Patents Assigned to Alpha Networks Inc.
  • Patent number: 7513298
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cooling element for eliminating electromagnetic noise, which is formed by bending a plate into a symmetric structure symmetrically comprising a contact part being in connect with an electronic component to absorb heat and noise radiated therefrom; an extension part having one end connected with said contact part to absorb heat and noise from said contact part; and a dissipation part connected with the other end of said extension part to absorb heat and noise from said extension part; wherein the noises absorbed by the cooling element are transmitted along the paths among the contact part, extension part and the dissipation part, and are mutually offset with each other in accordance with the symmetric structure thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Hung Tsai
  • Publication number: 20090040373
    Abstract: An interface converting circuit applied between a 3D de-interlace chip and a rear-end image compression chip. The interface converting circuit includes: a reducing FPS circuit, for dividing a first vertical synchronization signal to generate a second vertical synchronization signal, and converting a first horizontal synchronization signal to a second horizontal synchronization signal by masking the first horizontal synchronization signal according to the second vertical synchronization signal; a pixel clock multiplier, for multiplying a first pixel clock signal to generate a second pixel clock signal; and, a data-width converter, for converting an input signal with M bits data width, which is transmitted at a frequency of the first pixel clock signal by the 3D de-interlace chip, to an output signal with M/2 bits data width, which is transmitted at a frequency of the second pixel clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: ALPHA NETWORKS INC.
    Inventor: CHUNG-MING LO
  • Publication number: 20090019296
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a network system for transmitting various signals and power, which comprises at least a power sourcing equipment and at least a powered device over a network. Each of the power sourcing equipment and the powered device has at least a port, wherein a first isolated conductor is disposed at one side of the port while a second isolated conductor is disposed at the other side of the port and creates a power circuit for transmitting power in combination with the first isolated conductor. Four differential signal pairs of the port, each with two conductors, are disposed between the first isolated conductor and the second isolated conductor, wherein each of the power sourcing equipment and the powered device transmits Ethernet signals through two of the differential signal pairs of its port and transmits other network signals through the other two differential signal pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Chi Huang
  • Publication number: 20080309559
    Abstract: An antenna body of a broadband inverted-F antenna is printed on a circuit board, wherein an interval is maintained between the antenna body and a grounding plane disposed at a position proximate to an edge of the circuit board. The antenna body is divided into a first, a second and a third portions. An end of the first portion is extended towards the grounding plane to form the short circuit line, and another end of the first portion is extended towards the grounding plane to form the feed line. A first end of the second portion is connected to another end of the first portion, a second end of the second portion is connected to an end of the third portion, and the first portion has a wire width smaller than the third portion, so that no metal is existing between the second and third portions and the grounding plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 7467302
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a secure connection mechanism capable of automatically negotiating password between a wireless client terminal and a wireless access terminal, wherein the wireless client terminal is provided with an application software, a control button and an output device. When the wireless client terminal is actuated and the control button is triggered, the secure connection mechanism is enabled by performing the steps of showing a prompt on the output device to instruct user to turn a switch button on the wireless access terminal to a secure connection mode and connecting the wireless client terminal with the wireless access terminal to establish an encryption/decryption mechanism for automatically negotiating a password required for the connection within a predetermined period through the encryption/decryption mechanism in a wireless communication way after being in the secure connection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Yueh-Feng Kao, Chiung-Hui Wang, Ming-Hao Chou, Yuan-Yu Peng
  • Patent number: 7466276
    Abstract: An antenna body of a broadband inverted-F antenna is printed on a circuit board, wherein an interval is maintained between the antenna body and a grounding plane disposed at a position proximate to an edge of the circuit board. The antenna body is divided into a first, a second and a third portions. An end of the first portion is extended towards the grounding plane to form the short circuit line, and another end of the first portion is extended towards the grounding plane to form the feed line. A first end of the second portion is connected to another end of the first portion, a second end of the second portion is connected to an end of the third portion, and the first portion has a wire width smaller than the third portion, so that no metal is existing between the second and third portions and the grounding plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Chuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20080225809
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a topology system of wireless network with dynamic balance comprising at least one subsidiary topology system of wireless network each having a plurality of access points and only one access point automatically becomes a root access point which operates on a channel different from others, and dynamically generates an unique derivative group ID different from others as the root access point linked with a wired network; other access points not linked with the wired network join one of subsidiary topology systems of wireless network according to loading and dataflow of the subsidiary topology systems of wireless network, and automatically become either a pure access point or an escape access point, dynamically generate an unique derivative group ID same as those linked with other root access points, and operate on a channel same as those linked with other root access points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Wang Guo
  • Patent number: 7412245
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dynamic wireless meshing network system, which applies a management frame stipulated in IEEE 802.11 standard for regulating access point (AP) to a wireless distribution system (WDS) mode and adds an information element (IE) to the management frame, enabling an AP to select another AP having smaller hop count value and service hop count value to establish a wireless link therewith according to information in a hop count field and a service hop count field of the IE provided by the another AP and to determine whether a wireless link therebetween should be established according to information of real time network flow in a RunOutofVport field of the same IE for achieving the goal of establishing a dynamic wireless meshing network system with high efficiency, low loading and simple topology for supporting load balance and flow control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Wang Guo
  • Publication number: 20080180326
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pendulum-shaped microstrip antenna structure which is manufactured in form of a metal microstrip on a side of the printed circuit board and installed at a distal end of the printed circuit board, when the pendulum-shaped antenna is installed onto a printed circuit board of a wireless electronic product. The pendulum-shaped microstrip antenna structure includes a signal feeding portion and an antenna portion sequentially installed in the direction from the printed circuit board to its distal end, and the pendulum-shaped antenna is extended outward, so that a current transmitted from the pendulum-shaped antenna can be distributed uniformly onto the signal feeding portion and the antenna portion to achieve the effects of improving the bandwidth of the pendulum-shaped antenna, reducing the feeding inductance, and providing sufficient bandwidth for the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 7401755
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a dual-purpose position structure used as a hook and a dock comprising a base and another base, wherein the base is sheathed into the another base along a guiding track and two sides of a sliding trench of the base by using a guiding trench and two sides of a sliding plate of the another base, the another base is adjusted by engaging between a saw-toothed part of an elastic arm and a saw-toothed surface of the guiding track to form a dock with a size-adjustable containing space for setting an electronic apparatus therein or being hanged inversely on an office partition as a hook. At least one buckling device located on the supporting plate of the another base can be assembled with at least another buckling device located on a surface of the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Ching Wu
  • Publication number: 20080165021
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus and a method for determining the voltage level of a first signal from a playback device having an interface in compliance with an industrial standard. According to the method, first receive the first signal by a signal receiving pin electrically coupled to a signal transmitting pin of the interface. Then output a first output voltage by processing the first signal by the combination of a first zener diode and a first transistor and a second output voltage by processing the first signal by the combination of a second zener diode and a second transistor. Thus the voltage level of the first signal can be determined according to the first output voltage and the second output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: ALPHA NETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ke, Chi-Sen Liu
  • Publication number: 20080155047
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for managing and setting many network devices, and the method is applied in a network management system. The network management system includes a management server and a plurality of network devices. The management server searches a network device connected to the management server and specifies one of the network devices connected to the management server as a master network device, and then searches all network devices that can be connected to the master network device. The searched network devices are set as candidate network devices and at least one candidate network device is set as a slave network device of the master network device, such that a single IP address of the master network device can be used for managing the slave network devices, and the management server can be used for managing many network devices distributed at different places.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Chuang, Chih-Ta Lin
  • Patent number: 7385935
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an IP address parameter setting method to prevent from setting incorrect parameter and interrupting the operation of a remote network apparatus when setting up the IP address parameter of the remote network apparatus again, which comprises the steps of activating a timer for time counting, enabling to receive a control confirmation of a control platform within a configured time and, if no control confirmation is received within the configured time, restoring the IP address parameter to a backup IP address parameter, allowing the control platform to manage the remote network apparatus and set up the address parameter of the remote network apparatus again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc
    Inventor: Ying-Hui Huang
  • Patent number: 7362723
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a wireless routing mechanism by applying a management frame defined in IEEE 802.11 standard to different access points (AP) in a wireless distribution system (WDS) and adding an information element (IE) to the management frame, enabling any AP to be capable of maintaining the integrity of IE based on its own setting and state, determining other APs' operations in WDS based on a received IE and determining whether a physical link (i.e., wireless link) between itself and any of other APs should be established to provide a channel for sending data frames therebetween and automatically establishing a stable, flexible and expansible wireless network topology in a wire network infrastructure based on information contained in a plurality of fields of the IE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Wang Guo, Jen-Sheng Huang, Chun-Fu Wang
  • Patent number: 7356433
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an apparatus of automatically detecting the type of a cable connected to a network and method thereof, which comprising a memory having an automatic detection program, a switch, a network controller adapted to switch the state of the switch based on a predetermined switching order stored in the automatic detection program, a port having its state being detected by the network controller such that the automatic detection program is able to know the type of a compatible cable by connecting a connector at one end of the cable to the port, and a plurality of transmission interfaces interconnected the network controller and the switch wherein the network apparatus is adapted to receive network signals transmitted from the cable and maintain a connecting state of one transmission interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 7340363
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an apparatus of automatically detecting the type of a cable connected to a network and method thereof, which comprising a memory having an automatic detection program, a switch, a network controller adapted to switch the state of the switch based on a predetermined switching order stored in the automatic detection program, a port having its state being detected by the network controller such that the automatic detection program is able to know the type of a compatible cable by connecting a connector at one end of the cable to the port, and a plurality of transmission interfaces interconnected the network controller and the switch wherein the network apparatus is adapted to receive network signals transmitted from the cable and maintain a connecting state of one transmission interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 7325945
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an electronic device having a plurality of light emitting units, which are arranged on a panel of the electronic device above each ports thereon in an alternating pattern or in a chess-board pattern with high density, such that the number of the light emitting units disposed on the panel can be increased and the lights emitted by light emitting elements thereof can easily be recognized without causing the spill interference effect between the adjacent light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Chi-Yung Ko
  • Publication number: 20070163763
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cooling element for eliminating electromagnetic noise, which is formed by bending a plate into a symmetric structure symmetrically comprising a contact part being in connect with an electronic component to absorb heat and noise radiated therefrom; an extension part having one end connected with said contact part to absorb heat and noise from said contact part; and a dissipation part connected with the other end of said extension part to absorb heat and noise from said extension part; wherein the noises absorbed by the cooling element are transmitted along the paths among the contact part, extension part and the dissipation part, and are mutually offset with each other in accordance with the symmetric structure thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Hung Tsai
  • Publication number: 20070152905
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an intelligent antenna mounted on a circuit board including an antenna diversity transceiver circuit connected to an intermediate third end of a T-shaped connecting member, and a first and a second antenna units connected to two symmetric ends of the T-shaped connecting member respectively, wherein two radio frequency switches are interconnected the second antenna unit and one of the two symmetric ends through two transmission lines respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Hao Yeh
  • Patent number: 7221240
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a narrow bandpass filter installed on a circuit board for suppressing a high-frequency harmonic wave, which uses a metal microstrip method to directly build a microstrip circuit corresponding to a narrow bandpass filter on a circuit board of a wireless communication product and uses an interdigital finger method to lay a capacitor microstrip of the microstrip circuit on the circuit board to avoid the capacitor microstrip occupying too much area of the circuit board and maximizes the usable space of the circuit board, so that the wireless communication product can suppress a second or higher harmonic spurious noise of the wireless communication product without using an additional high-frequency filter, and thus can greatly lower the manufacturing cost of the wireless communication product and effectively reduce the electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Chen Chang