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).

  • Patent number: 9876070
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Marui, Tetsuya Hayashi, Shigeharu Yamagami, Wei Ni, Kenta Emori
  • Patent number: 9876277
    Abstract: 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 metal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Shaowei Liao, Wei Ni, Wei Wang, Gang Shen
  • Patent number: 9661584
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongming Liang, Wei Ni, Jiming Chen, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 9642972
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventors: Pei-Yang Hsu, Pei-Hsin Hsu, Wei-Ni Hsu
  • Publication number: 20170021109
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Pei-Hsin Hsu, Pei-Yang Hsu, Wei-Ni Hsu
  • Patent number: 9459024
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hadi Ghasemi, Amy Marie Marconnet, Gang Chen, George Wei Ni
  • Patent number: 9450730
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Ni, Jiayin Zhang, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 9414325
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiayin Zhang, Yongming Liang, Wei Ni, Mingyu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160181371
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Wei NI, Tetsuya HAYASHI, Toshiharu MARUI, Yuji SAITO, Kenta EMORI
  • Patent number: 9351168
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Iain Bruce Collings, Wei Ni
  • Publication number: 20160020511
    Abstract: 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 metal
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Shaowei Liao, Wei Ni, Wei Wang, Gang Shen
  • Publication number: 20150374928
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Pei-Yang HSU, Pei-Hsin HSU, Wei-Ni HSU
  • Publication number: 20150287775
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Marui, Tetsuya Hayashi, Shigeharu Yamagami, Wei Ni, Kenta Emori
  • Publication number: 20150163772
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Wei Ni, Zhaojun Xu, Yanbo Tang, Xiaobing Leng, Gang Shen, Yan Meng
  • Publication number: 20150103150
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Ni, Qizhong Zheng
  • Patent number: 9007900
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Iain Bruce Collings, Wei Ni
  • Publication number: 20150072133
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hadi Ghasemi, Amy Marie Marconnet, Gang Chen, George Wei Ni
  • Publication number: 20150065139
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Gang Shen, Wei Ni, Wei Zou, Shan Jin
  • Patent number: 8948074
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Wei Ni, Gang Shen, Shan Jin
  • Patent number: 8903394
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Gang Shen, Wei Ni, Wei Zou, Shan Jin