Patents by Inventor Tsung-Yi Huang

Tsung-Yi Huang 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: 11946733
    Abstract: An image rendering device and an image rendering method are disclosed. For the elements of the image rendering device, a first sensor and a second sensor are configured to sense a target object in a two-dimensional (2D) mode and three-dimensional (3D) mode to generate a first surface-color-signal, a first 3D-depth-signal, a second surface-color-signal and a second 3D-depth-signal respectively. An IR projector is configured to generate an IR-dot-pattern. A processor is configured to control the IR projector to project the IR-dot-pattern on the target object in the 3D mode, and configured to process the first surface-color-signal, the second surface-color-signal, the first 3D-depth-signal and the second 3D-depth-signal to obtain a color 3D model of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: EYS3D MICROELECTRONICS CO.
    Inventors: Kuan-Cheng Chung, Tsung-Yi Huang, Shi-Fan Chang
  • Patent number: 11855200
    Abstract: High-voltage semiconductor devices are disclosed, each having gate, source and drain electrodes. A deep well layer is formed on a substrate and has a surface, where the substrate and the deep well layer are of first-type and second-type conductivities, respectively. A field isolation layer on the surface isolates a drain active region from a source active region. The source electrode contacts the source active region on the surface to form an ohmic contact. The drain electrode contacts the drain active region on the surface. A first well layer of the first-type conductivity is formed on the surface and between the ohmic contact and the drain active region, and at least a portion of the first well layer is under the field isolation layer. A bottom layer of the first-type conductivity is formed at a bottom of the deep well layer. The gate electrode is on the field isolation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LEADTREND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Deng-Sheng Huang
  • Patent number: 11658249
    Abstract: A high-voltage semiconductor device integrates a MOS transistor with a Schottky barrier diode. The MOS transistor has a semiconductor substrate of a first conduction type, a well of a second conduction, a body of the first conduction type, and a doped source of the second type. A control gate formed above the body controls electric connection between the doped source and the well. The Schottky barrier diode has a metal, functioning to be an anode of the Schottky barrier diode and contacting the well to form a Schottky barrier junction therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LEADTREND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Chun-Ming Hsu, Chiung-Fu Huang
  • Publication number: 20220231165
    Abstract: High-voltage semiconductor devices are disclosed, each having gate, source and drain electrodes. A deep well layer is formed on a substrate and has a surface, where the substrate and the deep well layer are of first-type and second-type conductivities, respectively. A field isolation layer on the surface isolates a drain active region from a source active region. The source electrode contacts the source active region on the surface to form an ohmic contact. The drain electrode contacts the drain active region on the surface. A first well layer of the first-type conductivity is formed on the surface and between the ohmic contact and the drain active region, and at least a portion of the first well layer is under the field isolation layer. A bottom layer of the first-type conductivity is formed at a bottom of the deep well layer. The gate electrode is on the field isolation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi HUANG, Deng-Sheng HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220165880
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a semiconductor layer, a well, a body region, a gate, a source, a drain, and a drift oxide region. The semiconductor layer is formed on a substrate, wherein the semiconductor layer has at least one trench. The well is formed in the semicoducotor layer. The body region is formed in the well. The gate is formed on the well, and is in contact with the well. The source and the drain are located below, outside, and at different sides of the gate, in the body region and the well respectively. The drift oxide region is formed on a drift region, wherein a bottom surface of the drift oxide region is higher than a bottom surface of the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Kun-Huang Yu, Ying-Shiou Lin, Chu-Feng Chen, Chung-Yu Hung, Yi-Rong Tu
  • Publication number: 20220122315
    Abstract: An image rendering device and an image rendering method are disclosed. For the elements of the image rendering device, a first sensor and a second sensor are configured to sense a target object in a two-dimensional (2D) mode and three-dimensional (3D) mode to generate a first surface-color-signal, a first 3D-depth-signal, a second surface-color-signal and a second 3D-depth-signal respectively. An IR projector is configured to generate an IR-dot-pattern. A processor is configured to control the IR projector to project the IR-dot-pattern on the target object in the 3D mode, and configured to process the first surface-color-signal, the second surface-color-signal, the first 3D-depth-signal and the second 3D-depth-signal to obtain a color 3D model of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Kuan-Cheng CHUNG, Tsung-Yi HUANG, Shi-Fan CHANG
  • Patent number: 11171232
    Abstract: A high voltage device for use as a lower switch in a power stage of a switching regulator includes at least one lateral diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device and at least one Schottky barrier diode (SBD). The LDMOS device includes: a well, a body region, a gate, a source, and a drain. The SBD includes a Schottky metal layer and a Schottky semiconductor layer. The Schottky metal layer is electrically connected to the source, and the Schottky semiconductor layer is in contact with the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11063148
    Abstract: A high voltage depletion mode MOS device with adjustable threshold voltage includes: a first conductive type well region; a second conductive type channel region, wherein when the channel region is not depleted, the MOS device is conductive, and when the channel region is depleted, the MOS device is non-conductive; a second conductive type connection region which contacts the channel region; a first conductive type gate, for controlling the conductive condition of the MOS device; a second conductive type lightly doped diffusion region formed under a spacer layer of the gate and contacting the channel region; a second type source region; and a second type drain region contacting the connection region but not contacting the gate; wherein the gate has a first conductive type doping or both a first and a second conductive type doping, and wherein a net doping concentration of the gate is determined by a threshold voltage target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Ching-Yao Yang
  • Publication number: 20210135005
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a crystalline silicon layer, a well, a body region, a gate, a source, and a drain. The body region has a P-type conductivity type, and is formed in the well. The gate is located on and in contact with the well. The source and the drain have an N-type conductivity type, and are located below, outside, and at different sides of the gate, and are located in the body region and the well respectively. An inverse region is defined in the body region between the source and the well, to serve as an inverse current channel in an ON operation. The inverse region includes a germanium distribution region which has a germanium atom concentration higher than 1*1013 atoms/cm2. Adrift region is defined in the well, between the body region and the drain, to serve as a drift current channel in an ON operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Kun-Huang Yu
  • Patent number: 10998404
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a semiconductor layer, an isolation structure, a first deep well, a second deep well, a drift well, a first well, a second well, a body region, a body contact, a high voltage well, a gate, and a source and a drain. The high voltage well is formed in the second deep well, and the high voltage well is not in contact with any of the first deep well, the first well, and the second well, wherein at least part of the high voltage well is located right below all of a drift region to suppress a latch-up current generated in the high voltage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20210119061
    Abstract: A high-voltage semiconductor device integrates a MOS transistor with a Schottky barrier diode. The MOS transistor has a semiconductor substrate of a first conduction type, a well of a second conduction, a body of the first conduction type, and a doped source of the second type. A control gate formed above the body controls electric connection between the doped source and the well. The Schottky barrier diode has a metal, functioning to be an anode of the Schottky barrier diode and contacting the well to form a Schottky barrier junction therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi HUANG, Chun-Ming HSU, Chiung-Fu HUANG
  • Patent number: 10943978
    Abstract: An N-type high voltage device includes: a semiconductor layer, a well region, a floating region, a bias region, a body region, a body contact, a gate, a source and a drain. The floating region and the bias region both have P-type conductivity, and both are formed in a drift region in the well region. The bias region is electrically connected with a predetermined bias voltage, and the floating region is electrically floating, to increase a breakdown voltage of the high voltage device and to suppress turning-ON a parasitic transistor in the high voltage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 10923589
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a crystalline silicon layer, a well, a body region, a gate, a source, and a drain. The body region has a P-type conductivity type, and is formed in the well. The gate is located on and in contact with the well. The source and the drain have an N-type conductivity type, and are located below, outside, and at different sides of the gate, and are located in the body region and the well respectively. An inverse region is defined in the body region between the source and the well, to serve as an inverse current channel in an ON operation. The inverse region includes a germanium distribution region which has a germanium atom concentration higher than 1*1013 atoms/cm2. Adrift region is defined in the well, between the body region and the drain, to serve as a drift current channel in an ON operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Kun-Huang Yu
  • Patent number: 10868115
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a semiconductor layer, an isolation region, a deep well, a buried layer, a first high voltage well, a first conductivity type well, a second high voltage well, a body region, a body contact, a deep well column, a gate, a source and a drain. The deep well column is located between the drain and a boundary of the conductive layer which is near the source in a channel direction. The deep well column is a minority carriers absorption channel, to avoid turning ON a parasitic transistor in the high voltage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Chu-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 10811532
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a semiconductor layer, an isolation structure, a drift oxide region, a well, a body region, a body contact, a buffer region, a gate, and a source and a drain. The body contact includes a main body contact and at least one sub-body contact. The main body contact is adjacent to the source, wherein the main body contact and the source are rectangles that extend along a width direction, and the source is located between the main body contact and the gate. The sub-body contact extends from the main body contact toward the gate and contacts an inverse current channel. The buffer region encompasses all the periphery of the body region below a top surface of the semiconductor layer, wherein an impurity concentration of the buffer region is lower than an impurity concentration of the body region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Chien-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10714612
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes: a semiconductor layer, an isolation structure, a drift oxide region, a well, a body region, a gate, at least one sub-gate, a source, a drain and a conductive connection structure. The drift oxide region is located on a drift region in an operation region. The sub-gate is formed on the drift oxide region in the operation region. The sub-gate is a rectangle shape extending along a width direction, and in parallel with the gate. A conductive connection structure connects the gate and the sub-gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20200220005
    Abstract: A high voltage device for use as a lower switch in a power stage of a switching regulator includes at least one lateral diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device and at least one Schottky barrier diode (SBD). The LDMOS device includes: a well, a body region, a gate, a source, and a drain. The SBD includes a Schottky metal layer and a Schottky semiconductor layer. The Schottky metal layer is electrically connected to the source, and the Schottky semiconductor layer is in contact with the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20200212207
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a junction field effect transistor (JFET) includes: providing a substrate having a first conductivity type, forming a channel region having a second conductive type, forming a field region having the first conductivity type, forming a gate having the first conductivity type, forming a source having the second conductive type, forming a drain having the second conductive type, and forming a lightly doped region having the second conductive type. The channel region is formed by a first ion implantation process step, and the lightly doped region is formed by a second ion implantation process step. The second ion implantation process step implants first conductivity type impurities into a part of the channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 10680104
    Abstract: A metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device includes: a semiconductor layer, an isolation structure, a well, a gate, a source, a drain, a first lightly doped region, and a second lightly doped region. The first lightly doped region is located right below a spacer layer and a portion of a dielectric layer of the gate. In a channel direction, the first lightly doped region is between and contacts the drain and an inversion current channel. The second lightly doped region includes a first part and a second part. The first part is located right below the spacer which is near the source, and the first part is between and contacts the source and the inversion current channel. The second part is located right below the spacer which is near the drain, and the second part is between and contacts the drain and the first lightly doped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 10680059
    Abstract: A high voltage MOS device includes: a well, a drift region, a gate, a source, a drain, and plural buried columns. A part of the gate is stacked on a part of the well, and another part of the gate is stacked on a part of the drift region. The source connects the well in a lateral direction. The drain connects the drift region in the lateral direction. The drain and the source are separated by the well and the drift region, and the drain and the source are located at different sides of the gate. The plural buried columns are formed beneath the top surface by a predetermined distance, and each buried column does not connect the top surface. At least a part of every buried column is surrounded by the drift region, and the buried columns and the drift region are arranged in an alternating manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Chu-Feng Chen