Patents by Inventor Chung-Lin Tsai
Chung-Lin Tsai 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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Patent number: 9004737Abstract: An illumination apparatus including an illumination shell, a circuit and a light source is provided. The illumination shell is formed by a light guide plate. The circuit has a plurality of circuit contacts integrated with the illumination shell. The light source is disposed on the illumination shell and electrically contacted to the plurality of circuit contacts.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Guo-Chen Lee
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Patent number: 8602631Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light guide plate, a circuit having a plurality of conductive contacts integrated with the light guide plate, and a light source disposed on the light guide plate and electrically contacted to the plurality of conductive contacts.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Ming-Yuan Lee, Tsung-Yung Hung, I-Ping Huang
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Publication number: 20130265754Abstract: An illumination apparatus including an illumination shell, a circuit and a light source is provided. The illumination shell is formed by a light guide plate. The circuit has a plurality of circuit contacts integrated with the illumination shell. The light source is disposed on the illumination shell and electrically contacted to the plurality of circuit contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Guo-Chen Lee
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Patent number: 8511883Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is provided. The light guide apparatus comprises a light guide plate and an electrical component. The light guide plate is configured with a circuit thereon. The electrical component is attached to the light guide plate and electrically coupled to the circuit. The light guide apparatus integrates a light guide panel, a circuit and an electrical component together for obtaining simpler structure and lower cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Yu-Jeng Lin
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Patent number: 8480286Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light guide plate, a circuit having a plurality of circuit contacts integrated with the light guide plate, and a light source disposed on the light guide plate and electrically contacted to the plurality of circuit contacts.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Guo-Chen Lee
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Patent number: 8419262Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light guide plate, a circuit having a plurality of circuit contacts integrated with the light guide plate, and a light source disposed on the light guide plate and electrically contacted to the plurality of circuit contacts.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Guo-Chen Lee, Wei-An Hua, Tsung-Yung Hung, I-Ping Huang
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Patent number: 8419261Abstract: A light guide apparatus of a backlight module is provided. The light guide apparatus includes a light guide plate and a plurality of LEDs serving as light sources disposed at one lateral side of the light guide plate. The light guide plate includes a circuit configured thereon, and the light sources are welded on the circuit of the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies Inc.Inventor: Chung-Lin Tsai
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Patent number: 8393776Abstract: A backlight module is provided in the present invention. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source plate and a plurality of side-view lighting elements. The light guide plate comprises a light guide body being an integrally-formed single plate body and comprising a plurality of elongated grooves and a plurality of penetrated grooves. The penetrated grooves and the elongated grooves are collectively arranged on a surface of the light guide plate to separate the light guide plate into a plurality of light emitting regions. The side-view lighting elements arranged on the light source plate are attached to a side of the light guide body and respectively disposed for the penetrated grooves to illuminate corresponding light emitting regions.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Huang-Chun Liu, Chung-Lin Tsai, Sheng-Ju Chung
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Patent number: 8388208Abstract: A method and a structure for improving the uniformity of light emitted from a backlight module are provided. In accordance with the present invention, a plurality of optical microstructures are intermittently distributed on an LGP of a backlight module. Each of the microstructures further includes a plurality of optical sub-microstructures. The optical microstructures and the optical sub-microstructures are distributed on the LGP with varied distribution intensities in three dimensions, such that at where the optical microstructures and the optical sub-microstructures are distributed with a larger distribution intensities the LGP refracts and reflects more light, and at where the optical microstructures and the optical sub-microstructures are distributed with a smaller distribution intensities the LGP refracts and reflects less light.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies (Taiwan) Inc.Inventors: Ming Huang Wen, Chun Pin Chang, Chan Chang Ni, Tsung Yung Hung, Chung Lin Tsai
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Patent number: 8319130Abstract: A light emitting key structure is provided. The key structure includes a base, a reflective sheet, a circuit board, an elastic member, a linkage mechanism, and a key cap sequentially disposed one on another in order. The reflective sheet is disposed on the base. The circuit board is made of a light guide material. At least one light source is bonded to a lateral side of the circuit board. The circuit board, together with the light source bonded to the lateral side thereof is disposed on the reflective sheet. The elastic member is directly coupled to the circuit board. The key cap is featured with a light transmission characteristic. Therefore, in operation, the light emitted from the light source can be directly guided into the circuit board, and then outputted from the light transmissive key cap, thus achieving the light emitting effect.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies (Taiwan) Inc.Inventors: Mang-Shiang Lee, Chung-Lin Tsai
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Publication number: 20120170317Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light guide plate, a circuit having a plurality of circuit contacts integrated with the light guide plate, and a light source disposed on the light guide plate and electrically contacted to the plurality of circuit contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: GLOBAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Guo-Chen Lee
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Publication number: 20120170318Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light guide plate, a circuit having a plurality of conductive contacts integrated with the light guide plate, and a light source disposed on the light guide plate and electrically contacted to the plurality of conductive contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: GLOBAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Ming-Yuan Lee, Tsung-Yung Hung, I-Ping Huang
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Publication number: 20120170313Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is provided. The light guide apparatus comprises a light guide plate and an electrical component. The light guide plate is configured with a circuit thereon. The electrical component is attached to the light guide plate and electrically coupled to the circuit. The light guide apparatus integrates a light guide panel, a circuit and an electrical component together for obtaining simpler structure and lower cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: GLOBAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Yu-Jeng Lin
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Publication number: 20120163029Abstract: A light guide apparatus of a backlight module is provided. The light guide apparatus includes a light guide plate and a plurality of LEDs serving as light sources disposed at one lateral side of the light guide plate. The light guide plate includes a circuit configured thereon, and the light sources are welded on the circuit of the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: GLOBAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventor: Chung-Lin Tsai
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Publication number: 20120163025Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is provided. The light guide apparatus comprises a light guide plate and a light source module. The light guide plate is configured with a circuit contact. The light source module is integrated with the light guide plate in contact with the circuit contact. Besides, a method of fabricating a light guide apparatus for a backlight module is also provided with simpler process and lower fabrication cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: GLOBAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Ming-Yuan Lee, Tsung-Yung Hung, I-Ping Huang
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Patent number: 8207462Abstract: A key structure having an improved light emitting efficiency is provided. The key structure includes a light guide plate, an isolation sheet, a circuit board, an elastic member, and a key cap sequentially disposed one on another in order. A circuit and a plurality of first electrical contacts are distributed on a top surface of the light guide plate. An optical structure is disposed at a bottom surface of the light guide plate. The isolation sheet has a light reflective surface facing the light guide plate. A light source emits a light into the light guide plate. The light is reflected by the optical structure to pass through the through holes configured at the isolation sheet, thus allowing more light outputting through the through holes, so as to improve the illumination of the key cap, and improve the light emitting efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies (Taiwan) Inc.Inventor: Chung-Lin Tsai
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Publication number: 20120069600Abstract: A double-sided light-emitting light guide plate assembly, and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed, wherein a reflector is arranged between a first light guide plate and a second light guide plate. When light is emitted from a light source, it enters into the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate from one lateral side of the double-sided light-emitting light guide plate assembly. Through the reflector having two opposite reflective surface, the light is output from the first light output surface of the first light guide plate, and the second light output surface of the second light guide plate, such that the light guide plate assembly of the present invention can emit light from its two opposite surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: YU-JENG LIN, Chung-Lin Tsai, Tsung-Yung Hung
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Patent number: 8097822Abstract: A light emitting key structure is provided. The key structure includes a base, a reflective sheet, a circuit board, an elastic member, a linkage mechanism, and a key cap sequentially disposed one on another in order. The reflective sheet is disposed on the base. The circuit board is made of a light guide material. At least one light source is bonded to a lateral side of the circuit board. The circuit board, together with the light source bonded to the lateral side thereof is disposed on the reflective sheet. The elastic member is directly coupled to the circuit board. The key cap is featured with a light transmission characteristic. Therefore, in operation, the light emitted from the light source can be directly guided into the circuit board, and then outputted from the light transmissive key cap, thus achieving the light emitting effect.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Global Lighting Technologies (Taiwan) Inc.Inventors: Mang-Shiang Lee, Chung-Lin Tsai
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Publication number: 20110278147Abstract: A keyboard device includes at least an illuminant element, at least a pressing key element and a light guide element. The pressing key element includes a keycap reciprocating along a first axial direction when being pressed and a recovering component attached to the keycap for supporting and pushing back the keycap when not pressed. The light guide element is located at one side of the recovering component. The light guide element includes at least a light-incident part and a light-emitting part. The light-incident part is used for receiving light emitted from the illuminant element. The light-emitting part emits light along a second axial direction to the recovering component so that the recovering components guide light to the keycap, wherein the second axial direction is different to the first axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Shin-Kun LEE, Huang-Chun LIU, Sheng-Ju CHUNG, Yu-Jeng LIN, Chung-Lin TSAI
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Publication number: 20110280046Abstract: A light guide apparatus for a backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light guide plate, a circuit having a plurality of circuit contacts integrated with the light guide plate, and a light source disposed on the light guide plate and electrically contacted to the plurality of circuit contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: GLOBAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Chung-Lin Tsai, Guo-Chen Lee, Wei-An Hua, Tsung-Yung Hung, I-Ping Huang