Patents by Inventor Vincent Chou

Vincent Chou 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: 20240162030
    Abstract: A lamp and epitaxial processing apparatus are described herein. In one example, the lamp includes a bulb, a filament, and a plurality of filament supports disposed in spaced-apart relation to the filament, each of the filament supports having a hook support and a hook. The hook includes a connector configured to fasten the hook to the hook support, a first vertical portion extending from the connector toward the filament, and a rounded portion extending from an end of the first vertical portion distal from the connector and configured to wrap around the filament. A second vertical portion extends from an end of the rounded portion distal from the first vertical portion and the second vertical portion has a length between 60% and 100% of the length of the first vertical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Yao-Hung YANG, Shantanu Rajiv GADGIL, Kaushik RAO, Vincent Joseph KIRCHHOFF, Sagir KADIWALA, Munirah MAHYUDIN, Daniel CHOU
  • Patent number: 10307978
    Abstract: To control compressed air to a prescribed pressure without using a relief valve and a chamber and to suppress deviation of the pressure. A compressor device 2 of a puncture repair kit 1 has a pressure gauge 6. The pressure gauge 6 has a tubular body portion 18 provided in a front end portion with a communicating hole 21 communicating with a surge chamber 12B, a piston 19 movable within the tubular body portion 18 in the longitudinal direction by the compressed air from the communicating hole 21, and a spring 20 biasing the piston 19 toward the front end and changing its displacement according to the magnitude of the pressure of the compressed air. An exhaust port 25 is formed on the peripheral wall of the tubular body portion 18. The exhaust port 25 releases the compressed air when a seal ring 23 of the piston 19 exceeds the exhaust port 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., UNIK WORLD IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kawatani, Tsutomu Kono, Vincent Chou
  • Patent number: 9956730
    Abstract: The pressure of compressed air supplied to an object to be filled with air is controlled at a specified pressure or less without using a relief valve. Given that a cylinder volume (stroke volume) during a piston moves from the lower dead point to the top dead point is V1, a cylinder volume (compression volume) when the piston reaches the top dead point is V2, the atmospheric pressure is P0, and the specified pressure is PP, the compression volume V2 in the compressor system satisfies the following expression (1). The diameter D of the air intake hole of an air intake valve provided on the piston is 3 to 15 mm. 0.8×{V1×P0/(PP?P0)}=<V2<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., UNIK WORLD IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kono, Yoshihide Kojima, Vincent Chou
  • Publication number: 20170015072
    Abstract: To control compressed air to a prescribed pressure without using a relief valve and a chamber and to suppress deviation of the pressure. A compressor device 2 of a puncture repair kit 1 has a pressure gauge 6. The pressure gauge 6 has a tubular body portion 18 provided in a front end portion with a communicating hole 21 communicating with a surge chamber 12B, a piston 19 movable within the tubular body portion 18 in the longitudinal direction by the compressed air from the communicating hole 21, and a spring 20 biasing the piston 19 toward the front end and changing its displacement according to the magnitude of the pressure of the compressed air. An exhaust port 25 is formed on the peripheral wall of the tubular body portion 18. The exhaust port 25 releases the compressed air when a seal ring 23 of the piston 19 exceeds the exhaust port 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., UNIK WORLD IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko KAWATANI, Tsutomu KONO, Vincent CHOU
  • Publication number: 20150246490
    Abstract: The pressure of compressed air supplied to an object to be filled with air is controlled at a specified pressure or less without using a relief valve. Given that a cylinder volume (stroke volume) during a piston moves from the lower dead point to the top dead point is V1, a cylinder volume (compression volume) when the piston reaches the top dead point is V2, the atmospheric pressure is P0, and the specified pressure is PP, the compression volume V2 in the compressor system satisfies the following expression (1). The diameter D of the air intake hole of an air intake valve provided on the piston is 3 to 15 mm. 0.8×{V1×P0/(PP?P0)}=<V2<1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicants: UNIK WORLD IND. CO., LTD., SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kono, Yoshihide Kojima, Vincent Chou
  • Publication number: 20090242651
    Abstract: The present invention supports the remote control of an environmental unit based on an effective temperature that is indicative of a comfort index to an occupant of a controlled environmental space. The remote controller obtains a plurality of environmental factors, e.g., temperature, relative humidity, and air speed, in order to determine an effective temperature. When the effective temperature is sufficiently different from a set point temperature, the remote controller activates an environmental unit to change the effective temperature in accordance with the set point temperature. The environmental unit may include an air conditioner, furnace, or heat pump. Also, the remote controller may communicate with at least one remote sensor over a wireless communications channel in order to obtain the environmental factors for determining the effective temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Computime, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wai-leung Ha, Kairy Kai Lei, Robert Vincent Chou
  • Patent number: 7547201
    Abstract: A compact simplified compressor apparatus is provided with a rotating shaft rotationally driven by a motor, a compact compressor activated by the rotating shaft, an air feeding means for feeding a high-pressure air from the compact compressor to a tire, and a power source plug supplying an electricity to the motor. The compact compressor is provided with a rod attached to the rotating shaft via a crank, a piston having a peripheral groove in an outer peripheral surface and integrally formed with the rod, a cylinder having a cylinder chamber receiving the piston so as to freely reciprocate, and a ring seal sealing between the piston and an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder chamber. The ring seal is provided with a base portion having a base surface seating on a groove wall surface in the rod side of the peripheral groove, and inner and outer lip portions, each extending from the base portion toward radially inside and outside so as to be opened toward the opposite rod side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Vincent Chou
  • Publication number: 20050265873
    Abstract: A compact simplified compressor apparatus is provided with a rotating shaft rotationally driven by a motor, a compact compressor activated by the rotating shaft, an air feeding means for feeding a high-pressure air from the compact compressor to a tire, and a power source plug supplying an electricity to the motor. The compact compressor is provided with a rod attached to the rotating shaft via a crank, a piston having a peripheral groove in an outer peripheral surface and integrally formed with the rod, a cylinder having a cylinder chamber receiving the piston so as to freely reciprocate, and a ring seal sealing between the piston and an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder chamber. The ring seal is provided with a base portion having a base surface seating on a groove wall surface in the rod side of the peripheral groove, and inner and outer lip portions, each extending from the base portion toward radially inside and outside so as to be opened toward the opposite rod side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Vincent Chou