Patents by Inventor An Szu Hsu

An Szu Hsu 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: 11624221
    Abstract: A hinge includes: a base seat; two slide seats that are mounted on the base seat, that are movable between an inner position and an outer position, and that each have a slide rail portion; two rotary members that each have a slide portion being in sliding contact with the slide rail portion of a respective slide seat, and that are respectively rotatable relative to the slide seats; and two coupling mechanisms that are connected between the rotary members and the slide seats, such that rotations of the rotary members drive the slide seats to move between the inner position and the outer position. A distance between the slide seats decreases when the slide seats move from the outer position to the inner position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu Hsu, Wei-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 11622457
    Abstract: A synchronous transmission pivot shaft device has a simplified structure and less assembled components and reduces assembling tolerance/motional space. The synchronous transmission pivot shaft device includes an assembly of a main body, a first operation board and a second operation board disposed on the main body. The first operation board has an obliquely extending arm section. The second operation board has an obliquely extending arm section. The arm sections of the first and second operation boards are respectively received in a first oblique rail and a second oblique rail of the main body. When a user operates the first operation board or the second operation board to move, the first operation board or the arm section thereof and the second operation board or the arm section thereof respectively synchronously move along the first and second oblique rails to achieve opening/closing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fositek Corporation
    Inventor: An Szu Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230063210
    Abstract: A hinge includes two brackets and a sliding module. Each bracket has a support shaft and a support plate for supporting a flexible display. The sliding module includes a rail seat, two rail keys, two axle keys and two auxiliary extending frames. The rail seat has two arcuate inboard rails, two receiving slots and two arcuate outboard rails. Each rail key has a key body received in the receiving slot, a sliding protrusion slidable along the arcuate inboard rail, and an arcuate key rail opposite to the sliding protrusion. The axle keys are slidable along the arcuate key rails, and are journalled on the support shafts. The auxiliary extending frames are slidable along the arcuate outboard rails and slidably connected with the support plates. With adjustment of the rails, moving paths of the keys are adjusted to meet the requirement of bending of the flexible display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu HSU, Chun-Han LIN
  • Patent number: 11579662
    Abstract: A hinge includes a base frame unit and two rotatable axle units. The base frame unit includes abase seat having two guideways and two shaft sliding slots. Each guideway includes an upright segment and an arcuate segment extending arcuately and laterally from an upper end of the upright segment. Each axle unit includes a hinge shaft rotatably extending through the shaft sliding slot, a rotary member fitted to the hinge shaft and having a guide key slidably engaged in the guideway, and a support bracket fitted to the hinge shaft to be connected to a casing part of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu Hsu, Chun-Han Lin, Yung-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 11573610
    Abstract: A rotary shaft link assembly structure is connected between a first support and a second support of two articles. The rotary shaft link assembly structure has a rotary shaft assembly and at least one synchronous rotational assembly. The rotary shaft assembly has multiple connection members side-by-side disposed between the first and second supports. Each connection member is correspondingly formed with at least one hollow section. The synchronous rotational assembly passes through the hollow sections of the connection members to respectively connect with the first and second supports, whereby the connection members are transversely serially connected to drivingly bend and connect along with the synchronous rotational assembly. The connection members respectively shield a part of the synchronous rotational assembly to provide a protection effect and reduce the dropped powder and oil leakage caused by the friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Fositek Corporation
    Inventor: An Szu Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230027462
    Abstract: A foldable display device includes a hinge, a housing shell unit and a display unit. The housing shell unit includes two housing shells connected with left and right sides of the hinge, two support plates respectively disposed on the housing shells, and a plurality of pairs of display rails defined between the housing shells and the support plates. Each housing shell has a base shell wall connected with the hinge. Each display rail has a rail groove. The display unit is securely disposed to the hinge, and is movably engaged in the rail grooves. The hinge is rotatable between an unfolded position and an outfolding position. During rotation of the hinge, the display unit is moved along the rail grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu HSU, Yan-Jiao CHENG
  • Patent number: 11561588
    Abstract: The pivot shaft structure moving around virtual axis includes an assembly of a main body, a first operation board and a second operation board disposed on the main body. The first operation board has an arm section. The second operation board has an arm section. The arm sections of the first and second operation boards are respectively received in a first arched rail and a second arched rail of the main body. The first and second arched rails are arched and disposed around a virtual axis. When a user operates the first operation board or the second operation board to move, the first operation board or the arm section thereof and the second operation board or the arm section thereof respectively synchronously move around the virtual axis along the first and second arched rails toward each other to achieve opening/closing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Fositek Corporation
    Inventor: An Szu Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220390989
    Abstract: A multi-position hinge includes a base seat, a first axle, a second axle and a sliding assembly. The first and second axles rotatably extend through the base seat in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction. The first axle has a first recess, a second recess and a first gear portion. The second axle has a third recess, a fourth recess and a second gear portion corresponding with the first recess, the second recess and the first gear portion, respectively. The sliding assembly includes a first sliding member engageable with the first and third recesses, and a second sliding member engageable with the second and fourth recesses. The first and second axles are rotatable in turn and then rotated synchronously to perform multi-position shifting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu HSU, Chun-Han LIN, Yung-Chih TSENG
  • Publication number: 20220365570
    Abstract: A hinge includes two rotatable axle units disposed on a base seat and each having two rotatable hinge shafts, two movable bracket units each including a base plate, two rotary blocks non-rotatably sleeved on the hinge shafts, and two movable plates movable relative to the rotary blocks, and two synchronizing units for making synchronous rotations of the hinge shafts. Each synchronizing unit includes a first gear member having two end surfaces in form of bevel gears, and two second gear members each meshing with the respective end surface and fitted to the respective rotary block. Rotations of the hinge shafts at one side of the base seat result in rotations of the rotary blocks and the second gear members, and bring in rotations of the second gear members, the rotary blocks and the hinge shafts at the other side to make the synchronous rotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu HSU, Way-Han DAI, Tzu-Hao LIN
  • Publication number: 20220365569
    Abstract: A hinge includes two rotatable axle units each having two hinge shafts, two synchronizing units each disposed to make synchronous rotations of the hinge shafts, two movable bracket units each having a turnable base plate, two rotary blocks non-rotatably sleeved on the hinge shafts, and two movable plates movable relative to the rotary blocks, and two guiding bracket units, each having male and female arms respectively connected with two movable plates, and a plurality of guiding connecting members interposed between the arms. Each guiding connecting member has a protrusion and a sliding groove, and is angularly movable with the rotations of the hinge shafts. Removal of the protrusion from the sliding groove of an adjacent guiding connecting member is prevented by means of engagement of an abutting portion of the protrusion with an abutted block in the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu HSU, Way-Han DAI, Tzu-Hao LIN
  • Patent number: 11473356
    Abstract: A hinge is mountable on a flexible display unit including a housing shell unit and a display unit. The hinge includes a base seat, a torsion module disposed above the base seat and secured to the display unit, and a bracket module disposed below the base seat. The torsion module includes two outer supporting units and an inner supporting unit at two ends and a middle of the base seat. The bracket module has two brackets securely connected to two support plates of the display unit and rotatable relative to the base seat. The hinge is rotatable between an unfolded position where the brackets are in an unfolded state, and an outfolding position where the brackets are close to and face each other. The outer and inner supporting units cooperatively define a semicircular-shaped supporting surface in the outfolding position for supporting the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu Hsu, Yan-Jiao Cheng
  • Publication number: 20220316250
    Abstract: A hinge includes first and second rotary members each rotatably mounted on a base seat about an axis in an axial direction between unfolded and folded positions, and a synchronizing unit including first and second racks which are movably mounted on the base seat in a lateral direction and respectively coupled with the first and second rotary members, and at least one pinion which is interposed between and meshes with the first and second racks to make opposite synchronizing movements of the first and second racks to transmit rotations of the first and second rotary members and the movements of the first and second racks to make opposite synchronizing rotations of the first and second rotary members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventor: An-Szu HSU
  • Patent number: 11459809
    Abstract: A hinge includes first and second rotary members each rotatably mounted on a base seat about an axis in an axial direction between unfolded and folded positions, and a synchronizing unit including first and second racks which are movably mounted on the base seat in a lateral direction and respectively coupled with the first and second rotary members, and at least one pinion which is interposed between and meshes with the first and second racks to make opposite synchronizing movements of the first and second racks to transmit rotations of the first and second rotary members and the movements of the first and second racks to make opposite synchronizing rotations of the first and second rotary members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventor: An-Szu Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220268311
    Abstract: A uniform distribution support structure of rotary shaft link assembly includes a rotary shaft assembly and a support assembly. The rotary shaft assembly has multiple connection members. Each connection member is formed with a hollow section and a perforation. A guide face is disposed in each hollow section. A spacer shaft rod is disposed between each two adjacent connection members. Each spacer shaft rod is formed with a through hole. A guide arched face is disposed in each through hole. The support assembly has a support member and a lateral support member passing through the through holes and the hollow sections. Multiple opposite guide arched faces are disposed on the support member. Multiple opposite guide faces are disposed on the lateral support member. The guide faces and the guide arched faces respectively abut against the opposite guide faces and the opposite guide arched faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: AN SZU HSU
  • Patent number: 11416039
    Abstract: A complex moving/rotating pivot shaft device is applicable to a double-screen or flexible screen to minify the assembling/moving space of the components. The complex moving/rotating pivot shaft device includes an assembly of a fixing seat and a moving module. The moving module includes an operation arm, a guide section disposed on the operation arm and a bridge unit disposed between the operation arm and the fixing seat. The bridge unit has a shaft pillar, a reciprocally movable bolt and a guiding section in cooperation with the guide section, whereby the operation arm can move along the guiding section to reach a set position. Thereafter, the operation arm can rotate around the shaft pillar of the bridge unit to achieve opening/closing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Fositek Corp.
    Inventors: An Szu Hsu, Way Han Dai, Chr Chi Liu
  • Patent number: 11408214
    Abstract: A dual axis hinge includes: a track seat that extends along a center line, and that has two pairs of inner track grooves and two pairs of outer track grooves; two support mechanisms that are respectively disposed on opposite sides of the center line, that movably engage the inner track grooves and the outer track grooves of the track seat, and that are convertible between a folded state and an unfolded state; and two synchronization mechanisms that are respectively connected to opposite sides of the track seat, and that are configured to move in a synchronous manner such that movements of the support mechanisms relative to the track seat are synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventor: An-Szu Hsu
  • Patent number: 11412629
    Abstract: A hinge device is adapted to be installed between two machine bodies that are mounted with a flexible display. The hinge device includes a base member, two rotating modules mounted respectively to opposite sides of the base member and adapted for the machine bodies to be mounted respectively thereto, and a central support plate disposed above the base member and connected between the rotating modules. The central support plate is drivable by the rotating modules to move relative to the base member from a supporting position, where the flexible display is flat and is supported thereby from below, to a receding position, where a display receiving space is provided for receiving a bent portion of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventor: An-Szu Hsu
  • Patent number: 11391320
    Abstract: A rotary shaft link assembly shield structure is connected between a first support and a second support of two articles. The rotary shaft link assembly structure has a rotary shaft assembly, at least one flexible shield plate and at least one synchronous rotational assembly. The rotary shaft assembly has multiple connection members. Each connection member is correspondingly formed with at least one hollow section. The synchronous rotational assembly passes through the hollow sections of the connection members to respectively connect with the first and second supports. The flexible shield plate also passes through the hollow sections of the respective connection members. A middle section of the flexible shield plate is bent in reverse direction and two sides of the flexible shield plate respectively shield two surfaces of the synchronous rotational assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Fositek Corporation
    Inventor: An Szu Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220221912
    Abstract: A hinge includes a base frame unit and two rotatable axle units. The base frame unit includes abase seat having two guideways and two shaft sliding slots. Each guideway includes an upright segment and an arcuate segment extending arcuately and laterally from an upper end of the upright segment. Each axle unit includes a hinge shaft rotatably extending through the shaft sliding slot, a rotary member fitted to the hinge shaft and having a guide key slidably engaged in the guideway, and a support bracket fitted to the hinge shaft to be connected to a casing part of an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An-Szu HSU, Chun-Han LIN, Yung-Chih TSENG
  • Patent number: 11365573
    Abstract: A double-screen rotary shaft structure includes two synchronous spiral channels disposed on the link shafts. Asynchronous assembly is slidably pivotally fitted on the two link shafts. Two bosses are disposed on the synchronous assembly and respectively inlaid in the spiral channels of the link shafts. Two connection members are respectively securely connected with the two link shafts. Two link assemblies are respectively pivotally fitted on the link shafts to synchronously move with the synchronous assembly. Two slide members are attached to lower sides of the connection members and formed with oblique slots. A guide slide connection member is disposed in each oblique slot and connected with the link assembly. The middle sections of two links are pivotally disposed on the connection members. Each link has a driving end pivotally connected with the link assembly and a driven end to drive the slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: FOSITEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: An Szu Hsu, Yan-Jiao Cheng