Patents by Inventor Ming Sun

Ming Sun 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: 20250134460
    Abstract: An earbud with temperature sensing is provided, and the earbud includes a housing and a first temperature sensor. The housing defines a second opening and a third opening. The first temperature sensor is positioned along an interior surface of the housing and aligned with the second opening in the housing for non-contact temperature sensing. In response to the earbud being positioned for use within an ear of a user, the second opening aligns with an inner side of the tragus close to the ear canal, the cavum conchae, an inner edge of the antitragus, or the cheek close to the ear, such that the first temperature sensor detects a body temperature of the user through the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: WEI-LUN SUNG, PO-WEI YU, CHIH-MING SUN
  • Publication number: 20250138144
    Abstract: A time division duplexed (TDD) frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) radar system includes P transmitter circuit chains and M receiver circuit chains. The P transmitter circuit chains are used to transmit a plurality of FMCW signals. A pth transmitter circuit chain is coupled to a single pole Op throw (SPQPT) radio frequency (RF) switch, the SPOT RF switch is coupled to Op antennas, Qp and P are positive integers, and p is a positive integer not larger than P. The M receiver circuit chains are used to receive a plurality of reflected FMCW signals. An mth receiver circuit chain is coupled to a single pole Nm throw (SPNmT) radio frequency (RF) switch, the SPNmT RF switch is coupled to Nm antennas, Nm and M are positive integers, and m is a positive integer not larger than M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: KaiKuTek INC.
    Inventors: Mike Chun-Hung Wang, Yi-Chu Chen, Tun-Yen Liao, Zi-Hao Fu, Hsiang-Chieh Jhan, Yi-Ting Tseng, Chun-Hsuan Kuo, Wei-Chi Li, Sheng-Tse Tai, Wei-Ming Sun, Pei-Ming Cai
  • Publication number: 20250123149
    Abstract: A handheld electronic product includes a case and a temperature sensing device. The case has a first opening. The temperature sensing device is disposed inside the case of the handheld electronic product. The temperature sensing device includes a first substrate, a sensor chip, and a metal shielding structure. The sensor chip is disposed on the first substrate. The metal shielding structure surrounds the sensor chip, and has a second opening. The sensor chip faces towards the first opening and the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: CHIH-MING SUN, MING-HAN TSAI, CHENG-NAN TSAI
  • Patent number: 12272321
    Abstract: Systems and methods for electronic displays to use reference voltages to control driving current of illuminators are provided. The reference voltages are used to reduce or eliminate cross talk in driving voltages among different illuminators and driving voltage variations from frame to frame. The transient performance of the driving current of the illuminator (e.g., the current rise/decline time, current overshoot issue, current settling time) may be improved by implementing the reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Nicola Rasera, Robert D Zucker, Johan L Piper, Denis M Darmon, Fabio Ongaro, Xiaofeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12257890
    Abstract: A method and a system for controlling cooling of a vehicle, and a vehicle are provided in the present disclosure. In the present disclosure, a maximum value among cooling demand values of cooling objects is used to control a servo component in a cooling system to operate according to an execution opening determined by a preset corresponding relation, so that operating states of the servo components may be correlated and may be comprehensively controlled, so as to prevent the control system from oscillating and improve control stability, thus solving a problem that periodic oscillation of the operating states of the servo components is easily caused and service life of the servo components is affected in existing control modes of the cooling system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xuemeng Li, Chao Li, Haolong Fan, Zhenhui Liu, Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20250093248
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source and a light sensor. The light source and the light sensor are arranged adjacently on the substrate. The substrate is arranged with an asymmetric structure to cause an illumination region of the light source to deviate toward the light sensor thereby increasing a ratio of light intensity reflected by smoke with respect to reference light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20250098257
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a first dielectric layer over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first metal gate stack and a second metal gate stack over the substrate and the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure further includes a second dielectric layer beside the first metal gate stack and an insulating structure over the substrate. A portion of the insulating structure is between the first metal gate stack and the second metal gate stack. The insulating structure penetrates into the second dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuan HSIAO, Shu-Yuan KU, Chih-Chang HUNG, I-Wei YANG, Chih-Ming SUN
  • Patent number: 12251722
    Abstract: A sprayer includes: a container; a passage including a transparent window, a first opening, a second opening and a resonator, wherein when liquid in the container is passed through the resonator via the first opening, the liquid is emitted as a gas via the second opening; and a removable detection unit disposed outside of the passage. The removable detection unit includes: a light source for illuminating the gas in the passage; an optical sensor disposed to detect a parameter of light reflected by the gas; and a processor coupled to the optical sensor for stopping the resonator from generating the gas when the parameter is below a threshold. The passage further includes a cavity disposed on a bottom surface of the passage in front of the optical sensor, wherein when the gas in the passage contacts the bottom surface, resultant water vapour will enter the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Wang, Yang-Ming Chou, Chien-Yi Kao, Shih-Jen Lu, Chih-Ming Sun, Hsin-Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20250073258
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided herein for treating intestinal glycocalyx dysfunction. The composition can comprise a chito-oligosaccharide (COS), and optionally a human milk oligosaccharide (hMO) in an amount sufficient to maintain an intestinal glycocalyx and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The composition can be formulated as an oral dosage form or a parenteral dosage form. The method can comprise identifying intestinal glycocalyx dysfunction in the subject. The method can further comprise administering to the subject a COS in an amount and at a frequency sufficient to prevent, stabilize and reverse damage in the intestinal glycocalyx.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Chen CHEN, Edward HOYT, Jianjun LI, Kevin CHEN, Lishi REN, Ming SUN, Siming JIAO, Yuchen ZHANG, Yucheng DU, Yuguang DU, Zhuo WANG
  • Publication number: 20250067667
    Abstract: There is provided an optical machine of a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source, a light sensor and a light blocking member. The light source and the light sensor are arranged on the substrate in a first direction. The light blocking member is arranged upon the light source and blocks a part of an emission angle of the light source in the first direction far away from the light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: CHENG-NAN TSAI, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun, Chi-Chih Shen, Kuo-Hsiung Li
  • Patent number: 12222246
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a case and a temperature sensing device. The case has a first opening. The temperature sensing device is disposed inside the case of the wearable device. The temperature sensing device includes a first substrate, a sensor chip, and a metal shielding structure. The sensor chip is disposed on the first substrate. The metal shielding structure surrounds the sensor chip, and has a second opening. The sensor chip faces towards the first opening and the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Ming Sun, Ming-Han Tsai, Cheng-Nan Tsai
  • Publication number: 20250044157
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an outer case, a circuit substrate, a thermopile sensor chip, a filter structure, and a waterproof structure. The outer case has an opening. The circuit substrate is disposed inside the outer case. The thermopile sensor chip is disposed on the circuit substrate. The filter structure is disposed above the thermopile sensor chip. The waterproof structure is surroundingly connected between the filter structure and the outer case, wherein the waterproof structure has a through hole for exposing the filter structure and communicated with the opening of the outer case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: MING-HAN TSAI, CHIH-MING SUN, JIAN-CHENG LIAO
  • Patent number: 12214446
    Abstract: A laser lift-off integrated apparatus includes a laser light source configured to perform laser lift-off on a wafer to undergo lift-off, a lift-off chamber configured to bear the wafer to undergo lift-off, a heater configured to provide temperature required by the wafer to undergo lift-off during a lift-off process, a profile measuring device configured to acquire surface profile information of the wafer to undergo lift-off, and a movable device configured to, according to the surface profile information acquired by the profile measuring device, adjust a height of the wafer to undergo lift-off such that a focus of the laser light source is at a position where the wafer to undergo lift-off is to undergo lift-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SINO NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingquan Lu, Junjie Ren, Wenrong Zhuang, Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 12213804
    Abstract: An earbud with temperature sensing is provided, and the earbud includes a housing, a speaker and a first temperature sensor. The housing defines a first opening and a second opening. The speaker is disposed within the housing and oriented so that audio emitted by the speaker exits the housing through the first opening defined by the housing. The first temperature sensor is positioned along an interior surface of the housing and aligned with the second opening in the housing for non-contact temperature sensing. In response to the earbud being positioned for use within an ear of a user, the second opening aligns with an inner side of the tragus close to the ear canal, the cavum conchae, an inner edge of the antitragus, or the cheek close to the ear, such that the first temperature sensor detects a body temperature of the user through the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Lun Sung, Po-Wei Yu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 12215872
    Abstract: There is provided an auto detection system including a thermal detection device and a host. The host controls an indication device to indicate a prompt message or detection results according to a slope variation of voltage values or 2D distribution of temperature values detected by the thermal detection device, wherein the voltage values include the detected voltage of a single pixel or the sum of detected voltages of multiple pixels of a thermal sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Ming Sun, Ming-Han Tsai, Chiung-Wen Lin, Po-Wei Yu, Wei-Ming Wang, Sen-Huang Huang
  • Publication number: 20250036463
    Abstract: Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a method and apparatus for controlling running of an operating system, and an embedded system and a chip. The embedded system includes a chip and at least two operating systems. The chip includes a processor, a hardware controller, a first bus, and a second bus. The bandwidth of the first bus is higher than the bandwidth of the second bus; the first bus is configured as a multi-master and multi-slave mode; and the second bus is configured as a one-master and multi-slave mode. The at least two operating systems are configured to run on the basis of the processor; the at least two operating systems are configured to communicate with each other by the first bus; and the at least two operating systems are configured to control the hardware controller by the second bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Endong WANG, Jiaming HUANG, Ming SUN, Jin CHEN, Chaofan CHEN
  • Patent number: 12212237
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system with a first counter circuit, a first converter circuit, a second counter circuit, and a second converter circuit. The first counter circuit is configured to output a first count value based on a comparison between a first reference value and a switched node value of a voltage regulator. The first converter circuit is configured to adjust an activation time of the voltage regulator based on the first count value. The second counter circuit is configured to output a second count value based on a comparison between a second reference value and the switched node value of the voltage regulator. The second converter circuit is configured to adjust an amount of current drawn away from an output of the voltage regulator based on the second count value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael Couleur, Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Ming Sun, Bhanupriya Suresh
  • Patent number: 12203838
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source and a light sensor. The light source and the light sensor are arranged adjacently on the substrate. The substrate is arranged with an asymmetric structure to cause an illumination region of the light source to deviate toward the light sensor thereby increasing a ratio of light intensity reflected by smoke with respect to reference light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20250022033
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system is provided. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computing instructions. The instructions, when executed on the processor, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types, the product types comprising an error, and the error corresponding to one of the product items having a non-compliant product type; modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on a product type group to mitigate a computing system from displaying non-compliant material to a user; and in response to a product type of the product type group being the non-compliant product type, performing a computer vision prediction on an image of a product corresponding to the product type to detect a misclassification in the product type group. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Weiqi Tong, Nidhin Pattaniyil, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Tanwir Zaman, Yiyi Huang, Guang Yang, Zheng Yan
  • Patent number: 12194453
    Abstract: A gas processing vessel of cylindrical shape having a cylindrical shell of the vertical axis, a gas distribution device and a first particulate material, the distribution device being fixed in the vessel next to a gas inlet or outlet orifice recessed into a lower end wall, a cover being designed to be in contact without a weld with the lower end wall and having a diameter greater than or equal to one third of the diameter of the vessel, a second particulate material with an equivalent diameter De greater than or equal to 10 mm and greater than the dimensions of the openings in the cover, and a means for centering the cover above the inlet or outlet orifice, the means being fixed to the pipe that is connected to the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Lian-Ming Sun, Christian Monereau, Gregory Demar