Patents by Inventor Wei-Jen Chou

Wei-Jen 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: 20080043465
    Abstract: A light emitting device including a substrate, a plurality of light sources and a lens array is provided. The light sources and the lens array are disposed on the substrate, and the light sources are arranged to a polygon. The lens array includes a plurality of first lenses and a plurality of second lenses. The first lenses surrounded by the second lenses cover the light sources and respectively correspond to one of the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Jen Chou, Wei-Chih Wang
  • Publication number: 20060262817
    Abstract: A method for mounting a light emitting device on a circuit board includes: preparing a circuit board formed with at least one pair of conductive pads; applying a conductive paste on the conductive pads; preparing at least one light emitting unit that includes a light emitting chip and a pair of conductive contacts connected electrically to the light emitting chip; attaching the light emitting unit to the circuit board in such a manner that the conductive contacts are connected to the conductive pads, respectively, through the conductive paste; forming the conductive paste on the conductive pads into solid solder joints bonded to the conductive pads and the conductive contacts; and combining the light emitting unit with a lens cap unit after forming the solid solder joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Yu, Po-Chuan Kang, Wei-Jen Chou
  • Publication number: 20060245083
    Abstract: A lens defines central axis, and includes a light receiving surface, a light reflecting surface, and a light exiting surface. The light reflecting surface is opposite to the light receiving surface along the central axis. The light exiting surface extends between the light receiving surface and the light reflecting surface. When a light source emits a light, a portion of the light emitted by the light source passes through the light receiving surface, and is incident on and is reflected by the light reflecting surface to the light exiting surface so as to exit the lens in directions perpendicular to the light exiting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Wei-Jen Chou, Shih-Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20060245203
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light box, at least one light guide tube, and at least one light source. The light box has a light exit side. The light guide tube has a plurality of microstructures which are spaced apart along a length of the light guide tube. The light guide tube and the microstructures are disposed in the light box in a particular arrangement so that the microstructures are placed substantially in a matrix array within the light box. The light source is disposed adjacent to the light guide tube, and is operable so as to emit a light beam to the light guide tube. The microstructures disperse the light beam from the light guide tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Wei-Jen Chou, Po-Chuan Kang
  • Publication number: 20060232525
    Abstract: An illumination assembly includes a first diode row having first and second multi-chip LED units, and a second diode row having third and fourth multi-chip LED units. The first through fourth multi-chip LED units each includes red, green, and blue LEDs. Light of the red, green, and blue LEDs of the first through fourth multi-chip LED units has a respective primary emission direction (PED). The PEDs of same colored ones of the LEDs of the first and second multi-chip LED units are oriented along one direction. The PEDs of the remaining two LEDs of the first and second multi-chip LED units are oriented in opposite directions from each other. The PEDs of the LEDs of the third and fourth multi-chip LED units are oriented in opposite directions as compared to those of the LEDs of the first and second multi-chip LED units, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventor: Wei-Jen Chou
  • Patent number: 6661944
    Abstract: An optical add/drop multiplexer capable of extracting signals from within a specified waveband in a group of signals containing various wavelengths, and then adding back a new set of signals also within the specified waveband. The multiplexer includes an optical filter plate, a plane reflector and three graded-index lenses. Using a single optical filtering plate and a plane reflector to carry out multiple reflections, intra-band isolation of light signals is improved and cost of production is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shih-Chiang Lin, Wei-Jen Chou, Hsin-Chien Chiang, Jiun-Shyong Wu
  • Patent number: 6549686
    Abstract: This specification discloses a reflective optical circulator, which uses an optical reflective device to reflect an incident light beam from an optical port so that the reflected light beams further pass through all optical devices (i.e., all sorts of optical crystals) on the optical paths. With a proper reciprocal-non-reciprocal optical crystal combination, a particular linear polarization direction is generated to guide the reflected beams to the next optical port. The invention achieves the effect of repeatedly using crystals, lowering the number of crystals and the length of the optical circulator. On the other hand, all optical ports can be installed on the same side of the optical circulator, minimizing the device and making it easy to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chen-Bin Huang, Wei-Jen Chou
  • Publication number: 20020110305
    Abstract: This specification discloses a reflective optical circulator, which uses an optical reflective device to reflect an incident light beam from an optical port so that the reflected light beams further pass through all optical devices (i.e., all sorts of optical crystals) on the optical paths. With a proper reciprocal-non-reciprocal optical crystal combination, a particular linear polarization direction is generated to guide the reflected beams to the next optical port. The invention achieves the effect of repeatedly using crystals, lowering the number of crystals and the length of the optical circulator. On the other hand, all optical ports can be installed on the same side of the optical circulator, minimizing the device and making it easy to use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Chen-Bin Huang, Wei-Jen Chou
  • Publication number: 20020085264
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a polarization independent tunable acousto-optical filter and the corresponding method. The filter diffracts an input light beam into a first input light beam unaffected by acoustic waves and a second input light beam affected by acoustic waves. A polarization beam displacer/combiner is employed to separate the input light beam into two orthogonal beams. Several polarized rotators are used to rotate the polarization of light by 90 degrees. An acousto-optical device makes the polarization of light with a particular wavelength rotate by 90 degrees. The two beams are then properly combined to form orthogonal beams. The filtering method has nothing to do with the polarization of the incident light. The filter has such advantages as a high extinction ratio, a small volume and a lower cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Gung-Hwa Lean, Chen-Bin Huang, Wei-Jen Chou, Shu-Mei Yang, Chieh Hu
  • Publication number: 20020071630
    Abstract: A mechanism for fixing optical element that is applied to construct the optical element in an wavelength division multiplexer (WDM), or an dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM), the mechanism comprising a filter letting a beam of light with targeted wavelength pass through and in the meantime reflect the other beams of light (it is same on the other hand) and a holder being deployed in an optical pate of the WDM, which is tubular with a hollow part and having an incident end and an emitting end, and further there is a carry surface to let the filter be pasted on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Yeh-I Su, Wei-Jen Chou, Chieh Hu, Hsin-Chieh Chiang
  • Patent number: 6404549
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical circulator that comprises three ports with the property that light entered through the nth port is output through the (n+1)th port. It can be applied to optical fiber transmission of optical signals. It uses a reflector to make a two-core fiber collimator to be a first port and a second port of the optical circulator so as to minimize the optical circulator volume and to simplify the assembly procedure. A reciprocal crystal and a non-reciprocal crystal are combined to form an optical polarization controller to conquer such technical problems as the conjugate angle of the two-core collimator and the minimal polarization mode dispersion. In particular, the corresponding relation between the Faraday rotator and the birefringent crystal optical axis can be utilized to remove half-wave plates used in ordinary optical circulators, thus lowering manufacturing costs and complexities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chen-Bin Huang, Wei-Jen Chou, Chieh Hu
  • Patent number: 6404536
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a polarization independent tunable acousto-optical filter and the corresponding method. The filter diffracts an input light beam into a first input light beam unaffected by acoustic waves and a second input light beam affected by acoustic waves. A polarization beam displacer/combiner is employed to separate the input light beam into two orthogonal beams. Several polarized rotators are used to rotate the polarization of light by 90 degrees. An acousto-optical device makes the polarization of light with a particular wavelength rotate by 90 degrees. The two beams are then properly combined to form orthogonal beams. The filtering method has nothing to do with the polarization of the incident light. The filter has such advantages as a high extinction ratio, a small volume and a lower cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Eric Gung-Hwa Lean, Chen-Bin Huang, Wei-Jen Chou, Shu-Mei Yang, Chieh Hu