Patents by Inventor Lili Huang
Lili Huang 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: 9570775Abstract: A battery assembly can be formed on a base layer provided on a temporary process substrate, with a thin film battery stack including an anode layer, a cathode layer, and an electrolyte layer between the anode and cathode layers. The thin film battery stack can be bonded to a transfer layer, and the process substrate can be removed for assembly into a battery system.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank
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Publication number: 20170010722Abstract: The formation of metal traces in the border areas of a touch sensor panel to provide improved reliability, better noise rejection, and lower manufacturing costs is disclosed. The metal traces can be coupled to rows on the touch sensor panel in an interleaved manner, so that any two successive rows can be coupled to metal traces in border areas on opposite sides of the touch sensor panel. In addition, by utilizing the full width available in the border areas in some embodiments, the metal traces can be formed from higher resistivity metal, which can reduce manufacturing costs and improve trace reliability. The wider traces can also provide better noise immunity from noise sources such as an LCD by providing a larger fixed-potential surface area and by more effectively coupling the drive lines to the fixed potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Martin Paul GRUNTHANER, Lili HUANG
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Patent number: 9495048Abstract: The formation of metal traces in the border areas of a touch sensor panel to provide improved reliability, better noise rejection, and lower manufacturing costs is disclosed. The metal traces can be coupled to rows on the touch sensor panel in an interleaved manner, so that any two successive rows can be coupled to metal traces in border areas on opposite sides of the touch sensor panel. In addition, by utilizing the full width available in the border areas in some embodiments, the metal traces can be formed from higher resistivity metal, which can reduce manufacturing costs and improve trace reliability. The wider traces can also provide better noise immunity from noise sources such as an LCD by providing a larger fixed-potential surface area and by more effectively coupling the drive lines to the fixed potential.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Martin Paul Grunthaner, Lili Huang
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Publication number: 20160326240Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies and methods of using the antibodies to treat and diagnose neurite degenerative diseases and disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Bernhard Mueller, Lili Huang, Philip D. Bardwell, Yuliya Kutskova, John Memmott
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Patent number: 9365643Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies that bind to Repulsive Guidance Molecule a (RGMa) and methods of using the antibodies to treat and diagnose neurite degenerative diseases and disorders.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignees: ABBVIE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG, ABBVIE INC.Inventors: Bernhard Mueller, Lili Huang, Philip D. Bardwell, Yuliya Kutskova, John Memmott
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Patent number: 9354761Abstract: A touch screen including display pixels with capacitive elements is provided. The touch screen includes first common voltage lines connecting capacitive elements in adjacent display pixels, and a second common voltage line connecting first common voltage lines. Groups of pixels can be formed as electrically separated regions by including breaks in the common voltage lines. The regions can include a drive region that is stimulated by stimulation signals, a sense region that receives sense signals corresponding to the stimulation signals. A grounded region can also be included, for example, between a sense region and a drive region. A shield layer can be formed of a substantially high resistance material and disposed to shield a sense region. A black mask line and conductive line under the black mask line can be included, for example, to provide low-resistance paths between a region of pixels and touch circuitry outside the touch screen borders.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 9207528Abstract: Improved techniques are disclosed for fabrication of touch panels using thin sheet glass. Thin touch sensor panels each having a thickness of substantially less than approximately one-half millimeter can be produced. A thin mother glass sheet having a thickness of substantially less then approximately one half millimeter can be used. A thin film can be coupled to a surface of the thin mother glass sheet, and the thin film can be photolithographically patterned, while avoiding breakage of the thin mother glass sheet. The thin mother glass sheet can be singulated into the thin touch sensor panels.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seung Jae Hong, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20150309623Abstract: A touch screen including display pixels with capacitive elements is provided. The touch screen includes first common voltage lines connecting capacitive elements in adjacent display pixels, and a second common voltage line connecting first common voltage lines. Groups of pixels can be formed as electrically separated regions by including breaks in the common voltage lines. The regions can include a drive region that is stimulated by stimulation signals, a sense region that receives sense signals corresponding to the stimulation signals. A grounded region can also be included, for example, between a sense region and a drive region. A shield layer can be formed of a substantially high resistance material and disposed to shield a sense region. A black mask line and conductive line under the black mask line can be included, for example, to provide low-resistance paths between a region of pixels and touch circuitry outside the touch screen borders.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Steven P. HOTELLING, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 9158143Abstract: When a user operates a touch sensor panel having an LCD device outdoors or in a bright environment, light reflecting off the device can create glare. In order to reduce glare, a user can view the device through polarized filters such as polarized sunglasses. Doing so can reduce the visibility of the image displayed on the LCD. A quarter-wave retardation film can be added to the touch sensor panel's LCD device to mitigate these effects by producing circularly polarized light. However, adding a separate quarter-wave retardation film can increase the thickness and cost of manufacturing the touch sensor panel. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a touch sensor panel constructed from a base film having quarter-wave retardation properties that can produce circularly polarized light. Because the base film has the desired optical properties, a separate quarter-wave retardation film may not be needed.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cheng Chen, Siddharth Mohapatra, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong, Masato Kuwabara
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Patent number: 9102722Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies that bind to Repulsive Guidance Molecule a (RGMa) and methods of using the antibodies to treat and diagnose neurite degenerative diseases and disorders.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignees: AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, AbbVie Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Mueller, Lili Huang, Philip D. Bardwell, Yuliya Kutskova, John Memmott
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Patent number: 9075490Abstract: A touch screen including display pixels with capacitive elements is provided. The touch screen includes first common voltage lines connecting capacitive elements in adjacent display pixels, and a second common voltage line connecting first common voltage lines. Groups of pixels can be formed as electrically separated regions by including breaks in the common voltage lines. The regions can include a drive region that is stimulated by stimulation signals, a sense region that receives sense signals corresponding to the stimulation signals. A grounded region can also be included, for example, between a sense region and a drive region. A shield layer can be formed of a substantially high resistance material and disposed to shield a sense region. A black mask line and conductive line under the black mask line can be included, for example, to provide low-resistance paths between a region of pixels and touch circuitry outside the touch screen borders.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 9069418Abstract: The formation of metal traces in the border areas of a touch sensor panel to provide improved reliability, better noise rejection, and lower manufacturing costs is disclosed. The metal traces can be coupled to rows on the touch sensor panel in an interleaved manner, so that any two successive rows can be coupled to metal traces in border areas on opposite sides of the touch sensor panel. In addition, by utilizing the full width available in the border areas in some embodiments, the metal traces can be formed from higher resistivity metal, which can reduce manufacturing costs and improve trace reliability. The wider traces can also provide better noise immunity from noise sources such as an LCD by providing a larger fixed-potential surface area and by more effectively coupling the drive lines to the fixed potential.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Martin Paul Grunthaner, Lili Huang
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Publication number: 20150118156Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies and methods of using the antibodies to treat and diagnose neurite degenerative diseases and disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Bernhard Mueller, Lili Huang, Philip D. Bardwell, Yuliya Kutskova, John Memmott
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Patent number: 8997339Abstract: A method for fabricating thin DITO or SITO touch sensor panels with a thickness less than a minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. In one embodiment, a sandwich of two thin glass sheets is formed such that the combined thickness of the glass sheets does not drop below the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment when thin film process is performed on the surfaces of the sandwich during fabrication. The sandwich may eventually be separated to form two thin SITO/DITO panels. In another embodiment, the fabrication process involves laminating two patterned thick substrates, each having at least the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. One or both of the sides of the laminated substrates are then thinned so that when the substrates are separated, each is a thin DITO/SITO panel having a thickness less than the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shih Chang Chang, John Z. Zhong, Lili Huang, Seung Jae Hong, Lynn Youngs
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Patent number: 8981578Abstract: A sensor array package can include a sensor disposed on a first side of a substrate. Signal trenches can be formed along the edges of the substrate and a conductive layer can be deposited in the signal trench and can couple to sensor signal pads. Bond wires can be attached to the conductive layers and can be arranged to be below a surface plane of the sensor. The sensor array package can be embedded in a printed circuit board enabling the bond wires to terminate at other conductors within the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Inventors: Matthew E. Last, Lili Huang, Seung Jae Hong, Ralph E. Kauffman, Tongbi Tom Jiang
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Patent number: 8970504Abstract: The formation of improved reliability conductive traces in touch sensor panels that are less prone to failures due to environmental effects is disclosed. Conductive traces, which can be formed from a stackup of metal layers or a single metal layer, can be protected with an additional photoimageable passivation layer of a material such as an organic polymer. This photoimageable coating can be patterned so that it does not appear in the visible area of the touch sensor panel, with much finer tolerances than conventional passivation layers to help keep product dimensions to a minimum.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong, Steve Porter Hotelling
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Patent number: 8956718Abstract: Substantially transparent conductor layers in touch sensing systems may be formed by forming a barrier layer between an organic layer and a substantially transparent conductive layer. For example, a barrier layer can be formed over the organic layer, and the transparent conductor layer can be formed over the barrier layer. The barrier layer can reduce or prevent outgassing of the organic layer, to help increase the quality of the transparent conductor layer. In another example, a combination layer of two different types of a transparent conductor may be formed over the organic layer by forming a barrier layer of the transparent conductor, and forming a second layer of the transparent conductor on the barrier layer. Outgassing that can occur when forming the barrier layer can cause the transparent conductor of the barrier layer to be of lower-quality, but can result in a higher-quality transparent conductor of the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, Sueng Jae Hong, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20140347439Abstract: A system and mobile device for generating a panoramic video is presented. The system comprises a plurality of cameras and a mobile device. The mobile device further comprises a CPU and a GPU. The plurality of cameras is operable to capture video frames from different directions through 360° to generate multi-channel video streams. The CPU is configured to issue to the GPU an instruction to process the multi-channel video streams. The GPU is configured to mosaic synchronous video frames of the multi-channel video streams by utilizing parallel computing according to the instruction, so as to generate the panoramic video in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Zhen Jia, Lili Huang
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Publication number: 20140272190Abstract: A method of annealing a thin film deposited on a substrate. According to the method, the thin film deposited on the substrate is provided. The provided thin film is irradiated with electromagnetic radiation until a predetermined crystal quality of the thin film is achieved. The spectral band of the electromagnetic radiation is selected such that the thin film is substantially absorptive to the electromagnetic radiation and the substrate is substantially transparent to the electromagnetic radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank
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Publication number: 20140265915Abstract: A battery assembly can be formed on a base layer provided on a substrate, with a thin film battery stack including an anode layer, a cathode layer, and an electrolyte layer between the anode and cathode layers. The thin film battery stack can be encapsulated, and assembled into a battery system with electrical power connections for the anode and cathode layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank