Patents by Inventor Jeff Chen

Jeff 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: 20230134746
    Abstract: A door lock contains: a casing, a head, a first clutch element, a second clutch, a drive gear, a gear assembly, a guide rod, a locking column, and a holder. The casing includes a first connection part and a second connection part. The head includes a retainer, a first engagement portion, and a receiving orifice. The first clutch element includes a groove. The second clutch element includes a driving orifice, a limitation protrusion, and an abutting segment. The drive gear includes a defining trench. The gear assembly includes a driven gear, a motor, a transmission gear, a first meshing gear, and a second meshing gear. The guide rod includes a toothed section, a guiding stem, a tongue, and a resilient element. The locking column includes a cross section in a square shape. The holder includes an extending sheet, a fixing orifice, a fitting sleeve, and a first through orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20230078315
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining column ordering of a data storage table for search optimization are described herein. In some examples, a computing system is configured to receive input containing statistics of a plurality of queries. The computing system can then determine a new column order (i.e., layout) based at least in part on the statistics. In some example techniques described herein, the computing system can determine the new column order based at least in part on the hardware components storing the data storage table, storage system parameters, and/or user preference information. Example techniques described herein can apply the new column order to data subsequently added to the data storage table. Example techniques described herein can apply the new column order to existing data in the data storage table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Liang Jeff CHEN, Xiao HUANG, Ying YAN, Yueguo CHEN, Xudong ZHENG, Haoqiong BIAN
  • Patent number: 11587811
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system, includes: a first pressurized load port interfaced with a workstation body; a second pressurized load port interfaced with the workstation body; the workstation body maintained at a set pressure level, wherein the workstation body comprises an internal material handling system configured to move a semiconductor workpiece within the workstation body between the first and second pressurized load ports at the set pressure level; a first modular tool interfaced with the first pressurized load port, wherein the first modular tool is configured to process the semiconductor workpiece; and a second modular tool interfaced with the second pressurized load port, wherein the second modular tool is configured to inspect the semiconductor workpiece processed by the first modular tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Jung Huang, Yung-Lin Hsu, Kuang Huan Hsu, Jeff Chen, Steven Huang, Yueh-Lun Yang
  • Patent number: 11578506
    Abstract: A transmission structure of a rotary shaft of an electronic lock contains: a drive unit which includes a holding plate, a motor, a worm, and a driven wheel. The holding plate includes an externally threaded portion and a fixing orifice. The driven wheel includes an internally threaded orifice, two protrusions, two flat zones, two arcuate fringes, and a tooth section. The transmission unit includes a guide element, a movable element, a resilient element, a retainer, and an acting element. The guiding element has a central orifice, the movable element has a guiding orifice, and the acting element has a slidable post. The frame includes a defining orifice and is welded with the holding plate. The connection seat is received in the defining orifice and includes a retaining portion. After the connection seat is received in the defining orifice, the retaining portion is engaged with a fastening ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Patent number: 11566440
    Abstract: A lock includes a latch assembly, a first locking mechanism, a second locking mechanism, a linkage mechanism, a clutch mechanism, and a rebounding mechanism. The lock utilizes a first clutch member and a second clutch member of the clutch mechanism to coordinate with a leaning portion of an inner linkage member of the linkage mechanism to achieve that when the turned inner linkage member will outward push the first clutch member and the second clutch member away from each other to make the second clutch member rapidly and accurately be engaged with an outer linkage member of the linkage mechanism so as to make the outer linkage member to drive the latch assembly to unlock. The arrangement provided by the present invention that has the first clutch member and the second clutch member coordinate with the leaning portion of the inner linkage member simplifies the entire structure of the lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Patent number: 11514011
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining column ordering of a data storage table for search optimization are described herein. In some examples, a computing system is configured to receive input containing statistics of a plurality of queries. The computing system can then determine a new column order (i.e., layout) based at least in part on the statistics. In some example techniques described herein, the computing system can determine the new column order based at least in part on the hardware components storing the data storage table, storage system parameters, and/or user preference information. Example techniques described herein can apply the new column order to data subsequently added to the data storage table. Example techniques described herein can apply the new column order to existing data in the data storage table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Moscibroda, Liang Jeff Chen, Xiao Huang, Ying Yan, Yueguo Chen, Xudong Zheng, Haoqiong Bian
  • Patent number: 11502974
    Abstract: Systems and methods of network packet switching use a table representation of a trie data structure to identify a timestamp (TS) range (or time range) for a received packet based on the packet timestamp (TS). The trie data structure is programmed with a plurality of predetermined time ranges. Each node in the trie data structure corresponds to a TS prefix and is associated with a corresponding predetermined time range. A search engine in the network switch can use the packet TS as a key to traverse the trie data structure and thereby matching the packet TS to a predetermined time range according to a Longest Prefix Match (LPM) process. Provided with the TS ranges of the incoming packets, various applications and logic engines in the network switch can accordingly process the packets, such as determining a new destination IP address and performing channel switch accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Zubin Hemantkumar Shah, Shih-Jeff Chen, Ravindran Suresh, Leonid Livak
  • Patent number: 11486566
    Abstract: Disclosed is a modular housing for drivers used for LED lamps. The housing includes connectors for AC in from a power source, DC out to the lamps, and also has connectors allowing for control lines to be received from a control box. The housing includes an arrangement for creating two opposite stacks of drivers. The fronts of the drivers are cooled by circulating air through the space between the stacks, and heat is also dissipated through the side walls of the housing, which acts as a heat sink. The number and specifications of the drivers in the housing are configured such that every module is able to serve a number of LED lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sunlite Science & Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Chen, Xiaofang Suo
  • Publication number: 20220254213
    Abstract: A control device of electronic lock is provided for electrically connecting with a lock device of the electronic lock, so as to be adapted for controlling the operation of the lock device. The control device comprises a base plate, a circuit board, a plurality of illuminants, a plurality of communication resilience members, a lid locked on the base plate, an alignment plate, and a touch panel. The illuminants are arranged corresponding to the communication resilience members respectively. The touch panel is electrically connected with the communication resilience members. When the touch panel is touched, the communication resilience member corresponding to the touched position is electrically communicated with the circuit board, that consequently triggers the corresponding illuminant to emit light. The communication resilience members are guided and aligned through the alignment plate so as to avoid signal interference thereamong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Patent number: 11408197
    Abstract: A lock, adapted for being assembled on a door panel, is provided. The door sheet has an assembling hole and a latch slot connected and communicated with the assembling hole. The lock includes a latch assembly, a first locking mechanism, and a second locking mechanism. The latch assembly is assembled in the latch slot and extended into the assembling hole. The first locking mechanism and the second locking mechanism are assembled in the assembling hole from the two sides thereof respectively to automatically position and affix the latch assembly. Because the latch assembly can be to led to move and positioned in the latch slot and the assembling hole by the first locking mechanism and no screw or other tool are required for fastening in the entire process of the assembling, the present invention is therefore easy and convenient to assemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Patent number: 11374375
    Abstract: A laser-beam power-modulation system includes an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) to receive a laser beam and separate the laser beam into a primary beam and a plurality of diffracted beams based on an input signal. The power of the primary beam depends on the input signal. The system also includes a slit to transmit the primary beam and dump the plurality of diffracted beams, a controller to generate a control signal based at least in part on feedback indicative of the power of the primary beam or the power of a beam generated using the primary beam, and a driver to generate the input signal based at least in part on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KLA Corporation
    Inventors: Mandar Paranjape, Steve Yifeng Cui, Anatoly Romanovsky, Million Daniel, Nadine Asenbaum-Doerre, Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220195754
    Abstract: An electronic lock cylinder contains: a receiving sleeve, a lock head, a fastener, a rotation element, a rotatable actuation element, a driven element, a drive motor, a resilient element, an operation element, a locking element, and a locating cap. Thereby, the drive motor moves clockwise or counterclockwise to drive the rotary column to rotate 90 degrees and to simultaneously actuate the driven element, the drive motor, the resilient element, and the engagement projection of the operation element to move forward or backward to rotate or rotate idly in the notch of the locking element, thus saving energy and obtaining environmental protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220162885
    Abstract: A length adjustable door lock includes a latch assembly, a lock core connected with the latch assembly, a lock bolt connected with the lock core, and a housing sleeved on the lock bolt. The latch assembly and the lock core respectively have an embedding opening and slot having matchable shape, wherein a buckling portion is formed and provided on the lock bolt coordinately, wherein the buckling portion is adapted for being assembled in the slot of the lock core through the embedding opening, which is easy for the assembling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220162883
    Abstract: A lock for door includes a locking latch assembly, a lock rotor, a lock bolt and a rotating member, wherein the latch includes an upper rotor member, a clutch transmission set, a deceleration gear set, and a motor. When the deceleration gear set is driven by the motor, the deceleration gear set immediately drives the clutch transmission set to move the lock bolt. When the lock rotor is manually driven to rotate and the upper rotor member is connected to rotate, the upper rotor member pushes the clutch transmission set for a clutch action, so that the clutch transmission set only drives the lock bolt to move so as to selectively lock and unlock the lock for door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220074234
    Abstract: A drive structure of a lock bolt contains: a lock bolt unit, a covering assembly, a motor, a gear control unit, and an electronic lock unit. The lock bolt unit includes a fixer, a linear slider, two fixing blocks, a groove defined, a driving shaft, a trench, two first through holes, a coupling plate, and a deadbolt. The covering assembly includes a first cap, a second cap, a first notch, a second notch, two locking posts, two threaded orifices, two second through orifices, a central orifice, a receiving seat, and a positioning column. The motor includes a central stem and a control circuit. The gear control unit includes a first gear, a second gear, and a belt. The first gear has a driven orifice and multiple first teeth. The second gear has a connecting orifice, multiple second teeth, a defining portion, and an actuation protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220064995
    Abstract: An idling switch structure of a shaft of an electronic lock contains: a holding plate, a shell, an electric drive unit, a switching unit, and a manual rotation unit. The holding plate includes a peripheral fringe, multiple positioning posts, a fixing seat, two locating portions, a column, a receiving area, a limiting rib, an extension, and a bolt seat. The shell includes a covering space, multiple recesses, and a locking orifice. The electric drive unit includes a drive wheel, a motor body, and a transmission wheel having a central orifice and two rotation protrusions. The drive wheel has a central orifice, a tooth portion, and an actuation gear. The motor body has two stands and a worm. The switching unit includes a driven sheet, a slider, a first spring, a second spring, and a driving element. The manual rotation unit includes a lock bolt and a key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220064989
    Abstract: A lock includes a latch assembly, a first locking mechanism, a second locking mechanism, a linkage mechanism, a clutch mechanism, and a rebounding mechanism. The lock utilizes a first clutch member and a second clutch member of the clutch mechanism to coordinate with a leaning portion of an inner linkage member of the linkage mechanism to achieve that when the turned inner linkage member will outward push the first clutch member and the second clutch member away from each other to make the second clutch member rapidly and accurately be engaged with an outer linkage member of the linkage mechanism so as to make the outer linkage member to drive the latch assembly to unlock. The arrangement provided by the present invention that has the first clutch member and the second clutch member coordinate with the leaning portion of the inner linkage member simplifies the entire structure of the lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20220064993
    Abstract: A transmission structure of a rotary shaft of an electronic lock contains: a drive unit which includes a holding plate, a motor, a worm, and a driven wheel. The holding plate includes an externally threaded portion and a fixing orifice. The driven wheel includes an internally threaded orifice, two protrusions, two flat zones, two arcuate fringes, and a tooth section. The transmission unit includes a guide element, a movable element, a resilient element, a retainer, and an acting element. The guiding element has a central orifice, the movable element has a guiding orifice, and the acting element has a slidable post. The frame includes a defining orifice and is welded with the holding plate. The connection seat is received in the defining orifice and includes a retaining portion. After the connection seat is received in the defining orifice, the retaining portion is engaged with a fastening ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Publication number: 20210363783
    Abstract: A lock, adapted for being assembled on a door panel, is provided. The door sheet has an assembling hole and a latch slot connected and communicated with the assembling hole. The lock includes a latch assembly, a first locking mechanism, and a second locking mechanism. The latch assembly is assembled in the latch slot and extended into the assembling hole. The first locking mechanism and the second locking mechanism are assembled in the assembling hole from the two sides thereof respectively to automatically position and affix the latch assembly. Because the latch assembly can be to led to move and positioned in the latch slot and the assembling hole by the first locking mechanism and no screw or other tool are required for fastening in the entire process of the assembling, the present invention is therefore easy and convenient to assemble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Patent number: D937657
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Chen