Patents by Inventor Han Liu

Han Liu 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: 11822231
    Abstract: A method for removing particles includes receiving a pellicle including a pellicle membrane, a pellicle frame and at least a particle disposed on the pellicle membrane, generating light beams to form an optical trap extending in a direction perpendicular to the pellicle membrane, and removing the particle from the pellicle membrane by the optical trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu Han Liu, Chih-Wei Wen, Chung-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 11822848
    Abstract: A display control method includes: receiving a first video signal provided by a first video source device to display one or more first images in the first video signal on a display device; when the display device is displaying the one or more first images, establishing a connection with a second video source device and receiving a second video signal provided by the second video source device through the connection; generating one or more composite images based on the one or more first images in the first video signal and one or more second images in the second video signal without receiving a user control input; and displaying the one or more composite images on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Ding-Wei Chen, Che-Han Liu
  • Patent number: 11821648
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an air sweeping mechanism and an air conditioner with the air sweeping mechanism. The air sweeping mechanism includes: a mounting portion, the mounting portion being configured to be mounted on a housing of the air conditioner; an air sweeping blade, the air sweeping blade being connected with the mounting portion; and a driving rod, the driving rod being connected with the air sweeping blade, and a position of the driving rod being adjustably disposed, wherein the air sweeping blade and the driving rod are integrally formed, at least part of the air sweeping blade is a flexible portion, and the driving rod drives the at least part of the air sweeping blade to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Jiebin Yu, Han Liu, Junhong Wu, Xu Gao
  • Publication number: 20230367930
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for setting an evacuation exit under a crowd emergency evacuation scenario are provided. A simulation model is constructed based on a social force model, and a behavior parameter of an evacuating crowd under the crowd emergency evacuation scenario is obtained by a numerical approximation method with actual trajectory data of individuals in the evacuating crowd under a specific emergency evacuation scenario as a reference; an evacuation exit set is set, an integer programming solution for evacuation exit decision under the emergency evacuation scenario is constructed, and a total evacuation cost of the evacuation exit is obtained based on the simulation model; and reduction of the total evacuation cost is taken as an optimization target to construct an emergency evacuation optimization model based on constraint conditions, and the emergency evacuation optimization model is solved to obtain a recommended integer programming solution for evacuation exit decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Han LIU, Qingjie QI, Yue ZHANG, Jingwen ZHANG, Jiamei CHAI
  • Publication number: 20230343651
    Abstract: The invention provides a semiconductor manufacturing process, which comprises the following steps: using a computer system to define plurality of shots on a wafer range, distributing a plurality of observation points in each shot, finding out parts of incomplete shots from all of the shots, calculating the number of observation points in each incomplete shot, eliminating the incomplete shots with the number less than 3 observation points, counting all observation points in the remaining incomplete shots, and deleting a part of observation points until the total number of observation points meets a preset total number, and uniformly distributing all observation points, and performing an overlay measurement step on the remaining observation points to generate an offset vector map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: United Semiconductor (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dian Han Liu, Yuan-Chi Pai, WEN YI TAN
  • Publication number: 20230333465
    Abstract: In pellicle cleaning, a gas is flowed on a pellicle using at least one gas nozzle. During the flowing, the pellicle is moved respective to the at least one gas nozzle. During the flowing, the pellicle is exposed to ionized gas generated by at least one alpha ionizer. Also during the flowing, an ultrasonic wave is applied to the pellicle using an ultrasound transducer or transducer array. The gas nozzle may have a nozzle aperture comprising a slit or a linear array of apertures arranged parallel with a pellicle membrane of the pellicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kun-Lung Hsieh, Tzu Han Liu, Hao-En Luo, Chih-Wei Wen
  • Publication number: 20230315371
    Abstract: A display control method includes: receiving a first video signal provided by a first video source device to display one or more first images in the first video signal on a display device; when the display device is displaying the one or more first images, establishing a connection with a second video source device and receiving a second video signal provided by the second video source device through the connection; generating one or more composite images based on the one or more first images in the first video signal and one or more second images in the second video signal without receiving a user control input; and displaying the one or more composite images on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Ding-Wei Chen, Che-Han Liu
  • Publication number: 20230311371
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a reinforced synthetic product with a curved geometry, which includes forming a fabric made of at least one filament bundle including a reinforcing fiber material and at least one thermoplastic filament woven with the filament bundle; and combining a heat-formable material with the fabric to form a bendable fabric preform sheet. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing a reinforced synthetic product with a curved geometry, which includes positioning the bendable fabric preform sheet into a mold with a curved geometry to form a bended fabric preform sheet; and molding the bended fabric preform sheet by heating to form a cured product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SRAM, LLC
    Inventors: Chen Hsiung CHEN, Chia Chang CHANG, Huan Ching HSU, Ching Han LIU, Chu Chen WANG
  • Publication number: 20230303081
    Abstract: A driving mode control method, apparatus, device, program and storage medium, which relates to the technical field of electronic control, and is for a control platform, the method includes: acquiring a location information sent by a target vehicle, wherein the location information comprises a target location; determining a status data of at least one sample vehicle pre-stored by the control platform based on the target location, wherein the sample vehicle is a vehicle which has travelled through the target location; determining a target driving mode based on the status data of the sample vehicle, and sending the target driving mode to the target vehicle, such that the target vehicle travels in the target driving mode. This disclosure enables the target vehicle to travel in the target driving mode. The driver needs not to manually switch the driving mode, and the accuracy and convenience of controlling the drive mode are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Di WU, Xuejing YANG, Song HAN, Han LIU, Jun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230288346
    Abstract: A method for aligning to a pattern on a wafer is disclosed. The method includes the steps of obtaining a first inline image from a first sample wafer, obtaining a first contour pattern of an alignment mark pattern from the first inline image, using the first contour pattern to generate a first synthetic image in black and white pixels of only two grayscale levels, using the first synthetic image as a reference to recognize the alignment mark pattern on a tested wafer, and aligning to a tested pattern on the tested wafer according to a position of the alignment mark pattern on the tested wafer and a coordinate information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: United Semiconductor (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dian Han Liu, Maohua Ren, Yuan-Chi Pai, Wen Yi TAN
  • Publication number: 20230280371
    Abstract: An elastic electrical contact device and a contact conductor are introduced. The elastic electrical contact device includes two contact conductors. Each contact conductor includes a head and an electrical contact portion integrally connected with each other. The electrical contact portion has a cross section shaped as a curved bend and has a guide groove formed thereon. The electrical contact portion is bilaterally symmetrical along a second central axis, wherein a first central axis and the second central axis are parallel to each other and non-coaxial. The electrical contact portions of the two contact conductors are disposed to have openings thereof face each other and are mutually connected in respective guide grooves, are mutually slidable to extend and retract relative to each other, and are sleeved by an elastic reset member to enable the two contact conductors to be elastically reset when extending and retracting relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: WEN-HAN LIU
  • Publication number: 20230264574
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for vehicle control, a storage medium, an electronic device, and a computer program are provided. The method is applicable to a vehicle and includes: acquiring a target deceleration, if the vehicle is traveling on a road section; and performing the braking energy recovery according to the target deceleration, if the vehicle receives a brake instruction and triggers the braking energy recovery. For each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles, the target deceleration is determined by a plurality of history decelerations of each vehicle when traveling on the road section and triggering a braking energy recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Di WU, Xuejing YANG, Jun ZHANG, Han LIU, Song HAN, Zengli WANG, Hongyan SHAN
  • Patent number: 11721396
    Abstract: Memories having a controller configured to perform methods during programming operations including apply a first voltage level to a data line selectively connected to a selected memory cell selected, apply a lower second voltage level to a select gate connected between the data line and the memory cell, decrease the voltage level applied to the data line from the first voltage level to a third voltage level while continuing to apply the second voltage level to the select gate, increase the voltage level applied to the select gate from the second voltage level to a fourth voltage level after the voltage level of the data line settles to the third voltage level, and apply a programming voltage to the memory cell after increasing the voltage level applied to the select gate to the fourth voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Violante Moschiano, Purval S. Sule, Han Liu, Andrea D'Alessandro, Pranav Kalavade, Han Zhao, Shantanu Rajwade
  • Publication number: 20230239770
    Abstract: A wireless transmission method and a transceiver for wireless transmission are disclosed. According to this method, information to be transmitted and transmission control information are encoded into packet length information of wireless frames for transmission, wherein the transmission control information is filled into synchronization packets, sequence number packets and data packets, and the information to be transmitted is only filled into the data packets. Specifically, the method includes sequentially polling data for transmission in units of transmission sequences, and longitudinally encoding the information to be transmitted and data check information into the data packets. The transmission sequences are separated and sorted by the synchronization packets and the sequence number packets, and the data packets are sorted by sequence number fields in the transmission sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Wen CHEN, Swee Ann TEO, Jiangjian JIANG, Jiangang WU, Han LIU
  • Patent number: 11711749
    Abstract: A wireless transmission method and a transceiver for wireless transmission are disclosed. According to this method, information to be transmitted and transmission control information are encoded into packet length information of wireless frames for transmission, wherein the transmission control information is filled into synchronization packets, sequence number packets and data packets, and the information to be transmitted is only filled into the data packets. Specifically, the method includes sequentially polling data for transmission in units of transmission sequences, and longitudinally encoding the information to be transmitted and data check information into the data packets. The transmission sequences are separated and sorted by the synchronization packets and the sequence number packets, and the data packets are sorted by sequence number fields in the transmission sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ESPRESSIF SYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Chen, Swee Ann Teo, Jiangjian Jiang, Jiangang Wu, Han Liu
  • Patent number: 11703754
    Abstract: A reticle pod is provided. The reticle pod includes a container and a fluid regulating module mounted to the container. The fluid regulating module includes a first cap, a second cap and a sealing film. The first cap and the second cap are connected to each other. A flowing path is formed between the first cap and the second cap for allowing a fluid passing through the fluid regulating module. The sealing film is positioned between the first cap and the second cap and configured for regulating a flow of the fluid passing through the flowing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu Han Liu, Chih-Wei Wen, Chung-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 11692946
    Abstract: A method for aligning to a pattern on a wafer is disclosed. The method includes the steps of obtaining a first inline image from a first sample wafer, obtaining a first contour pattern of an alignment mark pattern from the first inline image, using the first contour pattern to generate a first synthetic image in black and white pixels, using the first synthetic image as a reference to recognize the alignment mark pattern on a tested wafer, and aligning to a tested pattern on the tested wafer according to a position of the alignment mark pattern on the tested wafer and a coordinate information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: United Semiconductor (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dian Han Liu, Maohua Ren, Yuan-Chi Pai, Wen Yi Tan
  • Publication number: 20230202774
    Abstract: A method for automatically placing a to-be-packed object into a container that defines an accommodation space is provided. A processing unit obtains an object dimension data piece that indicates dimensions of the to-be-packed object, and obtains, through a camera unit that captures images of the to-be-packed object and the accommodation space, an unoccupied area related to the accommodation space. Based on the object dimension data piece and the unoccupied area, the processing unit determines whether the container is capable of accommodating the to-be-packed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Cheng-Lung CHEN, Xuan Loc NGUYEN, Ting Han LIU, Yu-Yen LIU
  • Publication number: 20230202457
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling mode switching of a hybrid electric vehicle, and a vehicle is provided, and belongs to the field of hybrid electric vehicles. The method includes: performing, if the drive state information indicates that a current drive mode of the hybrid electric vehicle is a forward mode of a non-hybrid drive and in a case that a current speed reaches a speed limit, a pre-gear operation when a transmission gear of the hybrid electric vehicle is a neutral gear, to switch the transmission gear from the neutral gear to a second gear. The technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can make the hybrid electric vehicle unable to switch to the hybrid drive mode due to the limitation of the ability of synchronizer on gear shifting when driving at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Tong KANG, Shujiang CHEN, Qing ZHAO, Mingwang ZHOU, Di WU, Han LIU
  • Publication number: 20230207320
    Abstract: Examples of an integrated circuit with a capacitor structure and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, an integrated circuit device includes a substrate and a trench isolation material disposed on the substrate. An isolation structure is disposed on the trench isolation material. A first electrode disposed on the isolation structure, and a second electrode disposed on the isolation structure. A capacitor dielectric is disposed on the isolation structure between the first electrode and the second electrode. In some such examples, the isolation structure includes a first hard mask disposed on the trench isolation material, a dielectric disposed on the first hard mask, and a second hard mask disposed on the dielectric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Hsiao-Han Liu, Hoppy Lee, Chung-Yu Chiang, Po-Nien Chen, Chih-Yung Lin