Patents by Inventor Chin-Chou Chu

Chin-Chou Chu 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: 9303617
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wave energy gathering and enhancing device disposed in a setting area of the sea-bed. A seawater wave approaches the wave energy gathering and enhancing device with a wave vector. The wave energy gathering and enhancing device comprises a plurality of structures. The plurality of structures are arranged below the sea surface in a two-dimensional symmetric discrete group. Each of the structures has a top surface and the top surface is located below the sea surface with a predetermined depth. A lattice with a definite lattice constant is formed by the plurality of structures. The lattice plane formed by the structures and the wave vector of the seawater wave form an angle. The structures enhance the amplitude of the seawater wave when the seawater wave interacts with and passes through the structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sheng Der Chao, Shuo Feng Chiu, Yao Hung Huang, Chun Chieh Wang, Ssu Che Wang, Chin-Chou Chu
  • Publication number: 20140300110
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wave energy gathering and enhancing device disposed in a setting area of the sea-bed. A seawater wave approaches the wave energy gathering and enhancing device with a wave vector. The wave energy gathering and enhancing device comprises a plurality of structures. The plurality of structures are arranged below the sea surface in a two-dimensional symmetric discrete group. Each of the structures has a top surface and the top surface is located below the sea surface with a predetermined depth. A lattice with a definte lattice constant is formed by the plurality of structures. The lattice plane formed by the structures and the wave vector of the seawater wave form an angle. The structures enhance the amplitude of the seawater wave when the seawater wave interacts with and passes through the structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: SHENG DER CHAO, SHUO FENG CHIU, YAO HUNG HUANG, CHUN CHIEH WANG, SSU CHE WANG, CHIN-CHOU CHU
  • Patent number: 8092387
    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging technique for differentiating the distribution of scatterers within a tissue comprises a correcting and an imaging procedure. The correcting procedure includes steps of obtaining ultrasonic backscattered signals from a standard phantom, compensating and demodulating the signals into an envelope image, calculating the parameter m and m, selecting a window to calculate parameter mw in each location of the envelope image and mw, if mw? m then increase the size of the window to repeat the steps above, and when mw= m, it is the optimal size of the window. The imaging procedure includes steps of obtaining ultrasonic backscattered signals from a target tissue, compensating and demodulating the signals into an envelope image, calculating mw in each location to form a mw matrix, and presenting the matrix by utilizing pseudocolors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Chien-Cheng Chang, Po-Hsiang Tsui, Chien-Chung Chang, Chin-Chou Chu, Jen-Jen Lin
  • Publication number: 20080154140
    Abstract: A carotid pulse measurement device provided for measuring carotid pulse of a user's neck includes a band, an artery-pressing air cell, an inflating/deflating device, and a pressure detection unit. The band functions to surround the user's neck. The air cell is arranged in the band and is fluidly connected to the inflating/deflating device for selectively inflating/deflating the air cell. The pressure detection unit detects variation of pressure inside the air cell. To use the measurement device, the band is put around the user's neck with the air cell positioned exactly corresponding to the carotid artery of the neck so that the pressure detection device detects the pressure variation and generates a digital pulse signal, which is employed to calculate arteriosclerosis index of the user for evaluation the degree of arteriosclerosis of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Chien-Cheng Chang, Po-Hsiang Tsui, Chien-Chung Chang, King-Jen Chang, Chung-Li Wang, Juey-Jen Hwang, Chin-Chou Chu, Chiung-Nien Chen, Lian-Yu Lin
  • Publication number: 20080114242
    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging technique for differentiating the distribution of scatterers within a tissue comprises a correcting and an imaging procedure. The correcting procedure includes steps of obtaining ultrasonic backscattered signals from a standard phantom, compensating and demodulating the signals into an envelope image, calculating the parameter m and m, selecting a window to calculate parameter mw in each location of the envelope image and mw, if mw? m then increase the size of the window to repeat the steps above, and when mw= m, it is the optimal size of the window. The imaging procedure includes steps of obtaining ultrasonic backscattered signals from a target tissue, compensating and demodulating the signals into an envelope image, calculating mw in each location to form a mw matrix, and presenting the matrix by utilizing pseudocolors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chien-Cheng Chang, Po-Hsiang Tsui, Chien-Chung Chang, Chin-Chou Chu, Jen-Jen Lin
  • Patent number: 7059351
    Abstract: A liquid transportation device includes a working board, a working liquid, a liquid channel and a cover board, wherein the liquid channel is formed on a top surface of the working board, the covering board is fully covered the liquid channel, the liquid channel composed of a material substantially tending to the liquid, and the covering board is composed of a material substantially phobic to the liquid. The working liquid flows within the liquid channel in guidance of the deviation of surface tension between the liquid channel to the working liquid, and the covering board to the working liquid, so that the working liquid is transported within the liquid channel without any external power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Chin-Chou Chu, Chien-Fu Chen, Chun-Fei Kung, Chien-Cheng Chang, Fan-Gang Tseng