Patents by Inventor Hou-Yao Lin

Hou-Yao Lin 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).

  • Publication number: 20110156894
    Abstract: A tail lamp system for a vehicle includes a dynamic signal unit, a control unit, a set of input lines electrically connecting the dynamic signal unit with the control unit, an LED display board, and a set of output lines electrically connecting the LED display board with the control unit. The dynamic signal unit provides a plurality of dynamic signals relating to various instant driving information of the vehicle. The control unit receives each of the dynamic signals of the dynamic signal unit and outputs a corresponding control signal. The LED display board receives the control signal from the control unit and displays a corresponding pattern according to the received control signal to indicate instant driving information of the vehicle, for example, turning, braking, temporary stop and breakdown of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110122515
    Abstract: A lens module includes a barrel and a parallelogram-shaped filter. The barrel defines a through hole bounded by an inner circumferential surface thereof. The barrel includes an end surface substantially perpendicular to the inner circumferential surface. The barrel further defines four positioning cutouts extending from the end surface to the inner circumferential surface. The parallelogram-shaped filter includes four corners fixed in the four positioning cutouts of the barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUN-KAI WANG, HOU-YAO LIN
  • Publication number: 20110116177
    Abstract: An annular aperture stop includes a first annular portion and a second annular portion. The first annular portion extends and slowly tapers towards the center of the aperture stop. The second annular portion extends inwards from the first portion and sharply tapers off to the innermost boundary of the aperture stop and defines a tapering angle. The radial thickness of the second portion is smaller than a predetermined tolerance of about 0.035 mm of the inner diameter of the aperture stop. The tapering angle is smaller than a predetermined threshold of about 70 degrees, whereby the innermost boundary of the aperture stop is protected from flashes during molding the aperture stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hou-Yao Lin
  • Publication number: 20110096422
    Abstract: A camera module includes a lens barrel, a lens holder, and a focusing spring. The lens barrel includes an operation plate and a first body, and the outer diameter of the operation plate exceeds that of the first body, thereby a staging surface is formed facing the first body. The first body includes an outer surface, and defines an external thread on the outer surface. The lens holder includes a second body, and defining a second receiving hole therethrough. The second body includes an upper surface and an inner surface, and defines an internal thread on the inner surface. The lens barrel is received in the second receiving hole, and the external thread of the lens barrel is screwed and meshed with the internal thread of the lens holder. The focusing spring is compressively interposed between the staging surface and the upper surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hou-Yao Lin, Chai-Wei Lee, Sheng-Jung Yu
  • Publication number: 20110096425
    Abstract: A lens module includes a barrel, a holder, and an elastic member. The barrel includes a connecting portion and a resisting portion, the connecting portion includes a first screw thread. The holder includes a second screw thread engaged with the first screw thread. The elastic member is compressed between the resisting portion of the barrel and the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chai-Wei LEE, Hou-Yao LIN, Sheng-Jung YU
  • Publication number: 20110096415
    Abstract: A lens assembly comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens includes a first central round portion and a first peripheral stepped portion surrounding the first central round portion. The first peripheral stepped portion comprises a downward-facing surface, a first supporting surface, and a first inclined surface interconnected. The second lens includes a second central round portion and a second peripheral stepped portion surrounding the second central round portion. The second peripheral stepped portion includes an upward-facing surface, a second inclined surface, a third surface, and a second supporting surface. The second lens is engaged on the first lens in a manner that the first supporting surface contacts the second supporting surface, the downward-facing surface is facing toward the upward-facing surface, the first inclined surface contacts the second inclined surface but a gap is defined between the first inclined surface and the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110097073
    Abstract: A camera module includes a lens barrel, a lens holder, and a resilient member. The lens barrel includes a first body and an extending part, and a first step surface formed between the first body and the extending part. The lens holder includes a second body, a shielding annular protrusion extends inwardly from the second body, the shielding annular includes a second step surface. The resilient member is compressed and interposed between the first step surface and the second step surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chai-Wei Lee, Hou-Yao Lin, Sheng-Jung Yu
  • Publication number: 20110096424
    Abstract: A lens module includes a barrel, a holder, and a ring-shaped elastic member. The barrel includes a connecting portion and a resisting portion, the connecting portion includes a first screw thread. The holder includes a second screw thread engaged with the first screw thread. The ring-shaped elastic member is compressed between the resisting portion of the barrel and the holder. The elastic member includes a number of first segments and a number of second segments, the first segments and the second segments are arranged in an alternate fashion and connected to each other, at least one of the first segments and the second segments is V-shaped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHAI-WEI LEE, HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110090581
    Abstract: An exemplary lens module includes a barrel, a holder, and an elastic member. The barrel includes a first cylindrical part and a first threaded part. The first threaded part includes external threads. The barrel further includes a bottom surface facing the image side. The holder includes a second cylindrical part and a second threaded part. The second threaded part includes internal threads. The second cylindrical part includes a collar protruding from the inner cylindrical surface. The collar includes a top surface facing the object side. The barrel is coupled to the holder via the internal threads and the external threads. A fit between the internal threads and the external threads is a clearance fit. The elastic member is sandwiched between the bottom surface of the barrel and the top surface of the collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHAI-WEI LEE, HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110091199
    Abstract: An exemplary camera module includes a barrel, a holder, and a compressed resilient spring member. The barrel includes a first cylindrical part and a first threaded part. The first threaded part includes external threads. The barrel further includes a first surface facing the object side. The holder includes a second cylindrical part and a second threaded part. The second threaded part includes internal threads. The holder further includes a second surface facing the image side. The barrel is coupled to the holder via the internal threads and the external threads. A fit between the internal threads and the external threads is a clearance fit. The resilient spring member is sandwiched between the first surface of the barrel and the second surface of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHAI-WEI LEE, HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Patent number: 7929851
    Abstract: A camera module includes a first lens assembly, a second lens assembly, an image sensor module, a first driving device and a second driving device. The first lens assembly is positioned on an optical axis of the camera module. The second lens assembly is coaxially aligned with the first lens assembly and movable along the optical axis. The image sensor module includes a first image sensor and a second image sensor at opposite sides thereof. The first driving device is for driving the second lens assembly to move backward and forward along the optical axis. The second driving device is for driving the image sensor module to move down and up along directions nonparallel to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yen-Chun Chen, Sheng-Jung Yu, Hou-Yao Lin
  • Publication number: 20110080664
    Abstract: An exemplary camera module includes a barrel, a holder, and an resilient member. The holder is loosely threadedly coupled to the barrel. The holder has a central axis. The resilient member is positioned between the barrel and the holder. The resilient member is configured for exerting a first elastic force to the barrel and a second elastic force to the holder so that the barrel is fixed with the holder. The first and second elastic forces are in a direction parallel to the central axis of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHAI-WEI LEE, HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110080662
    Abstract: An exemplary camera module includes a barrel and a holder. The holder includes an accommodating space defined therein. The barrel is received in the accommodating space of the holder. Independent grooves are formed in one of the outer cylindrical surface of the barrel and the inner cylindrical surface the holder. Stripe-shaped protrusions are formed on the other of the outer cylindrical surface of the barrel and the inner cylindrical surface the holder. Each stripe-shaped protrusion is engaged in a respective groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHAI-WEI LEE, HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110075276
    Abstract: A lenses assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, and adhesive material. The first lens includes two axially extending protrusions. The second lens includes two radially extending protrusions. The second lens engages with the first lens by engagement between the axially extending protrusions and radially extending protrusions. The axially extending protrusions and radially extending protrusions are alternately arranged around a circumferential direction of the first lens. The adhesive material is filled into gaps between the engaged protrusions to fixedly interconnect the first lens and the second lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Publication number: 20110075277
    Abstract: An exemplary camera module includes a barrel and a holder. The barrel includes a first threaded part and a first cylindrical part connected to the first threaded part in an order from an object side to an image side. The first threaded part includes a plurality of external threads. The holder includes a second threaded part and a second cylindrical part connected to the second threaded part in an order from the object side to the image side. The second threaded part includes a plurality of internal threads. The barrel is coupled to the holder via the internal threads and the external threads. The inner cylindrical surface of the second cylindrical part is in contact with the outer cylindrical surface of the first cylindrical part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHAI-WEI LEE, HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU
  • Patent number: 7916411
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens barrel, a number of lenses, a holder and a polygonal filter. The lens barrel includes an annular plate extending inwards from an inner surface thereof. The lenses are received in the lens barrel. The holder holds the barrel and the lenses. The polygonal filter is received in the lens barrel and positioned on the annular plate. The polygonal filter has six or more sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chai-Wei Lee, Hou-Yao Lin
  • Patent number: 7916410
    Abstract: A first sub-lens having two opposite first surfaces is provided. One of the first surfaces has a central bulged first optical surface for refracting light rays passing therethrough and defining a first optical axis. The other first surface defines a recess that defines a flat bottom surface. A second sub-lens having two opposite second surfaces is provided. One of the second surfaces has a central bulged second optical surface for refracting light rays passing therethrough and defining a second optical axis. The other second surface is flat and substantially similar to the bottom surface of the first sub-lens in shape and size and is glued to the bottom surface of the first sub-lens in a manner that the first axis is coaxial with the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hou-Yao Lin, Sheng-Jung Yu
  • Publication number: 20110058265
    Abstract: A fixed-focus lens module includes an outer lens barrel, an inner lens, a first lens, and a second lens group. The outer lens barrel includes a first open end, a first cavity, and a second open end arranged in the order from the object side to the image side of the outer lens barrel. The inner lens barrel is received in the outer lens barrel adjacent to the first open end. The first lens is received in the inner lens barrel. The second lens group is received in the outer lens barrel adjacent to the second open end. An gap is defined between an outer wall of the inner lens barrel and an inner wall of the outer lens barrel at the first open end, and the center axis of the inner lens barrel is adjustable relative to the outer lens barrel for adjusting the alignment between the first lens and the second lens group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Chun CHANG, Hou-Yao LIN, Sheng-Jung YU
  • Publication number: 20110025908
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a shell, an image capturing assembly, a signal processing circuit, and a connection plate. The shell defines a first annular shaped guiding slot. The image capturing assembly includes a camera module. The camera module includes a substrate and a flexible circuit board (FPC). The FPC has one end connected to the substrate and another end electrically coupled to the signal processing circuit. The connection plate includes a first plate positioned on the shell and a second plate perpendicular to the first plate. A second guiding slot is defined on the second plate and aligned with the first guiding slot on the shell. The connection plate, the shell, the first and second annular guiding slots cooperatively define a laid-down T-shaped receiving groove, the image capturing assembly is received in the T-shaped groove and is slidable along the T-shaped groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU, HSIN-HO LEE
  • Publication number: 20110019419
    Abstract: An LED light fixture includes a post having a fixing bar at a top end thereof, a first lamp mounted on the fixing bar, and a second lamp rotatably mounted on the fixing bar. The first and second lamps are capable of rotating with respect to the fixing bar to change an angle between the first and second lamps, to thereby change an illumination area and intensity distribution of the LED light fixture. In one position, the second lamp overlaps the first lamp, and LED light sources in the first lamp are alternate with those of the second lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HOU-YAO LIN, SHENG-JUNG YU