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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Publication number: 20140272541Abstract: 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 attached to a pattern film layer with holes for electrical connection to the anode and cathode layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank
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Publication number: 20140272560Abstract: A method for improving the lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) film (such as films in thin film batteries) morphology includes using oxygen (O2) and argon (Ar) gases during sputtering deposition of the LiCoO2 film. This may allow for the manufacturing of thicker LiCoO2 films. Such a method may also significantly reduce or eliminate cracking and obvious columnar structures within the resulting LiCoO2 film layer. Sputtering using a mixture of O2 and Ar also may produce a LiCoO2 film layer that requires lower annealing temperatures to reach good utilization and has higher lithium diffusion rates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank, Yanfeng Chen
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Publication number: 20140273890Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank
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Publication number: 20140272561Abstract: A thin film battery has one or more current collectors with a substantially mesh configuration. The mesh current collector may include a network or web of thin strands of current collector material. The thin strands may overlap each other and/or may be arranged to define a plurality of individual cells within the mesh current collector. The strands of the mesh current collector may also be arranged to have a grid-like configuration. Additionally, in some configurations, the anode or cathode may fill the cells within the current collector layer to optimize the amount of active material within the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Richard M. Mank, Seung Jae Hong
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Publication number: 20140247689Abstract: Hydrogen molecule (H2) has been indicated as a novel anti-oxidant reagent specifically targeting OH free radicals. This invention discloses the methods and apparatus that can be used to increase the hydrogen concentration in water, in beverages, and in other hydrogen absorbing materials through a sealed hydrogen gas producing chamber made of materials that have good hydrogen permeability and can withhold gas pressure. The disclosed method and apparatus can increase the hydrogen concentration quickly without leaking other chemical by-products of the gas producing system into the treated materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Centaqua Inc.Inventors: Meiling Wang, Lili Huang
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Publication number: 20140247247Abstract: 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: May 12, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven P. HOTELLING, Shih Chang CHANG, Lili HUANG, John Z. ZHONG
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Patent number: 8773397Abstract: 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: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Porter Hotelling, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 8743087Abstract: 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. The 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: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Porter Hotelling, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20140139484Abstract: 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: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Porter HOTELLING, Shih Chang CHANG, Lili HUANG, John Z. ZHONG
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Publication number: 20140139763Abstract: 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: January 24, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Martin Paul GRUNTHANER, Lili HUANG
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Publication number: 20140023659Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies and methods of using the antibodies to treat and diagnose neurite degenerative diseases and disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Bernhard Mueller, Lili Huang, Philip D. Bardwell, Yuliya Kutskova, John Memmott
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Patent number: 8603574Abstract: A method of forming a curved touch surface is disclosed. The method can include depositing and patterning a conductive thin film on a flexible substrate to form at least one touch sensor pattern, while the flexible substrate is in a flat state. According to certain embodiments, the method can include supporting the flexible substrate in the flat state on at least one curved forming substrate having a predetermined curvature; and performing an anneal process, or an anneal-like high-heat process, on the conductive thin film, wherein the anneal process can cause the flexible substrate to conform to the predetermined curvature of the at least one curved forming substrate. According to an embodiment, the curved forming substrate can include a first forming substrate having a first predetermined curvature and a second forming substrate having a second predetermined curvature complementing the first predetermined curvature.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Seung Jae Hong, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20130293513Abstract: 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. The 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: July 8, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Steve Porter HOTELLING, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20130285240Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Matthew E. LAST, Lili HUANG, Seung Jae HONG, Ralph E. KAUFFMAN, Tongbi Tom JIANG
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Patent number: 8508495Abstract: 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. The 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: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Porter Hotelling, Shih Chang Chang, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 8475872Abstract: Simplified patterning of layers of a thin film is disclosed. In some embodiments, the patterning can include patterning a first conductive layer using a patterned dielectric layer as a mask and patterning a second conductive layer using a patterned passivation layer as another mask. In other embodiments, the patterning can include patterning a first conductive layer using a removable photosensitive layer as a mask, patterning a black mask layer using a removable photo mask, and patterning a second conductive layer using a patterned passivation layer as another mask. In still other embodiments, the patterning can include patterning a first conductive layer using a patterned black mask layer as a mask and patterning a second conductive layer using a patterned passivation layer as another mask. An exemplary device utilizing the thin film so patterned can include a touch sensor panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sunggu Kang, Lili Huang, Steven Porter Hotelling, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20130068505Abstract: Methods for chemically strengthening the edges of glass sheets are provided. Voids can be formed in a mother sheet. The edges of these voids may correspond to a portion of the new edges that would normally be created during separation and free shaping of the mother sheet. The mother sheet can then be immersed in a chemical strengthener. The edges of the voids can be chemically strengthened in addition to the front and back sides of the mother sheet. After thin film processing and separation, each of the resulting individual sheets has been chemically strengthened on both sides and on a portion of its edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Seung Jae Hong, Casey J. Feinstein, Lili Huang, Sunggu Kang, Kuo-Hua Sung, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20130063684Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Cheng Chen, Siddharth Mohapatra, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong, Masato Kuwabara
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Patent number: 8388852Abstract: A method for fabricating a touch sensor panel is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate for the touch sensor panel, depositing a conductive material layer on a top surface of the substrate, depositing a metal layer on top of the conductive material layer, affixing a resist to a first area of the metal layer, the resist also adapted to serve as a passivation layer during passivation, removing metal from the metal layer outside of the first area; and performing passivation on the substrate while leaving the affixed resist intact.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Huang, Siddharth Mohapatra, John Z. Zhong
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Publication number: 20120306771Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to reducing surface reflections on an electronic display device having a touch-screen panel. A touch-screen panel may contribute to undesirable reflection of external light. For example, a touch-screen panel typically includes conductive electrodes which may significantly reflect ambient light, resulting in decreased visibility of displayed images. In some embodiments, a circular polarizer is disposed over a touch-screen panel in the display device. The circular polarizer includes a linear polarizer and a quarter-wave plate to modify the polarization of the external light traveling towards and reflecting from the touch-screen panel and absorbing the reflected light from the touch-screen panel to significantly reduce undesirable light reflections from the touch-screen panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Cheng Chen, EnkhAmgalan Dorjgotov, Kuo-Hua Sung, Lili Huang, John Z. Zhong