Patents Assigned to Sensortek Technology Corp.
  • Patent number: 11933809
    Abstract: The present application discloses an inertial sensor comprising a proof mass, an anchor, a flexible member and several sensing electrodes. The anchor is positioned on one side of the sensing, mass block in a first axis. The flexible member is connected to the anchor point and extends along the first axis towards the proof mass to connect the proof mass, in which the several sensing electrodes are provided. In this way, the present application can effectively solve the problems of high difficulty in the production and assembly of inertial sensors and poor product reliability thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SENSORTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Lee, Chia-Hao Lin, Shih-Hsiung Tseng, Kuan-Ju Tseng, Chao-Shiun Wang
  • Patent number: 11935462
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electronic device comprising: a display unit, a display driver circuit and a circuit element. The display driver circuit is coupled to the display unit. The circuit element is placed under a display area of the display unit. The circuit element receives a dynamic refresh signal generated by the display driver circuit. The dynamic refresh signal contains a refresh rate information of the display unit. Thereby, the problem that the interference between the display pixels and the circuit element under the display unit cannot be avoided when the refresh rate changes is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yen-Chung Lin, Rong-Fong Chen
  • Patent number: 11882637
    Abstract: An operation method of a proximity sensor comprises: controlling a light-emitting element by a processing circuit. Such control includes a plurality of light source on and light source off operations. An optical sensor receives light and outputs a sensing signal corresponding to the intensity of the light. The processing circuit computes the sensing signal to produce a sensing result. The plurality of light source on and light source off operations includes a group having two light sources on operations and two light sources off operations. The two light sources on operations in the group or the two light sources off operations in the group are performed consecutively. In this way, the ambient light components of the light source on and off operations may cancel out each other to reduce the ambient light components contained in the sensing results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Meng-Yong Lin, Ming-Huang Liu, Jer-Hau Hsu, Cheng-Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 11874166
    Abstract: The present application discloses a light sensor circuit, which comprises a photodiode and a capacitor unit. The cathode of the photodiode is controlled by a capacitive unit to maintain the same or close voltage level as the anode of the photodiode, which significantly reduces the effect of the dark current of the photodiode. Thus, the light sensor circuit can effectively maintain the performance and accuracy of an analog-to-digital converter applying the light sensor circuit. The circuit design difficulty and manufacturing cost are also significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Cheng Chen, Kai-Hsiang Chan, Sheng-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11870477
    Abstract: The present application provides a transmission structure of an antenna and a proximity sensing circuit. The transmission structure includes a transmission line and at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element, a first coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to an antenna, and a second coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to a proximity sensing circuit, and the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element is coupled between the transmission line and a ground, and is located between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit. Utilizing the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element in conjunction with the transmission line so that the transmission path between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit has the high impedance, and hence preventing a radio-frequency signal from the antenna from affecting the sensing accuracy of the proximity sensing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Meng Yen, Chih-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11811398
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method of operating a capacitance sensing device comprises: calculating a difference of a raw data compared to one of the raw data received in a previous data frame; and performing a comparison calculation based on the raw data and a stored baseline value to determine whether a proximity event has occurred. Under the proximity event, selects one of several baseline value update procedures based on the magnitude of the difference. Thus, the present application effectively avoids the problem of failure to update the baseline value when the object is close to the capacitance sensing device for a long period of time, which may lead to misjudgment of the capacitance sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp
    Inventors: Wang-An Lin, Chung-Jung Wu, Chun-Lun Wang
  • Patent number: 11703983
    Abstract: The application relates to a capacitance sensing circuit, which samples and holds a reference signal to generate an input reference signal, hereby, an input signal is generated to a sensing circuit. Thereby, the sensing circuit generates an output signal according to the input signal and a sensing signal, for the capacitance sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp
    Inventors: Tun-Ju Wang, Ching-Jen Tung, Chi-Huan Lu, Chun-Yu Lin, Yen-Shao Lin
  • Patent number: 11699996
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for proximity sensing and an applied electronic device thereof. The present invention provides that a movement signal is generated according to a detection data, a move baseline data and a move threshold and cooperated with a proximity signal for generating a judgement signal to judge if the human body or the object body is close to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Wang-An Lin, Ming-Che Yang, Kai Fan Hsieh, Chung-Jung Wu
  • Patent number: 11693519
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a proximity sensor and a proximity sensing method. The proximity sensor includes a sensing element and a sensing circuit. The sensing circuit is coupled to the sensing element and transmits a first driving signal and a second signal to the sensing element, respectively. The sensing element receives the first driving signal and the second driving signal, respectively, and generates a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal, respectively. The sensing circuit generates a proximity signal according to the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. Therefore, the present invention may improve the accuracy of sensing the proximity of the human body whether near to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Chih-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11656120
    Abstract: This application provides a structure of the optical sensor, in which a photosensitive element is arranged on a substrate, a colloid layer is arranged on the upper part of the substrate and covers the photosensitive element, and a thin film is further arranged. The device includes an adhesive layer and a light-transmitting layer, the adhesive layer is disposed above one of the colloid layers, the light-transmitting layer is disposed above one of the adhesive layers, and the structure can be used to provide the film member that can be changed according to requirements The optical design reduces the production cost of the optical sensor; this application further provides a shielding layer between the film member and the colloid layer to improve the photosensitive efficiency of the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Feng-Jung Hsu
  • Patent number: 11614327
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gyroscope structure. A frame disposed on a substrate, and a flexible element is correspondingly disposed a first, second, and third plate. The first plate has a second flexibility. The second plate is connected to the second plate, the second plate is connected to the third plate with a fourth flexible element, the second plate is provided with a first through-hole, and a rotating plate is pivotally connected in the first through-hole. The rotating plate is connected to a supporting column of the substrate by a fifth flexible part, and then a sensing element is provided on the substrate corresponding to the first, second, and third plates to sense the movement and movement of the plates. Rotating, in one embodiment, the first and third plates are provided with through-holes, and corresponding sensing elements and driving elements are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Hsiung Tseng, Shih-Wei Lee, Chao-Shiun Wang
  • Patent number: 11513001
    Abstract: A module comprises a display element, a first polarizing element, a light sensor, a transparent layer, and a second polarizing element. The display element emits a display light source. The first polarizing element covers the display element, and blocks a first phase portion of the display light source and allows a second phase portion of the display light source to penetrate. The transparent layer covers the first polarizing element. The light sensor is disposed on one side of the display element or the first polarizing element. The second polarizing element is disposed between the light sensor and the transparent layer and blocks a second phase portion of the display light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Feng-Jung Hsu, Tsung-Hua Wu
  • Patent number: 11509322
    Abstract: A light sensor circuit, which comprising a photodiode and a voltage follower. By setting the voltage follower to reduce the influence from the junction capacitance of the photodiode, a required time of a repeat integration module will not be influenced by the photodiode to efficiently keep the performance and the accuracy of the analog to digital converting device when the light sensor circuit is used to the analog to digital converting device in repeat operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Jer-Hau Hsu, Ming-Huang Liu, Kian-Fu Wong
  • Patent number: 11419198
    Abstract: A light sensor and control method thereof, which controls the light sensor comprising a first light emitted element, a second light emitted element, a first light sensing element and a control circuit. The light wavelength of the second light emitted element is greater than the light wavelength of the first light emitted element. The control circuit is coupled to the first and second light elements and the first light sensing element. When the display of an electronic device is in a light-up status, the control circuit switches on the first light emitted element to emit light; when the display of the electronic device is in a light-off status, the control circuit switches on the second light emitted element to emit light. Thus, it will prevent from the influence to the image of the display, and obtained the better sensing ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Liu, Meng-Yong Lin
  • Patent number: 11378445
    Abstract: An optical sensing module for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an opaque layer and an aperture formed on the opaque layer, wherein the optical sensing module includes an optical sensor; a light guide element, disposed between the opaque layer and the optical sensor and configured to guide light to the optical sensor through the aperture; and a diffusing layer, disposed between the opaque layer and the light guide element, configured to diffuse the light to the light guide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SensorTek technology Corp.
    Inventor: Feng-Jung Hsu
  • Patent number: 11256364
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a noise suppression circuit for suppressing a noise in a voltage signal. The noise suppression circuit comprises: a switch unit having a first terminal receiving the voltage signal and a second terminal; a capacitor having a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the switch unit and a second terminal grounded; and an analog front-end unit including an operational amplifier with a signal input terminal and a reference-voltage input terminal electrically connected to the second terminal of the switch unit; wherein the switch unit is controlled by a pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SENSORTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Yao-Sheng Hu, Chun-Kuan Wu, Ching-Jen Tung, Hung-Yen Tai
  • Patent number: 11193770
    Abstract: The invention related to a microelectromechanical systems gyroscope, which comprises a plurality of sensing modules sensing angular velocities on tri-axes, a plurality of outer frames set at outside of the sensing modules, and a plurality of driving shafts set between the frames respectively. The driving shafts are connected with two adjacent frames by first and second flexible connecting elements, respectively, and the frames are connected with the sensing modules by a plurality of transporting units. Thus, tri-axes sensing is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Lee, Chao-Shiun Wang
  • Patent number: 11116059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a proximity sensor operating method used in a proximity sensor comprising a light-emitting device. The method comprises: in a standby mode, when an output of the proximity sensor is a first sensing state, driving a driving current of the light-emitting device to comprise a first driving current; when the proximity sensor is triggered, a check mode is entered, the proximity sensor still outputs the first sensing state, and the driving current is switched to comprise a second driving current larger than the first driving current; and in the check mode, when the length of time/number of times of triggering the proximity sensor is larger than or equal to a threshold length/number, the output of the proximity sensor switches to the second sensing state, and returning to the standby mode in which the driving current comprises the first driving current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SensorTek technology Corp.
    Inventors: Meng-Yong Lin, Ming-Huang Liu
  • Patent number: 11056607
    Abstract: A complex sensing device packaging structure includes a light emitting element sealed in a first transparent molding material, a light sensing element sealed in a second transparent molding material, a substrate disposed with the light emission element, the light sensing element, the first transparent molding material and the second transparent molding material, and an opaque blocking element disposed on the substrate and between the first transparent molding material and the second transparent molding material, wherein the opaque blocking element is formed by performing a solidifying process to an opaque glue being liquid at the room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SensorTek technology Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chieh Tsou, Yi-Hua Chang, Chih-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10985770
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for operating sensing signals and the circuit thereof. An analog-to-digital converter first processes the input signal having the most significant bit (MSB DATA) data at least once. Afterwards, the analog-to-digital converter processes the input signal having the least significant bit (LSB) data and the MSB data and sums all the input signals. Thereby, the process steps of the analog-to-digital converter can be simplified and the processing time can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Jer-Hau Hsu, Tsung-Han Wu, Kian-Fu Wong, Meng-Yong Lin