Patents by Inventor Kuan Lin Chen
Kuan Lin 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).
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Publication number: 20250105534Abstract: A terminal structure includes a terminal body, a locking means formed on at least one face of the terminal body, an insertion unit extending from a first end of the terminal body, and a holding mechanism extending from a second end of the terminal body. The insertion unit is mounted on a circuit board. The circuit board defines multiple conducting holes. The insertion unit is inserted into and locked in one of the conducting holes of the circuit board. The holding mechanism includes two opposite clamping arms and a clamping space defined between the two clamping arms. An electronic element is held by the holding mechanism. The electronic element has multiple lead legs. One of the lead legs of the electronic element is clamped between the two clamping arms and held in the clamping space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Shu-Fen Wang, Kuan-Lin Chen
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Publication number: 20250103334Abstract: A method and a system for dynamically tuning thermal design power and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described. The system is configured to dynamically tune turbo boost mode operation parameters of a central processing unit (CPU), independent of related settings of a turbo boost operation state of the CPU. In an embodiment, a controller is configured to send a power tuning signal to a basic input/output system (BIOS) to directly intervene and tune a real-time operating power of the CPU.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Shu-Hao KUO, Chong-Rong HUANG, Kuan-Lin CHEN, I-Chieh CHEN, Kuan-Hsien LEE, Shing-Hang WANG
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Publication number: 20250036953Abstract: In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at a machine learning model, an input for a task of the machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model comprises a plurality of residual blocks augmented with a plurality of augmented weight blocks that sample intermediate features from the plurality of residual blocks; applying the input to the machine learning model to perform the task, wherein the applying comprises applying the plurality of intermediate features, which are obtained from the plurality of residual blocks, to the plurality of augmented weight blocks to form a plurality of intermediate outputs; and generating an output of the machine learning model, wherein the output is generated using at least on a combination of the plurality of intermediate outputs. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Harinath Garudadri, Kuan-Lin Chen, Bhaskar D. Rao, Ching-Hua Lee
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Publication number: 20250003669Abstract: An exhaust condensation recovery device for solving an issue of difficulties in removing a gaseous working fluid diffused in an outer hood. An exhaust condensation recovery device includes a housing, including a gas inflow portion, a liquid inflow portion and a gas outflow portion, the housing including therein an accommodating chamber, wherein a liquid collection zone is formed below accommodating chamber, and the liquid outflow portion is in communication with the liquid collection zone; and a cooling module, forming a condensation channel in the accommodating chamber, wherein the condensation channel is located above the liquid collection zone, and two ends of the condensation channel are respectively in communication with the gas inflow portion and the gas outflow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: CHUNG-PENG HUANG, FANG-YI LIN, KUAN-LIN CHEN, CHUN-CHING KUO
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Publication number: 20250006440Abstract: An airtight switch adapted for an airtight device comprises an enclosure and a lid structure which are adapted to be joined with each other at a junction plane. The airtight switch includes a slider disposed at one of the enclosure or the lid structure. The airtight switch includes a contact element disposed at the other of the enclosure or the lid structure. The contact element has a sloped surface, and the slider selectively abuts against the sloped surface. The airtight switch includes a linear drive device adapted to drive the slider to move linearly in a sliding direction. The sliding direction is parallel to the junction plane and non-perpendicular to a normal vector of the sloped surface. The airtight switch is adapted to be applied in an airtight device needing a switch with good sealing and airtightness.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: CHUNG-PENG HUANG, FANG-YI LIN, KUAN-LIN CHEN, CHUN-CHING KUO
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Method and System of Static Charge Variation Sensing Based Human Jaw Motion Detection for User Voice
Publication number: 20250008252Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method using a charge collection antenna in a wearable device to collect charge variation based on a user's jawbone and muscle motion. The collected charge variation may be used to determine an on-body status of the wearable device. For example, in wireless earbuds, information acquired from a charge collection antenna may be used to determine whether the earbud is worn in-ear by the user. The collected charge variation may also be used to detect jaw motion by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Fang Liu, Trausti Thormundsson, Yuan Jen Chang, Nicholas Jordan Sanders, Kari Antero Pulli, Kuan-Lin Chen -
Publication number: 20250001622Abstract: An apparatus for automated maintenance, adapted for maintaining an airtight equipment comprises airtight equipment including a casing, which forms an accommodation space and is adapted to accommodate an equipment component in the accommodation space. The apparatus for automated maintenance includes an automated maintenance machine, adapted to store and transport the equipment component, an enclosure, connected to the automated maintenance machine, the enclosure forming an enclosure space and selectively connected to the airtight equipment via an enclosure opening such that the enclosure space is in communication with the accommodation space and forms airtightness. A robotic arm, disposed in the enclosure space, is adapted to enter the accommodation space to maintain or replace the equipment component of the airtight equipment, and further adapted to enter the automated maintenance machine to take and place the equipment component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: CHUNG-PENG HUANG, FANG-YI LIN, KUAN-LIN CHEN, CHUN-CHING KUO
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Publication number: 20240282575Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. After a patterning of a middle layer, the middle layer is removed. In order to reduce or prevent damage to other underlying layers exposed by the patterning of the middle layer and intervening layers, an inhibitor is included within an etching process in order to inhibit the amount of material removed from the underlying layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Jian-Jou Lian, Yao-Wen Hsu, Neng-Jye Yang, Li-Min Chen, Chia-Wei Wu, Kuan-Lin Chen, Kuo-Bin Huang
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Publication number: 20240243114Abstract: An electronic package structure includes first and second package modules combined with each other. The first package module includes a substrate and a first electronic component disposed thereon, at least one second electronic component, and an insulation film. The first electronic component and the second electronic component are adjacent to each other. The insulation film includes a base material and a foam glue body, and the foam glue body is viscous and compressible. The second package module includes a heat dissipation plate and a liquid metal and an insulation protrusion portion disposed thereon. The liquid metal is pressed by the heat dissipation plate and the first electronic component. The insulation protrusion portion covers and abuts against the insulation film to press the foam glue body through the base material so as to deform the foam glue body and enable the foam glue body to cover the second electronic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yu-Ming Lin, Mao-Neng Liao, Cheng-Wen Hsieh, Kuang-Hua Lin, Wei-Chin Chen, Kuan-Lin Chen, Chun-Chieh Wang
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Publication number: 20240240306Abstract: A physical vapor deposition (PVD) system includes: a pedestal configured to accommodate a semiconductor wafer; a cover plate above the pedestal configured to hold a target; and a collimator disposed above the pedestal and below the cover plate. The collimator has an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface is flat, and the upper surface is non-flat. A first thickness, in a vertical direction, of the collimator at a central portion is smaller than a second thickness, in the vertical direction, of the collimator at a peripheral portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Kuan-Lin Chen, Tsung-Yi Chou, Wei-Der Sun, Hao-Wei Kang
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Patent number: 12014679Abstract: Reducing blinking pixels in a display includes detecting a first timing of activation of one or more emissive elements of the display, detecting a second timing of sensing pulses from a sensor arranged to detect radiation transmitted through the display, determining, based on the first timing and the second timing, a synchronized timing that staggers the activation of the one or more emissive elements of the display and the sensing pulses from the sensor, and dynamically altering, based on the determined synchronized timing, a subsequent timing of the sensing pulses from the sensor to reduce blinking of at least some of the pixels compared to blinking associated with the synchronized timing.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Yi Zhang, Seobin Jung, Kuan-Lin Chen
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Patent number: 11990339Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. After a patterning of a middle layer, the middle layer is removed. In order to reduce or prevent damage to other underlying layers exposed by the patterning of the middle layer and intervening layers, an inhibitor is included within an etching process in order to inhibit the amount of material removed from the underlying layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Jian-Jou Lian, Yao-Wen Hsu, Neng-Jye Yang, Li-Min Chen, Chia-Wei Wu, Kuan-Lin Chen, Kuo Bin Huang
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Publication number: 20240152187Abstract: A foldable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a hinge module, and a cover is provided. The hinge module is connected to the first body and the second body, such that the first body and the second body are rotated relatively to be folded or unfolded via the hinge module. The hinge module has a protruding rod eccentric to a rotation center of the hinge module. The cover is pivoted to the second body and located on a moving path of the protruding rod. The hinge module drives the cover to be rotated relative to the second body via the protruding rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Chun-Hung Wen, Chun-Hsien Chen, Hui-Ping Sun, Wen-Neng Liao, Yu-Ming Lin, Kuan-Lin Chen
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Patent number: 11952656Abstract: A physical vapor deposition (PVD) system is disclosed. The PVD system includes a pedestal configured to hold a semiconductor wafer, a cover plate configured to hold a target, and a collimator between the pedestal and the cover plate. The collimator includes a plurality of passages configured to pass source material travelling from the cover plate toward the pedestal at an angle less than a threshold angle with respect to a line perpendicular to a surface of the pedestal facing the cover plate, where the collimator is configured to block source material travelling from the cover plate toward the pedestal at an angle greater than the threshold angle, where a first passage of the plurality of passages has a first passage length, where a second passage of the plurality of passages has a second passage length, and where the first passage length is less than the second passage length.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kuan-Lin Chen, Tsung-Yi Chou, Wei-Der Sun, Hao-Wei Kang
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Patent number: 11889645Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes a first casing, a second casing, a hinge structure and a foldable display. The hinge structure connects the first casing and the second casing, and includes a plurality of supporting blocks, a plurality of first hinge blocks and a plurality of second hinge blocks. The supporting blocks are arranged side by side between the first casing and the second casing. The first hinge blocks and the second hinge blocks are respectively arranged at two sides of the supporting blocks. One of the first hinge blocks connects two of the supporting blocks adjacent to each other. One of the second hinge blocks connects two of the supporting blocks adjacent to each other. The foldable display includes a first bonding portion secured to the first casing, a second bonding portion secured to the second casing and a foldable portion aligned to the hinge structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Hui-Ping Sun, Wei-Chih Wang, Chun-Hung Wen, Yu-Cheng Shih, Yen-Chou Chueh, Chi-Tai Ho, Kuan-Lin Chen, Chun-Hsien Chen, Chih-Heng Tsou
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Publication number: 20230413073Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for determining AR filter coefficient and numbers of synchronization. In one novel aspect, the AR filter coefficient and times of synchronization are determined based on the temperatures of the oscillator. In one embodiment, the UE determines a temperature drift rate by collecting sets of temperatures before and after the UE in the sleep mode of the CDRX, generates one or more threshold look-up tables and performs an optimization selection based on the temperature drift rate and the one or more threshold of look-up tables, wherein the optimization selection comprising selecting an alpha coefficient and a number of subframes for synchronization. In another embodiment, the optimization selection is further determined based on a subcarrier spacing, and a channel type of being a static channel type and a fading channel type. The UE further performs an on-the-fly oscillator S-curve calibration based on the set of temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: YUAN YUAN, Jianwei Zhang, Jun Hu, Nien-En Wu, PENG YANG, Kuan-Lin Chen, Yen-Chen Chen, Cheng-Yu Tsai, Zhi Zheng
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Patent number: 11849283Abstract: A method and system or device such as a hearing aid are provided for processing audio signals. In accordance with the method, an audio signal is received and divided into a plurality of frequency sub-bands. For each of the frequency sub-band signals, the signal is further divided into overlapping temporal frames. Each of the temporal frames are windowed. Frequency warping is performed on each of the windowed frames. Overlap-and-add is performed on the frequency warped frames. The frequency warped sub-bands are combined into a full band to provide a frequency warped signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Harinath Garudadri, Ching-Hua Lee, Kuan-Lin Chen, Fred Harris, Bhaskar Rao
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Publication number: 20230354554Abstract: A heat dissipation system suitable for a portable electronic device with two heat sources is provided. The heat dissipation system includes a fan, two heat dissipation fin sets, a gate, a first heat pipe, a second heat pipe, and a control unit. The fan is a centrifugal fan and has a main outlet and a sub outlet. The heat dissipation fin sets are disposed respectively at the main outlet and the sub outlet, and the gate is disposed at the sub outlet. The first heat pipe thermally contacts the heat sources and the heat dissipation fin set located at the main outlet. The second heat pipe thermally contacts one of the heat sources and the two heat dissipation fin sets. The control unit is electrically connected to the gate to drive the gate to open or close the sub outlet according to a load of the two heat sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yu-Ming Lin, Wen-Neng Liao, Cheng-Wen Hsieh, Tsung-Ting Chen, Jau-Han Ke, Chun-Chieh Wang, Chi-Tai Ho, Kuan-Lin Chen
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Publication number: 20230282010Abstract: The present application discloses a method for detecting image by using semantic segmentation. To input an image with data augmentation, and then encode and decode using a neural network. At least one semantically divided, and finally the at least one semantically divided is compared with the sample to classify as a target or a non-target. In this way, the CNN is used to detect whether the image is the SCC image or not, and locate the section, thereby assisting the doctor in interpreting the esophagus image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: HSIANG-CHEN WANG, KUAN-LIN CHEN, YU-MING TSAO, JEN-FENG HSU
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Publication number: 20230060047Abstract: A physical vapor deposition (PVD) system is disclosed. The PVD system includes a pedestal configured to hold a semiconductor wafer, a cover plate configured to hold a target, and a collimator between the pedestal and the cover plate. The collimator includes a plurality of passages configured to pass source material travelling from the cover plate toward the pedestal at an angle less than a threshold angle with respect to a line perpendicular to a surface of the pedestal facing the cover plate, where the collimator is configured to block source material travelling from the cover plate toward the pedestal at an angle greater than the threshold angle, where a first passage of the plurality of passages has a first passage length, where a second passage of the plurality of passages has a second passage length, and where the first passage length is less than the second passage length.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Kuan-Lin Chen, Tsung-Yi Chou, Wei-Der Sun, Hao-Wei Kang