Patents by Inventor Ming-Yu Liu

Ming-Yu Liu 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: 20140076828
    Abstract: A mounting device for mounting a fan includes a board, a receiving frame for receiving the fan, and a locking member. The board defines a vent and a positioning hole adjacent to the vent. The receiving frame includes two opposite sidewalls. A fixing leg extends down from a bottom of the receiving frame to be extended through the positioning hole and blocked by a bottom of the board. A tab extends out from the receiving frame. A fastener extends through the tab and is engaged in the board. The locking member includes a bar to block the fan and two fixing arms connected to opposite ends of the bar and being fixed to the sidewalls, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: MING-YU LIU, PING-CHUAN DENG, AN-GANG LIANG
  • Publication number: 20140060915
    Abstract: A server cabinet includes a rack and a power distribution unit (PDU). The rack includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and a side plate connected between sides of the top plate and the bottom plate. A through hole is defined in the top plate, near a front end of the top plate. An opening is defined in the bottom plate, near a front end of the bottom plate. The PDU is fastened on an inner side of the side plate, near a front side of the rack. A power cable of the PDU is extendable out of the rack through the through hole or the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: AN-GANG LIANG, MING-YU LIU
  • Patent number: 8625288
    Abstract: A server cabinet includes a rack, a server installed in the rack and defining an opening, and a shield apparatus. The removable shield apparatus includes a bracket mounted in the rack above the server, and a first shield plate slidably installed to the bracket for shielding the opening of the server to guide and restrict the passage of a cooling airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Yu Liu, An-Gang Liang
  • Publication number: 20130308258
    Abstract: A server cabinet includes a rack and a server unit installed in the rack. The server unit includes a receiving portion extending rearward from a rear wall of the server unit adjacent to a sidewall of the server unit, a motherboard with a first connector, and a cable with a second connector. The motherboard is received in the server unit. The first connector is received in the receiving portion. The receiving portion defines a through hole adjacent to the sidewall. The second connector of the cable extends through the through hole, to be connected to the first connector of the motherboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: ZHENG-HENG SUN, AN-GANG LIANG, MING-YU LIU
  • Patent number: 8563245
    Abstract: A method that modifies surface properties of a substrate by manipulating the immobilized biomolecules in mild biological condition. The manipulation comprised steps of: providing a biomolecule combined with at least one ssDNA combined with a first protein through an affinity binding tag; adding a second ssDNA conjugated with a second protein with a concentration greater than that of the first protein; and replacing the first protein on the ssDNA with the second protein through chemical competitive principle. The invention may comprise the steps with proper design of biotinylated DNA probes, the functionalized ssDNA nanotemplates can be recovered to its unbound state through a thermodynamic principle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Ming-Yu Liu, Yuh-Shyong Yang, Yen-Pei Lu, Chih-Heng Lin
  • Publication number: 20130265710
    Abstract: A motherboard having a disk on module (DOM) module includes a connector arranged on the DOM, two first signal input pins and two first signal output pins connected to a control chip of the DOM, a first power pin connected to a first power unit of the DOM, and four first ground pins grounded. A socket to receive the connector includes two second signal input pins and two second signal output pins connected to a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) control chip of the motherboard, a second power pin connected to a second power unit of the motherboard, and four second ground pins grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: AN-GANG LIANG, PING-CHUAN DENG, MING-YU LIU
  • Publication number: 20130229754
    Abstract: A cabinet includes two opposite horizontal brackets and a resilient plate. Each bracket includes a stop plate and a supporting plate. A through hole is defined in one of the stop plates adjacent to a front end of the stop plate. A first end of the resilient plate is mounted to an outer surface of said one of the stop plates adjacent to the through hole. A latching pole protrudes from an inner surface of the resilient plate. A distal end of the latching pole extends through the through hole and forms two slanted surfaces at front and rear sides of the distal end. When a server supported on the supporting plates is slid forwards to depart from the cabinet, the distal end of the latching pole engages in a latching hole of the server, to remind a user that the server will separate from the brackets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISIN INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MING-YU LIU, AN-GANG LIANG
  • Patent number: 8514564
    Abstract: A disk on module device includes a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) connector connected to a SATA interface of a motherboard, a universal serial bus (USB) connector connected to a USB interface of the motherboard, a power unit, a control chip, and a number of storage chips. The power unit is connected to a power pin of the USB connector, to receive electrical power from the motherboard through the USB connector and converts the received voltage to make it suitable for the control chip and the storage chips. The control chip is connected to the SATA connector and the storage chips, to receive a control signal from the motherboard through the SATA connector and control the storage chips to store data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An-Gang Liang, Ping-Chuan Deng, Ming-Yu Liu
  • Publication number: 20130156262
    Abstract: A pose of an object is estimated by first defining a set of pair features as pairs of geometric primitives, wherein the geometric primitives include oriented surface points, oriented boundary points, and boundary line segments. Model pair features are determined based on the set of pair features for a model of the object. Scene pair features are determined based on the set of pair features from data acquired by a 3D sensor, and then the model pair features are matched with the scene pair features to estimate the pose of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Yuichi Taguchi, Oncel Tuzel, Srikumar Ramalingam, Changhyun Choi, Ming-Yu Liu
  • Publication number: 20130148285
    Abstract: A disk on module device includes a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) connector connected to a SATA interface of a motherboard, a universal serial bus (USB) connector connected to a USB interface of the motherboard, a power unit, a control chip, and a number of storage chips. The power unit is connected to a power pin of the USB connector, to receive electrical power from the motherboard through the USB connector and converts the received voltage to make it suitable for the control chip and the storage chips. The control chip is connected to the SATA connector and the storage chips, to receive a control signal from the motherboard through the SATA connector and control the storage chips to store data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: AN-GANG LIANG, PING-CHUAN DENG, MING-YU LIU
  • Patent number: 8428363
    Abstract: An image is segmented into superpixels by constructing a graph with vertices connected by edges, wherein each vertex corresponds to a pixel in the image, and each edge is associated with a weight indicating a similarity of the corresponding pixels, A subset of edges in the graph are selected to segment the graph into subgraphs, wherein the selecting maximizes an objective function based on an entropy rate and a balancing term. The edges with maximum gains are added to the graph until a number of subgraphs is equal to some threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Cuneyt Oncel Tuzel, Srikumar Ramalingam, Ming-Yu Liu
  • Publication number: 20120275702
    Abstract: An image is segmented into superpixels by constructing a graph with vertices connected by edges, wherein each vertex corresponds to a pixel in the image, and each edge is associated with a weight indicating a similarity of the corresponding pixels, A subset of edges in the graph are selected to segment the graph into subgraphs, wherein the selecting maximizes an objective function based on an entropy rate and a balancing term. The edges with maximum gains are added to the graph until a number of subgraphs is equal to some threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Cuneyt Oncel Tuzel, Srikumar Ramalingam, Ming-Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 6865434
    Abstract: A management system for managing information of monitor wafers stored in a storage center includes an operation rule module for determining the next manufacturing process for each of the monitor wafers according to its wafer number and wafer condition, an information update module for updating the information of the monitor wafers in a database according to the results made by the operation rule module, an inventory module for computing an inventory quantity of the monitor wafers according to the wafer numbers and the wafer conditions of the monitor wafers, a warning module for checking whether the inventory quantity of the monitor wafers is less than the quantity of the safety stock or not and sending a warning message when the inventory quantity of the monitor wafers is less than the quantity of the safety stock, and a display module for showing the wafer conditions and the inventory quantity of the monitor wafers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Nan Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Chia-Ping Yang, Shu-Yin Yang, Cho-Ching Ko
  • Publication number: 20050038544
    Abstract: A management system for managing information of monitor wafers stored in a storage center includes an operation rule module for determining the next manufacturing process for each of the monitor wafers according to its wafer number and wafer condition, an information update module for updating the information of the monitor wafers in a database according to the results made by the operation rule module, an inventory module for computing an inventory quantity of the monitor wafers according to the wafer numbers and the wafer conditions of the monitor wafers, a warning module for checking whether the inventory quantity of the monitor wafers is less than the quantity of the safety stock or not and sending a warning message when the inventory quantity of the monitor wafers is less than the quantity of the safety stock, and a display module for showing the wafer conditions and the inventory quantity of the monitor wafers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2003
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Chun-Nan Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Chia-Ping Yang, Shu-Yin Yang, Cho-Ching Ko
  • Patent number: 6766213
    Abstract: A semiconductor automation system for a daily check is provided. The semiconductor automation system includes a database for storing testing items, testing specifications, and testing frequencies for each semiconductor equipment; a processor for selecting a corresponding testing specification from the database to perform real time calculation on newly added testing data, thus getting a testing result; and a message server for alarming engineers associated with the daily check when the testing result is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Nan Lin, Ming-Yu Liu
  • Publication number: 20040122548
    Abstract: A semiconductor automation system for a daily check is provided. The semiconductor automation systemincludes a database for storing testing items, testing specifications, and testing frequencies for each semiconductor equipment; a processor for selecting a corresponding testing specification from the database to perform real time calculation on newly added testing data, thus getting a testing result; and a message server for alarming engineers associated with the daily check when the testing result is abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Chun-Nan Lin, Ming-Yu Liu