group in a case that a first condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the first parameter group and the relationship between the bit sequence and defined by a second parameter group in a case that a second condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the second parameter group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Shohei Yamada, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11770843
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus by using a cell including a first downlink carrier bandwidth part and a second downlink carrier bandwidth part includes a receiver configured to monitor a PDCCH in the first downlink carrier bandwidth part and a decoder configured to decode a PDSCH in the first downlink carrier bandwidth part based on a DCI format included in the PDCCH. The DCI format includes frequency domain resource assignment information of the PDSCH, and a size of the frequency resource assignment information is given at least based on the number of resource blocks included in the second downlink carrier bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20230292316
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes control circuitry configured to determine a maximum number of PDCCH candidates per multiple slots, and to allocate PDCCH candidates to be monitored per multiple slots based on the maximum number of PDCCH candidates; and receiving circuitry configured to monitor PDCCH candidates on a serving cell with the maximum number of PDCCH candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI