Patents by Inventor Ming-Tien Lin
Ming-Tien Lin 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).
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Patent number: 8742261Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a number of first transparent conductive stripes extending along a first direction and a number of second transparent conductive stripes extending along a second direction and intersecting the number of first transparent conductive stripes. The first conductive stripes are spaced from each other and extend substantially along a first direction. The second transparent conductive stripes are spaced from each other and extend substantially along a second direction. The first transparent conductive stripes are electrically connected with the second transparent conductive stripes. The first transparent conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes are arranged in patterns such that the transparent conductive film has an anisotropic impedance. The first direction is a low impedance direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Shih Hua Technology Ltd.Inventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Po-Sheng Shih
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Publication number: 20140111910Abstract: A handheld electronic device includes a body, a transparent cover, and a display panel. The body has a display opening. The transparent cover is disposed on the display opening. The transparent cover includes a first surface facing outside of the body and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the second surface includes a curved surface. A curvature radius of the first surface is different from a curvature radius of the second surface. The display panel bends along the second surface and is attached to the second surface. Moreover, a method for assembling the display panel of the handheld electronic device is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: HTC CORPORATIONInventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Chih-Jen Hu
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Publication number: 20140092625Abstract: A display module is provided. The display module includes a frame, a light guide plate, a light source device, a display panel and an optical film. The light guide plate is accommodated within the frame. The light guide plate has a recess. The light source device is disposed between the frame and the light guide plate. The display panel is disposed on the recess and attached to the light guide plate to seal the recess. The optical film is located within the recess. A handheld electronic device having said display module is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: HTC CORPORATIONInventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Chih-Jen Hu, Chih-Shan Yeh, Chin-Chung Shih, Yuan-Hung Chang
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Publication number: 20140027260Abstract: A touch cover including a substrate, a sensing circuit and a grounding circuit is provided. The substrate has an inner plane and an inner side surface extending from the inner plane. The inner plane and the inner side surface are not coplanar. The sensing circuit is disposed on the inner plane. At least a portion of the grounding circuit is disposed on the inner side surface. An electronic apparatus with the touch cover and a fabricating method of the touch cover are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: HTC CORPORATIONInventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Weng-Chang Shen
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Patent number: 8405787Abstract: A tri-gate pixel structure includes three sub-pixel regions, three gate lines, a data line, three thin film transistors (TFTs), three pixel electrodes, and a common line. The gate lines are disposed along a first direction, and the data line is disposed along a second direction. The TFTs are disposed in the sub-pixel regions respectively, wherein each TFT has a gate electrode electrically connected to a corresponding gate line, a source electrode electrically connected to the data line, and a drain electrode. The three pixel electrodes are disposed in the three sub-pixel regions respectively, and each pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode of one TFT respectively. The common line crosses the gate lines and partially overlaps the three gate lines, and the common line and the three pixel electrodes are partially overlapped to respectively form three storage capacitors.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Sheng-Chao Liu, Hsiang-Lin Lin, Kuang-Hsiang Liu, Ching-Huan Lin, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20130048354Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a number of first transparent conductive stripes extending along a first direction and a number of second transparent conductive stripes extending along a second direction and intersecting the number of first transparent conductive stripes. The first conductive stripes are spaced from each other and extend substantially along a first direction. The second transparent conductive stripes are spaced from each other and extend substantially along a second direction. The first transparent conductive stripes are electrically connected with the second transparent conductive stripes. The first transparent conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes are arranged in patterns such that the transparent conductive film has an anisotropic impedance. The first direction is a low impedance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: SHIH HUA TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: MING-TIEN LIN, PO-SHENG SHIH
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Publication number: 20130048353Abstract: A transparent conductive film a number of first transparent conductive stripes and a number of transparent conductive stripes electrically connected with each other. The first conductive stripes are spaced from each other and extend substantially along a first direction, and the second transparent conductive stripes are spaced from each other and extend substantially along a second direction. The plurality of second transparent conductive stripes are disposed between and electrically connected to adjacent first transparent conductive stripes. The first transparent conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes are arranged in patterns such that the transparent conductive film has an anisotropic impedance. One of the first direction and the second direction is a low impedance direction. A resistivity of the transparent conductive film in the low impedance direction is smaller than the resistivity of the transparent conductive film in any other direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: SHIH HUA TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: MING-TIEN LIN, PO-SHENG SHIH
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Publication number: 20130048349Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes at least one continuous transparent conductive layer and a number of transparent conductive stripes spaced from each other and extending substantially along a low impedance direction. The transparent conductive stripes are disposed on and electrically contact a surface of the at least one transparent conductive layer. A resistivity of the transparent conductive film in the low impedance direction is less than the resistivity in any other direction. A touch panel includes the transparent conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: SHIH HUA TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: MING-TIEN LIN, PO-SHENG SHIH
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Patent number: 8248353Abstract: A discharging device is used to reduce the voltage level at a bootstrap point in an electronic circuit such as a shift register circuit. In such a circuit, a first transistor in a conducting state receives an input pulse and conveys it to the gate terminal of a second transistor, causing the second transistor to be in a conducting state. This gate terminal is known as a bootstrap point. After receiving the input pulse, an output pulse is produced at one drain/source terminal of the second transistor. During the time period of the output pulse, the first transistor is in a non-conducting state and the voltage level at the bootstrap point is high, imposing a stress upon the first transistor. A discharging circuit consisting of at least one transistor is coupled to the bootstrap point in order to reduce the voltage level at the output pulse period.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: AU Optronics CorporationInventors: Sheng-Chao Liu, Chen-Ming Chen, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20110310032Abstract: A pixel array including a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines disposed crossing the scan lines to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions; at least a controlling structure, disposed in one of the sub-pixel regions and electrically connected to one of the scan lines and data lines; a plurality of sensing signal lines disposed parallel with the data lines and crossing the scan lines to define a plurality of regions having at least one first sub-region and second sub-region; at least one sensing-signal readout device disposed in the first sub-region and electrically connected with one of the scan lines and sensing signal lines; and at least one first sensing pad disposed in the second sub-region and electrically connected to the sensing-signal readout device in the second sub-region. The numbers of the sensing-signal readout devices electrically connected to the respective scan lines are the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Szu-Chieh Chen, Ming-Tien Lin, Pin-Wei Wu
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Publication number: 20110224626Abstract: A safety needle cap has a body and at least one holding segment. The body is tubular and has a closed end, an open end, a chamber and a bending segment. The chamber is defined in the body between the closed end and the open end to contain a needle. The bending segment is formed on an external surface of the body to make the body bendable. The at least one holding segment is formed on the body and each of the at least one holding segment has an extending stem and a pulling tab. The extending stem is formed on the body and has a free end opposite to the body and connected to the pulling tab. In use, the extending stem can prevent a tip of the needle from injuring a hand of a user when the needle is removed from or replaced in the body of the safety needle cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Hsi-Hsiung Teng
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Patent number: 7932962Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor, a gate line electrically coupled to the pixel through the thin film transistor and a first auxiliary layer having a first connecting portion overlapped with the pixel electrode and a second connecting portion overlapped with the gate line. The pixel electrode is non-overlapped with the gate line and the first auxiliary layer is electrically insulated from the pixel electrode and the gate line. When a white defect occurs, the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the gate line through the first auxiliary layer thereby repairing the white defect as a black defect.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.Inventors: Chang Ching Yeh, Te Cheng Chung, Ming Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20100067646Abstract: A shift register comprises a plurality of stages, {Sj}, j=1, 2, . . . , N, N being a positive integer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kuang-Hsiang LIU, Chen-Ming CHEN, Sheng-Chao LIU, Ming-Tien LIN
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Publication number: 20100059758Abstract: A tri-gate pixel structure includes three sub-pixel regions, three gate lines, a data line, three thin film transistors (TFTs), three pixel electrodes, and a common line. The gate lines are disposed along a first direction, and the data line is disposed along a second direction. The TFTs are disposed in the sub-pixel regions respectively, wherein each TFT has a gate electrode electrically connected to a corresponding gate line, a source electrode electrically connected to the data line, and a drain electrode. The three pixel electrodes are disposed in the three sub-pixel regions respectively, and each pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode of one TFT respectively. The common line crosses the gate lines and partially overlaps the three gate lines, and the common line and the three pixel electrodes are partially overlapped to respectively form three storage capacitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Sheng-Chao Liu, Hsiang-Lin Lin, Kuang-Hsiang Liu, Ching-Huan Lin, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20090315035Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor, a gate line electrically coupled to the pixel through the thin film transistor and a first auxiliary layer having a first connecting portion overlapped with the pixel electrode and a second connecting portion overlapped with the gate line. The pixel electrode is non-overlapped with the gate line and the first auxiliary layer is electrically insulated from the pixel electrode and the gate line. When a white defect occurs, the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the gate line through the first auxiliary layer thereby repairing the white defect as a black defect.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORP.Inventors: Chang Ching Yeh, Te Cheng Chung, Ming Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20090284483Abstract: A display device and method having a sensing function is described. The device includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and plural sense lines. The LCD panel includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines. Each of the data lines is connected electrically to a plurality of left pixels and a plurality of right pixels. The sense line is disposed between each two adjacent data lines, and each of the sense lines is configured to be parallel to the data lines and perpendicular to the gate lines. The sense lines are used to transmit touch signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2008Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Yu-Hsin Ting, Chee-Wai Lau, Ming-Tien Lin, Chung-Lung Li, Heng-Sheng Chou
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Patent number: 7608858Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate having color filters therewith; a second substrate having plural first signal lines and plural second signal lines thereon; plural first openings located at intersections of said first signal lines and plural of second signal lines; and plural supports located at said plural first openings and between said first substrate and said second substrate, and separating said first substrate from said second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: HannStar Display CorporationInventors: Chia-Te Liao, Tean-Sen Jen, Hsu-Ho Wu, Ming-Tien Lin, Te-Cheng Chung
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Patent number: 7605888Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel having a display area comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant, a liquid crystal layer, and a light-shielding layer. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed in a space defined by the first substrate, the second substrate and the sealant. The light shielding layer is disposed on a first outer surface of the first substrate or a second outer surface of the second substrate, wherein the light shielding layer and the display area are not overlapped. In addition, the liquid crystal display panel further comprises a protection layer. Since the protection layer encapsulates the light-shielding layer, out-diffusion of dye within the light-shielding layer is effectively prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2009Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Hannstar Display CorporationInventors: Cheng-Yeh Tsai, Wei-Chou Chen, Chih-Yung Wan, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20090128756Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel having a display area comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant, a liquid crystal layer, and a light-shielding layer. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed in a space defined by the first substrate, the second substrate and the sealant. The light shielding layer is disposed on a first outer surface of the first substrate or a second outer surface of the second substrate, wherein the light shielding layer and the display area are not overlapped. In addition, the liquid crystal display panel further comprises a protection layer. Since the protection layer encapsulates the light-shielding layer, out-diffusion of dye within the light-shielding layer is effectively prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2009Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Yeh Tsai, Wei-Chou Chen, Chih-Yung Wan, Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7511794Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) substrate and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The LCD substrate comprises a substrate, a spacer definition layer formed on the substrate comprising a first step, and a spacer formed along a profile of the first step of spacer definition layer and adjacent to the first step, thereby forming a second step on the spacer. The invention utilizes a single photolithographic process to form spacers with steps, thus, effectively lowering the probability of mura defects caused by gravity, contact, or an uneven cell gap.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.Inventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Tean-Sen Jen