Patents by Inventor Nan Lin
Nan Lin 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).
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Publication number: 20250118683Abstract: The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit (IC) structure that includes a substrate having a circuit region and a chip corner region; IC devices formed on the substrate within the circuit region; a passivation layer formed over the IC devices; and a polyimide layer formed over the passivation layer, wherein the passivation layer and the polyimide layer include a stress-release pattern formed in the chip corner region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Wen-Ling CHANG, Wen-Chiung TU, Chen-Chiu HUANG, Hsiu-Wen HSUEH, Hsiang-Ku SHEN, Dian-Hau CHEN, Po-Hsiang HUANG, Ke-Rong HU, Cheng-Nan LIN
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Publication number: 20250118673Abstract: Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a power switch, a first power mesh and a second power mesh. The power switch has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first power mesh is directly connected to the first terminal of the power switch. The second power mesh is directly connected to the second terminal of the power switch. The first power mesh includes a first power rail over the power switch and extending in a first direction. The second power mesh includes a second power rail under the power switch and extending in the first direction. The first and second power rails are separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Wan-Yu LO, Chin-Shen LIN, Chi-Yu LU, Kuo-Nan YANG, Chih-Liang CHEN, Chung-Hsing WANG
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Publication number: 20250117564Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit device includes forming first segments extending in a first direction in a first conductive layer; forming second segments extending in the first direction in the first conductive layer, the forming the first and second segments including: interspersing the first and second segments relative to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction such that: the first segments are symmetrically spaced apart relative to each other, the second segments are symmetrically spaced apart relative to each other, and ones of the second segments are substantially asymmetrically spaced between corresponding adjacent ones of the first segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Hiranmay BISWAS, Chung-Hsing WANG, Chin-Shen LIN, Kuo-Nan YANG
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Patent number: 12272708Abstract: An image sensor device includes a semiconductor device, a plurality of photo sensitive regions, a dielectric layer, a grid structure, and a plurality of convex dielectric lenses. The photo sensitive regions are in the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer is over a backside surface of the semiconductor substrate. The grid structure is over a backside surface of the dielectric layer. The grid structure includes a plurality of grid lines. Each of the grid lines comprises a lower portion and an upper portion forming an interface with the lower portion. The convex dielectric lenses are alternately arranged with the grid lines over the backside surface of the dielectric layer. Apexes of the plurality of convex dielectric lenses are higher than an interface between the upper portion and the lower portion of each of the grid lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiu-Ko Jangjian, Chih-Nan Wu, Chun-Che Lin, Yu-Ku Lin
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Patent number: 12272598Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a semiconductor feature over a substrate, the semiconductor feature includes a conductive region; forming a dielectric layer over the semiconductor feature; patterning the dielectric layer to form a contact opening exposing a top surface of the conductive region; forming a monolayer over the dielectric layer, the top surface of the conductive region remaining exposed; and depositing a conductive material in the contact opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: U-Ting Chiu, Po-Nan Yeh, Yu-Shih Wang, Chun-Neng Lin, Ming-Hsi Yeh
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Publication number: 20250108320Abstract: A buffering device for a filter bottle. The buffering device is disposed on a body of the filter bottle and has a sidewall, a top, a bottom, and a chamber. The top of the buffering device is moveable up and down along the sidewall of the buffering device. The chamber is formed between the sidewall, the top, and the bottom of the buffering device, and does not communicate with an interior of the filter bottle. The chamber communicates with an exterior via an air gap for air exchange. A filter bottle having the buffering device can provide a function of anti-water-hammer, can reduce a risk of leakage at a connection between the filter bottle and a valve head, and can provide an anti-freeze effect to reduce a risk of rupture of the filter bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Sheng-Nan LIN, Hao-Chan WEI, Zhe-Hua OU
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Patent number: 12261142Abstract: A structure including a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die is provided. The first semiconductor die includes a first bonding structure. The first bonding structure includes a first dielectric layer and first conductors embedded in the first dielectric layer. The second semiconductor die includes a second bonding structure. The second bonding structure includes a second dielectric layer and second conductors embedded in the second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is in contact with the second dielectric layer, and the first conductors are in contact with the second conductors. Thermal conductivity of the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer is greater than thermal conductivity of silicon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chen-Hua Yu, Chun-Hui Yu, Jeng-Nan Hung, Kuo-Chung Yee, Po-Fan Lin
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Publication number: 20250098092Abstract: A filtration apparatus and an electronic device are provided to resolve the problem of housing body sealing failures caused by particulate matter in water damaging the waterproof membrane sealing the electronic device. In the filtration apparatus and electronic device, a first filter layer is disposed on an outer side of an outer surface of a housing body, a second filter layer is disposed between the outer surface and the first filter layer, and both the first filter layer and the second filter layer cover function holes on the housing body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Nan Lin, Menglong Zhao, Qian He, Wenjian Yang, Kemin Zhang, Zhuang Liu
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Publication number: 20250093724Abstract: A gel-state electrolyte is provided herein. The gel-state electrolyte includes a solvent base; and spherical inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in the solvent base, wherein the spherical inorganic nanoparticles are bonded to each other through an M-O-M structure, wherein M is Ti, Si, Al, Zr, V, Fe, Ni, Zn, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Yi-Ju SU, Tsung-Hsien LIN, Yu-Nan LEE
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Publication number: 20250091910Abstract: A regeneration system is provided for regenerating at least one regeneration container which has an accommodation space for confining therein an inactive ion-exchange resin. The regeneration system includes a flow-path control device, a first tank, a second tank, a first filtration element, a third tank, and a second filtration element. The flow-path control device is actuated to be operable in a first circulation state and a second circulation state. The first tank is switchable to be in fluid communication with the accommodation space. The second tank is switchable to be in fluid communication with a first circulation path. The first filtration element is disposed to filter a first liquid in the first circulation path. The third tank is switchable to be in fluid communication with the accommodation space. The second filtration element is disposed to filter a third liquid in a second circulation path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: KEMFLO INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng-Nan LIN, Cheng-Shing LO
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Patent number: 12253776Abstract: A method of forming an electronic device including: providing an assembly, wherein the assembly includes a substrate, an optical film, a plurality of color filters and a defect, wherein the plurality of color filters and the defect are disposed between the substrate and the optical film; and using a laser pulse to form a first processed area that corresponds to the defect in the optical film, wherein the first processed area at least partially overlaps at least two of the plurality of color filters.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Tai-Chi Pan, Chin-Lung Ting, I-Chang Liang, Chih-Chiang Chang Chien, Po-Wen Lin, Kuang-Ming Fan, Sheng-Nan Chen
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Patent number: 12252986Abstract: A steerable drilling device has an outer tube extending along a longitudinal axis; a drill bit joint inserted into said outer tube, a lower end of said drill bit joint extending out of a lower end of said outer tube for connection to a drill bit; a joint drive mechanism, provided in said outer tube and configured to drive said drill bit joint to swing relative to the longitudinal axis; and a lower connection mechanism. The lower connection mechanism has a connection body connected to said joint drive mechanism in such a manner that said joint drive mechanism is non-rotatable with respect to said connection body, a first centralizer arranged between said connection body and said outer tube, a circuit system arranged in said connection body and configured to provide an electrical signal to said joint driving mechanism, and an attitude sensor arranged in said connection body.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC PETROLEUM ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CO., LTD, SINOPEC SHENGLI PETROLEUM ENGINEERING CO., LTD, SINOPEC MATRIX CORPORATION, GEOSTEERING & LOGGING RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SINOPEC MATRIX CORPORATIONInventors: Qingming Ma, Jieran Zhu, Ningning Yang, Guangquan Li, Yufeng Li, Nan Lin, Haiquan Tang, Haiyang Du, Chao Lu
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Patent number: 12255421Abstract: A connector lock structure includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, a shell, a locking assembly, a sliding board, a pressing element and an unlocking tool. The insulating body is molded around the plurality of the terminals. The shell surrounds the insulating body. The locking assembly includes at least one lacking groove, and at least one elastic arm formed in the at least one lacking groove. The at least one elastic arm has a hook structure. The hook structure is cooperated with a blocking groove of a docking connector. The pressing element is mounted in the insulating body. The sliding board is slidably mounted under the pressing element. One end of the pressing element has a locking portion. The locking portion has a keyhole. The unlocking tool is inserted in the keyhole.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Li Nien Hsu, Sheng Nan Yu, Chun Fu Lin
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Publication number: 20250085562Abstract: A three-dimensional reflective display device includes a reflective display panel, a lens array disposed on the reflective display panel, and a front light module disposed on the lens array. The reflective display panel includes pixel structures, and each pixel structure includes a left-eye pixel and a right-eye pixel. The lens array includes lenticular lenses extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The lenticular lenses are respectively corresponding to the pixel structures. The front light module includes two front light components. The two front light components both include a light guide plate and a light source disposed on a light incident surface of the light guide plate, where the light incident surfaces face to each other in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Shin-Bo LIN, Jen-Yuan CHI, Yu-Nan PAO, Chia-Ming HSIEH, Sheng-Wei CHEN, Chi-Mao HUNG
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Publication number: 20250086368Abstract: Provided are a method of verifying process data of a display panel, a device, a storage medium, and a product, which relates to a field of process verification technology. The method of verifying the process data of the display panel includes: generating, based on design data of a process of the display panel, simulation process data for performing the process; performing, by using a process model, a simulation of performing the process based on the simulation process data; and verifying, by using a measurement model, whether the simulation process data is applicable to actual production based on the simulation. The process model is constructed based on actual process data generated in an actual manufacturing process of the display panel, and the measurement model is constructed based on actual process data and actual measurement data which are generated in the actual manufacturing process of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Nan Liu, Xuemei Lin, Jianmin Wu, Hong Wang
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Publication number: 20250087082Abstract: Provided are a digital twinning method and system for a scene flow based on a dynamic trajectory flow, which belong to the field of traffic control. The method includes: extracting and identifying a target semantic trajectory with a detecting and tracking integrated multi-modal fusion and perception enhancement network; extracting road traffic semantics, so as to obtain a highly parameterized virtual road layout top view; obtaining a road layout traffic semantic grid encoding vector based on the virtual road layout top view; constructing a target coupling relation model; constructing a traffic force constraint model; constructing a long short term memory trajectory prediction network; predicting a motion trajectory of a target with the long short term memory trajectory prediction network, so as to obtain the predicted motion trajectory; and obtaining a digital twin of the scene flow based on trajectory extraction, semantic identification and the predicted motion trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Zhanwen LIU, Xing FAN, Shan LIN, Chao LI, Jun ZHAI, Yanming Fang, Songhua FAN, Zijian WANG, Nan YANG, Zhibiao XUE, Jin FAN, Juanru CHENG, Yuande JIANG, Litong ZHANG
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Patent number: 12247916Abstract: Provided is an identification method of plastic microparticles, including: performing an infrared analysis on plastic microparticles to identify whether the plastic microparticles include polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, or nylon 66, wherein the identification is to determine whether the plastic microparticles have a characteristic peak of each plastic, and the characteristic peak is selected from signals that do not overlap and interfere with each other in the infrared spectrum signals of each plastic.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: National Taiwan UniversityInventors: Chihhao Fan, Jhen-Nan Lin, Jun-Wei Li, Ya-Zhen Huang
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Patent number: 12249796Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of conductive terminals, a plurality of grounding terminals and two shielding elements. The plurality of the conductive terminals are mounted in the insulating body. The plurality of the grounding terminals are mounted in the insulating body. The plurality of the grounding terminals are located adjacent to two outer sides of the plurality of the conductive terminals. The two shielding elements are disposed at a front end of an upper surface and a front end of a lower surface of the insulating body. Each shielding element has a base frame. Two sides of a rear edge of the base frame are connected with two contact portions. The contact portions of the two shielding elements contact with the plurality of the grounding terminals.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Pei-Yi Lin, Chuan-Hung Lin, Sheng-Nan Yu, Sheng-Yuan Huang, Chun-Fu Lin
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Publication number: 20250080583Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for intrusion detection based on regular expression matching. The mechanisms partition a regular expression (RegEx) rule set into a plurality of different partitions and distributes the plurality of different partitions to a plurality of different edge computing devices associated with a protected network of computing resources. The mechanisms route data packets of an incoming data stream to the plurality of edge computing devices, each of which processes the data packets to determine whether the data packets match RegEx rules in a partition distributed to the edge computing device. A determination is made as to whether the incoming data stream represents an intrusion based on a combination of results of the processing of the data packets by the plurality of edge computing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Eun Kyung Lee, Lars Schneidenbach, Tsung-Nan Lin, Hong-Yen Chen, Pang-Cheng Wu
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Publication number: 20250075543Abstract: A computing system includes a computing tray for receiving a computing device; a latch attached to the computing tray for releasing the computing tray during installation or removal operations; and a lock assembly for preventing accidental release of the computing tray. The lock assembly includes a fixed bracket having two fixed sides, one of the fixed sides being a mounting side attached to the computing tray near the latch; and a movable bracket having two movable sides attached respectively to the two fixed sides. The movable bracket is adjustable relative to the fixed bracket between a releasing position and a secured position. The movable bracket allows the latch to release the computing tray in the releasing position, and the movable bracket physically blocks the latch from releasing the computing tray in the secured position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Yaw-Tzorng TSORNG, Ming-Lung WANG, Jia-Lin LIU, Nan-Chun WU