Patents Assigned to Epistar Corporation
  • Patent number: 11901480
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-emitting device comprising a substrate with a topmost surface; a first semiconductor stack arranged on the substrate, and comprising a first top surface separated from the topmost surface by a first distance; a first bonding layer arranged between the substrate and the first semiconductor stack; a second semiconductor stack arranged on the substrate, and comprising a second top surface separated from the topmost surface by a second distance which is different form the first distance; a second bonding layer arranged between the substrate and the second semiconductor stack; a third semiconductor stack arranged on the substrate, and comprising third top surface separated from the topmost surface by a third distance; and a third bonding layer arranged between the substrate and the third semiconductor stack; wherein the first semiconductor stack, the second semiconductor stack, and the third semiconductor stack are configured to emit different color lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Fu Huang, Chih-Chiang Lu, Chun-Yu Lin, Hsin-Chih Chiu
  • Patent number: 11901478
    Abstract: A method of transferring multiple semiconductor devices from a first substrate to a second substrate comprises the steps of forming the multiple semiconductor devices adhered on the first substrate, wherein the multiple semiconductor devices comprises a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device, and the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device have a first gap between thereof; separating the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device from the first substrate; sticking the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device to a surface of the second substrate, wherein the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device have a second gap between thereof; wherein the first gap and the second gap are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao-Min Ku, You-Hsien Chang, Shih-I Chen, Fu-Chun Tsai, Hsin-Chih Chiu
  • Patent number: 11894491
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer; a first reflective layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and including a plurality of vias; a plurality of contact structures respectively filled in the vias and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second reflective layer including metal material formed on the first reflective layer and contacting the contact structures; a plurality of conductive vias surrounded by the semiconductor stack; a connecting layer formed in the conductive vias and electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; a first pad portion electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; and a second pad portion electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, wherein a shortest distance between two of the conductive vias is larger than a shortest distance between the first pad portion and the second pad portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao-Hsing Chen, Jia-Kuen Wang, Tzu-Yao Tseng, Tsung-Hsun Chiang, Bo-Jiun Hu, Wen-Hung Chuang, Yu-Ling Lin
  • Patent number: 11894489
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, an active region, a p-type or n-type layer, and a first metal element-containing structure. The first semiconductor layer has a surface including a first portion and a second portion. The active region is located on the first portion and includes AlGaInAs, InGaAsP, AlGaAsP or AlGaInP. The p-type or n-type layer includes an oxygen element (O) and a metal element, and is located on the second portion. The first metal element-containing structure is located on the p-type or n-type layer. The p-type or n-type layer physically contacts the first metal element-containing structure and the first semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min-Hsun Hsieh, Yu-Tsu Lee, Wei-Jen Hsueh
  • Patent number: 11894507
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes steps of providing a first substrate with a plurality of first light-emitting elements and adhesive units arranged thereon, providing a second substrate with a first group of second light-emitting elements and a second group of second light-emitting elements arranged thereon, and connecting the a second group of second light-emitting elements and the adhesive units. The first light-emitting elements and the first group of second light-emitting elements are partially or wholly overlapped with each other during connecting the second group of second light-emitting elements and the adhesive units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min-Hsun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11894481
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses an optical sensing device. The device includes a carrier body having a topmost surface; a first light-emitting device disposed on the carrier body and having a light-emitting surface; and a light-receiving device comprising a group III-V semiconductor material disposed on the carrier body and having a light-receiving surface. The light-emitting surface is separated from the topmost surface by first distant H1, the light-receiving surface is separated from the topmost surface by a second distance H2, and H1 is different from H2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Lin, Shiuan-Leh Lin, Yung-Fu Chang, Shih-Chang Lee, Chia-Liang Hsu, Yi Hsiao, Wen-Luh Liao, Hong-Chi Shih, Mei-Chun Liu
  • Patent number: 11894487
    Abstract: A light-emitting device comprises a substrate; a first semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; a first patterned layer formed on the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, wherein the second semiconductor layer comprises a core layer comprising a group III or transition metal material formed along the first patterned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Kuo Lai, Li-Shen Tang
  • Patent number: 11870007
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting element, includes: providing a base having an upper surface and a lower surface; forming a semiconductor stack on the upper surface; removing part of the semiconductor stack to form an isolation region surrounding the semiconductor stack; forming a dielectric stack covering the semiconductor stack and the isolation region; and applying a first laser having a first wavelength to irradiate the base along the isolation region; wherein the dielectric stack has a reflectance of 10%-50% and/or a transmittance of 50%-90% for the first wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Che-Hung Lin, De Shan Kuo
  • Patent number: 11870022
    Abstract: A package includes a substrate, a first light-emitting unit, a second light-emitting unit, a light-transmitting layer, and a light-absorbing layer. The substrate has a first surface and an upper conductive layer on the first surface. The first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit are disposed on the upper conductive layer. The first light-emitting unit has a first light-emitting surface and a first side wall. The second light-emitting unit has a second light-emitting surface and a second side wall. The light-transmitting layer is disposed on the first surface and covers the upper conductive layer, the first light-emitting unit, and the second light-emitting unit. The light-absorbing layer is disposed between the substrate and the light-transmitting layer, covers the upper conductive layer, the first side wall, and the second side wall, and exposes the first light-emitting surface and the second light-emitting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: EPISTAR CORPORATION, YENRICH TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shau-Yi Chen, Tzu-Yuan Lin, Wei-Chiang Hu, Pei-Hsuan Lan, Min-Hsun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11862751
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an LED includes: providing a substrate having an upper surface divided into a plurality of zones; a LED group formed on each of the zones and wherein: a plurality of the LED groups includes a first LED group; and the LEDs of the first LED group include a defective LED; forming a testing circuit on the substrate to electrically connect the LEDs; testing the first LED group by the testing circuit; recording a position of the defective LED; providing a carrier; and performing one of the following steps by the position of the defective LED: removing the defective LED from the substrate and then transferring the other LEDs in the first LED group to the carrier; transferring the other LEDs other than the defective LED in the first LED group to the carrier; or transferring the LEDs to the carrier and repairing it on the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Chen Tsai, Jia-Liang Tu, Chi-Ling Lee
  • Patent number: 11855240
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a light-emitting stack formed on the first surface; and a distributed Bragg reflection structure formed on the second surface, wherein the distributed Bragg reflection structure includes a first film stack and a second film stack; wherein the first film stack includes a plurality of first dielectric-layer pairs consecutively arranged, the second film stack includes a plurality of second dielectric-layer pairs consecutively arranged, each of the first dielectric-layer pairs and each of the second dielectric-layer pairs respectively includes a first dielectric layer having an optical thickness and a second dielectric layer having an optical thickness; wherein the second dielectric layer has a refractive index higher than that of the first dielectric layer; wherein in each of the first dielectric-layer pairs of the first film stack, the optical thickness of the first dielectric layer to the opt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heng-Ying Cho, De-Shan Kuo
  • Patent number: 11852302
    Abstract: A light-emitting unit, having a substrate; a first light-emitting body formed on the substrate, and having a first longer side and a first shorter side; a second light-emitting body formed on the substrate, and having a second longer side and a second shorter side which is parallel to the first longer side; a third light-emitting body formed on the substrate, having a third longer side and a third shorter side which is parallel to the first longer side, and electrically connected to the first light-emitting body and the second light-emitting body; a first electrode covering the first light-emitting body and the second light-emitting body, and electrically connecting to the first light-emitting body; a second electrode separated from the first electrode, and covering the second light-emitting body without covering the first light-emitting body; and a transparent element enclosing the first light-emitting body, the second light-emitting body, and the third light-emitting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Chiang Hu, Keng-Chuan Chang, Chiu-Lin Yao, Chun-Wei Lin, Jung-Chang Sun
  • Patent number: 11848195
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer; an active region between the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer; an electron blocking structure between the active region and the second semiconductor layer; a first nitride semiconductor layer between the active region and the electron blocking structure, and including indium and aluminum elements; and a second nitride semiconductor layer between the electron blocking structure and the second semiconductor layer, including indium element and devoid of gallium element; wherein the first nitride semiconductor layer has a first indium content, the second nitride semiconductor layer has a second indium content, and the first indium content is greater than the second indium content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huan-Yu Lai, Li-Chi Peng
  • Publication number: 20230395562
    Abstract: Disclosed is a die-bonding method which provides a target substrate having a circuit structure with multiple electrical contacts and multiple semiconductor elements each semiconductor element having a pair of electrodes, arranges the multiple semiconductor elements on the target substrate with the pair of electrodes of each semiconductor element aligned with two corresponding electrical contacts of the target substrate, and applies at least one energy beam to join and electrically connect the at least one pair of electrodes of every at least one of the multiple semiconductor elements and the corresponding electrical contacts aligned therewith in a heating cycle by heat carried by the at least one energy beam in the heating cycle. The die-bonding method delivers scattering heated dots over the target substrate to avoid warpage of PCB and ensures high bonding strength between the semiconductor elements and the circuit structure of the target substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min-Hsun HSIEH, Shih-An LIAO, Ying-Yang SU, Hsin-Mao LIU, Tzu-Hsiang WANG, Chi-Chih PU
  • Patent number: 11837682
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided, which includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure and a light-emitting structure. The light-emitting structure is located between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The light-emitting structure includes a first multiple quantum well structure containing aluminum and a plurality of semiconductor stacks. Each of the semiconductor stacks is stacked by a well layer and a barrier layer. The light-emitting structure emits an incoherent light. The well layer and the barrier layer in each of the semiconductor stacks include the same quaternary semiconductor material which includes indium (In). The well layer has a first In content percentage larger than 0.53, and the barrier layer has a second In content percentage less than 0.53.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Meng-Yang Chen
  • Patent number: 11815762
    Abstract: A backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes a substrate having a substrate surface, a conductive layer disposed on the substrate surface, a plurality of LED chips disposed on and electrically connected to the conductive layer, a light-permeable layer having a light-permeable surface away from the substrate surface, and a pattern layer disposed on the light-permeable surface and having a plurality of first patterns corresponding to and respectively located above the plurality of LED chips. Wherein, each first pattern has a maximum width. A maximum width of one first pattern satisfies the following formula: WP?2n(TE?TL)(1?1/n2)1/2+WL; wherein WP is the maximum width of one first pattern, n is a refractivity of the light-permeable layer, TE is a thickness of the light-permeable layer, TL is a thickness of the LED chip, WL is a maximum width of LED chip corresponding to the first pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: EPISTAR CORPORATION, Yenrich Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chien Wu, Wei-Shan Hu, Ching-Tai Cheng
  • Patent number: 11817433
    Abstract: An embodiment of present invention discloses a light-emitting device which includes a first light-emitting area, a second light-emitting area, and a third light-emitting area. The first light-emitting area emits a red light and includes a first light-emitting unit. The second light-emitting area emits a blue light and includes a second light-emitting unit. The third light-emitting area emits a green light and includes a third light-emitting unit. The first light-emitting area is larger than the second light-emitting area and larger than the third light-emitting area. Each of the first light-emitting unit, the second light-emitting unit, and the third light-emitting unit has a width of less than 100 ?m and a length of less than 100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min-Hsun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11808436
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus, including: a first light emitting device with a first substrate having a first upper surface and first bottom surface, a plurality of first LED chips disposed on the first upper surface, emitting a light penetrating the first substrate, and a first wavelength conversion layer directly contacting the plurality of first LED chips and first upper surface, and a first shape in a cross-sectional view; a second wavelength conversion layer directly contacting the first bottom surface; a second shape in the cross-sectional view substantially the same as the first shape; a second light emitting device separated from the first light emitting device, including a second substrate and plurality of second LEDs disposed on the second substrate; a support base connected to the first light emitting device by a first angle and connected to the second light emitting device by a second angle; and a first support arranged between the support base and first light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Chih Pu, Chen-Hong Lee, Shih-Yu Yeh, Wei-Kang Cheng, Shyi-Ming Pan, Siang-Fu Hong, Chih-Shu Huang, Tzu-Hsiang Wang, Shih-Chieh Tang, Cheng-Kuang Yang
  • Patent number: D1008198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yao-Ning Chan, Tzu-Yun Feng, Yun-Ya Chang
  • Patent number: D1012330
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Ou, Li-Ming Chang, Chien-Fu Shen, Hsin-Ying Wang