Patents by Inventor Shawn Yu
Shawn Yu 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).
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Patent number: 6920727Abstract: A space-dividing wall panel arrangement having a plurality of upright wall panels serially connected one with the other by an upright support post. The wall panel arrangement additionally includes an open-frame structure which allows routing of cabling therethrough to provide power and communication capabilities to a workstation defined by the wall panels, and a removable and rigid top cap which is capable of supporting various furniture-type accessories at selected locations along the longitudinal extent of the panel arrangement, and which also permits mounting of return wall panels to permit greater flexibility in configuring a workstation.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2001Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: X. Shawn Yu, Steven A. Heyer
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Patent number: 6869330Abstract: A photonically engineered incandescence is disclosed. The emitter materials and photonic crystal structure can be chosen to modify or suppress thermal radiation above a cutoff wavelength, causing the emitter to selectively emit in the visible and near-infrared portions of the spectrum. An efficient incandescent lamp is enabled thereby. A method for fabricating a three-dimensional photonic crystal of a structural material, suitable for the incandescent emitter, is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2003Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James M. Gee, Shawn-Yu Lin, James G. Fleming, James B. Moreno
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Patent number: 6848369Abstract: A workstation and a power and telecommunication arrangement therefor which together define a work area and, more specifically, to an improved workstation which includes a console supported on a worksurface or table and housing one or more electrical power receptacles and/or communication receptacles and the cabling associated therewith, and an elongate and flexible raceway assembly which provides an enclosed conduit for feeding power and communication cabling into and out of the console and which is capable of distributing such cabling along a series of interconnected workstations.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: Steven Jay King, Harold R. Wilson, Charles J. Saylor, X. Shawn Yu, Clifford Wayne Nelson, Robert Clare Wayner, Barry Lee Andersen, David E. Emery
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Patent number: 6812482Abstract: A new class of processes suited to the fabrication of layered material compositions is disclosed. Layered material compositions are typically three-dimensional structures which can be decomposed into a stack of structured layers. The best known examples are the photonic lattices. The present invention combines the characteristic features of photolithography and chemical-mechanical polishing to permit the direct and facile fabrication of, e.g., photonic lattices having photonic bandgaps in the 0.1-20&mgr; spectral range.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin
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Patent number: 6807353Abstract: A microfabricated Bragg waveguide of semiconductor-compatible material having a hollow core and a multilayer dielectric cladding can be fabricated by integrated circuit technologies. The microfabricated Bragg waveguide can comprise a hollow channel waveguide or a hollow fiber. The Bragg fiber can be fabricated by coating a sacrificial mandrel or mold with alternating layers of high- and low-refractive-index dielectric materials and then removing the mandrel or mold to leave a hollow tube with a multilayer dielectric cladding. The Bragg channel waveguide can be fabricated by forming a trench embedded in a substrate and coating the inner wall of the trench with a multilayer dielectric cladding. The thicknesses of the alternating layers can be selected to satisfy the condition for minimum radiation loss of the guided wave.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin, G. Ronald Hadley
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Patent number: 6768256Abstract: A light source is provided by a photonic crystal having an enhanced photonic density-of-states over a band of frequencies and wherein at least one of the dielectric materials of the photonic crystal has a complex dielectric constant, thereby producing enhanced light emission at the band of frequencies when the photonic crystal is heated. The dielectric material can be a metal, such as tungsten. The spectral properties of the light source can be easily tuned by modification of the photonic crystal structure and materials. The photonic crystal light source can be heated electrically or other heating means. The light source can further include additional photonic crystals that exhibit enhanced light emission at a different band of frequencies to provide for color mixing. The photonic crystal light source may have applications in optical telecommunications, information displays, energy conversion, sensors, and other optical applications.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin, James A. Bur
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Publication number: 20040130109Abstract: This invention relates to a space-dividing wall panel system having a plurality of base panels which are serially connectable one with the other to define a vertically enlarged wall supported on a floor. Each base panel is defined by at least one horizontal box-beam rigidly connected to a pair of laterally spaced apart vertical uprights which are connected at the opposite ends of the box-beam and have a reduced thickness compared thereto. With this clearance between the faces of the box-beam and the uprights, the box-beam, cross rails at the ends of the uprights as well as additional extension panels are formed with longitudinally extending channels which are positioned free of interference with the vertical uprights and aligned with serially-adjacent channels of serially-adjacent wall panels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: X. Shawn Yu, Bryan R. Gingrich, Robert L. Tuttle, Keith Foco
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Patent number: 6674778Abstract: A highly efficient, electrically pumped edge-emitting semiconductor laser based on a one- or two-dimensional photonic bandgap (PBG) structure is described. The laser optical cavity is formed using a pair of PBG mirrors operating in the photonic band gap regime. Transverse confinement is achieved by surrounding an active semiconductor layer of high refractive index with lower-index cladding layers. The cladding layers can be electrically insulating in the passive PBG mirror and waveguide regions with a small conducting aperture for efficient channeling of the injection pump current into the active region. The active layer can comprise a quantum well structure. The quantum well structure can be relaxed in the passive regions to provide efficient extraction of laser light from the active region.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Shawn-Yu Lin, Walter J. Zubrzycki
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Patent number: 6658805Abstract: A space-dividing wall panel system having a plurality of base panels which are serially connectable one with the other to define a vertically enlarged wall supported on a floor. Each base panel is defined by at least one horizontal box-beam rigidly connected to a pair of laterally spaced apart vertical uprights which are connected at the opposite ends of the box-beam and have a reduced thickness compared thereto. With this clearance between the faces of the box-beam and the uprights, the box-beam, cross rails at the ends of the uprights as well as additional extension panels are formed with longitudinally extending channels which are positioned free of interference with the vertical uprights and aligned with serially-adjacent channels of serially-adjacent wall panels.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: X. Shawn Yu, Bryan R. Gingrich, Robert L. Tuttle, Keith Foco
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Patent number: 6611085Abstract: A photonically engineered incandescence is disclosed. The emitter materials and photonic crystal structure can be chosen to modify or suppress thermal radiation above a cutoff wavelength, causing the emitter to selectively emit in the visible and near-infrared portions of the spectrum. An efficient incandescent lamp is enabled thereby. A method for fabricating a three-dimensional photonic crystal of a structural material, suitable for the incandescent emitter, is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2001Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James M. Gee, Shawn-Yu Lin, James G. Fleming, James B. Moreno
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Publication number: 20030132705Abstract: A photonically engineered incandescence is disclosed. The emitter materials and photonic crystal structure can be chosen to modify or suppress thermal radiation above a cutoff wavelength, causing the emitter to selectively emit in the visible and near-infrared portions of the spectrum. An efficient incandescent lamp is enabled thereby. A method for fabricating a three-dimensional photonic crystal of a structural material, suitable for the incandescent emitter, is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2003Publication date: July 17, 2003Inventors: James M. Gee, Shawn-Yu Lin, James G. Fleming, James B. Moreno
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Patent number: 6583350Abstract: A method for thermophotovoltaic generation of electricity comprises heating a metallic photonic crystal to provide selective emission of radiation that is matched to the peak spectral response of a photovoltaic cell that converts the radiation to electricity. The use of a refractory metal, such as tungsten, for the photonic crystal enables high temperature operation for high radiant flux and high dielectric contrast for a full 3D photonic bandgap, preferable for efficient thermophotovoltaic energy conversion.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James M. Gee, Shawn-Yu Lin, James G. Fleming, James B. Moreno
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Publication number: 20030104700Abstract: A new class of processes suited to the fabrication of layered material compositions is disclosed. Layered material compositions are typically three-dimensional structures which can be decomposed into a stack of structured layers. The best known examples are the photonic lattices. The present invention combines the characteristic features of photolithography and chemical-mechanical polishing to permit the direct and facile fabrication of, e.g., photonic lattices having photonic bandgaps in the 0.1-20 &mgr; spectral range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2001Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: James G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin
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Patent number: 6448498Abstract: A flexible raceway arrangement for routing power and/or communication cabling to a work area. The raceway arrangement includes an elongate support member which mounts thereon a plurality of raceway covers arranged along the support member in side-by-side relation with one another to define an elongate raceway run. The individual side covers are pivotably openable to provide access to cabling within the interior thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: Steven Jay King, Charles J. Saylor, X. Shawn Yu, Clifford Wayne Nelson, Robert Clare Wayner, Barry Lee Andersen, David E. Emery
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Publication number: 20020108330Abstract: A space-dividing wall panel arrangement having a plurality of upright wall panels serially connected one with the other by an upright support post. The wall panel arrangement additionally includes an open-frame structure which allows routing of cabling therethrough to provide power and communication capabilities to a workstation defined by the wall panels, and a removable and rigid top cap which is capable of supporting various furniture-type accessories at selected locations along the longitudinal extent of the panel arrangement, and which also permits mounting of return wall panels to permit greater flexibility in configuring a workstation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2001Publication date: August 15, 2002Inventors: X. Shawn Yu, Steven A. Heyer
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Patent number: 6414332Abstract: A new class of media for control of emission of thermal radiation from an object or part thereof is disclosed. These materials can be used for a wide variety of thermal control applications.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1999Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Shawn-Yu Lin, James G. Fleming
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Patent number: 6388795Abstract: A new class of structured dielectric media which exhibit significant photonic bandstructure has been invented. The new structures, called photonic layered media, are easy to fabricate using existing layer-by-layer growth techniques, and offer the ability to significantly extend our practical ability to tailor the properties of such optical materials.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin
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Publication number: 20020046852Abstract: A flexible raceway arrangement for routing power and/or communication cabling to a work area. The raceway arrangement includes an elongate support member which mounts thereon a plurality of raceway covers arranged along the support member in side-by-side relation with one another to define an elongate raceway run. The individual side covers are pivotably openable to provide access to cabling within the interior thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2000Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventors: Steven Jay King, Charles J. Saylor, X. Shawn Yu, Clifford Wayne Nelson, Robert Clare Wayner, Barry Lee Andersen, David E. Emery
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Patent number: 6358854Abstract: A new class of processes suited to the fabrication of layered material compositions is disclosed. Layered material compositions are typically three-dimensional structures which can be decomposed into a stack of structured layers. The best known examples are the photonic lattices. The present invention combines the characteristic features of photolithography and chemical-mechanical polishing to permit the direct and facile fabrication of, e.g., photonic lattices having photonic bandgaps in the 0.1-20&mgr; spectral range.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1999Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: James G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin
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Patent number: 6297496Abstract: A new class of photodetectors which include means for passive shielding against undesired thermal radiation is disclosed. Such devices can substitute in applications currently requiring cooled optical sensors, such as IR detection and imaging. This description is included for purposes of searching, and is not intended to limit or otherwise influence the interpretation of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Shawn-Yu Lin, James G. Fleming, Brian W. Dodson