Patents by Inventor Tao Fan

Tao 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).

  • Patent number: 11979884
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus may receive, from a base station via a DCI message, an indication of at least one K1 value corresponding to a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions over a plurality of PDSCH resources. The DCI message may comprise scheduling information for the plurality of PDSCH transmissions. The at least one K1 value may be associated with at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and indicative of a PDSCH-to-hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing. The apparatus may transmit, to the base station via the at least one PUCCH resource, at least one acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) indication associated with the at least one K1 value and corresponding to the plurality of PDSCH resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qingjiang Tian, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Anantha Krishna Karthik Nagarajan, Jun Ma
  • Publication number: 20240145958
    Abstract: A compact card edge connector for providing high-speed interconnections between different components. The card edge connector includes a mating interface configured to receive a card, a second interface configured to mount to a printed circuit board, and a fourth interface configured to mate with a cable component. The mating interface is perpendicular to the second interface and parallel to the fourth interface. For each column of mating ends at the mating interface, the connector includes two rows mounting ends at the second interface and one column of mounting ends at the fourth interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Fan, Tao Zeng, Ki Ka Lau
  • Publication number: 20240140168
    Abstract: A system for regulating an environment within an operator cabin of a machine via a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a first sensor that generates a first signal of an amount of air pressure within the operator cabin, a second sensor that generates a second signal of an amount of carbon dioxide within the operator cabin, an air filtration element to direct pre-cleaned air into the operator cabin, an inlet valve disposed between the air filtration element and the HVAC system for controlling a flowrate of the pre-cleaned air to the HVAC system, and a controller. The controller actuates dynamic auto-control of the inlet valve to direct an optimally varying flowrate of the pre-cleaned air from the air filtration element to the HVAC system via the inlet valve to maximize a service life of the air filtration element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Elakhya Nedumaran, Liang Fan, Jiawei Sheng, Tao Meng, Bahman Gozloo, Dennis Lee Kroeger, Weixiu Wang, YOSABATH SAMRAJ M., Thanjavur Nagarajan Sriraam
  • Publication number: 20240128667
    Abstract: A card edge connector for providing high-quality, high-speed interconnections between different printed circuit boards. The card edge connector includes a front housing holding a subassembly and providing a mating interface for the connector. The subassembly includes conductors held by a subassembly housing, and a subassembly shield on a side of the subassembly housing. A mating interface shield is coupled to the subassembly shield and extends beyond the subassembly shield into a wall of the front housing. The subassembly shield and mating interface shield may be coupled through compliant members such as spring fingers. The subassembly shield and mating interface shield may be in parallel planes with the mating interface shield offset away from the conductors though still electrically connected through the compliant members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Fan, Tao Zeng, KI Ka Lau
  • Publication number: 20240122153
    Abstract: A rapid cleaning system of milking cups in milking hall is provided. The rapid cleaning system includes a bottom plate, a supporting pipe fixed on the top of the bottom plate, a supporting positioning component fixed on the top of the supporting pipe, a lifting mechanism sliding sleeved with the supporting pipe, and a clamping and fixing mechanism connected to the outer ring of the supporting pipe and the supporting positioning component. A placing platform for the milking cup group is provided, in the process of placing the milking cup group, the milking cup group is cleaned and disinfected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Qingdao Agricultural University
    Inventors: Yongxin YANG, Tao WU, Honglong ZHU, Xiaxia WANG, Rongwei HAN, Rongbo FAN, Jun WANG, Qijing DU, Hongning JIANG
  • Patent number: 11963176
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication may include transmitting an uplink slot with a first control region, a second control region, and (e.g., optionally) a data region. Each region may include time resources and frequency resources. Transmitting the uplink slot may include transmitting the first control region in an earlier part of the uplink slot and transmitting the second control region (e.g., and the data region) in a later part of the uplink slot. The first control region may include time-critical control information and the second control region may include non-time-critical control information. A receiver receiving the uplink slot may receive the first control region before receiving the data region and the second control region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11963178
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine an increased bandwidth configuration for an enhanced physical uplink control channel (ePUCCH) based at least in part on an ePUCCH format of the ePUCCH, wherein the increased bandwidth configuration uses a plurality of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) for the ePUCCH; and transmit the ePUCCH using the increased bandwidth configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Jing Sun, Juan Montojo, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11950753
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for reminding a replacement of a filter of a vacuum cleaner, including: obtaining a rotating speed difference of a motor within a set time interval; comparing, according to a working parameter of the vacuum cleaner, the rotating speed difference with a preset rotating speed difference threshold, to obtain a comparison result; and determining whether to remind a user to replace the filter according to the comparison result. With the method provided by the present disclosure, the vacuum cleaner may timely and automatically remind the user to replace the filter during the use of the vacuum cleaner, thereby reducing power loss, maintaining the normal use of the vacuum cleaner, and prolonging the service life of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TINECO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhu, Wei Xu, Fan Fan
  • Patent number: 11945016
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for fabricating a flexible display screen. The apparatus for the flexible display screen includes a roller mechanism and a jig, wherein the jig includes a bearing surface configured to bear a flexible display panel, the bearing surface being a curved surface; and the roller mechanism includes a roller, an axis of the roller being parallel to an element line of the bearing surface, and the roller being configured to roll on the bearing surface along a directrix of the bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: MIANYANG BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rongkun Fan, Yuanhong Wen, Peng Wang, Jialin Wang, Zhao Liang, Tao Zhang, Mu Zeng, Yang Wang, Jia Deng, Hongwei Cui
  • Patent number: 11947680
    Abstract: Disclosed are a model parameter training method and a terminal based on federation learning, and a medium. The method includes: determining a feature intersection of a first sample of the first terminal and a second sample of a second terminal, training the first sample based on the feature intersection to obtain a first mapping model, sending the first mapping model to the second terminal; receiving a second encryption mapping model sent by the second terminal, predicting a missing feature of the first sample of the first terminal according to the second encryption mapping model to obtain a first encryption supplementary sample; receiving a first encryption federation learning model parameter sent by a third terminal, training a federation learning model to be trained according to the first encryption federation learning model parameter, and calculating a first encryption loss value; and sending the first encryption loss value to the third terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: WEBANK CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Yan Kang, Tianjian Chen, Qiang Yang, Tao Fan
  • Patent number: 11942038
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving method and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes the first thin film transistor, the second thin film transistor, the third thin film transistor, the fourth thin film transistor, the fifth thin film transistor, the sixth thin film transistor and the capacitor. The pixel driving circuit can be regarded as a 3 T0.5C circuit structure, so that two adjacent light-emitting devices on the same column can share a pixel driving circuit, and the threshold voltage of the driving thin film transistor and a voltage drop of the supply voltage can be compensated, thus the influence of the threshold voltage defect of the driving thin film transistor and the voltage drop of the supply voltage on the current flowing through the light-emitting device can be eliminated, to improve the display uniformity of the self-light-emitting display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Fan, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11943051
    Abstract: Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may encode a plurality of bits associated with QAM, the plurality of bits corresponding to a circular buffer associated with at least one RV, the plurality of bits including a plurality of systematic bits. The apparatus may also transfer the plurality of bits from the circular buffer associated with the at least one RV to a first buffer and a second buffer. Additionally, the apparatus may map the plurality of bits from the first buffer and the second buffer to a plurality of modulation symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Ma, Xiaoxia Zhang, Morteza Soltani, Raviteja Patchava, Elyes Balti, Tao Luo, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Zhifei Fan, Dung Ngoc Doan
  • Patent number: 11942054
    Abstract: A driving method of a display device and a display device are disclosed, the driving method including: detecting current pixel inversion mode; determining pixel polarities and first data signals for a next frame based on pixel polarities of a current frame and the inversion mode; determining whether the next frame is an overload image based on pixel bright-or-dark values and grayscale values corresponding to the next frame and those corresponding to the overload image; when the next frame is an overload image, modifying a pixel polarity order corresponding to the first data signals, and generating and outputting second data signals to drive the display device to display the next frame; otherwise outputting the first data signals to drive the display device to display the next frame. The pixel polarities corresponding to the first data signals are in a different order than those corresponding to the second data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenghui Yuan, Tao Fan, Haijiang Yuan
  • Publication number: 20240087540
    Abstract: The pixel driving circuit includes a sequential control unit, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and a power supply unit. The power supply unit provides a constant driving voltage. In one control period, a voltage difference between a first electrode and a second electrode of the electrowetting pixel device is flipped to prevent the first electrode and the second electrode of the electrowetting pixel device from problems of charge trapping and ink splitting due to charge accumulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tao FAN, Haijiang YUAN
  • Patent number: 11929575
    Abstract: An electrical connector that connects circuit boards in a coplanar manner. The electrical connector includes a frame comprising a plate, and two platforms extending above the plate and substantially parallel to each other. A housing of the electrical connector holding conductive elements is coupled to the plate of the frame such that a top surface of the housing is substantially flush with top surfaces of the two platforms. The platforms of the frame have threaded holes extending therethrough such that screws can be inserted to hold one of the two platforms of the electrical connector to a first circuit board and the other one of the two platforms of the electrical connector to a second circuit board that is substantially edge aligned to the first circuit board. Such a configuration enables connecting circuit boards of various thicknesses in a coplanar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Fan, Tao Zeng, Ki Ka Lau
  • Patent number: 11916812
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a control channel that uses an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform. The UE may transmit or receiving a data channel, associated with the control channel, that uses a single-carrier (SC) waveform. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Srinivas Yerramalli, Vinay Chande, Zhifei Fan, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Sungwoo Park, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
  • Patent number: 11908411
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits arranged in an array along a row direction and a column direction. The display panel further comprises a plurality of first control lines, a plurality of second control lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of power lines. Each of the pixel driving circuits is correspondingly connected to the first control line, the second control line, the data line, and two power lines, and the two power lines comprises a first power line and a second power line. The pixel driving circuit includes: a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a sampling compensation assembly, a first switch assembly, a second switch assembly and a light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Fan, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11908412
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a scan line, a data line, a capacitor, a switch module, and a driving transistor. A scanning voltage is at a first level in a sampling phase and in a light-emitting phase, and at a second level in a data writing phase. A data voltage is at a high level in the sampling phase, and at a low level in the data writing phase and in the light-emitting phase. The capacitor includes a first capacitor-terminal and a second capacitor-terminal. The driving transistor includes a gate terminal electrically connected with the second capacitor-terminal, a source terminal electrically connected with the scan line, and a drain terminal configured to be electrically connected with the gate terminal in the sampling phase and be disconnected from the gate terminal in the data writing phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Fan, Haijiang Yuan
  • Publication number: 20240039992
    Abstract: A blockchain-based data processing method, device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. A first resource acquisition request of an object identification is transmitted for a target virtual resource to a blockchain network to make the blockchain network query a target ticket identification associated with the object identification and the target virtual resource based on the first resource acquisition request. Metadata is acquired having a binding relationship with the target ticket identification. The target ticket identification is used for characterizing that the object identification has ownership of the target virtual resource. The target virtual resource is acquired according to the metadata returned by the blockchain network. The target virtual resource is controlled to perform an interaction output in response to a triggering operation for interacting with the target virtual resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen)Company Limited
    Inventors: Rui GUO, Hu LAN, Zongyou WANG, Yang LU, Jun LIANG, Chaojie QI, Yang MO, Yifang SHI, Hui ZHANG, Zimin CHEN, Guihong HUANG, Zuodong LIANG, Bo QIN, Lisen LI, Yubin SONG, Yongjing LI, Chao WANG, Ming LIU, Tao FAN, Yongjia XUE, Shitao XU, Shihao SHE, Gengliang ZHU, Zhigang LU
  • Patent number: D1025276
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LIAONING QINGYANG EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Dingming Lin, Jin Zhu, Defei Gao, Guangjun Li, Lidan Jing, Xingzhen Wang, Xiongfei Yang, Ji Fan, Guopeng Ban, Qi Sun