Patents by Inventor Ren-Yuan Yu

Ren-Yuan Yu 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: 20230404346
    Abstract: A device for conducting motor recognition and protection is disclosed. The device comprises a current detection circuit and a microprocessor, of which the current detection circuit is used for detecting an operation current from a roller brush driving motor that is integrated in a suction head of a vacuum cleaner. Moreover, the microprocessor is configured for determining a product model of the roller brush driving motor based on the operation current, deciding a protection parameter set according to the product model, and conducting a motor protection for the roller brush driving motor after loading at least one motor protection parameter contained by the protection parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: CHIA-CHANG HSU, REN-YUAN YU
  • Patent number: 11825009
    Abstract: An in-vehicle entertainment system having functionality of operation interface switchable is disclosed. The system comprises an in-vehicle host electronic device and a hub having a host-to-host transmission function. After at least two mobile electronic devices are coupled to the hub, the in-vehicle host electronic device firstly prioritizes a communication order between the two mobile electronic devices, and then lets a display unit show an operation interface (like CarPlay operation interface) corresponding to the mobile electronic device that is prioritized with a first ranked communication order. Moreover, in case of a peripheral electronic device being coupled to the hub as well as the display unit being showing the operation interface, the in-vehicle host electronic device is allowed to access a peripheral electronic device through the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hsing-Yun Hsieh, Ting-Ta Chien, Ren-Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20220303385
    Abstract: An in-vehicle entertainment system having functionality of operation interface switchable is disclosed. The system comprises an in-vehicle host electronic device and a hub having a host-to-host transmission function. After at least two mobile electronic devices are coupled to the hub, the in-vehicle host electronic device firstly prioritizes a communication order between the two mobile electronic devices, and then lets a display unit show an operation interface (like CarPlay operation interface) corresponding to the mobile electronic device that is prioritized with a first ranked communication order. Moreover, in case of a peripheral electronic device being coupled to the hub as well as the display unit being showing the operation interface, the in-vehicle host electronic device is allowed to access a peripheral electronic device through the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hsing-Yun Hsieh, Ting-Ta Chien, Ren-Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20220272189
    Abstract: A system for achieving display of CarPlay operation interface on display screens of multiple electronic devices is disclosed. The system comprises a first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the first electronic device has functionality of Apple CarPlay because of including an Apple Mfi authentication chip. Particularly, a CarPlay executor comprising a principal execution unit and a plurality of sub-execution units is provided in the first electronic device. As such, after a second mobile electronic device is in communication with a second electronic device that is coupled to the first electronic device, one sub-execution unit is authorized by the Apple Mfi authentication chip so as to let a CarPlay operation interface be shown on a display screen of the second electronic device, thereby achieving display of CarPlay operation interface on display screens of multiple electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ting-Ta CHIEN, Hsing-Yun HSIEH, Ren-Yuan YU
  • Patent number: 11221605
    Abstract: An intelligent fan control system with interface compatibility is provided. The intelligent fan control system can identify and control fans one-to-one connected to fan slots, and each fan slot includes four pins. The intelligent fan control system includes a bus; an I2C signal switching unit including SDA outputs one-to-one connected to third pin of the fan slots via the bus; an I2C signal switching unit including SCL outputs one-to-one connected to fourth pins of the fan slots via the bus; voltage control units one-to-one corresponding to the fan slots, and having output terminals one-to-one connected to second pins of the fan slots; connection line sets, and each connection line set including four connection lines and connected to the corresponding fan slot; a control board comprising port sets, and can control and switch the I2C signal switching unit to the fan slots in sequence, to transmit the corresponding I2C signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chia Chang Hsu, Chih Feng Huang, Ching-Te Chen, Ren-Yuan Yu
  • Patent number: 11118591
    Abstract: An intelligent fan with interface compatibility is provided. The intelligent fan includes a fan body having a fan and a motor, a driving circuit, a tachometer, an output connector including a first pin, a second pin, a third pin and a fourth pin connected to a fan connector of a motherboard, and a microcontroller connected to the driving circuit and the tachometer, and connected to the motherboard via the first, second, third and fourth pins. When the intelligent fan is powered on, the microcontroller sets the third and fourth pins as input pins for receiving an output signal of the fan connector of the motherboard, and the microcontroller performs an I2C signal analysis on the output signal. When the I2C signal analysis succeeds, the intelligent fan is set in an I2C mode, and when the I2C signal analysis fails, the intelligent fan is set in a PWM mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chia Chang Hsu, Chih Feng Huang, Ching Te Chen, Ren Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20200264575
    Abstract: An intelligent fan control system with interface compatibility is provided. The intelligent fan control system can identify and control fans one-to-one connected to fan slots, and each fan slot includes four pins. The intelligent fan control system includes a bus; an I2C signal switching unit including SDA outputs one-to-one connected to third pin of the fan slots via the bus; an I2C signal switching unit including SCL outputs one-to-one connected to fourth pins of the fan slots via the bus; voltage control units one-to-one corresponding to the fan slots, and having output terminals one-to-one connected to second pins of the fan slots; connection line sets, and each connection line set including four connection lines and connected to the corresponding fan slot; a control board comprising port sets, and can control and switch the I2C signal switching unit to the fan slots in sequence, to transmit the corresponding I2C signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chia Chang HSU, Chih Feng HUANG, Ching-Te CHEN, Ren-Yuan YU
  • Publication number: 20200263696
    Abstract: An intelligent fan with interface compatibility is provided. The intelligent fan includes a fan body having a fan and a motor, a driving circuit, a tachometer, an output connector including a first pin, a second pin, a third pin and a fourth pin connected to a fan connector of a motherboard, and a microcontroller connected to the driving circuit and the tachometer, and connected to the motherboard via the first, second, third and fourth pins. When the intelligent fan is powered on, the microcontroller sets the third and fourth pins as input pins for receiving an output signal of the fan connector of the motherboard, and the microcontroller performs an I2C signal analysis on the output signal. When the I2C signal analysis succeeds, the intelligent fan is set in an I2C mode, and when the I2C signal analysis fails, the intelligent fan is set in a PWM mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chia Chang HSU, Chih Feng HUANG, Ching-Te CHEN, Ren-Yuan YU
  • Patent number: 10502790
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a battery internal resistance measuring device and a method thereof, wherein the battery internal resistance measuring device comprises a voltage detecting unit, at least one measurement resistor, at least one switch, and a measurement controller. By means of further explanation, the measurement controller at least comprises a differential value calculating unit for treating a differential value calculation or a slope calculation to each two of adjacent voltage sampling values on a waveform of a discharge voltage signal of the battery, such that the measurement controller can subsequently find out a discharge starting point and a discharge ending point according to data of the differential value calculations or the slope calculations. Eventually, the measurement controller calculates an internal resistance of the battery after picking up an open-circuit voltage and a short-circuit voltage from the discharge starting point and the discharge ending point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Prolific Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Kuo Lee, Chia-Chang Hsu, Ren-Yuan Yu, Ching-Te Chen
  • Patent number: 10082543
    Abstract: In view of drivers cannot equip their vehicles with conventional intelligent battery monitoring system by themselves because the wire connections of the intelligent battery monitoring system are complex, the present invention particularly discloses a non-contact intelligent battery sensing system showing the advantages of simple circuit framework and low manufacturing cost. Since the non-contact intelligent battery sensing system only comprises a magnetic field sensor and a sensor controlling module, it is very easy for the drivers to equip their vehicles with this non-contact intelligent battery sensing system by themselves. To apply the non-contact intelligent battery sensing system, the driver just needs to firstly dispose the magnetic field sensor at one position near to a power line of a battery to be sensed, and then install a sensor controlling application program in his smart phones. Apparently, the non-contact intelligent battery sensing system further shows the advantage of easy to be installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Prolific Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Kuo Lee, Chia-Chang Hsu, Ren-Yuan Yu, Ching-Te Chen, Ke-Ciang Shen
  • Publication number: 20180203075
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a battery internal resistance measuring device and a method thereof, wherein the battery internal resistance measuring device comprises a voltage detecting unit, at least one measurement resistor, at least one switch, and a measurement controller. By means of further explanation, the measurement controller at least comprises a differential value calculating unit for treating a differential value calculation or a slope calculation to each two of adjacent voltage sampling values on a waveform of a discharge voltage signal of the battery, such that the measurement controller can subsequently find out a discharge starting point and a discharge ending point according to data of the differential value calculations or the slope calculations. Eventually, the measurement controller calculates an internal resistance of the battery after picking up an open-circuit voltage and a short-circuit voltage from the discharge starting point and the discharge ending point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: YUN-KUO LEE, CHIA-CHANG HSU, REN-YUAN YU, CHING-TE CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180180679
    Abstract: In view of drivers cannot equip their vehicles with conventional intelligent battery monitoring system by themselves because the wire connections of the intelligent battery monitoring system are complex, the present invention particularly discloses a non-contact intelligent battery sensing system showing the advantages of simple circuit framework and low manufacturing cost. Since the non-contact intelligent battery sensing system only comprises a magnetic field sensor and a sensor controlling module, it is very easy for the drivers to equip their vehicles with this non-contact intelligent battery sensing system by themselves. To apply the non-contact intelligent battery sensing system, the driver just needs to firstly dispose the magnetic field sensor at one position near to a power line of a battery to be sensed, and then install a sensor controlling application program in his smart phones. Apparently, the non-contact intelligent battery sensing system further shows the advantage of easy to be installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: YUN-KUO LEE, CHIA-CHANG HSU, REN-YUAN YU, CHING-TE CHEN, KE-CIANG SHEN
  • Patent number: 8797262
    Abstract: An accelerometer and a gyroscope are disposed in a device. When the device rotates in a 3D space, angle of the device relative to gravity is calculated, movement of the device relative to gravity is calculated during the rotation process, and a real trace of the device is obtained in the 3D space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Prolific Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Kui-Chang Tseng, Yi-Hsun Hsieh, Ren-Yuan Yu, Hao-Chieh Yeh
  • Patent number: 8269624
    Abstract: A positioning apparatus is disclosed, which comprises: a position detection module, including an inertial sensor, a magnetometer, and a global positioning device, being used for detection a movement of an object and thus generating a positioning signal accordingly; wherein the positioning signal is transmitted to a control unit and then to a signal processing device where it is being processed and converted into an angular/displacement signal to be transmitted to a monitoring device by way of a signal transmission device for enabling the monitoring device to track the movement of the object. In a preferred embodiment, both of the monitoring device and the signal transmission device are respectively being configured with a displaying unit for displaying the movement of the object. In addition, the positioning apparatus further comprises an identity module, for providing a unique identification code to the object to be used for identifying the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yung-Yu Chen, Shyang-Jye Chang, Sheng-Chih Shen, Ren-Yuan Yu, Shih-Hao Wang
  • Publication number: 20110181505
    Abstract: An accelerometer and a gyroscope are disposed in a device. When the device rotates in a 3D space, angle of the device relative to gravity is calculated, movement of the device relative to gravity is calculated during the rotation process, and a real trace of the device is obtained in the 3D space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Kui-Chang Tseng, Yi-Hsun Hsieh, Ren-Yuan Yu, Hao-Chieh Yeh
  • Patent number: 7825898
    Abstract: An inertial sensing input apparatus is disclosed in the invention, comprising: a housing; a first inertial part, coupled to a circuit substrate received in the housing, for detecting a motion measured with respect to a second axis and a third axis of a space and also for detecting a motion measured along a first axis of a plane; a second inertial part, coupled to the circuit substrate, for detecting a motion measured with respect to a first axis of the space and also for optionally detecting a motion measured along a second axis of the plane; and a micro-controller, coupled to the circuit substrate, capable of converting electrical signals received from the first and the second inertial parts into a displacement signal while transmitting the displacement signal to an electronic display device by a means of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ming-Jye Tsai, Shun-Nan Liou, Ren-Yuan Yu, Chin-Lin Hsieh, Shyang-Jye Chang, Hsiang-Yu Huang
  • Patent number: 7821494
    Abstract: An inertial mouse is disclosed in the invention, comprising: a housing; a first inertial part, coupled to a circuit substrate received in the housing, for detecting a motion measured with respect to a second axis and a third axis of a space and also for detecting a motion measured along a first axis of a plane; a second inertial part, coupled to the circuit substrate, for detecting a motion measured with respect to a first axis of the space and also for optionally detecting a motion measured along a second axis of the plane; and a micro-controller, coupled to the circuit substrate, capable of converting electrical signals received from the first and the second inertial parts or cells into a displacement signal while transmitting the displacement signal to an electronic display device by a means of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ming-Jye Tsai, Shun-Nan Liou, Ren-Yuan Yu, Chin-Lin Hsieh, Shyang-Jye Chang, Hsiang-Yu Huang
  • Publication number: 20080158052
    Abstract: A positioning apparatus is disclosed, which comprises: a position detection module, including an inertial sensor, a magnetometer, and a global positioning device, being used for detection a movement of an object and thus generating a positioning signal accordingly; wherein the positioning signal is transmitted to a control unit and then to a signal processing device where it is being processed and converted into an angular/displacement signal to be transmitted to a monitoring device by way of a signal transmission device for enabling the monitoring device to track the movement of the object. In a preferred embodiment, both of the monitoring device and the signal transmission device are respectively being configured with a displaying unit for displaying the movement of the object. In addition, the positioning apparatus further comprises an identity module, for providing a unique identification code to the object to be used for identifying the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Yung-Yu Chen, Shyang-Jye Chang, Sheng-Chih Shen, Ren-Yuan Yu, Shih-Hao Wang
  • Publication number: 20080154457
    Abstract: A position detecting system and a method of the same are disclosed according to the present invention as follows: an inertia sensing module and an obstacle sensing module are adapted to detect a displacement signal of a cleansing apparatus and a distance signal of a distance between the cleansing apparatus and an obstacle respectively; and then a signal processing module is adapted to convert the displacement signal and the distance signal into an actual displacement path and an obstacle distance respectively, and then compare the actual displacement path and the obstacle distance with a preset path respectively to determine if the cleansing apparatus is traveling at the same place over again, or if the cleansing apparatus is going to hit the obstacle, and then the signal processing module will adjust a traveling path based on comparison results; and a control module is adapted to control traveling of the cleansing apparatus based on the adjusted traveling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Ren-Yuan Yu, Yung-Yu Chen, Shyang-Jye Chang, Shih-Hao Wang, Ming-Jye Tsai
  • Publication number: 20060256085
    Abstract: An inertial mouse is disclosed in the invention, comprising: a housing; a first inertial part, coupled to a circuit substrate received in the housing, for detecting a motion measured with respect to a second axis and a third axis of a space and also for detecting a motion measured along a first axis of a plane; a second inertial part, coupled to the circuit substrate, for detecting a motion measured with respect to a first axis of the space and also for optionally detecting a motion measured along a second axis of the plane; and a micro-controller, coupled to the circuit substrate, capable of converting electrical signals received from the first and the second inertial parts or cells into a displacement signal while transmitting the displacement signal to an electronic display device by a means of transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Ming-Jye Tsai, Shun-Nan Liou, Ren-Yuan Yu, Chin-Lin Hsieh, Shyang-Jye Chang, Hsiang-Yu Huang