Patents by Inventor Tzu-Kuang Fang

Tzu-Kuang Fang 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: 10938286
    Abstract: The invention discloses a control system for LRA, applicable to an LRA having a speed sensing coil. The control system comprises a signal amplifier, an excitation device, a flow controller, a processing unit, and a driver. The processing unit is connected to the signal amplifier, the excitation device and the flow controller, so as to stop output, output the excitation signal as a driving signal or process the induction signal from the signal amplifier into an appropriate system damping coefficient and output as a driving signal when the flow controller outputs a stop, excitation or braking state signal, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOPRAY MEMS INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Sung Liu, Shin-Ter Tsai, Hsiao-Ming Chien, Tzu-Kuang Fang
  • Patent number: 10804785
    Abstract: The invention discloses a control system and a vibration control method for an LRA. The vibration control method comprises: providing an induction coil, the arrangement and the winding of the induction coil able to obtain an inductive voltage proportional to LRA vibration speed; generating a vibration signal according to inductive voltage and feeding back to a driver connected to the LRA to control the vibration of LRA; wherein the generated vibration signal satisfying the following: when induction voltage is lower than a low-speed threshold, the vibration signal causes the driver to apply a driving force in the same direction; when induction voltage is higher than a high-speed threshold, the vibration signal causes the driver to apply a driving force in the opposite direction; when induction voltage is between the low-speed threshold and the high-speed threshold, the vibration signal does not force the driver to apply force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TOPRAY MEMS INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Sung Liu, Shin-Ter Tsai, Tzu-Kuang Fang
  • Publication number: 20200059149
    Abstract: The invention discloses a control system and a vibration control method for an LRA. The vibration control method comprises: providing an induction coil, the arrangement and the winding of the induction coil able to obtain an inductive voltage proportional to LRA vibration speed; generating a vibration signal according to inductive voltage and feeding back to a driver connected to the LRA to control the vibration of LRA; wherein the generated vibration signal satisfying the following: when induction voltage is lower than a low-speed threshold, the vibration signal causes the driver to apply a driving force in the same direction; when induction voltage is higher than a high-speed threshold, the vibration signal causes the driver to apply a driving force in the opposite direction; when induction voltage is between the low-speed threshold and the high-speed threshold, the vibration signal does not force the driver to apply force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chin-Sung Liu, Shin-Ter Tsai, Tzu-Kuang Fang
  • Publication number: 20180335598
    Abstract: A adjustment method for lens driving apparatus is provided, comprising: (a) assembling a lens in a voice coil motor (VCM), with optical axis tilting towards a normal of VCM bottom surface and forming a tilt angle; forming at least three pillars at VCM bottom surface; (b) performing processing on the pillars according to the tilting direction and tilt angle, after processing, at least pillar having a length different from remaining pillars, each pillar having a bottom at first datum plane, and the optical axis perpendicular to first datum plane; (c) an image sensor having an engaging surface engaged to the pillar bottoms and located at the first datum plane, so that the lens optical axis s perpendicular to the engaging surface of the image sensor, resulting in the optical axis of the lens overlapping an axis of the image sensor to achieve 0° tilt angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Tzu-Kuang Fang, Chin-Sung Liu, Shin-Ter Tsai, Yung-Fu Huang, Yueh-Lin Hsieh