Patents by Inventor Hao-Yu Chen
Hao-Yu Chen 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: 12158644Abstract: An electronic device, including a display module, a viewing angle switchable panel, a switching element, and a driving element, is provided. The display module has multiple first units and multiple second units. The first units have a first color, and the second units have a second color. The first color and the second color are different. The switching element is used to switch the viewing angle switchable panel between a first viewing angle mode and a second viewing angle mode. The driving element is used to provide a first data voltage to at least one of the first units of the display module in the first viewing angle mode, and provide a second data voltage to the at least one of the first units in the second viewing angle mode. The first data voltage and the second data voltage are different.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventors: Hao-Yu Chen, Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hsin-Chih Wu
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Patent number: 12147099Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device including a viewing angle control structure. The viewing angle control structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, an adjustable dielectric layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first alignment layer disposed between the first substrate and the adjustable dielectric layer, and a second alignment layer disposed between the second substrate and the adjustable dielectric layer. One of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer is in a horizontal alignment and the other of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer is in a vertical alignment.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventors: Jo-Hsin Wang, Jyun-Sian Li, Hao-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11962225Abstract: A fan braking structure includes a fan including a frame having an upright bearing cup, and a fan impeller having a vertical rotating shaft pivotally received in the bearing cup and provided at a free end with a groove; a braking structure located at a lower part of the bearing cup and including a brake plate and an electromagnet, and the brake plate being provided at one side with a protruded brake pin and at another side with a magnetic member; and an elastic element disposed between and pressed against a top of the shell and the brake plate. When the fan is inactive, the electromagnet is energized to produce magnetic poles that repel the magnetic member and compress the elastic element, such that the brake pin is magnetically pushed toward the rotating shaft to engage with the groove, causing the fan to brake and stop rotating inertially.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih-Cheng Tang., Hao-Yu Chen, Hsu-Jung Lin
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Publication number: 20240094571Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a display panel including a substrate and a plurality of scan lines disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a backlight module disposed under the display panel, and an optical film disposed above the backlight module and including a plurality of light-blocking portions and a plurality of light-transmission portions which are arranged alternately. The light blocking portions extend in a second direction, and the first direction and the second direction are not parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hong-Sheng HSIEH, Hao-Yu CHEN
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Patent number: 11933311Abstract: A fan brake structure includes a fan and a brake device. The fan has a frame body, a fan impeller and a stator. The brake device is disposed under a bottom of a bearing cup. The brake device has a driving member, a brake member and an elastic member. The elastic member abuts against one end of the brake member. The other end of the brake member has a boss body. The driving member has a spiral rail. When the driving member rotates, the boss body moves along the spiral rail, whereby the brake member linearly reciprocally moves upward to brake the fan impeller or linearly reciprocally moves downward to release the fan impeller from the braking.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chih-Cheng Tang, Hao-Yu Chen, Hsu-Jung Lin
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Patent number: 11936278Abstract: A fan braking structure includes a fan including a frame having an upright bearing cup, and a fan impeller having a vertical rotating shaft pivotally received in the bearing cup and provided at a free end with a groove; a braking structure located at a lower part of the bearing cup and including a brake plate and an electromagnet, and the brake plate being provided at one side with a protruded brake pin and at another side with a magnetic member; and an elastic element disposed between and pressed against the brake plate and the electromagnet. When the fan is powered off, the electromagnet is energized and produces magnetic poles that magnetically repel the magnetic member, such that the brake pin is pushed by a magnetic force and the elastic element toward the rotating shaft to engage with the groove, causing the fan to brake and stop rotating inertially.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih-Cheng Tang, Hao-Yu Chen, Hsu-Jung Lin
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Publication number: 20240048023Abstract: A fan braking structure includes a fan including a frame having an upright bearing cup, and a fan impeller having a vertical rotating shaft pivotally received in the bearing cup and provided at a free end with a groove; a braking structure located at a lower part of the bearing cup and including a brake plate and an electromagnet, and the brake plate being provided at one side with a protruded brake pin and at another side with a magnetic member; and an elastic element disposed between and pressed against the brake plate and the electromagnet. When the fan is powered off, the electromagnet is energized and produces magnetic poles that magnetically repel the magnetic member, such that the brake pin is pushed by a magnetic force and the elastic element toward the rotating shaft to engage with the groove, causing the fan to brake and stop rotating inertially.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Chih-Cheng Tang, Hao-Yu Chen, Hsu-Jung Lin
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Publication number: 20240048024Abstract: A fan braking structure includes a fan including a frame having an upright bearing cup, and a fan impeller having a vertical rotating shaft pivotally received in the bearing cup and provided at a free end with a groove; a braking structure located at a lower part of the bearing cup and including a brake plate and an electromagnet, and the brake plate being provided at one side with a protruded brake pin and at another side with a magnetic member; and an elastic element disposed between and pressed against a top of the shell and the brake plate. When the fan is inactive, the electromagnet is energized to produce magnetic poles that repel the magnetic member and compress the elastic element, such that the brake pin is magnetically pushed toward the rotating shaft to engage with the groove, causing the fan to brake and stop rotating inertially.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Chih-Cheng Tang, Hao-Yu Chen, Hsu-Jung Lin
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Publication number: 20240044337Abstract: A fan brake structure includes a fan and a brake device. The fan has a frame body, a fan impeller and a stator. The brake device is disposed under a bottom of a bearing cup. The brake device has a driving member, a brake member and an elastic member. The elastic member abuts against one end of the brake member. The other end of the brake member has a boss body. The driving member has a spiral rail. When the driving member rotates, the boss body moves along the spiral rail, whereby the brake member linearly reciprocally moves upward to brake the fan impeller or linearly reciprocally moves downward to release the fan impeller from the braking.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Chih-Cheng Tang, Hao-Yu Chen, Hsu-Jung Lin
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Publication number: 20240036368Abstract: An electronic device, including a display module, a viewing angle switchable panel, a switching element, and a driving element, is provided. The display module has multiple first units and multiple second units. The first units have a first color, and the second units have a second color. The first color and the second color are different. The switching element is used to switch the viewing angle switchable panel between a first viewing angle mode and a second viewing angle mode. The driving element is used to provide a first data voltage to at least one of the first units of the display module in the first viewing angle mode, and provide a second data voltage to the at least one of the first units in the second viewing angle mode. The first data voltage and the second data voltage are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Innolux CorporationInventors: Hao-Yu Chen, Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hsin-Chih Wu
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Publication number: 20240027825Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes first and second viewing angle adjusting units, a display unit, and first to third polarizers. The display unit is disposed between the first and second viewing angle adjusting units. The first and second viewing angle adjusting units are respectively disposed between the first and second polarizers and between the second and third polarizers. The first viewing angle adjusting unit and the display unit share the second polarizer. The first polarizer have a first side and a second side closer to the display unit than the first side. A light from the display unit passes through the first viewing angle adjusting unit and the first polarizer to provide an output light from the first side. An angle of an absorption axis of the second polarizer and an angle of an absorption axis of the third polarizer are the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Hao-Yu CHEN, Hong-Sheng HSIEH
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Patent number: 11867989Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a substrate and a plurality of scan lines disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a backlight module disposed under the display panel, and an optical film disposed above the backlight module and including a plurality of light-blocking portions and a plurality of light-transmission portions which are arranged alternately. The light blocking portions extend in a second direction, and the first direction and the second direction are not parallel.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hao-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11809037Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a viewing angle switchable structure. The viewing angle switchable structure includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a first liquid crystal layer, a second liquid crystal layer, and a substrate. The first liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The second liquid crystal layer is disposed between the second polarizer and the substrate. A polarized light is incident into the second liquid crystal layer. An absorption axis of the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the second polarizer have different angles. The angle of the absorption axis of the first polarizer is perpendicular to a polarization direction of the polarized light.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hao-Yu Chen, Hong-Sheng Hsieh
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Publication number: 20230350371Abstract: A sensing data accessing method and a sensing data accessing system are disclosed. The method includes: activating a shared memory; generating sensing data by a sensor; storing first sensing data among the sensing data to the shared memory and updating an operation state of the shared memory through a sensor interface; in response to an update of the operation state, reading the first sensing data from the shared memory through a software interface; and performing a default operation according to the first sensing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Shin-Fu Wu, Hao-Yu Chen
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Publication number: 20230350239Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first privacy panel and a second privacy panel disposed on the first privacy panel. The first privacy panel has a first alignment layer and a second alignment layer opposite each other. The second privacy panel has a third alignment layer and a fourth alignment layer opposite each other. The alignment axes of the first alignment layer, the second alignment layer, the third alignment layer and the fourth alignment layer are parallel. The angle between the alignment direction of the first alignment layer and the alignment direction of the third alignment layer is in a range from 160 to 200 degrees. The angle between the alignment direction of the second alignment layer and the alignment direction of the fourth alignment layer is in a range from 160 to 200 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Jyun-Sian LI, Hong-Sheng HSIEH, Jo-Hsin WANG, Hao-Yu CHEN
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Publication number: 20230305329Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a visible angle adjustment panel on the display panel. The visible angle adjustment panel includes two substrates, a liquid-crystal layer disposed between the two substrates and an adjustment layer disposed between the liquid-crystal layer and one of the two substrates. The liquid-crystal layer has a plurality of cell gaps, the thicknesses of the cell gaps are different from each other, and the thicknesses of the cell gaps gradually increase along a direction, and a height of the adjustment layer gradually decreases along the direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Hong-Sheng HSIEH, Hao-Yu CHEN, Cheng-Jen CHU, Jyun-Sian LI, Chu-Hong LAI
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Patent number: 11703701Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a visible angle adjustment panel. The visible angle adjustment panel has a liquid-crystal layer. The liquid-crystal layer has a plurality of cell gaps, wherein the thicknesses of the cell gaps are different from each other, and the thicknesses of the cell gaps gradually increase along a direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hao-Yu Chen, Cheng-Jen Chu, Jyun-Sian Li, Chu-Hong Lai
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Publication number: 20230150439Abstract: An electronic device and a vehicle using the same are provided. The electronic device includes a display panel. The display panel is switched between a share mode and a privacy mode. In the privacy mode, a first light emission brightness measured at a first viewing angle is lower than a second light emission brightness measured at a normal line of the display panel, and a third light emission brightness measured at a second viewing angle is higher than the second light emission brightness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Innolux CorporationInventors: Hao-Yu Chen, Hong-Sheng Hsieh
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Publication number: 20230132098Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device including a viewing angle control structure. The viewing angle control structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, an adjustable dielectric layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first alignment layer disposed between the first substrate and the adjustable dielectric layer, and a second alignment layer disposed between the second substrate and the adjustable dielectric layer. One of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer is in a horizontal alignment and the other of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer is in a vertical alignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Innolux CorporationInventors: Jo-Hsin Wang, Jyun-Sian Li, Hao-Yu Chen
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Publication number: 20230127094Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a viewing angle switchable structure. The viewing angle switchable structure includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a first liquid crystal layer, a second liquid crystal layer, and a substrate. The first liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The second liquid crystal layer is disposed between the second polarizer and the substrate. A polarized light is incident into the second liquid crystal layer. An absorption axis of the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the second polarizer have different angles. The angle of the absorption axis of the first polarizer is perpendicular to a polarization direction of the polarized light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Hao-Yu CHEN, Hong-Sheng HSIEH