[Sheng-Jye Huang, Cheng-Chien Wang, Sen-Yung Lee, Chuih-Kuan Wang, Chun-Shan Wang, Chuh-Yung Chen, Chieh-Li Chen, Wei-Siang Lai, Chen Hsieh, Tzong-Shing Leu, Chun-I Cheng] TW Tainan City A method for rapid prototyping by using linear light as sources employs DLP (Radiation Hardening Formation) or LCD, together with the portable devices and linear light source to treat the raw material in two stages. The first stage is to spread the raw material to a selected zone by nozzles or rollers and illuminating the material to let the material being processed and have physical o mechanical changes. The second stage is to use more powerful linear light source with the cooperation of the portable DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) to illuminate the material to make it have a second times of physical o mechanical changes. By the piling up the layers of the material, a complete 3-D work piece is obtained.

[Sheng-Jye Hwang, Sen-Yung Lee, Wei-Hsian Lai, Chun-I Cheng, Muh-Rong Wang, Chun-Shan Wang, Chuh-Yung Chen, Chieh-Li Chen, Chen Hsieh, Cheng-Chien Wang, Tzong-Shyng Leu] TW Tainan City The invention discloses a method of manufacturing rapid prototyping workpiece by projecting a laser beam or other light onto the photo-conductive drum to attach powder materials to form a thin layer, and then coat the thin-layer material on a working platform. A point, line or plane light source of stronger intensity is used to go with the DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) to produce a physical change or a chemical change in the selected projecting region and combine the materials to become an acceptable property. The method comprises three stages of a process and repeats the process to complete a physical workpiece. The first stage refers to evenly spreading electric charges on a photo-conductive drum, and then projects a laser beam or a visible light onto the photo-conductive drum to electically conduct the electric charges and lower the electric potiential. By that time, the photo-conductive drum rotated in a high speed passes through a cartridge containing powder, the material will be attached onto the photo-conductive drum, since there is a potential difference between the photo-conductive drum and the material. Then, an appropriate method is used to flatly coat the material disposed on the photo-conductive drum onto the working platform, and thus a very thin even material layer is formed. The second stage refers to using a point, line or plane light source of stronger intensity for a selected region to go with a DMD or LCD to project or scan the selected region and produce a physical or chemical change, so that the materials are combined with each other to form an acceptable property. The third stage refers to removing the material remained on the photo-conductive drum and eliminating the static charges on the photo-conductive drum, so that the electric potential at the surface of the photo-conductive drum resumes its initial state to facilitate the next loop of actions. The whole manufacturing process uses this method to stack layer by layer to build a complete three-dimensional physical workpiece, so as to achieve the effect of saving work hours, materials and costs as well as enhancing the precision of the workpiece. The invention is definitely a very valuable manufacturing method.

[Wei-Hsian Lai, Chun-I Cheng, Sen-Yung Lee, Muh-Rong Wang, Chun-Shan Wang, Chuh-Yung Chen, Chieh-li Chen, Chen Hsieh, Sheng-Jye Hwang, Cheng-Chien Wang, Tzong-Shyng Leu] TW Tainan City This invention applies a new computer and printer integrated technology to aid forming physical objects rapidly, and the method and apparatus are disclosed to satisfy the market requirements for a quick, reliable, safe, and inexpensive operation. The invention coverts a virtual object stored in the storage device of computer through software that slices the virtual object into many layers. The cross-section of the first layer is sent to a printer or a plotter, and the contour domain is printed or plotted by the printer or plotter. The fluid (not limited to binder) in the printer head is coated onto a layer of uniform distributed porous material which allows the powder and fluid to combine with each other; however, the combining process can be either a natural or an artificial process to enhance the binding force between the fluid and powder. After the first layer is finished, the second layer of powder is uniformly distributed on the first layer, and the contour printing process is repeated. As the printing process is repeated until all slicing layers of the model are finished, the object is stacked layer by layer sequentially. The physical object can be obtained after all the unglued powders are removed. The above-mentioned printing process not only produces monochrome objects, but also produces color objects. The machine includes components of a printer or plotter and its interface card, and x-z axis traversal driven mechanism. The operation platforms include a material supply chamber, a constructing chamber at which powder material is combined with solution, and a recycling hole. A slicing algorithm control software is used to calculate the cross-sectional contour, and the manufacture process is controlled by software and hardware interfaces.

[Sheng-Jye Hwang, Cheng-Chien Wang, Sen-Yung Lee, Muh-Rong Wang, Chun-S. Wang, Chuh-Yung Chen, Chieh-Li Chen, Wei-Hsiang Lai, Chen Hsieh, Tsong-Shyng Leu, Chun-I Cheng] TW Tainan A method for forming objects includes a step of spreading base material on a limited area by nozzles or rollers, step of proceeding a first time of physical or chemical change on selected areas by heating boards, ultra violet beams or infra-red beams so as to have gel-like material, and step of selectively proceeding a second time of physical or chemical change by laser beam or adding additional material on the selected areas of the base material so that the nature of the gel-like material becomes acceptable. The gel-like material is laminated to build a three dimensional object.

[Sheng-Jye Huang, Cheng-Chien Wang, Sen-Yung Lee, Chuih-Kuan Wang, Chun-Shan Wang, Chuh-Yung Chen, Chieh-Li Chen, Wei-Siang Lai, Chen Hsieh, Tzong-Shing Leu, Chun-I Cheng] TW Tainan City A method for rapid prototyping by using plane light as sources treats the raw material by two stages. The first stage includes a step of spreading raw material onto a defined zone by nozzles and rolling the material to have a flat surface and a step of illuminating the raw materials by plane light and electronic beams to cause a first time of physical or chemical changes. The second stage includes a step of using more powerful plane light source with cooperation with portable Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) or Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) to scan the selected zones of the material to cause a second time of physical or chemical changes, and a step of stacking the 2-D images sodas to obtain a solid work piece.

[Sheng-Jye Hwang, Cheng-Chien Wang, Sen-Yung Lee, Muh-Rong Wang, Chun-S Wang, Chu-Yung Chen, Chieh-Li Chen, Wei-Hsiang Lai, Chen Hsieh, Tsong-Shyng Leu, Chun-I Cheng] TW Tainan A method for forming objects includes a step of spreading a base material layer on a surface, a step of initiating a first physical or chemical change of the base material layer by exposure to one of ultra violet beams or infra-red beams so as to become a gelled material, a step of initiating a second physical or chemical change by application of a laser beam to selected areas of the gelled base material layer to make each selected area to become hardened in mature, a step of repeating steps 1-3 a pre-determined number of times, each newly added base material layer being laminated on a preceding layer to form a plurality of stacked layers, the hardened selected areas of the plurality of stacked layers defining a solid object, and a step of removing the portions of base material layers remaining in gelled form to obtain a final prototype.

[Wang-Hung Yeh, Jyh-Chyang Tzou, Chun-Ting Lee, Yao-Hsien Yang, Hsin-Chieh Fang, Chun-Wen Wang, Shu-Hong Lin] TW Taipei

[Yeong-Luh UENG, Kuan-Chieh Wang, Chun-Jung Chen, Tsung-Chieh Yang] TW Jinning Township Configurable permutators in an LDPC decoder are provided. A partially-parallel architecture combined with the proposed permutators is used to mitigate the increase in implementation complexity for the multi-mode function. To overcome the difficulty in efficient implementation of a high-throughput decoder, the variable nodes are partitioned into several groups, and each group is processed sequentially in order to shorten the critical-path delay and, hence, increase the maximum operating frequency. In addition, shuffled message-passing decoding can be adopted in decoders according to the invention to increase the convergence speed, which reduces the number of iterations required to achieve a given bit-error-rate performance.

[Chun-Chieh Wang, Ming-Chieh Tu, Chung-Pei Lee, Jung-Chien Chang, Ciou-Jyun Liou] TW New Taipei

[Yeong-Luh Ueng, Kuan-Chieh Wang, Chun-Jung Chen, Tsung-Chieh Yang] TW Jinning Township, Kinmen County Configurable permutators in an LDPC decoder are provided. A partially-parallel architecture combined with the proposed permutators is used to mitigate the increase in implementation complexity for the multi-mode function. To overcome the difficulty in efficient implementation of a high-throughput decoder, the variable nodes are partitioned into several groups, and each group is processed sequentially in order to shorten the critical-path delay and, hence, increase the maximum operating frequency. In addition, shuffled message-passing decoding can be adopted in decoders according to the invention to increase the convergence speed, which reduces the number of iterations required to achieve a given bit-error-rate performance.