Patents by Inventor Nai-Chien Chang

Nai-Chien Chang 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: 20130183859
    Abstract: A connector with thin film shielding structure includes an insulation base and an electromagnetic shielding film. The electromagnetic shielding film covers the insulation base, thereby blocking the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130183840
    Abstract: A socket module of electrical connector includes a first socket, a second socket arranged in a row with the first socket, and an electric conduction elastic piece. The first socket includes a first terminal base and a first ground piece circumferencing the first terminal base. The second socket includes a second terminal base and a second ground piece circumferencing the second terminal base. The electric conduction elastic piece contacts and electrically connects the first ground piece and the second ground piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Patent number: 8485843
    Abstract: An assembling type terminal device with RJ45 female terminal is disclosed for controlling the power or data connection status of a connector terminal unit by controlling the switch of a relay unit via detecting if a RJ45 female terminal unit receives the power or data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Publication number: 20130175979
    Abstract: A connector with embedded charging integrated circuits mainly has an insulating housing, an insulating base, a plurality of connecting terminals, a PCB, a charging IC, and a plurality of forwarding terminals. A tongue portion extends outward from one side of the insulating housing, a plurality of terminal slots are disposed in the tongue portion. The connecting terminals, the forwarding terminals and the charging IC electrically connect with the PCB. The insulating base is to carry the PCB, and the connecting terminals are accommodated in the terminal slots while the insulating base assembles with the insulating housing. While the connector receives electrical energy provided by the motherboard of an external device, the charging current provided by the motherboard is transmitted to the charging IC through the forwarding terminals, the charging current processed and improved by the charging IC is output via the connecting terminals to speed up the charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Patent number: 8480436
    Abstract: A USB connector structure includes an insulating body, a circuit board, a plurality of connecting terminals and a plurality of conductive terminals. The insulating body includes a through notch, a plurality of terminal slots formed at a lower edge of the through notch, and a stop plate extended forwardly from the terminal slots which forms a plurality of first openings and second openings thereon; the circuit board having a plurality of goldfingers being passed and coupled to the through notch, and the position of each goldfinger is aligned with the first opening; the connecting terminals passed to the circuit board and situated away from the goldfinger and electrically coupled to each goldfinger; each conductive terminal passed into the terminal slot and having a conducting portion at a front end which is aligned with the second opening, so as to prevent the conductive terminals from being shifted or deviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Publication number: 20130165039
    Abstract: An electric lamp holder module includes an electric lamp holder, an operational amplifier, a signal receiving unit, and an output antenna. The electric lamp holder module is embedded in a pre-arranged electric lamp slot through the electric lamp holder and receives an electric power supplied from a wall socket power through the electric lamp slot. The signal receiving unit receives an external transmission signal. The output antenna is configured to send out the transmission signal after the transmission signal has been amplified by the operational amplifier. Therefore, the electric lamp holder module is used as a signal repeater. The transmission signal is amplified by the operational amplifier for prolonging the transmission distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Patent number: 8460030
    Abstract: A connector includes a main body and a detachable module. The main body has an insulation base and a plurality of pin header slots. The rear surface of the insulation base is provided with a plurality of troughs. The pin header slots are disposed in the troughs. Each pin header slot extends toward the top surface of the insulation base. The detachable module includes a circuit board, an integrated circuit and a plurality of pin headers both electrically connected to the circuit board. When the detachable module is assembled with the main body in such a manner that the pin headers are electrically connected to the pin header slots, a mother board connected to the main body can perform the functions of the integrated circuit of the detachable module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Publication number: 20130141875
    Abstract: A connector with an audio receiving module provided for being electrically coupled to a main board of an electronic device includes an insulating base, an audio receiving module and a jack. The insulating base has a containing space and a containing groove, and the containing space has an opening, and the containing groove has a port. The audio receiving module is contained in the containing space and disposed at a position corresponding to the opening and includes a microphone unit and a plurality of pins, and the microphone unit is electrically coupled to each pin. The jack is contained in the containing groove and disposed at a position corresponding to the port. Therefore, the connector can provide an audio receiving effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130143449
    Abstract: A battery connector is disclosed. The battery connector is disposed in a mounting side of a motherboard, and an input/output port is positioned on the mounting side for inserting outer connectors. Wherein, the elertric connector includes a connector body having a battery accommodating space for accommodating the battery. The connector body is located on the mounting side and the input/output port is positioned on the mounting side. The computer case has a slot near the input/output port, and the slot is disposed corresponding to the battery accommodating space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130141644
    Abstract: A router module is arranged in a housing of a smart television. The router module is externally connected to a modem for surfing the Internet. The router module is electrically connected to a micro processing unit of the smart television. Therefore, the smart television is connected to the Internet through the router module. A wireless transmission chip of the router module is configured to process Internet signals. An antenna module is configured to wirelessly transmit the Internet signals, so that wireless network is shared to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130141876
    Abstract: A connector with an audio playing module provided for being electrically coupled to a main board of an electronic device includes an insulating base, an audio playing module and a jack. The insulating base has a containing space and a containing groove, and the containing space has an opening, and the containing groove has a port. The audio playing module is contained in the containing space and disposed at a position corresponding to the opening and includes a speaker unit and a plurality of pins, and the speaker unit is electrically coupled to each pin. The jack is contained in the containing groove and disposed at a position corresponding to the port. Therefore, the connector can provide an audio playing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130121390
    Abstract: A light bulb holder module with a function of sharing wireless network is disclosed. The light bulb holder module is embedded into a light bulb slot and is externally connected to a light bulb. The light bulb holder module includes a light bulb holder, an electronic switch, a control unit, a network input port, a wireless transmission chip, and an antenna unit. The network input port is connected to a modem via a network wire to receive network services. The wireless transmission chip receives and converts network signals and then transmits the network signals out via the antenna unit. The wireless transmission chip is electrically connected to the control unit so that external control signals are received by the wireless transmission chip and controlled by the control unit to control the electronic switch to be turned on or turned off, thus lightening or extinguishing the light bulb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130114826
    Abstract: A light bulb holder module with a built-in speaker is embedded into a light bulb slot. The light bulb holder module includes a light bulb holder, a control unit, a first electronic switch, a second electronic switch, a wireless transceiver unit, and a speaker. Also, a light bulb is installed on the light bulb holder. The wireless transceiver unit receives an external control signal and transmits the control signal to the control unit. The control unit turns on or turns off the first electronic switch and the second electronic switch according to contents of the control signal, thus lightening or extinguishing the light bulb or turning on or turning off the speaker. In addition, the wireless transceiver unit also receives external audio signals and transmits the audio signals to the control unit to be processed. The processed audio signals are played by the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130111096
    Abstract: A docking device with a built-in network share module is coupled to an external electronic apparatus via a connector, thereby providing additional hardware functions to the electronic apparatus. The docking device is provided with a built-in network share module including a network input port, a wireless network chip, and an antenna unit. The docking device is coupled to an external modem via the network input port, so that the docking device can access the Internet via the modem. Further, the network share module is coupled to a processing unit inside the docking device, so that the electronic apparatus can access the Internet via the docking device and the modem. Further, the wireless network chip is configured to convert network signals and transmit the converted network signals to the outside via the antenna unit, thereby sharing the wireless network with the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Patent number: 8416564
    Abstract: An expansion interface module having a signal gain circuit is disposed on a case panel of a computer and electrically connected to a main board which is disposed within the computer. The expansion interface module includes a circuit board, a connecting port, a signal gain circuit and a plurality of connectors. The connecting port, the signal gain circuit and the connectors are located at the circuit board and electrically connected thereto. The main board delivers signal to the circuit board through a cable which is connected to the connecting port located on the circuit board, the signal gain circuit amplifies and enhances the signal, and then the connectors output the amplified and enhanced signal to external devices, thus, the signal will not be attenuated, damaged or lost during over transmission distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Patent number: 8414331
    Abstract: A USB connector structure includes an insulating body, a circuit board, connecting terminals and conductive terminals. The insulating body includes a through notch therein and a plurality of terminal slots at a lower edge of the through notch; the circuit board is coupled to the through notch and has a first surface which set a plurality of goldfingers thereon, and a plurality of blind holes concavely formed at the rear of the goldfingers; each connecting terminal is coupled to a rear end of the circuit board and away from the goldfingers, and electrically connected to each goldfinger through the circuit board; each conductive terminal is coupled to the terminal slot and has a conducting portion disposed at the front of each conductive terminal, and the front of each conducting portion is disposed in the blind hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Publication number: 20130084720
    Abstract: A network connector structure includes an insulating body having a port inwardly formed at a front-end surface of the insulating body, a containing space formed in the insulating body insulating body, and a first circuit board and a second circuit board parallely installed and electrically coupled to each other. A plurality of connecting terminals and a plurality of filter elements are electrically coupled to the first circuit board, and at least one network integrated circuit and a plurality of soldered terminals are electrically coupled to the second circuit board. The network connector is electrically coupled to an external transmission line through the plurality of connecting terminals, and electrically coupled to a motherboard of an external electronic device through the plurality of soldered terminals, so that the network integrated circuit inside the network connector provide network signal encoding/decoding functions directly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG
  • Patent number: 8408940
    Abstract: The integrated connector includes an insulative body, a circuit board, eSATA interface bonding fingers, USB interface bonding fingers and USB pins. The insulative body has a trough towards a front side thereof and a plate under the trough. The plate is towards the front side of the insulative body and is formed with first openings and second openings behind the first openings. The circuit board is disposed in the trough and has a first conductive side and a second conductive side. The eSATA interface bonding fingers are disposed on the first conductive side. The USB interface bonding fingers are disposed on the second conductive side and exposed by the first openings. The USB pins are disposed in the trough and under the circuit. Each of the USB pins has a contact portion and a solder portion. The contact portions protrude from the insulative body through the second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Patent number: 8408926
    Abstract: The network connector of the invention includes an isolated body, a switch module, an input pin set and an output pin set. The switch module includes a circuit board and switch component thereon. The input pin set and output pin set electrically connect to the switch component. When the network connector receives external electricity, the switch component will be electrically opened or closed to turn on or off the network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien Chang
  • Publication number: 20130051736
    Abstract: A connector having a universal insertion slot includes a body and an adapter. The body has an insertion port thereon, and has the insertion slot and an optical component in the body. The adapter has a connection port for connecting with an external transmission line. The adapter connects to the insertion port of the body through a universal end, which has a plurality of insertion terminals and a through hole, the insertion terminals electrically connects with the insertion slot of the body, and the through hole is arranged in a position according to that of the optical component. When the external transmission line connecting with the connection port of the adapter, conductive terminals of the insertion slot electrically connects to terminals of the line via the insertion terminals, and the optical component receives light signal from a fiber line in the line passing through the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Chien CHANG