Patents by Inventor Kun Chang
Kun Chang 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: 20250033092Abstract: The present disclosure provides a silicon bar rinsing device comprising: a rinsing portion, wherein the rinsing portion is a cavity having a upper opening and is configured to rinse the silicon bar; an adjusting portion disposed in the rinsing portion; a compressed air pipeline disposed on a side of the rinsing portion and communicated with the rinsing portion; a reuse water pipeline disposed on an other side of the rinsing portion opposite to the compressed air pipeline and communicated with the rinsing portion; and a control unit disposed on a upper end of the rinsing portion and configured to control turning on or off of the silicon bar rinsing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: TCL ZHONGHUAN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yan SHI, Zhihui LIANG, Yiqiang GONG, Meng WANG, Xiaopeng WANG, Shusheng YANG, Yanhui ZHAO, Shun CHANG, Wei ZHAO, Kun YIN, Guangyu WANG, Xizhen LI
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Publication number: 20250030337Abstract: A circuit of a resonant power converter comprising: a high-side switch and a low-side switch, coupled to form a half-bridge switching circuit which is configured to switch a transformer for generating an output voltage; a high-side drive circuit, generating a high-side drive signal coupled to drive the high-side switch in response to a high-side control signal; a bias voltage, coupled to a bootstrap diode and a bootstrap capacitor providing a power source from the bootstrap capacitor for the high-side drive circuit; wherein the high-side drive circuit generates the high-side drive signal with a fast slew rate to turn on the high-side switch when the high-side switch is to be turned on with soft-switching; the high-side drive circuit generates the high-side drive signal with a slow slew rate to turn on the high-side switch when the high-side switch is to be turned on without soft-switching.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Kun-Yu Lin, Hsin-Yi Wu, Yu-Chang Chen, Fu-Ciao Syu, Chia-Hsien Yang, Chien-Fu Tang, Ta-Yung Yang
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Publication number: 20250022723Abstract: An electronic package is provided, in which a cover layer is embedded in a circuit structure to form a groove, and an electronic element is disposed on the cover layer in the groove. A cladding layer encapsulates the electronic element, and an external connection structure is disposed on the circuit structure and the cladding layer. Therefore, the electronic element is embedded in the groove, such that a thickness of the electronic package can be greatly reduced to meet the requirement of thinning.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: AaltoSemi Inc.Inventors: Min-Yao Chen, Yin-Ju Chen, Sung-Kun Lin, Andrew C. Chang
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Publication number: 20240410694Abstract: A laser level assembly includes a mounting bracket and a laser level on the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket includes a base part and a back cap. The laser level includes a laser generator, the laser level projects at least one of a horizontal line, a vertical line or a laser spot. The laser level also includes a battery pack receptacle configured to selectively receive a removable battery pack, a wireless transmitter, a circuit board in the mounting bracket, and a secondary power device on the circuit board. The removable battery pack is configured to power the at least one laser generator. The secondary power device is configured to selectively power the wireless transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: Stanley Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Oleksiy P. SERGYEYENKO, Thomas S. WOLF, Devansh K. JHAWAR, Michael C. SCHMITTDIEL, Kun CHANG, Dominic M. LEONE, Kenneth M. NORR, Kavya JAIN, Anthony TOPF
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Patent number: 12160620Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information interaction method, an apparatus and a device. The method includes: displaying, by a second device, a first page corresponding to a first account, where the first page includes a first control; in response to a first operation on the first control, sending, by the second device, first prompt information to a first device corresponding to the first account, and updating the first control to a second control, where the first prompt information is used to prompt a user corresponding to the first account to update a creation; in response to a second operation on the second control, pre-transferring, by the second device, a first object to the first account, where the first object is transferred to the first account after the creation corresponding to the first account is updated. The reliability of live streaming interaction is improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ke Zhong, Kun Chang, Yijie Li
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Publication number: 20240390667Abstract: An electrode set for making a biological tissue transparent includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are configured to provide an electric field for the biological tissue. The first electrode has a carrier metal and a coating metal at least partially coated on the carrier metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITYInventors: LI-AN CHU, ANN-SHYN CHIANG, TSU-CHIN CHOU, WEI-KUN CHANG, YA-HUI LIN, PEI-YUN LU
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Publication number: 20240383145Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media for managing a tool in a robot system. In a method, a plurality of arm positions of a robot arm of the robot system are obtained when the tool is placed under a posture on a surface of a calibration object for calibrating the tool, where the posture represents rotation parameters of the robot arm. A center of the calibration object is determined based on the plurality of arm positions. A reference position of the robot arm is generated for calibrating the tool based a position of the center and the posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: November 21, 2024Inventors: Kun Chang, Wenyao Shao, Dianfei Xia
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Publication number: 20240375283Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium for calibrating a robot. The method includes obtaining a first set of data related to at least one of position and orientation of at least three calibration objects. The method includes determining a second set of data related to at least one of position and orientation of the at least three calibration objects when the target object is in a second state different from the first state; determining a transformation relationship between the first set of data and the second set of data; determining a calibrated object coordinate system based on the object coordinate system and the transformation relationship; and controlling the robot to process the target object in a predetermined way under the calibrated object coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Kun Chang, Xu Su
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Patent number: 12140957Abstract: The present application is to provide a system for sensing and responding to a lateral blind spot of a mobile carrier and method thereof, which is applied for a mobile carrier during moving to a parking place. Firstly, a light scan unit and a depth image capture unit are used to scan a plurality of surrounding objects and capture a plurality of object depth images of the surrounding objects, and then a plurality of screened images are obtained according to a moving route of the mobile carrier for further obtaining correspondingly a plurality of forecasted lines to generate corresponded notice message for noting driver or ADAS. Due to the objects corresponding to the screened images and located on a blind position which is at one side of the mobile carrier, the notice message provides the driver preventing from the ignored danger by ignoring the blind position.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTREInventors: Tsung-Han Lee, Jinn-Feng Jiang, Shih-Chun Hsu, Tsu-Kun Chang, Cheng-Tai Lei, Hung-Yuan Wei
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Publication number: 20240318959Abstract: A laser level assembly includes a mounting bracket and a laser level on the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket includes a base part and a back cap. The laser level includes a laser generator, the laser level projects at least one of a horizontal line, a vertical line or a laser spot. The laser level also includes a battery pack receptacle configured to selectively receive a removable battery pack, a wireless transmitter, a circuit board in the mounting bracket, and a secondary power device on the circuit board. The removable battery pack is configured to power the at least one laser generator. The secondary power device is configured to selectively power the wireless transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Stanley Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Oleksiy P. SERGYEYENKO, Thomas S. WOLF, Devansh K. JHAWAR, Michael C. SCHMITTDIEL, Kun CHANG, Dominic M. LEONE, Kenneth M. NORR, Kavya JAIN, Anthony TOPF
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Publication number: 20240310169Abstract: A laser level assembly includes a mounting bracket and a laser level on the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket includes a base part and a back cap. The laser level includes a laser generator, the laser level projects at least one of a horizontal line, a vertical line or a laser spot. The laser level also includes a battery pack receptacle configured to selectively receive a removable battery pack, a wireless transmitter, a circuit board in the mounting bracket, and a secondary power device on the circuit board. The removable battery pack is configured to power the at least one laser generator. The secondary power device is configured to selectively power the wireless transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Stanley Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Oleksiy P. SERGYEYENKO, Thomas S. WOLF, Devansh K. JHAWAR, Michael C. SCHMITTDIEL, Kun CHANG, Dominic M. LEONE, Kenneth M. NORR, Kavya JAIN, Anthony TOPF
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Publication number: 20240308078Abstract: A method and an electronic device for calibrating a robot. The method includes obtaining at least two sets of positional data of a first reference point in a base coordinate system of the robot, the first reference point fixedly arranged on the external axis, the at least two sets of positional data corresponding to at least two positions of the first reference point during movement of the external axis. The method includes determining a transformation relationship between the base coordinate system and an user coordinate system of the external axis according to the at least two sets of positional data, determining the calibrated user coordinate system based on the base coordinate system and the transformation relationship, and controlling the robot to process an object arranged on the external axis under the calibrated user coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Kun Chang, Hao Gu, Lei Mao
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Publication number: 20240260945Abstract: Described herein are systems for 4D imaging of the lung based on live 2D ultrasound images. An ultrasound probe generates 2D image data of the lung during a plurality of breathing cycles. A computer is programmed and operable to group the 2D image data into subsets based on their point (or optionally phase) in the breathing cycle, and to reconstruct the 2D image data subsets into a 3D image volume based on the location information of the probe. Optionally, the 3D reconstructed image volume is displayed with target and route information. In embodiments, the computer is further operable to detect and track a surgical device in the lung such as an aspiration needle and to display the surgical device in the 3D reconstructed image volume for assisting the physician reach the target. Related methods are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: Maysam Shahedi, Kun-Chang Yu, Thomas M. Keast
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Publication number: 20240261965Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calibrating a crankshaft to be processed. The method includes causing a positioner to rotate to at least three different angles. The positioner is configured to support the crankshaft and drive the crankshaft to rotate. The method also includes causing a probe to touch a plurality of points on a first cylindrical crankpin of the crankshaft respectively to obtain coordinates of the plurality of points in a robot coordinate system; fitting the coordinates of the plurality of points on the first cylindrical crankpin respectively to obtain a respective pose of the first cylindrical crankpin relative to the robot coordinate system; and determining a pose of a rotating axis of the crankshaft relative to the robot coordinate system based on the respective pose of the first cylindrical crankpin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: Dianfei Xia, Kun Chang, Jiacheng Wang
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Publication number: 20240206974Abstract: A method for automatically planning a transthoracic route from a candidate location on the skin of a patient to a target nodule in the patient on which to perform a procedure. The method comprises identifying a plurality of candidate skin locations on the skin of the patient and automatically computing a route to the target nodule from each candidate skin location. A score is automatically computed for each candidate skin location based on (a) route characteristics, (b) procedural parameters, and (c) obstacle clearance along the route. Related systems are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Matthew McTaggart, Kun-Chang Yu
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Publication number: 20240176353Abstract: The present invention provides a method of alerting to stationary objects for vehicle. When a vehicle moves at a first speed, an optical scanning device, an infrared image extraction device, and an image extraction device extract a first optical scanning image, a first infrared image, and a first ambient image of the ambiance on one side of the vehicle. According to the fusion algorithm and the optical flow method, the first obstacle information of the first obstacle in the first image will be given. According to the location information of the first obstacle, the vehicle computer judges and generates an alert message when the relative distance is smaller than a distance threshold value and the obstacle volume is greater than a volume threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: TSUNG-HAN LEE, JINN-FENG JIANG, SHIH-CHUN HSU, TSU-KUN CHANG, CHENG-TAI LEI, HUNG-YUAN WEI
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Publication number: 20240087105Abstract: A method for detecting paint defects on objects is provided. The method comprises: projecting a plurality of patterns on a surface of an object at a plurality of different pattern characteristics; capturing a plurality of images of the object based on projecting the plurality of patterns; inputting the plurality of images of the object into a machine learning model to determine whether the surface of the object includes one or more paint defects; and based on determining, an image, of the plurality of images, includes a paint defect, causing display of the image with the paint defect.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Nevroz Sen, WenLong Li, Amber-FengQin Zhu, Kun Chang
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Publication number: 20240070933Abstract: A method for correcting location of a virtual target in a patient during a live procedure comprises segmenting the organ and the real target from an initial pre-procedure image data set; receiving a live procedure image data set of the patient including the organ and the real target and camera tracking information; registering the initial pre-procedure image data set and the live image data set; determining a candidate location of a virtual target for the real target based on the initial registration; generating a first image at a first view angle showing the virtual target and the real target; adjusting the candidate location of the virtual target to match the actual location of the real target in the first image; and computing a corrected location for the virtual target based on the adjusting step. Related systems are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Ernest Woei, Kun-Chang Yu, Matthew Mctaggart, Abbe Smith
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Publication number: 20240060776Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laser level system. The laser level system includes a mount, a laser secured to the mount and a remove input device. The mount includes a rotating portion to which the laser level is secured. The remote input device controls rotation of the rotating portion. The laser level is secured to the rotating portion of the mount such that when the rotating portion rotates, the laser level rotates concurrently along with the rotating portion of the mount.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Stanley Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Bruce EIDINGER, Kun CHANG
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Patent number: 11896312Abstract: A lung tumor ablation planning system includes a processor operable to compute a target ablation zone and a set of optimum ablation parameters to create the target lesion with the ablation catheter. A predictive algorithm is employed to model the ablation zone based on training data. Various ablation plans are displayed to the physician corresponding to various metrics including without limitation maximizing tumor ablation coverage, shortest travel, obstacle avoidance, and shortest ablation time. Related methods are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BRONCUS MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Yixun Liu, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Kun-Chang Yu, Henky Wibowo