Patents by Inventor Kang Lu

Kang Lu 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).

  • Patent number: 12271085
    Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a first and a second shielding lines. The plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed on the base substrate and include a plurality of first pixel electrodes. The plurality of the first pixel electrodes are arranged in a first and a second directions. The first pixel electrode includes a first trunk electrode and a first branch electrode, the first trunk electrode includes a first vertical trunk extending in the first direction. The first shielding line is disposed on the base substrate, and includes a portion disposed on the periphery of the first vertical trunk. The second shielding line is disposed on the base substrate, and includes a portion disposed on the periphery of the first branch electrode. The first and the second shielding lines are electrically insulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Yani Chen
  • Publication number: 20250073103
    Abstract: An integrated automatic turning bed system is provided. The system integrates the system controller with subsystems such as an electric turning bed, a pressure-sensing mattress, and/or an electronic diaper machine, and achieves comprehensive care for incapacitated bedridden people through automation and intelligence. By utilizing subsystem sensing and system controller to control and ensure the stability, reliability, and control accuracy of the system, the safety and comfort of the bedridden people can be ensured and care services are improved, which also effectively reduces the burden on caregivers at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jinn-Biau SHEU, Kun-Chi TSAI, Fu-Kang LU, Hao-Jen KAO
  • Patent number: 12158671
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate and the second substrate disposed oppositely, a plurality of liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of light-shielding electrodes and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes disposed on a same layer as the pixel electrodes. A first gap is defined between adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes, each light-shielding electrode is correspondingly disposed in a spacing. Each auxiliary electrode is located between an adjacent pixel electrode and a light-shielding electrode, a voltage applied to each auxiliary electrode is equal to a voltage applied to corresponding pixel electrode. An electric field is formed between the auxiliary electrode and the corresponding light-shielding electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qunfang Liang, Yani Chen, Kang Lu
  • Publication number: 20240377041
    Abstract: An LED module for a vehicle headlight and a vehicle headlight are described. The LED module includes an array of LEDs (22) and an optic (23) opposite the array of LEDs (22). The optic (23) is configured to receive light from the array of LEDs (22) and direct at least part of the received light. The optic (23) has a light passing area (24) configured to pass light directly from the array of LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Benno SPINGER, Kang LU
  • Publication number: 20240264498
    Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a first and a second shielding lines. The plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed on the base substrate and include a plurality of first pixel electrodes. The plurality of the first pixel electrodes are arranged in a first and a second directions. The first pixel electrode includes a first trunk electrode and a first branch electrode, the first trunk electrode includes a first vertical trunk extending in the first direction. The first shielding line is disposed on the base substrate, and includes a portion disposed on the periphery of the first vertical trunk. The second shielding line is disposed on the base substrate, and includes a portion disposed on the periphery of the first branch electrode. The first and the second shielding lines are electrically insulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang LU, Yani CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240255813
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate and the second substrate disposed oppositely, a plurality of liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of light-shielding electrodes and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes disposed on a same layer as the pixel electrodes. A first gap is defined between adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes, each light-shielding electrode is correspondingly disposed in a spacing. Each auxiliary electrode is located between an adjacent pixel electrode and a light-shielding electrode, a voltage applied to each auxiliary electrode is equal to a voltage applied to corresponding pixel electrode. An electric field is formed between the auxiliary electrode and the corresponding light-shielding electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qunfang LIANG, Yani CHEN, Kang LU
  • Patent number: 12018807
    Abstract: An automotive lighting system for a vehicle includes a light source, a refraction lens and a projection lens. The light source includes a first sub light source. The refraction lens includes a light entrance surface and a light exit surface. The light entrance surface has a first protrusion that has a first light entrance face adjacent the first sub light source and a first light exit face on the light entrance surface of the first refraction lens. The first protrusion is located at a periphery of the light entrance surface of the refraction lens with respect to an optical axis of the automotive lighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds, LLC
    Inventor: Kang Lu
  • Patent number: 11982418
    Abstract: A lighting module includes a first light source that generates a low beam with a bright/dark cut-off line and a second light source. First optics redirects a first part of light from the first light source to create a main part of the low beam substantially below the bright/dark cut-off line. Second optics is spaced apart from the first optics and redirects a second part of light from the first light source to create a zone III beam of the low beam substantially above the bright/dark cut-off line and redirects a fourth part of light from the second light source to create a concentrated beam of the high beam in front of the vehicle. Third optics redirects a third part of light from the second light source to create a main part of a high beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventor: Kang Lu
  • Publication number: 20240092662
    Abstract: A method for removing a heavy metal from water includes subjecting a microbial solution containing a liquid culture of a urease-producing bacterial strain and a reaction solution containing a manganese compound and urea to a microbial-induced precipitation reaction, so as to obtain biomineralized manganese carbonate (MnCO3) particles, admixing the biomineralized MnCO3 particles with water containing a heavy metal, so that the biomineralized MnCO3 particles adsorb the heavy metal in the water to form a precipitate, and removing the precipitate from the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Chien-Yen CHEN, Yi-Hsun HUANG, Pin-Yun LIN, Anggraeni Kumala DEWI, Koyeli DAS, Uttara SUKUL, Tsung-Hsien CHEN, Raju Kumar SHARMA, Cheng-Kang LU, Chung-Ming LU
  • Publication number: 20230296219
    Abstract: An automotive lighting system for a vehicle includes a light source, a refraction lens and a projection lens. The light source includes a first sub light source. The refraction lens includes a light entrance surface and a light exit surface. The light entrance surface has a first protrusion that has a first light entrance face adjacent the first sub light source and a first light exit face on the light entrance surface of the first refraction lens. The first protrusion is located at a periphery of the light entrance surface of the refraction lens with respect to an optical axis of the automotive lighting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventor: Kang LU
  • Patent number: 11761603
    Abstract: A system includes a first primary optics that receives light from a first light source and projects it onto a transparent shutter and a secondary optics. A second primary optics receives light from the second light source and projects it onto the transparent shutter. The transparent shutter receives light from the first light source via the first primary optics and prevents a lower part of it from entering the secondary optics. The transparent shutter further receives light from the second light source via the second primary optics and projects it onto the secondary optics. The secondary optics receives light from the first primary optics and the transparent shutter and projects it onto a road in front of the vehicle. The transparent shutter includes an air-exposed slit that redirects the light received by the transparent shutter from the second light source toward a middle axis of the transparent shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Ping Wu, Jun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230280012
    Abstract: A lighting module includes a first light source that generates a low beam with a bright/dark cut-off line and a second light source. First optics redirects a first part of light from the first light source to create a main part of the low beam substantially below the bright/dark cut-off line. Second optics is spaced apart from the first optics and redirects a second part of light from the first light source to create a zone III beam of the low beam substantially above the bright/dark cut-off line and redirects a fourth part of light from the second light source to create a concentrated beam of the high beam in front of the vehicle. Third optics redirects a third part of light from the second light source to create a main part of a high beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventor: Kang LU
  • Publication number: 20220282846
    Abstract: A system includes a first primary optics that receives light from a first light source and projects it onto a transparent shutter and a secondary optics. A second primary optics receives light from the second light source and projects it onto the transparent shutter. The transparent shutter receives light from the first light source via the first primary optics and prevents a lower part of it from entering the secondary optics. The transparent shutter further receives light from the second light source via the second primary optics and projects it onto the secondary optics. The secondary optics receives light from the first primary optics and the transparent shutter and projects it onto a road in front of the vehicle. The transparent shutter includes an air-exposed slit that redirects the light received by the transparent shutter from the second light source toward a middle axis of the transparent shutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: LUMILEDS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Kang LU, Ping WU, Jun ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11168859
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of automotive lighting, and in particular to an automotive lighting system for a vehicle. The automotive lighting system for a vehicle comprises: a plurality of light sources; a plurality of primary optics, each being a reflector, arranged in a matrix and configured to receive and redirect light from the plurality of light sources; and a secondary optics configured to receive the redirected light from the plurality of primary optics and project the received light in front of the vehicle. Further, each light source is disposed in a focal plane of a corresponding one of the plurality of primary optics, and at least one of the plurality of primary optics is disposed in a focal plane of the secondary optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Ping Wu
  • Patent number: 11067725
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a multi-focal collimating lens and a headlight assembly for an automotive low beam. The multi-focal collimating lens includes a central collimating lens portion and two total internal reflection lens portions arranged on a left side and a right side of the central collimating lens portion. The central collimating lens portion and the total internal reflection lens portions share two focal points symmetrically located on both sides of a vertical symmetry plane of the multi-focal collimating lens. An upper edge and a lower edge of the multi-focal collimating lens are formed based on the two focal points, so that the headlight assembly is able to generate a cut-off line of the automotive low beam in a far-field light pattern of the multi-focal collimating lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Ping Wu, YiYu Cao, Hui-Kai Hsu
  • Patent number: 10890307
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a multi-focal collimating lens and a bi-function headlight assembly. With the relative positions referring to the mounting position of the multi-focal collimating lens within the bi-function headlight assembly, the multi-focal collimating lens includes a lower collimating lens part and an upper collimating lens part located on top of the lower collimating lens part. One focal point of the lower collimating lens part is located on a vertical symmetry plane of the lower collimating lens part, and two focal points of the upper collimating lens part are symmetrically located on both sides of a vertical symmetry plane of the upper collimating lens part, so that a cut-off line of a low beam can be generated in a far-field light pattern of the multi-focal collimating lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Kang Lu
  • Patent number: 10766399
    Abstract: A front-lighting system for a vehicle has: a first light source, a second light source, a first primary optics, a second primary optics, a transparent shutter, and a secondary optics. The first primary optics receives light from the first light source and projects it onto the transparent shutter and the secondary optics. The second primary optics receives light from the second light source and projects it onto the transparent shutter. The transparent shutter receives light from the first primary optics and prevents a lower part of it from entering the secondary optics, receives light from the second primary optics and projects it onto the secondary optics, and has a light out-coupling surface and micro-optical structures on a bordering surface. The secondary optics receives light from the first primary optics and the transparent shutter, and projects it onto a road in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Ping Wu, Meng Han, Huayun Feng, Yiwen Lu
  • Publication number: 20200103564
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a multi-focal collimating lens and a headlight assembly for an automotive low beam. The multi-focal collimating lens includes a central collimating lens portion and two total internal reflection lens portions arranged on a left side and a right side of the central collimating lens portion. The central collimating lens portion and the total internal reflection lens portions share two focal points symmetrically located on both sides of a vertical symmetry plane of the multi-focal collimating lens. An upper edge and a lower edge of the multi-focal collimating lens are formed based on the two focal points, so that the headlight assembly is able to generate a cut-off line of the automotive low beam in a far-field light pattern of the multi-focal collimating lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Ping Wu, YiYu Cao, Hui-Kai Hsu
  • Publication number: 20200103088
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a multi-focal collimating lens and a bi-function headlight assembly. With the relative positions referring to the mounting position of the multi-focal collimating lens within the bi-function headlight assembly, the multi-focal collimating lens includes a lower collimating lens part and an upper collimating lens part located on top of the lower collimating lens part. One focal point of the lower collimating lens part is located on a vertical symmetry plane of the lower collimating lens part, and two focal points of the upper collimating lens part are symmetrically located on both sides of a vertical symmetry plane of the upper collimating lens part, so that a cut-off line of a low beam can be generated in a far-field light pattern of the multi-focal collimating lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Kang LU
  • Publication number: 20200047660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of automotive front-lighting, and particularly to a front-lighting system for a vehicle. The front-lighting system comprises: a first light source, a second light source, a first primary optics, a second primary optics, a transparent shutter, and a secondary optics. The first primary optics is designed to receive light from the first light source and project it onto the transparent shutter and the secondary optics. The second primary optics is designed to receive light from the second light source and project it onto the transparent shutter. The transparent shutter is designed to receive light from the first light source via the first primary optics and prevent a lower part of it from entering the secondary optics. The transparent shutter is further designed to receive light from the second light source via the second primary optics and project it onto the secondary optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kang Lu, Ping Wu, Meng Han, Huayun Feng, Yiwen Lu