Patents by Inventor Pin An Hsieh

Pin An Hsieh 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: 20100092993
    Abstract: This invention discloses an analyzing method for detecting a specific analyte in a fluid sample. The method comprises the following steps. First, a substrate is provided. The substrate has a channel provided concavely on an upper surface thereof. The channel comprises a first area, a second area and a third area, and these three areas are connected sequentially. Each of the second and the third areas comprises a nitrocellulose layers containing a reaction material and formed at the bottom thereof. The nitrocellulose layer of the third area can absorb a fixed volume of the fluid sample. Second, the fluid sample is applied to the first area and delivered by the second area and then to the third area. Finally, the reaction material reacts with the specific analyte in the fluid sample to produce a signal for detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Wen-Pin HSIEH, Yi-Jen Wu
  • Publication number: 20100071687
    Abstract: A nebulization apparatus includes a nebulization plate, a piezoelectric driving device connected to the nebulization plate for vibrating the nebulization plate, a liquid droplet conveying pipe located below the nebulization plate, a water tank for containing the liquid droplet conveying pipe and an active water supply device connected to the liquid droplet conveying pipe and the water tank. The active water supply device supplies working liquid to the liquid droplet conveying pipe, such that the droplet is attracted by surface tension and attached onto the nebulization plate to form the camber water film to nebulize the working liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: MICRO BASE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu-Pin Hsieh, Chien-Hua Lin, Chang-Wei Lin, Andy Meng, Yu-Chung Hsu, Mei-Hui Huang, Chia-Chen Huang, Chieh-Ming Hsiung, Liang-Wei Liu
  • Publication number: 20100072299
    Abstract: A nebulization apparatus with a packaging and fixing structure includes a piezoelectric driving device, an adhesive agent, a nebulization plate, a packaging layer and a fixing base. A ditch at the piezoelectric driving device is provided for filling an adhesive agent and installing the nebulization plate that is fixed to the driving device by the adhesive agent. The packaging layer covers the piezoelectric driving device. The fixing base fixes the piezoelectric driving device. Preferably, the packaging layer is made of a polymer material for insulating moisture and preventing short circuits of the piezoelectric driving device. The ditch and the adhesive agent enhance the attaching strength of the piezoelectric driving device and the nebulization plate to extend the life of the nebulization apparatus, and the adhesive agent can electrically insulate the nebulization plate and the piezoelectric driving device, such that the nebulization plate will have no electrochemical action with the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: Micro Base Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Pin Hsieh, Chien-Hua Lin, Chang-Wei Lin, Andy Meng, Yu-Chung Hsu, Mei-Hui Huang, Chia-Chen Huang, Chieh-Ming Hsiung, Liang-Wei Liu
  • Publication number: 20100068080
    Abstract: An electrical connection structure for use in a micro piezoelectric pump is disclosed. The electrical connection structure includes a driving circuit board and a multilayered wiring structure. The electrical connection structure includes the driving circuit board, the wiring structure, and a piezoelectric element arranged from top to bottom. The driving circuit board is provided with a driving circuit for driving the piezoelectric element and at least an electrical contact, wherein the electrical contacts are electrically connected to the driving circuit. A first electrode contact region and a second electrode contact region electrically insulated from each other are defined on the same surface of the piezoelectric element. The wiring structure sends a signal from the electrical contacts to the first electrode contact region and the second electrode contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: MICROBASE TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Hsien-Kai Meng, Shu-Pin Hsieh, Chieh-Ming Hsiung, Chien-Hua Lin, Yu-Chung Hsu, Tai-Shuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20100045689
    Abstract: An electronic device has a display, a video memory, a video data buffer unit, a central processing unit, and a video processing unit. The central processing unit, according to a number of divided screens and a resolution for each of the divided screens, retrieves different but continuous video data corresponding to the resolution of each of the divided screens from the video data buffer unit, and stores the retrieved continuous video data in consecutive memory addresses in the video memory. The video processing unit reads in sequence the continuous video data stored in the video memory, and sends the continuous video data in sequence to the display according to a direction of arrangement of the divided screens such that video contents displayed on the divided screens by the display are continuous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: I-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100033505
    Abstract: A method for partially zooming a screen of a display includes: defining a portion of the screen of the display as a zoom area and the rest of the screen as a normal area; retrieving video data to be displayed in the normal area of the screen, storing the video data in a normal data memory block of a video memory that corresponds to the normal area, further retrieving video data to be displayed in the zoom area of the screen, performing zoom processing of the retrieved video data, and storing the zoom-processed video data in a zoom data memory block of the video memory that corresponds to the zoom area; and subsequently reading the video data stored in the normal data memory block and the zoom data memory block of the video memory, and sending the video data thus read to the display for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: I-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100008960
    Abstract: A beauty/medication patch including a substrate, an outer layer, and a medication lotion; the outer layer being made of a degradable material being disposed on the substrate; one or a plurality of micro-probe array being disposed on a surface of the outer layer; the medication lotion being coated between the substrate and the outer layer, and/or admixed in the substrate; the patch being attached to a human skin, the micro-probe array piercing through a stratum corneum layer of the human skin and naturally being degraded by human skin or absorbed and metabolized by a human body; and the medication lotion penetrating into the skin and being absorbed by the human skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Hsien Kai MENG, Shu Pin HSIEH, Yuan Yi Yeh, Chang Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20090310294
    Abstract: A screw-less fastening device is used for fastening a peripheral into a housing. The peripheral and the housing respectively have a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole. The screw-less fastening device includes a body and a fastening bracket. The interior of the body has two track slots and two plugging slots. The track slot includes a first slanted surface and a second slanted surface. The body slides between a first location and a second location. The fastening bracket is assembled in the body, and includes a base portion, two contacting portions and two plugging portions. The contacting portions are located in the track slots, and contact the first slanted surface and the second slanted surface. The two plugging portions are located in the plugging slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Chia-Pin Hsieh, Ching-Chiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20090298092
    Abstract: An analytical system includes a working fluid, a uniform dividing unit and a separating unit. The working fluid includes a first component and a second component with different characteristics. The uniform dividing unit is utilized to uniformly divide the working fluid and relatively rotated with respect to a reference axis. Under a capillarity force as well as the result of Coriolis force and siphon force, the first component can be separated from the second component by the separating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Tsai, Chin-Tai Tseng, Chien-Chih Huang, Wen-Pin Hsieh, Hsiao-Chung Tsai, Cheng-Yu Ko
  • Patent number: 7623382
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory and address-decoding circuit and method for decoding address allow the semiconductor memory to operate under a decreased capacity by disabling or hiding a predetermined portion of the semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory has a first address-inputting circuit configured to receive a first external address, a switching circuit configured to switch a predetermined portion of the first external address to form an internal address, at least one address-setting code configured to set at least one predetermined bit of the internal address, a decoder coupling to the switching circuit and the address-setting code, and a memory array coupling to the decoder, wherein the decoder is configured to select at least one memory unit of the memory array based on the internal address. The first address-inputting circuit, the switching circuit and the address-setting code can be considered as an address-decoding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chi Yuan Mou, Chien Hao Lu, Wen Pin Hsieh, Ya Chun Chang
  • Patent number: 7598653
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) bio-chip is designed with signal processing circuits. The chip can achieve precise measurements or detection quantitatively via the difference between the experiment-control mode, and followed by amplification and filtering of the signal processing circuits. By changing the designs of the substrate, quantitative detection toward different analyses can be achievable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Chin Tsai, Wen-Pin Hsieh, Kai-Cheng Chang
  • Publication number: 20090221158
    Abstract: A socket, for electrically connecting an IC package with gaps on two sides thereof and a printed circuit board, comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts received in the insulative housing and a pair of engaging clumps. The insulative housing has a bottom wall and a plurality of sidewalls upwardly extending from the bottom wall, the sidewalls and the bottom wall together define a space for the IC package, two opposed sidewall further have engaging slots. The engaging clump is received in the engaging slot, and has a post entering into the space to engaging with the gap of the IC package and a transverse arm abutting against and position the IC package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Chia-Wei Fan, Nan-Hung Lin, Fu-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090203235
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes a first insulative housing (1), a second insulative housing (2), a soldering contact (4) positioned in the second insulative housing (2) for electrically connecting with a circuit substrate and an electrical contact (3) made of wire, the electrical contact (3) comprising a first retention portion (31) positioned in the first insulative housing (1) with a contacting portion (311) extending beyond the first insulative housing (1) for electrically connecting to an electronic package, a spring portion (32) and a second retention portion (33) positioned in the second insulative housing (2) connected with the soldering contact (4), when the electrical contact (3) is pressed down by the electronic package, the spring portion (32) expanded outwardly and the electrical contact (3) only moves along up-to-down direction, thus make the contacting portion (311) engages with the electronic package with minimal wiping length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Jia-Hau Liu, Fu-Pin Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7563105
    Abstract: A contact (1) is provided for use in a land grid array (LGA) socket (300). The contact (1) of the present invention comprises a support body (12), a first contact arm (13) and a second contact arm (14) respectively extend from the same lengthwise side of the supporting body (12) through a first curved arm (131) and a second curved arm (141), a plurality of barb (111) configured in the support body (12) are adapted to securely hold the contact (1) in a hole (202) of a insulative housing. The two contact arms (13), (14) with different length are parallel one another and not aligned in the same plane for preventing contacts from undesired short caused by touching of adjoining contacts while an integrated circuit is mounted in the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Hau Liu, Fu-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090136976
    Abstract: Luminescence-based compositions for measurement of aspartate aminotranserase, alanine aminotransferase, total-bilirubin, creatinine phosphokinase, or lactate dehydrogenase, wherein the chemiluminescence-based composition comprises 0.01-100 mM of luminol, 0.001-1000 U/mL of horseradish peroxidase (HRP), 0-10% of Triton X-100, 0-100 mM PIP, and 5˜500 mM of buffer at pH 6˜9, and the luminescence-base composition measures Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), total bilirubin, or lactate dehydrogenase (LDH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Hsiao Chung Tsai, Su-Jan Lee, Tzu-I Wu, Mei-Fang Su, Wen-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090130899
    Abstract: A clip comprises two pieces of load plates. Each load plate has a pressing portion extending downwardly in a middle position thereof and two retention portions at two ends thereof, the two pieces of load plates across dispose when the load plates are secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Nan-Hung Lin, Fu-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090114608
    Abstract: A fluid analytical device is provided comprising a body, a reservoir, an inlet channel and a separation unit. The reservoir is formed on the body. The inlet channel is formed on the body connected to the reservoir. The separation unit is formed on the body connected to the inlet channel, which comprises a pile area, a collecting area and a spacer. The collecting area is located between the pile area and the reservoir. The spacer is formed between the pile area and the collecting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Tsai, Cheng-Shiu Chung, Wen-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090098753
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) for electrically connecting an electronic package with a circuit substrate comprises an insulative housing (1) and a plurality of contacts (2) insert-molded on the insulative housing (1), the insulative housing (1) comprises a bottom surface (12) and an upper surface (11) opposite to the bottom surface (12), the contact (2) comprises a retaining portion (23), a first contact portion (21) extending upwardly beyond the upper surface (11) for connecting with the electronic package and a second contact portion (22) extending downwardly beyond the bottom surface (12) for connecting with the circuit substrate, the second contact portion (22) with spire shape formed a receiving space (221). Thus, the second contact portion (22) can connect with the circuit substrate by directly or indirectly style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Nan-Hung Lin, Fu-Pin Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7503815
    Abstract: A terminal (1) for an IC socket includes a mounting end (11) adapted to be mounted onto a substrate. The mounting end includes a bottom surface (110) and a side surface (113). A recess (111), on a first region of the bottom surface, is adapted for a body of reflowable, electrically conductive material to be fused thereon. A channel (112), on a second region of said bottom surface, extends from the side surface to the recess. The providence of the channel allows the vapored flux material to be laterally dissipated through the channel, thereby having no formation of one or more voids within the mass of reflowable, electrically conductive material, during the reflowable process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Pin Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090047817
    Abstract: A contact (1) is provided for use in a land grid array (LGA) socket (300). The contact (1) of the present invention comprises a support body (12), a first contact arm (13) and a second contact arm (14) respectively extend from the same lengthwise side of the supporting body (12) through a first curved arm (131) and a second curved arm (141), a plurality of barb (111) configured in the support body (12) are adapted to securely hold the contact (1) in a hole (202) of a insulative housing. The two contact arms (13), (14) with different length are parallel one another and not aligned in the same plane for preventing contacts from undesired short caused by touching of adjoining contacts while an integrated circuit is mounted in the socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Jia-Hau Liu, Fu-Pin Hsieh