Patents by Inventor Jen Hsieh

Jen Hsieh 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).

  • Electronic label system and operation method thereof
    Patent number: 9197704
    Abstract: An electronic label system and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic label system includes a control unit and a plurality of electronic label units. The control unit is used for sending display information. The electronic label units are coupled to the control unit to receive the display information and display according to the corresponding display information, respectively. The electronic label units respectively output a plurality of state information to the control unit so that the control unit can monitor operation states of the electronic label units according to the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SiPix Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Min Sun, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Ming-Jong Jou, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Capacitive touch panel having first and second electrode strings disposed in differing directions in which at least one of the electrode strings comprises disconnected portions distributed in the same direction
    Patent number: 9166582
    Abstract: A capacitive touch panel and a display device using the capacitive touch panel are provided. The capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between two layers. The first electrode layer has a plurality of first A electrode strings and first B electrode strings extended along a first direction. The first A electrode string and the first B electrode string respectively has a plurality of first direction electrodes. The second electrode layer has a plurality of second direction electrodes connected in series along a second direction. The first A and B electrode strings are disconnected in the first electrode layer while they are simultaneously detected for presence of signal variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tun-Chun Yang, Seok-Lyul Lee, Chih-Jen Hu, Kuo-Hsing Cheng, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Mei-Sheng Ma, Hsin-Hung Lee, Yuan-Chun Wu, Chun-Huai Li
  • Fan assembly and fan device thereof
    Patent number: 9163637
    Abstract: A fan assembly and its fan device are provided. The fan device includes a housing, a fan body disposed in the housing, a connector electrically connected with the fan body, and a fixing cover detachably assembled to the housing. The fixing cover includes a connecting structure fitting a type of the connector for positioning the connector on the fixing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Sheng-Jen Hsieh
  • METHOD OF OPERATING MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS AND THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150277933
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of operating multiple operating systems. The method including installing at least one first operating system and one second operating system in an electronic device, wherein the first and second operating systems are based on the same platform system, but set with different configurations; planning a common memory block from a storage device of the electronic device, wherein the common memory block is used to store a plurality of common files for operating the first and second operating systems; and loading the first or second operating system according to user settings or predefined settings when starting the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Ta-Jen Hsieh, Ying-Tsang Lin
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SOFTWARE UPDATE AND MOBILE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150261519
    Abstract: A software update method is provided. The software update includes encrypting and compressing an original package to obtain a publication package, transmitting the publication package from a service server to a mobile device according to a download request from the mobile device, checking whether the configuration of the mobile device meets requirements or not, and decompressing the publication package if the configuration of the mobile device meets the requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Ta-Jen Hsieh, Sheng-Pin Chuang
  • DETECTING PARASITIC TRANSISTOR
    Publication number: 20150212134
    Abstract: A method of detecting a parasitic transistor detecting is provided. The method includes extracting several diodes from a selected area, selecting at least one diode pair from the diodes in accordance with signals connected to the diodes, and filtering the at least one diode pair in accordance with a threshold distance to determine whether at least one parasitic transistor is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: MING-HUEI TSAI, YAO-JEN HSIEH, KAI-MING LIU
  • Switching device for ratchet wrench
    Patent number: 9079299
    Abstract: A switching device of a ratchet wrench includes two engaging members respectively mounted to two rods of an operation member. The operation member has a polygonal shank which extends through the board of the head of the wrench and is connected with a switch. The operation member swings by pivoting the switch so as to control the either of the two engaging members to be engaged with the ratchet driving member. The operation member has a positioning tube, and a bead and a spring are located in the positioning tube. The bead is engaged with one of two recesses of a cover fixed to the head of the wrench when the operation member is pivoted. The cover has a flange on which a locking member is pressed. The locking member is engaged with a fixing portion in the inner periphery of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsien Wu, Kuan-Jen Hsieh, David Lee
  • REDUCED TRACE METALS CONTAMINATION ION SOURCE FOR AN ION IMPLANTATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150179393
    Abstract: An ion source chamber for ion implantation system includes a housing that at least partially bounds an ionization region through which high energy electrons move from a cathode to ionize gas molecules injected into an interior of the housing; a liner section defining one or more interior walls of the housing interior, wherein each liner section includes a interiorly facing surface exposed to the ionization region during operation the ion implantation system; a cathode shield disposed about the cathode; a repeller spaced apart from the cathode; a plate including a source aperture for discharging ions from the ion source chamber; wherein at least one of the repeller, the liner section, the cathode shield; the plate, or an insert in the plate defining the source aperture comprise silicon carbide, wherein the silicon carbide is a non-stoichiometric sintered material having excess carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Axcelis Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Colvin, Tseh-Jen Hsieh
  • Layout checking system for multiple-patterning group assignment constraints
    Patent number: 9053288
    Abstract: A method includes extracting multiple-patterning group assignment information of one or more layout patterns from a layout design. The layout design corresponds to a circuit design, and the one or more layout patterns corresponding to a node of the circuit design. Whether the extracted multiple-patterning group assignment information is consistent with a set of multiple-patterning group assignment constraints of the node is determined by a hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yao-Jen Hsieh, Kai-Ming Liu
  • ELECTRIC SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150110271
    Abstract: An electric system including a first wireless apparatus, a display apparatus and a second wireless apparatus is provided. A first information is encrypted to be a first encrypted information and sent wirelessly by the first wireless apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display unit and a wireless communication unit electrically connected to the display unit. The wireless communication unit receives the first encrypted information and cause the display unit to display a first representative information corresponding to the first encrypted information. The first representative information and the first encrypted information are different. The second wireless apparatus reads the first encrypted information by the wireless communication unit, and the first encrypted information is decrypted to be the first encrypted information by the second wireless apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Fang, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Chi-Hsun Wang
  • ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150098122
    Abstract: An electro-optical apparatus including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first electrode disposed between the first substrate and the display medium layer, a second electrode disposed between the first substrate and the display medium layer and separated from the first electrode and a third electrode disposed between the display medium layer and the second substrate is provided. The display medium layer includes electrophoretic fluid and charged particles mixed into the electrophoretic fluid. Moreover, driving methods used to drive the electro-optical apparatus and another electro-optical apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: SiPix Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Nien-En Liu, Kuo-Lung Fang, Yao-Jen Hsieh
  • Photoresist Coating Scheme
    Publication number: 20150079806
    Abstract: A method includes rotating a wafer at a first speed for a first time duration. The wafer is rotated at a second speed that is lower than the first speed for a second time duration after the first time duration. The wafer is rotated at a third speed that is higher than the second speed for a third time duration after the second time duration. A photoresist is dispensed on the wafer during the first time duration and at least a portion of a time interval that includes the second time duration and the third time duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Chih-Hsien Hsu, Hong-Hsing Chou, Hu-Wei Lin, Chi-Jen Hsieh, Jr-Wei Ye, Yuan-Ting Huang, Ching-Hsing Chiang, Hua-Kuang Teng, Yen-Chen Lin, Carolina Poe, Tsung-Cheng Huang, Chia-Hung Chu
  • Electronic card
    Patent number: 8973837
    Abstract: An electronic card including a first substrate, a control unit, a display unit and a driving circuit is provided. The control unit is disposed on the first substrate, receives an external voltage so as to convert the external voltage into an operation voltage, and selectively receives or provides display data. The driving circuit is disposed on the first substrate, coupled to the control unit and the display unit, and outputs a driving signal to the display unit to drive the display unit according the operation voltage and the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: SiPix Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Chun Tsai, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Shao-Wei Su, Chun-An Wei
  • Method and system for checking the inter-chip connectivity of a three-dimensional integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8972916
    Abstract: A method for checking the inter-chip connectivity of a three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) generally comprises receiving a design file for each of a plurality of chips of the 3D IC and generating a plurality of inter-layer ports to be shared between at least two of the of chips based on the design files for each of the chips. A layout without the share ports for each of the chips based on the design files for each of the chips is generated and a layout versus schematic (LVS) check is conducted for each of the generated layouts by using the identified inter-layer ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yao-Jen Hsieh, Kai-Ming Liu
  • DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DISPLAY PANEL
    Publication number: 20140376164
    Abstract: A display panel including a driving substrate, a display film, a first protection film, a first adhesion layer, and a sidewall structure is provided. The display film is disposed on the driving substrate. The first protection film is adhered on the display film through the first adhesion layer. The display film is located between the driving substrate and the first protection film. A material of the first adhesion layer is thermal melt-able. The sidewall structure is in contact with a side surface of the display film and includes the material of the first adhesion layer which is melted and re-solidified. In addition, a manufacture method of the display panel includes irradiating the driving substrate the first protection film and the first adhesion layer with a laser to form the sidewall structure in contact with the side surface of the display film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SiPix Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Jiun-Ru Huang, Kuo-Lung Fang, Yu-Chi Chiu, Yao-Jen Hsieh
  • Method of repairing color filter and pre-repair material used thereby
    Patent number: 8911822
    Abstract: A method of repairing a color filter and a pre-repair material used thereby are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a color filter including a substrate and a color filter layer is provided, and the color filter layer having at least one defect pattern is disposed on the substrate. Then, a pre-repair layer is formed in the at least one defect pattern. After that, a repair layer is formed on the pre-repair layer, and the repair layer is connected to the substrate through the pre-repair layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng-Chin Tang, Chi-Hsin Li, Wen-Jen Hsieh, Huang-Ming Chen
  • SERVER HAVING MULTIPLE NODES AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY SETTING MASTER NODE OF THE SERVER
    Publication number: 20140344389
    Abstract: A server having multiple nodes and a method for dynamically setting a master node of the server are provided. Each node includes a board management controller (BMC), and one of the nodes is preset to be a current master node of the server. The server further includes an I2C multiplexer respectively coupled to the BMC of each node through an IPMB channel, and an embedded module coupled to the I2C multiplexer. The embedded module communicates with the BMC of the current master node through the I2C multiplexer and the IPMB channel, and obtains status information of the current master node, to determine whether the current master node runs normally. If the current master node runs abnormally, the embedded module enables an IPMB channel between the I2C multiplexer and another one of the nodes, to set another one of the nodes to be a new master node of the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CHUNG-JEN HSIEH
  • Method of determining input pattern and computer readable storage medium
    Patent number: 8887102
    Abstract: A method of determining input pattern is adapted to be implemented on an electronic apparatus equipped with a touch panel and includes the steps of: detecting a plurality of boundary points between an input pattern inputted through the touch panel and a circumscribed polygon of the input pattern, detecting an area ratio of a polygon defined by the boundary points to the circumscribed polygon, and determining the shape of the input pattern at least according to the area ratio. The present invention also provides a computer readable storage medium having a program stored therein. When the program is executed which enables an electronic apparatus equipped with a touch panel to determine the shape and/or direction of an input pattern inputted through the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuang-Yu Fu, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Ming-Jong Jou, Heng-Sheng Chou, Pang-Chiang Chia, Chao-Chen Wang
  • Flourine and HF Resistant Seals for an Ion Source
    Publication number: 20140319994
    Abstract: An exemplary ion source for creating a stream of ions has a chamber body that at least partially bounds an ionization region of the arc chamber. The arc chamber body is used with a hot filament arc chamber housing that either directly or indirectly heats a cathode to sufficient temperature to cause electrons to stream through the ionization region of the arc chamber. Electrically insulating seal element(s) engaging an outer surface of the arc chamber body are provided for impeding material from exiting the chamber interior openings of the arc chamber body. The seal element(s) have a ceramic body that includes an outer wall that abuts the arc chamber body along a circumferential outer lip. The seal also has one or more radially inner channels bounded by one or more inner walls spaced inwardly from the outer wall. The electrically insulating seal element comprises a Boron Nitride (BN) material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Neil K. Colvin, Tseh Jen Hsieh
  • Driving method of bistable display device
    Patent number: 8848001
    Abstract: An exemplary driving method is adapted for a bistable display device including a pixel array. The pixel array includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels arranged in a predetermined manner. The driving method includes the following steps of: during a first time period, providing the first pixels with a first pixel voltage for black insertion and providing the second pixels with a second pixel voltage different from the first pixel voltage; during a second time period following the first time period, providing the first pixels with the second pixel voltage for white insertion and maintaining the second pixels provided with the second pixel voltage for white insertion; and during a third time period following the second time period, initiating the first pixels to display a gray scale image and providing the second pixels with the first pixel voltage for black insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Sheng-Chao Liu, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Ching-Huan Lin