Patents by Inventor Wen Tsai

Wen Tsai 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: 10340822
    Abstract: A motor control system includes an electric motor and inverter. The electric motor includes a stator, rotor, and winding structure. The stator includes an iron core with a plurality of slots formed therein along a radial direction of the stator. The winding structure has a plurality of hairpin wires with pins disposed in the slots. The winding structure is configured to provide a plurality of phase windings and each phase winding includes a plurality of motor windings. The inverter includes a switching controller configured to control the turning-on and turning-off of the motor windings of each phase winding of the winding structure. When the electric motor operates in a high-speed mode, the switching controller controls the turning-on and turning-off of the motor windings of each phase winding such that a number of the phase windings turned-on is ? less than a number of all the phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong-Cheng Sheu, Chien-Yu Lai, I-Wen Tsai
  • Publication number: 20190175363
    Abstract: A limb prosthesis including a palm, a forearm, an upper arm, an elbow joint and a wrist joint is provided. The palm has a first pivot and a first lock set. The upper arm has a socket. The elbow joint connects the forearm to the upper arm. The wrist joint includes a first connecting rod connected to the forearm. The first pivot rotatably penetrates through the first connecting rod. The first lock set is locked to the first pivot. A first wedge surface of the first lock set contacts a second wedge surface of the first connecting rod. By adjusting a distance between the first lock set and the first pivot, a magnitude of a forward force between the first wedge surface and the second wedge surface is adjusted, such that the palm is fixed relative to the first connecting rod or rotatable around an axial direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the forearm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tzong-Ming Wu, Ji-Bin Horng, Sung-Ho Liu, Tsung-Wen Tsai
  • Publication number: 20190161732
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for rejuvenating cells, characterized in that providing a cell to culture in a composition for a suitable period of time of time, wherein the composition is obtained by adding a chitosan solution to a cultural environment. The present application further provides a composition for rejuvenating cells, comprising a chitosan solution in a cultural environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: TAI-HORNG YOUNG, CHING-WEN TSAI, JYH-HORNG WANG
  • Publication number: 20190163026
    Abstract: A method of making a curved electrochromic film includes: disposing a UV curable adhesive layer between a first electrochromic member and a second electrochromic member to form an electrochromic film semi-product in flat form; arching the electrochromic film semi-product between the first and second bending members of a forming apparatus and by moving the first and second bending members toward each other; and curing the UV curable adhesive layer using a UV light source while the electrochromic film semi-product is arched. Forming apparatuses for forming a flat electrochromic film semi-product into a curved electrochromic film are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Fu-Yu Tsai, Keng-Ming Hu, Jui-Wen Tsai, Yau-Ren Yang, Yi-Wen Chung
  • Patent number: 10303157
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing method for a 3D object is provided and includes (a) providing a 3D digital model of the 3D object; (b) dividing the 3D digital model into repeat arrangement of at least one type of polyhedral 3D units and an X-Y plane is an acute angle or an obtuse angle; (c) cutting the 3D digital model along a Z-axis into a plurality of 2D slices; (d) defining a scanning path covering one of the 2D slices; (e) providing an energy beam to a material on a working plane along the scanning path to form a construction layer corresponding to the one of the 2D slices; and (f) repeating the steps (d) and (e) to build up the 3D object by adding a plurality of construction layers in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Wei-Chin Huang, Ching-Chih Lin, Tsung-Wen Tsai, Kuang-Po Chang, Chih-Hsien Wu, An-Li Chen
  • Patent number: 10286518
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten is disclosed to reduce corrosion rate and inhibit dishing of the tungsten and erosion of underlying dielectrics. The process includes providing a substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a thiolalkoxy compound; a dicarboxylic acid, a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive; and, optionally a pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the tungsten (W) is polished away from the substrate, corrosion rate is reduced, dishing of the tungsten (W) is inhibited as well as erosion of dielectrics underlying the tungsten (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin-Chen Ho, Wei-Wen Tsai, Cheng-Ping Lee
  • Publication number: 20190131172
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate, and an alignment mark including a conductive through-substrate via (TSV) penetrating through the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Hsin Chang, Fang Wen Tsai, Jing-Cheng Lin, Wen-Chih Chiou, Shin-Puu Jeng
  • Patent number: 10265485
    Abstract: A medication concentration detecting device includes a medicine container, a three-way pipe, a light emitting member, a first light receiver and a processor. The medicine container has a chamber configured for accommodating nebulized medicine. The three-way pipe has a passageway connected to the chamber for the nebulized medicine to flow along the passageway. The light emitting member is disposed on the three-way pipe and configured for emitting a light beam toward the passageway. The first light receiver is disposed on the three-way pipe and configured for receiving the light beam and outputting a luminous flux signal. The processor is connected to the first light receiver and configured for calculating a luminous flux reference value according to the luminous flux signal. The luminous flux reference value is used for determining whether outputs a low nebulized medicine concentration warning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yio-Wha Shau, Ma-Li Wang, Tzu-Wen Tsai, Tian-Yuan Chen, Hsin-Hsiang Lo, Chun-Chuan Lin, Shih-Bin Luo
  • Patent number: 10268293
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a plurality of shift registers arranged to output the gate driving signals in sequence. The shift registers are divided into groups arranged in sequence, wherein the driving signal from a first one of a N+1th group of shift registers is next to the driving signal from a first one of a Nth group of shift registers; and at least one first compensation circuit connected to the last one of the Nth group of shift registers and the first one of the N+1th group of shift registers, wherein the first compensation circuit provides a first control signal to enable the last one of the Nth group of shift registers to perform signal holding, and provides a second control signal to enable the first one of the N+1th group of shift registers to perform pre-charging, wherein N is an integer greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen-Tsai Hsu, Wei-Kuang Lien
  • Publication number: 20190114013
    Abstract: A touch display device at least including a gate driver is provided. The gate driver at least includes a pull-up control circuit, a pull-down control circuit and a pull-up output circuit. The pull-up control circuit sets the voltage level of a first node to a first voltage level. The pull-down control circuit is configured to set the voltage level of the first node to a second voltage level and includes a first transistor receiving an operation voltage. The second voltage level is lower than the first voltage level. The pull-up output circuit generates a scan signal according to the voltage level of the first node. During a first display period and a second display period, the operation voltage is equal to a first gate voltage. During a touch-sensing period, the operation voltage is equal to a second gate voltage that is lower than the first gate voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Chun-Fu WU, Wei-Kuang LIEN, Wen-Tsai HSU, Sheng-Feng HUANG
  • Publication number: 20190062596
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten and titanium is provided comprising: providing the substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a chitosan; a dicarboxylic acid, wherein the dicarboxylic acid is selected from the group consisting of propanedioic acid and 2-hydroxypropanedioic acid; a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive with a positive surface charge; and, optionally pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the tungsten (W) and some of the titanium (Ti) is polished away from the substrate with a removal selectivity for the tungsten (W) relative to the titanium (Ti).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Wei-Wen Tsai, Lin-Chen Ho, Cheng-Ping Lee, Jiun-Fang Wang
  • Publication number: 20190057877
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing titanium nitride and titanium is provided comprising: providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a linear polyalkylenimine polymer; a colloidal silica abrasive with a positive surface charge; a carboxylic acid; a source of ferric ions; and, optionally pH adjusting agent; wherein the polishing composition has a pH of 1 to 4; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein at least some of the titanium nitride and at least some of the titanium is polished away with a selectivity between titanium nitride and titanium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Wei-Wen Tsai, Cheng-Ping Lee, Jiun-Fang Wang
  • Publication number: 20190057636
    Abstract: A method of displaying frame rate includes the following steps. First, a quantity of image display units of a display is detected. Then, a plurality of refresh rate images are provided according to the quantity of image display units and by using an on-screen display manipulation function. A refresh rate of the display is calculated, to provide refresh rate data. One of the refresh rate images corresponding to the refresh rate data is determined, and is displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ren-Wen TSAI, Chun-I SOONG, Yo-Lin CHANG, Po-Yu KUO
  • Publication number: 20190023944
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten and titanium is provided comprising: providing the substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; an allylamine additive; a carboxylic acid; a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive with a positive surface charge; and, optionally pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein the tungsten (W) is selectively polished away from the substrate relative to the titanium (Ti).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Lin-Chen Ho, Wei-Wen Tsai, Cheng-Ping Lee, Jiun-Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 10181408
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten is disclosed to reduce corrosion rate and inhibit dishing of the tungsten and erosion of underlying dielectrics. The process includes providing a substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a polyglycol or polyglycol derivative; a dicarboxylic acid, a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive; and, optionally a pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the tungsten (W) is polished away from the substrate, corrosion rate is reduced, dishing of the tungsten (W) is inhibited as well as erosion of dielectrics underlying the tungsten (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin-Chen Ho, Wei-Wen Tsai, Cheng-Ping Lee
  • Patent number: 10173925
    Abstract: The present invention provides substantially nonionic brush polymers having pendant polyether groups, preferably poly(alkylene glycol) groups, which polymers are useful as synthetic polymer substitutes for cellulose ethers in mortars and hydraulic binders. The brush polymers are preferably crosslinked, such as with ethylene glycol di(meth)acrylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Robert Baumann, Adam W. Freeman, Philip M. Imbesi, Marc Schmitz, Hongwei Shen, Wei-Wen Tsai, Sipei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180375448
    Abstract: A motor control system includes an electric motor and inverter. The electric motor includes a stator, rotor, and winding structure. The stator includes an iron core with a plurality of slots formed therein along a radial direction of the stator. The winding structure has a plurality of hairpin wires with pins disposed in the slots. The winding structure is configured to provide a plurality of phase windings and each phase winding includes a plurality of motor windings. The inverter includes a switching controller configured to control the turning-on and turning-off of the motor windings of each phase winding of the winding structure. When the electric motor operates in a high-speed mode, the switching controller controls the turning-on and turning-off of the motor windings of each phase winding such that a number of the phase windings turned-on is 1/3 less than a number of all the phase windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hong-Cheng SHEU, Chien-Yu LAI, I-Wen TSAI
  • Patent number: 10163706
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate, and an alignment mark including a conductive through-substrate via (TSV) penetrating through the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin Chang, Fang Wen Tsai, Jing-Cheng Lin, Wen-Chih Chiou, Shin-Puu Jeng
  • Publication number: 20180216240
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten is disclosed to reduce corrosion rate and inhibit dishing of the tungsten and erosion of underlying dielectrics. The process includes providing a substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a thiolalkoxy compound; a dicarboxylic acid, a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive; and, optionally a pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the tungsten (W) is polished away from the substrate, corrosion rate is reduced, dishing of the tungsten (W) is inhibited as well as erosion of dielectrics underlying the tungsten (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Lin-Chen Ho, Wei-Wen Tsai, Cheng-Ping Lee
  • Publication number: 20180218918
    Abstract: A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten is disclosed to reduce corrosion rate and inhibit dishing of the tungsten and erosion of underlying dielectrics. The process includes providing a substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a polyglycol or polyglycol derivative; a dicarboxylic acid, a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive; and, optionally a pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the tungsten (W) is polished away from the substrate, corrosion rate is reduced, dishing of the tungsten (W) is inhibited as well as erosion of dielectrics underlying the tungsten (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Lin-Chen Ho, Wei-Wen Tsai, Cheng-Ping Lee