Patents by Inventor Lin An

Lin An 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).

  • Device and method for compensating timing offset
    Patent number: 8050366
    Abstract: A method and OFDM receiver for estimating timing offset are provided. The method includes receiving OFDM data to calculate frequency offset between a transmitter carrier frequency and a receiver carrier frequency, determining first timing offset based on the frequency offset, compensating the OFDM data with the first timing offset, estimating a residual common phase based on the compensated OFDM data, determining second timing offset based on the residual common phase, and compensating the OFDM data with the second timing offset, if the frame symbol index exceeds the predetermined data length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chia-Tsung Lin, Yung-Yih Jian, Jen-Yuan Hsu, Pang-An Ting
  • Eyelash curling apparatus
    Patent number: 8047212
    Abstract: An eyelash curling apparatus includes a frame, a curved plate, a movable plate and a latch plate. The frame has a slide slot and a fixing hole on both sides. The curved plate has an insert portion at both ends for fixing the curved plate with the frame. The movable plate has at least one protruding lump corresponding to the slide slot, and can slide on the frame by means of the protruding lumps. The movable plate includes a plurality of transverse partitions with a thickness smaller than the thickness of the movable plate and a plurality of transverse opening each disposed between two adjacent transverse partitions. The movable plate has a clamp pad. If the movable plate is moved along the slide slot, the transverse partitions abuts the curved plate, and the clamp pad abuts the curved plate for curling an eyelash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Mei-Chi-Na Hsinyen Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Su-Lin Lin
  • High temperature metal mold and procedure for making the mold
    Patent number: 8047259
    Abstract: A mold, comprising: a substrate, the substrate having an inside surface and an outside surface; and a ceramic coating formed on at least substantially the entire inside surface, the ceramic coating comprising chromic oxide, silicon dioxide, and alumina. A method for making the present mold is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Li Long, De-Bao Ma, Chao-Hsun Lin, Da-Wei Ding, Yong-Gang Zhu
  • Self-assembly pattern for semiconductor integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8048795
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided which includes providing a substrate. A material layer is formed over the substrate. A polymer layer is formed over the material layer. A nano-sized feature is self-assembled using a portion of the polymer layer. The substrate is patterned using the nano-sized feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Lin Lee, Clement Hsingjen Wann, Ching-Yu Chang
  • Drilling rig drawworks installation
    Patent number: 8047303
    Abstract: Methods and systems for installing a drawworks on a drilling rig, the method, in certain aspects, including moving a drawworks on movement apparatus on the ground adjacent a drill floor of a rig, connecting the drawworks to the drill floor, moving the movement apparatus away from the rig, and raising the drill floor with the drawworks thereon using raising apparatus of a rig substructure supporting the drill floor. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Benjamin Donnally, Chunqiao Ren, Stuart Arthur Lyall McCurdy, Xi Lin Liu, Hui Chun Sheng, Yan Yu
  • Optoelectronic device
    Patent number: 8049242
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device such as a light-emitting diode chip is disclosed. It includes a substrate, a multi-layer epitaxial structure, a first metal electrode layer, a second metal electrode layer, a first bonding pad and a second bonding pad. The multi-layer epitaxial structure on the transparent substrate comprises a semiconductor layer of a first conductive type, an active layer, and a semiconductor layer of a second conductive type. The first bonding pad and the second bonding pad are on the same level. Furthermore, the first metal electrode layer can be patterned so the current is spread to the light-emitting diode chip uniformly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Jin-Ywan Lin, Jen-Chau Wu, Chih-Chiang Lu, Wei-Chih Peng, Ching-Pu Tai, Shih-I Chen
  • Heat dissipation device
    Patent number: 8050035
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a heat sink and a cooling fan arranged thereon. The cooling fan includes a motor-stator and an impeller mounted around the motor-stator. The motor-stator is arranged on a middle of the heat sink. The heat sink includes a base and a plurality of fins extending upwardly from the base. The heat sink defines a plurality of notches incising the fins. The notches are angled towards the middle of the heat sink immediately under the motor-stator of the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye-Fei Yu, Shu-Yuan Xu, Xin-Xiang Zha, Lin Yang, Jun Ding, Jer-Haur Kuo
  • Electron emission device
    Patent number: 8049401
    Abstract: An electron emission device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a gas, a sealant, and a phosphor layer is provided. The first substrate has a cathode thereon, and the cathode has a patterned profile. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate and has an anode thereon. The sealant is disposed at edges of the first substrate and the second substrate to assemble the first and second substrates. The gas is disposed between the cathode and the anode and configured to induce a plurality of electrons from the cathode, wherein the pressure of the gas is between 10 torr and 10?3 torr. The phosphor layer is disposed on the moving path of the electrons to react with the electrons so as to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Po-Hung Wang, Jung-Yu Li, Shih-Pu Chen, Yi-Ping Lin, Yen-I Chou, Ming-Chung Liu
  • Electric motor
    Patent number: 8049391
    Abstract: A multi-pole PMDC motor has brush gear for transferring electrical power from motor terminations to its windings via a commutator. The brush gear comprises a brush card supporting at least four brush assemblies. The brush assemblies are separated into two brush groups with the brush assemblies of each group being electrically connected together by links of flexible wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: James Ching Sik Lau, Duncan Yiu Lung Wong, Chang Lin Jin, Aloys J. Liu
  • Touch panel
    Patent number: 8049735
    Abstract: A touch panel has a first substrate and a second substrate. The thickness in the non-sensor regions of the first substrate is greater than the thickness in the sensor regions of the first substrate. The second substrate includes first photo spacers and second photo spacers having substantially the same heights. The first photo spacers are structurally connected to the non-sensor regions of the first region of the first substrate, and the second photo spacers are positioned corresponding to the sensor regions of the first substrate that maintain a first gap with the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hung Lee, Po-Yuan Liu, Ching-Huan Lin, Min-Feng Chiang, Mei-Sheng Ma
  • Method for testing a high-speed digital to analog converter based on an undersampling technique
    Patent number: 8049650
    Abstract: A method for testing a digital to analog converter, which operates in an undersampling environment, wherein signals of a tested DAC and a signal generator are modulated by a PWM device and then processed by a digital processing circuit to generate a digital signal, whereby is formed a low-speed equivalent ADC. The signal generator is provided by uniform-distribution random test patterns, and the signal generator generates an uniform-distribution random analog signal to the equivalent ADC. Thereby, the test error caused by the non-ideality of the signal generator is corrected, and the tested circuit can work in a full speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Lin, Cheng-En Ho
  • Server availability reporting using asynchronous e-mail message
    Patent number: 8051135
    Abstract: A method and system for reporting availability of a plurality of servers. The method comprises the steps of for each of said plurality of servers, periodically searching a log file for indication of a crash or shutdown or start, computing the time said crash or shutdown or start occurred, and sending said time and indication as an e-mail to a database on a server. The method further comprises the steps of calculating the duration of downtime for each said crash or said shutdown; for each server, sorting said e-mail by order received; and displaying for each of said plurality of servers, said duration of downtime in said order. For example, the sending step includes the step of sending said e-mail to a database on a pre-identified one server; and the sorting step includes the step of sorting said e-mail by order received by said pre-identified one server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Berry A. Cobb, Jiyu Lin
  • Method and apparatus for removing radiation side lobes
    Patent number: 8048588
    Abstract: A method and structure for removing side lobes is provided by positioning first and second radiation transparent regions of respective first and second phases at a first plane with the first and second phases being substantially out of phase. Further, positioning the first and the second region to cause radiation at a second plane to be neutralized in a first region, not to be neutralized in a second region, and to have a side lobe in a third region. Further, positioning a non-transparent region at the first plane to assure radiation at the second plane to be neutralized in the first region and positioning a third radiation transparent region of the first or second phase at the first plane to neutralize the side lobes in the third region at the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sia Kim Tan, Soon Yoeng Tan, Qunying Lin, Huey Ming Chong, Liang-Choo Hsia
  • Data preserving method and data accessing method for non-volatile memory
    Patent number: 8051339
    Abstract: A data preserving method and a data accessing method for a non-volatile memory are provided. In the data preserving method, a data is checked according to an error correcting code (ECC) to obtain an error bit number of the data. When the error bit number is greater than a threshold, the data is moved from a first memory unit to a second memory unit and is corrected according to the ECC. Thereby, the data stability of the non-volatile memory is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: ITE Tech. Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Hsun Sung, Yu-Lin Hsieh
  • Method for smoothing a surface of an optical element with laser
    Patent number: 8048344
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for smoothing a surface of an optical element with a laser. Firstly, an optical element having a rough surface is provided. Next, the rough surface of the optical element is illuminated with a laser. The rough surface absorbs laser energy and melts into a liquid. The liquid is stretched and planarized by the surface tension of the rough surface and then solidifies into a smooth surface. The present invention can smooth the surface of an optical element and promote the resonant or waveguide performance of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Ching-Fuh Lin, Shih-Che Hung, Shu-Chia Shiu
  • Performance-aware logic operations for generating masks
    Patent number: 8051392
    Abstract: A method for forming masks for manufacturing a circuit includes providing a design of the circuit, wherein the circuit comprises a device; performing a first logic operation to determine a first region for forming a first feature of the device; and performing a second logic operation to expand the first feature to a second region greater than the first region. The pattern of the second region may be used to form the masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lee-Chung Lu, Chung-Te Lin, Yen-Sen Wang, Yao-Jen Chuang, Gwan Sin Chang
  • Network-based lighting equipment remote monitoring and management system
    Patent number: 8049592
    Abstract: A network-based lighting equipment remote monitoring and management system is proposed, which is designed for use with a network system to allow the user to carry out monitoring and management tasks on one or more remotely-located lighting equipment systems in a real-time manner via the network system. The proposed system is characterized by the provision of a user-operated network-based real-time monitoring and management function for remotely-located lighting equipment, the capability to provide efficient and cost-effective management in the utilization of lighting equipment for saving energy and cost, and the capability to provide real-time warning of abnormal operating conditions of the lighting equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Huan Wang, Shu-Fen Lin, Shiue-Juan Liao, Chun-Hung Huang, Chien-Yuan Chen
  • Automatic beverage maker
    Patent number: 8047124
    Abstract: An automatic beverage maker is provided. The automatic beverage maker is configured for storing raw materials of various hot drinks in vacuum, grinding the raw material of a hot drink to be made into powder with a grinding module, displacing an inlet cover at an upper end of a steeping chamber with a translational transport module so as to introduce the powder of the raw material of the hot drink to be made into the steeping chamber, and guiding hot boiled water in an internal water tank to drip into the steeping chamber, thus forming a convenient hot drink making mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Uni-Splendor Corp.
    Inventor: Yu-Yuan Lin
  • Cup cover
    Patent number: D647753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Inventor: Shin-Sheng Lin
  • Plug connector
    Patent number: D647854
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jui-Pin Lin