Patents by Inventor Jung-Fang Chang
Jung-Fang Chang 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: 10504549Abstract: The invention discloses a disc library storage system including a disc library, a disc drive tower and a disc transport device. The disc library is for placing multiple discs. The disc drive tower includes multiple disc drives for reading/writing data. The disc transport device is used for moving the discs to the disc drive tower from the disc library and moving the discs to the disc library from the disc drive tower.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang
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Patent number: 10388317Abstract: A disc pick-and-place device including a disc pick-and-place body and a quantity sensing unit is provided. The disc pick-and-place body is for clamping and unloading at least one disc. The quantity sensing unit is disposed on the disc pick-and-place body for sensing the quantity of the at least one disc clamped on the disc pick-and-place body. The quantity sensing unit includes a movable piece and an optical distance measuring device. The movable piece leans on at least one disc and moves as the quantity of the at least one disc changes. The optical distance measuring device is for emitting a beam and receiving the beam reflected from the movable piece to detect the quantity of the at least one disc.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang
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Patent number: 10388316Abstract: An operating method of a disc pick-and-place device is provided. Discs can be picked up when each flexible rod is driven to rotate and make the disc pick-and-place device enter a first operating state and then a second operating state in which the first carrying portion is located at the disc releasing position and then at the disc holding position, and the second carrying portion is located at the disc releasing position in the first and second operating states. Discs can be unloaded when each flexible rod is driven to rotate and make the disc pick-and-place device enter a third operating state and then a fourth operating state in which the first carrying portion is located at the disc holding position and then at the disc releasing position, and the second carrying portion is located at the disc holding position in the third and fourth operating states.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang
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Publication number: 20190147911Abstract: A disc pick-and-place device including a disc pick-and-place body and a quantity sensing unit is provided. The disc pick-and-place body is for clamping and unloading at least one disc. The quantity sensing unit is disposed on the disc pick-and-place body for sensing the quantity of the at least one disc clamped on the disc pick-and-place body. The quantity sensing unit includes a movable piece and an optical distance measuring device. The movable piece leans on at least one disc and moves as the quantity of the at least one disc changes. The optical distance measuring device is for emitting a beam and receiving the beam reflected from the movable piece to detect the quantity of the at least one disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Jung-Fang CHANG, Cheng-Wen HUANG
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Publication number: 20190139572Abstract: The invention discloses a disc library storage system including a disc library, a disc drive tower and a disc transport device. The disc library is for placing multiple discs. The disc drive tower includes multiple disc drives for reading/writing data. The disc transport device is used for moving the discs to the disc drive tower from the disc library and moving the discs to the disc library from the disc drive tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Jung-Fang CHANG, Cheng-Wen HUANG
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Publication number: 20190139571Abstract: An operating method of a disc pick-and-place device is provided. Discs can be picked up when each flexible rod is driven to rotate and make the disc pick-and-place device enter a first operating state and then a second operating state in which the first carrying portion is located at the disc releasing position and then at the disc holding position, and the second carrying portion is located at the disc releasing position in the first and second operating states. Discs can be unloaded when each flexible rod is driven to rotate and make the disc pick-and-place device enter a third operating state and then a fourth operating state in which the first carrying portion is located at the disc holding position and then at the disc releasing position, and the second carrying portion is located at the disc holding position in the third and fourth operating states.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Jung-Fang CHANG, Cheng-Wen HUANG
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Patent number: 10262687Abstract: A disc grabbing device including a support body, a drive shaft, multiple first planetary gears, a center gear, multiple second planetary gears and a driver is provided. The support body includes a plate and a center column. When the disc grabbing device grabs the discs, the center column is located in the center holes of the discs. The drive shaft is rotatably disposed on the plate. The first planetary gears are respectively engaged with the drive shaft and connected to multiple first levers for driving the first levers to rotate. The second planetary gears are respectively engaged with the center gear and connected to multiple second levers for driving the second levers to rotate. The driver concurrently drives the drive shaft and the center gear to rotate the first planetary gears and the second planetary gears synchronically and make the first levers and the second levers rotate synchronically.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang, Ming-Chun Tsao, Chien-Shou Chen
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Patent number: 10224070Abstract: A disc grabbing device including a disc grabbing body, a weight sensing unit and a counter is provided. The disc grabbing body is used for grabbing or unloading at least one disc. The weight sensing unit is disposed on the disc grabbing body for sensing a weight of the at least one disc grabbed on the disc grabbing body. The counter is connected to the weight sensing unit used for obtaining a disc quantity of the discs grabbed on the disc grabbing body according to the weight.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang, Ming-Chun Tsao, Chien-Shou Chen
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Patent number: 10210897Abstract: A disc pick-and-place device for picking and clamping multiple discs and unloading the multiple discs is provided. The disc pick-and-place device includes a supporting body, multiple picking members and a driver. The picking members are disposed around a support body and flexibly abut the edges of the discs. Each picking member includes a flexible rod, a first carrying portion and a second carrying portion. The first carrying portion and the second carrying portion are located on the flexible rod and separated by an interval. The first carrying portion and the second carrying portion partly overlap with each other in an axial direction of the flexible rod. The driver is for driving each flexible rod to rotate and move each first carrying portion and each second carrying portion to a disc releasing position or a disc holding position.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang
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Publication number: 20190027185Abstract: A disc grabbing device including a disc grabbing body, a weight sensing unit and a counter is provided. The disc grabbing body is used for grabbing or unloading at least one disc. The weight sensing unit is disposed on the disc grabbing body for sensing a weight of the at least one disc grabbed on the disc grabbing body. The counter is connected to the weight sensing unit used for obtaining a disc quantity of the discs grabbed on the disc grabbing body according to the weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang, Ming-Chun Tsao, Chien-Shou Chen
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Patent number: 10170149Abstract: An opening and closing device of rotating cage type jukebox disc tray including a first disc tray carrying discs and an opening and closing mechanism of disc tray including a first linkage mechanism and a first driving device is provided. The first linkage mechanism includes a first linkage bar, a first sliding member and a second linkage bar. The second linkage bar is slidingly disposed on the first sliding member which is slidingly disposed on the first linkage bar. When an end portion of the second linkage bar is connected to a first ear portion on a lateral side of the first disc tray, the first driving device drives the first sliding member to slide on the first linkage bar, leading the second linkage bar to slide on the first sliding member and thereby leading the first disc tray to rotate around a first fixing post.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Shih-Ming Hsu, Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang, Ming-Chun Tsao
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Publication number: 20180261246Abstract: An opening and closing device of rotating cage type jukebox disc tray including a first disc tray carrying discs and an opening and closing mechanism of disc tray including a first linkage mechanism and a first driving device is provided. The first linkage mechanism includes a first linkage bar, a first sliding member and a second linkage bar. The second linkage bar is slidingly disposed on the first sliding member which is slidingly disposed on the first linkage bar. When an end portion of the second linkage bar is connected to a first ear portion on a lateral side of the first disc tray, the first driving device drives the first sliding member to slide on the first linkage bar, leading the second linkage bar to slide on the first sliding member and thereby leading the first disc tray to rotate around a first fixing post.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Shih-Ming HSU, Jung-Fang CHANG, Cheng-Wen HUANG, Ming-Chun TSAO
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Patent number: 10008235Abstract: A disc grabbing device including a body, a drive shaft, a first cam, a second cam, multiple first movable parts and multiple second movable parts are provided. The drive shaft is rotatably disposed in the body. A first cam and a second cam are disposed on the drive shaft, and rotate together with the drive shaft. The first movable parts are disposed in the body and correspond to the first cam, and move to a disc hold position or a disc release position along with the rotation of the first cam. The second movable parts are disposed in the body and correspond to the second cam, and move to a disc release position or a disc hold position along with the rotation of the second cam.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Cheng-Wen Huang, Ming-Chun Tsao, Chien-Shou Chen
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Patent number: 9978880Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate and including a gate with a gate edge parallel to a first direction; a semiconductor layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and including a drain and a data line extending along the first direction, the second conductive layer electrically connecting to the semiconductor layer, the drain including a drain edge parallel to the first direction, the gate edge located between the data line and the drain edge, and a projection of the drain on the substrate located in a projection of the semiconductor layer on the substrate. Herein, a maximum width of the semiconductor layer overlapping the gate edge along the first direction is smaller than maximum widths thereof overlapping the gate and the drain edge along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Chih-Hao Wu, Chao-Hsiang Wang, Yi-Ching Chen
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Publication number: 20180061867Abstract: Hybrid silicon TFT and oxide TFT structures and methods of formation are described. In an embodiment, a protection layer is formed over a semiconductor oxide channel layer of the oxide TFT to protect the semiconductor oxide channel layer during a cleaning operation of the silicon TFT.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Chih Pang Chang, Jung-Fang Chang, ChinWei Hu, Te-Hua Teng, Jung Yen Huang, Wen-I Hsieh, Jiun-Jye Chang, Ching-Sang Chuang, Hung-Che Ting, Lungpao Hsin
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Patent number: 9748397Abstract: A thin-film transistor substrate is disclosed, which comprises a base layer; a semiconductor layer disposed on the base layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode disposed on the base layer and corresponding to the semiconductor layer; wherein the semiconductor layer includes a first region, a second region, and a third region, in which the first region corresponds to the gate electrode layer, the second region corresponds to the source electrode, and the third region corresponds to the drain electrode; and wherein the first region has a first thickness, the second region has a second thickness, and the third region has a third thickness, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness or the third thickness.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: I-Ho Shen, Jung-Fang Chang
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Patent number: 9741804Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate includes a substrate and a TFT. The TFT is disposed on the substrate and comprises a gate, a gate dielectric layer, a film, a source and a drain. The gate is disposed on the substrate. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the gate and the substrate. The film is disposed above the gate dielectric layer, and the source and the drain are disposed on the film and contacts with the film respectively. Wherein, there is an interval between the source and the drain, and the film corresponding to the interval has an arc concave portion. In addition, a display panel is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, I-Ho Shen
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Publication number: 20170236950Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate and including a gate with a gate edge parallel to a first direction; a semiconductor layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and including a drain and a data line extending along the first direction, the second conductive layer electrically connecting to the semiconductor layer, the drain including a drain edge parallel to the first direction, the gate edge located between the data line and the drain edge, and a projection of the drain on the substrate located in a projection of the semiconductor layer on the substrate. Herein, a maximum width of the semiconductor layer overlapping the gate edge along the first direction is smaller than maximum widths thereof overlapping the gate and the drain edge along the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Jung-Fang CHANG, Chih-Hao WU, Chao-Hsiang WANG, Yi-Ching CHEN
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Patent number: 9684214Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device, comprising: a substrate comprising a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region; a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and partially covering the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor layer; and there is a spacing between a first side of the semiconductor layer and a second side of the second conductive layer from a top view, wherein the first side of the semiconductor layer is adjacent to the second side of the second conductive layer; wherein the spacing in the display region is a first distance, the spacing in the non-display region is a second distance, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Fang Chang, Chih-Hao Wu, Chao-Hsiang Wang, Yi-Ching Chen
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Patent number: 9601519Abstract: A thin film transistor is provided, which includes a gate electrode on a substrate; a channel layer overlapping the gate electrode; a dielectric layer between the gate electrode and the channel layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connecting to the channel layer; a passivation layer overlying the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate dielectric layer, wherein the channel layer includes two contact portions being in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode, respectively, and a non-contact portion located between the two contact portions, and wherein one of the two contact portions has a first thickness in a first direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate, and the non-contact portion has a second thickness less than the first thickness in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hsin-Hung Lin, Jung-Fang Chang, Ker-Yih Kao