Patents by Inventor YAN KUEI CHEN

YAN KUEI CHEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240196573
    Abstract: An example method for providing cooling capacity and reducing power consumption of a server assembly is disclosed. The method includes receiving temperature information corresponding to a CPU of an electrical component in the server assembly, which further includes an equipment room, and a cabinet fan module positioned adjacent to a side of the equipment room. The cabinet fan module includes electric fans therein, and the electrical component is implemented in the equipment room. The method includes determining a current power level of the CPU, and determining, using the temperature information and the current power level, a first operating speed for the electric fans. Furthermore, the method includes combining the first operating speed with a second operating speed received from a proportional-integral-derivative controller to determine a combined operating speed. The method still further includes instructing the electric fans to operate at the combined operating speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh CHEN, Yueh-Chang WU, Yan-Kuei CHEN, Yi-Ta HSU
  • Publication number: 20240049425
    Abstract: A structure for protecting an electronic component from coolant leaking from a liquid cooling system is disclosed. The liquid cooling system has a manifold collecting and supplying coolant to a cold plate via inlet and outlet tubes. The cold plate is mounted over a heat-generating component on a circuit board. The structure includes a drip tray having a top surface and a length approximately the distance between the manifold and the cold plate. The drip tray includes a trough for collection of leaking coolant. The tray is inserted between the circuit board and the inlet and outlet tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh CHEN, Yueh-Chang WU, Yan-Kuei CHEN, Yu-Hung WANG
  • Patent number: 11778787
    Abstract: A computing system includes a cabinet, an inlet temperature sensor, a cooling device, an environmental sensor, and at least one processor. The cabinet houses at least one computing device. The inlet temperature sensor is configured to detect inlet temperature data for the at least one computing device. The inlet temperature data represents internal temperature within the cabinet. The cooling device is coupled to the cabinet for maintaining temperature within the cabinet. The environmental sensor is configured to detect environmental temperature data external to the cabinet. The environmental temperature data represents external temperature outside the cabinet. The at least one processor is configured to: (a) determine if one or more of the inlet temperature data and the environmental temperature data exceeds a temperature range; and (b) in response to the temperature range being exceeded, generate a first warning signal indicating a temperature problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Chen, Yueh-Chang Wu, Yan-Kuei Chen, Yangtzu Lee
  • Publication number: 20230247800
    Abstract: A computing system includes a cabinet, an inlet temperature sensor, a cooling device, an environmental sensor, and at least one processor. The cabinet houses at least one computing device. The inlet temperature sensor is configured to detect inlet temperature data for the at least one computing device. The inlet temperature data represents internal temperature within the cabinet. The cooling device is coupled to the cabinet for maintaining temperature within the cabinet. The environmental sensor is configured to detect environmental temperature data external to the cabinet. The environmental temperature data represents external temperature outside the cabinet. The at least one processor is configured to: (a) determine if one or more of the inlet temperature data and the environmental temperature data exceeds a temperature range; and (b) in response to the temperature range being exceeded, generate a first warning signal indicating a temperature problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh CHEN, Yueh-Chang WU, Yan-Kuei CHEN, Yangtzu LEE
  • Patent number: 11687134
    Abstract: Cooling devices, such as fans, installed in a computing device can be automatically identified by reading an encoded signal from the cooling device's tachometer signal line. A cooling device can temporarily output an encoded signal in response to a trigger event, such as a power on event (e.g., powering-on of the cooling device). A controller, such as a baseboard management controller (BMC), can receive the encoded signal and decode the signal to determine identification information about the cooling device, such as vendor information and/or model information. The identification information about the cooling device can be stored, logged, output, and/or used to customize the operation of the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Chen, Yueh-Chang Wu, Yan-Kuei Chen, Hsin-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11412638
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a remote heat sink, and a heat-pipe module. The CPU is mounted on a base of the electronic device, and the remote heat sink receives heat generated by the CPU. The heat-pipe module has a plurality of heat pipes for transferring the heat generated by the CPU to the remote heat sink. Each heat pipe has a circular section extending between a first end and a second end. The first end has a flattened, non-circular shape, and is coupled to the base near the CPU. The second end is coupled to the remote heat sink. The first end of each heat pipe is in direct contact with at least another first end of an adjacent heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Chen, Yueh-Chang Wu, Yan-Kuei Chen, Te-Chuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20220174845
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a remote heat sink, and a heat-pipe module. The CPU is mounted on a base of the electronic device, and the remote heat sink receives heat generated by the CPU. The heat-pipe module has a plurality of heat pipes for transferring the heat generated by the CPU to the remote heat sink. Each heat pipe has a circular section extending between a first end and a second end. The first end has a flattened, non-circular shape, and is coupled to the base near the CPU. The second end is coupled to the remote heat sink. The first end of each heat pipe is in direct contact with at least another first end of an adjacent heat pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh CHEN, Yueh-Chang WU, Yan-Kuei CHEN, Te-Chuan WANG
  • Publication number: 20210365087
    Abstract: Cooling devices, such as fans, installed in a computing device can be automatically identified by reading an encoded signal from the cooling device's tachometer signal line. A cooling device can temporarily output an encoded signal in response to a trigger event, such as a power on event (e.g., powering-on of the cooling device). A controller, such as a baseboard management controller (BMC), can receive the encoded signal and decode the signal to determine identification information about the cooling device, such as vendor information and/or model information. The identification information about the cooling device can be stored, logged, output, and/or used to customize the operation of the cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh CHEN, Yueh-Chang WU, Yan-Kuei CHEN, Hsin-Yu LIN
  • Patent number: 11013151
    Abstract: A chassis includes a receiver frame for receiving a plurality of electronic components. The receiver frame includes a front end, a rear end, a top wall, and a bottom wall. The receiver frame also includes one or more apertures positioned in the bottom wall or the top wall at a location adjacent to the front end. The receiver frame also includes a plurality of air flow channels coupling openings in the front end to the one or more apertures such that air flow from the openings of the front end is first directed towards the rear end across the plurality of electronic components before being directed back towards the front end and then exiting the one or more apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Chen, Ming-Hung Tsai, Yan-Kuei Chen, Yi-He Huang
  • Publication number: 20080028284
    Abstract: The invention is an application to interact with user and concurrently extract titles, descriptions and emails from the web page pointed by a list of URLs. The user can directly input a list of URLs, or alternatively, a location that contains a list of URLs. The system will generate link texts and email messages; the user evaluates and edits the automatically generated results and submits the data to be formatted for web page, saved into a file, sent as email, or inserted into database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: WASHINGTON TRANS WORLD TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: YAN KUEI CHEN