Patents by Inventor Yi-Chun Du

Yi-Chun Du 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: 20200155000
    Abstract: A fetal movement measuring device includes a detection unit and a smart device. The detection unit is selected from elastic materials and is attachable to an abdomen of a pregnant woman. The detection unit includes multiple branch sections extending outward therefrom. Each of the branch sections includes a fetal movement sensor and an electrode patch. The fetal movement sensor and the electrode patch are connected to a main circuit board to transmit an abdominal dynamic physiological signal detected by the fetal movement sensor and a fetal electrocardiographic signal detected by the electrode patch to the main circuit board. The smart device is operable to receive the abdominal dynamic physiological signal and the fetal electrocardiographic signal from the main circuit board and includes a fetal movement algorithm program that calculates and generates fetal movement data and the fetal heart rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yi Chun Du, Bee Yen Lim
  • Patent number: 10646636
    Abstract: A needle dislodgement and blood leakage detection device includes a sensor assembly having a flexible sensor and a flexible substrate. The flexible sensor is provided, on an underside thereof at a location close to the flexible substrate, with a photoelectric sensor including near infrared transmitters that are of an array arrangement. The photoelectric sensor includes a signal amplifier module and a signal filter module that are electrically connected. An alarm device is coupled to the sensor assembly and includes a microprocessor unit, which includes a digital signal converter module, a signal sampling module, a signal demodulation module, a signal processing module, a time division module, a storage module, and a wireless transmission module that are connected in series. The digital signal converter module is connected to the signal filter module. The storage module and the wireless transmission module are respectively connected to a display unit and a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yi-Chun Du, Bee Yen Lim, Ming-Jui Wu
  • Patent number: 10441293
    Abstract: A hemostatic method is performed as follows: A) An at-puncture hemostatic pressure is applied to a puncture in a blood vessel via a main geometric side, and at least one off-puncture hemostatic pressure is applied to at least one position away from the puncture via at least one auxiliary geometric side, wherein the off-puncture hemostatic pressure acts on the blood vessel either directly or indirectly. B) During the hemostatic process, an ongoing flow velocity of the blood in the blood vessel is obtained and is reduced to lower than a normal flow velocity in the blood vessel by applying the at-puncture and off-puncture hemostatic pressures simultaneously, wherein the at-puncture and off-puncture hemostatic pressures are lower than a systolic pressure in the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yi-Chun Du, Bee-Yen Lim, Shi-han Chen
  • Publication number: 20190271603
    Abstract: A woven article and a method for detecting a stress distribution of the woven article under stress are provided. The woven article includes a woven body and a plurality of metallic yarns connected to the woven body and spaced apart from each other. The woven body defines more than one direction thereon. The metallic yarns each extend in the direction. A resistance sensor is connected with each of the metallic yarns. A stress is exerted on the woven body, and the resistance sensor detects a resistance value generated by the metallic yarns on the woven body. According to the resistance value detected by the resistance sensor, a stress distribution of the woven body under stress can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: YI-CHUN DU, CHENG-PANG SHIH, JING-YI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190216359
    Abstract: An impedance chip detection system for biological testing includes a sensor and a portable detector. The sensor includes an absorbing layer, a sensing layer, and a transmitting layer, and the detector includes a detection slot, a control module provided for an impedance measurement and calculation of a specimen, and a display module for displaying a detection result of the specimen, so that after the sensor is plugged into the detection slot, the sensor performs an impedance measurement and calculation of the specimen and the detector displays the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: CHENG HSIN CHUANG, YI CHUN DU, PEI YU ZHU
  • Publication number: 20180193031
    Abstract: A hemostatic method is performed as follows: A) An at-puncture hemostatic pressure is applied to a puncture in a blood vessel via a main geometric side, and at least one off-puncture hemostatic pressure is applied to at least one position away from the puncture via at least one auxiliary geometric side, wherein the off-puncture hemostatic pressure acts on the blood vessel either directly or indirectly. B) During the hemostatic process, an ongoing flow velocity of the blood in the blood vessel is obtained and is reduced to lower than a normal flow velocity in the blood vessel by applying the at-puncture and off-puncture hemostatic pressures simultaneously, wherein the at-puncture and off-puncture hemostatic pressures are lower than a systolic pressure in the blood vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: YI-CHUN DU, BEE-YEN LIM, SHI-HAN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170333615
    Abstract: A needle dislodgement and blood leakage detection device includes a sensor assembly having a flexible sensor and a flexible substrate. The flexible sensor is provided, on an underside thereof at a location close to the flexible substrate, with a photoelectric sensor including near infrared transmitters that are of an array arrangement. The photoelectric sensor includes a signal amplifier module and a signal filter module that are electrically connected. An alarm device is coupled to the sensor assembly and includes a microprocessor unit, which includes a digital signal converter module, a signal sampling module, a signal demodulation module, a signal processing module, a time division module, a storage module, and a wireless transmission module that are connected in series. The digital signal converter module is connected to the signal filter module. The storage module and the wireless transmission module are respectively connected to a display unit and a computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yi-Chun Du, Bee Yen Lim, Ming-Jui Wu
  • Publication number: 20170265799
    Abstract: A fetal movement measuring device includes a wearable article to be worn on a pregnant woman's abdomen, plural measurement units, and a mobile device pre-installed with a fetal movement algorithm. The measurement units are provided separately on the outer surface of the wearable article and each include a fetal movement sensor for sensing a dynamic physiological signal of the abdomen and a power supply element for supplying necessary electricity to the fetal movement sensor. The dynamic physiological signals sensed by the fetal movement sensors are received by the mobile device, processed with the fetal movement algorithm, and rid of synchronous signal components. Then, the fetal movement algorithm performs calculation on the remaining signal components to generate fetal movement information, which includes a fetal movement location and a fetal movement magnitude. Thus, each fetal movement is measured in a non-contact manner, and its location, obtained through asynchronous multipoint measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: YI-CHUN DU, JHENG-BANG SHIH, BEE-YEN LIM, WEI-SIANG CIOU, CHUNG-YI CHIU
  • Publication number: 20150374896
    Abstract: A needle dislodgement and blood leakage detection device includes a sensor assembly including a flexible sensor and an alarm device to which the sensor assembly is mounted. The flexible sensor includes two blood leakage detection electrodes that circumferentially surround a needle piercing site. The blood leakage detection electrodes are contactable by a needle in a manner of crossing therebetween to get shorted or are contactable with blood leaking out of the needle piercing site to get shorted. The alarm device is positionable on a body surface of a patient and is electrically connected to the blood leakage detection electrodes so as to issue an alarm message when the detection electrodes are shorted. The flexible sensor has a thin plate configuration that is flexible allows the flexible sensor to be flat attached to the patient body surface and deformable with the bending of a limb of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventor: Yi-Chun Du