Patents by Inventor Wei Ni
Wei Ni 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).
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Patent number: 9876070Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) comprises: a semiconductor substrate (1); a drift region (2) of a first conductivity type having a trench in part of an upper portion thereof and arranged on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate (100); an electric field reducing region (4) of a second conductivity type arranged, in a bottom portion of the trench, only around a corner portion and not in a center portion; an anode electrode (9) embedded in the trench; and a cathode electrode (10) arranged on a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate (100) which is opposite to the first main surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiharu Marui, Tetsuya Hayashi, Shigeharu Yamagami, Wei Ni, Kenta Emori
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Patent number: 9876277Abstract: An omni circularly-polarized antenna comprises: upper and lower layers of metal strips placed horizontally and having identical spoke-like shapes, each of the layers of said metal strips composed of a center and a plurality of spokes connected to the center, the plurality of spokes, at a circumferential position of the spoke-like shape, having extensions extending towards an identical direction along the circumference, wherein extending directions of the extensions of the spokes in the upper and lower layers of metal strips are opposite; metal poles with a number being identical with a number of the spokes in the metal strips, the metal poles vertically interconnecting ends of the extensions of the spokes in the upper and lower layers of metal strips; a coaxial connector comprising an elongated inner conductor and an outer conductor, wherein the elongated inner conductor is connected to the center of the upper layer of metal strip, and the outer conductor is connected to the center of the lower layer of metalType: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Shaowei Liao, Wei Ni, Wei Wang, Gang Shen
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Patent number: 9661584Abstract: A method includes: sending, by a user equipment (UE), uplink test signaling to transceivers for serving the UE, so that the transceivers calculate receive power of the uplink test signaling by testing the uplink test signaling; receiving, by the UE, the receive power of the uplink test signaling and transmit power of a common reference signal (CRS) from the transceivers; receiving and testing, by the UE, the CRS sent by the transceivers to obtain receive power of the CRS; calculating, by the UE, uplink path losses on paths between the UE and the transceivers according to the receive power of the uplink test signaling, the transmit power of the CRS, and the receive power of the CRS; calculating, by the UE, an aggregate path loss according to the uplink path losses on paths between the UE and the transceivers; and calculating, by the UE, uplink transmit power according to the aggregate path loss.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongming Liang, Wei Ni, Jiming Chen, Xiaotao Ren
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Patent number: 9642972Abstract: A needle protecting module of an injection device in connecting with a syringe has a needle base, a needle body a tube module, a mounting tube, an elastic unit, and a stopping unit. The syringe has a tube body and an axis. The needle body transfixes the needle base and communicates with the tube body for medication injection. The needle base is removably engaged with the tube body and bearing the needle protecting module is transfixed by the needle body. The tube module is mounted around the needle base and has an annular space. The mounting tube is movably inserted into the annular space. The elastic unit is mounted in the annular space and abuts both the mounting tube and the needle base bilaterally. The stopping unit is moveably mounted in the annular space and is selectively engaged with the mounting tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Inventors: Pei-Yang Hsu, Pei-Hsin Hsu, Wei-Ni Hsu
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Publication number: 20170021109Abstract: A disposable pre-filled syringe has a protecting tube, a medication filling tube, a separating plug, a pushing module, and a needle module. The medication filling tube is made of chemically inert material and is mounted in the protecting tube. The separating plug is mounted in an end of the medication filling tube. The pushing module is slidably inserted into the medication filling tube opposite to the separating plug. The needle module is mounted on an end of the protecting tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Pei-Hsin Hsu, Pei-Yang Hsu, Wei-Ni Hsu
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Patent number: 9459024Abstract: A localized heating structure, and method of forming same, for use in solar systems includes a thermally insulating layer having interconnected pores, a density of less than about 3000 kg/m3, and a hydrophilic surface, and an expanded carbon structure adjacent to the thermally insulating layer. The expanded carbon structure has a porosity of greater than about 80% and a hydrophilic surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Hadi Ghasemi, Amy Marie Marconnet, Gang Chen, George Wei Ni
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Patent number: 9450730Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a device for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel, and a user equipment. The method for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel includes: determining, according to an extended parameter, a cyclic shift value of a demodulation reference signal that is indicated in a Physical Downlink Control Channel PDCCH, and a minimum labeling index value of a physical resource block PRB that is occupied by an uplink data transmission block, a PHICH index number that corresponds to the uplink data transmission block, where the extended parameter includes a cell-specific parameter and a user-equipment-specific parameter; and allocating a PHICH to the uplink data transmission block according to the PHICH index number.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Ni, Jiayin Zhang, Xiaotao Ren
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Patent number: 9414325Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a path loss compensation method, a base station, and a user equipment to implement calculation for path loss compensation. The method in an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining, by a base station, power parameters of a macro site and an RRH in a cell where a UE is located; calculating, by the base station, a path loss adjustment factor for the UE according to the power parameters, where the path loss adjustment factor is an adjustment parameter used by the base station to compensate for an uplink transmit power of the UE; and sending, by the base station, the path loss adjustment factor to the UE, so that the UE can calculate the uplink transmit power according to the path loss adjustment factor.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiayin Zhang, Yongming Liang, Wei Ni, Mingyu Zhou
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Publication number: 20160181371Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a substrate, an n-type drift region formed on a main surface of the substrate; a p-type well region, an n-type drain region and an n-type source region each formed in the drift region to extend from a second main surface of the drift region opposite to the first main surface of the drift region in contact with the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the second main surface; a gate groove extending from the second main surface in the perpendicular direction and penetrating the source region and the well region in a direction parallel to the first main surface of the substrate; and a gate electrode formed on a surface of the gate groove with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween, wherein the drift region has a higher impurity concentration than the substrate, and the well region extends to the inside of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Wei NI, Tetsuya HAYASHI, Toshiharu MARUI, Yuji SAITO, Kenta EMORI
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Patent number: 9351168Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of antennas, a plurality of base stations, each base station being adapted to connect to one or more of the antennas over an available spectrum, and a wireless switching module. The wireless switching module is adapted to allocate one or more portions of the available spectrum to each antenna dependent on a compatibility constraint on the antennas, and assign each antenna for connection to a base station.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Iain Bruce Collings, Wei Ni
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Publication number: 20160020511Abstract: An omni circularly-polarized antenna comprises: upper and lower layers of metal strips placed horizontally and having identical spoke-like shapes, each of the layers of said metal strips composed of a center and a plurality of spokes connected to the center, the plurality of spokes, at a circumferential position of the spoke-like shape, having extensions extending towards an identical direction along the circumference, wherein extending directions of the extensions of the spokes in the upper and lower layers of metal strips are opposite; metal poles with a number being identical with a number of the spokes in the metal strips, the metal poles vertically interconnecting ends of the extensions of the spokes in the upper and lower layers of metal strips; a coaxial connector comprising an elongated inner conductor and an outer conductor, wherein the elongated inner conductor is connected to the center of the upper layer of metal strip, and the outer conductor is connected to the center of the lower layer of metalType: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Shaowei Liao, Wei Ni, Wei Wang, Gang Shen
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Publication number: 20150374928Abstract: A safety syringe has a barrel, a pushing element, a retracting element, and a needle group. The barrel is hollow and has a needle-group mounting end, an operating grip end, and a barrel lumen. The pushing element is retractably mounted in the barrel lumen and has a pushrod chamber. The retracting element is airtightly and slidably mounted in the pushrod chamber. The needle group is connected to the needle-group mounting end of the barrel. The present invention can pull the retracting element to move relative to the pushing element to form a low pressure condition in the pushrod chamber as a vacuum status. After the injection, a vacuum attraction force in the pushrod chamber can retract the used needle group into the pushrod chamber for safe use of the safety syringe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Pei-Yang HSU, Pei-Hsin HSU, Wei-Ni HSU
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Publication number: 20150287775Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) comprises: a semiconductor substrate (1); a drift region (2) of a first conductivity type having a trench in part of an upper portion thereof and arranged on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate (100); an electric field reducing region (4) of a second conductivity type arranged, in a bottom portion of the trench, only around a corner portion and not in a center portion; an anode electrode (9) embedded in the trench; and a cathode electrode (10) arranged on a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate (100) which is opposite to the first main surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiharu Marui, Tetsuya Hayashi, Shigeharu Yamagami, Wei Ni, Kenta Emori
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Publication number: 20150163772Abstract: The invention provides a method and an apparatus, of compressing a multi-carrier modulation signal in frequency domain. By setting a modulation mode indicator, the preferable technical scheme could be changed dynamically according to the modulation mode, so as to select the corresponding bits for the different modulation mode. Moreover, according the preferable technical scheme of the present invention, the signal of the data channel in the resource element after extracting the second scale factor is represented by the bits which are occupied by a pair of I/Q signal. Thus, more bits are saved and compression ratio is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Wei Ni, Zhaojun Xu, Yanbo Tang, Xiaobing Leng, Gang Shen, Yan Meng
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Publication number: 20150103150Abstract: An information processing method and electronic device, the method comprising: displaying on a first device a first target object as a first display parameter; when the first target object is displayed as the first display parameter, a user of the electronic device can perceive a first perceptible distance to the first target object; displaying the first target object as a second display parameter at a second moment after the first moment; when the first target object is displayed as the second display parameter, the viewer can perceive a second perceptible distance to the first target object, the first perceptible distance being different from the second perceptible distance, thus solving the technical problem of single display mode of a 3D imaging device in the prior art.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Ni, Qizhong Zheng
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Patent number: 9007900Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless backhaul network for a communications system. The network comprises a congregate node connected to the communications system; a plurality of access points, each access point having associated amounts of incident bidirectional traffic to be conveyed to and from the congregate node; and a plurality of bidirectional wireless links adapted to convey the traffic between the access points and the congregate node. The congregate node is configured to allocate spectrum to each directional component of each link within a predetermined available spectrum for the conveyance of the traffic, wherein the allocation is dependent on the amounts of traffic at the respective access points.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Iain Bruce Collings, Wei Ni
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Publication number: 20150072133Abstract: A localized heating structure, and method of forming same, for use in solar systems includes a thermally insulating layer having interconnected pores, a density of less than about 3000 kg/m3, and a hydrophilic surface, and an expanded carbon structure adjacent to the thermally insulating layer. The expanded carbon structure has a porosity of greater than about 80% and a hydrophilic surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Hadi Ghasemi, Amy Marie Marconnet, Gang Chen, George Wei Ni
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Publication number: 20150065139Abstract: The present invention provides a handover control method in a wireless access system, a relay station and a base station for performing handover control in a mobile multi-hop relay wireless access system such that the wireless access system is enabled to cover a wider area. To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a handover control method in a wireless access system, wherein the wireless access system comprises a mobile station and a base station, which receive and send message via a wireless channel, and further comprises a relay station for forwarding message from the mobile station and the base station under control of the base station, characterized in that the method comprising a relay station measure and arbitration step in which the relay station measures the message and arbitrates whether to relay the message, and a base station measure and handover step in which the base station measures the message and arbitrates whether to perform handover.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENTInventors: Gang Shen, Wei Ni, Wei Zou, Shan Jin
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Patent number: 8948074Abstract: The invention provides a method and device for cooperative relay with multiple relay stations in the wireless telecommunication network. To be specific, according to the invention, in single-hop or multi-hop relay telecommunication link, the relay device and other relay devices within the same hop select space diversity or space multiplexing to carry out cooperative relay operation according to the processing indicating information from the base station, thus obtaining space diversity gain and space multiplexing gain.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Wei Ni, Gang Shen, Shan Jin
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Patent number: 8903394Abstract: The present invention provides a handover control method in a wireless access system, a relay station and a base station for performing handover control in a mobile multi-hop relay wireless access system such that the wireless access system is enabled to cover a wider area. To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a handover control method in a wireless access system, wherein the wireless access system comprises a mobile station and a base station, which receive and send message via a wireless channel, and further comprises a relay station for forwarding message from the mobile station and the base station under control of the base station, characterized in that the method comprising a relay station measure and arbitration step in which the relay station measures the message and arbitrates whether to relay the message, and a base station measure and handover step in which the base station measures the message and arbitrates whether to perform handover.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Gang Shen, Wei Ni, Wei Zou, Shan Jin