Patents by Inventor Wen-Cheng KUO
Wen-Cheng KUO 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).
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Publication number: 20240120812Abstract: An integrated motor and drive assembly is disclosed and includes a housing, a motor and a drive. The housing includes a motor-accommodation portion and a drive-accommodation portion. The drive includes a power board and a control board. The power board is made of a high thermal conductivity substrate and includes a power element and an encoder disposed on the first side, the first side faces the motor, the power board and the motor are stacked along a first direction, and the second side contacts the housing to from a heat-dissipating route. The control board is disposed adjacent to the power board. The control board and the power board are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the first direction is parallel to an axial direction of the motor. A part of the power board and a part of the control board are directly contacted to form an electrical connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Chi-Hsiang Kuo, Yi-Yu Lee, Zuo-Ying Wei, Yuan-Kai Liao, Wen-Cheng Hsieh
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Publication number: 20240121899Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a plurality of flexible circuit boards, a plurality of ICs and an insulator. The flexible circuit boards are disposed on the substrate. In a top view of the electronic device, the flexible circuit boards are overlapped with an edge of the substrate. The ICs are disposed on the substrate. The insulator is disposed on the flexible circuit boards and contacted the ICs, wherein the insulator has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side and the first side is closer to the edge than the second side. Along a first direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the edge, a first minimum distance between the second side and one of the ICs is less than a second minimum distance between the second side and one of the flexible circuit boards.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Chin-Cheng Kuo, Chia-Chun Yang, Wen-Cheng Huang
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Publication number: 20240079263Abstract: A wafer container includes a frame, a door and at least a pair of shelves. The frame has opposite sidewalls. The pair of the shelves are respectively disposed and aligned on the opposite sidewalls of the frame. Various methods and devices are provided for holding at least one wafer to the shelves during transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kai-Hung HSIAO, Chi-Chung JEN, Yu-Chun SHEN, Yuan-Cheng KUO, Chih-Hsiung HUANG, Wen-Chih CHIANG
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Publication number: 20240074761Abstract: An implantable rotator cuff muscle suture spacer with pressure sensing is provided, formed by a semiconductor manufacture procedure, including a base layer, made of a polymer material and having flexibility, and further including a first configuration region and a second configuration region, where the base layer is folded at imaginary fold line positions of the first configuration region and the second configuration region, so that the first configuration region is located above the second configuration region; a first electrode region, deposited on the first configuration region; a second electrode region, deposited on the second configuration region, corresponding to a position below the first electrode region, and configured to obtain a pressure sensing value; an inductance coil, deposited on the second configuration region and surrounding the second electrode region; and a capacitor layer, coated above a surface of the base layer to form a dielectric substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: WEN CHENG KUO, HSIANG-YU WU, SONG-CHENG HONG
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Publication number: 20230382716Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an electronic device that comprises a semiconductor substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface. The semiconductor substrate at least partially defines a cavity. A first microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device is disposed along the first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first MEMS device comprises a first backplate and a diaphragm vertically separated from the first backplate. A second MEMS device is disposed along the first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second MEMS device comprises spring structures and a moveable element. The spring structures are configured to suspend the moveable element in the cavity. A segment of the semiconductor substrate continuously laterally extends from under a sidewall of the first MEMS device to under a sidewall of the second MEMS device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Chun Yin Tsai, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Patent number: 11807521Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device. The method includes forming a filter stack over a carrier substrate. The filter stack comprises a particle filter layer having a particle filter. A support structure layer is formed over the filter stack. The support structure layer is patterned to define a support structure in the support structure layer such that the support structure has one or more segments. The support structure is bonded to a MEMS structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Patent number: 11649162Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for manufacturing a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device. The method includes forming a particle filter layer over a carrier substrate. The particle filter layer is patterned while the particle filter layer is disposed on the carrier substrate to define a particle filter in the particle filter layer. A MEMS substrate is bonded to the carrier substrate. A MEMS structure is formed over the MEMS substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Wen Cheng, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Publication number: 20220289556Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an electronic device that comprises a semiconductor substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface. The semiconductor substrate at least partially defines a cavity. A first microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device is disposed along the first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first MEMS device comprises a first backplate and a diaphragm vertically separated from the first backplate. A second MEMS device is disposed along the first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second MEMS device comprises spring structures and a moveable element. The spring structures are configured to suspend the moveable element in the cavity. A segment of the semiconductor substrate continuously laterally extends from under a sidewall of the first MEMS device to under a sidewall of the second MEMS device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Chun Yin Tsai, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Patent number: 11235969Abstract: The integrated CMOS-MEMS device includes a CMOS structure, a cap structure, and a MEMS structure. The CMOS structure, fabricated on a first substrate, includes at least one conducting layer. The cap structure, including vias passing through the cap structure, has an isolation layer deposited on its first side and has a conductive routing layer deposited on its second side. The MEMS structure is deposited between the first substrate and the cap structure. The integrated CMOS-MEMS device also includes a conductive connector that passes through one of the vias and through an opening in the isolation layer on the cap structure. The conductive connector conductively connects a conductive path in the conductive routing layer on the cap structure with the at least one conducting layer of the CMOS structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Wen Cheng Kuo, Wei-Jhih Mao
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Patent number: 11184694Abstract: An integrated microphone device is provided. The integrated microphone device includes a substrate, a plate, and a membrane. The substrate includes an aperture allowing acoustic pressure to pass through. The plate is disposed on a side of the substrate. The membrane is disposed between the substrate and the plate and movable relative to the plate as acoustic pressure strikes the membrane. The membrane includes a vent valve having an open area that is variable in response to a change in acoustic pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTDInventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Yin Tsai, Tzu-Heng Wu, Wen-Cheng Kuo
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Publication number: 20210238030Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device. The method includes forming a filter stack over a carrier substrate. The filter stack comprises a particle filter layer having a particle filter. A support structure layer is formed over the filter stack. The support structure layer is patterned to define a support structure in the support structure layer such that the support structure has one or more segments. The support structure is bonded to a MEMS structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Publication number: 20210188627Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for manufacturing a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device. The method includes forming a particle filter layer over a carrier substrate. The particle filter layer is patterned while the particle filter layer is disposed on the carrier substrate to define a particle filter in the particle filter layer. A MEMS substrate is bonded to the carrier substrate. A MEMS structure is formed over the MEMS substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Wen Cheng, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Patent number: 10968097Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a microphone including a support structure layer disposed between a particle filter and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structure. A carrier substrate is disposed below the particle filter and has opposing sidewalls that define a carrier substrate opening. The MEMS structure overlies the carrier substrate and includes a diaphragm having opposing sidewalls that define a diaphragm opening overlying the carrier substrate opening. The particle filter is disposed between the carrier substrate and the MEMS structure. A plurality of filter openings extend through the particle filter. The support structure layer includes a support structure having one or more segments spaced laterally between the opposing sidewalls of the carrier substrate. The one or more segments of the support structure are spaced laterally between the plurality of filter openings.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Patent number: 10941034Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a microphone including a particle filter disposed between a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) substrate and a carrier substrate. A MEMS device structure overlies the MEMS substrate. The MEMS device structure includes a diaphragm having opposing sidewalls that define a diaphragm opening. The carrier substrate underlies the MEMS substrate. The carrier substrate has opposing sidewalls that define a carrier substrate opening underlying the diaphragm opening. A filter stack is sandwiched between the carrier substrate and the MEMS substrate. The filter stack includes an upper dielectric layer, a lower dielectric layer, and a particle filter layer disposed between the upper and lower dielectric layers. The particle filter layer includes the particle filter spaced laterally between the opposing sidewalls of the carrier substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Wen Cheng, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Publication number: 20210047176Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a microphone including a support structure layer disposed between a particle filter and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structure. A carrier substrate is disposed below the particle filter and has opposing sidewalls that define a carrier substrate opening. The MEMS structure overlies the carrier substrate and includes a diaphragm having opposing sidewalls that define a diaphragm opening overlying the carrier substrate opening. The particle filter is disposed between the carrier substrate and the MEMS structure. A plurality of filter openings extend through the particle filter. The support structure layer includes a support structure having one or more segments spaced laterally between the opposing sidewalls of the carrier substrate. The one or more segments of the support structure are spaced laterally between the plurality of filter openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Publication number: 20210047175Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a microphone including a particle filter disposed between a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) substrate and a carrier substrate. A MEMS device structure overlies the MEMS substrate. The MEMS device structure includes a diaphragm having opposing sidewalls that define a diaphragm opening. The carrier substrate underlies the MEMS substrate. The carrier substrate has opposing sidewalls that define a carrier substrate opening underlying the diaphragm opening. A filter stack is sandwiched between the carrier substrate and the MEMS substrate. The filter stack includes an upper dielectric layer, a lower dielectric layer, and a particle filter layer disposed between the upper and lower dielectric layers. The particle filter layer includes the particle filter spaced laterally between the opposing sidewalls of the carrier substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Wen Cheng, Wen Cheng Kuo
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Publication number: 20200213701Abstract: An integrated microphone device is provided. The integrated microphone device includes a substrate, a plate, and a membrane. The substrate includes an aperture allowing acoustic pressure to pass through. The plate is disposed on a side of the substrate. The membrane is disposed between the substrate and the plate and movable relative to the plate as acoustic pressure strikes the membrane. The membrane includes a vent valve having an open area that is variable in response to a change in acoustic pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Chun-Wen CHENG, Chia-Hua CHU, Chun-Yin TSAI, Tzu-Heng WU, Wen-Cheng KUO
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Publication number: 20200131028Abstract: The integrated CMOS-MEMS device includes a CMOS structure, a cap structure, and a MEMS structure. The CMOS structure, fabricated on a first substrate, includes at least one conducting layer. The cap structure, including vias passing through the cap structure, has an isolation layer deposited on its first side and has a conductive routing layer deposited on its second side. The MEMS structure is deposited between the first substrate and the cap structure. The integrated CMOS-MEMS device also includes a conductive connector that passes through one of the vias and through an opening in the isolation layer on the cap structure. The conductive connector conductively connects a conductive path in the conductive routing layer on the cap structure with the at least one conducting layer of the CMOS structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Chia-Hua Chu, Wen Cheng Kuo, Wei-Jhih Mao
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Patent number: 10609463Abstract: An integrated microphone device is provided. The integrated microphone device includes a substrate, a plate, and a membrane. The substrate includes an aperture allowing acoustic pressure to pass through. The plate is disposed on a side of the substrate. The membrane is disposed between the substrate and the plate and movable relative to the plate as acoustic pressure strikes the membrane. The membrane includes a vent valve having an open area that is variable in response to a change in acoustic pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Wen-Cheng Kuo, Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Yin Tsai, Tzu-Heng Wu
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Publication number: 20190132662Abstract: An integrated microphone device is provided. The integrated microphone device includes a substrate, a plate, and a membrane. The substrate includes an aperture allowing acoustic pressure to pass through. The plate is disposed on a side of the substrate. The membrane is disposed between the substrate and the plate and movable relative to the plate as acoustic pressure strikes the membrane. The membrane includes a vent valve having an open area that is variable in response to a change in acoustic pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Chun-Wen CHENG, Wen-Cheng KUO, Chia-Hua CHU, Chun-Yin TSAI, Tzu-Heng WU