Patents by Inventor Hong Lai
Hong Lai 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: 12384875Abstract: Disclosed herein are ladder polymers comprising fused aromatic and non-aromatic rings. Also disclosed are the manufacture and use of these ladder polymers, e.g., in separation membranes, such as membrane for gas separation.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Holden Wan Hong Lai, Jun Myun Ahn, Yan Xia, Zachary P. Smith, Francesco M. Benedetti
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Publication number: 20250238086Abstract: A waterproof keyboard includes a base plate, a key frame, plural keycaps, a first adhesive layer, plural second adhesive layers and a keyboard film. The key frame is installed on the base plate. The first adhesive layer is installed on a frame top surface. The plural second adhesive layers are disposed on the corresponding keycap top surfaces, respectively. The keyboard film is attached on the first adhesive layer and the plural second adhesive layers. After the keyboard film is subjected to a thermal pressing process, the keyboard film generates at least one concave structure on the frame top surface and plural convex structures on the corresponding keycap top surfaces. The at least one concave structure is attached on the frame top surface through the first adhesive layer. The plural convex structures are respectively attached on the corresponding keycap top surfaces through the corresponding second adhesive layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: July 24, 2025Inventors: Zheng-Hong Lai, Chih-Ho Hsu
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Patent number: 12369400Abstract: An electronic device includes a panel with an operation region and an extended circuit region. The panel includes a first substrate and a first polarizing element. The first polarizing element is disposed on the first substrate. The first substrate extends from the operation region to the extended circuit region, and the first polarizing element extends from the operation region to the extended circuit region.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chih Tseng, Yi Tung, Pi-Ying Chuang, Kuo-Shun Tsai, Chu-Hong Lai
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Publication number: 20250222431Abstract: A superabsorbent polymer and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes performing a free radical polymerization reaction to a superabsorbent polymer component, so as to obtain a colloid gel. The colloid gel is cut by using a pulverizer to obtain superabsorbent polymer particles. The pulverizer has a perforated plate with changeable hole diameters, which has a first diameter of an inlet hole greater than a second diameter of an outlet hole. The method further includes performing a surface cross-linking reaction to the superabsorbent polymer particles, so as to obtain the superabsorbent polymer. Therefore, a bulk density, an absorption rate and a liquid permeability of the obtained superabsorbent polymer can be increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2024Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: Cheng-Lin LEE, Ya-Chi LIN, Tai-Hong LAI, Zhong-Yi CHEN
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Patent number: 12345977Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display module for displaying pictures and a viewing angle control module adjacent to the display module. The viewing angle control module includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a viewing angle control medium disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a touch layer disposed between the viewing angle control medium and the first substrate. The touch layer includes a bridge electrode and first touch electrodes disposed on the first substrate, and an insulation layer disposed between the bridge electrode and the first touch electrodes. The insulation layer has openings, and the first touch electrodes are electrically connected to the bridging electrode through the openings.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignees: INNOLUX CORPORATION, CARUX TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.Inventors: Yu-Chih Tseng, Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Chu-Hong Lai, Ying-Shiang Huang
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Publication number: 20250166889Abstract: The method for co-sintering transformer includes the following steps: a preparation step providing a copper conductor strip and an iron core; a coating step applying a layer of nickel coating, or a layer of precious metal coating, or both on the copper conductor strip from the preparation step; an assembly step putting the copper conductor strip from the coating step and the iron core from the preparation step together to form a transformer; a pressing step pressing the assembled copper conductor strip and the iron core from the assembly step, together with iron power, in a mold into an integrally formed transformer; and a sintering step sintering the pressed transformer from the pressing step in an atmospheric environment. The present method is able to conduct sintering directly under the atmospheric environment without reducing oxygen content. Iron powder also exhibits improved characteristics after sintering in the atmospheric environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: May 22, 2025Inventors: Ming-Yen Hsieh, Pao-Lin Shen, Hsiang-Chung Yang, Jian-Hong Lai, Kuan-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20250147366Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first panel including a first bonding pad and a first edge adjacent to the first bonding pad; a second panel overlapped with the first panel and including a second bonding pad; a circuit board electrically connected to the first panel and used to provide a first signal; and a first conductive connector electrically connected to the first panel and the second panel, wherein the first signal is input to the first bonding pad of the first panel through the circuit board, and input to the second bonding pad of the second panel through the first conductive connector, wherein the first bonding pad is between the second bonding pad and the first edge in a top view direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Inventors: Yu-Chih TSENG, Yi TUNG, Pi-Ying CHUANG, Yu-Tong KUO, Chu-Hong LAI, Cheng-Jen CHU
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Publication number: 20250142719Abstract: A flexible circuit board designed for chip integration is provided. The flexible circuit board includes an insulating substrate, a conductive copper layer, a first tin layer, a second tin layer, and a first solder resist layer. The first tin layer has a first tin thickness, and the second tin layer has a greater second tin thickness. A first tin surface of the first tin layer and a second tin surface of the second tin layer are substantially level.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Inventors: Chiu-Hong Lai, Wen Ping Hsu, Yi Ling Hsieh, Dong-Sheng Li, Yi Ren Chian, San Lee, Pei-Ying Lee, Ting-Yi Kuo
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Publication number: 20250123191Abstract: Efficient and economic devices and methods for dual-mode sample introduction of liquid samples to an analytical detector exemplified by an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (PVG-ICPMS) or an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICPOES) are described. Various embodiments of pneumatic nebulization (PN)-photochemical vapor generation (PVG) dual-mode introduction can enhance introduction efficiency for PVG-active elements and smooth, bubble-free nebulization for all elements. A compact yet highly efficient porous membrane gas-liquid separator (MGLS) in its various embodiments plays a key role in systems and methods described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: GUOYING CHEN, BUN HONG LAI
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Publication number: 20250110373Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first substrate, wherein the first substrate is flexible; a second substrate disposed corresponding to the first substrate, wherein the second substrate is flexible; and a first conductive layer disposed on the first substrate. The first conductive layer includes: a first conductive pattern for receiving a first electrode signal and including a first bonding part; and a second conductive pattern for receiving a second electrode signal and including a second bonding part. The electronic device further includes: a second conductive layer disposed on the second substrate and electrically connected to the second conductive pattern; and a first metal layer disposed between the first substrate and at least one of the first bonding part and the second bonding part and is electrically connected to the at least one of the first bonding part and the second bonding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Yu-Chih TSENG, Pi-Ying CHUANG, Yi TUNG, Chu-Hong LAI
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Publication number: 20250082884Abstract: A device for monitoring the respiratory status of a user is disclosed. The device may comprise a nasal cannula comprising a nasal chamber including first and second prongs, a connector configured to couple the nasal cannula to a remote device, and a tube configured to couple the nasal chamber to the connector. The nasal cannula may also comprise optical fibers passing through at least a portion of the tube. A first optical fiber may be configured to transmit light to a first nasal passage of the user, a second optical fiber may be configured to receive light passing through a nose septum and into a second nasal passage of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Roam Technologies Pty Ltd.Inventors: Shan-Shan WANG, Eugene Weng Hong LAI, Gavin Dean MAY, Jay Reginald FLACK, Jeremy Travis KWARCINSKI, Sisi ZHENG
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Publication number: 20250082886Abstract: A handheld portable oxygen concentrator device is disclosed. The device may comprise a first column and a second column, a product buffer, a plurality of valves in fluidly coupling the first column, the second column, the one or more pumps, and the product buffer. The device may comprise a controller configured to cycle repeatedly through the following phases: (a) raising pressure in the first column by connecting the first column to a positive pressure pump and releasing concentrated oxygen in the first column to the product buffer, (b) equalizing the pressure in the first column and the second column by connecting the first column to the second column, (c) lowering the pressure in the first column by connecting the first column to a negative pressure pump, and (d) equalizing the pressure in the first column and the second column by connecting the first column to the second column.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Roam Technologies Pty Ltd.Inventors: Shan-Shan Wang, Eugene Weng Hong Lai, Sisi Zheng, Jay Reginald Flack, Jeremy Travis Kwarcinski, Natalie Etain Ho, Gavin Dean May
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Patent number: 12248392Abstract: In various examples, a diagnostic circuit is connected to a target system to automatically trigger the target system to enter a diagnostic mode. The diagnostic circuit receives diagnostic data from the target system when the target system performs a diagnostic operation in the diagnostic mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Padmanabham Patki, Jue Wu, Chung-Hong Lai, Laurent Dahan, Marc Delvaux, Chiang Hsu
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Patent number: 12189558Abstract: In various examples, methods may include receiving first data transmitted from a second component and second data transmitted from the second component during a first time period. The first data may be transmitted via a first data lane and the second data may be transmitted via a second data lane. The method may include receiving de-skew symbols at an interval from the second component via the first data lane and via the second data lane during the first time period. The method may include compensating for a first skew introduced to a first propagation of the first data across the first data lane and a second skew introduced to a second propagation of the second data across the second data lane using the de-skew symbols received during the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Padmanabham Patki, Nisha Bhushan, Kiran Kumar Dash, Arpit Gupta, Chung-Hong Lai, Michael Alan Ditty
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Publication number: 20240427184Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display module for displaying pictures and a viewing angle control module adjacent to the display module. The viewing angle control module includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a viewing angle control medium disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a touch layer disposed between the viewing angle control medium and the first substrate. The touch layer includes a bridge electrode and first touch electrodes disposed on the first substrate, and an insulation layer disposed between the bridge electrode and the first touch electrodes. The insulation layer has openings, and the first touch electrodes are electrically connected to the bridging electrode through the openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Yu-Chih TSENG, Hong-Sheng HSIEH, Chu-Hong LAI, Ying-Shiang HUANG
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Publication number: 20240419024Abstract: An electronic structure includes a substrate, a plurality of electronic units disposed on the substrate, a circuit structure electrically connected with at least one of the plurality of electronic units, and a support element disposed under the substrate. The substrate has a first flat part and a curved part connected with the first flat part. At least two adjacent ones of the plurality of electronic units on the first flat part have a first pitch. A least another two adjacent ones of the plurality of electronic units on the curved part have a second pitch different from the first pitch. In a normal direction of the first flat part, at least a portion of the circuit structure overlaps a region between the at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of electronic units on the first flat part. The circuit structure is disposed under the support element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chih Tseng, Yu-Chia Huang, Chu-Hong Lai
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Patent number: 12121662Abstract: A device for monitoring the respiratory status of a user is disclosed. The device may comprise a nasal cannula comprising a nasal chamber including first and second prongs, a connector configured to couple the nasal cannula to a remote device, and a tube configured to couple the nasal chamber to the connector. The nasal cannula may also comprise optical fibers passing through at least a portion of the tube. A first optical fiber may be configured to transmit light to a first nasal passage of the user, a second optical fiber may be configured to receive light passing through a nose septum and into a second nasal passage of the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Roam Technologies Pty Ltd.Inventors: Shan-Shan Wang, Eugene Weng Hong Lai, Gavin Dean May, Jay Reginald Flack, Jeremy Travis Kwarcinski, Sisi Zheng
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Patent number: 12111525Abstract: An electronic structure includes a substrate, a plurality of electronic units disposed on the substrate, and a circuit structure electrically connected with at least one of the plurality of electronic units. The substrate has a first flat part and a curved part connected with the first flat part. Two adjacent ones of the plurality of electronic units on the first flat part have a first pitch in a first direction parallel to a surface of the first flat part Another two adjacent ones of the plurality of electronic units on the curved part have a second pitch different from the first pitch in a second direction parallel to a surface of the curved part. In a normal direction of the first flat part, at least a portion of the circuit structure overlaps a region between another two of the plurality of electronic units on the first flat part.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chih Tseng, Yu-Chia Huang, Chu-Hong Lai
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Publication number: 20240268126Abstract: Provided is an electrically actuated resistive non-volatile memory. The resistive memory device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a buffer layer, and a primary memory layer. The primary memory layer comprises a first active layer, a second active layer, and a third active layer, wherein an oxygen gradient is configured across the primary memory layer. Methods of fabricating and operating such a memory device are also provided. The memory device advantageously provides for lower power consumption and more stable resistive switching.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Yuanmin DU, Wen Siang LEW, Putu Andhita DANANJAYA, Siew Wei HOO, Weng Hong Hong LAI
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Patent number: D1035881Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Roam Technologies Pty LtdInventors: Shan-Shan Wang, Eugene Weng Hong Lai, Natalie Etain Ho