Patents by Inventor Shih-An Liang

Shih-An Liang 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).

  • Patent number: 8072094
    Abstract: An active output compensation circuit is adopted for use on a power supply which receives input power and regulates to become a plurality of different output power. The power supply has a transformer to transform the input power. The transformer has a secondary side connecting to a plurality of output regulation units to deliver the output power. The active output compensation circuit includes a voltage difference judgment unit electrically connected to the output regulation units and a plurality of compensation channel switches. The compensation channel switches bridge two output regulation units and the voltage difference judgment unit. The voltage difference judgment unit judges the voltage difference of two output power and determines whether to output an ON signal. The compensation channel switches are driven by the ON signal and set ON so that one output power can compensate another output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: FSP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Hsu Chien Lung, Ching Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 7839100
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a front-stage voltage-adjustment inverter, which comprises: a front-stage voltage-adjustment unit, a duty cycle modulation unit, a half-bridge driving unit and a transformer unit. The front-stage voltage-adjustment unit receives an input power, a dimming signal and a feedback signal. The front-stage voltage-adjustment unit varies the voltage of the input power according to the dimming signal and performs a feedback adjustment according to the feedback signal. In the present invention, the cycle signal generated by the duty cycle modulation unit does not vary with the dimming signal and feedback signal. Thus, the half-bridge driving unit can work in a zero-voltage switching state constantly and drive the transformer unit to output a driving power. Thereby, the present invention can decrease the switching loss and increase the service lives of loads and electronic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: FSP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo-Hei Lee, Ken-Chuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 7781986
    Abstract: The present invention includes a PWM unit, a switch unit, a resonance unit, a transformer, a feedback unit and a frequency control unit, wherein the switch unit obtains a DC power from a power source, the PWM unit produces a working cycle signal to drive the switch unit to convert the DC power into a pulse power and the resonance unit converts the pulse power into a driving power for providing to the transformer to convert thereof into an output power, characterized in that when the resonance unit is under a starting frequency and a working frequency higher than the starting voltage, a starting voltage gain and a working voltage gain respectively corresponding thereto are produced, wherein the starting voltage gain is larger than the working voltage gain, so that the larger starting voltage gain can produce the output power with higher voltage to smoothly initiate the lamp tube set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: FSP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo-Hei Lee, Ken-Chuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20100164281
    Abstract: An active output compensation circuit is adopted for use on a power supply which receives input power and regulates to become a plurality of different output power. The power supply has a transformer to transform the input power. The transformer has a secondary side connecting to a plurality of output regulation units to deliver the output power. The active output compensation circuit includes a voltage difference judgment unit electrically connected to the output regulation units and a plurality of compensation channel switches. The compensation channel switches bridge two output regulation units and the voltage difference judgment unit. The voltage difference judgment unit judges the voltage difference of two output power and determines whether to output an ON signal. The compensation channel switches are driven by the ON signal and set ON so that one output power can compensate another output power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Shih An LIANG, Hsu Chien Lung, Ching Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 7746006
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a protection architecture for a multi-lamp system, which applies to a multi-lamp driving system for driving a plurality of lamp loops. The present invention is characterized in that two opposite-phase loads of a loop are separately defined to be a first load and a second load, and that a voltage-division/detection loop is formed via cascading a first voltage-division element to a second voltage-division element and is coupled to between the first load and the second load to detect an abnormal current, wherein the second voltage-division element is coupled to a ground terminal, and wherein a signal-acquiring terminal is coupled to between the first voltage-division element and the second voltage-division element and acquires an abnormal voltage signal for a protection unit from the abnormal current, and wherein the protection unit detects the abnormal voltage signal and shuts off the driving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: FSP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo Hei Lee, Ken Chuan Hsu, Chien Chih Cher
  • Publication number: 20090195172
    Abstract: The present invention includes a PWM unit, a switch unit, a resonance unit, a transformer, a feedback unit and a frequency control unit, wherein the switch unit obtains a DC power from a power source, the PWM unit produces a working cycle signal to drive the switch unit to convert the DC power into a pulse power and the resonance unit converts the pulse power into a driving power for providing to the transformer to convert thereof into an output power, characterized in that when the resonance unit is under a starting frequency and a working frequency higher than the starting voltage, a starting voltage gain and a working voltage gain respectively corresponding thereto are produced, wherein the starting voltage gain is larger than the working voltage gain, so that the larger starting voltage gain can produce the output power with higher voltage to smoothly initiate the lamp tube set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Shih An LIANG, Kuo-Hei Lee, Ken-Chuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20090167199
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a front-stage voltage-adjustment inverter, which comprises: a front-stage voltage-adjustment unit, a duty cycle modulation unit, a half-bridge driving unit and a transformer unit. The front-stage voltage-adjustment unit receives an input power, a dimming signal and a feedback signal. The front-stage voltage-adjustment unit varies the voltage of the input power according to the dimming signal and performs a feedback adjustment according to the feedback signal. In the present invention, the cycle signal generated by the duty cycle modulation unit does not vary with the dimming signal and feedback signal. Thus, the half-bridge driving unit can work in a zero-voltage switching state constantly and drive the transformer unit to output a driving power. Thereby, the present invention can decrease the switching loss and increase the service lives of loads and electronic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo-Hei Lee, Ken-Chuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20090102392
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a protection architecture for a multi-lamp system, which applies to a multi-lamp driving system for driving a plurality of lamp loops. The present invention is characterized in that two opposite-phase loads of a loop are separately defined to be a first load and a second load, and that a voltage-division/detection loop is formed via cascading a first voltage-division element to a second voltage-division element and is coupled to between the first load and the second load to detect an abnormal current, wherein the second voltage-division element is coupled to a ground terminal, and wherein a signal-acquiring terminal is coupled to between the first voltage-division element and the second voltage-division element and acquires an abnormal voltage signal for a protection unit from the abnormal current, and wherein the protection unit detects the abnormal voltage signal and shuts off the driving system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Shih An Liang, Kuo Hei Lee, Ken Chuan Hsu, Chien Chih Cher
  • Publication number: 20080112195
    Abstract: A transforming circuit for power supplier includes a primary winding coil; a secondary winding coil and a secondary rectifier circuit, an AC power being transformed by the secondary winding coil in accordance with a winding turns ratio relative to the primary winding coil and converted by the secondary rectifier circuit into a first-potential DC power; N+1 sets of potential modifying circuits, connected in parallel with the first-potential DC power, each set of potential modifying circuits being based on the first-potential DC power and transformed thereof into N+1 sets of second-potential DC power at differential potential, N?1. Thereby, DC power at different potentials can be provides so that the power output can be more flexible and effective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Shih-An Liang, Ching-Wen Huang, Mao-Sheng Chaio
  • Patent number: 7268658
    Abstract: A transformer having a leakage inductance control structure includes a primary coil, a secondary coil formed at a selected coil ratio relative to the primary coil to transform voltage and output electric power, and a leakage inductance control coil which is wound on the secondary coil in an insulation manner according to a selected coupling efficiency and electrically connected to the primary coil. Through electromagnetic coupling of the leakage inductance control coil and the secondary coil a power control signal is output and sent to the primary coil to control leakage inductance of the primary coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: SPI Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-An Liang, Chia-Jung Tang, Chih-Ming Hu, Ching-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: D559777
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: SPI Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Ming Hu, Sheng-Hsu Ho, Ching-Wen Huang, Shih-An Liang