Patents Assigned to E Ink Holding Inc.
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Publication number: 20210119077Abstract: A reflective display includes a reflective display module, a cover plate, a light source, a plurality of microstructures, and an adhesive. The reflective display module has a display surface. The cover plate is overlapped with the reflective display module, and the display surface is located between the cover plate and the reflective display module. The cover plate has a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. The second surface is located between the first surface and the reflective display module. The third surface is connected to the first surface and the second surface. The light source is disposed beside the third surface. The microstructures are located between the cover plate and the reflective display module. The adhesive is located between the microstructures and the reflective display module. The reflective display module is bonded to the second surface via the adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Chang-Cheng Lo, Yue-Feng Lin
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Patent number: 10957717Abstract: A pixel array includes first signal lines, second signal lines, active components, pixel electrodes, and selection lines. The second signal lines are intersected with and electrically insulated to the first signal lines. Each active component is electrically connected to one of the first signal lines and one of the second signal lines. Each pixel electrode is electrically connected to one of the active components. The selection lines are intersected with the first signal lines to form a plurality of first intersections and second intersections. The selection lines are electrically connected to the first signal lines at the first intersections but electrically insulated to the first signal lines at second intersections. The selection lines are electrically insulated to the second signal lines. At least one of the second signal lines is disposed between each selection line and any one of the active components.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Po-Chuan Chan, Wen-Yu Kuo
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Publication number: 20210072584Abstract: A flexible display apparatus including a flexible display panel, a driving chip and a hot-melt protective layer is provided. The flexible display panel has a display area and a bonding area located outside the display area. The driving chip is disposed on the bonding area of the flexible display panel via at least one flexible circuit board. The hot-melt protective layer is disposed on the display area and a portion of the flexible circuit board. The hot-melt protective layer locates on a top surface of the flexible display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Lih-Hsiung Chan
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Patent number: 10923068Abstract: A display device and a display driving circuit with electromagnetic interference suppression capability are provided. The display device includes a substrate, an active matrix, a display driver and a thin-film transistor (TFT) conditioning circuit. The active matrix disposed on the substrate includes multiple data lines, multiple gate lines and multiple pixels. The data lines intersect with the gate lines. The pixels are coupled to intersections of the data lines and the gate lines. The display driver disposed on the substrate generates signals for driving the data lines and/or the gate lines in response to a conditioned serial data clock. The TFT conditioning circuit disposed on the substrate is coupled to the display driver. The TFT conditioning circuit includes one or more TFTs, and attenuates an amplitude of a serial data clock in response to a predetermined gate bias to provide the conditioned serial data clock to the display driver.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: E INK HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Xue-Hung Tsai, Wei-Tsung Chen, Yu-Lin Wang, Po-Hsin Lin
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Patent number: 10921677Abstract: A flexible electronic device has a display region and a package region surrounding the display region. The flexible electronic device includes a substrate, a first protection film, a first adhesive layer, a display medium layer, and a flexible auxiliary layer. The first protection film is disposed to be opposite to the substrate. The first adhesive layer is disposed between the substrate and the first protection film, and at least located within the package region. The display medium layer is disposed between the substrate and the first protection film, and located within the display region. The flexible auxiliary layer is disposed on a surface of the first protection film, and located within the package region, wherein the flexible auxiliary layer overlaps the first adhesive layer in a thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Yi-Sheng Lin, Chia-Chun Yeh, Kuo-Hsing Cheng, Hsing-Kai Wang
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Patent number: 10908472Abstract: An electrophoretic display apparatus including a driving array substrate, a color filter layer, and an electrophoretic display film is provided. The driving array substrate has a plurality of display units. The color filter layer is disposed on the driving array substrate. The color filter layer includes a plurality of color filter patterns. Each of the display units corresponds to the color filter patterns of two different colors. The electrophoretic display film is between the driving array substrate and the color filter layer. The electrophoretic display film includes a plurality of display mediums. Each of the display mediums includes an electrophoretic liquid, a plurality of color charged particles, a plurality of black charged particles, and a plurality of white charged particles. A color of the color charged particles is different from colors of the color filter patterns.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Po-Yuan Lo, Lee-Tyng Chen
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Patent number: 10895982Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an input device and a symbol display method thereof. The input device includes at least one button and a display unit. The display unit is arranged in a position adjacent to the button in the input device and includes multiple display regions. The positions of the display regions are corresponding to the positions of the button. The display unit displays multiple display symbols in the display regions. In addition, the display unit is configured to change the display position of at least one display symbol to a different display region according to a personalization signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Chun-Wei Chu
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Patent number: 10895680Abstract: A display device includes a display module and an optical film. The display module has a through hole. At least one optical film is located on the display module and has an alignment through hole aligned with the through hole and an alignment mark surrounding the alignment through hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Chi-Ming Wu, Yi-Ching Wang, Tsung-Chin Lin, Ching-Huan Liao
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Publication number: 20210006429Abstract: The present invention discloses an identification number numbering method and a multipoint communication system. The identification number numbering method includes the following steps: sending an identification number packet to a multipoint communication bus by a master device; receiving the identification number packet via the multipoint communication bus, and temporarily storing an identification number according to the identification number packet by a first slave device; changing a voltage level of a master device control output pin of the master device; and when the first slave device determines that a voltage level of a first control input pin coupled to the master device control output pin is correspondingly changed, updating a first slave device identification number of the first slave device according to the identification number.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Yi-Jhou Shen, Zhone-Yang Wu
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Patent number: 10884298Abstract: A manufacturing method of a flexible display apparatus is provided. A flexible display panel is formed on the substrate. The flexible display panel has a display area and a bonding area located outside the display area. A driving chip is bonded on the bonding area of the flexible display panel via at least one flexible circuit board. A hot-melt protective layer is formed on the display area and the bonding area of the flexible display panel and a portion of the flexible circuit board. A heating step is performed to soften the hot-melt protective layer. The flexible display panel is separated from the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Lih-Hsiung Chan
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Patent number: 10879275Abstract: A pixel structure includes a pixel electrode, a data selection line and an isolation line. The isolation line is disposed along the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode is configured to store a pixel voltage. The data selection line is configured to transmit a data signal. The isolation line is configured to reduce an influence of an electric field of the data signal on the pixel voltage of the pixel electrode. A projection area of the isolation line is overlapped with a projection area of the pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Ji-Yuan Li, Ian French, San-Long Lin, Kuang-Heng Liang, Shu-Fen Tsai, Jia-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 10879362Abstract: A transistor including a substrate, a source, a drain, an active portion, a fin-shaped gate, and an insulation layer is provided. The source is located on the substrate. The drain is located on the substrate. The active portion connects the source and the drain. The fin-shaped gate wraps the active portion. A first portion of the insulation layer separates the fin-shaped gate from the active portion, a second portion of the insulation layer separates the fin-shaped gate from the substrate, a third portion of the insulation layer separates the fin-shaped gate from the source and from the drain, and a fourth portion of the insulation layer is located on a surface of the fin-shaped gate facing away from the active portion. Here, the insulation layer is integrally formed.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Hsiao-Wen Zan, Chuang-Chuang Tsai, Hsin Chiao, Wei-Tsung Chen
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Patent number: 10872575Abstract: A display device includes a processor and a display panel. The processor is configured to output multiple display signals. The display panel includes multiple display units and multiple temperature sensors. The display units are electrically coupled to the processor and configured to receive the multiple display signals to provide a display screen. The temperature sensors are electrical coupled to the processor and configured to detect the temperature of different areas of the display panel so as to transmit multiple detection signals to the processor so that the processor adjusts at least one of the display signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Jen-Yu Chang
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Patent number: 10871697Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a plurality of hexagonal electrophoretic display units adjoined together, in which each of the hexagonal electrophoretic display units is constituted by three rhombic electrophoretic display panels or one hexagonal electrophoretic display panel, and the hexagonal electrophoretic display panel has three rhombic regions; and a control module configured to control gray scale of each of the rhombic electrophoretic display panels or each of the rhombic regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Jui-I Chen
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Patent number: 10866481Abstract: An electrophoretic display system and a developing method are provided. The electrophoretic display system includes an electronic device storing a control ware, a first electrophoretic display device coupled to the electronic device and a first application program interface (API) provided by the control ware. A first application program loads a first image data into the control ware, and calls the first application program interface. The control ware obtains a first driver of a first communication protocol of the first electrophoretic display device according to the first API. The control ware encapsulates the first image data with a first data encapsulating format according to the first driver. The control ware transmits the encapsulated first image data to the first electrophoretic display device according to the first communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Chao-Ming Tseng, Yu-Hsun Kuo
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Publication number: 20200379312Abstract: An electrophoretic display and a driving method thereof are provided. The electrophoretic display includes a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel includes an electrophoretic unit and a driving substrate. The electrophoretic unit includes a plurality of electrophoretic particles. The driving substrate is disposed below the electrophoretic unit. The driving circuit is coupled to the driving substrate. The driving circuit sequentially provides a first reset signal and a second reset signal to the driving substrate during a reset period to reset the plurality of electrophoretic particles. The first reset signal sequentially includes a first sub-balanced signal and a first sub-mixed signal. The second reset signal sequentially includes a second sub-balanced signal and a second sub-mixed signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Hsin-I Wu, Chien-Hung Chen, Chen-Kai Chiu, Chih-Yu Cheng
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Publication number: 20200371628Abstract: A touch structure including an insulating substrate, an electromagnetic shielding structure layer, a sensing circuit structure layer, a first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer is provided. The electromagnetic shielding structure layer is disposed on the insulating substrate, and located between the insulating substrate and the sensing circuit structure layer. The sensing circuit structure layer is disposed on the insulating substrate, and includes a first sensing circuit layer and a second sensing circuit layer. The first insulating layer is disposed between the electromagnetic shielding structure layer and the first sensing circuit layer. The second insulating layer is disposed between the first sensing circuit layer and the second sensing circuit layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Chien-Hsing Chang
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Patent number: 10840176Abstract: A conductive structure includes a first wire, a second wire, and a conductive pillar. The second wire is disposed over the first wire and intersected with the first wire. The conductive pillar is disposed between the first wire and the second wire. A bottom surface area of the conductive pillar is greater than an area at which the first wire overlaps the conductive pillar.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Guan-Ru Huang, Wen-Yu Kuo, Ya-Tang Chuang
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Patent number: 10824290Abstract: A touch sensor configured to sense a touch object is provided. The touch sensor includes a sensing device and a sensing circuit. The sensing device includes a substrate, a sensing electrode, a sensing common electrode and a shielding layer. The sensing electrode and the sensing common electrode are disposed on the substrate. The shielding layer is disposed on the sensing electrode and the sensing common electrode. The sensing circuit is electrically connected to the sensing device. The sensing circuit includes a resistor device. A relaxation frequency of a relaxation signal of the touch sensor is determined according to a resistance of the resistor device and/or a parasitic resistance of the sensing device. A pulse difference of the relaxation signal is changed by the touch object. The touch object is a conductor. An electronic paper display panel including the foregoing touch sensor is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Hsiao-Lung Cheng, Shu-Fen Tsai, Chi-Mao Hung, Kuang-Heng Liang
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Patent number: D906426Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventor: Chi-Hsun Wang