Patents by Inventor Kuo Chiu

Kuo Chiu 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: 12291868
    Abstract: A retrofitting method for a beam with an opening is disclosed. The retrofitting method provides a hoop cooperated with an inclined stirrup to form a reinforcement set. The hoop is used to enclose the opening; and the reinforcement set may be selectively adjusted according to the distance between the edge of opening and a column face. The retrofitting method and reinforcement set are not only suitable for openings located in the non-plastic hinge zone of the beam, but also suitable for the openings located in the plastic hinge zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chien-Kuo Chiu, Min-Yuan Cheng, Chieh-Tzu Chou
  • Publication number: 20240377672
    Abstract: A display device and a fixing structure set are provided. The display device includes a middle frame and a display panel. The middle frame has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The display panel is fixed on the first surface by using at least one first fixing structure set and a plurality of second fixing structure sets. Wherein, the fixing structure of the first fixing structure set is different from the fixing structure of the second fixing structure set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ming-Te Hung, Wen-Ta Lee, Wei-Kuo Chiu, Ching-Hsing Lin
  • Publication number: 20230349156
    Abstract: A retrofitting method for a beam with an opening is disclosed. The retrofitting method provides a hoop cooperated with an inclined stirrup to form a reinforcement set. The hoop is used to enclose the opening; and the reinforcement set may be selectively adjusted according to the distance between the edge of opening and a column face. The retrofitting method and reinforcement set are not only suitable for openings located in the non-plastic hinge zone of the beam, but also suitable for the openings located in the plastic hinge zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chien-Kuo Chiu, Min-Yuan Cheng, Chieh-Tzu Chou
  • Patent number: 8934946
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a mobile power supply device. The mobile power supply device includes at least one expansion interface, at least one transmission interface, a charging control unit, a battery, and an expansion control unit. The transmission interface is used for electrically connecting to an electronic host device. The charging control unit is electrically connected to the transmission interface and to at least one external power supply. The battery is electrically connected to the charging control unit. The charging control unit is used for controlling the external power supply to charge the battery and for controlling the battery to charge the electronic host device. The expansion control unit is electrically connected to the expansion interface and the transmission interface; the expansion control unit communicates with the external device via the expansion interface and communicates with the electronic host device via the transmission interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Inventor: Li-Kuo Chiu
  • Publication number: 20140274220
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a mobile power supply device. The mobile power supply device includes at least one expansion interface, at least one transmission interface, a charging control unit, a battery, and an expansion control unit. The transmission interface is used for electrically connecting to an electronic host device. The charging control unit is electrically connected to the transmission interface and to at least one external power supply. The battery is electrically connected to the charging control unit. The charging control unit is used for controlling the external power supply to charge the battery and for controlling the battery to charge the electronic host device. The expansion control unit is electrically connected to the expansion interface and the transmission interface; the expansion control unit communicates with the external device via the expansion interface and communicates with the electronic host device via the transmission interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: LI-KUO CHIU
  • Publication number: 20140253016
    Abstract: A mobile power supply device and a power supply system thereof are disclosed. The mobile power supply device is used for charging a load device. A rectifier circuit of the mobile power supply device is used for receiving an alternating current power to convert to a direct current power. A battery set includes a plurality of battery units series connected to each other. A charging control unit is used for receiving the direct current power to charge the battery set. An output control unit is used for controlling the battery set to output the direct current power to the load device via a direct-current output port. A direct-current input port is used for inputting the direct current power to the battery set, wherein the direct-current input port includes a determining pin for determining whether the charging control unit connects to another mobile power supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventor: LI-KUO CHIU
  • Patent number: 8379943
    Abstract: The present invention is a high-performance fingerprint image-processing method that use a composite filtering approach to perform the image enhancement through a combination of linear filtering and rhombus filtering after obtaining the determination for the fingerprint direction of fingerprint instead of the image enhancement performed in the frequency domain of the prior art; and then a binarizing step will follow to demonstrate the minutiae for image enhancement, also, the composite filter applied in the present invention can truly perform the image enhancement and mend the broken lines mainly focusing on each point in different fingerprint direction; furthermore, the present invention can use a filtering mask with a very low mask coefficient; thus, the filtering time and memory space can be significantly saved while the time spent and storage space occupied for image enhancement can be lessened largely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventor: Li-Kuo Chiu
  • Publication number: 20110114125
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a wafer stage is provided. First, a wafer stage with a wafer thereon is provided. Second, a leveling scanning step is carried out to examine the evenness of the wafer. The wafer is removed from the wafer stage once an abnormal evenness is detected. Afterwards, a vacuum cleaner device is used to in-situ clean the surface of the wafer stage after the wafer is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Yong-Quan Chen, Shu-Kuo Chiu
  • Publication number: 20110069487
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an LED light bulb. The LED light bulb comprises a base and a hollow shell. The base has a closed end, an open end and a sleeve between the two ends. The shell is connected to the open end of the base. The LED light bulb comprises at least two LEDs substantially linearly arranged within the shell. By arrangement of multiple LEDs one or more strands the luminance or brightness of the bulb is improved compared with a bulb with one LED or with several horizontally arranged LEDs in a common place, without sacrificing the advantage of energy saving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Kai Kong NG, Kuo-Chiu CHIANG
  • Patent number: 7883242
    Abstract: An LED light bulb includes a base and a hollow shell. The base has a closed end, an open end and a sleeve between the two ends. The shell is connected to the open end of the base. The LED light bulb includes at least two LEDs substantially linearly arranged within the shell, and supported by a self-supporting wire connecting one terminal of an LED to the next LED in each strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Inventors: Kai Kong Ng, Kuo-Chiu Chiang
  • Publication number: 20100303310
    Abstract: The present invention is a high-performance fingerprint image-processing method that use a composite filtering approach to perform the image enhancement through a combination of linear filtering and rhombus filtering after obtaining the determination for the fingerprint direction of fingerprint instead of the image enhancement performed in the frequency domain of the prior art; and then a binarizing step will follow to demonstrate the minutiae for image enhancement, also, the composite filter applied in the present invention can truly perform the image enhancement and mend the broken lines mainly focusing on each point in different fingerprint direction; furthermore, the present invention can use a filtering mask with a very low mask coefficient; thus, the filtering time and memory space can be significantly saved while the time spent and storage space occupied for image enhancement can be lessened largely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Li-Kuo Chiu
  • Publication number: 20100287349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information storage protector that comprises: a memory device with a memory interface mounted at its front end; wherein, the memory device is mounted a data storage block and a hidden block,a reader linked to a host computer; wherein, the reader is mounted a fingerprint sensor and characteristic authentication processing unit while the interior of hidden block in the memory device is stored the characteristic data of fingerprint from a plurality of users that allows the user to proceed the reading/writing data from/in the memory device provided that the user is recognized by the fingerprint sensor and the characteristic authentication processing unit; and a read & write control software installed in the interior of the abovementioned host computer; wherein, to store the data in the memory device can be proceeded only through the read & write control software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Li-Kuo Chiu, I-Chung Liao
  • Publication number: 20100196606
    Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes: a first liquid supplying element, a second liquid supplying element inside the first liquid supplying element, a first driving element connecting to the first liquid supplying element, and a second driving element connecting to the second liquid supplying element. The first liquid supplying element contains a first liquid, and the second liquid supplying element contains a second liquid. Therein the first driving element and the second driving element selectively control the first liquid or the second liquid to spray out from the liquid supplying device. A method of using a liquid supplying device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: INOTERA MEMORIES, INC.
    Inventors: YI FAN PENG, SHU KUO CHIU
  • Publication number: 20100015536
    Abstract: A photoresist solution dispensing volume monitoring system comprises: a photoresist solution dispensing apparatus having a photoresist bottle storing photoresist solution; and a weight scale being installed at the circumferential surface of the photoresist bottle, the weight scale measuring the weight of photoresist solution within the photoresist bottle. Via this arrangement, the monitoring system can monitor the practical photoresist solution dispensing volume and the predefined photoresist solution dispensing volume. If the two volumes are not the same, an alarm message will be produced to inform users. So the users can immediately examine or repair the photoresist solution dispensing apparatus. This present invention further provides a photoresist solution dispensing volume monitoring method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: INOTERA MEMORIES, INC.
    Inventors: SHENG CHENG, SHU KUO CHIU
  • Patent number: 7522754
    Abstract: A continuous fingerprint image retrieval device includes an electronic product, a finger ball runway provided externally to the electronic product, and a continuous fingerprint sensor disposed in the finger ball runway; an initial protrusion being provided on the surface of the runway at one end of the sensor; multiple scraper ribs being protruded between the initial protrusion and the travel of the sensor; a rising arc runway being disposed at the other end of the continuous fingerprint sensor to scrape water containment and/or fat off the finger ball and to retrieve correct and complete data of fingerprint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Inventor: Li-Kuo Chiu
  • Patent number: 7519203
    Abstract: A portable encrypted storage device with biometric identification includes a host interface connected to a terminal host, a controller connected to the host interface, a memory module, a fingerprint sensor, an encryption/decryption chip and a portable large-capacity storage unit connected to the controller. The controller communicates with the host by handshakes and enables the host to automatically run a fingerprint identification driver and application program from the memory module to the host. The host receives an instruction from the user through the driver and program, and informs the controller to control the fingerprint sensor to read to-be-recognized fingerprint data of the user. The host judges whether or not the to-be-recognized fingerprint data substantially matches with a fingerprint template stored in the memory module. If a match occurs, the host can recognize and access the hidden portable large-capacity storage unit through the encryption/decryption chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignees: Egis Technology Inc., Aimgene Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Kuo Chiu, Bruce C. S. Chou
  • Patent number: 7496763
    Abstract: A memory storage device includes a host interface to be connected to a terminal host, a controller connected to the host interface, and a fingerprint sensor and a memory module both connected to the controller. The controller communicates with the terminal host by handshakes and causes the terminal host to automatically run a suitable driver and a suitable application program from the memory module to the terminal host. The terminal host receives an instruction from a user through the driver and the program and informs the controller to control the fingerprint sensor to read to-be-recognized fingerprint data of the user. The terminal host utilizes the application program to process and judge whether or not the to-be-recognized fingerprint data substantially matches with template fingerprint data stored in the memory module, and further enables a specific block of the memory module to be accessed by the terminal host according to a matching result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignees: Aimgene Technology Co., Ltd., Solid State System Co., Ltd., Lightuning Tech. Inc.
    Inventors: Li-Kuo Chiu, Ming-Shun Chen, Mao Yuan Ku, Yng-Tsang Chen, Bruce C. S. Chou
  • Publication number: 20090010472
    Abstract: An acoustical grille (1) secured to a top of a receiver (50) of microphone (5) with an annular ring (10) free from spit moisture installed to a rim of the acoustical grille (1) with grille shells (11) shielded over the receiver (50); at least, a stand (2) connected between the annular ring (10) and positioning ring (3), whereby a distance kept between the grille shells (11) and the receiver (50). Grille shell (11) not only prevents spit in but low pitch, mid pitch, and high pitch sounds can be superimposed received into the receiver (50). Confused or harsh sound emissions of users or breath sounds can be absorbed between the grille shells (10), thereby sounds picked up by the microphone demands for a higher pitch, where the original sounds can be tuned within higher vocal compass. It may be played at soft volume; the sounds are mellow and expressive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Chin-Kuo Chiu
  • Publication number: 20080285279
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an LED light bulb. The LED light bulb comprises a base and a hollow shell. The base has a closed end, an open end and a sleeve between the two ends. The shell is connected to the open end of the base. The LED light bulb comprises at least two LEDs substantially linearly arranged within the shell. By arrangement of multiple LEDs one or more strands the luminance or brightness of the bulb is improved compared with a bulb with one LED or with several horizontally arranged LEDs in a common place, without sacrificing the advantage of energy saving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Kai Kong Ng, Kuo-Chiu Chiang
  • Patent number: 7447911
    Abstract: An electronic identification key to be connected to a terminal system to execute at least one specific operation. The electronic identification key includes a housing, a standard interface connector, a chip-type fingerprint sensor, an embedded AP (Application Program) memory module and a control microprocessor. The control microprocessor automatically uploads an initializing program and a fingerprint application program to the terminal system. The fingerprint sensor reads a user's fingerprint and then scanned fingerprint data and reference fingerprint data stored in the electronic key are transferred to the terminal system for comparison. When the comparison passes, the execution of the at least one specific operation, such as the remote certification, control of terminal system function, personal record retrieve operation, data protection operation, or remote file access operation, is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignees: Lightuning Tech. Inc., Aimgene Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruce C. S. Chou, Li-Kuo Chiu