Patents by Inventor Chien Chih Cher

Chien Chih Cher 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: 7746006
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a protection architecture for a multi-lamp system, which applies to a multi-lamp driving system for driving a plurality of lamp loops. The present invention is characterized in that two opposite-phase loads of a loop are separately defined to be a first load and a second load, and that a voltage-division/detection loop is formed via cascading a first voltage-division element to a second voltage-division element and is coupled to between the first load and the second load to detect an abnormal current, wherein the second voltage-division element is coupled to a ground terminal, and wherein a signal-acquiring terminal is coupled to between the first voltage-division element and the second voltage-division element and acquires an abnormal voltage signal for a protection unit from the abnormal current, and wherein the protection unit detects the abnormal voltage signal and shuts off the driving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: FSP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo Hei Lee, Ken Chuan Hsu, Chien Chih Cher
  • Publication number: 20090102392
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a protection architecture for a multi-lamp system, which applies to a multi-lamp driving system for driving a plurality of lamp loops. The present invention is characterized in that two opposite-phase loads of a loop are separately defined to be a first load and a second load, and that a voltage-division/detection loop is formed via cascading a first voltage-division element to a second voltage-division element and is coupled to between the first load and the second load to detect an abnormal current, wherein the second voltage-division element is coupled to a ground terminal, and wherein a signal-acquiring terminal is coupled to between the first voltage-division element and the second voltage-division element and acquires an abnormal voltage signal for a protection unit from the abnormal current, and wherein the protection unit detects the abnormal voltage signal and shuts off the driving system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo Hei Lee, Ken Chuan Hsu, Chien Chih Cher