Patents by Inventor Tzu-Feng Tseng

Tzu-Feng Tseng 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: 8517808
    Abstract: A coin hopper includes a coin pusher consisting of a container, a rotating disc and a power drive for dispensing coins, and a rack that defines therein a coin passage that extends upwardly from the coin pusher and consists of a bottom sloping segment, an intermediate arched segment and a top vertical segment for guiding out coins one by one and has floating rods transversely arranged therein to prohibit dispensed coins from backward displacement and to avoid coin stacking, track parts damage or motor overload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: International Currency Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Chiao-Hao Chang, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Sung-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 8237182
    Abstract: Organic adhesive light-emitting device with ohmic metal bulge. The organic adhesive light-emitting device includes a conductive substrate, a light-emitting stack layer, a metal layer formed over the conductive substrate, a reflective layer formed over the light-emitting stack layer, and an organic adhesive layer having an ohmic metal bulge and an adhesive material around the ohmic metal bulge. The adhesive material bonds the metal layer and the reflective layer together, while the ohmic metal bulge forms ohmic contacts with the metal layer and the reflective layer. The configuration can simplify a light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Hsun Hsieh, Wen-Huang Liu, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Ya-Lan Yang
  • Publication number: 20120156977
    Abstract: A coin hopper includes a coin pusher consisting of a container, a rotating disc and a power drive for dispensing coins, and a rack that defines therein a coin passage that extends upwardly from the coin pusher and consists of a bottom sloping segment, an intermediate arched segment and a top vertical segment for guiding out coins one by one and has floating rods transversely arranged therein to prohibit dispensed coins from backward displacement and to avoid coin stacking, track parts damage or motor overload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: International Currency Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Chang, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Sung-Ching Lin
  • Publication number: 20110117827
    Abstract: A coin hopper includes a coin dispensing unit having a hopper body, a coin outlet, a rotating disc mounted in the hopper body and a power drive for rotating the rotating disc to dispense coins out of the hopper body through the coin outlet, and a rack having a coin passage upwardly extending from the coin outlet for guiding coins out of the coin outlet one by one and a plurality of anti-backward devices arranged along the length of the coin passage, each anti-backward device having a floating member movable up and down in the coin passage for allowing forward movement of coins one by one along the coin passage and avoiding jamming or backward movement of dispensed coins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Chia-Hao CHANG, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Sung-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 7683383
    Abstract: A light emitting device having a circuit protection unit is provided. The circuit protection unit has a low-resistance layer and a potential barrier layer, wherein a barrier potential exists at the interface between the low-resistance layer and the potential barrier layer. The circuit protection unit is electrically connected with the light emitting device. When an electrostatic discharge or excessive forward current is occurred in the light emitting device, the circuit protection unit provides a rectifying function for preventing damages caused by static electricity or excessive forward current to the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Meng-Yuan Hong, Jen-Shui Wang, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Ching-San Tao, Wen-Huang Liu, Min-Hsun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7591211
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a motor, a gear set, a gliding block, a rotating shaft and a handling element. The gear set includes a first gear part connected to the motor and a second gear part connected to a protrusion member. The center line of the protrusion member is shifted from the center line of the second gear part. The gliding block includes a gliding channel for receiving the protrusion member therein. The protrusion member is linearly moved along the gliding channel back and forth when the protrusion member is rotated in a circular motion. The rotating shaft is connected to an end of the gliding block such that the rotating shaft is rotated with synchronous linear movement of the protrusion member. The handling element has a first end sheathed around the rotating shaft and a second end operated to have the cutting member linearly moved along two guiding tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Primax Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tzu-Feng Tseng, Pei-Yuan Lee
  • Patent number: 7358540
    Abstract: An organic adhesive light-emitting device with an ohmic metal contact, including a conductive substrate having a first surface and a second surface over the upper surface, a light-emitting stack layer, an ohmic metal bulge formed over the first surface of the conductive substrate, a reflection layer formed over the light-emitting stack layer, a first reaction layer formed over the ohmic metal bulge and the second surface of the conductive substrate, a second reaction layer formed over the reflection layer, and an organic adhesive material. The reaction layer can punch through the organic adhesive material for forming the ohmic contact with the first reaction layer bonded to the second reaction layer by the organic adhesive material, and with the ohmic metal bulge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Hsun Hsieh, Ya-Lan Yang, Ching-San Tao, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Jr-Peng Ni
  • Publication number: 20080072729
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a cutting platform, an automatic transmission member, first and second lateral plates, a rotating shaft, a cutting member and an eccentric sustaining member. The automatic transmission member is disposed on the cutting platform. The first and second lateral plates are arranged at opposed sides of the cutting platform. The rotating shaft penetrates through two lateral plates, respectively, wherein an end of the rotating shaft is rotatably connected to a gear part of the gear set. The cutting member is movable along the first guiding track and the second guiding track. The eccentric sustaining member is sheathed around the rotating shaft and disposed above the cutting member. The eccentric sustaining member is sustained against the cutting member to transmit a linear cutting operation of the cutting member when the rotating shaft is driven by the gear part to rotate in a circular motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Publication number: 20080072730
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a motor, a gear set, a gliding block, a rotating shaft and a handling element. The gear set includes a first gear part connected to the motor and a second gear part connected to a protrusion member. The center line of the protrusion member is shifted from the center line of the second gear part. The gliding block includes a gliding channel for receiving the protrusion member therein. The protrusion member is linearly moved along the gliding channel back and forth when the protrusion member is rotated in a circular motion. The rotating shaft is connected to an end of the gliding block such that the rotating shaft is rotated with synchronous linear movement of the protrusion member. The handling element has a first end sheathed around the rotating shaft and a second end operated to have the cutting member linearly moved along two guiding tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu-Feng Tseng, Pei-Yuan Lee
  • Patent number: 7326967
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a light emitting diode of an omnidirectional reflector providing with a transparent conductive layer. In the present invention, a cohesion layer is formed between a transparent layer and a metal reflection layer to improve the cohesive force therebetween and increase the reflectivity of the light emitting diode, so as the present invention can enhance the light-emitting efficiency of the light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Hsun Hsieh, Ching-San Tao, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Jr-Peng Ni
  • Patent number: 7172909
    Abstract: A light emitting diode having an adhesive layer and a reflective layer and a manufacturing method thereof featured by adhering together a light emitting diode stack and a substrate having a reflective metal layer by use of a transparent adhesive layer so that the light rays directed to the reflective metal layer can be reflected therefrom to improve the brightness of the light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Huang Liu, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Ting-Wei Yeh, Jen-Shui Wang
  • Patent number: 7131212
    Abstract: A marking device of a trimming apparatus includes a light source member, a lever member and a supporting member. The lever member includes a first sustaining arm, a second sustaining arm and a channel formed between the first sustaining arm and the second sustaining arm. The rear end of the light source member is fixed in the channel. The supporting member includes a sleeve for accommodating the front end of the light source member therein and an upper wing extending upwardly from the sleeve and conforming to the lever member. The upper wing includes a bolt hole corresponding to the second sustaining arm of the lever member. A resilient element is confined between the upper wing and the first sustaining arm. A screw penetrates through the bolt hole and is in contact with the second sustaining arm so as to render compression of the resilient element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Tsung Kao, Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Patent number: 7131363
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus is provided for cutting a sheet material. The cutting apparatus includes a bed for resting thereon the sheet material, a hollow rail structure spaced from the bed, a cutting element moved along the hollow rail structure to travel on the sheet material and cut it in a desired manner, a holding plate coupled to the hollow rail structure for depressing the sheet material on the bed to facilitate the cutting operation of the cutting element, and a sustaining element disposed in the hollow rail structure. The sustaining element sustains against an upper inner surface of the hollow rail structure to lift up the holding plate and sustains against a lower inner surface of the hollow rail structure to put down the holding plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Publication number: 20060201303
    Abstract: A pressing mechanism of a cutting apparatus includes a pressing plate, at least two cams, a supporting member and a transmission member. The pressing plate member is disposed above an article supporting surface and adjacent to a trimmer of the cutting apparatus, wherein a receptacle is formed between the pressing plate member and the article supporting surface. The at least two cams are disposed above the pressing plate member and have respective protrusion posts protruded from the same side thereof. The supporting member is fixed on the article supporting surface for supporting the at least two cams and used as a fulcrum. The transmission member has a transmission rod pivotally coupled to the protrusion posts for driving the at least two cams to synchronously roll and be downwardly sustained against the pressing plate member, thereby pressing the sheet article accommodated within the receptacle and facilitating a further trimming operation on the sheet article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Publication number: 20060191391
    Abstract: A flat media cutting device includes a planar base, two supports fixed to the base, a clamp extending between the two supports, a slider mounted in a slidable manner on the clamp, a linear actuator parallel to the clamp and connected to the slider, and a motor connected to the linear actuator. Each end of the clamp is connected to one support. At least one support prevents movement of the clamp in the second direction and opposite, and both supports allow movement of the clamp in the first direction and opposite. When the motor drives the linear actuator, the slider is driven along the clamp and a cutting tool of the slider cuts media held to the base by the clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Publication number: 20060191392
    Abstract: A flat media cutting device includes a planar base, two supports fixed to the base, a clamp extending between the two supports, a slider mounted in a slidable manner on the clamp, a linear actuator parallel to the clamp and connected to the slider, and a motor connected to the linear actuator. Each end of the clamp is connected to one support. At least one support prevents movement of the clamp in the second direction and opposite, and both supports allow movement of the clamp in the first direction and opposite. When the motor drives the linear actuator, the slider is driven along the clamp and a cutting tool of the slider cuts media held to the base by the clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Patent number: 7095765
    Abstract: A light emitter includes an emitting stack, a first electrode, a second electrode and a voltage dependent resistor layer. The emitter stack has a first surface area and a second surface area. The first electrode is formed on the first surface area of the emitting stack. The second electrode is formed on the second surface area of the emitting stack. The voltage dependent resistor layer is connected to the first and second electrodes, and is formed during the formation of the light emitter thus improving the yield of the light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Huang Liu, Po-Chun Liu, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Chen Ou
  • Publication number: 20060150796
    Abstract: A multi-angular trimming apparatus includes a platform, a trimming track, a movable device and an angle-adjustable member. The trimming track includes a guiding slot to have a trimmer move therein to trim the sheet article. The movable device includes first and second movable members. The first movable member strides across two side edges of the platform to have the trimming track above the first movable member move in a first direction. The second movable member is disposed above the first movable member to have the trimming track move in a second direction. The angle-adjustable member is coupled to the second movable member and includes at least an angle-adjustable base having a plurality of retaining points, a connection member for securing the trimming track onto the angle-adjustable base and a retaining member positioning in one of the retaining points so as to have the trimmer perform multi-angular trimming operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Publication number: 20060081857
    Abstract: A light emitting device having a circuit protection unit is provided. The circuit protection unit has a low-resistance layer and a potential barrier layer, wherein a barrier potential exists at the interface between the low-resistance layer and the potential barrier layer. The circuit protection unit is electrically connected with the light emitting device. When an electrostatic discharge or excessive forward current is occurred in the light emitting device, the circuit protection unit provides a rectifying function for preventing damages caused by static electricity or excessive forward current to the light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Steve Hong, Jen-Shui Wang, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Ching-San Tao, Wen-Huang Liu, Min-Hsun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7008858
    Abstract: A light emitting diode having an adhesive layer and a reflective layer and a manufacturing method thereof featured by adhering together a light emitting diode stack and a substrate having a reflective metal layer by use of a transparent adhesive layer so that the light rays directed to the reflective metal layer can be reflected therefrom to improve the brightness of the light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Huang Liu, Tzu-Feng Tseng, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Ting-Wei Yeh, Jen-Shui Wang