Patents by Inventor Chia-Chi Tsui

Chia-Chi Tsui 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).

  • Patent number: 6538344
    Abstract: An uninterruptable power supply system is connected to motherboard and hard disk respectively. An interrupt signal is sent to power management circuit to command power management circuit to control the power switching circuit to switch the power of motherboard and hard disk to battery when a power interrupt is detected in a running computer by power detecting circuit. At the same time, central processing unit (CPU) on motherboard is commanded to save running programs and data in the hard disk. As such, CPU on motherboard can read the stored programs and data from hard disk when computer is turned on again. Thus computer may recover to the previous normal state. This can effectively avoid data lost once blackout occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Zone Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jen-Ta Yang, Chia-Chi Tsui
  • Publication number: 20010047492
    Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is electrically coupled to a main board, a hard disk and a power supply of the computer. The UPS comprises a power detection circuit for detecting a power supplying state of the power supply when the computer is halting, a power management circuit for receiving a blackout signal sent from the power detection circuit when a blackout in the power supply is detected, and a power switch circuit is commanded by the power management circuit to switch power of the main board and the hard disk from the power supply to the rechargeable battery for maintaining a normal operation. At the same time, the power management circuit sends a power ready signal to the main board through a power switch on the main board to cause CPU to boot the computer normally and the CPU commands to store temporary data and programs in the memory in the hard disk. Such safely stored data and programs may be retrieved from hard disk by CPU for use when computer is powered on again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: Chia-Chi Tsui, Tung-Chou Hsieh