Patents by Inventor Chieh Wu
Chieh Wu 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: 11978664Abstract: A method includes forming a first conductive feature over a semiconductor substrate, forming an ILD layer over the first conductive feature, patterning the ILD layer to form a trench, and forming a conductive layer over the patterned ILD layer to fill the trench. The method further includes polishing the conductive layer to form a via contact configured to interconnect the first conductive feature with a second conductive feature, where polishing the conductive layer exposes a top surface of the ILD layer, polishing the exposed top surface of the ILD layer, such that a top portion of the via contact protrudes from the exposed top surface of the ILD layer, and forming the second conductive feature over the via contact, such that the top portion of the via contact extends into the second conductive feature.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Pang-Sheng Chang, Chao-Hsun Wang, Kuo-Yi Chao, Fu-Kai Yang, Mei-Yun Wang, Li-Chieh Wu, Chun-Wei Hsu
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Patent number: 11978802Abstract: Provided are FinFET devices and methods of forming the same. A dummy gate having gate spacers on opposing sidewalls thereof is formed over a substrate. A dielectric layer is formed around the dummy gate. An upper portion of the dummy gate is removed and upper portions of the gate spacers are removed, so as to form a first opening in the dielectric layer. A lower portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a second opening below the first opening. A metal layer is formed in the first and second openings. The metal layer is partially removed to form a metal gate.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chung-Wei Hsu, Chih-Hao Wang, Huan-Chieh Su, Wei-Hao Wu, Zhi-Chang Lin, Jia-Ni Yu
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Publication number: 20240143080Abstract: A vibration control method adapted to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen for showing a picture and a motor for generating a vibration effect. The vibration control method includes: determining a target image based on a setting signal, and generating a control instruction, where the control instruction is related to the target image and used for controlling the motor to generate the vibration effect; determining a location of the target image on the picture and defining a vibration enabling area based on the location of the target image; and defining the vibration enabling area as related to the control instruction. An electronic device adapted to the vibration control method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Sih Ci LI, Hung-Chieh WU
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Patent number: 11974413Abstract: A computing system including a water-resistant chassis, at least one electronic component with a heat sink, and a gap filler. The heat sink includes an arrangement of fins separated by inter-fin spaces. The gap filler is in contact with both the heat sink and the water-resistant chassis. The gap filler is positioned in the inter-fin spaces to provide a heat conduction path between the heat sink and the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Yi-Chieh Chen, Yueh-Chang Wu, Ching-Yi Shih, Kang Hsu
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Publication number: 20240135859Abstract: A gamma tap circuit includes: (i) a first gamma division circuit configured to generate a first gamma tap voltage by performing voltage division of an upper gamma tap voltage and a lower gamma tap voltage, in-sync with a first clock signal CK1 and a first complementary clock signal CK1b, which is 180° out-of-phase relative to CK1, (ii) a second gamma division circuit configured to generate a second gamma tap voltage by performing voltage division of the upper gamma tap voltage and the first gamma tap voltage, in-sync with a second clock signal CK2 and a second complementary clock signal CK2b, which is 180° out-of-phase relative to CK2, and (iii) a third gamma division circuit configured to generate a third gamma tap voltage by performing voltage division of the first gamma tap voltage and the lower gamma tap voltage, in response to CK2 and CK2b, which have a lower frequency relative to CK1 and CK1b.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Ying-Da Chang, Chulho Choi, Yu-Chieh Huang, Ching-Chieh Wu, Hajoon Shin, Zhen-Guo Ding, Jia-Way Chen, Kyunlyeol Lee, Yongjoo Song
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Patent number: 11964259Abstract: A catalyst composition for hydrogenating 4,4?-methylenedianiline derivatives is provided. The catalyst composition includes a carrier including aluminum oxide and magnesium oxide, a rhodium-ruthenium active layer loaded on the surface of the carrier, and a solvent including an organic amine. The weight percentage of magnesium oxide in the carrier is between 12% and 30%. A method for preparing 4,4?-methylene bis(cyclohexylamine) derivatives using the catalyst composition is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Chao-Huang Chen, Jyun-Da Wu, Tzong-Shyan Lu, Ying-Chieh Lee
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Patent number: 11964811Abstract: A liquid storage tank includes a housing, a piston located in the housing, a cover, an elastic element, and an outlet pipe. The cover is attached to the housing and has a support post extending toward the piston. The piston, the housing, and the cover define a tank chamber. The tank chamber is filled with cooling liquid. The elastic element is connected with the tank hosing and the piston. The elastic element is free from contact with the cooling liquid. The outlet pipe communicates with the tank chamber. An extension direction of an opening of the outlet pipe is not parallel to a direction of movement of the elastic element. When the cooling liquid is decreased, the piston compressed the tank chamber such that the elastic element is released. The tank chamber is continuously compressed by pairing the elastic element and the piston.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Yu-Jei Huang, Wei-Fang Wu, Chia-Ying Hsu, Chih-Chieh Lu
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Patent number: 11964881Abstract: A method for making iridium oxide nanoparticles includes dissolving an iridium salt to obtain a salt-containing solution, mixing a complexing agent with the salt-containing solution to obtain a blend solution, and adding an oxidating agent to the blend solution to obtain a product mixture. A molar ratio of a complexing compound of the complexing agent to the iridium salt is controlled in a predetermined range so as to permit the product mixture to include iridium oxide nanoparticles.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Pu-Wei Wu, Yi-Chieh Hsieh, Han-Yi Wang, Kuang-Chih Tso, Tzu-Ying Chan, Chung-Kai Chang, Chi-Shih Chen, Yu-Ting Cheng
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Patent number: 11968556Abstract: A network quality measurement method and system are provided. In the method, a movement path and a movement speed of a vehicle device are determined according to a size of a space and an endurance time of the vehicle device, and the vehicle device is controlled to move on the movement path at the movement speed. During a movement of the vehicle device, a network quality in the space is measured according to a measurement frequency to generate network quality data. Whether the network quality in the space is changed is determined according to the network quality data. Whether there is an obstacle around the vehicle device is detected. When it is determined that the network quality in the space is changed or the obstacle is detected around the vehicle device, at least one of the movement path, the movement speed, and the measurement frequency is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hui-Ping Kuo, Sheng-Chieh Huang, Hsin-Hui Hwang, Yi-Ming Wu, Man Ju Chien
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Publication number: 20240126327Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic wearable device. The electronic wearable device includes a first module having a first contact and a second module having a second contact. The first contact is configured to keep electrical connection with the second contact in moving with respect to each other during a wearing period.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Chao Wei LIU, Wei-Hao CHANG, Yung-I YEH, Jen-Chieh KAO, Tun-Ching PI, Ming-Hung CHEN, Hui-Ping JIAN, Shang-Lin WU
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Publication number: 20240118477Abstract: A backlight module includes a back board, a lamp board, a wavelength conversion film, an optical film, a coating layer and a reflective component. The back board includes a side wall. The lamp board is arranged on the back board, and includes plural light emitting units. The wavelength conversion film is arranged on the light emitting units. The optical film is arranged on the wavelength conversion film. The coating layer is arranged on the optical film, and adjacent to the optical film. The reflective component is arranged between the side wall and the optical film, and surrounds the wavelength conversion film and the optical film. At an optical wavelength of 450 nanometers, a brightness of a first surface of the reflective component is between 70 and 100, a first chromaticity thereof is between ?10 and 10, and a second chromaticity thereof is between ?10 and 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Ling-Chieh SHEN, Ting-Ying WU, Yang-Ruei LI, Wen-Yu LIN
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Patent number: 11951833Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data of an interior of a vehicle. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform computer vision operations to detect objects in the video frames, extract characteristics about the objects detected, associate movement of a body part to a particular person and generate a control signal in response to the movement of the body part. A device is configured to operate in a locked mode that prevents input when the vehicle is in motion. The control signal is configured to enable the device to receive the input when the device is in the locked mode. The control signal may be generated only when the particular person associated with the movement corresponds to an occupant in the vehicle that is not a driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Ambarella International LPInventor: I-Chieh Wu
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Patent number: 11953658Abstract: An optical image capturing lens assembly includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element with negative refractive power.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wu, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
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Patent number: 11953738Abstract: The present invention discloses a display including a display panel and a light redirecting film disposed on the viewing side of the display panel. The light redirecting film comprises a light redistribution layer, and a light guide layer disposed on the light redistribution layer. The light redistribution layer includes a plurality of strip-shaped micro prisms extending along a first direction and arranged at intervals and a plurality of diffraction gratings arranged at the bottom of the intervals between the adjacent strip-shaped micro prisms, wherein each of the strip-shaped micro prisms has at least one inclined light-guide surface, and the bottom of each interval has at least one set of diffraction gratings, and the light guide layer is in contact with the strip-shaped micro prisms and the diffraction gratings.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BenQ Materials CorporationInventors: Cyun-Tai Hong, Yu-Da Chen, Hsu-Cheng Cheng, Meng-Chieh Wu, Chuen-Nan Shen, Kuo-Jung Huang, Wei-Jyun Chen, Yu-Jyuan Dai
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Patent number: 11955312Abstract: A physical analysis method, a sample for physical analysis and a preparing method thereof are provided. The preparing method of the sample for physical analysis includes: providing a sample to be inspected; and forming a contrast enhancement layer on a surface of the sample to be inspected. The contrast enhancement layer includes a plurality of first material layers and a plurality of second material layers stacked upon one another. The first material layer and the second material layer are made of different materials. Each one of the first and second material layers has a thickness that does not exceed 0.1 nm. In an image captured by an electron microscope, a difference between an average grayscale value of a surface layer image of the sample to be inspected and an average grayscale value of an image of the contrast enhancement layer is at least 50.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MATERIALS ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Chien-Wei Wu, Keng-Chieh Chu, Yung-Sheng Fang, Chun-Wei Wu, Hung-Jen Chen
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Patent number: 11955298Abstract: A button module is provided. The button module comprises a base, a pressing part, and an elastic part. The pressing part includes a fixed end and a free end. The fixed end is pivotally connected to the base in a first axial direction. The elastic part is disposed on a side of the pressing part facing the base. The elastic part includes a first damping portion and a second damping portion selectively pressing against the base, where a hardness of the first damping portion is different from a hardness of the second damping portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Te-Wei Huang, Zih-Siang Huang, Jhih-Wei Rao, Hung-Chieh Wu, Liang-Jen Lin
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Publication number: 20240113071Abstract: An integrated circuit package including electrically floating metal lines and a method of forming are provided. The integrated circuit package may include integrated circuit dies, an encapsulant around the integrated circuit dies, a redistribution structure on the encapsulant, a first electrically floating metal line disposed on the redistribution structure, a first electrical component connected to the redistribution structure, and an underfill between the first electrical component and the redistribution structure. A first opening in the underfill may expose a top surface of the first electrically floating metal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Chung-Shi Liu, Mao-Yen Chang, Yu-Chia Lai, Kuo-Lung Pan, Hao-Yi Tsai, Ching-Hua Hsieh, Hsiu-Jen Lin, Po-Yuan Teng, Cheng-Chieh Wu, Jen-Chun Liao
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Publication number: 20240113143Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an imaging device including a first image sensor element and a second image sensor element respectively comprising a pixel unit disposed within a semiconductor substrate. The first image sensor element is adjacent to the second image sensor element. A first micro-lens overlies the first image sensor element and is laterally shifted from a center of the pixel unit of the first image sensor element by a first lens shift amount. A second micro-lens overlies the second image sensor element and is laterally shifted from a center of the pixel unit of the second image sensor element by a second lens shift amount different from the first lens shift amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Cheng Yu Huang, Wen-Hau Wu, Chun-Hao Chuang, Keng-Yu Chou, Wei-Chieh Chiang, Chih-Kung Chang
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Patent number: 11946945Abstract: A sample analyzing method and a sample preparing method are provided. The sample analyzing method includes a sample preparing step, a placing step, and an analyzing step. The sample preparing step includes an obtaining step implemented by obtaining an identification information; and a marking and placing step implemented by placing a sample carrying component having a sample disposed thereon into a marking equipment, allowing the marking equipment to utilize the identification information to form an identification structure on the sample carrying component, and placing the sample carrying component into one of the accommodating slots according to the identification information. The placing step is implemented by taking out the sample carrying component from one of the accommodating slots and placing the sample carrying component into an electron microscope equipment. The analyzing step is implemented by utilizing the electron microscope equipment to photograph the sample to generate an analyzation image.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MATERIALS ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Keng-Chieh Chu, Tsung-Ju Chan, Chun-Wei Wu, Hung-Jen Chen
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Publication number: 20240105778Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a fin extending from a substrate. The fin has a source/drain region and a channel region. The channel region includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer disposed over the first semiconductor layer and vertically separated from the first semiconductor layer by a spacing area. A high-k dielectric layer at least partially wraps around the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. A metal layer is formed along opposing sidewalls of the high-k dielectric layer. The metal layer includes a first material. The spacing area is free of the first material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: I-Sheng CHEN, Yee-Chia YEO, Chih Chieh YEH, Cheng-Hsien WU