Abstract: A radio frequency transceiver includes a mixer circuit configured to convert an intermediate frequency signal into a radio frequency signal, a driver amplifier circuit configured to amplify the radio frequency signal from the mixer circuit, a temperature sensing circuit configured for sensing ambient temperature, and an attenuation circuit connected with the temperature sensing circuit, configured to decreasingly attenuate the radio frequency signal from the driver amplifier circuit as the ambient temperature increases.

Abstract: A screw structure with a stop ring includes a screw, a ferrule, and a stop ring. The stop ring is fitted on a threaded shank of the screw to push against a front end of the ferrule, so that the ferrule is pressed against a head of the screw. With the ferrule being firmly pressed against the head of the screw by the stop ring, the ferrule will not sway relative to the screw, allowing the screw structure to be stably sucked with a sucking tool and be highly accurately assembled to a printed circuit board.

Abstract: A USB (Universal Serial Bus) A-type socket configured for coupling with a USB A-type plug complies with the USB 3.0 specification and includes a composite member, a plurality of second terminals, and a metal housing. The composite member includes a plurality of first terminals and an insulating body, wherein the insulating body partially wraps and firmly holds the first terminals. The second terminals are assembled to guiding rails provided on the composite member. The metal housing encloses the composite member. Since the first terminals and the insulating body are integrated as the one-piece composite member, positional stability of the first terminals is ensured.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a transparent substrate having a surface, a plurality of first touch sensor pads arrayed in a matrix on the surface, a plurality of second touch sensor pads arrayed in a matrix and staggered between the plurality of first touch sensor pads, a dielectric layer disposed upon the plurality of first touch sensor pads and the plurality of second touch sensor pads, a plurality of third touch sensor pads arrayed in a matrix on the dielectric layer, and a plurality of fourth touch sensor pads arrayed in a matrix on the dielectric layer and staggered between the plurality of third touch sensor pads. Each first touch sensor pad includes a first hollowed-out pattern, and each third touch sensor pad includes a second hollowed-out pattern and a solid portion formed around the second hollowed-out pattern, wherein a portion of the solid portion of each third touch sensor pad and a portion of the hollowed-out pattern of the first touch sensor pad overlap.

Abstract: A DisplayPort socket includes a first composite element and a second composite element. The first composite element includes a first insulating body partially and tightly covering plural terminals so that the terminals are exposed on a plate of the first insulating body and form plural conduction zones. The second composite element includes a second insulating body partially and tightly covering plural terminals so that the terminals are exposed on a plate of the second insulating body and form plural conduction zones. The plates of the first and second composite elements are stacked flat on each other to form a coupling plate for coupling buttingly with a DisplayPort connector. By integrating the first and second insulating bodies with their corresponding terminals to form the first and second composite elements and then assembling the first and second composite elements together, the terminals are securely positioned, thus increasing the reliability of the socket.

Abstract: Intelligent hotspot connection systems and methods are provided. The intelligent hotspot connection system includes a storage unit, a wireless connection unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit includes a hotspot information database recording at least one property for each of a plurality of hotspots, and a hotspot preference database recording at least one preference inclination, respectively defining a reference weight for the property and signal strength. The processing unit detects the signal strength of the respective hotspots via the wireless connection unit. The processing unit obtains the preference inclination, and calculates a score for the respective hotspots according to the preference inclination, the property and signal strength of the respective hotspots. The processing unit selects and automatically connects to the hotspot with the highest score via the wireless connection unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided that has a plurality of pixel regions where some of the pixel regions have liquid crystal molecules that operate according to both twisted nematic mode and vertical alignment mode.

Abstract: A representative display device includes a display module, a polarization controller and a compensator. Each pixel region of the display module has a first sub-pixel region, a second sub-pixel region and a third sub-pixel region respectively providing a first light, a second light and a third light of the same polarization. The polarization controller has control regions that control the polarization of the light passing therethrough. The compensator has first compensating regions, second compensating regions and third compensating regions corresponding to the first sub-pixel regions, the second sub-pixel regions and the third sub-pixel regions, respectively. The compensations of phase retardation of the first light, the second light and the third light generated by passing through the first compensating regions, the second compensating regions and the third compensating regions are different from one another.

Abstract: The invention discloses a wireless device and a method for automatically establishing a wireless connection. The wireless device is selectively connected to the information providing device. The information providing device stores setting information relative to a wireless network. The wireless device comprises a wireless interface and a first wired interface. The information providing device comprises a second wired interface. When the first wired interface of the wireless device is coupled to the second wired interface of the information providing device, alternatively, the information providing device automatically provides the setting information to the wireless device, or the wireless device actively gathers the setting information from the information providing device. After fetching the setting information, the wireless device utilizes the setting information to connect the wireless network via the wireless interface.

Abstract: A packaging method for assembling a screw to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes the steps of: providing a screw having a head, a threaded shank, and a ferrule enclosing the threaded shank; mounting a stop ring on the threaded shank to maintain a predetermined height from top of the head to bottom of the ferrule; using a tool to fetch the screw and align the threaded shank with one through hole provided on the PCB; releasing the screw from the tool for a flange of the ferrule to extend into the through hole on the PCB; heating to melt a solder layer atop of the PCB, so that the ferrule is fixedly held to the PCB when the molten solder layer is cooled and hardened again; and removing the stop ring so that the threaded shank is retracted into the ferrule.

Abstract: A packaging method for assembling a captive screw to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes the steps of providing a captive screw having a screw head, a threaded shank and a sleeve; pressing a fixture toward the screw head for a part of the threaded shank to exposed from a distal end of the sleeve, and then clamping the fixture on the sleeve; providing a PCB having through holes and a layer of solder provided thereon; using a tool to pick up the fixture and the captive screw and align the threaded shank with one through hole on the PCB; releasing the fixture and the captive screw from the tool for a flange at the distal end of the sleeve to extend into the through hole; heating, melting and then cooling to harden the solder layer, so that the sleeve is fixedly held to the PCB; and removing the fixture.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate has a pixel electrode having many first slits and many second slits, connected to a third slit. Each first and second slit respectively stretches along a first and a second vector with a starting point in a junction with the third slit. Liquid crystal molecules near an alignment layer of the second substrate is aligned by the alignment layer to pre-tilt. Each projection of the long-axis of at least part of the pre-tilted liquid crystal molecules on the second substrate forms a third vector with a starting point at the end of the liquid crystal molecule near the alignment layer. An included angle between the first and the third vector is ?1, and an included angle between the second and the third vector is ?2. 90°<?1<160°, and 90°<?2<160°.

Abstract: An improved fastener includes a fastener body and a blocker. The fastener body has an end functioning as a connecting head, and center of the fastener body forms an axial threaded bore. An end of the axial threaded bore corresponding to the connecting head is formed into a recess surrounded by the connecting head. The blocker is removably fitted in the recess of the fastener body. When the connecting head of the fastener body is extended through a fixing hole on a printed circuit board with the blocker fitted in the recess, solder paste applied over the fixing hole is prevented from entering into the axial threaded bore of the fastener body to interfere with a screw being threaded into the fastener body.

Abstract: A method for assembling captive screw includes the steps of providing an annular base and positioning an annular washer on a top of the annular base; providing a screw, a coil spring, and a sleeve; downward passing the screw through the coil spring and a top opening of the sleeve; and threading a threaded section of the screw through the annular washer, so that the annular washer is fitted around a shank of the screw to locate below the top opening of the sleeve and above the threaded section of the screw. An inner circumferential edge of the annular washer is not worn away by the threaded section of the screw threaded therethrough, enabling the annular washer to keep a small inner diameter for tightly fitting around the shank of the screw and ensuring reliable assembling of the sleeve to the screw.

Abstract: A screw structure with a stop ring includes a screw, a ferrule, and a stop ring. The stop ring is fitted on a threaded shank of the screw to push against a front end of the ferrule, so that the ferrule is pressed against a head of the screw. With the ferrule being firmly pressed against the head of the screw by the stop ring, the ferrule will not sway relative to the screw, allowing the screw structure to be stably sucked with a sucking tool and be highly accurately assembled to a printed circuit board.

Abstract: A handle structure with locking unit includes a handle having a hollow fitting section provided at a predetermined position, a locking unit movably coupled with the handle, and an elastic element fitted around the rod section and restricted within the fitting section. The locking unit includes a rod section fitted in the fitting section of the handle, an operating section located at an end of the rod section to outward protrude from a first end of the fitting section, and a threaded section located at another end of the rod section to outward protrude from a second end of the fitting section. An annular stop section is formed around the rod section to interfere with the fitting section. When a slidable carrier unit with the handle structure mounted thereto is in a fully inward pushed position, the operating section may be turned to lock or unlock the carrier unit.

Abstract: A latch-type locating device including an outer sleeve having an annular engaging section formed at a front end thereof; an inner sleeve movably telescoped in the outer sleeve; a linking unit including a connecting rod located in the outer sleeve, an actuating rod connected to a front end of the connecting rod and fitted in the inner sleeve to interfere with the same, and a flange formed at a rear end of the connecting rod; a cap member being engaged with the flange of the linking unit; and an elastic element fitted around the connecting rod of the linking unit. The inner sleeve may be driven by the cap member and linking unit to extend from or retract into the outer sleeve to thereby lock an article in place or release the article.

Abstract: A packaging method for assembling a screw to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes the steps of: providing a screw having a head, a threaded shank, and a ferrule enclosing the threaded shank; mounting a stop ring on the threaded shank to maintain a predetermined height from top of the head to bottom of the ferrule; using a tool to fetch the screw and align the threaded shank with one through hole provided on the PCB; releasing the screw from the tool for a flange of the ferrule to extend into the through hole on the PCB; heating to melt a solder layer atop of the PCB, so that the ferrule is fixedly held to the PCB when the molten solder layer is cooled and hardened again; and removing the stop ring so that the threaded shank is retracted into the ferrule.

Abstract: An improved lock device includes: a locking unit, having a force exerted portion, a screw rod section and a screw thread section sequentially disposed on a surface of the force exerted portion, and an embedded groove disposed around the periphery of the screw rod section; and a ferrule, having an embedding edge and a latch groove, and the embedding edge installed into the embedded groove for movably coupling the ferrule to the locking unit, such that the invention can use the ferrule latch groove and the locking unit for locking a board with a base as required.

Abstract: An improved lock device includes: a ferrule having a through hole disposed at the center of the ferrule, and a groove disposed around the external periphery of the through hole; a locking unit having a force exerted portion and a screw rod that passes through the through hole; a resilient element sheathed onto the screw rod, and an end of the resilient element being disposed in a groove around the ferrule, and another end of the resilient element pressing against a surface of the force exerted portion; and a knob fixed onto the force exerted portion and movably coupled to the ferrule. Therefore, the resilient element can be fixed between the ferrule and the locking unit, and covered with the knob for preventing the resilient element from being damaged by external forces or tilted by external objects to achieve a better stability of using the resilient element.