Patents by Inventor Chih-Hsiung Chang

Chih-Hsiung Chang 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: 20060141684
    Abstract: A crystallizing method for forming a poly-Si film is described as follows. First, forming an activated layer on a substrate, and the molecule structure of the activated layer includes carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and silicon. And then, forming an amorphous silicon film on the activated layer. Finally, performing an annealing process to crystallize the amorphous silicon film and transform it into a poly-Si film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Chia-Tien Peng, Chih-Hsiung Chang
  • Publication number: 20060128045
    Abstract: A display panel comprises a substrate having a displaying region (such as active organic light emitting region) and a circuit driving region; and a polysilicon layer formed on the substrate and having a first polysilicon portion and a second polysilicon portion respectively corresponding to the displaying region and circuit driving region, wherein the grain size of the second polysilicon portion crystallized by continuous wave (CW) laser annealing method is larger than that of the first polysilicon portion crystallized by excimer laser annealing (ELA) method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Hsu, Chih-Hsiung Chang
  • Publication number: 20060060848
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a low-temperature polysilicon film are provided. An amorphous silicon film is formed over a substrate. An insulating layer and a laser absorption layer are formed over the amorphous silicon film. A photolithographic and etching process is performed to remove portions of the laser absorption layer and the insulating layer to expose portions of the amorphous silicon film. A laser crystallization process is utilized to convert the amorphous silicon film into a polysilicon film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiung Chang, Yi-Wei Chen, Ming-Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20060009013
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing polysilicon layer is provided. At first, a substrate is provided. An amorphous silicon layer having a second region and a first region is formed on the substrate. The first region is thicker than the second region. The amorphous silicon layer is completely melted to form a melted amorphous silicon layer having a first melted region and a second melted region. The temperature of the bottom center of the first melted region is lower than that of the second melted region and that of the top of the first melted region. The melted amorphous silicon layer is crystallized to form a polysilicon layer. The crystallization begins from the bottom center of the first melted region to the second melted region and the top of the first melted region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Yi-Wei Chen, Chih-Hsiung Chang, Tsung-Yi Hsu
  • Publication number: 20050189328
    Abstract: An apparatus for laser annealing an amorphous silicon film is provided. The amorphous silicon film includes a first region and a second region not overlapped with the first region. The apparatus comprises: a laser beam source module providing a laser beam; a beam splitter, disposed on a path of the laser beam, splitting the laser beam into a first laser beam and a second laser beam; a first photomask disposed on an optical path of the first laser beam and in front of the amorphous silicon film; and a second photomask disposed an optical path of the second laser beam and in front of the amorphous silicon film; wherein the first laser beam is emitted to the first region, and the second laser beam is emitted to the amorphous silicon film in the second region after the amorphous silicon film in the first region is re-crystallized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: I-Chang Tsao, Chih-Hsiung Chang
  • Publication number: 20020135392
    Abstract: The present invention offers an apparatus that can probe and analyze a de-capsulated chip with probing needles of a probe chuck plate on a fully automatic probe machine. The apparatus is composed of a probe plate that has a first side which is placed on the probe chuck plate, and has a second side that has at least one hollow that the chip can be put in. And the probe plate has one hole passing through the hollow and the first side, in order to catch the chip by the suction of the probe chuck plate through the hole. Then the chip is probed with the probe needles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiung Chang
  • Patent number: 6239934
    Abstract: A higher-capacity disk drive system and a higher-capacity removable disk cartridge adapted for downward compatibility with older, lower-capacity disk drive systems, wherein a unique control information format is stored on higher-capacity removable disk cartridges to distinguish them from older, lower-capacity removable disk cartridges and thereby to facilitate cartridge capacity recognition by the higher-capacity disk drive system. Upon recognizing the capacity of an inserted removable disk cartridge, the higher-capacity disk drive system can read and write data to the removable disk cartridge such that data which it stores on a lower-capacity removable disk cartridge may be read by lower-capacity disk drive systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventors: Kai C. K. Sun, James A. Herbst, Chih-Hsiung Chang, Mansur B. Kiadeh
  • Patent number: 5865142
    Abstract: An apparatus for hatching eggs includes a rectangular casing having a top provided with a pre-heating chamber in which is mounted a first electric fan and a water tray under the electric fan, an air compressor arranged on the top and connected with the pre-heating chamber via a pipe, a cooling water container installed on the top and connected with the water tray via a pipe, a second electric fan installed on a first inner end of the rectangular casing, and a third electric fan installed on a second inner end of the rectangular casing, whereby the hatching rate of eggs and the grown-up rate of fowls can be largely increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiung Chang
  • Patent number: 5777813
    Abstract: A disk drive system having downward compatibility includes a read/write head and a feedback servo controller for reading and writing information to and from a removable disk cartridge. When writing information to the data tracks of magnetic medium of a lower-capacity disk cartridge, in which the data tracks are substantially wider than the width of the read/write head, the read/write head is operated in an erase mode for several resolutions prior to writing the data. The read/write head is first shifted off track center by a small DC offset, then operated in an erase mode while being guided in a repeating oscillating pattern under closed loop servo control. The read/write head is then shifted off track center in the other direction, then again operated in an erase mode while being guided in a repeating oscillating pattern under closed loop servo control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Syquest Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kai C.K. Sun, James A. Herbst, Chih-Hsiung Chang, Mansur B. Kiadeh