Patents by Inventor Ying-Chang Cheng

Ying-Chang Cheng 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: 20140115764
    Abstract: The sanitization mechanism of the toilet seat is using control circuit(s) to ensure an enclosed compartment between toilet seat and toilet cover then activating UV LEDs to sanitize the toilet seat. In addition to safe operation, fast response and effective sanitization, it can reduce toilet seat paper or restroom chemicals consumption, especially in high traffic public locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Ying Chang Cheng, Yu-Lin Cheng, Jen-Gieh Cheng
  • Patent number: 7974065
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric arc isolation structure for isolating an electric arc produced by an arc discharge at a transformer, and the transformer includes a primary side input electrode terminal and a secondary side high-voltage output terminal. The exterior of the transformer is covered by an insulating sheath, and the insulating sheath at least fully covers the secondary side high-voltage output terminal of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7786676
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an LED driver structure, which obtains input power coming from a power source to generate a constant-current power to drive a plurality of LEDs, and which comprises: a plurality of diode groups connected in parallel, a first piezoelectric conversion unit and a second piezoelectric conversion unit respectively arranged at both sides of the diode groups. The first and second piezoelectric conversion units receive the input power and opposite-phase convert the input power into driving powers to drive the diode groups. Among the plurality of diode groups, at least one diode group is formed of a plurality of LEDs. Each of the first and second piezoelectric conversion units has a piezoelectric inverter, which can easily achieve an impedance matching and a constant-current power to drive LEDs via a piezoelectric effect. Besides, the present invention also has the advantage of cost efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Shih-Hung Liu
  • Patent number: 7747891
    Abstract: An inverter control circuit is used to control a switch and a transformer in front of a light-emitting unit and then adjust the driving power for the light-emitting unit and modify the luminant state of the light-emitting unit and comprises: a first control unit and a second control unit both having equivalent electronic elements. The first control unit and the second control unit have a signal generator and a signal synthesizer circuit. According to a signal fed back by the light-emitting unit and a dimming signal, the first signal generator outputs first working signals via the signal synthesizer circuit of the first control unit to determine the turn-on time of the switch. According to the first working signals and via the signal synthesizer circuit of the second control unit, the second signal generator outputs second working signals to the switch to determine the resonance frequency of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Patent number: 7719202
    Abstract: A LED driving circuit mainly includes a commutation unit to transform an AC input cycle signal to a DC cycle signal, a switch unit which divides a driving power signal output to a LED and has a duty voltage value, a valley filled power factor correction circuit to receive the AC input cycle signal and stop conduction of the commutation unit when the voltage value of the AC input cycle signal is lower than a cutoff voltage value, and a piezoelectric inverter to receive the driving power signal of the switch unit and regulate the signal to an AC modulated power signal within a duty range of the LED to drive the LED to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Shih-Hung Liu
  • Patent number: 7688556
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an arc-discharge detection device, which is used to detect the arc discharge persistently occurring in between an inverter and a load during an abnormal power transmission state. The inverter is arranged in a circuit board, and a carbonized loop is defined in an arc-discharge reaction area of the circuit board. In the present invention, a power-variation detection unit is electrically coupled to the carbonized loop and detects the power-level variation caused by the carbonized loop and generates a power-variation signal; an interpretation unit receives the power-variation signal and utilizes a decision level to determine whether the power variation is caused by arc discharge and outputs an abnormal-power signal if the interpretation result is positive; and a trigger unit is driven by the abnormal-power signal to interrupt the inverter's outputting high-voltage power to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Patent number: 7633244
    Abstract: A method for dimming multiple lamps includes: getting a brightness range of a lighting area which has at least two light sources, getting a dimming range of the light sources, setting the brightness of the lighting area, determining the dimming value of each light source, and defining different dimming values of at least two light sources. The luminosity adjustment upper limit and lower limit of the individual light sources are obtained. After the brightness of the lighting area is set the dimming value of each light source is determined to form the brightness of the lighting area through the two light sources of different brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090261740
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an LED driver structure, which obtains input power coming from a power source to generate a constant-current power to drive a plurality of LEDs, and which comprises: a plurality of diode groups connected in parallel, a first piezoelectric conversion unit and a second piezoelectric conversion unit respectively arranged at both sides of the diode groups. The first and second piezoelectric conversion units receive the input power and opposite-phase convert the input power into driving powers to drive the diode groups. Among the plurality of diode groups, at least one diode group is formed of a plurality of LEDs. Each of the first and second piezoelectric conversion units has a piezoelectric inverter, which can easily achieve an impedance matching and a constant-current power to drive LEDs via a piezoelectric effect. Besides, the present invention also has the advantage of cost efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Shih-Hung Liu
  • Patent number: 7598940
    Abstract: An inverter for boosting rotational image displaying gain has a driving module to output a plurality of driving signals of the same frequency and same phase to synchronously drive a plurality of voltage transformation modules. The driving signals have a duty cycle consisting high luminance cycles and low luminance cycles. The driving module has a time sequence control means to code the driving signals that drive the voltage transformation modules as the high luminance cycles corresponding to the image display time of a front end display panel. The transformation time difference between the preceding image and the following image of the display panel is coded as the low luminance cycles. Thereby the rotational image displaying gain of the display panel can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chin-Wen Chou, Ying-Nan Cheng, Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Patent number: 7558086
    Abstract: An inverter control circuit with a resonant frequency modulation function provides a control circuit module that can modulate different resonant frequencies externally to fit loads of different modes without changing the inverter components such as a voltage transformer or redesigning the circuit layout. The RC oscillation circuit of a resonant frequency controller of the invention includes several separate resistors, and the separate resistors of the RC oscillation circuit are coupled to at least one switcher to form an open circuit or a closed circuit to determine the total resistance of the RC oscillation circuit for modulating different resonant frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7545105
    Abstract: An improved driving circuit for piezoelectric lamps includes a power switch unit and at least one piezoelectric transformer. The power switch unit is connected to a power source. ON/OFF of the power switch unit controls power amount transmitted to the piezoelectric transformer. The piezoelectric transformer transforms the power and drives at least one load. Operation of the power switch unit is controlled by a duty cycle signal generated by a pulse modulation unit. The pulse modulation unit is connected to a buffer unit which generates a time series at start time to suppress instant output of the piezoelectric transformer, thereby to improve the problem of voltage surge at the start time happened to the conventional piezoelectric transformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Publication number: 20090107698
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric arc isolation structure for isolating an electric arc produced by an arc discharge at a transformer, and the transformer includes a primary side input electrode terminal and a secondary side high-voltage output terminal. The exterior of the transformer is covered by an insulating sheath, and the insulating sheath at least fully covers the secondary side high-voltage output terminal of the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Ying-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090072759
    Abstract: A method for dimming multiple lamps includes: getting a brightness range of a lighting area which has at least two light sources, getting a dimming range of the light sources, setting the brightness of the lighting area, determining the dimming value of each light source, and defining different dimming values of at least two light sources. The luminosity adjustment upper limit and lower limit of the individual light sources are obtained. After the brightness of the lighting area is set the dimming value of each light source is determined to form the brightness of the lighting area through the two light sources of different brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventor: Ying-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090045755
    Abstract: An improved driving circuit for piezoelectric lamps includes a power switch unit and at least one piezoelectric transformer. The power switch unit is connected to a power source. ON/OFF of the power switch unit controls power amount transmitted to the piezoelectric transformer. The piezoelectric transformer transforms the power and drives at least one load. Operation of the power switch unit is controlled by a duty cycle signal generated by a pulse modulation unit. The pulse modulation unit is connected to a buffer unit which generates a time series at start time to suppress instant output of the piezoelectric transformer, thereby to improve the problem of voltage surge at the start time happened to the conventional piezoelectric transformers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Patent number: 7489085
    Abstract: A backlight module actuation method aims to modulate a unsaturated luminance cycle in a dimming cycle for a backlight module in the condition of a saturated luminance. An oscillation amplitude time series of the duty cycle of a transformer at the rear end is set according to the dimming cycle to form a switch kinetic energy in the unsaturated luminance cycle. The switch kinetic energy can eliminate the parasite capacitance generated when the backlight module is in the condition of the saturated luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chin-Wen Chou, Ying-Nan Cheng, Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Publication number: 20080258643
    Abstract: A method for driving AC of light emitting diodes includes an AC obtaining measure for obtaining an AC sine wave signal having positive and negative half-cycle waveforms; a power modulation measure for modulating the AC sine wave signal and an impedance of first and second LED groups according to at least two opposite conducting directions connected in parallel to change the positive half-cycle waveform to comply with an operation range of the positive half-cycle driving signal of the first LED group and modulate the negative half-cycle waveform to comply with an operation range of the negative half-cycle driving signal of the second LED group; and a power driving measure for driving the first and second LED groups by the positive and negative half-cycle driving signals, and the first and second LED groups are driven sequentially according to the operating cycles of the positive and negative half-cycle driving signals respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Ying-Chang CHENG, Shih-Hung LIU
  • Patent number: 7436128
    Abstract: A driving circuit for hot cathode fluorescent lamps aims to filter out signals with a voltage value lower than a duty voltage value of a switch unit through a commutation unit and a valley filled power correction circuit to prevent power from accumulating and the switch unit from being pierced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Zippy Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Publication number: 20080225444
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an arc-discharge detection device, which is used to detect the arc discharge persistently occurring in between an inverter and a load during an abnormal power transmission state. The inverter is arranged in a circuit board, and a carbonized loop is defined in an arc-discharge reaction area of the circuit board. In the present invention, a power-variation detection unit is electrically coupled to the carbonized loop and detects the power-level variation caused by the carbonized loop and generates a power-variation signal; an interpretation unit receives the power-variation signal and utilizes a decision level to determine whether the power variation is caused by arc discharge and outputs an abnormal-power signal if the interpretation result is positive; and a trigger unit is driven by the abnormal-power signal to interrupt the inverter's outputting high-voltage power to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Publication number: 20080225445
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an arc-discharge protection device with a temperature detection mode, which is used to detect the arc discharge persistently occurring in between an inverter and a load during an abnormal power transmission state and is arranged in a connector coupling said inverter and said load and implementing the high-voltage power transmission therebetween. In the present invention, a temperature signal sampling unit is used to detect a temperature change of the connector and generate a temperature-change signal; next, an interpretation unit receives the temperature-change signal and utilizes a decision level to determine whether the temperature change is the abnormal high temperature phenomenon caused by arc discharge and outputs an abnormal-temperature signal if the interpretation result is positive; and a trigger unit is driven by the abnormal-temperature signal to interrupt the inverter's outputting high-voltage power to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung
  • Publication number: 20080122366
    Abstract: A backup architecture for a backlight module comprises a first power system and a second power system, each having an enable mode and a disable mode; and a sensor unit, electrically connected to the first and the second power systems. In the enable mode, the first power system or the second power system is enabled to drive the backlight module to emit light. In the disable mode, the first power system or the second power system is disabled and stops driving the backlight module. The first and the second power systems are interconnected in parallel. When one of the first power system and the second power system enters into the enable mode, the other enters into the disable mode. The sensor unit acquires the working signals of the first and the second power systems and monitors whether the first power system or the second power system is in an abnormal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Ying-Chang Cheng, Chin-Biau Chung