Patents by Inventor Ming-Chi Chang

Ming-Chi 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: 20240136226
    Abstract: An ammonium fluoride gas may be used to form a protection layer for one or more interlayer dielectric layers, one or more insulating caps, and/or one or more source/drain regions of a semiconductor device during a pre-clean etch process. The protection layer can be formed through an oversupply of nitrogen trifluoride during the pre-clean etch process. The oversupply of nitrogen trifluoride causes an increased formation of ammonium fluoride, which coats the interlayer dielectric layer(s), the insulating cap(s), and/or the source/drain region(s) with a thick protection layer. The protection layer protects the interlayer dielectric layer(s), the insulating cap(s), and/or the source/drain region(s) during the pre-clean process from being etched by fluorine ions formed during the pre-clean process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Li-Wei CHU, Ying-Chi SU, Yu-Kai CHEN, Wei-Yip LOH, Hung-Hsu CHEN, Chih-Wei CHANG, Ming-Hsing TSAI
  • Publication number: 20240118073
    Abstract: Manufacturing of a shoe is enhanced by creating 3-D models of shoe parts. For example, a laser beam may be projected onto a shoe-part surface, such that a projected laser line appears on the shoe part. An image of the projected laser line may be analyzed to determine coordinate information, which may be converted into geometric coordinate values usable to create a 3-D model of the shoe part. Once a 3-D model is known and is converted to a coordinate system recognized by shoe-manufacturing tools, certain manufacturing steps may be automated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick C. Regan, Chih-Chi Chang, Kuo-Hung Lee, Ming-Feng Jean
  • Patent number: 11953877
    Abstract: Manufacturing of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by executing various shoe-manufacturing processes in an automated fashion. For example, information describing a shoe part may be determined, such as an identification, an orientation, a color, a surface topography, an alignment, a size, etc. Based on the information describing the shoe part, automated shoe-manufacturing apparatuses may be instructed to apply various shoe-manufacturing processes to the shoe part, such as a pickup and placement of the shoe part with a pickup tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NILE, Inc.
    Inventors: Dragan Jurkovic, Patrick Conall Regan, Chih-Chi Chang, Chang-chu Liao, Ming-Feng Jean, Kuo-Hung Lee, Yen-Hsi Liu, Hung-Yu Wu
  • Publication number: 20240087057
    Abstract: A power consumption monitoring device includes a sensor, a storage, and a processor. The sensor is configured to detect a power-consuming device quantity and a power consumption amount. The storage is configured to store the power-consuming device quantity and the power consumption amount. The processor is communicatively connected to the sensor and the storage. The processor is configured to calculate a power-consuming device idling indicator based on the power-consuming device quantity and the power consumption amount in a monitoring time interval, wherein the power-consuming device idling indicator is used for indicating a deviation status of the power-consuming device quantity and the power consumption amount. The processor is further configured to determine whether the power-consuming device idling indicator exceeds a warning threshold. In response to the power-consuming device idling indicator exceeding the warning threshold, the processor is further configured to generate a warning message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Chao CHEN, Ming-Chi CHANG, Chih-Pin WEI, Ke-Li WU, Hua-Hsiu CHIANG, Yu-Lun CHANG
  • Publication number: 20240080505
    Abstract: A method, comprising: detecting an outage of at least one functionality in a live streaming; performing an first operation toward a second user terminal; storing data of the first operation in a database of the first user terminal; and displaying an effect corresponding to the first operation during the outage. The present disclosure may store the data of operation performed by the user terminal during outage and process the operation after the outage is recovered. Therefore, the streamers and viewers may feel interested and satisfied, instead of feeling anxious, and the user experience may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yung-Chi HSU, Hsing-Yu TSAI, Chia-Han CHANG, Yi-Jou LEE, Ming-Che CHENG
  • Publication number: 20240071408
    Abstract: A system may include a first acoustic event detection (AED) component configured to detect a predetermined set of acoustic events, and include a second AED component configured to detect custom acoustic events that a user configures a device to detect. The first and second AED components are configured to perform task-specific processing, and may receive as input the same acoustic feature data corresponding to audio data that potentially represents occurrence of one or more events. Based on processing by the first and second AED components, a device may output data indicating that one or more acoustic events occurred, where the acoustic events may be a predetermined acoustic event and/or a custom acoustic event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Qingming Tang, Chieh-Chi Kao, Qin Zhang, Ming Sun, Chao Wang, Sumit Garg, Rong Chen, James Garnet Droppo, Chia-Jung Chang
  • Patent number: 11915976
    Abstract: An ammonium fluoride gas may be used to form a protection layer for one or more interlayer dielectric layers, one or more insulating caps, and/or one or more source/drain regions of a semiconductor device during a pre-clean etch process. The protection layer can be formed through an oversupply of nitrogen trifluoride during the pre-clean etch process. The oversupply of nitrogen trifluoride causes an increased formation of ammonium fluoride, which coats the interlayer dielectric layer(s), the insulating cap(s), and/or the source/drain region(s) with a thick protection layer. The protection layer protects the interlayer dielectric layer(s), the insulating cap(s), and/or the source/drain region(s) during the pre-clean process from being etched by fluorine ions formed during the pre-clean process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Wei Chu, Ying-Chi Su, Yu-Kai Chen, Wei-Yip Loh, Hung-Hsu Chen, Chih-Wei Chang, Ming-Hsing Tsai
  • Patent number: 11256974
    Abstract: A user terminal hardware detection system includes a computing device and an oscilloscope communicatively coupled to the computing device. The oscilloscope obtains a digital signal waveform diagram of a user terminal and sends the digital signal waveform diagram to the computing device. The computing device performs feature recognition on the digital signal waveform diagram using a fault analysis model to identify feature information of the digital signal waveform diagram. The computing device compares the identified feature information to feature information of a faulty hardware module and a fault type of the faulty hardware module in a fault type database. The computing device outputs the faulty hardware module and the fault type of the faulty hardware module represented by the feature information of the digital signal waveform diagram according to a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (ZHENGZHOU) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiang-Feng Shan, Yi-Tao Kao, Ming-Chi Chang, Zhi-Xian Zhuang, Ji-Xiang Yin
  • Publication number: 20200380337
    Abstract: A user terminal hardware detection system includes a computing device and an oscilloscope communicatively coupled to the computing device. The oscilloscope obtains a digital signal waveform diagram of a user terminal and sends the digital signal waveform diagram to the computing device. The computing device performs feature recognition on the digital signal waveform diagram using a fault analysis model to identify feature information of the digital signal waveform diagram. The computing device compares the identified feature information to feature information of a faulty hardware module and a fault type of the faulty hardware module in a fault type database. The computing device outputs the faulty hardware module and the fault type of the faulty hardware module represented by the feature information of the digital signal waveform diagram according to a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: JIANG-FENG SHAN, YI-TAO KAO, MING-CHI CHANG, ZHI-XIAN ZHUANG, JI-XIANG YIN
  • Patent number: 10648112
    Abstract: A cloth washing device contains a washing machine and a fiber opener. The washing machine includes multiple transmission rollers arranged on water and multiple bearings fixed in the water. The fiber opener includes multiple transmission rollers arranged on the water, multiple bearings fixed in the water, and at least two mesh wheels arranged in the water. The fiber opener is mounted behind the washing machine, and a cloth is delivered between the washing machine and the fiber opener by way of the multiple transmission rollers and the multiple bearings of the washing machine and the fiber opener and the least two mesh wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Mircoson Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Chi Chang, Kuei-Feng Chen, Jhen-Long Chen
  • Publication number: 20190127899
    Abstract: A cloth washing device contains: a washing machine and a fiber opener. The washing machine includes multiple transmission rollers arranged on water and multiple bearings fixed in the water. The fiber opener includes multiple transmission rollers arranged on the water, multiple bearings fixed in the water, and at least two mesh wheels arranged in the water. The fiber opener is mounted behind the washing machine, and a cloth is delivered between the washing machine and the fiber opener by way of the multiple transmission rollers and the multiple bearings of the washing machine and the fiber opener and the least two mesh wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ming-Chi Chang, Kuei-Feng Chen, Jhen-Long Chen
  • Patent number: 8059195
    Abstract: An electronic device with slideable covers is provided. The electronic device includes a main body. Two sliding slots are defined in each of side surfaces of the main body, and a receiving space is defined in one end of each sliding slot, another receiving space is defined in opposite end of each sliding slot. The sliding slots communicate with the receiving spaces defined in two opposite ends of the sliding slot, and the width of the sliding slots is less than the width of the receiving spaces. The electronic device further includes two covers and four connecting members. Each cover includes two rings for fixing two connecting members. The connecting members slideably connect the covers to the main body. The connecting members are able to slide in the sliding slots and the receiving spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao Wang, Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D622572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D623919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D626748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D640117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D646061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D668455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D671179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: D681842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Body Action Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Chi Chang