Patents by Inventor Kun-Min Chen

Kun-Min 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).

  • Patent number: 9774283
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit for driving a direct-current (DC) motor, includes a driving circuit for converting an input voltage into a first and a second output voltages, a Hall sensor for generating a first and a second time sequential control signals according to a working condition of the DC motor, a current sensing unit for comparing the motor current to a reference current to generate a comparison result, and a control unit coupled to the driving circuit, the current sensing unit and the Hall sensor for controlling a working status of the driving circuit according to the first and the second time sequential control signals and the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Anpec Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Sheng Li, Ching-Shan Lu, Ming-Jung Tsai
  • Publication number: 20170264222
    Abstract: A motor control circuit is disclosed, which uses one hall sensor to sense the position of the magnetic poles of three-phase motor, and to execute phase switching mechanism by start controller and operation controller. The motor control circuit drives the three-phase motor from a start state to a normal operation state. In the start state, the start controller controls the switching time and controls storage to transmit the digital models of the phase switching to the operation controller. The operation controller executes the phase switching of the full-bridge circuit according to the received digital models, to drive the three-phase motor. In the normal operation state, the start controller stops transmitting the digital models of the phase switching to the operation controller. The operation controller captures six digital models in sequence once every switching time, and executes the phase switching of the full-bridge circuit, to drive the three-phase motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Patent number: 9602036
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a motor speed curve control circuit. The motor speed curve control circuit is configured for adjusting a speed of a motor according to a motor speed curve. The motor speed curve control circuit comprises a divider resistor module, an analog-to-digital converter and an arithmetic unit. The resistor module is configured for generating at least one turning-point voltage. The turning-point voltage is used to adjust a slope of the motor speed curve. The analog-to-digital converter converts the turning-point voltage to digital form. The arithmetic unit sets a speed associated with the turning-point voltage corresponding to a first preset duty cycle in the motor speed curve, such that the motor speed curve becomes linear. The arithmetic unit generates a second pulse width modulation signal according to the adjusted motor speed curve and a first pulse width modulation signal to drive the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Sheng Li, I-Lin Chiu
  • Patent number: 9602030
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a motor drive circuit. The motor drive circuit includes a resistor module, a multiplexer, a data control unit, an analog-to-digital converter and a register. The resistor module receives an input voltage and generates at least one parameter voltage. The parameter voltage is associated with a motor speed curve of a motor. The multiplexer receives the parameter voltage. The data control unit controls the multiplexer to output the parameter voltage. The analog-to-digital converter receives the parameter voltage and converts the parameter voltage to digital form, and then outputs the digital parameter voltage to the data control unit. The register stores the digital parameter voltage outputted by the data control unit. A controller determines the motor speed curve according to the digital parameter voltage stored in the register, and drives the motor in response to the motor speed curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Patent number: 9577566
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit is provided, which selects a Hall sensor or a Sensor-less controller to achieve the phase commutation of a magnetic pole of a motor through a hall positive terminal and a hall negative terminal of a hall control device. When the hall positive terminal and the hall negative terminal receive a first hall signal and a second hall signal generated by the Hall sensor, the motor driving circuit selects the Hall sensor and then accordingly drives the motor. When the hall positive terminal and the hall negative terminal are floating, or one of them receives a high-voltage, the motor driving circuit selects the sensor-less controller and then accordingly drives the motor. Accordingly, the motor driving circuit can select different sensing devices to achieve the phase commutation of the magnetic pole of the motor according to the motor characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun-Min Chen
  • Patent number: 9543864
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit with power reversal protection and a fan device are disclosed. The motor driving circuit has a supply end and a ground end. A reversal protection circuit is configured in the motor driving circuit and is electrically connected to the supply end. When a power line and a ground line of a power supply electrically and respectively connect to the supply end and the ground end (indicating a correct connection condition), the reversal protection circuit is turned on, so that the motor driving circuit receives the power transmitted from the power supply to operate. When the power line and the ground line of the power supply electrically and respectively connect to the ground end and the supply end (indicating an incorrect connection condition), the reversal protection circuit is turned off, so that the motor driving circuit does not receive the power transmitted from the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun-Min Chen, Chien-Lun Chu
  • Publication number: 20170005602
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit with power reversal protection and a fan device are disclosed. The motor driving circuit has a supply end and a ground end. A reversal protection circuit is configured in the motor driving circuit and is electrically connected to the supply end. When a power line and a ground line of a power supply electrically and respectively connect to the supply end and the ground end (indicating a correct connection condition), the reversal protection circuit is turned on, so that the motor driving circuit receives the power transmitted from the power supply to operate. When the power line and the ground line of the power supply electrically and respectively connect to the ground end and the supply end (indicating an incorrect connection condition), the reversal protection circuit is turned off, so that the motor driving circuit does not receive the power transmitted from the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: KUN-MIN CHEN, CHIEN-LUN CHU
  • Publication number: 20160380565
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a motor drive circuit. The motor drive circuit includes a resistor module, a multiplexer, a data control unit, an analog-to-digital converter and a register. The resistor module receives an input voltage and generates at least one parameter voltage. The parameter voltage is associated with a motor speed curve of a motor. The multiplexer receives the parameter voltage. The data control unit controls the multiplexer to output the parameter voltage. The analog-to-digital converter receives the parameter voltage and converts the parameter voltage to digital form, and then outputs the digital parameter voltage to the data control unit. The register stores the digital parameter voltage outputted by the data control unit. A controller determines the motor speed curve according to the digital parameter voltage stored in the register, and drives the motor in response to the motor speed curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160359444
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a motor speed curve control circuit. The motor speed curve control circuit is configured for adjusting a speed of a motor according to a motor speed curve. The motor speed curve control circuit comprises a divider resistor module, an analog-to-digital converter and an arithmetic unit. The resistor module is configured for generating at least one turning-point voltage. The turning-point voltage is used to adjust a slope of the motor speed curve. The analog-to-digital converter converts the turning-point voltage to digital form. The arithmetic unit sets a speed associated with the turning-point voltage corresponding to a first preset duty cycle in the motor speed curve, such that the motor speed curve becomes linear. The arithmetic unit generates a second pulse width modulation signal according to the adjusted motor speed curve and a first pulse width modulation signal to drive the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: KUN-MIN CHEN, CHING-SHENG LI, I-LIN CHIU
  • Patent number: 9512845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive and negative rotation control circuit and fan system, which can positively or negatively rotate a fan motor according to an end connecting to different external components or being floating. When the end generates an oscillatory fan signal, the positive and negative rotation control circuit negatively rotates the fan motor for a period of time after the positive and negative rotation control circuit is started for a delay time, to execute the operation of exhausting the accumulated dust, so that a fan connecting to the fan motor may exhaust the accumulated dust from an electronic device. Then the control circuit positively rotates the fan motor to execute the operation of dissipating heat, so that the fan may dissipate heat in the situation of having less dust within the electronic device. Accordingly, the heat dissipation effect of the fan may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Liu, Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Sheng Li
  • Publication number: 20160344328
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit is provided, which selects a Hall sensor or a Sensor-less controller to achieve the phase commutation of a magnetic pole of a motor through a hall positive terminal and a hall negative terminal of a hall control device. When the hall positive terminal and the hall negative terminal receive a first hall signal and a second hall signal generated by the Hall sensor, the motor driving circuit selects the Hall sensor and then accordingly drives the motor. When the hall positive terminal and the hall negative terminal are floating, or one of them receives a high-voltage, the motor driving circuit selects the sensor-less controller and then accordingly drives the motor. Accordingly, the motor driving circuit can select different sensing devices to achieve the phase commutation of the magnetic pole of the motor according to the motor characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: KUN-MIN CHEN
  • Patent number: 9490739
    Abstract: A rotation speed control circuit with function of auto-calibrating rotation speed error is disclosed. The rotation speed control circuit includes a first multiplexer, a second multiplexer, an error amplifier and a current compensation circuit. In calibration mode, the rotation speed control circuit selects a calibration clock signal and a calibration voltage through the first multiplexer and the second multiplexer correspondingly according to a mode switch signal, and adjusts current value of a first current accordingly. In other words, the rotation speed control circuit utilizes the first current to compensate error of the external capacitor through the calibration clock signal fixed and the calibration voltage fixed in the duration of calibration mode, so as to avoid that aging of the external capacitor leads to rotation speed error and then affects the whole operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Anpec Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Jung Tsai, Ching-Sheng Li, Kun-Min Chen, Chien-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9407087
    Abstract: An over voltage protection circuit comprises an input end, coupled to an input power, for receiving an input voltage provided by the input power; and a driving module, coupled between the input end and a ground end, for generating a discharging current when the input voltage is larger than a predefined voltage, to reduce the input voltage to the predefined voltage. The driving module comprises a voltage regulating module, a p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (PMOS), and an n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (NMOS). The PMOS and the NMOS are an upper gate switch and a lower gate switch of a motor driver or a fan driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Anpec Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Jung Tsai, Kun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20160186760
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive and negative rotation control circuit and fan system, which can positively or negatively rotate a fan motor according to an end connecting to different external components or being floating. When the end generates an oscillatory fan signal, the positive and negative rotation control circuit negatively rotates the fan motor for a period of time after the positive and negative rotation control circuit is started for a delay time, to execute the operation of exhausting the accumulated dust, so that a fan connecting to the fan motor may exhaust the accumulated dust from an electronic device. Then the control circuit positively rotates the fan motor to execute the operation of dissipating heat, so that the fan may dissipate heat in the situation of having less dust within the electronic device. Accordingly, the heat dissipation effect of the fan may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: YI-CHENG LIU, KUN-MIN CHEN, CHING-SHENG LI
  • Publication number: 20160087562
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit for driving a direct-current (DC) motor, includes a driving circuit for converting an input voltage into a first and a second output voltages, a Hall sensor for generating a first and a second time sequential control signals according to a working condition of the DC motor, a current sensing unit for comparing the motor current to a reference current to generate a comparison result, and a control unit coupled to the driving circuit, the current sensing unit and the Hall sensor for controlling a working status of the driving circuit according to the first and the second time sequential control signals and the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Sheng Li, Ching-Shan Lu, Ming-Jung Tsai
  • Patent number: 9184684
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit for driving a motor includes: a driving-stage circuit, for converting an input voltage into a first output voltage and a second output voltage, and comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor and a fourth transistor; an output stage circuit, for converting the first output voltage or the second output voltage into a motor speed signal; and a control unit, coupled to the first, the second, the third and the fourth transistors and the output stage circuit, for generating first, second, third and fourth transistor control signals to control the first, the second, the third and the fourth transistors respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Anpec Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Jung Tsai, Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Sheng Li
  • Patent number: 8947035
    Abstract: A rotation speed control circuit is disclosed. The rotation speed control circuit includes a temperature-controlled voltage duty generator, a pulse-width signal duty generator, a multiplier and a rotation speed signal generator. The temperature-controlled voltage duty generator converts temperature-controlled voltage to digital temperature-controlled voltage and executes linear interpolation operation according to a first setting data so as to output temperature-controlled voltage duty signal. The pulse-width signal duty generator coverts pulse-width input signal to a digital pulse-width input signal and executes linear interpolation operation according to a second setting data so as to output a pulse-width duty signal. The temperature-controlled voltage duty signal and the pulse-width duty signal are executed for multiplication by the multiplier so as to output mixing-duty signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Anpec Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Sheng Li, Shen-Min Lo, Kun-Min Chen, Chia-Tai Yang, Ming-Jung Tsai
  • Publication number: 20150023801
    Abstract: A rotation speed control circuit with function of auto-calibrating rotation speed error is disclosed. The rotation speed control circuit includes a first multiplexer, a second multiplexer, an error amplifier and a current compensation circuit. In calibration mode, the rotation speed control circuit selects a calibration clock signal and a calibration voltage through the first multiplexer and the second multiplexer correspondingly according to a mode switch signal, and adjusts current value of a first current accordingly. In other words, the rotation speed control circuit utilizes the first current to compensate error of the external capacitor through the calibration clock signal fixed and the calibration voltage fixed in the duration of calibration mode, so as to avoid that aging of the external capacitor leads to rotation speed error and then affects the whole operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: MING-JUNG TSAI, CHING-SHENG LI, KUN-MIN CHEN, CHIEN-CHENG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140321016
    Abstract: An over voltage protection circuit comprises an input end, coupled to an input power, for receiving an input voltage provided by the input power; and a driving module, coupled between the input end and a ground end, for generating a discharging current when the input voltage is larger than a predefined voltage, to reduce the input voltage to the predefined voltage. The driving module comprises a voltage regulating module, a p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (PMOS), and an n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (NMOS). The PMOS and the NMOS are an upper gate switch and a lower gate switch of a motor driver or a fan driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Ming-Jung Tsai, Kun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20140169982
    Abstract: A rotation speed control circuit is disclosed. The rotation speed control circuit includes a temperature-controlled voltage duty generator, a pulse-width signal duty generator, a multiplier and a rotation speed signal generator. The temperature-controlled voltage duty generator converts temperature-controlled voltage to digital temperature-controlled voltage and executes linear interpolation operation according to a first setting data so as to output temperature-controlled voltage duty signal. The pulse-width signal duty generator coverts pulse-width input signal to a digital pulse-width input signal and executes linear interpolation operation according to a second setting data so as to output a pulse-width duty signal. The temperature-controlled voltage duty signal and the pulse-width duty signal are executed for multiplication by the multiplier so as to output mixing-duty signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHING-SHENG LI, SHEN-MIN LO, KUN-MIN CHEN, CHIA-TAI YANG, MING-JUNG TSAI