Patents by Inventor Shohei Yamada

Shohei Yamada 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: 20230287536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preventive maintenance method for a steel bridge capable of significantly shortening a construction period, significantly cutting cost, and accurately determining whether peening has appropriately been performed. The preventive maintenance method includes: an abrasive blast-cleaning step of performing abrasive blast-cleaning; a peening step of performing shot peening: a fluorescent coating material application step of applying a fluorescent coating material before the peening step; and a coverage determination step of irradiating a portion applied with the fluorescent coating material with an ultraviolet ray after the peening step, so as to calculate coverage on the basis of a residual fluorescent coating material that fluoresces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hirofumi YAMADA, Shohei YAMADA
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230292392
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus determines whether information (first information) indicating whether a state of a secondary cell group is to be changed based on scg-State is included in the RRC signaling, in a case that the first information is not included in the RRC signaling, the state of the secondary cell group is changed based on whether the scg-State is included in the RRC signaling, and in a case that the first information is included in the RRC signaling, the state of the secondary cell group is not changed based on whether the scg-State is included in the RRC signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: HIDEKAZU TSUBOI, SHOHEI YAMADA, Kyosuke INOUE, Takuma KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20230292343
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment (UE) includes: when a periodically started timer T-active is running, the UE monitoring a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and receiving sidelink control information (SCI); if the received SCI information indicates that HARQ feedback is to be performed, starting a timer T1-retx; if the received SCI information indicates that HARQ feedback is not to be performed, starting a timer T2-retx; and when the timer T1-retx and the timer T2-retx are running, the UE monitoring the PSCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU, Shohei YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11751254
    Abstract: A method for providing System Information (SI), the method including transmitting information about first associations between a plurality of preamble sequences and a plurality of pieces of SI, and about second associations between the pieces of SI and a plurality of system information blocks (SIBs); receiving a preamble from a user equipment (UE), the preamble including one of the preamble sequences; identifying one of the SIBs based on the one of the preamble sequences, the first associations, and the second associations, the one of the SIBs including one of the pieces of SI associated with the one of the preamble sequences; and transmitting the one of the SIBs to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20230276284
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus configured with a first cell group and a second cell group includes a detector configured to detect a radio link failure of the first cell group, and a controller configured to initiate a first procedure for reporting the radio link failure of the first cell group. The first procedure is initiated based on transmission in the first cell group and the second cell group not being suspended, the second cell group not being in a first state, and the radio link failure of the first cell group being detected. The first state is a state in which a first BWP is activated in an SpCell of a corresponding cell group, a PDCCH is not monitored in the first BWP, and measurement of channel state information (CSI) for the first BWP is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: HIDEKAZU TSUBOI, SHOHEI YAMADA, Takako HORI
  • Patent number: 11736987
    Abstract: The present application provides a method performed by user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) message including a handover command; determining whether a first condition included in the first RRC message is met; and if the first condition is met, sending a handover indication to the base station, the handover indication being used to inform the base station that the UE is about to start performing a handover. The present application further provides UE and a corresponding base station. By means of the technical solution of the present application, the data transmission interruption time in the handover procedure in the NR can be further reduced, and an unnecessary incorrect handover is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11729795
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an MIB that configures a first CORESET, receive an SIB1 that configures a second CORESET, receive first information that configures an initial UL BWP and second information that configures an additional UL BWP, and receive a first DCI format that schedules a PUSCH in a common search space; and a transmission unit configured to specify a set of allocated resource blocks based on a first field included in a first DCI format and transmit a PUSCH in an active UL BWP, the active UL BWP being either the initial UL BWP or the additional UL BWP, the first value indicated by a first field is provided based on the size of the initial UL BWP, a first start position that is a start position of a set of allocated resource blocks, and the number of first resource blocks continuously allocated, and the common search space is used for a random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230254828
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230247533
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus determines whether a candidate special cell (SpCell) associated with a conditional reconfiguration information element of an entry included in an entry list is identical to a special cell (SpCell) currently configured for the terminal apparatus, and does not cause an execution condition to be evaluated, the execution condition being included in the entry including the conditional reconfiguration information element of which the associated candidate SpCell is identical to the SpCell currently configured for the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Takuma KAWANO, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI, Kyosuke INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230247687
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus configured to establish, based on receiving, via a DCCH from the base station apparatus, an RRC message including a part of session information of an MBS session, an MBS radio bearer used to receive the MBS session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Takako HORI, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20230246906
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus determines whether to delete all entries included in an entry list held by the terminal apparatus in a case that an RRC connection reconfiguration is performed, deletes all entries included in the entry list in a case that it is determined to delete all entries included in the entry list, and does not delete one or more entries included in the entry list in a case that it is determined not to delete all entries included in the entry list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Takuma KAWANO, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI, Kyosuke INOUE
  • Patent number: 11716767
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus detects a signature not reserved as a dedicated signature informed by a base station. In addition, the mobile station apparatus performs a random access using a randomly selected signature, in case of detecting a signature not reserved as a dedicated signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Yasuyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11706777
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11706007
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit, in a case that the aperiodic channel state information reporting and the periodic channel state information reporting occur in a same time period for a certain cell group, only an aperiodic channel state information report in the same time period, transmit, in a case that the semi-persistent channel state information reporting and the aperiodic channel state information reporting occur in a same time period for a certain cell group, only the aperiodic channel state information report in the same time period, and transmit, in a case that the periodic channel state information reporting and the semi-persistent channel state information reporting occur in a same time period for a certain cell group, only a semi-persistent channel state information report in the same time duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230224865
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, receiving a second RRC parameter related to a control resource set (CORESET) wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set, wherein each PDCCH candidate is repeated in a first total number of one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions starting from a first slot, the first slot is determined based on the first RRC parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11700663
    Abstract: A control method for User Equipment (UE) comprising: performing communication with a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG); detecting whether a failure occurred in the MCG transmission; if it is detected that the failure has occurred in the MCG transmission, executing an MCG failure processing operation; and sending a message to a base station, the message indicating information related to the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11678212
    Abstract: A method performed by a sidelink transmitting user equipment (SL TX UE) for sidelink (SL) vehicle to everything (V2X) unicast transmission to a sidelink receiving user equipment (SL RX UE). The method includes: receiving, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration from a base station, the RRC configuration includes at least information for enabling SL Channel State Information (CSI) reporting and first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) information for SL transmission by the SL TX UE; transmitting, a CSI-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) measurement resource configuration to the SL RX UE for deriving an SL CSI report; transmitting, an aperiodic CSI report trigger to the SL RX UE for triggering the SL CSI report in a sidelink control information (SCI); and receiving, the SL CSI report from the SL RX UE in a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yinan Zhao, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230179386
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, first information related to a first search space set and second information related to a control resource set (CORESET), the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, determining, based on the first information, a first set of one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions for the first search space set in the CORESET, and monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set wherein each PDCCH candidate is repeated in the one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions in the first set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230171565
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an RRC message including configuration information of a multicast broadcast service (MBS) from the base station apparatus, and a processing unit. The configuration information of the MBS includes MBS session information. The MBS session information includes PDU session information. The processing unit releases a radio bearer for the MBS used for reception of the MBS session, based on stop of the reception of the MBS session by the terminal apparatus, and performs processing of notifying a higher layer of a part or all of the MBS session information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Takako HORI, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI