Patents Represented by Attorney WPAT, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8189183
    Abstract: An optical inspection apparatus capable of adjusting an incident angle of a detected light beam and adjusting a detecting angle for detecting the detected light beam. A driving mechanism is used to actuate two arms having a light source and a detector disposed thereon respectively to conduct a relative movement between the two arms so as to control the incident angle and the detecting angle. By means of the embodiments, mechanism for adjusting the angle is simplified so that the apparatus is capable of being adapted to combine with the application of micro sensors such that practicality of modularization design and microminiaturization and convenience of operation are capable of being greatly improved and that the cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hsueh-Ching Shih, Jia-Huey Tsao, Chih-Cheng Feng, Chun-Lin Chiang, Chun-Min Su, Kuo-Chi Chiu
  • Patent number: 8188758
    Abstract: An enclosed probe station comprises a chuck assembly, a supporting member and an enclosure. The chuck assembly is configured to support a device under test. The supporting member is configured to secure a probe used to contact the device under test. The enclosure forms an interior space in which the chuck assembly and the supporting member are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Star Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Choon Leong Lou
  • Patent number: 8190756
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for automatically re-connecting customer premises equipment (CPE) web user interfaces (UIs), capable of continuously sending a login request to a HTTP server to reduce the time for the user to wait, the method comprising: inserting a frame into a web page in a system to be re-connected and logged in; requesting a HTTP server to send a new web page through the frame after a customer premises equipment (CPE) completes software update and receives a response requesting the system to reboot; issuing a re-login request if the new web page is received, indicating the HTTP server has been started up and a new connection is made; and logging in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Arcadyan Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Kang Chang
  • Patent number: 8186700
    Abstract: A wheelchair includes a seat, one or more wheels and a seat weight sensing mechanism. The wheel includes a brake for stopping the wheel. The seat weight sensing mechanism is placed below the seat and is connected to the brake. When the seat is loaded by a weight more than a predetermined value, the seat weight sensing mechanism releases the brake to free the wheel. When the seat is not loaded by a weight more than a predetermined value, the brake stops the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeng Han Li, Yu Hsien Chiu, Yu Wei Hung
  • Patent number: 8186409
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tag ablation mechanism and a tag-and-tape combination apparatus using the same, wherein a driving gear is actuated to rotate by a rotating device by way of a lever to drive a driven gear to rotate so as to ablate a tag from a bottom paper extended from a tag roll on the driven gear. In the present invention, an ablated tag is capable of being combined with a tape so that the tag attached to the tape can be adhered to a packaged object. The mechanism and apparatus of the present invention are capable of adjusting a rotating arc length so as to handle various tags with different sizes and lengths and to complete tag ablation and tag-and-tape combination in each driving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Kuei-Kai Shao, Pei-Chun Chen, Chen-Shen Liu, Chin-Lu Huang
  • Patent number: 8189982
    Abstract: A housing structure for pluggable transceiver module includes an insertion base, at least two light-guiding units separately connected to two lateral sides of the insertion base, and an enclosure enclosing the insertion base and the light-guiding units therein. The enclosure is set on two lateral sides with a plurality of inward protruded elastic pressing tabs for elastically pressing against lateral outer surfaces of the two light-guiding units. When the insertion base and the light-guiding units have been enclosed in the enclosure, the elastic pressing tabs on the enclosure further elastically press against the outer side surfaces of the light-guiding units to ensure more stable and firm connection of the light-guiding units to the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: All Best Precision Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haven Yang
  • Patent number: 8188815
    Abstract: A waterproof communication apparatus comprises a core part and a separate external housing. The core part is a combination having at least one seam, and is used to transmit electromagnetic waves. The separate external housing covers the core part to prevent environmental moisture from entering the inside of the communication apparatus through the seam. A pair of engaging parts having complementary shapes is equipped with the seam of the combination so as to further prevent the molten material of the separate external housing from entering the inside of the communication apparatus during the manufacturing process. In another embodiment, the core part and separate external housing are made of metals and are combined by a metallurgic method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Microelectronics Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Tung Yi Ko
  • Patent number: 8188499
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polarized light emitting diode (LED) device and the method for manufacturing the same, in which the LED device comprises: a base, a light emitting diode (LED) chip, a polarizing waveguide and a packaging material. In an exemplary embodiment, the LED chip is disposed on the base and is configured with a first light-emitting surface for outputting light therefrom; and the waveguide, being comprised of a polarization layer, a reflection layer, a conversion layer and a light transmitting layer, is disposed at the optical path of the light emitted from the LED chip; and the packaging material is used for packaging the waveguide, the LED chip and the base into a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Cheng-Huan Chen, Han-Ping Yang, Hung-Yi Lin, Cheng-Hsuan Lin
  • Patent number: 8188959
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a frame buffer (41), a frame rate conversion circuit (42), a data divider (43), and a data driver (44). The frame buffer is configured for doubling a frame rate of inputted signals. The frame rate conversion circuit is configured for reducing a bit number of signals. The frame rate conversion circuit includes a first and a second look up table. The first look up table converts a gray level of one of the sub-frames into a higher gray level corresponding to signals with the lower bit number. The second look up table is configured for converting a gray level of the other sub-frame into a lower gray level corresponding to signals with the lower bit number. The data divider is configured for transmitting the signals to the data driver in several buses. The data driver drives the liquid crystal display to display images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Eddy Giing-Lii Chen
  • Patent number: 8186840
    Abstract: A standard illuminant apparatus suitable for providing a standard optical property of LED for measurement is provided. The standard illuminant apparatus comprises an illuminant module and light shape control module, wherein the illuminant module is capable of providing light, and the light shape control module is capable of receiving the light and transforming the light shape of the light to a predetermined light shape as a LED light shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institut
    Inventors: Kuei-Neng Wu, Cheng-Hsien Chen, Chia-Ying Chang, Ming-Chieh Huang
  • Patent number: 8190021
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a smart phone with a lens comprising a main body, a circuit board, a lens module, a speaker module and a flash module. The main body includes a rear casing having a circuit board mount formed at a lower portion of an inner surface of the rear casing, a lens mount formed at a position adjacent to an upper side of the circuit board mount and attached onto a lateral edge of the rear casing, and a speaker mount formed at an upper edge of the inner surface of the rear casing corresponding to another lateral edge of the rear casing. The circuit board is mounted in the circuit board mount. The lens module is mounted in the lens mount. The speaker module is mounted in the speaker mount. The flash module is mounted between the lens module and the upper edge of the rear casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Altek Corporation
    Inventors: Szu-Wei Wang, Chih-Ming Chang, Chin-Hsu Lai
  • Patent number: 8184071
    Abstract: A method for driving a plurality of LEDs comprises the steps of: driving the plurality of LEDs according to a series of display signals; synchronously detecting the plurality of LEDs in a display mode for obtaining fault information; and serially outputting the fault information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Starchips Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Hsiang Lin Hsu
  • Patent number: 8183961
    Abstract: The present invention provides a complementary-conducting-strip (CCS) structure for miniaturizing microwave transmission line. The CCS structure comprises a substrate; a transmission part formed on the substrate, the transmission part consisted of M metal layers and at least one connecting arm extending from the metal layers to connect to an adjacent CCS structure, the M metal layers interlaminated M?1 dielectric layer(s) perforating a plurality of first metal vias to connect the M metal layers, wherein M?2 and M is a nature number; and a frame part formed on the substrate, the frame part surrounding the transmission part and consisted of M?1 metal frame(s), the M?1 metal frame(s) interlaminated M?2 dielectric frame(s) perforating a plurality of second metal vias to connect the metal frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: National Taiwan University, CMSC, Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Kuang Tzuang, Meng-Ju Chiang, Shian-Shun Wu
  • Patent number: 8185898
    Abstract: A method of streaming remote procedure invocation for multi-core systems to execute a transmitting thread and an aggregating thread of a multi-core system comprises the steps of: temporarily storing data to be transmitted; activating the aggregating thread if the amount of the temporarily stored data is equal to or greater than a threshold and the aggregating thread is at pause status; pausing the transmitting thread if there is no space to temporarily store the data to be transmitted; retrieving data to be aggregated; activating the transmitting thread if the amount of the data to be aggregated is less than a threshold and the transmitting thread is at pause status; and pausing the aggregating thread if there is no data to be retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Jenq Kuen Lee, Kun Yuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8184113
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a common voltage of an LCD device includes providing an LCD device and a photodetector, obtaining variable parameters Ya, Yb and Yc, the variable parameters Ya, Yb and Yc respectively denoting flicker intensity of the LCD device when the common voltages are parameters Va, Vb and Vc, Vb exceed Va, and is less than Vc, when Yb exceeds Yc and is less than Ya, increasing the parameters Va, Vb and Vc respectively and repeating the two steps, when Yb exceeds Ya and is less than Yc, decreasing the parameters Va, Vb and Vc respectively and repeating the two steps, and when Yb is less than or equals Ya and is less than or equals Yc, setting an arbitrary value between Va and Vc as an optimum common voltage of the LCD device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Shun-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8183297
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for selecting stem cells with a serum free medium for amplification of stem cells. The invention also relates to a method of treating or preventing diseases caused by cancer-related stem cells. The invention further provides a method of enhancing radiosensitivity of cancer-related stem cells comprising radiotherapy with resveratrol, and the cancer-related stem cell has stronger drug resistance. The present invention further provides that resveratrol promotes differentiation and inhibits teratoma/tumor formation in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) and embryonic stem cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Taipei Veterans General Hospital
    Inventors: Shih-Hwa Chiou, Tsung-Yun Liu, Tung-Hu Tsai, Jeng-Fan Lo, Yi-Ping Yang, Fu-Ting Tsai, Yu-Chih Chen, Chian-Shiu Chien
  • Patent number: 8184100
    Abstract: An inertial sensing input controller, receiver and interactive system using thereof are provided in the present invention. The inertial sensing input controller functioning to capture motions of a human body comprises an inertial sensing module for sensing a sequence of motions of the human body and generating the corresponding parameters and then transmitting to a receiver connected to an electrical device. In addition, the inertial sensing input controller further integrates a plurality of communication protocols and the electrical device interacting with the inertial sensing input controller can be switched to different control modes according to the parameters received by the receiver. On the other hand, the parameters generated by the inertial sensing input controller can be transmitted to the electrical device directly so that the electrical device can process the parameters and judge the action or scenario with respect to the human movement accordingly for increasing diversity of interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jr-Wei Lian, Chih-Kai Chiu, Shun-Nan Liou, Ming-Jye Tsai, Chun-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 8177175
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a digital mobile device and a stand module thereof. The digital mobile device includes a stand module comprising a fixing element and a rotating element. The fixing element is disposed on a side of the digital mobile device and includes an elastic element and a positioning member. The positioning member is disposed on a side of the elastic element. The rotating element is pivotally connected to the fixing element and has a positioning hole. The elastic element and the positioning member are disposed in the positioning hole. If the rotating element is rotated with respect to the fixing element, the elastic element will compress the positioning member to abut the fixing element, such that the fixing element and the rotating element are maintained at a positioning angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Chenming Mold Ind. Corp.
    Inventor: Yang-Chih Chang
  • Patent number: D660026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventor: Ruheng Shi
  • Patent number: D660187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventor: Li-Chuan Chen