Patents by Inventor Chi-Chang Kuo

Chi-Chang Kuo 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: 20170107132
    Abstract: A recycling treatment system for tannery wastewater is fixed between a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) and filter press equipment, and the recycling treatment system contains: a first ultrafiltration unit, a second ultrafiltration unit, a cation exchange unit, an osmosis processing unit, a recycling tank, a RO concentration tank, and an evaporation unit. The first ultrafiltration unit includes a filtering tank, a plurality of ultrafiltration sets with plural first ultrafiltration bags and a fluid tube. The second ultrafiltration unit includes a concentration tank, at least one rotary ultrafiltration assembly, a backwash pipe, and a discharge pipe. The cation exchange unit includes a reaction sink and cationic resin. The osmosis processing unit includes plural first reverse osmosis sets and plural second reverse osmosis sets. The RO concentration tank is mounted beside the osmosis processing unit, and the evaporation unit is configured between the RO concentration tank and the recycling tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: CHI-CHANG KUO
  • Publication number: 20160367920
    Abstract: A water purifier contains: a tank, a pre-filtration unit, a membrane filtration unit, a cover, and a manual pumping unit. The tank includes a storage chamber defined by an external fence and includes an opening and a water inlet. The pre-filtration unit includes at least one box and a filtering material, each box has a separation mesh and plural through holes. The membrane filtration unit is mounted in the storage chamber and includes a water collecting pipe on which plural filtering bags are fitted, each filtering bag has a flow channel communicating with the water collecting pipe. The cover is connected with the tank and includes a body and an outlet connector. The manual pumping unit is connected with the water inlet and includes a water supply groove, a first orifice, a second orifice, and a second hose communicating with the first orifice and connecting with a water supply source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: CHI-CHANG KUO
  • Patent number: 9381455
    Abstract: A fluid filtration device contains a processing tank, a driving unit disposed outside the processing tank, a water pipe and a filtering unit. The processing tank is formed by plural substrate units arranged around the processing tank, each substrate unit has plural plate members connected together and formed on equal proportion, each plate member has an external surface and at least one circularly recessed portion, and on two connecting edges of any two adjacent plate members is defined a connector. The water pipe is connected with the driving unit and includes a peripheral wall, a plurality of apertures, and plural retaining protrusions. The filtering unit includes a plurality of filtration bags and plural guiding disks, each filtration bag has a first central pore, and each guiding disk has a body, a second central pore, and a plurality of coupling recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: NEW CENTURY MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20150224430
    Abstract: A fluid filtration device contains a processing tank, a driving unit disposed outside the processing tank, a water pipe and a filtering unit. The processing tank is formed by plural substrate units arranged around the processing tank, each substrate unit has plural plate members connected together and formed on equal proportion, each plate member has an external surface and at least one circularly recessed portion, and on two connecting edges of any two adjacent plate members is defined a connector. The water pipe is connected with the driving unit and includes a peripheral wall, a plurality of apertures, and plural retaining protrusions. The filtering unit includes a plurality of filtration bags and plural guiding disks, each filtration bag has a first central pore, and each guiding disk has a body, a second central pore, and a plurality of coupling recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20150224449
    Abstract: A method of processing black liquor contains steps of: A. flowing waste black liquor, chemically boiled, into a treatment tank; B. aerating and floating the waste black liquor in the treatment tank so as to eliminate macromolecule staple fibers and solids; C. solid-liquor separating the waste black liquor which passes through a plurality of circularly flat UF membranes by means of vacuum pressure difference; D. periodically scrapping adhesive layers on the plurality of circularly flat UF membranes when the plurality of circularly flat UF membranes rotate; E. concentrating the treated water which flows through plural rear UF membranes by a NF membrane to produce recycling lye for producing paper pulp and recyclable concentrated black liquor with high concentrations of lignin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8940162
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing wastewater after de-sizing. The method includes the step of executing a preliminary treatment on the wastewater to intercept slurry and to stabilize the quality of the wastewater, the step of reducing the pH of the wastewater to a range between 6.0 and 7.5, the step of providing a refractory degradation material 30 for hydrolyzing and hence liquidating starch slurry in the wastewater, the step of separating solids from liquid of the wastewater; and the step of recycling the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140184739
    Abstract: A foreground extraction method for stereo videos applied in an image processing apparatus of a video decoder is provided. The method uses a left-eye view image, a right-eye view image, and multiple interview motion vectors thereof from a decoded multi-view video bitstream to calculate the parallax for the horizontal direction between the left-eye image and the right-eye image quickly, thereby reducing operations for extracting the foreground objects in the multi-view video bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8628665
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes a tank, a driving unit, a filtered-water pipe, a filtering unit and at least one scraping unit. The tank includes a wall, an inlet pipe extending through an upper portion, and an outlet pipe extending from a lower portion. The driving unit is located on an external side of the tank. The filtered-water pipe extends throughout the tank and is connected to the driving unit. The filtering unit includes flat filtering bags located around the filtered-water pipe. The flat filtering bags can be spun together with the filtered-water pipe. The scraping unit includes scrapper assemblies each located between and in contact with two adjacent ones of the flat filtering bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8550138
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a disk-shaped filtering unit includes a conveying unit, a hot-pressing unit and a punching unit. The conveying unit conveys a laminate including a screen-related substrate sandwiched between two membrane-related substrates. The hot-pressing unit hot-presses and welds the laminate dot by dot to bond the substrates along a closed curve eventually, thus making a semi-product of the filtering unit out of a portion of the laminate within the closed curve. The punching unit punches the semi-product with an aperture, thus making a final product of the filtering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130206677
    Abstract: A self-cleaning fluid-filtering apparatus includes a container, a driving unit, a filtered-water pipe, a filtering unit and a connecting unit. The filtered-water pipe is inserted through the container, and formed with apertures. The filtering unit includes filtering bags co-axially provided on the filtered-water pipe, and each formed with an opening in communication with a respective aperture. The connecting unit includes water-guiding elements and bridging elements. Each water-guiding element is placed between two respective filtering bags, and formed with an annular body, an axial opening defined in the annular body, and radial channels in communication with the axial opening. Each bridging element connects a respective radial channel of a respective water-guiding element to a respective radial channel of another respective water-guiding element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Chi-Chang KUO
  • Patent number: 8494062
    Abstract: A deblocking filtering apparatus for video compression performs edge-filtering of the boundaries of macroblocks for a series of images. The apparatus buffers the partial data required by a first and a second filters by using a first and a second swap buffers, and implements the buffering function with register groups to increase the flexibility of data exchange. The first and the second filters perform vertical and horizontal deblocking filtering for the macroblocks of the series of images, respectively. An adaptive queue is used to receive the portion of output data from the first filter, temporarily store the data in internal buffers, and output data to be as the portion of input data of the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8480893
    Abstract: A gravity-flow water purifier includes a treatment tank, a water yielding pipe, a filter unit, and a sliding sleeve unit. The treatment tank includes a tank wall, an insertion hole, a receiving chamber, and at least two slide rails provided on the inner surface of the tank wall. The sliding sleeve unit includes a reticulated frame in which the filter unit is disposed. In addition, at least two sliding blocks are provided on the outer periphery of the frame. The filter unit is installed in a bottom portion of the treatment tank so that a gravity flow through the filter unit is generated by the water level in the treatment tank. Cooperation between the sliding blocks and the slide rails allows the sliding sleeve unit and the filter unit to be easily installed in and removed from the treatment tank, thereby facilitating the cleaning and replacement of filter elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8440033
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making a disk-shaped filtering unit. In the method, there is provided a laminate by sandwiching a screen-related substrate between two permeable membrane-related substrates. There is provided a machine with a conveying unit, a hot-pressing unit and a punching unit. The conveying unit is used to convey the laminate. The hot-pressing unit is used to hot-press and weld the laminate dot by dot to bond the substrates along a closed curve eventually, thus making a semi-product of the filtering unit out of a portion of the laminate within the closed curve. There is made a final product of the filtering unit by using the punching unit to punch the semi-product with an aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130075323
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes a tank, a driving unit, a filtered-water pipe, a filtering unit and at least one scraping unit. The tank includes a wall, an inlet pipe extending through an upper portion, and an outlet pipe extending from a lower portion. The driving unit is located on an external side of the tank. The filtered-water pipe extends throughout the tank and is connected to the driving unit. The filtering unit includes flat filtering bags located around the filtered-water pipe. The flat filtering bags can be spun together with the filtered-water pipe. The scraping unit includes scrapper assemblies each located between and in contact with two adjacent ones of the flat filtering bags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130075330
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing wastewater after de-sizing. The method includes the step of executing a preliminary treatment on the wastewater to intercept slurry and to stabilize the quality of the wastewater, the step of reducing the pH of the wastewater to a range between 6.0 and 7.5, the step of providing a refractory degradation material 30 for hydrolyzing and hence liquidating starch slurry in the wastewater, the step of separating solids from liquid of the wastewater; and the step of recycling the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8366931
    Abstract: A filtering unit includes alternately arranged membranes and positioning rings. A seal is secured to each of the positioning rings. Each of the positioning rings includes an annular body, arched cutouts defined in an internal edge of the annular body, first and second engaging members formed on the annular body, and at least one slot defined in the annular body. Each of the first engaging members is located near an end of a related one of the arched cutouts. Each of the second engaging members is located near another end of a related one of the arched cutouts. The second engaging members can be engaged with the first engaging members of another positioning ring extending through the arched cutouts. Each of the seals includes two sealing portions extending on two opposite faces of the annular body and at least one connecting portion extending between the sealing portions through the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20120279663
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a disk-shaped filtering unit includes a conveying unit, a hot-pressing unit and a punching unit. The conveying unit conveys a laminate including a screen-related substrate sandwiched between two membrane-related substrates. The hot-pressing unit hot-presses and welds the laminate dot by dot to bond the substrates along a closed curve eventually, thus making a semi-product of the filtering unit out of a portion of the laminate within the closed curve. The punching unit punches the semi-product with an aperture, thus making a final product of the filtering unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventor: Chi-Chang KUO
  • Publication number: 20120175293
    Abstract: A gravity-flow water purifier includes a treatment tank, a water yielding pipe, a filter unit, and a sliding sleeve unit. The treatment tank includes a tank wall, an insertion hole, a receiving chamber, and at least two slide rails provided on the inner surface of the tank wall. The sliding sleeve unit includes a reticulated frame in which the filter unit is disposed. In addition, at least two sliding blocks are provided on the outer periphery of the frame. The filter unit is installed in a bottom portion of the treatment tank so that a gravity flow through the filter unit is generated by the water level in the treatment tank. Cooperation between the sliding blocks and the slide rails allows the sliding sleeve unit and the filter unit to be easily installed in and removed from the treatment tank, thereby facilitating the cleaning and replacement of filter elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8177073
    Abstract: A quickly cleanable water processor includes a shell, a water pipe, at least one filtering unit and a cleaning unit. The shell includes a space defined therein, a water inlet, a water outlet and an air inlet. The water inlet and outlet and the air inlet and outlet are in communication with the space. The water pipe is disposed in the shell and made with slots in communication with the water inlet. The filtering unit is detachably provided around the water pipe. The filtering unit includes alternately arranged membrane bags and water-guiding discs. The cleaning unit includes an air pump and an air pipe extended into the shell from the air pump through the air inlet. The air pipe includes apertures through which air reaches the membrane bags from the air pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo
  • Patent number: D704312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: New Century Membrane Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Kuo