Patents by Inventor Chih-Kai Wang

Chih-Kai Wang 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: 20240047271
    Abstract: A system and method for stealth dicing a semiconductor wafer. The method may include implanting dopant ions to a first depth in the semiconductor wafer through a back side of the semiconductor wafer. The method may further include focusing a laser beam at an inside portion of the wafer through the back surface of the wafer to form a modified layer in material of the semiconductor wafer proximate the first depth. The method may also include fracturing the semiconductor wafer along boundaries defined by the modified layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Chih Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 11817304
    Abstract: A system and method for stealth dicing a semiconductor wafer. The method may include implanting dopant ions to a first depth in the semiconductor wafer through a back side of the semiconductor wafer. The method may further include focusing a laser beam at an inside portion of the wafer through the back surface of the wafer to form a modified layer in material of the semiconductor wafer proximate the first depth. The method may also include fracturing the semiconductor wafer along boundaries defined by the modified layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chih Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230345646
    Abstract: A display panel adapted to a spherical display device includes a substrate and a plurality of display configuration groups. The display configuration groups are arranged on the substrate along a first direction. Each of the display configuration groups corresponds to a display number and a display pitch. Each of the display configuration groups comprises at least one display row arranged along the first direction. Each of the at least one display row of each of the display configuration groups is arranged along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction according to the corresponding display number and the corresponding display pitch. The display configuration groups include a first configuration group and a second configuration group adjacent to each other, and the display pitch of the first configuration group is different from the display pitch of the second configuration group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yea-Ching CHEN, Chih-Kai WANG, Yu-Chin WU
  • Publication number: 20230307425
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a carrier and a plurality of pixel units is disclosed. Each pixel unit has a first light-emitting device. The pixel units are provided with a plurality of second light-emitting devices and a plurality of third light-emitting devices, and include a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit, a third pixel unit, and a fourth pixel unit sequentially arranged along a first direction. The first pixel unit and the second pixel unit adjacent to each other share one second light-emitting device and one third light-emitting device. The third pixel unit and the fourth pixel unit adjacent to each other share another second light-emitting device and another third light-emitting device. The second light-emitting devices and the third light-emitting devices are not disposed between two first light-emitting devices of the second pixel unit and third pixel unit adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AUO Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 11735931
    Abstract: A battery module including a battery string and a switch is provided. The battery string includes a first battery, a second battery, a third battery, a first metal plate, and a second metal plate. The first battery includes a first positive terminal and a first negative terminal. The second battery includes a second positive terminal and a second negative terminal. The third battery includes a third positive terminal and a third negative terminal. The first metal plate is connected to the first negative terminal and the second positive terminal. The second metal plate is connected to the second negative terminal and the third positive terminal. The switch is connected to the first or second metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shang-Hui Chen, Chih-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20210399556
    Abstract: A battery module including a battery string and a switch is provided. The battery string includes a first battery, a second battery, a third battery, a first metal plate, and a second metal plate. The first battery includes a first positive terminal and a first negative terminal. The second battery includes a second positive terminal and a second negative terminal. The third battery includes a third positive terminal and a third negative terminal. The first metal plate is connected to the first negative terminal and the second positive terminal. The second metal plate is connected to the second negative terminal and the third positive terminal. The switch is connected to the first or second metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shang-Hui CHEN, Chih-Kai WANG
  • Publication number: 20210202317
    Abstract: A system and method for stealth dicing a semiconductor wafer. The method may include implanting dopant ions to a first depth in the semiconductor wafer through a back side of the semiconductor wafer. The method may further include focusing a laser beam at an inside portion of the wafer through the back surface of the wafer to form a modified layer in material of the semiconductor wafer proximate the first depth. The method may also include fracturing the semiconductor wafer along boundaries defined by the modified layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Chih Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20210019908
    Abstract: A method that enables building recognition via object detection and geospatial intelligence. The method includes detecting an object in an input image, wherein the object is located within a bounding area and extracting a physical location and a camera pose associated with the input image. The method also includes projecting a location coordinate of at least one entity onto the input image to obtain a projected point for the at least one entity, wherein the at least one entity is selected according to the physical location and camera pose associated with the input image and determining a nearest projected point to the bounding area. Finally, the method includes labeling the object within the bounding area with an entity name of the at least one entity associated with the nearest projected point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yan Zhang, Zhiqing Hong, Chun-Ting Wu, Simon L. Shapiro, Hao-Wei Tseng, Qing Zhang, Chih-Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 10787158
    Abstract: A brake system including a base, a driving motor, a cam, a braking pump, a rotating column, and a bearing shaft. The base has an accommodating space. The driving motor is disposed on the base and located in the accommodating space. The cam is pivoted to the driving motor, and the driving motor is adapted to drive the cam to rotate relative to the base. The braking pump is disposed outside the base. The rotating column is rotatably disposed outside the base and connected to the braking pump. The bearing shaft is connected to the rotating column and extended into the accommodating space so as to radially in contact with the cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsun Wu, Wen-Shu Lee, Kuo-Hui Chang, Chih-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20200094803
    Abstract: A brake system including a base, a driving motor, a cam, a braking pump, a rotating column, and a bearing shaft. The base has an accommodating space. The driving motor is disposed on the base and located in the accommodating space. The cam is pivoted to the driving motor, and the driving motor is adapted to drive the cam to rotate relative to the base. The braking pump is disposed outside the base. The rotating column is rotatably disposed outside the base and connected to the braking pump. The bearing shaft is connected to the rotating column and extended into the accommodating space so as to radially in contact with the cam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsun Wu, Wen-Shu Lee, Kuo-Hui Chang, Chih-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20200047725
    Abstract: A hybrid power brake control system and a control method thereof are provided. The hybrid power brake control system includes a computer, a motor, a connecting rod set, and a pedal brake. The motor is electrically connected with the computer, the connecting rod set includes the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod, the first connecting rod is connected with the motor, the first terminal end of the second connecting rod is connected with the first connecting rod, and the pedal brake is pivotally connected with the second terminal end of the second connecting rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Wang, Shao-Chi Chuang, Wen-Shu Lee, Tsung-Hsun Wu, Kuo-Hui Chang
  • Patent number: 10209564
    Abstract: A backlight module including a substrate, a light source, a porous optical film, and a wavelength conversion optical layer is provided. The light source is located on the substrate. The porous optical film is disposed over the light source and has a plurality of emission structures, and the porous optical film distributes light generated by the light source to be emitted through the emission structures located at different positions of the porous optical film. The porous optical film has a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, the central region is disposed corresponding to the light source, and an area of the central portion is A. The wavelength conversion optical layer is located between the light source and the porous optical film, and a vertical projection area of the wavelength conversion optical film is B, where 0.49?A/B?5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaung-Jay Peng, Ming-Lung Chen, Ming-Chun Hsu, Chih-Kai Wang, Chung-Ting Chen, Ming-Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 9884237
    Abstract: A bicycle trainer includes a base frame including a first pivot connection part, a damper unit mounted at the base frame, a support frame including a locating portion and a second pivot connection part, which is pivotally connected to the first pivot connection part of the base frame for enabling the support frame to be biased relative to the base frame in direction away from or toward the damper unit such that when the support frame is held in an inclined position relative to the base frame, the locating portion and the damper unit can hold a wheel of a bicycle in place, and a non-return unit mounted at the base frame or support frame and adapted to prohibit the support frame from being biased in direction away from the base frame. The invention enables the support frame to be constrained by the non-return unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Wang, Wen-Hai Lo
  • Patent number: 9822898
    Abstract: A circuit may include a source input for receiving an input voltage, a load output for generating an output voltage, a load switch coupled at its source to the source input and coupled at its drain to the load output which is configured to pass the input voltage to the load output when the load switch is activated, an enable input for receiving an enable voltage which is indicative of whether the load switch is to be activated or deactivated, and a leakage reduction circuit coupled between the enable input and a gate of the load switch, wherein the leakage reduction circuit is configured to electrically couple the gate of the load switch to the source of the load switch such that a source-to-gate voltage is maintained below a threshold voltage for activating the load switch when the enable voltage indicates that the load switch is to be deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Wen-Hung Huang, Hsien Tsung Lin, Chih-Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 9799464
    Abstract: A key assembly configured to an electronic device is provided. The key assembly includes a switch component and a flexible button. The switch component is disposed in a case of the electronic device. The flexible button has a pressing portion, a shaft portion, at least one water-resistant portion and an actuating portion. The pressing portion is exposed from the case. The shaft portion connects the pressing portion and the actuating portion, and passes through a through hole of the case. The water-resistant portion is connected to the shaft portion and covers the through hole. The actuating portion is located in the case and aligned to the switch component. When a force is applied to the pressing portion, the pressing portion produces compressive deformation and makes the actuating portion produce expensive deformation to actuate the switch component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Wang, Wen-Shu Lee
  • Publication number: 20170285408
    Abstract: A backlight module including a substrate, a light source, a porous optical film, and a wavelength conversion optical layer is provided. The light source is located on the substrate. The porous optical film is disposed over the light source and has a plurality of emission structures, and the porous optical film distributes light generated by the light source to be emitted through the emission structures located at different positions of the porous optical film. The porous optical film has a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, the central region is disposed corresponding to the light source, and an area of the central portion is A. The wavelength conversion optical layer is located between the light source and the porous optical film, and a vertical projection area of the wavelength conversion optical film is B, where 0.49?A/B?5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kaung-Jay PENG, Ming-Lung CHEN, Ming-Chun HSU, Chih-Kai WANG, Chung-Ting CHEN, Ming-Cheng WANG
  • Patent number: 9669279
    Abstract: A bicycle trainer includes a base frame, a damper unit pivotally connected to the base frame and including a rotating wheel set, a swivel frame pivoted to the base frame and biasable between an inclined position where the swivel frame and the damper unit are capable of supporting a bicycle wheel and a collapsed position where the swivel frame is received in the base frame and the rotating wheel set of the damper unit is disposed adjacent to the swivel frame, and a locking device for locking the damper unit to the base frame or allowing the damper unit to be biased relative to the base frame. Thus, the composition of the invention allows the bicycle trainer to be folded up and received in a compact condition to minimize the dimension convenient for carrying with less effort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Wang, Wen-Hai Lo
  • Publication number: 20170090487
    Abstract: A circuit may include a source input for receiving an input voltage, a load output for generating an output voltage, a load switch coupled at its source to the source input and coupled at its drain to the load output which is configured to pass the input voltage to the load output when the load switch is activated, an enable input for receiving an enable voltage which is indicative of whether the load switch is to be activated or deactivated, and a leakage reduction circuit coupled between the enable input and a gate of the load switch, wherein the leakage reduction circuit is configured to electrically couple the gate of the load switch to the source of the load switch such that a source-to-gate voltage is maintained below a threshold voltage for activating the load switch when the enable voltage indicates that the load switch is to be deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Wen-Hung Huang, Hsien Tsung Lin, Chih-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20170076878
    Abstract: A key assembly configured to an electronic device is provided. The key assembly includes a switch component and a flexible button. The switch component is disposed in a case of the electronic device. The flexible button has a pressing portion, a shaft portion, at least one water-resistant portion and an actuating portion. The pressing portion is exposed from the case. The shaft portion connects the pressing portion and the actuating portion, and passes through a through hole of the case. The water-resistant portion is connected to the shaft portion and covers the through hole. The actuating portion is located in the case and aligned to the switch component. When a force is applied to the pressing portion, the pressing portion produces compressive deformation and makes the actuating portion produce expensive deformation to actuate the switch component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Wang, Wen-Shu Lee
  • Publication number: 20160096100
    Abstract: A bicycle trainer includes a base frame, a damper unit pivotally connected to the base frame and including a rotating wheel set, a swivel frame pivoted to the base frame and biasable between an inclined position where the swivel frame and the damper unit are capable of supporting a bicycle wheel and a collapsed position where the swivel frame is received in the base frame and the rotating wheel set of the damper unit is disposed adjacent to the swivel frame, and a locking device for locking the damper unit to the base frame or allowing the damper unit to be biased relative to the base frame. Thus, the composition of the invention allows the bicycle trainer to be folded up and received in a compact condition to minimize the dimension convenient for carrying with less effort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Chih-Kai WANG, Wen-Hai LO