Patents by Inventor Yuan Wang

Yuan Wang 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: 8714114
    Abstract: A leash assembly includes a belt and at least one connector piece coupled to the belt. The belt can be worn by a subject around the torso, shoulders, neck or wrist. Each connector piece is configured to move along at least a portion of the belt. In some embodiments, the connector piece is a link configured to be receive the belt and to move along the belt. Alternatively, the belt has one or more tracks, in which the connector piece is configured to travel on thereby allowing the connector to travel along the belt. Each connector piece is coupled with a leash. In some embodiments, the leash has a retractable end. The leash assembly can include adornments and/or a carrier coupled to the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventors: Tina Ting-Yuan Wang, Michael Clair Houston, Kevin Kin-Wai Lau
  • Patent number: 8711351
    Abstract: Scattering spectroscopy employs a scattering spectroscopy enhancing structure having a hotspot on a first side of a substrate and a nanopore in the substrate, where the nanopore is aligned with the hotspot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gary Gibson, Steven J Barcelo, Shih-Yuan Wang, Zhiyong Li, Huei Pei Kuo, Ansoon Kim, Alexandre M Bratkovski, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Mineo Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8702967
    Abstract: A test meter system for testing a characteristic of a fluid, the test meter system including a test meter having a housing with an opening adapted to accept a test strip, an interrogation coil within the housing, a pick-up coil within the housing, and a test strip including at least one magneto-elastic-resonance sensor. When the test strip is within the opening, the interrogation coil may utilize magneto-elastic-resonance technology to interrogate the magneto elastic-resonance sensor and the pick-up coil may be used to sense a resultant oscillation frequency of the magneto elastic-resonance sensor, the resultant oscillation frequency associated with the characteristic. The test strip may include a plurality of sensors. The sensors may be coated with a coating sensitive to a characteristic of the fluid, where the interrogation reveals information about the fluid characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer HealthCare LLC
    Inventors: Swetha Chinnayelka, Jiangfeng Fei, Yuan Wang, Narasinha Parasnis, Hoi-Cheong Steve Sun, Raeann Gifford, Steven Charlton
  • Patent number: 8699831
    Abstract: A method includes fabricating a circuit element and a connection to the circuit element for a photonic integrated circuit. The method includes associating a configurable material with the circuit element and activating the configurable material via a poling rail and the connection to the circuit element during production of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lars Helge Thylen, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Shih-Yuan Wang, Alexandre M Bratkovski, Wayne V Sorin, Michael Josef Stuke
  • Patent number: 8693894
    Abstract: A gain clamped optical device includes a semiconductor stack and a resonant cavity configured to emit stimulated light. A window created in the optical device is configured to emit the stimulated light in an LED mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Wang, Michael Tan, Alexandre Bratkovski, Sagi Mathai
  • Patent number: 8692270
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes a submount, a chip carrier formed on the submount, and a light-emitting chip formed on the chip carrier. The light-emitting apparatus also includes a reflecting cup formed on the submount and enclosing the light-emitting chip and the chip carrier, and a transparent encapsulating material for encapsulating the light-emitting chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Hsun Hsieh, Ta-Cheng Hsu, ML Tsai, Chih-Chiang Lu, Chien-Yuan Wang, Yen-Wen Chen, Ya-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 8692280
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor device including: a substrate; a semiconductor system having an active layer formed on the substrate; and an electrode structure formed on the semiconductor system, wherein the electrode structure includes: a first conductivity type bonding pad; a second conductivity type bonding pad; a first conductivity type extension electrode; and a second conductivity type extension electrode, wherein the first conductivity type extension electrode and the second conductivity type extension electrode form a three-dimensional crossover; wherein the first conductivity type extension electrode and the second conductivity type extension electrode are on the opposite sides of the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Yuan Wang, Shih-Chiang Yeh
  • Patent number: 8687186
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to nanowire-based systems for performing surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. In one embodiment, a system comprises a substrate having a surface and a plurality of tapered nanowires disposed on the surface. Each nanowire has a tapered end directed away from the surface. The system also includes a plurality of nanoparticles disposed near the tapered end of each nanowire. When each nanowire is illuminated with light of a pump wavelength, Raman excitation light is emitted from the tapered end of the nanowire to interact with the nanoparticles and produce enhanced Raman scattered light from molecules located in close proximity to the nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Wang, Jingjing Li, Huei Pei Kuo, David A. Fattal, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Zhiyong Li
  • Publication number: 20140085248
    Abstract: A double head stylus having light pointer includes a tube having a conductive rubber stylus on both ends thereof. A least a conductive portion electrically connected to both the conductive rubber styluses is formed to the tube. Through holding the conductive portion of the tube by hand, both the rubber styluses of the tube are capable of performing capacitive sensing on a capacitive touch panel. One of the conductive rubber styluses has an axial through hole. A light pointer having at least one light source is arranged inside the tube so that the light of the light source will project from the through hole of the conductive rubber stylus as a pointer. A battery and circuit connected between the battery and the light source are arranged inside the tube. A switch serving to control the conductivity between the light source and the battery is arranged to the tube so as to control the operation of the light pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventor: Kuan Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 8665432
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) includes a substrate and a plurality of nano-pillars, each of the plurality of nano-pillars having a first end attached to the substrate, a second end located distally from the substrate, and a body portion extending between the first end and the second end, in which the plurality of nano-pillars are arranged in an array on the substrate, and in which each of the plurality of nano-pillars is formed of a polymer material that is functionalized to expand in the presence of a fluid to cause gaps between the plurality of nano-pillars to shrink when the fluid is supplied onto the nano-pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Min Hu, Michael Josef Stuke, Zhiyong Li, Wei Wu, Fung Suong Ou, Shih-Yuan Wang, Lars Helge Thylen
  • Publication number: 20140054510
    Abstract: Oxotitanium phthalocyanine nanoparticles in the crystal form of phase-Y (Y-TiOPc) having particle diameters of 2˜4 nm, preparation, and applications thereof are disclosed. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing a concentrated sulfuric acid solution of TiOPc with water or dilute sulfuric acid, or water or dilute sulfuric acid with a surfactant dissolved therein, or an aqueous solution of a low molecular weight organic compound to form a suspension or hydrosol; adding into the resulting suspension or hydrosol chlorinated hydrocarbons to extract TiOPc into an organic phase, so as to form a colloidal solution of Y-TiOPc nanoparticles; and then, washing and drying the above nanoparticles to give rise to a powder of the Y-TiOPc nanoparticles. Such a nanoparticle powder can disperse in chlorinated hydrocarbons to form stable colloidal solutions, thereby providing an alternative approach for solving the problem of poor dispersibility for Y-type TiOPc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Yuan Wang, Dejian Liang, Wenlian Peng
  • Publication number: 20140056045
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a control circuit for a power converter, a conversion system and a controlling method thereof. The conversion system includes an AC power supply, a power converter and a control circuit. The power converter includes a first and second bridge arms connected in parallel. The first bridge arm includes a first and second switches connected in series. A second end of the first switch is connected with a first end of the second switch and coupled to a first end of the AC power supply by an inductance component. The first and second switches work at a first switching frequency. The control circuit is used for controlling the first and second switches, so that the current flowing through the inductance component is decreased to zero before the at least one first switching cycle is over.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Chao Yan, Xiao-Yuan Wang, Yi-Qing Ye
  • Patent number: 8660432
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a family of image-rotation prisms. Each image-rotation prism has the property that as an image-rotation prism is rotated, an image passing through the image-rotation prism rotates at twice the angular rate of the image-rotation prism. Embodiments of the present invention include optical systems that can be used for board-to-board communications and employ the image-rotation prisms to compensate for arbitrary axial rotations and misalignment of optical signals and can be used to direct optical signals output from transmitters on one board to particular detectors of a detector arrangement located on an adjacent board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Huei Pei Kuo, Robert G. Walmsley, Shih-Yuan Wang, Michael Renne Ty Tan, R. Stanley Williams
  • Patent number: 8659488
    Abstract: An antenna assembly includes first and second antennas each generating a resonant mode to cover an operating bandwidth, and a transmission line. The first includes a first radiation unit with a feed-in portion coupled to a first feed portion in contact with a core wire of a coaxial cable and a first grounding portion. The second antenna includes a second radiation unit with a second feed-in portion coupled to a second feed portion in contact with a conductive shielding layer of the coaxial cable and a second grounding portion. The transmission line includes first and second connecting portions coupled respectively to the second feed portion of the second feed-in portion. When a signal within the operating bandwidth is transmitted through the coaxial cable, the energy of the signal is distributed among the first and second antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Tiao-Hsing Tsai, Chi-Yin Fang, I-Ping Yen, Chao-Hsu Wu, Chun-Yuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20140048833
    Abstract: This application discloses a light-emitting device with narrow dominant wavelength distribution and a method of making the same. The light-emitting device with narrow dominant wavelength distribution at least includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting stacked layers on the substrate, and a plurality of wavelength transforming layers on the light-emitting stacked layers, wherein the light-emitting stacked layer emits a first light with a first dominant wavelength variation; the wavelength transforming layer absorbs the first light and converts the first light into the second light with a second dominant wavelength variation; and the first dominant wavelength variation is larger than the second dominant wavelength variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Chiang LU, Shu-Ting HSU, Yen-Wen CHEN, Chien-Yuan WANG, Ru-Shi LIU, Min-Hsun HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20140042470
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a method of making a light-emitting device. The method comprises forming a plurality of light-emitting chips, each of the light-emitting chips comprising an epitaxial structure and an electrode formed on the epitaxial structure; forming a protection layer on the electrode in each of the light-emitting chips; forming a plurality of light-emitting groups by collecting the light-emitting chips, wherein each of the light-emitting groups having substantially the same opto-electrical characteristics; forming a wavelength converted layer in each of the light-emitting groups to cover the epitaxial structure and the protection layer; and removing the wavelength converted layer on the protection layer to expose the protection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Chi Hsu, Chih-Ming Wang, Chien-Yuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20140036262
    Abstract: An apparatus for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy includes a substrate, a nanostructure and a plasmonic material. The nanostructure and the plasmonic material are integrated together to provide electronic and plasmonic enhancement to a Raman signal produced by electromagnetic radiation scattering from an analyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Wang, Gary Gibson, Zhiyong Li, Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Huei Pei Kuo, Zhang-Lin Zhou, R Stanley Williams
  • Publication number: 20140034988
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting device comprising: a carrier; a light-emitting element disposed on the carrier; a first light guide layer covering the light-emitting element; a second light guide layer covering the first light guide layer; a low refractive index layer between the first light guide layer and the second light guide layer to reflect the light from the second light guide layer; and a wavelength conversion layer covering the second light guide layer; wherein the low refractive index layer has a refractive index smaller than one of the refractive indices of first light guide layer and the second light guide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Hsun HSIEH, Chien-Yuan WANG, Tsung-Xian LEE, Chih-Ming WANG, Ming-Chi HSU, Han-Min WU
  • Publication number: 20140029002
    Abstract: A sensor for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensor includes surfaces and an actuator to adjust an intersurface spacing between the surfaces to contain an analyte and allow the analyte to be released from containment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Wang, Zhiyong Li, Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Gary Gibson, Huei Pei Kuo, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Steven J. Barcelo, Ansoon Kim, R Stanley Williams
  • Publication number: 20140029955
    Abstract: An optical interconnect (200) includes: a reflective body (230) having a first reflective surface (235) and a second reflective surface (240) opposite the first reflective surface (235); a first optical waveguide (205) that directs a first optical signal received from a first communicating device (105) to the first reflective surface (235); a second optical waveguide (210) that directs the first optical signal from the first reflective surface (235) of the reflective body (230) to a second communicating device (110); a third optical waveguide (215) that directs a second optical signal received from the second communicating device (110) to the second reflective surface (240) of the reflective body (230); and a fourth optical waveguide (220) that directs the second optical signal from the second reflective surface (240) of the reflective body (230) to the first communicating device (105).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Schlansker, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Shih-Yuan Wang, Wayne. V. Sorin, Jose Renato G. Santos