Patents by Inventor Shih-Chi Chen

Shih-Chi Chen 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: 20250044740
    Abstract: Disclosed is a closed-loop wavefront shaping system, including: a parallel computing module; a task planning module; and a memory management module; wherein the system is implemented on: at least one computing device for generating digital holograms; at least one displaying device for displaying the digital holograms to control an incoming coherent light beam; and at least one sensor for detecting feedback signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Chi CHEN, Yintao WANG, Bingxu CHEN
  • Patent number: 12218227
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes substrate, semiconductor layers, source/drain features, metal oxide layers, and a gate structure. The semiconductor layers extend in an X-direction and over the substrate. The semiconductor layers are spaced apart from each other in a Z-direction. The source/drain features are on opposite sides of the semiconductor layers in the X-direction. The metal oxide layers cover bottom surfaces of the semiconductor layers. The gate structure wraps around the semiconductor layers and the metal oxide layers. The metal oxide layers are in contact with the gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chia-Hung Chou, Chih-Hsuan Chen, Ping-En Cheng, Hsin-Wen Su, Chien-Chih Lin, Szu-Chi Yang
  • Publication number: 20250034363
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sizing agent composition, a sizing agent, a carbon fiber covered with the sizing agent, and a composite material. The sizing agent composition includes a polyamic acid and an alkali agent. The alkali agent has a specific molecular weight, and there is a specific molar ratio between the polyamic acid and the alkali agent, such that emulsification stability of the polyamic acid and thermal stability of a sizing layer consisting of the sizing agent are enhanced, thereby increasing interlayer bonding strength in the composite material that is made by the carbon fiber covered with the sizing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Hsuan-Yin CHEN, Long-Tyan HWANG, Chien-Hsin WU, Ying-Chi HUANG, Chien-Jung WANG, Shih-Huang TUNG, Ru-Jong JENG
  • Patent number: 12208569
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for performing an additive manufacturing operation to form a structure by processing a photopolymer resist material. A laser beam is directed at a tunable mask. At least one emergent beam is collected from a plurality of emergent beams emerging from the tunable mask. The at least one emergent beam is collimated to create a collimated beam. Each emergent beam from the tunable mask has a plurality of beam lets of varying or identical intensity, and each beam let emerges from a unique subsection or region of the tunable mask. The collimated beam is focused into a laser beam which is projected as an image plane onto or within the photopolymer resist material, such that the same optical path length is created between the tunable mask and the focused image plane for all optical frequencies of the focused laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Sourabh Kumar Saha, Robert Matthew Panas, Shih-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 12210296
    Abstract: In a method of cleaning a lithography system, during idle mode, a stream of air is directed, through a first opening, into a chamber of a wafer table of an EUV lithography system. One or more particles is extracted by the directed stream of air from surfaces of one or more wafer chucks in the chamber of the wafer table. The stream of air and the extracted one or more particle are drawn, through a second opening, out of the chamber of the wafer table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Yu Tu, Shao-Hua Wang, Yen-Hao Liu, Chueh-Chi Kuo, Li-Jui Chen, Heng-Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 12205509
    Abstract: A method for outputting a grayscale data, a driving controller, and a display apparatus are provided. The method includes: in response to receiving a first input grayscale data which is not greater than a first threshold, generating a first output grayscale data without performing a dither computing on the first input grayscale data and outputting the first output grayscale data; in response to receiving a second input grayscale data which is greater than a second threshold, generating a first dithered grayscale data by performing a first dither computing on the second input grayscale data and outputting the first dithered grayscale data as a second output grayscale data. The second threshold is greater than the first threshold, and the second output grayscale data does not comprise any part of the second input grayscale data not processed by the first dither computing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Chi Yeh, Shih-Hsuan Chen, Chun-Ping Niou
  • Publication number: 20240249771
    Abstract: In this application, a 2D or 3D optical storage and a physical encryption method with ultrahigh storage density are presented. Designed information patterns can be written in an expanded hydrogel via laser patterning, followed by volume shrinkage and dehydration of the hydrogel to achieve physical encryption, ultrahigh storage density, and long-term storage. For decryption, the dehydrated gel is re-expanded, and then immersed in a solution of fluorescent materials to retrieve the stored information via an imaging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shih-Chi CHEN, Fei HAN, Songyun GU
  • Patent number: 11884009
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method or a platform for hydrogel-based 3D fabrication, wherein the hydrogel is patterned with a programmable femtosecond light sheet with a power density of 0.1 to 100 TW/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, Songyun Gu, Fei Han, Yongxin Zhao, Aleksandra Klimas
  • Patent number: 11768130
    Abstract: A microtome comprises a support assembly; an actuator, mounted to the support assembly; a pair of oscillating flexure assemblies, held by the support assembly and each of which being located on one side of the actuator and oscillated by the actuator; and a blade assembly, mounted to each of the oscillating flexure assemblies so as to move in a direction same as the oscillating flexure assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, Xinlei Fu, Dapeng Zhang, Jialong Chen
  • Patent number: 11718462
    Abstract: The present invention provides a loading box, which includes a box body, a first groove set, and a first positioning member. The box body includes a base and a side wall protruding from the base along a plurality of sides of the base. The first groove set has a plurality of first grooves, and is disposed on the base along a first side. The first positioning member is arranged corresponding to the first groove set, and includes: a first baffle, detachably inserted into one of the first grooves in the first groove set; and a first supporting arm and a second supporting arm, respectively connected to the first baffle and protruding from the first baffle toward the side wall. One ends of the first supporting arm and the second supporting arm of the first positioning member away from the first baffle are detachably connected to the box body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Chueh Ho, Shih-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 11650550
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a control system, a control method and a storage medium are provided. In the method, first motion information of a machine acquired by a first sensor is received; the first motion information is inputted into a deep learning model to obtain a model output, the deep learning model comprising a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a long short-term memory (LSTM); the deep learning model is trained using the first motion information and second motion information acquired by a second sensor; the first sensor and the second sensor having different ways of detecting information and processing the detected information. The model output is used to control the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, XiangBo Liu, Chenglin Li, Xiaogang Wang, Hongsheng Li
  • Publication number: 20220324632
    Abstract: The present invention provides a loading box, which includes a box body, a first groove set, and a first positioning member. The box body includes a base and a side wall protruding from the base along a plurality of sides of the base. The first groove set has a plurality of first grooves, and is disposed on the base along a first side. The first positioning member is arranged corresponding to the first groove set, and includes: a first baffle, detachably inserted into one of the first grooves in the first groove set; and a first supporting arm and a second supporting arm, respectively connected to the first baffle and protruding from the first baffle toward the side wall. One ends of the first supporting arm and the second supporting arm of the first positioning member away from the first baffle are detachably connected to the box body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: CHIH-CHUEH HO, SHIH-CHI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220152924
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method or a platform for hydrogel-based 3D fabrication, wherein the hydrogel is patterned with a programmable femtosecond light sheet with a power density of 0.1 to 100 TW/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, Songyun Gu, Fei Han, Yongxin Zhao, Aleksandra Klimas
  • Patent number: 11312067
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for performing an additive manufacturing operation to form a structure by processing a photopolymer resist material. The apparatus may incorporate a laser for generating a laser beam, and a tunable mask for receiving the laser beam which has an optically dispersive element. The mask splits the laser beam into a plurality of emergent beams each having a subplurality of beamlets of varying or identical intensity, with each beamlet emerging from a unique subsection of illuminated regions of the mask. A collimator collimates at least one of the emergent beams to form a collimated beam. One or more focusing elements focuses the collimated beam into a focused beam which is projected as a focused image plane on or within the resist material. The focused beam simultaneously illuminates a layer of the resist material to process an entire layer in a parallel fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Sourabh Kumar Saha, Robert Matthew Panas, Shih-Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20220120641
    Abstract: A microtome comprises a support assembly; an actuator, mounted to the support assembly; a pair of oscillating flexure assemblies, held by the support assembly and each of which being located on one side of the actuator and oscillated by the actuator; and a blade assembly, mounted to each of the oscillating flexure assemblies so as to move in a direction same as the oscillating flexure assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, Xinlei Fu, Dapeng Zhang, Jialong Chen
  • Patent number: 11209329
    Abstract: A liquid encapsulation device for embedding sensor is provided. The liquid encapsulation device comprises a substrate having an upper surface with a central concave portion; at least one protection layer sealed on the upper surface of the substrate; and at least one sensor fixed on the protection layer. Wherein, the central concave portion is filled with liquid and the sensor is arranged above the central concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, Xiangyu Fan, Ni Zhao, Yan Huang, Ningqi Luo
  • Patent number: 11150484
    Abstract: A laser-based manufacturing system is disclosed for fabricating non-planar three-dimensional layers. The system may have a laser for producing a laser beam with a plurality of optical wavelengths. An optically dispersive element may be used for receiving the laser beam and splitting the beam into a plurality of distinct beam components, wherein each beam component has spatially separated optical spectral components. A phase mask may be used which is configured to receive at least one of the beam components emerging from the dispersive element and to create a modified beam. One or more focusing elements may then be used to receive the modified beam emerging from the phase mask and to focus the modified beam into a non-planar light sheet for use in fabricating a part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Sourabh Saha, Shih-Chi Chen, Yina Chang
  • Patent number: 11094665
    Abstract: A chip package structure, comprises a first chip having a plurality of first chip joints at a lower side thereof; a circuit board below the first chip; an upper side of the circuit board being arranged with a plurality of circuit board joints; in packaging, the first chip joints being combined with the circuit board joints of the circuit board so that the first chip is combined to the circuit board by a way of ACF combination or convex joint combination; and wherein in the ACF combination, ACFs are used as welding points to be combined to the pads at another end so that the chip is combined to the circuit board; and wherein in the convex pad combination, a convex pad is combined with a flat pad by chemically methods or physical methods; and these pads are arranged on the circuit board and the first chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventor: Shih-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 10910336
    Abstract: A chip package structure, comprises a first chip having a plurality of first chip joints at a lower side thereof; a circuit board below the first chip; an upper side of the circuit board being arranged with a plurality of circuit board joints; in packaging, the first chip joints being combined with the circuit board joints of the circuit board so that the first chip is combined to the circuit board by a way of ACF combination or convex joint combination; and wherein in the ACF combination, ACFs are used as welding points to be combined to the pads at another end so that the chip is combined to the circuit board; and wherein in the convex pad combination, a convex pad is combined with a flat pad by chemically methods or physical methods; and these pads are arranged on the circuit board and the first chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: Shih-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 10909701
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method, a data acquisition and image processing system and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for obtaining a super-resolved image of an object. The method comprises: obtaining a plurality of structured images of the object by structured light; determining, from the structured images, modulation information of each structured light that comprises spatial frequency, phase shift and modulation factor; initializing a sample image of the object according the structured images and initializing structured pattern of each structured light by the corresponding modulation information; and restoring the image with improved resolution by adjusting the sample image and the structured pattern iteratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Shih-Chi Chen, Yunlong Meng, Jialong Chen