Patents by Inventor Yen-Chang Chu

Yen-Chang Chu 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: 20250093248
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source and a light sensor. The light source and the light sensor are arranged adjacently on the substrate. The substrate is arranged with an asymmetric structure to cause an illumination region of the light source to deviate toward the light sensor thereby increasing a ratio of light intensity reflected by smoke with respect to reference light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20250067667
    Abstract: There is provided an optical machine of a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source, a light sensor and a light blocking member. The light source and the light sensor are arranged on the substrate in a first direction. The light blocking member is arranged upon the light source and blocks a part of an emission angle of the light source in the first direction far away from the light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: CHENG-NAN TSAI, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun, Chi-Chih Shen, Kuo-Hsiung Li
  • Patent number: 12203838
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source and a light sensor. The light source and the light sensor are arranged adjacently on the substrate. The substrate is arranged with an asymmetric structure to cause an illumination region of the light source to deviate toward the light sensor thereby increasing a ratio of light intensity reflected by smoke with respect to reference light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 12188865
    Abstract: There is provided an optical machine of a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source, a light sensor and a light blocking member. The light source and the light sensor are arranged on the substrate in a first direction. The light blocking member is arranged upon the light source and blocks a part of an emission angle of the light source in the first direction far away from the light sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun, Chi-Chih Shen, Kuo-Hsiung Li
  • Publication number: 20240404877
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over a substrate, a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) stop layer is formed over the first ILD layer, a trench is formed by patterning the CMP stop layer and the first ILD layer, a metal layer is formed over the CMP stop layer and in the trench, a sacrificial layer is formed over the metal layer, a CMP operation is performed on the sacrificial layer and the metal layer to remove a portion of the metal layer over the CMP stop layer, and a remaining portion of the sacrificial layer over the trench is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsai-Ming HUANG, Wei-Chieh HUANG, Hsun-Chung KUANG, Yen-Chang CHU, Cheng-Che CHUNG, Chin-Wei LIANG, Ching-Sen KUO, Jieh-Jang CHEN, Feng-Jia SHIU, Sheng-Chau CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240404384
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a first light source, a second light source surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the first light source and the second light source emit light, and generates a first detection signal corresponding to light emission of the first light source and a second detection signal corresponding to light emission of the second light source. The processor distinguishes smoke and floating particles according to a similarity between the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: CHENG-NAN TSAI, GUO-ZHEN WANG, CHING-KUN CHEN, YEN-CHANG CHU, CHIH-MING SUN
  • Patent number: 12148279
    Abstract: A smoke detector includes a substrate, an optical detection module, a base and a top cover. The substrate has a ring shape region surrounding a central detection region, and a first block structure of the central detection region is protruded from the substrate and higher than an upper surface of the ring shape region. The optical detection module is disposed inside the central detection region. The base is disposed on the substrate and around the optical detection module. The base has a second block structure. The top cover is connected to the base. A lateral wall of the top cover is partly overlapped with the second block structure to form a guiding channel. The optical detection module analyzes variation of scattering parameters resulted from gaseous matter entering the top cover through the guiding channel for determining concentration of the gaseous matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 12106649
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a first light source, a second light source surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the first light source and the second light source emit light, and generates a first detection signal corresponding to light emission of the first light source and a second detection signal corresponding to light emission of the second light source. The processor distinguishes smoke and floating particles according to a similarity between the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Guo-Zhen Wang, Ching-Kun Chen, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 12046114
    Abstract: A smoke detection device includes a housing, a smoke collector, an optical detector and a cover plate. The housing has a piercing hole. The smoker collector has a smoke hole, and position of the smoke hole is close to position of the piercing hole. The optical detector is disposed inside the smoke collector and adapted to detect gaseous concentration inside the smoke collector. The cover plate is disposed between the housing and the smoke collector, and used to set a channel from the piercing hole to the smoke hole, so that gaseous matter flows from outside the smoke detection device into the smoke collector through the piercing hole and the smoke hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Yen-Po Chen, Chih-Ming Sun, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Ching-Kun Chen
  • Publication number: 20240159642
    Abstract: A smoke detector with an anti-insect function includes a substrate, an optical detection module, a top cover, a base and a perforated plate. The substrate has a ring shape region surrounding a central detection region, and a first block structure of the central detection region is protruded from the substrate and higher than an upper surface of the ring shape region. The optical detection module is disposed inside the central detection region. The top cover has a lateral wall. The base is disposed on the substrate and connected to the top cover to cover the optical detection module. The base has a second block structure partly overlapped with the lateral wall to form a guiding channel. The perforated plate is disposed between the lateral wall and the second block structure to prevent an insect from moving into the top cover through the guiding channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun, Zhi-Hao Wu, Hung-Yu Lai
  • Publication number: 20240142361
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source and a light sensor. The light source and the light sensor are arranged adjacently on the substrate. The substrate is arranged with an asymmetric structure to cause an illumination region of the light source to deviate toward the light sensor thereby increasing a ratio of light intensity reflected by smoke with respect to reference light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: YEN-CHANG CHU, CHENG-NAN TSAI, CHIH-MING SUN
  • Publication number: 20240078887
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a first light source, a second light source surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the first light source and the second light source emit light, and generates a first detection signal corresponding to light emission of the first light source and a second detection signal corresponding to light emission of the second light source. The processor distinguishes smoke and floating particles according to a similarity between the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: CHENG-NAN TSAI, GUO-ZHEN WANG, CHING-KUN CHEN, YEN-CHANG CHU, CHIH-MING SUN
  • Patent number: 11913864
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a substrate, a light source and a light sensor. The light source and the light sensor are arranged adjacently on the substrate. The substrate is arranged with an asymmetric structure to cause an illumination region of the light source to deviate toward the light sensor thereby increasing a ratio of light intensity reflected by smoke with respect to reference light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20240054874
    Abstract: A smoke detector includes a substrate, an optical detection module, a base and a top cover. The substrate has a ring shape region surrounding a central detection region, and a first block structure of the central detection region is protruded from the substrate and higher than an upper surface of the ring shape region. The optical detection module is disposed inside the central detection region. The base is disposed on the substrate and around the optical detection module. The base has a second block structure. The top cover is connected to the base. A lateral wall of the top cover is partly overlapped with the second block structure to form a guiding channel. The optical detection module analyzes variation of scattering parameters resulted from gaseous matter entering the top cover through the guiding channel for determining concentration of the gaseous matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 11855109
    Abstract: A system and method for forming pixels in an image sensor is provided. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an image sensor including a first pixel region and a second pixel region in a substrate, the first pixel region being adjacent to the second pixel region. A first anti-reflection coating is over the first pixel region, the first anti-reflection coating reducing reflection for a first wavelength range of incident light. A second anti-reflection coating is over the second pixel region, the second anti-reflection coating reducing reflection for a second wavelength range of incident light that is different from the first wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Yeur-Luen Tu, Cheng-Yuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 11854361
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a light source, a reflective surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the light source emits light toward the reflective surface, and generates a reference detection signal when there is no smoke. The processor receives the detection signal from the light sensor, and automatically selects a set of predetermined condition thresholds according to a profile of the detection signal to be compared with the detection signal thereby determining whether to generate an alarm according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Guo-Zhen Wang, Ching-Kun Chen, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20230375419
    Abstract: There is provided a force sensor including a substrate and a polymer material layer. The substrate has a circuit layout that includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured to form a capacitor therebetween. The polymer material layer covers at least on a space between the first electrode and the second electrode, and is used to change capacitance of the capacitor while being pressed. The force sensor is arranged inside a stem of an earphone for detecting the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: YEN-PO CHEN, HAO-CHE LIU, YEN-CHANG CHU, CHIH-MING SUN
  • Patent number: 11761830
    Abstract: There is provided a force sensor including a substrate and a polymer material layer. The substrate has a circuit layout that includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured to form a capacitor therebetween. The polymer material layer covers at least on a space between the first electrode and the second electrode, and is used to change capacitance of the capacitor while being pressed. The force sensor is arranged inside a stem of an earphone for detecting the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Po Chen, Hao-Che Liu, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Publication number: 20230252871
    Abstract: A smoke detection device includes a housing, a smoke collector, an optical detector and a cover plate. The housing has a piercing hole. The smoker collector has a smoke hole, and position of the smoke hole is close to position of the piercing hole. The optical detector is disposed inside the smoke collector and adapted to detect gaseous concentration inside the smoke collector. The cover plate is disposed between the housing and the smoke collector, and used to set a channel from the piercing hole to the smoke hole, so that gaseous matter flows from outside the smoke detection device into the smoke collector through the piercing hole and the smoke hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Yen-Po Chen, Chih-Ming Sun, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Ching-Kun Chen
  • Publication number: 20230206743
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a light source, a reflective surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the light source emits light toward the reflective surface, and generates a reference detection signal when there is no smoke. The processor receives the detection signal from the light sensor, and automatically selects a set of predetermined condition thresholds according to a profile of the detection signal to be compared with the detection signal thereby determining whether to generate an alarm according to the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan TSAI, Guo-Zhen WANG, Ching-Kun CHEN, Yen-Chang CHU, Chih-Ming SUN