Patents by Inventor Ming-Hsien Wu

Ming-Hsien Wu 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: 20110140540
    Abstract: A charge apparatus including a natural energy conversion module, an energy converter, an energy transmitter, and an energy receiver is provided. The natural energy conversion module receives a natural energy and converts the natural energy into a first electric energy. The energy converter is electrically connected to the natural energy conversion module and converts the first electric energy into a wireless energy. The energy transmitter is electrically connected to the energy converter and transmits the wireless energy in a wireless manner. The energy receiver receives the wireless energy in a wireless manner and converts the wireless energy into a second electric energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Mu-Tao Chu, Yu-Chen Yu, Wen-Yung Yeh, Wen-Yih Liao, Jui-Ying Lin, Ming-Hsien Wu
  • Publication number: 20110120527
    Abstract: The invention provides a solar energy system. A flexible transparent body includes a top surface, a bottom surface and two edges, wherein the top surface is a light receiving surface for receiving light with a first wave-length. A plurality of solar cells is disposed on at least one of the edges of the flexible transparent body, wherein the solar cells can covert light having a second wave-length into electrical energy. A wavelength converting layer is provided for converting light with the first wave-length to light with the second wave-length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chen-Yang Huang, Sheng-Chieh Tai, Ming-Hsien Wu, Wen-Yih Liao, Chia-Ling Li
  • Publication number: 20100282304
    Abstract: A bi-functional photovoltaic device is provided. The bi-functional photovoltaic device includes at least one solar cell and a control device. Each of the solar cell includes a multilayer semiconductor layer of group III-V compound semiconductor, a first electrode disposed on the back of the multilayer semiconductor layer, and a second electrode disposed on the front of the multilayer semiconductor layer. The control device connects with the at least one solar cell in order to control them functioning as solar cell or light emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ming-Hsien Wu, Wen-Yung Yeh, Rong Xuan, Wen-Yih Liao, Jung-Tsung Hsu, Mu-Tao Chu
  • Patent number: 7403338
    Abstract: Methods and systems for effecting responses on surfaces utilizing microlens arrays including microoptical components embedded or supported by a support element and positioned from the surface at a distance essentially equal to the image distance of the microoptical component with spacer elements are disclosed. Microlens arrays can be used to manipulate incident energy or radiation having a distribution in characteristic property(s) defining an object pattern to form a corresponding image pattern on a substrate surface. The energy can be light having a pattern or a specific wavelength, intensity or polarization or coherence alignment. The image pattern can have features of order 100 nm in size or less produced from corresponding object patterns having features in the order millimeters. The size of the object pattern can be reduced by the microlens arrays described by a factor of 100 or more using a single step process to form the image patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: President & Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Ming-Hsien Wu, George M. Whitesides, Kateri E. Paul
  • Publication number: 20070019306
    Abstract: Methods and systems for effecting responses on surfaces utilizing microlens arrays including microoptical components embedded or supported by a support element and positioned from the surface at a distance essentially equal to the image distance of the microoptical component with spacer elements are disclosed. Microlens arrays can be used to manipulate incident energy or radiation having a distribution in characteristic property(s) defining an object pattern to form a corresponding image pattern on a substrate surface. The energy can be light having a pattern or a specific wavelength, intensity or polarization or coherence alignment. The image pattern can have features of order 100 nm in size or less produced from corresponding object patterns having features in the order millimeters. The size of the object pattern can be reduced by the microlens arrays described by a factor of 100 or more using a single step process to form the image patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Ming-Hsien Wu, Kateri Paul, George Whitesides
  • Patent number: 7057832
    Abstract: Methods and systems for effecting responses on surfaces utilizing microlens arrays including microoptical components embedded or supported by a support element and positioned from the surface at a distance essentially equal to the image distance of the microoptical component with spacer elements are disclosed. Microlens arrays can be used to manipulate incident energy or radiation having a distribution in characteristic property(s) defining an object pattern to form a corresponding image pattern on a substrate surface. The energy can be light having a pattern or a specific wavelength, intensity or polarization or coherence alignment. The image pattern can have features of order 100 nm in size or less produced from corresponding object patterns having features in the order millimeters. The size of the object pattern can be reduced by the microlens arrays described by a factor of 100 or more using a single step process to form the image patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Ming-Hsien Wu, Kateri E. Paul, George M. Whitesides
  • Patent number: 6750328
    Abstract: The invention provides an antibody having an affinity to water treatment polymers. The antibodies of the invention are used in assays to determine the presence or concentration of a water treatment polymer in a fluid or aqueous system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Strategic Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Wetegrove, James W. Stave, Robert J. Carlin, Krishna Balakrishnan, Ming-Hsien Wu
  • Publication number: 20040027675
    Abstract: Methods and systems for effecting responses on surfaces utilizing microlens arrays including microoptical components embedded or supported by a support element and positioned from the surface at a distance essentially equal to the image distance of the microoptical component with spacer elements are disclosed. Microlens arrays can be used to manipulate incident energy or radiation having a distribution in characteristic property(s) defining an object pattern to form a corresponding image pattern on a substrate surface. The energy can be light having a pattern or a specific wavelength, intensity or polarization or coherence alignment. The image pattern can have features of order 100 nm in size or less produced from corresponding object patterns having features in the order millimeters. The size of the object pattern can be reduced by the microlens arrays described by a factor of 100 or more using a single step process to form the image patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Ming-Hsien Wu, Kateri E. Paul, George M. Whitesides
  • Patent number: 5805316
    Abstract: The twin-image elimination apparatus of the present invention comprises (a) a scanning light source for emitting a scanning light beam; (b) an interference device which converts the scanning light beam from the scanning light source into a spherical wave and a plane wave having temporal frequencies different from each other and combines the spherical and plane waves together; (c) a scanner for scanning an object with the combined light beam from the interference device; (d) a photodetector for detecting a scattered wave from the object; (e) a first multiplier which converts an output signal of the photodetector into a cosine-coded holographic information; (f) a second multiplier which converts the output signal of the photodetector into a sine-coded holographic information; and (g) a holographic reconstruction device which converts output signals of the first and second multipliers into a sum signal, in which these output signals are added together with a phase difference of .pi./2+2n.pi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignees: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Shinoda, Ting-Chung Poon, Ming Hsien Wu, Yoshiji Suzuki