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: 7499130Abstract: 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: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Hannstar Display CorporationInventors: Cheng-Yeh Tsai, Wei-Chou Chen, Chih-Yung Wan, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20090051639Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Sheng-Chao Liu, Chen-Ming Chen, Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7489370Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode together forming a pixel cell, a dual thin film transistor having two electrodes electrically connected to the first and second sub-pixel electrodes respectively, and a connecting layer formed between the first and second sub-pixel electrodes. When one of the first and second sub-pixel electrodes is defective, the electrical path between the defective one and the dual thin film transistor is cut; then, the first and second sub-pixel electrodes are electrically connected together through the connecting layer whereby repairing the defective pixel cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.Inventors: Sung Chun Lin, Ming Tien Lin, Te Cheng Chung
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Patent number: 7423620Abstract: The screen of a liquid crystal display is first divided into a compensation portion, a compensation transition portion and a non-compensation portion in a sequence arranged along the scanning line. Then storage capacitor areas of the pixels in the non-compensation portion are made equal, whereas the difference between the storage capacitor area of the pixel in the compensation portion and that in the non-compensation portion is set to one constant basic compensation area. Afterward, the average of the storage capacitor areas of the pixels on each data line in the compensation transition portion progressively varies along the scanning line, where the average is greater than or equal to any of the storage capacitor areas of the pixels in the non-compensation portion. The direction of the scanning line is designated as either the direction in which scanning signals are transmitted or the direction opposite thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Hannstar Display CorporationInventors: Tean-Sen Jen, Ming-Tien Lin, Deuk-Su Lee, Ta-Wei Tseng
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Patent number: 7411562Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a satellite antenna dish and a satellite receiver includes a supporting base, a connecting member and an extending bar. The supporting base includes a supporting board, a sidewall, multiple mounting tabs and a pivoting bracket. The supporting board has an edge and multiple curved slots. The sidewall is formed on the edge of the supporting board and has an edge. The mounting tabs are formed on the edge of the sidewall. The pivoting bracket is mounted on the sidewall and has a mounting hole defined through the pivoting bracket. The connecting member is mounted pivotally on the pivoting bracket on the supporting base. The extending bar is connected to the connecting member and has a connecting end mounted on the connecting bar and a mounting end.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Inventor: Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20080099643Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a satellite antenna dish and a satellite receiver includes a supporting base, a connecting member and an extending bar. The supporting base includes a supporting board, a sidewall, multiple mounting tabs and a pivoting bracket. The supporting board has an edge and multiple curved slots. The sidewall is formed on the edge of the supporting board and has an edge. The mounting tabs are formed on the edge of the sidewall. The pivoting bracket is mounted on the sidewall and has a mounting hole defined through the pivoting bracket. The connecting member is mounted pivotally on the pivoting bracket on the supporting base. The extending bar is connected to the connecting member and has a connecting end mounted on the connecting bar and a mounting end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventor: Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7336248Abstract: A liquid crystal display is suitable for displaying images with rapid motions, and comprises an active matrix substrate equipped with a plurality of thin film transistors. The active matrix substrate comprises a plurality of pixels that are placed at the encircled areas of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines. Each pixel consists of two thin film transistors and one pixel electrode. The data lines connected electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to two adjoining data lines respectively, whereas the pixel connected electrodes of the two thin film transistors are together connected to the pixel electrode. The gate electrodes of the two thin film transistors are connected to two adjoining scanning lines respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Hannstar Display CorporationInventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Yi-Lun Chou, Tean-Sen Jen
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Publication number: 20070278491Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: HannStar Display CorporationInventors: Chia-Te Liao, Tean-Sen Jen, Hsu-Ho Wu, Ming-Tien Lin, Te-Cheng Chung
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Patent number: 7271871Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel with reduced flicker comprises an active matrix substrate equipped with a plurality of thin film transistors. The active matrix substrate has an active area that is formed with a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines crossing each other. The active area includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. There are outer-lead bonding areas around the active area. There are a plurality of pad areas within the outer-lead bonding areas. A plurality of second wires arranged in a fan-out configuration extend from the pad areas and stretch toward the active area. The second wires are connected to their respective first signal lines by their serpentine or zigzag routes resulting in various wire lengths. A frame-like lead overlaps the second wires, and a capacitor exists between each of the second wires and the closed frame-like lead.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Hannstar Display CorporationInventors: Tean-Sen Jen, Peter Liao, Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7268743Abstract: An adjustable antenna bracket has an antenna bracket, a stanchion bracket, a connector panel and multiple fasteners. The antenna bracket has a fixed board with multiple circular assembled curved slots and the fixed board is combined with the antenna bracket. The stanchion bracket has a connecting board, two elevation boards and two adjusting boards. Each adjusted board has multiple adjusted slots. The connector panel is mounted on the antenna bracket at a side opposite to the stanchion bracket. The fasteners extend through the connector panel, the curved slots in the antenna disk and the adjusting slots in the adjusting boards to combine the connector panel, the antenna disk and the stanchion bracket together. Accordingly, an adjustable antenna bracket with two rotation stages is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Inventor: Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7265732Abstract: A micro adjustable antenna bracket has a stationary bracket having a compressible collar and a stationary panel, a driver mounted under the stationary panel, an antenna mounting bracket mounted pivotally on the stationary panel and multiple fasteners. The compressible collar has two mounting tabs, and the stationary panel is attached to the mounting tabs and has multiple connecting holes, a pivot hole, two wings and an elongated slot. The driver has a drive block, a drive shaft, an adjustment wheel and a connecting shaft. The drive shaft is mounted through the drive block, and the adjustment wheel is attached to the drive shaft. The antenna attachment bracket has an adjustable board, a pivot pin and a drive pin. The adjustable panel has multiple curved elongated through holes, and the fasteners are mounted through the connecting holes in the mounting tabs and the stationary panel and the curved elongated through holes.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Inventor: Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7253851Abstract: A pixel structure and repair method thereof. A through hole is formed in the common line. When the source/drain electrode of a thin film transistor is not electrically connected to a pixel electrode due to a polymer residue remaining in a contact hole, a first laser beam passes through the through hole to weld the source/drain electrode and the pixel electrode. The defective pixel can be thus repaired to display the original color. In addition, if the defective pixel fails due to a defective thin film transistor, the invention irradiates a second laser beam to sever the source/drain electrode such that the defective thin film transistor is not electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The defective pixel can be thus repaired to a dark point.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.Inventors: Seok-Lyul Lee, Tean-Sen Jen, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20070146229Abstract: A micro adjustable antenna bracket has a stationary bracket having a compressible collar and a stationary panel, a driver mounted under the stationary panel, an antenna mounting bracket mounted pivotally on the stationary panel and multiple fasteners. The compressible collar has two mounting tabs, and the stationary panel is attached to the mounting tabs and has multiple connecting holes, a pivot hole, two wings and an elongated slot. The driver has a drive block, a drive shaft, an adjustment wheel and a connecting shaft. The drive shaft is mounted through the drive block, and the adjustment wheel is attached to the drive shaft. The antenna attachment bracket has an adjustable board, a pivot pin and a drive pin. The adjustable panel has multiple curved elongated through holes, and the fasteners are mounted through the connecting holes in the mounting tabs and the stationary panel and the curved elongated through holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventor: Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20070132655Abstract: An adjustable antenna bracket has an antenna bracket, a stanchion bracket, a connector panel and multiple fasteners. The antenna bracket has a fixed board with multiple circular assembled curved slots and the fixed board is combined with the antenna bracket. The stanchion bracket has a connecting board, two elevation boards and two adjusting boards. Each adjusted board has multiple adjusted slots. The connector panel is mounted on the antenna bracket at a side opposite to the stanchion bracket. The fasteners extend through the connector panel, the curved slots in the antenna disk and the adjusting slots in the adjusting boards to combine the connector panel, the antenna disk and the stanchion bracket together. Accordingly, an adjustable antenna bracket with two rotation stages is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventor: Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20070103412Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a glass substrate, a plurality of pixels formed on the glass substrate for displaying an image according to gamma voltages, a voltage divider installed on a printed circuit board, the voltage divider including a resistor and a thermistor coupled in series with the resistor for generating gamma voltages for the pixels, and a driver IC chip coupled to the pixels and the voltage divider for controlling the voltage divider to generate gamma voltages to the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2005Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Pao-Yun Tang, Nan-Cheng Huang, Ming-Tien Lin, Lun-Chen Fan, Tean-Sen Jen
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Patent number: 7212256Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a pixel electrode layer formed between a first data bus line and a second bus line. A first space between the first data bus line and the periphery of the pixel electrode layer is different from a second space between the second data bus line and the periphery of the pixel electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2003Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.Inventors: Deuk-Su Lee, Jeremy Park, Ming-Tien Lin
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Patent number: 7209201Abstract: A TFT-LCD having a first glass substrate provided for fabricating transistors, a second glass substrate provided for fabricating a color filter, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the second and first glass substrates. The TFT-LCD comprises the following components. A color filter is formed beneath the second glass substrate which has plural color filter elements and a first black matrix, wherein each grid pattern of the first black matrix is disposed to surround a color filter element. And the color filter element formed beneath the second glass substrate extends outward to surfaces of the first black matrix. A common electrode is formed beneath the color filter, wherein a part of the common electrode, the pixel units, and the first black matrix are overlapped to have a downward protruding structure. A second black matrix is formed on the first glass substrate, wherein each grid pattern of the second black matrix is disposed under inner edges of the each grid pattern of the first black matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2002Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: HannStar Display Corp.Inventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Tean-Sen Jen
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Patent number: 7154461Abstract: During a vertical scanning period, the potential of one of the two electrodes which LC capacitors connected to each scanning line have is changed, and meanwhile the potential of the other has a coupled voltage caused from the change. The pixel electrode connected to the other one electrode of the LC capacitor also has a potential change caused from the coupled voltage so that the coupled voltage is written into the LC capacitor to turn the pixel black. That is, during one vertical scanning period, each pixel turns true black or near black from a predetermined gradation. Therefore, the LCD panel can have a sharp image, and is suitable for displaying a fast continuous movement.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2004Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Hannstar Display CorporationInventors: Ming-Tien Lin, Seok-Lyul Lee
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Patent number: 7148940Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display panel for dual display. The panel has a plurality of pixels and each pixel having first and second display regions. Each pixel includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite thereto, wherein the first substrate includes a pixel driving device. A first reflective layer is formed overlying the first substrate in the first display region. A second reflective layer is formed overlying an interior of the second substrate in the second display region. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.Inventors: Seok-Lyul Lee, Tean-Sen Jen, Ming-Tien Lin
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Publication number: 20050264517Abstract: The screen of a liquid crystal display is first divided into a compensation portion, a compensation transition portion and a non-compensation portion in a sequence arranged along the scanning line. Then storage capacitor areas of the pixels in the non-compensation portion are made equal, whereas the difference between the storage capacitor area of the pixel in the compensation portion and that in the non-compensation portion is set to one constant basic compensation area. Afterward, the average of the storage capacitor areas of the pixels on each data line in the compensation transition portion progressively varies along the scanning line, where the average is greater than or equal to any of the storage capacitor areas of the pixels in the non-compensation portion. The direction of the scanning line is designated as either the direction in which scanning signals are transmitted or the direction opposite thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2004Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventors: Tean-Sen Jen, Ming-Tien Lin, Deuk-Su Lee, Ta-Wei Tseng