Patents by Inventor Chuan Yang

Chuan Yang 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: 20230082910
    Abstract: A car safety device for pets includes a fixing frame mounted in a seat cushion and a seat cushion cover. The seat cushion with the fixing frame is placed into the seat cushion cover and one end of a support rod of the fixing frame is protruding from the seat cushion cover. While in use, the device is placed on a car seat and an anchor member on the support rod of the fixing frame is connected to a support bar of the car seat. Then a pet carrier bag is disposed on the seat cushion cover and a second connecting member of the pet carrier bag is connected with a first connecting member on the seat cushion cover to fix the pet carrier bag on the present device. Thereby the pet carrier bag is firmly mounted on the car seat and pet safety is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: YUNG CHUAN YANG
  • Patent number: 11605638
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures and methods are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes forming a first channel member, a second channel member directly over the first channel member, and a third channel member directly over the second channel member, depositing a first metal layer around each of the first channel member, the second channel member, and the third channel member, removing the first metal layer from around the second channel member and the third channel member while the first channel member remains wrapped around by the first metal layer, after the removing of the first metal layer, depositing a second metal layer around the second channel member and the third channel member, removing the second metal layer from around the third channel member, and after the removing of the second metal layer, depositing a third metal layer around the third channel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Kian-Long Lim, Chia-Hao Pao, Chih-Chuan Yang, Chia-Wei Chen, Chien-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 11600623
    Abstract: Well pick-up regions are disclosed herein for improving performance of memory arrays, such as static random access memory arrays. An exemplary integrated circuit (IC) device includes a circuit region; a first well pick-up (WPU) region; a first well oriented lengthwise along a first direction in the circuit region and extending into the first WPU region, the first well having a first conductivity type; and a second well oriented lengthwise along the first direction in the circuit region and extending into the first WPU region, the second well having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, wherein the first well has a first portion in the circuit region and a second portion in the first WPU region, and the second portion of the first well has a width larger than the first portion of the first well along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Chuan Yang, Chang-Ta Yang, Ping-Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11600625
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of fabricating thereof where the device includes a fin structure between a first isolation region and a second isolation region. A first source/drain feature is formed over a recessed portion of the first fin structure. The first source/drain feature interfaces a top surface of the first isolation region for a first distance and interfaces the top surface of the second isolation region for a second distance. The first distance is different than the second distance. The source/drain feature is offset in a direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Chuan Yang, Chia-Hao Pao, Wen-Chun Keng, Lien Jung Hung, Ping-Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230067988
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a stack of semiconductor layers disposed over a protruding portion of a substrate, isolation features disposed over the substrate, wherein a top surface of the protruding portion of the substrate is separated from a bottom surface of the isolation features by a first distance, a metal gate stack interleaved with the stack of semiconductor layers, where a bottom portion of the metal gate stack is disposed on sidewalls of the protruding portion of the substrate and where thickness of the bottom portion of the metal gate stack is defined by a second distance that is less than the first distance, and epitaxial source/drain features disposed adjacent to the metal gate stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chih-Chuan Yang, Hsin-Wen Su, Jing-Yi Lin, Shang-Rong Li, Chong-De Lien
  • Publication number: 20230063098
    Abstract: A method includes providing a substrate, a source/drain (S/D) feature and semiconductor channel layers over the substrate, a high-k metal gate (HKMG) wrapping around the channel layers, a dielectric cap over the HKMG, a contact etch stop layer (CESL) over the S/D feature and on sidewalls of the dielectric cap and the HKMG, and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over the CESL. The channel layers are spaced one from another along a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate and connect to the S/D feature. The method further includes etching the ILD layer and the CESL to expose a top portion of the S/D feature; etching the S/D feature, resulting in a S/D contact trench, wherein a bottom surface of the S/D contact trench is below an upper surface of a bottommost layer of the channel layers; and forming a metallic contact in the S/D contact trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Chih-Chuan Yang, Shih-Hao Lin, Yu-Kuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20230061384
    Abstract: A device includes a first and a second stacks of channel layers each extending from a first height to a second height. A first dielectric feature on a first side of the first stack and between the first and the second stacks extends from a third height to a fourth height. A second dielectric feature on a second side of the first stack opposite to the first side extends from the third height to a fifth height. A gate electrode extends continuously across a top surface of the first and the second stacks and extends to a sixth height. The fifth height is above the sixth height, the sixth height is above the second height, the second height is above the fourth height, the fourth height is above the first height, and the first height is above the third height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Pao, Chih-Hsuan Chen, Chih-Chuan Yang, Shih-Hao Lin
  • Patent number: 11594552
    Abstract: Embodiments of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device with a corrosion-resistant composite spacer and method for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A dielectric stack including a plurality of dielectric/sacrificial layer pairs is formed on a substrate. A memory string extending vertically through the dielectric stack is formed. A slit extending vertically through the dielectric stack is formed. A memory stack is formed on the substrate including a plurality of conductor/dielectric layer pairs by replacing, with a plurality of conductor layers, the sacrificial layers in the dielectric/sacrificial layer pairs through the slit. A composite spacer is formed along a sidewall of the slit. The composite spacer includes a first silicon oxide film, a second silicon oxide film, and a dielectric film formed laterally between the first silicon oxide film and the second silicon oxide film. A slit contact extending vertically in the slit is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Xu, Ping Yan, Chuan Yang, Jing Gao, Zongliang Huo, Lu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11587927
    Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region. The device further includes a first pair of fin structures within the first region. The device further includes a second pair of fin structures within the second region. A top surface of the semiconductor surface between fin structures within the first pair is higher than a top surface of the semiconductor surface between the first pair and the second pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Chuan Yang, Yu-Kuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20230046028
    Abstract: SRAM designs based on GAA transistors are disclosed that provide flexibility for increasing channel widths of transistors at scaled IC technology nodes and relax limits on SRAM performance optimization imposed by FinFET-based SRAMs. GAA-based SRAM cells described have active region layouts with active regions shared by pull-down GAA transistors and pass-gate GAA transistors. A width of shared active regions that correspond with the pull-down GAA transistors are enlarged with respect to widths of the shared active regions that correspond with the pass-gate GAA transistors. A ratio of the widths is tuned to obtain ratios of pull-down transistor effective channel width to pass-gate effective channel width greater than 1, increase an on-current of pull-down GAA transistors relative to an on-current of pass-gate GAA transistors, decrease a threshold voltage of pull-down GAA transistors relative to a threshold voltage of pass-gate GAA transistors, and/or increases a ? ratio of an SRAM cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Pao, Chih-Chuan Yang, Shih-Hao Lin, Chih-Hsuan Chen, Kian-Long Lim, Chao-Yuan Chang, Feng-Ming Chang, Lien Jung Hung, Ping-Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230026103
    Abstract: A cigarette device management system includes an information management module, and a maintenance prediction module, a device state acquisition module and a purchase statistics module which are in communication connection with it. The maintenance prediction module is built by an artificial neural network model and is configured to predict a failure interval. The device state acquisition module acquires a device operating parameter and an operating duration of the device in real time, and compares the device operating parameter with a safety parameter range. In accordance with the system, the maintenance timing of the device can be predicted, the purchase quantity of the spare part and the purchase timing of the spare part also can be predicted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo LIU, Aihua ZHANG, Hengzhu SHI, Xiaotang LI, Weidong YAO, Guoping WANG, Zijuan LI, Chuan YANG, Junjie PANG, Peng JI, Mingqi NAN, Zhanbo JIANG, Xiaohua YANG, Jia TIAN, Dongfeng LI, Dong YAN
  • Publication number: 20230027189
    Abstract: A self-adaptive electric toothbrush includes a handle and a brush head. A vibrating motor is arranged in the handle. Bristles are arranged on the brush head. An output shaft of the vibrating motor extends out of the handle and is connected to the brush head through a delay structure. By the delay structure, the brush head remains stationary or the amplitude of the oscillation of the brush head is less than the amplitude of the oscillation of the output shaft after the vibrating motor is activated and before pressure is applied to the bristles. After pressure is applied to the bristles, the amplitude of the oscillation of the brush head is greater than the amplitude of the oscillation before pressure is applied. In the self-adaptive electric toothbrush, before the pressure is applied, the brush head is stationary or the amplitude of oscillation is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: CONSTAR MOTION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenjian Zhang, Chuansong Qiu, Dong Liu, Chuan Yang, Changjun Wang, Hongping Song
  • Patent number: 11563013
    Abstract: A memory device includes a substrate, first semiconductor fin, second semiconductor fin, first gate structure, second gate structure, first gate spacer, and a second gate spacer. The first gate structure crosses the first semiconductor fin. The second gate structure crosses the second semiconductor fin, the first gate structure extending continuously from the second gate structure, in which in a top view of the memory device, a width of the first gate structure is greater than a width of the second gate structure. The first gate spacer is on a sidewall of the first gate structure. The second gate spacer extends continuously from the first gate spacer and on a sidewall of the second gate structure, in which in the top view of the memory device, a width of the first gate spacer is less than a width of the second gate spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Wen Su, Chih-Chuan Yang, Shih-Hao Lin, Yu-Kuan Lin, Lien-Jung Hung, Ping-Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11559578
    Abstract: A method for formation of a vaccine comprising combining a cationic polymer adjuvant with an antigen to form first immunoparticles through charge interactions and producing a treatment formulation for the vaccine comprising the first immunoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Hedrick, Yi Yan Yang, Ashlynn Lee, Chuan Yang
  • Publication number: 20230012621
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for memory cell placement. The method can include placing a memory cell region in a layout area and placing a well pick-up region and a first power supply routing region along a first side of the memory cell region. The method also includes placing a second power supply routing region and a bitline jumper routing region along a second side of the memory cell region, where the second side is on an opposite side to that of the first side. The method further includes placing a device region along the second side of the memory cell region, where the bitline jumper routing region is between the second power supply routing region and the device region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Chuan YANG, Ruey-Wen CHANG, Feng-Ming CHANG, Kian-Long LIM, Kuo-Hsiu HSU, Lien Jung HUNG, Ping-Wei WANG
  • Patent number: 11552084
    Abstract: Methods and devices including a plurality of memory cells and a first bit line connected to a first column of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells, and a second bit line connected to the first column of cells. The first bit line is shared with a second column of memory cells adjacent to the first column of memory cells. The second bit line is shared with a third column of cells adjacent to the first column of cells opposite the second column of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping-Wei Wang, Chih-Chuan Yang, Lien Jung Hung, Feng-Ming Chang, Kuo-Hsiu Hsu, Kian-Long Lim, Ruey-Wen Chang
  • Publication number: 20220416046
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin, the fin having an epitaxial portion and a base portion protruding from a substrate. Sidewalls of the base portion are tapered with respect to sidewalls of the epitaxial portion. The method also includes depositing a polymeric material on the sidewalls of the epitaxial portion, performing an etching process to modify a profile of the sidewalls of the base portion, such that the sidewalls of the base portion are laterally recessed with a narrowest width of the base portion located under a top surface of the base portion, removing the polymeric material from the sidewalls of the epitaxial portion, depositing an isolation feature on the sidewalls of the base portion, and forming a gate structure engaging the epitaxial portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shang-Rong Li, Shih-Hao Lin, Wen-Chun Keng, Chih-Chuan Yang, Chih-Hsiang Huang, Ping-Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20220406372
    Abstract: A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the plurality of columns include a first plurality of memory cells connected to a first bit line and a second bit line. A pre-charge circuit is connected to the memory cell array. The pre-charge circuit pre-charges each of the first bit line and the second bit line from a first end. A pre-charge assist circuit is connected to the memory cell array. The pre-charge assist circuit pre-charges each of the first bit line and the second bit line from a second end, the second end being opposite the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Hao PAO, Kian-Long LIM, Chih-Chuan YANG, Jui-Wen CHANG, Chao-Yuan CHANG, Feng-Ming CHANG, Lien-Jung HUNG, Ping-Wei WANG
  • Patent number: 11525036
    Abstract: Techniques regarding killing of a pathogen with one or more ionene compositions having antimicrobial functionality are provided. For example, one or more embodiments can comprise a method, which can comprise contacting a Mycobacterium tuberculosis microbe with a chemical compound. The chemical compound can comprise an ionene unit. Also, the ionene unit can comprise a cation distributed along a molecular backbone. The ionene unit can have antimicrobial functionality. The method can further comprise electrostatically disrupting a membrane of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis microbe in response to the contacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Mareva B. Fevre, James L. Hedrick, Nathaniel H. Park, Victoria A. Piunova, Pang Kern Jeremy Tan, Chuan Yang, Yi Yan Yang
  • Patent number: D974866
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Te-Chuan Yang