Patents by Inventor Hsin-Fa Fang

Hsin-Fa Fang 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: 9230219
    Abstract: A computer-executable method is executed by a CPU as the following steps of: obtaining an interested range in relation to a target typhoon and obtaining historical typhoons within the interested range from a wind and typhoon database; obtaining shortest distances from the respective historical typhoons to the target typhoon within the interested range; choosing a target ground grid point and obtaining normalized extreme wind speeds of the respective historical typhoons corresponding to the target ground grid point; obtaining extreme wind speeds probable for the target ground grid point by calculation according to the normalized extreme wind speeds and the highest wind speed of the center of the target typhoon; and arranging the extreme wind speeds in descending order, arranging the shortest distances corresponding to the respective extreme wind speeds, and obtaining the occurrence probability of the extreme wind speeds at the target ground grid point according to a formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN
    Inventors: Hsin-Fa Fang, Ing-Jane Chen
  • Publication number: 20140344209
    Abstract: A computer-executable method is executed by a CPU as the following steps of: obtaining an interested range in relation to a target typhoon and obtaining historical typhoons within the interested range from a wind and typhoon database; obtaining shortest distances from the respective historical typhoons to the target typhoon within the interested range; choosing a target ground grid point and obtaining normalized extreme wind speeds of the respective historical typhoons corresponding to the target ground grid point; obtaining extreme wind speeds probable for the target ground grid point by calculation according to the normalized extreme wind speeds and the highest wind speed of the center of the target typhoon; and arranging the extreme wind speeds in descending order, arranging the shortest distances corresponding to the respective extreme wind speeds, and obtaining the occurrence probability of the extreme wind speeds at the target ground grid point according to a formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Hsin-Fa FANG, Ing-Jane CHEN
  • Patent number: 8626467
    Abstract: An air pollution sampling system and a method thereof applied to a wide-area air sampling are revealed. Air is forced into an air sampling unit by movement of a vehicle, for performing an active air sampling without a power source. An air sampling unit includes a plurality of baffle plates so as to adjust air sampling rate and avoid interference caused by turbulence generated during the movement of the vehicle. A positioning device provides geographic coordinates, vehicle speed and time. An information processing device integrates sampling flow and positioning information from the positioning device, collects information generated by the sampling system, and computes statistics of the accumulated samples and relative sampling positions. By the collected sampling positions, time and flow rate, the sampling amount is obtained through data processing and calculation. In combination with the display of positioning data, the geographic area represented by the air samples could be understood more clearly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council-Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventor: Hsin-Fa Fang
  • Patent number: 8488167
    Abstract: A computerized chart recorder is revealed, comprises a signal conversion unit, an operation control unit, a printing control unit, and a database. A signal conversion unit receives measurement signals of a measurement instrument, and converts the measurement signals to signal conversion data. A operation control unit receives the signal conversion data required for printing, produces corresponding chart data, and prints the curve of signal variations, which can be also displayed on a human-machine interface unit. Whether to store the data or to print can be determined. Besides, the data can be also transmitted to a printing control unit. When the printing control unit is activated, it can receive the chart data and the quality assurance data, and control a printing unit to emulate the chart recorder for executing chart recording. In addition, the quality assurance data can be printed as well for complying with the requirements of the quality-assurance operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council-Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventors: Hsin-Fa Fang, Ming-Churng Hsieh, Chung-Liang Chen, Ming-Chen Yuan, Cheng-Si Tsao, Kang-Neng Peng
  • Publication number: 20120075660
    Abstract: A computerized chart recorder is revealed, comprises a signal conversion unit, an operation control unit, a printing control unit, and a database. A signal conversion unit receives measurement signals of a measurement instrument, and converts the measurement signals to signal conversion data. A operation control unit receives the signal conversion data required for printing, produces corresponding chart data, and prints the curve of signal variations, which can be also displayed on a human-machine interface unit. Whether to store the data or to print can be determined. Besides, the data can be also transmitted to a printing control unit. When the printing control unit is activated, it can receive the chart data and the quality assurance data, and control a printing unit to emulate the chart recorder for executing chart recording. In addition, the quality assurance data can be printed as well for complying with the requirements of the quality-assurance operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: HSIN-FA FANG, MING-CHURNG HSIEH, CHUNG-LIANG CHEN, MING-CHEN YUAN, CHENG-SI TSAO, KANG-NENG PENG
  • Publication number: 20120046917
    Abstract: A wind energy forecasting method with extreme wind speed prediction function cooperated with a central computer, comprising the steps of: inputting a weather data which contains a numerical weather prediction data; implementing a modification with a first model output statistics; implementing a modification with a physical model in accordance with the output of the first model output statistics that can iteratively calculate the results by varying the angles of wind direction; implementing a modification with a second model output statistics; and implementing a prediction of extreme wind speed caused by typhoon, which comprises the following sub-steps of: using a wind and typhoon database to find track data of plural historical typhoons within a certain distance from a target typhoon; using an extreme wind and wind energy prediction tool to calculate at least one extreme wind speed in the future of the target typhoon and calculate the probability of occurring the extreme wind speed; and modifying the extreme
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Hsin-Fa FANG, Ing-Jane Chen
  • Publication number: 20110257922
    Abstract: An air pollution sampling system and a method thereof applied to a wide-area air sampling are revealed. Air is forced into an air sampling unit by movement of a vehicle, for performing an active air sampling without a power source. An air sampling unit includes a plurality of baffle plates so as to adjust air sampling rate and avoid interference caused by turbulence generated during the movement of the vehicle. A positioning device provides geographic coordinates, vehicle speed and time. An information processing device integrates sampling flow and positioning information from the positioning device, collects information generated by the sampling system, and computes statistics of the accumulated samples and relative sampling positions. By the collected sampling positions, time and flow rate, the sampling amount is obtained through data processing and calculation. In combination with the display of positioning data, the geographic area represented by the air samples could be understood more clearly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventor: HSIN-FA FANG
  • Patent number: 7927463
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel tritium distillation device, which includes a container, a radiator covered on top of the container with a protrusion at the bottom, a conduit penetrating the container with an inlet and an outlet, the inlet being arranged in correspondence with the protrusion, and a heating device fixed below the container. The method of operating the tritiated water distillation includes the steps of adding environmental tritiated water in the container, covering the radiator on top of the container closely, heating environmental tritiated water to cause tritiated water steam to be condensed to the bottom of the radiator, and collecting the tritiated water condensation dropped from the protrusion with conduit. The present invention uses a simple structure to ease assembly and reduce the cost of cooling water source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventor: Hsin-Fa Fang
  • Publication number: 20100030417
    Abstract: An environmental survey robot suitable for wireless communicating with a survey action management center having a geographic information system to scheme an advance route with multiple check points is provided. The environmental survey robot includes a moving vehicle, a controlling computer, a wireless communication network, a Global positioning system, an environment detector, a solar cell and a power controller. The wireless communication network receives the advance route from the detecting action management center, and the controlling computer autonomously controls the moving vehicle to move in accordance with the advance route. The environmental detector is suitable for detecting the environment information and sending the same to the controlling computer. When the electricity of the solar cell is less than a predetermined value, the power controller will send the signal to the controlling computer such that the action controller will stop the action of the moving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: HSIN-FA FANG, WEI-CHENG YANG, ING-JANE CHEN
  • Publication number: 20100030489
    Abstract: A system for analyzing/inspecting airborne radioactive particles sampled in a draft flue is disclosed, which comprises: a front detector, at least an air intake tube, a capture vessel, an inspection device, a flow meter, a hand-held electric device, a blower motor, With the aforesaid system, the radioactivity distribution relating to the airborne particles as well as the peak of the distribution can be detected, by which a sampling time can be determined for achieving longer period of time allowed for an analysis to be performed while rejecting the radioactive interference in the draft flue. Thereby, background noise relating to ambient radioactivity can be minimized and thus the detection limit of the aforesaid system is reduced, so that the system of the invention is much more sensitive compared to those conventional real-time radioactivity detection means with regard to the detection of radioactive nuclides in airborne particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: YI-FU CHIOEU, HSIN-FA FANG, ING-JANE CHEN, TZONG-LIANG PAN, KUN-HSUAN LIANG
  • Patent number: 7545265
    Abstract: The present invention related to a management system with real-time interaction for environmental monitoring and a method thereof. The management system for environmental monitoring includes a server system, which includes a data processing apparatus and a first management apparatus. The data processing apparatus executes collecting and evaluating monitored data, and importing and exporting monitoring management criteria as well as analyzing and comparing the monitored data and the automatically adjusting the monitoring management criteria. The management system for environmental monitoring also includes a monitoring apparatus, which receives data of monitoring operations transmitted by the first management apparatus via a network, and transmits the monitored data produced in environmental monitoring to the first management apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council - Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventor: Hsin-Fa Fang
  • Publication number: 20090057127
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel tritium distillation device, which comprises a container, a radiator covered on top of the container with a protrusion at the bottom, a conduit penetrating the container with an inlet and an outlet, the inlet being arranged in correspondence with the protrusion, and a heating device fixed below the container. The method of operating the tritium distillation includes the steps of adding environmental tritium in the container, covering the radiator on top of the container closely, heating environmental tritium to cause tritium steam to be condensed to the bottom of the radiator, and collecting the tritium condensation dropped from the protrusion with conduit. The present invention uses a simple structure to ease assembly and reduce the cost of cooling water source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Hsin-Fa Fang
  • Publication number: 20080150736
    Abstract: The present invention related to a management system with real-time interaction for environmental monitoring and a method thereof. The management system for environmental monitoring includes a server system, which includes a data processing apparatus and a first management apparatus. The data processing apparatus executes collecting and evaluating monitored data, and importing and exporting monitoring management criteria as well as analyzing and comparing the monitored data and the automatically adjusting the monitoring management criteria. The management system for environmental monitoring also includes a monitoring apparatus, which receives data of monitoring operations transmitted by the first management apparatus via a network, and transmits the monitored data produced in environmental monitoring to the first management apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventor: Hsin-Fa Fang
  • Publication number: 20060285622
    Abstract: The present invention processes a non-destructive examination on a spent-fuel storage rack by neutron rays to identify the existence and the depletion of a boron plate in the rack as utilizing an examination apparatus coordinated with a nuclear module system and a speed-controllable crane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Cheng-si Tsao, Kang-Neng Perng, Tang-Yi Lin, Ming-Tsung Hsieh, Ming-Chen Yung, Kang-Lin Hwang, Hsin-Fa Fang, Shih-Chung Cheng, Kin-Fu Lin