Patents by Inventor Kun-Min Chen

Kun-Min Chen 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: 20240107087
    Abstract: The subject application relates to a server, terminal and non-transitory computer-readable medium. The server for handling streaming data for a live streaming, comprising one or a plurality of processors, wherein the one or plurality of processors execute a machine-readable instruction to perform: recording the streaming data for the live streaming; storing the streaming data as archive contents with first identifier; receiving interaction information during the live streaming; storing the interaction information as contexts with second identifier, transmitting the archive contents with first identifier to a first user terminal; and transmitting the contexts to the first user terminal according to the first identifier and the second identifier. According to the subject application, the archive contents may be more immersive and the user experience may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yu-Chuan CHANG, Kun-Ze LI, Che-Wei LIU, Chieh-Min CHEN, Kuan-Hung LIU
  • Publication number: 20240106359
    Abstract: A motor driver of setting pulse width modulation at commutation time points of a motor is provided. A commutation control circuit outputs a phase control signal and a commutation starting signal according to a preset phase angle and a commutation signal of the motor. A pulse width modulation calculating circuit determines a starting time point of each of a plurality of cycles of a pulse width modulation signal according to the commutation starting signal. The pulse width modulation calculating circuit determines time of each of the plurality of cycles of the pulse width modulation signal according to the phase control signal. The pulse width modulation calculating circuit determines widths of a plurality of pulse waves of the pulse width modulation signal according to a target rotational speed of the motor. A motor driver circuit drives the motor according to the pulse width modulation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240072654
    Abstract: A power converter having a multi-stage high-side driving mechanism is provided. A control circuit outputs a first high-side control signal. A high-side driving circuit, according to the first high-side control signal and a first input voltage signal, outputs a first stage high-side driving signal to a control terminal of a high-side switch. As a result, a voltage of the control terminal of the high-side switch is pulled up to a first stage voltage from zero. Then, the control circuit outputs a second high-side control signal. A charge pump outputs a charging signal. The high-side driving circuit, according to the second high-side control signal and the charging signal, outputs a second stage high-side driving signal to the control terminal of the high-side switch. As a result, the voltage of the control terminal of the high-side switch is pulled up from the first stage voltage to a target voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: KUN-MIN CHEN, KE-TSUNG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240072695
    Abstract: A motor forward and reverse rotation detector and a motor driver having the motor forward and reverse rotation detector are provided. A rotor position detecting circuit detects a position of a rotor of a motor to output a commutation signal. A forward and reverse rotation detecting circuit detects a back electromotive force of the motor to output a back electromotive force detected signal. The forward and reverse rotation detecting circuit, according to a phase relationship and a phase difference between the back electromotive force detected signal and the commutation signal, determines which one of a forward direction and a reverse direction is a rotational direction of the motor to output a rotational direction detected signal. A motor driving circuit drives the motor according to the rotational direction detected signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: KUN-MIN CHEN, Shih-Hai Chien
  • Publication number: 20240072692
    Abstract: A motor driver using a correcting mechanism on a sensed motor position is provided. A rotor position detector circuit senses a position of a rotor of a motor to output a commutation signal. A back electromotive force detector circuit detects a back electromotive force signal of the motor. An actual phase difference calculator circuit calculates a phase difference between the back electromotive force signal and the commutation signal as an actual phase difference. An error phase angle calculator circuit calculates a difference between the actual phase difference and a reference phase difference as an error phase angle. A motor driving circuit corrects the commutation signal according to the error phase angle. The motor driving circuit determines the position of the rotor of the motor to drive the motor according to the corrected commutation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Patent number: 11876466
    Abstract: A motor controlling circuit is provided. A first terminal of a first high-side transistor and a first terminal of a second high-side transistor are coupled to a common voltage. A first terminal of a first low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of the first high-side transistor. A first node between the first terminal of the first low-side transistor and the second terminal of the first high-side transistor is connected to a first terminal of a motor. A first terminal of a second low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of the second high-side transistor. A second node between the first terminal of the second low-side transistor and the second terminal of the second high-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of the motor. The driver circuit regulates at least one of the transistors such that no current flows to the common voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Patent number: 11804800
    Abstract: A motor current protecting circuit is provided. A voltage calculating circuit determines whether or not each of low-side switches is fully turned on and then determines whether or not a voltage difference between a first terminal and a second terminal of each of the low-side switches being fully turned on is larger than or equal to a zero value. The voltage calculating circuit adds up the voltage differences each of which is larger than or equal to the zero value to output a voltage signal. A control circuit controls a driver circuit to switch the low-side switches and high-side switches according to the voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Patent number: 11761450
    Abstract: A rotation locking system of a motor of a fan is provided. A closed-loop control circuit outputs an initial duty cycle signal according to a current rotational speed and a target rotational speed. A driver circuit outputs a driving signal to the motor to drive the motor to rotate according to the initial duty cycle signal. A lookup table arithmetic circuit looks up, from a lookup table, two reference duty cycles correspond to two reference rotational speeds that are respectively equal to the current rotational speed and the target rotational speed. The lookup table arithmetic circuit calculates a difference between the two reference duty cycles. A speed feedback control circuit compensates the initial duty cycle signal according to the difference to output a final duty cycle signal to the driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the motor to rotate according to the final duty cycle signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Che-Ming Hsu, Kun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20230223887
    Abstract: A motor current protecting circuit is provided. A voltage calculating circuit determines whether or not each of low-side switches is fully turned on and then determines whether or not a voltage difference between a first terminal and a second terminal of each of the low-side switches being fully turned on is larger than or equal to a zero value. The voltage calculating circuit adds up the voltage differences each of which is larger than or equal to the zero value to output a voltage signal. A control circuit controls a driver circuit to switch the low-side switches and high-side switches according to the voltage signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Patent number: 11601035
    Abstract: A motor current controlling circuit having a voltage detection mechanism is provided. A first terminal of a first low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of a first high-side transistor. A node between the first terminal of the first low-side transistor and the second terminal of the first high-side transistor is connected to a first terminal of a motor. A first terminal of a second low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of a second high-side transistor. A zero current detector circuit detects a voltage of the node and determines whether or not a current flowing through the motor is equal to a zero value to output a zero current detected signal according to the detected voltage. A controller circuit controls a driver circuit to turn on or off the high-side transistors and the low-side transistors according to the zero current detected signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20230058109
    Abstract: A motor driver, a control method of the motor driver, and a motor driving system are provided. The motor driver includes a rotation information pin, an analog detecting circuit and a mode switching circuit. The rotation information pin is configured to receive a reference signal. The analog detecting circuit and the mode switching circuit are respectively and electrically connected to the rotation information pin and the analog detecting circuit. The analog detecting circuit determines whether the reference signal is an analog signal, and the motor driver is maintained in a master mode when the reference signal does not belong to the analog signal. The mode switching circuit determines whether the reference signal is a noise when the reference signal is the analog signal. The mode switching circuit switches the motor driver from the master mode to a slave mode when the reference signal is not the noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: LI-WEI CHEN, CHUNG-HSIEN FU, KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230049456
    Abstract: A rotation locking system of a motor of a fan is provided. A closed-loop control circuit outputs an initial duty cycle signal according to a current rotational speed and a target rotational speed. A driver circuit outputs a driving signal to the motor to drive the motor to rotate according to the initial duty cycle signal. A lookup table arithmetic circuit looks up, from a lookup table, two reference duty cycles correspond to two reference rotational speeds that are respectively equal to the current rotational speed and the target rotational speed. The lookup table arithmetic circuit calculates a difference between the two reference duty cycles. A speed feedback control circuit compensates the initial duty cycle signal according to the difference to output a final duty cycle signal to the driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the motor to rotate according to the final duty cycle signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: CHE-MING HSU, KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Patent number: 11575257
    Abstract: A motor protecting circuit is provided. A first terminal of each of high-side transistors is coupled to a power supply voltage. A second terminal of each of low-side transistors is grounded. Second terminals of the high-side transistors are respectively connected to first terminals of the low-side transistors. An overvoltage detector circuit is coupled to the power supply voltage of an output circuit. When the overvoltage detector circuit determines that the power supply voltage of the output circuit is higher than a voltage threshold, the overvoltage detector circuit outputs an overvoltage detected signal to a controller circuit. According to the overvoltage detected signal, the controller circuit controls a driver circuit to turn on at least one of the high-side transistors and at least one of the low-side transistors at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20230021728
    Abstract: A motor current controlling circuit having a voltage detection mechanism is provided. A first terminal of a first low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of a first high-side transistor. A node between the first terminal of the first low-side transistor and the second terminal of the first high-side transistor is connected to a first terminal of a motor. A first terminal of a second low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of a second high-side transistor. A zero current detector circuit detects a voltage of the node and determines whether or not a current flowing through the motor is equal to a zero value to output a zero current detected signal according to the detected voltage. A controller circuit controls a driver circuit to turn on or off the high-side transistors and the low-side transistors according to the zero current detected signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230022386
    Abstract: A motor controlling circuit is provided. A first terminal of a first high-side transistor and a first terminal of a second high-side transistor are coupled to a common voltage. A first terminal of a first low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of the first high-side transistor. A first node between the first terminal of the first low-side transistor and the second terminal of the first high-side transistor is connected to a first terminal of a motor. A first terminal of a second low-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of the second high-side transistor. A second node between the first terminal of the second low-side transistor and the second terminal of the second high-side transistor is connected to a second terminal of the motor. The driver circuit regulates at least one of the transistors such that no current flows to the common voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220393459
    Abstract: A motor protecting circuit is provided. A first terminal of each of high-side transistors is coupled to a power supply voltage. A second terminal of each of low-side transistors is grounded. Second terminals of the high-side transistors are respectively connected to first terminals of the low-side transistors. An overvoltage detector circuit is coupled to the power supply voltage of an output circuit. When the overvoltage detector circuit determines that the power supply voltage of the output circuit is higher than a voltage threshold, the overvoltage detector circuit outputs an overvoltage detected signal to a controller circuit. According to the overvoltage detected signal, the controller circuit controls a driver circuit to turn on at least one of the high-side transistors and at least one of the low-side transistors at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Patent number: 11522485
    Abstract: A three-phase motor driving circuit and a three-phase motor driving method are provided. The three-phase motor driving circuit includes an inverter circuit, a control circuit, a turn-off module, a turn-off confirmation module, and a turn-on logic unit. The inverter circuit includes a plurality of phase circuits, each including an upper bridge switch and a lower bridge switch. The control circuit operates in a feedback mode to output a feedback start signal. The turn-off module includes a feedback detection unit, a voltage adjusting unit, and a turn-off logic unit. The feedback detection unit detects an output current of a designated phase circuit, and if the output current flows out, a voltage regulation signal is output until the output current is 0, and a lower bridge turn-off signal is output. The voltage adjusting unit adjusts the voltage of the output node to be close to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Patent number: 11362613
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit and a motor driving method are provided. The motor driving circuit is used to drive the motor and includes an inverter circuit, a control circuit, a current-limiting circuit, a start circuit and a transient circuit. The control circuit controls the inverter circuit to drive the motor with a motor control current according to a set current limit value indicated by a current-limiting signal, and outputs a steady state ready signal in response to the motor reaching a steady state. The current-limiting circuit generates the current-limiting signal according to a start state signal, or generates the current-limiting signal according to a transient signal. The start circuit outputs the start state signal when the motor starts. The transient circuit detects whether the motor is in a transient state, and outputs the transient signal in response to the motor being in a transient state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20220140767
    Abstract: A three-phase motor driving circuit and a three-phase motor driving method are provided. The three-phase motor driving circuit includes an inverter circuit, a control circuit, a turn-off module, a turn-off confirmation module, and a turn-on logic unit. The inverter circuit includes a plurality of phase circuits, each including an upper bridge switch and a lower bridge switch. The control circuit operates in a feedback mode to output a feedback start signal. The turn-off module includes a feedback detection unit, a voltage adjusting unit, and a turn-off logic unit. The feedback detection unit detects an output current of a designated phase circuit, and if the output current flows out, a voltage regulation signal is output until the output current is 0, and a lower bridge turn-off signal is output. The voltage adjusting unit adjusts the voltage of the output node to be close to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220131491
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit and a motor driving method are provided. The motor driving circuit is used to drive the motor and includes an inverter circuit, a control circuit, a current-limiting circuit, a start circuit and a transient circuit. The control circuit controls the inverter circuit to drive the motor with a motor control current according to a set current limit value indicated by a current-limiting signal, and outputs a steady state ready signal in response to the motor reaching a steady state. The current-limiting circuit generates the current-limiting signal according to a start state signal, or generates the current-limiting signal according to a transient signal. The start circuit outputs the start state signal when the motor starts. The transient circuit detects whether the motor is in a transient state, and outputs the transient signal in response to the motor being in a transient state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN