Patents by Inventor Cheng-Hsiung Lin
Cheng-Hsiung Lin 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: 11954453Abstract: Systems and methods for natural language generation by an edge computing device are disclosed. In one embodiments, a method comprises: receiving, by an edge computing device, event data from an edge event; determining, by the edge computing device, that a network connection to a cloud server is not available; extracting, by the edge computing device, features of the event data; predicting, by a local neural network of the edge computing device, an action for the edge computing device to take based on the features of the event data, wherein the action is associated with a confidence level; and determining, by the edge computing device, whether the confidence level meets a predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Chih-Hsiung Liu, I-Chien Lin, Cheng-Fang Lin, Joey H. Y. Tseng
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Publication number: 20240113221Abstract: A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure is provided. The FinFET device structure includes a plurality of fin structures above a substrate, an isolation structure over the substrate and between the fin structures, and a gate structure formed over the fin structure. The FinFET device structure includes a source/drain (S/D) structure over the fin structure, and the S/D structure is adjacent to the gate structure. The FinFET device structure also includes a metal silicide layer over the S/D structure, and the metal silicide layer is in contact with the isolation structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chun-Hsiung TSAI, Shahaji B. MORE, Cheng-Yi PENG, Yu-Ming LIN, Kuo-Feng YU, Ziwei FANG
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Patent number: 11942445Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a surface. The semiconductor device includes a conductive pad over a portion of the surface. The conductive pad has a curved top surface, and a width of the conductive pad increases toward the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a device over the conductive pad. The semiconductor device includes a solder layer between the device and the conductive pad. The solder layer covers the curved top surface of the conductive pad, and the conductive pad extends into the solder layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chen-En Yen, Chin-Wei Kang, Kai-Jun Zhan, Wen-Hsiung Lu, Cheng-Jen Lin, Ming-Da Cheng, Mirng-Ji Lii
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Publication number: 20230271451Abstract: An assembly has a wheel and a nonpneumatic tire. The nonpneumatic tire includes a plurality of helical springs. Each helical spring includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an arching middle portion. Each helical spring being is interlaced with at least one other helical spring thereby forming a laced toroidal structure extending about an entire circumference of the nonpneumatic tire. The toroidal structure supports an entire load placed on the nonpneumatic tire. The plurality of helical springs are constructed of a predetermined material that maintains strength and ductility down to 17 K.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Babatunde Omogbolahan Agboola, Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 11486797Abstract: A system is provided for estimating a tread depth of a tire supporting a vehicle. The tire includes a pair of sidewalls extending to a tread. The system includes a sensor unit, which includes a time of flight sensor. The sensor includes an emitter that emits a first pulse to an outer surface of the tread and a lens that captures the reflected first pulse. A processor measures a time from emission to capture of the first pulse, and calculates a tread surface distance from the time. The emitter emits a second pulse to a base of a tread groove and the lens captures the reflected second pulse. The processor measures a time from emission to capture of the second pulse, and calculates a reference distance from the time. The processor determines a depth of the tread from a difference between the tread surface distance and the reference distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Publication number: 20220155181Abstract: A system is provided for estimating a tread depth of a tire supporting a vehicle. The tire includes a pair of sidewalls extending to a tread. The system includes a sensor unit, which includes a time of flight sensor. The sensor includes an emitter that emits a first pulse to an outer surface of the tread and a lens that captures the reflected first pulse. A processor measures a time from emission to capture of the first pulse, and calculates a tread surface distance from the time. The emitter emits a second pulse to a base of a tread groove and the lens captures the reflected second pulse. The processor measures a time from emission to capture of the second pulse, and calculates a reference distance from the time. The processor determines a depth of the tread from a difference between the tread surface distance and the reference distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventor: Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 11285764Abstract: A control valve suitable for use with a tire and pump assembly is described that controls the flow of air from the pump into the tire. The control valve includes an optional bi-directional feature. The pathways alternatively operate to deliver ambient non-pressurized air to the air pumping tube in response to directional tire rotation against a ground surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Robin Lamgaday, Christos Tsionidis, Frank Herrigel, Marcus Boertje
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Patent number: 11273801Abstract: A control system for an air maintenance tire system is provided. The control system includes a sensor unit that in turn includes a pressure sensor for measuring a pressure in the tire cavity and an antenna for transmitting pressure data. A processor receives the pressure data and includes a memory for storing a predetermined low-pressure threshold. Actuation means that are in communication with the processor and actuate and de-actuate operation of the air maintenance tire system. A first signal is transmitted from the processor to the actuation means to actuate operation of the air maintenance tire system when the measured pressure in the tire cavity is below the threshold. A second signal is transmitted from the processor to the actuation means to de-actuate operation of the air maintenance tire system when the measured pressure in the tire cavity is at or above the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Cheng-Hsiung Lin, James Andrews Euchner
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Patent number: 11090984Abstract: A tread wear indicator is affixed to a respective tire tread element. The indicator is constructed as a plurality of electroactive sensor elements operatively configured and located to sequentially sacrificially abrade and change in electrical signal responsive to a progressive tread wear of the respective tread element. The electroactive elements are connected by printed circuitry that communicates an electrical signal to a passive RFID sensor tag that can be powered and read by a RFID reader.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Carl Trevor Ross Pulford, Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 11020921Abstract: A connecting member and method of forming the connecting member in an air maintenance tire is provided. The method includes providing a tire having a sidewall formed with an annular groove. The groove receives an annular air tube having a first end with a first fitting and a second end with a second fitting. A recess is formed in the tire sidewall along the annular groove at a location where the first end of the annular air tube is adjacent the second end of the annular air tube. A mold formed with a cavity is provided and the fittings are removably secured in the cavity. The mold is positioned on a surface of the tire sidewall and an elastomer or a polymer is introduced into the mold cavity. The mold is heated to form the connecting member on the tire sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Robin Lamgaday, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Dinesh Chandra, Arun Kumar Byatarayanapura Gopala, Sagar Dilip Bafana
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Patent number: 10935466Abstract: An integrated tire sensor and reader system includes at least one sensor unit mounted a tire or a wheel. A reader is disposed remotely from the sensor unit. The sensor unit includes at least one sensor for measuring a parameter of the tire or wheel and an antenna for communicating with the reader. The sensor unit is configured to receive a radio frequency power signal from the reader and to transmit data to the reader. The reader includes an antenna for transmitting the radio frequency power signal to the sensor unit to actuate the one sensor unit. Upon actuation of the sensor unit, the sensor measures the parameter of the tire or wheel, and data from the sensor is transmitted from the sensor unit to the reader.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Carl Trevor Ross Pulford, Peter Jung-min Suh
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Patent number: 10894452Abstract: A mounting member for an air maintenance tire is provided. The tire includes a sidewall that is formed with a groove for receiving an air tube and a recess for receiving at least one pneumatic connector that is in fluid communication with the air tube. The mounting member includes a plurality of layers, in which the layers are in stacked alignment with one another. The plurality of layers includes at least an axially outward layer and an axially inward layer. The mounting member is received in the recess and secured to the tire sidewall, thereby securing the position of the at least one pneumatic connector. A method of forming a mounting member for an air maintenance tire is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Benjamin Isaiah Garn, Dinesh Chandra, Sagar Dilip Bafana, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Daniel Vojtko
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Patent number: 10828947Abstract: A pumping mechanism in accordance with the present invention is used with a pneumatic tire mounted on a wheel to keep the pneumatic tire from becoming underinflated. The pumping mechanism includes a frame having a first chamber and a pump chamber, a strike plate positioned in the first chamber and being connected to a plunger plate, said plunger plate having a nose for engagement with a diaphragm mounted in the pump chamber; said pump chamber being in fluid communication with a pump inlet and a pump outlet; wherein actuation of the strike plate in the first chamber causes engagement of the nose with the diaphragm. Preferably the strike plate is actuated by a permanent magnet mounted on a stationary part, or the strike plate is actuated by an electrically driven magnet.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 10807422Abstract: An inlet control valve suitable for use with a tire and pump assembly is described that controls the flow of air from the pump into the tire. The inlet control valve includes an optional bi-directional feature. The pathways alternatively operate to deliver ambient non-pressurized air to the air pumping tube in response to directional tire rotation against a ground surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Robin Lamgaday, Christos Tsionidis, Frank Herrigel, Marcus Boertje
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Patent number: 10792960Abstract: An article that experiences repeated deformation includes an electronic component as an inclusion. The article includes at least one structural element, in which the structural element includes a material. At least one electronic component is incorporated into the material as an inclusion. The electronic component includes an integrated circuit and may also include at least one sensor and an antenna. The size of the electronic inclusion is no greater than the largest inclusion typically occurring within the material. The article may be an article formed of rubber, such as a tire.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Carl Trevor Ross Pulford, Michael Chris Varley, Justin Yinket Che, Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 10773559Abstract: An air maintenance tire system is provided. The tire includes a pair of sidewalls, in which each one of the sidewalls extends from a respective bead area to a crown of the tire. The air maintenance tire includes an annular groove formed in a selected one of the tire sidewalls. The groove is formed with an open end at an outer surface of the tire sidewall and a closed end opposite the open end. The open end is formed with an outward radial taper and the groove is formed with at least one increased diameter feature. An air tube of a peristaltic pump assembly is received in the groove.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Thulasiram Gobinath, Jin-Shy Steve Gau, Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 10773560Abstract: A system is used with a pneumatic tire mounted on a wheel rim to keep the pneumatic tire from becoming underinflated. The first system includes a plurality of pumps attached circumferentially to the wheel rim, each pump having pump parameters, and a control valve for controlling inlet air into a tire cavity of the pneumatic tire. The control valve has valve parameters. The system predicts system performance under various configurations and conditions through use of the pump parameters and the valve parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 10759236Abstract: A wheel for an air maintenance tire system is provided. The air maintenance tire system includes at least one pump and a regulator. The wheel includes a body that is formed with an axially-extending wall, a pair of flanges, and a pair of bead mounting areas. Each bead mounting area is disposed axially inwardly proximate a respective one of the flanges. The axially-extending wall is formed with an AMT mounting channel. The AMT mounting channel extends circumferentially about the wheel approximately mid-way between the flanges and is defined by a first adjacent wall, a second adjacent wall, and a base. Mounting surfaces are formed in or adjacent the AMT mounting channel, so that the at least one pump is mounted in the AMT mounting channel radially inwardly of the bead mounting areas.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Joseph Durr, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Christopher Paul Hunt, Arun Kumar Byatarayanapura Gopala, Christian Alfonso Lombardi
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Publication number: 20200189533Abstract: A control system for an air maintenance tire system is provided. The control system includes a sensor unit that in turn includes a pressure sensor for measuring a pressure in the tire cavity and an antenna for transmitting pressure data. A processor receives the pressure data and includes a memory for storing a predetermined low-pressure threshold. Actuation means that are in communication with the processor and actuate and de-actuate operation of the air maintenance tire system. A first signal is transmitted from the processor to the actuation means to actuate operation of the air maintenance tire system when the measured pressure in the tire cavity is below the threshold. A second signal is transmitted from the processor to the actuation means to de-actuate operation of the air maintenance tire system when the measured pressure in the tire cavity is at or above the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Cheng-Hsiung Lin, James Andrews Euchner
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Patent number: D1001570Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: ETERNAL EAST (HK) LTD.Inventors: Ching-shun Cheng, Cheng-Hsiung Lin