Patents by Inventor Emil Yu-Ming Chao

Emil Yu-Ming Chao 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).

  • Photodetection sensor for monitoring and fault detection
    Patent number: 11860232
    Abstract: A battery monitoring module may be arranged in such a way as to receive a sensor signal from a light sensor configured to detect light within a battery module. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a light characteristic within the battery module based on the sensor signal. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a battery condition of the battery module based on the light characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Emil Yu-ming Chao, Charles Ed Chang
  • PHOTODETECTION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND FAULT DETECTION
    Publication number: 20220334187
    Abstract: A battery monitoring module may be arranged in such a way as to receive a sensor signal from a light sensor configured to detect light within a battery module. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a light characteristic within the battery module based on the sensor signal. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a battery condition of the battery module based on the light characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Emil Yu-ming Chao, Charles Ed Chang
  • Photodetection sensor for monitoring and fault detection
    Patent number: 11391777
    Abstract: A battery monitoring module may be arranged in such a way as to receive a sensor signal from a light sensor configured to detect light within a battery module. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a light characteristic within the battery module based on the sensor signal. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a battery condition of the battery module based on the light characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Emil Yu-ming Chao, Charles Ed Chang
  • Battery pack with laminates to reduce impact of side rupture and method of manufacturing same
    Patent number: 10886507
    Abstract: A separating member for separating a plurality of battery cells is provided, which includes a plurality of first walls and a plurality of second walls having a thickness larger than a thickness of the first walls. The separating member is expandable from a collapsed state to an expanded state. The separating member has a plate configuration in the collapsed state and has a honeycomb structure in the expanded state. The plurality of first walls and the plurality of second walls jointly define a plurality of cell units of the honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel Christopher Wynn, Charles Ed Chang, Emil Yu-ming Chao
  • PHOTODETECTION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND FAULT DETECTION
    Publication number: 20200150184
    Abstract: A battery monitoring module may be arranged in such a way as to receive a sensor signal from a light sensor configured to detect light within a battery module. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a light characteristic within the battery module based on the sensor signal. The battery monitoring module may determine, using processing circuitry, a battery condition of the battery module based on the light characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Emil Yu-ming Chao, Charles Ed Chang
  • BATTERY PACK WITH LAMINATES TO REDUCE IMPACT OF SIDE RUPTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME
    Publication number: 20190386264
    Abstract: A separating member for separating a plurality of battery cells is provided, which includes a plurality of first walls and a plurality of second walls having a thickness larger than a thickness of the first walls. The separating member is expandable from a collapsed state to an expanded state. The separating member has a plate configuration in the collapsed state and has a honeycomb structure in the expanded state. The plurality of first walls and the plurality of second walls jointly define a plurality of cell units of the honeycomb structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Rivian Automotive, LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel Christopher WYNN, Charles Ed CHANG, Emil Yu-ming CHAO
  • Method and apparatus for automatic equalization of very high frequency multilevel and baseband codes using a high speed analog decision feedback equalizer
    Patent number: 6047026
    Abstract: A decision feedback equalizer circuit employing a current mode finite impulse response (FIR) filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: OHM Technologies International, LLC
    Inventors: Emil Yu-Ming Chao, Nirav Pravinkumar Dagli, Parameswaran Gopal Iyer, Alarabi Omar Hassen