Patents by Inventor Liheng Zhu

Liheng Zhu 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: 20240038878
    Abstract: Provided is a reverse-conducting IGBT chip including a first conductive type substrate; and several first conductive type short circuit regions arranged at intervals below the substrate and adjacent to a collector region. The short circuit regions are located outside a first preset range having the center of a chip as a center, in a second preset range outside the first preset range and having the center of the chip as a center, in a third preset range outside the second preset range and having the center of the chip as a center, and in a range outside the third preset range and enclosed by a chip edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Liheng Zhu, Haihui Luo, Qiang Xiao, Rongzhen Qin, Mengjie Wang
  • Patent number: 11848375
    Abstract: An IGBT chip having a ?-shape mixed gate structure includes a plurality of mixed gate units. Each of the mixed gate units includes a gate region and two active regions located at two sides of the gate region. The gate region includes a trench gate and a planar gate that is located on a surface of the gate region, and the planar gate is connected with the trench gate and formed a ?-shape mixed structure. In this way, the IGBT chip can have a significantly improved chip density, while retaining features of low power consumption and high current density of the trench gate and a feature of a wide safe operating area of the planar gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: ZHUZHOU CRRC TIMES ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guoyou Liu, Chunlin Zhu, Liheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11329130
    Abstract: An IGBT chip having a mixed gate structure includes a plurality of mixed gate units. Each of the mixed gate units includes a source region (3) and a gate region. The gate region includes a planar gate region (1) and a trench gate region (2), which are respectively disposed at both sides of the source region (3). A planar gate and a trench gate are compositely disposed on the same cell (16), thereby greatly improving chip density while retaining both trench gate's features of low on-state energy loss and high current density and planar gate's feature of wide safe operating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ZHUZHOU CRRC TIMES ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guoyou Liu, Chunlin Zhu, Liheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210028278
    Abstract: An IGBT chip having a mixed gate structure includes a plurality of mixed gate units. Each of the mixed gate units includes a source region (3) and a gate region. The gate region includes a planar gate region (1) and a trench gate region (2), which are respectively disposed at both sides of the source region (3). A planar gate and a trench gate are compositely disposed on the same cell (16), thereby greatly improving chip density while retaining both trench gate's features of low on-state energy loss and high current density and planar gate's feature of wide safe operating area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Guoyou Liu, Chunlin Zhu, Liheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210013330
    Abstract: An IGBT chip having a ?-shape mixed gate structure includes a plurality of mixed gate units. Each of the mixed gate units includes a gate region and two active regions located at two sides of the gate region. The gate region includes a trench gate and a planar gate that is located on a surface of the gate region, and the planar gate is connected with the trench gate and formed a ?-shape mixed structure. In this way, the IGBT chip can have a significantly improved chip density, while retaining features of low power consumption and high current density of the trench gate and a feature of a wide safe operating area of the planar gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Guoyou Liu, Chunlin Zhu, Liheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20180151710
    Abstract: Disclosed is a trench gate IGBT. A dummy gate is arranged between two real gates. An emitter metal is in contact with the dummy gate, so that an emitter metal contact area is not limited to an area between trenches. The emitter metal contact area includes an area where the emitter metal is in contact with the dummy gate, thereby enlarging the emitter metal contact area, and accordingly reducing a distance between each of the real gates and the dummy gate. Consequently, the distance between each of the real gates and the dummy gate is no longer affected by a minimum emitter contact area, and a turn-on voltage drop of the trench gate IGBT can be greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Guoyou LIU, Liheng ZHU, Jianwei HUANG, Haihui LUO, Canjian TAN, Xinzhu YANG, Qiang XIAO, Gao WEN
  • Patent number: D805525
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Branch Banking and Trust Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Dascola, Dan Mauney, Seneca Meyer, Matthew Spriggs, Liheng Zhu
  • Patent number: D854030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Branch Banking and Trust Company
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dascola, Dan Mauney, Seneca Meyer, Matthew Spriggs, Liheng Zhu
  • Patent number: D892143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dascola, Dan Mauney, Seneca Meyer, Matthew Spriggs, Liheng Zhu
  • Patent number: D892144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dascola, Dan Mauney, Seneca Meyer, Matthew Spriggs, Liheng Zhu
  • Patent number: D941840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dascola, Dan Mauney, Seneca Meyer, Matthew Spriggs, Liheng Zhu
  • Patent number: D993973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dascola, Dan Mauney, Seneca Meyer, Matthew Spriggs, Liheng Zhu