Patents by Inventor Tung-Sheng Shih

Tung-Sheng Shih 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: 8136416
    Abstract: A personal nanoparticle sampler is disclosed to include a pre-classifier, a nozzle, a connector and a final filter pack. The connector and the final filter pack respectively accommodate a particle-sizing filter and a final filter to collect nanoparticles smaller than a diameter. The pre-classifier removes large particles to avoid clogging of the connector. The nozzle raises the airflow velocity to reduce the cut-off diameter of the particle-sizing filter without increasing the total flowrate, allowing the personal nanoparticle sampler to be used with a personal sampling pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
    Inventors: Shi-Nian Uang, Tung-Sheng Shih, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Cheng-Han Wu
  • Patent number: 8038777
    Abstract: An air sterilization device with low aerosol bounce includes an air conditioning pipe, a porous filter media, and a UV light generator. This porous filter media, it is secured on the fixing portion. This porous filter media has many irregularly distributed channels. The channel is coated with a coating layer having a thickness between 10 ?m to 1000 ?m sticking aerosols for avoiding bounce effect. The UV light generator can emit UV light to kill biological aerosols. It is suitable for long-term usage. So, the bounce effect of aerosols can be significantly reduced. The maintenance cost is low. The sterilization effect is excellent. Plus, the flow rate of the air conditioning system remains high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: Chane-Yu Lai, Po-Chen Hung, Sheng-Hsiu Huang, Yu-Fang Ho, Cheng-Ping Chang, Tung-Sheng Shih, Tai-Shan Yu, Chi-yu Chuang
  • Patent number: 7819727
    Abstract: The present invention is a push-pull ventilation hood having a push device to obtain a push air flow and a pull device to exhaust contaminant flow with an exhaust opening and the two devices properly coordinated with each other, wherein, when the push flow flows through a contaminant source, a contaminated flow of the push flow is exhausted through the exhaust opening. Based on the design process according to the present invention, a push-pull hood with the highest efficiency of push velocity can be designed and the push-pull hood can economically and effectively control the contaminant source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Council of Labor Affairs
    Inventors: Rong Fung Huang, Yu-Kang Chen, Tung-Sheng Shih, Cheng-Ping Chang, Wen-Yu Yeh, Chun-Wan Chen, Shin Yi Lin, Shun-Yuan Jan
  • Publication number: 20100267321
    Abstract: A biological safety cabinet (BSC) has an air curtain to isolate air inside and outside the BSC. A most preferable slight concave curtain of air can be obtained. With the curtain, neither contamination in the BSC leaks out nor outside contamination enters the BSC. Furthermore, no circulation is formed in the BSC by blowing the air curtain. Thus, the operator using the BSC and the product in the BSC are both well protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: Rong Fung Huang, Tung-Sheng Shih, Cheng-Ping Chang, Chun-Wan Chen, Chen-Hsiung Hung
  • Patent number: 7631540
    Abstract: A gas sensor is disclosed, which includes two separate metal electrodes on a surface of a substrate and a semiconductor thin film deposited on the surface of the substrate and connecting the two metal electrodes. The semiconductor thin film contains zinc oxide or a mixed oxide of zinc and indium, and the zinc oxide or the mixed oxide of zinc and indium are in the form of nanowires which constitute a gas-sensing surface of the semiconductor thin film. The nanowires have a diameter of 50-900 nm. The present invention also discloses a method for detecting the presence of a NOx gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Miao-Ju Chueh, Pi-Guey Su, Yih-Shiaw Huang, I-Cherng Chen, Tung-Sheng Shih
  • Publication number: 20090272202
    Abstract: A personal nanoparticle sampler is disclosed to include a pre-classifier, a nozzle, a particle-sizing filter pack and a final filter pack. The particle-sizing filter pack and the final filter pack respectively accommodate a particle-sizing filter and a final filter to collect nanoparticles smaller than a diameter. The pre-classifier removes large particles to avoid clogging of the particle-sizing filter pack. The nozzle raises the airflow velocity to reduce the cut-off diameter of the particle-sizing filter without increasing the total flowrate, allowing the personal nanoparticle sampler to be used with a personal sampling pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
    Inventors: Shi-Nian UANG, Tung-Sheng Shih, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Cheng-Han Wu
  • Patent number: 7582146
    Abstract: A uniform aerosol deposit sampling device includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing has an air inlet and a first chamber. The second housing has an air outlet, an second chamber, a filter holder and a flow guiding portion. The filter holder is provided for securing an air-penetratable supporting pad and a filter media. The flow guiding portion is a substantially conical and gradually narrowing. The flow guiding portion has a semi-conical angle ranged from 15 to 85 degrees. So, the flow guiding portion makes the entire air flow smooth and evenly distributed. The aerosols will be evenly distributed and uniformly deposited on the filter media. And, it is easy to evaluate the amount and composition of the aerosols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: Chane-Yu Lai, Perng-Jy Tsai, Da Toung Tang, Tung-Sheng Shih, Hsin-Ying Lee, Wam Yu Lee
  • Publication number: 20090162251
    Abstract: An air sterilization device with low aerosol bounce includes an air conditioning pipe, a porous filter media, and a UV light generator. This porous filter media, it is secured on the fixing portion. This porous filter media has many irregularly distributed channels. The channel is coated with a coating layer having a thickness between 10 ?m to 1000 ?m sticking aerosols for avoiding bounce effect. The UV light generator can emit UV light to kill biological aerosols. It is suitable for long-term usage. So, the bounce effect of aerosols can be significantly reduced. The maintenance cost is low. The sterilization effect is excellent. Plus, the flow rate of the air conditioning system remains high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Chane-Yu Lai, Po-Chen Hung, Sheng-Hsiu Huang, Yu-Fang Ho, Cheng-Ping Chang, Tung-Sheng Shih, Tai-Shan Yu, Chi-yu Chuang
  • Patent number: 7537629
    Abstract: A porous metal denuder has a cascade impactor to collect aerosol particles of different diameters, two porous metal discs downstream to collect basic and acidic gases, respectively, and a final filter to collect particles smaller than the cut diameter of the last stage of the cascade impactor which will penetrate the two porous metal discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs
    Inventors: Tung-Sheng Shih, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Cheng-Hsiung Huang
  • Publication number: 20090095161
    Abstract: A porous metal denuder has a cascade impactor to collect aerosol particles of different diameters, two porous metal discs downstream to collect basic and acidic gases, respectively, and a final filter to collect particles smaller than the cut diameter of the last stage of the cascade impactor which will penetrate the two porous metal discs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs
    Inventors: Tung-Sheng Shih, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Cheng-Hsiung Huang
  • Patent number: 7503842
    Abstract: An air curtain-assisted exhaust method and a device thereof are provided. Air curtain generators are disposed on a worktable to enclose an encircled area in the worktable. A receiving hood is disposed above the worktable, wherein the vertical lower part of the outer edge of the receiving hood completely covers the encircled area. Then, the air curtain generators are started to blow out air curtains toward an opening of the receiving hood, and the receiving hood is started to suck an air flow. A shielding space is defined by the air flow sucked by the receiving hood and the air curtains, so that the air curtains may guide a smoke generated inside the shielding space to the receiving hood to be exhausted, thereby achieving the effect of auxiliary exhaust, and may restrict the smoke in the shielding space to prevent the smoke from diffusing laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Acxing Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuei-Yuan Lee, Pei-Hsin Pei, Shun-Chih Wang, Cheng-Ping Chang, Tung-Sheng Shih
  • Publication number: 20080295616
    Abstract: A multi-stage horizontal elutriator includes a flow inlet, a flow outlet, a hollow container that is disposed between said flow inlet and said flow outlet. This hollow container has a guide-in portion, a first parallel plates set, a second parallel plates set, and a guide-out portion. The first plates set is different to the second plates set. So, the aerosol's falling distance can be shortened significantly. The relative culturable ratio and the survival efficiency for bioaerosols are both high. The structure is simple with low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Chane-Yu Lai, Wei-Ting Syu, Siou-Rong Li, Tai-Shan Yu, Yu-Fang Ho, Po-Chen Hung, Jei-Pai Chang, Tung-Sheng Shih
  • Patent number: 7458284
    Abstract: A three-stage dust sampler makes use of a porous foam as the impactor substrates. The sampler includes an annular inlet which conforms to ISO/CEN/ACGIH inhalable sampling criteria, two impactor stages to classify thoracic and respirable particles and a final filter to collect respirable particles after the impactors. For 100 ppi polymer foam substrates, and a flow rate of 3.2 lpm, the collection efficiency curves of the thoracic and respirable dust matches ISO/CEN/ACGIH criteria when the jet-to-plate distance is 1.0. The cut-off aerodynamic diameter is 9.6 and 4.0 ?m for the first and second impactor stages, respectively, and ?{square root over (stk50)} is 0.39 for both stages. The collection efficiencies for solid particles is equal to that for liquid particles, indicating that there is no solid particle bouncing from the foam substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs
    Inventors: Tung-Sheng Shih, Da-Toung Tang, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Cheng-Sheng Chang
  • Patent number: 7350396
    Abstract: A pulse-type gas concentration measurement system and a method of pulse-type gas concentration measurement in a specific environment. When the sensor is located at a specific position, a variable pulse-modulated voltage is sent to the sensor, so that the sensor outputs a first signal to the processing device. The processing device compares the first signal to the chemical matter characteristics signals to determine the composition and concentration of respective constituents in the gas, and determines a detection voltage according to the first signal. Then, a square-wave pulse with the detection voltage is sent intermittently to the sensor, so that the sensor outputs a second signal to the processing device. The processing device compares the second signal to the chemical matter characteristics signal to determine the concentration variation of each respective constituent of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yih-Shiaw Huang, Miao-Ju Chueh, I-Cherng Chen, Tung-Sheng Shih
  • Publication number: 20080072764
    Abstract: A uniform aerosol deposit sampling device includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing has an air inlet and a first chamber. The second housing has an air outlet, an second chamber, a filter holder and a flow guiding portion. The filter holder is provided for securing an air-penetratable supporting pad and a filter media. The flow guiding portion is a substantially conical and gradually narrowing. The flow guiding portion has a semi-conical angle ranged from 15 to 85 degrees. So, the flow guiding portion makes the entire air flow smooth and evenly distributed. The aerosols will be evenly distributed and uniformly deposited on the filter media. And, it is easy to evaluate the amount and composition of the aerosols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Chane-Yu Lai, Perng-Jy Tsai, Da Toung Tang, Tung-Sheng Shih, Hsin-Ying Lee, Wam Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 7318771
    Abstract: The present invention is a fume hood capable of exhausting contaminant, having an air pipe in a sash and a suction slot corresponding to the air pipe deposed at the front rim of the bottom surface to obtain an air curtain, where contaminant is efficiently prevented from leakage and energy is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs
    Inventors: Rong Fung Huang, Yu-Kang Chen, Tung-Sheng Shih, Cheng-Ping Chang, Chun-Wan Chen, Yi-Ta Wu, Hung-Ta Chen
  • Publication number: 20080006078
    Abstract: A gas sensor is disclosed, which includes two separate metal electrodes on a surface of a substrate and a semiconductor thin film deposited on the surface of the substrate and connecting the two metal electrodes. The semiconductor thin film contains zinc oxide or a mixed oxide of zinc and indium, and the zinc oxide or the mixed oxide of zinc and indium are in the form of nanowires which constitute a gas-sensing surface of the semiconductor thin film. The nanowires have a diameter of 50-900 nm. The present invention also discloses a method for detecting the presence of a NOx gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Miao-Ju Chueh, Pi-Guey Su, Yih-Shiaw Huang, I-Cherng Chen, Tung-Sheng Shih
  • Publication number: 20070269349
    Abstract: A three-stage dust sampler makes use of a porous foam as the impactor substrates. The sampler includes an annular inlet which conforms to ISO/CEN/ACGIH inhalable sampling criteria, two impactor stages to classify thoracic and respirable particles and a final filter to collect respirable particles after the impactors. For 100 ppi polymer foam substrates, and a flow rate of 3.2 lpm, the collection efficiency curves of the thoracic and respirable dust matches ISO/CEN/ACGIH criteria when the jet-to-plate distance is 1.0. The cut-off aerodynamic diameter is 9.6 and 4.0 ?m for the first and second impactor stages, respectively, and ?{square root over (stk50)} is 0.39 for both stages. The collection efficiencies for solid particles is equal to that for liquid particles, indicating that there is no solid particle bouncing from the foam substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs
    Inventors: Tung-Sheng Shih, Da-Toung Tang, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Cheng-Sheng Chang
  • Publication number: 20070113839
    Abstract: An air curtain-assisted exhaust method and a device thereof are provided. Air curtain generators are disposed on a worktable to enclose an encircled area in the worktable. A receiving hood is disposed above the worktable, wherein the vertical lower part of the outer edge of the receiving hood completely covers the encircled area. Then, the air curtain generators are started to blow out air curtains toward an opening of the receiving hood, and the receiving hood is started to suck an air flow. A shielding space is defined by the air flow sucked by the receiving hood and the air curtains, so that the air curtains may guide a smoke generated inside the shielding space to the receiving hood to be exhausted, thereby achieving the effect of auxiliary exhaust, and may restrict the smoke in the shielding space to prevent the smoke from diffusing laterally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: ACXING INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuei-Yuan Lee, Pei-Hsin Pei, Shun-Chih Wang, Cheng-Ping Chang, Tung-Sheng Shih
  • Publication number: 20070021047
    Abstract: The present invention is a fume hood capable of exhausting contaminant, having an air pipe in a sash and a suction slot corresponding to the air pipe deposed at the front rim of the bottom surface to obtain an air curtain, where contaminant is efficiently prevented from leakage and energy is saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Rong Huang, Yu-Kang Chen, Tung-Sheng Shih, Cheng-Ping Chang, Chun-Wan Chen, Yi-Ta Wu, Hung-Ta Chen