Patents by Inventor Derek Chen

Derek Chen 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: 20080067901
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for providing an opening solution for drawers and similar enclosure systems that permit no visible external hardware or gripping elements/surfaces that may be easily used irrespective of a size or weight of the drawer or enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventor: Derek Chen
  • Patent number: 6884734
    Abstract: A blocking layer is formed on a hard mask having an initial thickness. Lines are fabricated by patterning the blocking layer and the hard mask to provide a line segment, the line segment having a first dimension measured across the line segment; reacting a surface layer of the line segment to form a layer of a reaction product on a remaining portion of the line segment; and removing the reaction product without attacking the remaining portion of the line segment and without attacking the blocking layer and the substrate to form the line segment with a second dimension across the line segment that is smaller than the first dimension. The blocking layer prevents the formation of reaction product on the hard mask so that the initial thickness of the hard mask is maintained. The blocking layer can also serve as an ARC layer for photoresist patterning so that the use of an additional film layer is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick W. Buehrer, Derek Chen, William Chu, Scott Crowder, Sadanand V. Deshpande, David V. Horak, Wesley C. Natzle, Hung Y. Ng, Len Y. Tsou, Chienfan Yu
  • Publication number: 20040198030
    Abstract: A blocking layer is formed on a hard mask having an initial thickness. Lines are fabricated by patterning the blocking layer and the hard mask to provide a line segment, the line segment having a first dimension measured across the line segment; reacting a surface layer of the line segment to form a layer of a reaction product on a remaining portion of the line segment; and removing the reaction product without attacking the remaining portion of the line segment and without attacking the blocking layer and the substrate to form the line segment with a second dimension across the line segment that is smaller than the first dimension. The blocking layer prevents the formation of reaction product on the hard mask so that the initial thickness of the hard mask is maintained. The blocking layer can also serve as an ARC layer for photoresist patterning so that the use of an additional film layer is not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick W. Buehrer, Derek Chen, William Chu, Scott Crowder, Sadanand V. Deshpande, David V. Horak, Wesley C. Natzle, Hung Y. Ng, Len Y. Tsou, Chienfan Yu
  • Patent number: 6695142
    Abstract: A tool storage unit includes left and right walls, and a bottom wall. A left protrusion projects from an upper segment of the left wall toward the right wall for urging a front end wall of a socket. A right protrusion projects from an intermediate segment of the right wall toward the left wall for abutting against a central depressed area in a rear end wall of the socket. A plurality of the tool storage units are interconnected in a row for storing a plurality of sockets, in which the left protrusions on the left walls of the tool storage units are formed as a continuous projection that extends across the left walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Stanley Chiro International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Derek Chen, Steve Huang, Wesley Lee
  • Publication number: 20030205493
    Abstract: A tool storage unit includes left and right walls, and a bottom wall. A left protrusion projects from an upper segment of the left wall toward the right wall for urging a front end wall of a socket. A right protrusion projects from an intermediate segment of the right wall toward the left wall for abutting against a central depressed area in a rear end wall of the socket. A plurality of the tool storage units are interconnected in a row for storing a plurality of sockets, in which the left protrusions on the left walls of the tool storage units are formed as a continuous projection that extends across the left walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicant: Stanley Chiro International Ltd.
    Inventors: Derek Chen, Steve Huang, Wesley Lee
  • Patent number: 6637468
    Abstract: A high-speed cleaning system and method in which a liquid is injected by-compressed air into the vacuumed chambers in the automotive cooling systems, in water-cooled engines. The liquid is injected in short period time under pressure, and the cooling system is pre-evacuated and held at a vacuum so that there is no flow restriction to build up high pressure in the cooling system in the short period of time the liquid is injected in the cooling system, and the liquid travels through the cooling system at a high rate of speed. High pressure air is mixed with the liquid before it is injected into engine cooling system, where the liquid/air mixture travels at a high rate of speed creating a hurricane type effect that breaking loose contaminants such as dirt, rust, and other particles and washes them out of the engine cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventor: Derek Chen-Chien Wu