Patents by Inventor Richard Tan
Richard Tan 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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Patent number: 10959298Abstract: One example includes a light-emitting diode (LED) system. The LED system includes an LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated via an LED current provided therethrough to provide illumination. The system also includes an LED controller configured to sequentially activate the plurality of LEDs via at least one LED driver system configured to selectively provide the LED current through each sequential one of the plurality of LEDs in an activated state in response to an activation signal. The at least one LED driver system includes a voltage clamp configured to maintain a substantial constant amplitude difference of a driver voltage associated with the LED current from the activated state to a deactivated state.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Makalo Xie, Feifei Shen, Richard Tan, Alex Ruan
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Publication number: 20200092963Abstract: One example includes a light-emitting diode (LED) system. The LED system includes an LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated via an LED current provided therethrough to provide illumination. The system also includes an LED controller configured to sequentially activate the plurality of LEDs via at least one LED driver system configured to selectively provide the LED current through each sequential one of the plurality of LEDs in an activated state in response to an activation signal. The at least one LED driver system includes a voltage clamp configured to maintain a substantial constant amplitude difference of a driver voltage associated with the LED current from the activated state to a deactivated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Makalo Xie, Feifei Shen, Richard Tan, Alex Ruan
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Patent number: 10524321Abstract: One example includes a light-emitting diode (LED) system. The LED system includes an LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated via an LED current provided therethrough to provide illumination. The system also includes an LED controller configured to sequentially activate the plurality of LEDs via at least one LED driver system configured to selectively provide the LED current through each sequential one of the plurality of LEDs in an activated state in response to an activation signal. The at least one LED driver system includes a voltage clamp configured to maintain a substantial constant amplitude difference of a driver voltage associated with the LED current from the activated state to a deactivated state.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Makalo Xie, FeiFei Shen, Richard Tan, Alex Ruan
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Publication number: 20180302966Abstract: One example includes a light-emitting diode (LED) system. The LED system includes an LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated via an LED current provided therethrough to provide illumination. The system also includes an LED controller configured to sequentially activate the plurality of LEDs via at least one LED driver system configured to selectively provide the LED current through each sequential one of the plurality of LEDs in an activated state in response to an activation signal. The at least one LED driver system includes a voltage clamp configured to maintain a substantial constant amplitude difference of a driver voltage associated with the LED current from the activated state to a deactivated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Makalo Xie, FeiFei Shen, Richard Tan, Alex Ruan
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Patent number: 9949327Abstract: One example includes a light-emitting diode (LED) system. The LED system includes an LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated via an LED current provided therethrough to provide illumination. The system also includes an LED controller configured to sequentially activate the plurality of LEDs via at least one LED driver system configured to selectively provide the LED current through each sequential one of the plurality of LEDs in an activated state in response to an activation signal. The at least one LED driver system includes a voltage clamp configured to maintain a substantial constant amplitude difference of a driver voltage associated with the LED current from the activated state to a deactivated state.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Makalo Xie, Feifei Shen, Richard Tan, Alex Ruan
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Publication number: 20160360584Abstract: One example includes a light-emitting diode (LED) system. The LED system includes an LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated via an LED current provided therethrough to provide illumination. The system also includes an LED controller configured to sequentially activate the plurality of LEDs via at least one LED driver system configured to selectively provide the LED current through each sequential one of the plurality of LEDs in an activated state in response to an activation signal. The at least one LED driver system includes a voltage clamp configured to maintain a substantial constant amplitude difference of a driver voltage associated with the LED current from the activated state to a deactivated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: MAKALO XIE, FEIFEI SHEN, RICHARD TAN, ALEX RUAN
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Patent number: 8985684Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single arm adjustment mechanism for supporting an object, the single arm adjustment mechanism comprising: a support arm; an upper adjustment assembly coupled to an upper end of said support arm, said upper adjustment assembly capable of being coupled to said object such that said object pivots about a first axis; and a lower adjustment assembly capable of being fixed to a support and pivotally coupled to a lower end of said support arm such that said support arm pivots about a second axis parallel to said first axis in order to maintain said object in a desired angular orientation with respect to said support.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Singapore Technologies Aerospace LtdInventors: Guoying Zheng, Soo Siong Richard Tan, Kuan Sheng Tan
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Publication number: 20140312669Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single arm adjustment mechanism for supporting an object, the single arm adjustment mechanism comprising: a support arm; an upper adjustment assembly coupled to an upper end of said support arm, said upper adjustment assembly capable of being coupled to said object such that said object pivots about a first axis; and a lower adjustment assembly capable of being fixed to a support and pivotally coupled to a lower end of said support arm such that said support arm pivots about a second axis parallel to said first axis in order to maintain said object in a desired angular orientation with respect to said support.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES AEROSPACE LTDInventors: Guoying Zheng, Soo Siong Richard Tan, Kuan Sheng Tan
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Patent number: 5069147Abstract: A touring system is provided on a waste processing plant which includes a number of processing stations, including reception, sorting, mixing na pumping, fermentation, pressing, and refining. A housing is provided on each station. A passage is connected between every two adjacent housings. A transparent dome is provided in each housing so that people in the housing may observe a processing or a treatment of the waste without feel disgust and may realize how the waste is reusable.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1990Date of Patent: December 3, 1991Inventors: Palatan L. J. Tan, David Tan, Richard Tan
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Patent number: 3979559Abstract: Modems having line verification circuitry for automatically advising that a direct distance dialed network has been connected between the communicating modems with the echo suppressors in the network disabled, is disclosed. The line verification circuitry is either identical for all modems or may be master/slave equipment. The line verification circuitry includes a first tone generator for emitting a unique tone for disablingthe echo suppressors in the telephone line. A communicating modem, upon receiving this unique tone activates a second tone generator that emits a different second tone which is not capable of disabling the echo suppressors but is capable of transmission through the telephone line when the echo suppressors are disabled. (63)disabling the at both modems respond to the first and second tones for automatically verifying the existence of the desired communication link.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1975Date of Patent: September 7, 1976Assignee: Milgo Electronics CorporationInventors: Charles William Roedel, Richard Borysiewicz, Richard Tan So, Larry Wayne Swan