Patents by Inventor Yi-Hsin Lin
Yi-Hsin 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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Publication number: 20200147514Abstract: An atmospheric water generator for extracting water droplets from ambient air includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of electrode film units, and a liquid crystal/polymer composite film. Each of surface regions of the liquid crystal/polymer composite film has a plurality of liquid crystal molecules each having a hydrophilic functional group and a hydrophobic moiety. Each of the surface regions normally has one of hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties. When a voltage is applied to one of the electrode film units, the respective surface region is switched to have the other one of hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties, to thereby allow the water droplets condensed from the ambient air to move on the surface regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Yi-Hsin LIN, Chia-Ming CHANG
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Publication number: 20200113903Abstract: The present invention relates to kinase inhibitor C8-C16 aliphatic sulfate salts, compositions containing kinase inhibitor C8-C16 aliphatic sulfate salts and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: HANDA PHARMACEUTICALS, LLCInventors: FANG-YU LIU, K.C. SUNG, CHIN-YAO YANG, CHI-CHENG LIN, YI-HSIN LIN, LI QIAO
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Publication number: 20200110324Abstract: An electrically tunable focusing achromatic lens includes a first liquid crystal cell, a second liquid crystal cell, and first and second electrode layer units which have two predetermined patterns for permitting two predetermined radially varying electric fields to be generated to across the first and second liquid crystal cells, respectively, to thereby allow one of the first and second liquid crystal cells to acquire a predetermined positive optical power and the other one of the first and second liquid crystal cells to acquire a predetermined negative optical power. When an incident light passes through the first and second liquid crystal cells, chromatic aberration of the first liquid crystal cell can be counterbalanced by that of the second liquid crystal cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Yu-Jen WANG, Hung-Chun LIN, Yi-Hsin LIN
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Patent number: 10613350Abstract: An electrically focus-tunable lens of an active matrix type includes a basic lens and a transparent phase modulator which includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a common electrode unit, a phase modulation electrode unit, and an array of thin film transistors. Each liquid crystal portion of the liquid crystal layer is independently controlled by applying a predetermined voltage between the common electrode and a corresponding one of data electrode strips of the phase modulation electrode unit to provide each pixel area of the transparent phase modulator with an independent refractive index so as to create a phase modulation profile for the transparent phase modulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: National Chiao Tung UniversityInventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Chun Lin
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Publication number: 20200096814Abstract: A flexible optical element adopting liquid crystals (LCs) as the materials for realizing electrically tunable optics is foldable. A method for manufacturing the flexible element includes patterned photo-polymerization. The LC optics can include a pair of LC layers with orthogonally aligned LC directors for polarizer-free properties, flexible polymeric alignment layers, flexible substrates, and a module for controlling the electric field. The lens power of the LC optics can be changed by controlling the distribution of electric field across the optical zone. Lens power control can be provided using combinations of electrode configurations, drive signals and anchoring strengths in the alignment layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: CooperVision International Holding Company, LPInventors: Hung-Chun Lin, Yu-Jen Wang, Hao-Ren Lo, Yi-Hsin Lin
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Patent number: 10598999Abstract: An achromatic phase modulator (100) adapted to modulate the phase of an incident beam of light (INCIDENT LIGHT) and to output the thus modulated light, the phase modulator (100) comprising a plurality of liquid crystal elements disposed in series on a light path of the incident light and a control unit (15) comprising a plurality of power sources (14) for applying drive electric signals to the liquid crystal elements, wherein the plurality of liquid crystal elements comprises at least a first and a second liquid crystal element groups (FIRST LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT GROUP; SECOND LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT GROUP), each group being composed of a pair of liquid crystal elements, the liquid crystal elements of the first and second group respectively being made of a first and a second liquid crystal material having a first and a second, different, refractive index wavelength dependence characteristic, the thicknesses (d1/2, d2/2) of the liquid crystal elements forming each group being equal.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignees: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL, NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Shan Chen, Ming-Syuan Chen
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Publication number: 20200073179Abstract: A liquid crystal photoelectric apparatus including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a plurality of alignment layers, and a liquid crystal material is provided. The alignment layers include an upper alignment layer, a lower alignment layer, and at least one intermediate alignment layer. The upper alignment layer has a first orientation direction. The lower alignment layer has a second orientation direction. The at least one intermediate alignment layer has an intermediate orientation direction. The intermediate orientation direction is between the first orientation direction and the second orientation direction. The liquid crystal material includes a plurality of liquid crystal material portions. Each of the liquid crystal material portions is disposed between any adjacent two alignment layers. A manufacturing method of the liquid crystal photoelectric apparatus is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicants: National Tsing Hua University, Advanced Comm. Engineering Solution Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ci-Ling Pan, Anup Kumar Sahoo, Chun-Ling Yen, Chan-Shan Yang, Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Chun Lin, Yu-Jen Wang
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Patent number: 10409056Abstract: An optical system for aberration compensation comprising an optical module and an asymmetric refractive index distribution film is disclosed. The asymmetric refractive index distribution film comprises a liquid crystal and a liquid crystalline polymer, wherein the asymmetric refractive index distribution film set on an out-light surface or an in-light surface of the optical module. A display system comprising the above-mentioned optical system and an image panel are also disclosed herein. The asymmetric refractive index distribution film of the present invention has non-uniform refractive index distribution so as to effectively compensate the aberration formed by the optical module.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: LIQXTAL TECHNOLOGY INC., NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Hung-Shan Chen, Yi-Hsin Lin
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Publication number: 20190129020Abstract: An ultrasonic system and an ultrasonic method with adaptive overflow and gain control are provided. The present disclosure uses two-stage gain controls to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and to achieve the correct analysis of results. The first stage adopts an analog gain, and monitors whether the signal may overflow or its signal strength is too weak, and adjusts the gain value as large as possible, without causing overflow in order to improve the SNR. The second stage adopts a digital gain. In the second stage, all the amplified gain-containing data adjusted in the first stage are received, and an amplified gain-containing data segment is sequentially retrieved in chronological order, and the amplified gain-containing data segment is converted into a same-gain data segment having the same gain. Finally, the same-gain data segment is provided to a Doppler signal analyzer for analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Yung-Shun Huang, Yuan-Mao Hung, Ming-Che Lin, Yi-Hsin Lin
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Publication number: 20190121204Abstract: A polarization independent optical phase modulator includes two substrates, two electrode layers, two alignment layers, and a liquid crystal layer. Each of alignment layers has first and second alignment regions each having a predetermined width in a transverse direction, which is not greater than a half of the wavelength of an incident light. In the liquid crystal layer, two adjacent ones of liquid crystal elements in the transverse direction are aligned respectively by two adjacent ones of the first and second alignment regions in two predetermined orientations which are orthogonal to each other, thereby permitting phase modulation of the incident light to be independent of the polarization of the incident light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Chun Lin
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Publication number: 20190113771Abstract: An electrically focus-tunable lens of an active matrix type includes a basic lens and a transparent phase modulator which includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a common electrode unit, a phase modulation electrode unit, and an array of thin film transistors. Each liquid crystal portion of the liquid crystal layer is independently controlled by applying a predetermined voltage between the common electrode and a corresponding one of data electrode strips of the phase modulation electrode unit to provide each pixel area of the transparent phase modulator with an independent refractive index so as to create a phase modulation profile for the transparent phase modulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Yi-Hsin LIN, Hung-Chun Lin
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Patent number: 10222621Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) apparatus includes an HMD device and a liquid crystal (LC) lens device. The HMD device has a light entering surface for entrance of ambient light, and a light exit surface. The HMD device permits passage of the ambient light therethrough to form a real world image for an observer who wears the HMD apparatus, and generates and projects display light toward the light exit surface to form a computer-generated image for the observer. The LC lens device has an adjustable focal length and is disposed to change convergence of the ambient light and the display light from the HMD device, so as to correct vision of the observer.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: National Chiao Tung UniversityInventors: Yu-Jen Wang, Po-Ju Chen, Hung-Shan Chen, Yi-Hsin Lin
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Publication number: 20190062972Abstract: A sewing apparatus includes a sewing machine, an electronic paper and a processor. The processor is disposed in the sewing machine, is electrically connected to the electronic paper and the sewing machine, and stores one set of program codes. The processor controls the sewing machine to perform a sewing procedure upon executing the set of program codes when the sewing machine is in an activated state, and controls the electronic paper to display default content related to an operation manual of the sewing machine when the sewing machine is in an inactivated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Yu-Sheng Hou, Han-Hsi Chang, Ping-Jui Shen, Kai-Yao Hu, Szu-Jung Chen, Chi-Liang Liu, Chao-Chuan Wei, Yi-Hsin Lin, Wen-Fan Chang
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Publication number: 20190049784Abstract: A flexible optical element adopting liquid crystals (LCs) as the materials for realizing electrically tunable optics is foldable. A method for manufacturing the flexible element includes patterned photo-polymerization. The LC optics can include a pair of LC layers with orthogonally aligned LC directors for polarizer-free properties, flexible polymeric alignment layers, flexible substrates, and a module for controlling the electric field. The lens power of the LC optics can be changed by controlling the distribution of electric field across the optical zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: CooperVision International Holding Company, LPInventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Ming-Syuan Chen, Yu-Jen Wang
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Publication number: 20180259769Abstract: An optical system for aberration compensation comprising an optical module and an asymmetric refractive index distribution film is disclosed. The asymmetric refractive index distribution film comprises a liquid crystal and a liquid crystalline polymer, wherein the asymmetric refractive index distribution film set on an out-light surface or an in-light surface of the optical module. A display system comprising the above-mentioned optical system and an image panel are also disclosed herein. The asymmetric refractive index distribution film of the present invention has non-uniform refractive index distribution so as to effectively compensate the aberration formed by the optical module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Hung-Shan CHEN, Yi-Hsin LIN
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Patent number: 10073316Abstract: An achromatic phase modulator that modulates a phase of linearly polarized light and outputs the linearly polarized light having undergone phase modulation, comprises: at least two liquid crystal elements disposed in series on a light path of the linearly polarized light, which are constituted with liquid crystal materials with refractive index wavelength dependence characteristics thereof different from each other; and a control unit for applying specific drive electric signals individually to the liquid crystal elements so as to achieve achromatic phase modulation for the linearly polarized light, wherein a polarization direction of the linearly polarized light entering the phase modulator matches the polarization direction of the linearly polarized light exiting the phase modulator.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignees: Essilor International, Nikon CorporationInventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Shan Chen, Ming-Syuan Chen
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Publication number: 20180088381Abstract: An achromatic phase modulator (100) adapted to modulate the phase of an incident beam of light (INCIDENT LIGHT) and to output the thus modulated light, the phase modulator (100) comprising a plurality of liquid crystal elements disposed in series on a light path of the incident light and a control unit (15) comprising a plurality of power sources (14) for applying drive electric signals to the liquid crystal elements, wherein the plurality of liquid crystal elements comprises at least a first and a second liquid crystal element groups (FIRST LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT GROUP; SECOND LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT GROUP), each group being composed of a pair of liquid crystal elements, the liquid crystal elements of the first and second group respectively being made of a first and a second liquid crystal material having a first and a second, different, refractive index wavelength dependence characteristic, the thicknesses (d1/2, d2/2) of the liquid crystal elements forming each group being equal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Yi-Hsin LIN, Hung-Shan CHEN, Ming-Syuan CHEN
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Patent number: 9904423Abstract: A touch electrode layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of first bridges, a plurality of second bridges, and an insulation layer disposed between the first bridges and the second bridges. The touch electrodes are arranged in rows and columns. The first bridges electrically connect the touch electrodes located in the same row to form a plurality of first touch series. The second bridges electrically connect the touch electrodes located in the same column to form a plurality of second touch series. Each touch electrode includes a top electrode pattern and a bottom electrode pattern stacked with each other. A normal projection in a XY plane of an edge of a top surface of the top electrode pattern and a normal projection in the XY plane of an edge of a top surface of the bottom electrode pattern are not completely overlapped.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Teng-Fu Tung, Yu-Jing Chen, Chun-Ku Kuo
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Patent number: D801947Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Rachael Elizabeth Gordon, Alberto Villarreal Bello, Robert Edward Mangum, Max Ken Yoshimoto, Yen Hung Lin, Yi Hsin Lin
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Patent number: D830555Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Yu-Jen Chiu