Patents by Inventor Jen-Chun Hsu

Jen-Chun Hsu 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: 20240065390
    Abstract: Bands for wearable devices include multiple band retainers used to maintain engagement between an assembly (e.g., a pair) of bands. Some band retainers may be permanently affixed with the band at a certain location of the band, while other band retainers can be removable. The removable band retainers can be moved to different locations of the band, thus allowing the band retainer to retain another band at different locations. As a result, the assembly of bands can be used with different users, and in particular, users with different wrist sizes. Moreover, using multiple band retainers can provide an engagement force between the bands to withstand higher-impact events, such as swimming and diving. Additionally, bands and band retainers may include one or more liquid-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Brodine, Molly J. Anderson, Clement C. Tissandier, Osamu Yabe, Mengxi Zhao, Timothy S. Lui, Chia Tse Yeh, Kai-Yu Chung, Jen-Chun Hsu, Tatsuya Sano, Peng Li
  • Patent number: 11892647
    Abstract: Various examples described herein relate to an HMD which comprises an HMD body positioned against a face of a user which includes an IMU to track user location data in an environment. The HMD also comprises a detachable headband assembly including a tracking feature module to construct a map of the environment based on the user location data. The HMD further includes a mechanical mount feature attaching the detachable headband assembly to the HMD body. The mechanical mount feature includes a connection interface to exchange the user location data between the IMU in the HMD body and the tracking feature module in the detachable headband assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yew-Chung Hung, Kuan-Lin Li, Jen-Chun Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230315922
    Abstract: Various examples described herein relate to a head mountable device (HMD) which comprises an input device to receive captured user data, a connection interface to exchange the user data with a host device, a privacy data switch to route the user data between the input device and the connection interface in the HMD, and a controller. The controller determines whether the user data is restricted data, directs the privacy data switch to block the exchange of the user data when it is determined that the user data is restricted data, and directs the switch to allow the exchange of the user data when it is determined that the user data is not restricted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kuan-Lin Li, Jen-Chun Hsu, Yew-Chung Hung
  • Publication number: 20230288710
    Abstract: Various examples described herein relate to an HMD which comprises an HMD body positioned against a face of a user which includes an IMU to track user location data in an environment. The HMD also comprises a detachable headband assembly including a tracking feature module to construct a map of the environment based on the user location data. The HMD further includes a mechanical mount feature attaching the detachable headband assembly to the HMD body. The mechanical mount feature includes a connection interface to exchange the user location data between the IMU in the HMD body and the tracking feature module in the detachable headband assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yew-Chung Hung, Kuan-Lin Li, Jen-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 11602201
    Abstract: A band for securing an electronic device to a user may include a monolithic band body having proximal and distal ends for coupling to a body of the electronic device. The monolithic band body may include an elastic material that is elastically stretchable between (1) a fitted mode where the electronic device is secured to a limb of the user, and (2) a stretched mode for fitting over the limb of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Scott W. Slabaugh, Tatsuya Sano, Jen-Chun Hsu, Osamu Yabe, Zaki Moustafa, Motohide Hatanaka, Hsiang Hung Chen, Eiryo Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11165141
    Abstract: A watch band for a watch can include an antenna that is operable for wireless communication with other devices. The antenna can be embedded within a body of the watch band to protect the antenna from an external environment and to conceal it from view. The antennas can adaptably stretch, bend, and flex with the watch band body, thereby avoiding damage from applied forces while also maintaining the compliance and comfort of the watch band while worn by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jen-Chun Hsu, Yi-Chia Chen, Osamu Yabe
  • Patent number: 10730210
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing a composite material that is bendable but substantially resists stretching under tension. One embodiment may take the form of a composite material formed by over-molding a woven glass fiber with silicone. The woven glass fiber may be rolled out with a silicon polymer melted into the woven fabric as the rolling process continues. The composite of the two materials may provide a material that bends easily but does not substantially stretch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Derek C. Krass, Douglas J. Weber, Jen-Chun Hsu, Osamu Yabe
  • Patent number: 10579118
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to detection circuits. In one example, a detection circuit includes a power supply, a transistor coupled to the power supply, a port coupled via the transistor to the power supply, where the port is to transmit power received via the transistor from the power supply to a corresponding port included in an external device when the corresponding port is coupled to the port, and a detection circuit to detect a voltage between the port and the corresponding port when the port is coupled to the corresponding port and interrupt, via the transistor, power supplied to the port when the detected voltage satisfies a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Po-Lan Wang, Jen-Chun Hsu, Yi-Feng Lin
  • Publication number: 20190341677
    Abstract: A watch band for a watch can include an antenna that is operable for wireless communication with other devices. The antenna can be embedded within a body of the watch band to protect the antenna from an external environment and to conceal it from view. The antennas can adaptably stretch, bend, and flex with the watch band body, thereby avoiding damage from applied forces while also maintaining the compliance and comfort of the watch band while worn by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jen-Chun HSU, Yi-Chia CHEN, Osamu YABE
  • Patent number: 10248590
    Abstract: A computing system for supporting a plurality of different types of memory devices includes a memory voltage regulator. The memory voltage regulator adjusts a supply voltage to a requisite voltage for a detected memory device based on serial presence detect (SPD) data. The computing system further includes a memory controller that supports a plurality of types of memory devices. The memory controller receives data regarding the type of the detected memory device, and controls input/output signals relative to the type of the detected memory device based on the SPD data and the GPIO data of the detected memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jen-Chun Hsu, Roger A. Pearson
  • Patent number: 10172426
    Abstract: A magnetic band clasp includes a female clasp assembly of a first band segment and a male clasp assembly of a second band segment. The female clasp assembly defines one or more cavities with one or more magnetic elements disposed underneath. The male clasp assembly includes a projection that may include a magnetic element. Magnetic attraction between the magnetic elements couples the first and second band segments when the projection is positioned in the cavity. In implementations where the female clasp assembly includes multiple cavities, changing which of the cavities the projection is positioned in adjusts a combined coupled length of the first and second band segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jen-Chun Hsu, Osamu Yabe
  • Publication number: 20180224912
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to detection circuits. In one example, a detection circuit includes a power supply, a transistor coupled to the power supply, a port coupled via the transistor to the power supply, where the port is to transmit power received via the transistor from the power supply to a corresponding port included in an external device when the corresponding port is coupled to the port, and a detection circuit to detect a voltage between the port and the corresponding port when the port is coupled to the corresponding port and interrupt, via the transistor, power supplied to the port when the detected voltage satisfies a threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company
    Inventors: Po-Lan Wang, Jen-Chun Hsu, Yi-Feng Lin
  • Publication number: 20180011806
    Abstract: A computing system for supporting a plurality of different types of memory devices includes a memory voltage regulator. The memory voltage regulator adjusts a supply voltage to a requisite voltage for a detected memory device based on serial presence detect (SPD) data. The computing system further includes a memory controller that supports a plurality of types of memory devices. The memory controller receives data regarding the type of the detected memory device, and controls input/output signals relative to the type of the detected memory device based on the SPD data and the GPIO data of the detected memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jen-Chun Hsu, Roger A. Pearson
  • Publication number: 20170071298
    Abstract: A magnetic band clasp includes a female clasp assembly of a first band segment and a male clasp assembly of a second band segment. The female clasp assembly defines one or more cavities with one or more magnetic elements disposed underneath. The male clasp assembly includes a projection that may include a magnetic element. Magnetic attraction between the magnetic elements couples the first and second band segments when the projection is positioned in the cavity. In implementations where the female clasp assembly includes multiple cavities, changing which of the cavities the projection is positioned in adjusts a combined coupled length of the first and second band segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Jen-Chun Hsu, Osamu Yabe
  • Publication number: 20160250782
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing a composite material that is bendable but substantially resists stretching under tension. One embodiment may take the form of a composite material formed by over-molding a woven glass fiber with silicone. The woven glass fiber may be rolled out with a silicon polymer melted into the woven fabric as the rolling process continues. The composite of the two materials may provide a material that bends easily but does not substantially stretch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Derek C. Krass, Douglas J. Weber, Jen-Chun Hsu, Osamu Yabe
  • Patent number: 8621195
    Abstract: Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to enabling or disabling a port by writing to a reset write-once register. A boot process for a device is initiated. The reset write-once register is set, during the boot process, to disable or enable the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chin-Yu Wang, Jen-Chun Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120278598
    Abstract: Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to enabling or disabling a port by writing to a reset write-once register. A boot process for a device is initiated. The reset write-once register is set, during the boot process, to disable or enable the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Chin-Yu Wang, Jen-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 8300406
    Abstract: Support foot apparatus that include a support foot structure that employs flexible flap members disposed on opposing sides of a central foot member, and that are configured for insertion into corresponding openings of a support foot location defined in an exterior surface of the chassis of an information handling system or other device or structure. Each of the flexible flap members may be provided with one or more securing apertures configured for placement over corresponding securing posts provided on an interior surface of the chassis to secure the flexible flap members of the support foot apparatus within the interior of the chassis at a support foot location to hold the central support body against an exterior surface of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Hao-Ming Chen, Chih-Tsung Hu, Chung Jen Jo, Jen-Chun Hsu, Wen-Pin Huang
  • Publication number: 20110240819
    Abstract: Support foot apparatus that include a support foot structure that employs flexible flap members disposed on opposing sides of a central foot member, and that are configured for insertion into corresponding openings of a support foot location defined in an exterior surface of the chassis of an information handling system or other device or structure. Each of the flexible flap members may be provided with one or more securing apertures configured for placement over corresponding securing posts provided on an interior surface of the chassis to secure the flexible flap members of the support foot apparatus within the interior of the chassis at a support foot location to hold the central support body against an exterior surface of the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Hao-Ming Chen, Chih-Tsung Hu, Chung Jen Jo, Jen-Chun Hsu, Wen-Pin Huang
  • Patent number: 7071958
    Abstract: An electrode array printer has a housing, an image roller, and a plurality of developer modules. Each of the developer modules has an electrode array printhead, a toner cartridge and a developer roller. The electrode array printhead is installed on a side surface of the image roller for emitting an electron array onto the side surface of the image roller to form an electrostatic image. The developer roller is capable of attracting toner contained in a corresponding toner cartridge. The electrostatic image formed on the side surface of the image roller is capable of attracting toner from a developer roller corresponding to the electrode array printhead when the image roller rotates to a position where the electrostatic image is adjacent to the developer roller. The printer further includes a transfer roller, a fuser and a toner blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventors: Yung-Shane Liaw, Jen-Chun Hsu