Patents Assigned to ACER Inc.
  • Publication number: 20150055817
    Abstract: A sound box structure is disclosed. The sound box structure includes a sound box, a speaker, and a gas absorption element. The sound box includes a sound box space. A first hole is formed on one plane of the sound box, and a second hole is formed on another plane of the sound box. The speaker is mounted on the first hole. The gas absorption element is mounted on the second hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kuei-Ting Tai, Jia-Ren Chang, Po-Jen Tu
  • Publication number: 20150052071
    Abstract: An event integrating and displaying method for an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The method includes the follow steps: collecting a plurality of events established by different sources; calculating an event similarity between any two target events of the plurality of events to determine whether the event similarity exceeds a defined value, wherein the event similarity is obtained from calculating a time similarity, a location similarity, and an attendance similarity between the two target events; if the event similarity exceeds the defined value, integrating the two target events into an identical event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Meng-Ta Tsai, Nan-Kuang Chen, Jen-Hao Cheng
  • Patent number: 8955123
    Abstract: A system for preventing malicious communication includes a safe module set with a specific Internet Protocol address and a Time to Live threshold value of the specific IP address to determine whether a malicious communication exists. If the malicious communication exists, the safe module can re-direct the malicious communication to a recording module of the system for recording the content of the malicious communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventor: Chiung-Ying Huang
  • Patent number: 8947314
    Abstract: A mobile communication device includes an antenna structure having a dielectric substrate and an antenna. The dielectric substrate includes a ground portion, a first non-ground portion, and a second non-ground portion. The ground portion further includes a main ground and a protruded ground electrically connected to the main ground and extending between the first non-ground portion and the second non-ground portion. The first non-ground portion and the second non-ground portion are separated by the protruded ground. One edge of the protruded ground aligns with one edge of the dielectric substrate. The antenna includes a feeding portion located in the first non-ground portion and a radiating portion extending over the protruded ground and having a first end located in the first non-ground portion and electrically connected to the main ground and a second end of the radiating portion is located in the second non-ground portion and electrically connected to the main ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Fang-Hsien Chu
  • Publication number: 20150007110
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The method includes: accepting an input item on the display module when a display module of an electronic apparatus is locked; accepting an instruction of selecting an input item; and executing an application corresponding to the input item. A corresponding electronic apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Pei-Lin Chen, Ting-Feng Chou
  • Publication number: 20140334094
    Abstract: A heat-dissipation structure is disclosed. The heat-dissipation structure is used on an electronic apparatus including a heating element and a vent structure. The heat-dissipation structure includes a heat pipe, a fin group, a fan, a heat-dissipation gate and a shape memory element. One end of the shape memory element is connected with the heat pipe and another end is connected with the heat-dissipation gate. Heat deformation of the shape memory element causes the heat-dissipation gate to move so as to open or close the vent structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventor: Kai-Hung Huang
  • Publication number: 20140321070
    Abstract: A portable electronic device assembly includes a portable electronic device and a peripheral device. The portable electronic device includes a first electronic connection element and a first magnetic element. The peripheral device includes a second electronic connection element and a second magnetic element. When the portable electronic device is placed on the peripheral device, the magnetic force between the second magnetic element and the first magnetic element moves the second electronic connection element such that the first electronic connection element and the second electronic connection element are electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Cheng Wang, Shao-Chi Chuang
  • Patent number: 8872705
    Abstract: A dual-band mobile communication device includes a ground plane and an antenna located on a dielectric substrate and including a feeding portion and a shorted radiating portion. One end of the feeding portion is a feeding point of the antenna. A length of the shorted radiating portion is at least twice that of the feeding portion. A first end of the shorted radiating portion, electrically connected to the ground plane, is a shorting end, and the second end of the shorted radiating portion is an open end. The shorted radiating portion includes multiple bendings which form multiple fractional sections. The open end of the shorted radiating portion extends toward a first fractional section of the shorting end of the shorted radiating portion. A coupling gap exists between a second fractional section of the open end of the shorted radiating portion and the feeding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140254409
    Abstract: A method of maintaining a network connection is used between an electronic apparatus and a server. The method includes the following steps: (a) sending an Nth test packet to the server, and the Nth test packet requests that the server reply to the electronic apparatus after waiting for an Nth time interval; (b) determining whether a reply for the Nth test package is received; (c) repeating step (a) if the reply for the Nth test packet is received; and calculating a period from the (N?1)th test packet being sent to the reply from the server being received if the reply for the Nth test packet is not received; and (d) sending a keep-alive packet periodically to the server according to the period for maintaining a connection between the electronic apparatus and the server when the electronic apparatus is switched to a standby/sleep mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: I-Feng Tsai, Shu-Yu Jiang, Meng-Ta Tsai
  • Publication number: 20140188792
    Abstract: A video replication and placement method for a cloud-based center with a plurality of storage units is disclosed. The cloud-based center receives a plurality of video data according to users' demands and calculates the demand bandwidth of each video. Each video is divided into at least one standard replication conforming to a bandwidth-space ratio of the storage unit and/or a surplus replication under the ratio. The standard replications of all the videos are allocated prior to the storage units, and a remaining bandwidth-space ratio of each storage unit is calculated to allocate the surplus replications of all the videos. The amount of the used storage units can be reduced and the resource usage rate of each used storage unit can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Kai Huang, Chin-Chia Chang, Wan-Jiun Liao
  • Publication number: 20140159970
    Abstract: A touchpad device includes a capacitive touch pad and a near field communication antenna. The capacitive touch pad includes a plurality of input circuits and a plurality of output circuits. Each input circuit and each output circuit intersect and are arranged substantially perpendicular to each other, thereby forming a chessboard-like circuit. The near field communication antenna includes an antenna structure crosses at least part of the plurality of input circuits and at least part of the plurality of output circuits. The antenna structure is substantially not parallel to any one of the input circuits crossed by the antenna structure, and the near field communication antenna being substantially not parallel to any one of the output circuits crossed by the antenna structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Neng-Wen Yeh, Yung-Sen Lin
  • Patent number: 8698673
    Abstract: A multiband antenna includes a ground plane, a dielectric substrate and a radiating metal portion. The dielectric substrate is located at one side edge of the ground plane. The radiating metal portion is disposed on one surface of the dielectric substrate and includes a first metal portion and a second metal portion. The first metal portion is substantially of an L-shape. One end of the first metal portion is adjacent to the side edge of the ground plane and is the antenna's feeding point connected to a signal source, and the other end of the first metal portion is an open end. The second metal portion comprises a U-shape portion. The second metal portion includes a first open end and a second open end, which are respectively located on two opposite sides of the open end of the first metal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Li-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8699952
    Abstract: A proximity network system includes a plurality of Bluetooth devices disposed respectively in each one of a plurality of electronic apparatuses. The Bluetooth devices are arranged for enabling the electronic apparatuses to receive and transmit Bluetooth wireless signals with each other. Each Bluetooth device includes a community relationship module, an identifying module and a distance detecting module. The community relationship module stores a community relationship data of each Bluetooth device. The identifying module reads the community relationship data of each Bluetooth device to identify whether each Bluetooth device has the same community relationship. The distance detecting module determines whether each Bluetooth device is in a proximity network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventor: Sip Kim Yeung
  • Patent number: 8621716
    Abstract: An angle positioning device of a rotation shaft includes a first pivot portion and a second pivot portion. The first pivot portion includes a first face having a positioning portion, a first path and a second path divided by the positioning portion. The first pivot portion includes a second face having a returning portion, a third path and a fourth path divided by the returning portion. The second pivot portion can move along the first path, the second path, the third path, and the fourth path. When the second pivot portion moves from the first path to the second path, the pivot angle is increased. When the second pivot portion moves from the third path to the fourth path, the pivot angle is decreased. When the pivot portion moves from the first path to the positioning portion, the pivot angle cannot be decreased. The second pivot portion can move from the third path through the returning portion and back to the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventor: Shun-Bin Chen
  • Patent number: 8599074
    Abstract: A mobile communication device has a ground plane and an antenna. The antenna is disposed on a dielectric substrate and includes a radiating metal portion, a coupling metal portion, and a shorting metal portion. One edge of the radiating metal portion faces the ground plane and has a distance between the edge and the ground plane. The coupling metal portion is electrically connected to a source via a connecting metal strip. One end of the shorting metal portion is electrically connected to the radiating metal portion, and the other end of the shorting metal portion is electrically connected to the ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Cheng-Tse Lee
  • Patent number: 8523952
    Abstract: A protection method is used in a portable communication device. The protection method comprises the steps of generating a specific command, and storing the specific command into the portable communication device; the portable communication device waiting and receiving a message; determining whether the message received by the portable communication device comprises the specific command; and performing a protection mechanism for protecting the important information contained in the portable communication device when the message comprises the specific command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventor: Jr-Rung Wei
  • Patent number: 8482464
    Abstract: A mobile communication device includes a ground plane, a dielectric substrate, and an antenna. The antenna is disposed on one surface of the dielectric substrate and includes a radiating portion, a feeding portion, and a shorting portion. The radiating portion includes a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. The first radiating portion has at least one bending. One end of the first radiating portion is left open. The second radiating portion is a shunt metal strip. Both ends of the second radiating portion are electrically connected to the first radiating portion such that the second radiating portion forms a closed loop with a segment of the first radiating portion. The feeding portion couples the electromagnetic energy to the radiating portion through a coupling gap, and one end of the feeding portion is the antenna's feeding point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Shu-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 8423100
    Abstract: A mobile communication device includes an antenna structure. The antenna structure includes a circuit board. A ground plane is disposed on the second surface of the circuit board and includes a first side edge and a second side edge. An antenna element is disposed on the first surface of the circuit board or placed near the circuit board, and includes a first operating band and a second operating band. A first inductively-coupled element is located near the first side edge of the ground plane, and includes a metal plate and an inductive element. The metal plate is electrically connected to the ground plane through the inductive element. The first inductively-coupled element generates a resonant mode at a specific frequency within the second operating band to reduce a surface current excitation on the ground plane and to reduce near-field E-field and H-field strengths of the mobile communication device within the second operating band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Chih-Hua Chang
  • Patent number: 8423804
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a system performance of a portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device is connected to a power adapter for obtaining external power supply. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a voltage signal outputted from the power adapter; determining whether to execute an over current protection by the power adapter; calculating a recovering time of the voltage signal if the over current protection is executed by the power adapter, wherein the recovering time is a time period from stopping an output of the voltage signal to restarting the output thereof; and determining an output power of the power adapter to adjust the system performance of the portable electronic device according to the recovering time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Yu Li, Kuan-Chi Juan
  • Patent number: 8373604
    Abstract: A multiband mobile communication device has a ground plane and an antenna. The antenna is disposed on a dielectric substrate. The antenna includes a monopole, a shorted radiating portion, a first radiating branch, and a second radiating branch. The monopole includes a feeding end, and the feeding end is the feeding point of the antenna. The shorted radiating portion has a shorting end electrically connected to the ground plane, and its other end is left open. The shorted radiating portion is extended along the monopole and has a coupling gap to the monopole. The first radiating branch has an end electrically connected to the shorted radiating portion, and its other end is left open. The first radiating branch is extended toward the shorting end of the shorted radiating portion and located on the opposite side of the monopole. The second radiating branch has an end electrically connected to the shorted radiating portion, and its other end is left open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Inc.
    Inventors: Kin-Lu Wong, Wei-Yu Chen