Patents by Inventor Jean-Fu Kiang

Jean-Fu Kiang 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: 20090085793
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting a trajectory of an air-to-surface target missile is provided, including detecting a plurality of echo wave signals from the target missile through a plurality of sensors deployed at various locations relative to the target missile, extracting at least one range distance and at least one radial velocity, respectively, from the detected echo wave signals from the sensors by using a hybrid FSK/LFM unit, using a two-stage Kalman filter to filter the computed range distance and radial velocity to obtain a relative distance, a relative velocity and a relative acceleration, respectively, of the target missile, and finally applying trilateration on the relative distance, relative velocity and relative acceleration of the target missile from each two-stage Kalman filter to obtain a location, velocity and acceleration along the x, y, z directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Po-Jen Tu, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Publication number: 20080278378
    Abstract: An antenna comprises a substrate, a feed conductor, a ground layer, a resonator and a short-circuited element. The substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface. The feed conductor is formed on the first surface. The ground layer is formed on the second surface, comprising an aperture. The resonator is disposed on the ground layer, comprising a body and a notch, the notch is formed on a first side of the body, wherein the first side is perpendicular to the ground layer. The short-circuited element is disposed on the first side connecting the ground layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Publication number: 20080272963
    Abstract: An antenna is provided comprising a substrate, a feed conductor, a ground layer and a resonator body. The substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface. The feed conductor is formed on the first surface. The ground layer is formed on the second surface comprising an opening. The resonator body comprises a first resonator structure and a second resonator structure. The first resonator structure is disposed on the ground layer. The second resonator structure is disposed on the ground layer surrounding the first resonator structure, wherein a groove is formed between the first and the second resonator structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Patent number: 7446630
    Abstract: A full range phase shifter circuit includes a power divider, a hybrid coupler, a differential phase shifter, a power combiner and switched attenuators. The power divider, hybrid coupler, differential phase shifter and power combiner comprise lumped elements and can be integrated in semiconductor processes, decreasing the circuit size of the full range phase shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Chia-Yu Chan, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Publication number: 20080180190
    Abstract: A full range phase shifter circuit includes a power divider, a hybrid coupler, a differential phase shifter, a power combiner and switched attenuators. The power divider, hybrid coupler, differential phase shifter and power combiner comprise lumped elements and can be integrated in semiconductor processes, decreasing the circuit size of the full range phase shifter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Chia-Yu Chan, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Publication number: 20080048915
    Abstract: A wideband dielectric resonator monopole antenna, which includes a dielectric resonator and a monopole antenna, combines two frequency bands having close resonant frequencies to achieve 49% of bandwidth and omnidirectional radiation patterns within the frequency band. It includes a column structure and a substrate, wherein the surface of the column structure is coated with a conductive layer, the column structure is kept upright to the substrate, and the substrate is coated or printed with two slot lines extended inward from an edge of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Patent number: 7292204
    Abstract: A dielectric resonator antenna is a dielectric resonator mounted on a feed-in/feed-out component. The dielectric resonator is a rectangular parallelepiped made of a dielectric, and has a caved well passing through from the top surface to the bottom surface thereof. The feed-in/feed-out component includes a dielectric substrate, a ground metal layer and a strip metal layer coated on the top surface and the bottom surface, respectively, of the dielectric substrate. An etched part is provided on the ground metal layer. Wherein, the dielectric resonator with the caved well is mounted on the ground metal layer of the feed-in/feed-out component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Patent number: 7265729
    Abstract: A microstrip antenna comprises of an antenna element and a feed-in/feed-out element. Wherein, a wiring pattern of the antenna element includes a plurality of spiral inductors, so that in the antenna element, the path of the electric current is lengthened, the resonant frequency is lowered, and the length of the antenna is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Publication number: 20070052590
    Abstract: This invention is a miniaturized microstrip antenna, which consists of one antenna element and one feeding structure. The antenna element is the first metal pattern printed on the first dielectric layer to radiate or receive electromagnetic wave at a specific frequency band. The feeding structure is used to deliver signals to or from the antenna element. The first metal pattern consists of two sets of parallel wires, with one set perpendicular to the other. The geometrical parameters of the first metal pattern determine the specific frequency band of electromagnetic wave to be radiated or received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Patent number: 7113148
    Abstract: A bifilar helical antenna includes an output/input unit formed by disposing a hybrid on a substrate, wherein the surface of the substrate is coated with a metallic conductive layer; the hybrid is a microstrip-line pattern formed by the conductive layer, and it further comprises a ring part and a plurality of transmission ports; and an antenna unit including a shell and an impedance transformer, wherein the shell is a cylindrical hollow tube disposed on the substrate of the output/input unit, on which a first helical line and a parallel second helical line are wound and both the bottom ends of the helical lines are electrically connected together through a resistor; the impedance transformer is composed of a first transmission line and a parallel second transmission line, where both the top ends of the first and the second transmission line are electrically connected to the top end of the first and the second helical line, and both the bottom ends of the first and the second transmission line are electrically
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Lan, Jean-Fu Kiang, Jing-Je Gau
  • Publication number: 20060164322
    Abstract: A bifilar helical antenna includes an output/input unit formed by disposing a hybrid on a substrate, wherein the surface of the substrate is coated with a metallic conductive layer; the hybrid is a microstrip-line pattern formed by the conductive layer, and it further comprises a ring part and a plurality of transmission ports; and an antenna unit including a shell and an impedance transformer, wherein the shell is a cylindrical hollow tube disposed on the substrate of the output/input unit, on which a first helical line and a parallel second helical line are wound and both the bottom ends of the helical lines are electrically connected together through a resistor; the impedance transformer is composed of a first transmission line and a parallel second transmission line, where both the top ends of the first and the second transmission line are electrically connected to the top end of the first and the second helical line, and both the bottom ends of the first and the second transmission line are electrically
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Lan, Jean-Fu Kiang, Jing-Je Gau