Patents by Inventor Shih-Ming Lin

Shih-Ming Lin 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).

  • Publication number: 20130246821
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a serial interface transmitting method utilized in a serial interface for connecting between a master controller and a peripheral device. The serial interface transmitting method comprises receiving a saving power signal from the master controller, a peripheral clock source and a serial interface clock source for generating a clock source selection result, switching an operational mode of the peripheral device according to the clock source selection result, and transmitting a datum to a peripheral-device register or a serial interface register according to the saving power signal and the operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hui-Hung Chang, Chun-Ching Huang, Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20130229774
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided, and the electronic device includes a main body, an actuating module, a first linkage, a first casing and a thermal dissipating module. The actuating module is disposed in the main body. One side of the first linkage is connected with the actuating module. The first casing is connected with the other side of the first linkage. One side of the thermal dissipating module is disposed at the main body and the other side of the thermal dissipating module is disposed at the first casing. The actuating module controls the first linkage to rotate to separate the first casing from the main body so that the thermal dissipating module is exposed from the main body and the electronic device is switched from a closed state to an open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: ASUSTek COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Hua CHEN, Shih-Kun CHOU, Yen Tse LIU, Shih-Ming LIN
  • Patent number: 8522854
    Abstract: An operating device for rotating a winding roller of a window blind, includes an upright rotating shaft rotatable to cause rotation of the winding roller and having a thread segment, a sleeve shell movably surrounding the thread segment, a carrier disposed within the sleeve shell to be movable axially between pressed and non-pressed positions to hold a force transmitting member that is engaged with the thread segment, and a rotation preventing unit disposed between the sleeve shell and the carrier so as to transmit an axially manual force applied to the sleeve shell to move the carrier axially so as to rotate the rotating shaft through engagement of the force transmitting member with the thread segment in the pressed position, thereby winding up a window covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20130192774
    Abstract: A safety window blind device includes a bottomrail movable relative to a headrail to raise or lower a window shade therebetween, and a pair of lifting cords each having a vertical cord segment which runs between the headrail and the bottomrail and which is coupled with the bottom rail so as to be displaced therewith between states of long-length and short-length. A reel unit is coupled with a biasing unit to generate an incrementally increased biasing force for counteracting the weight of the bottomrail. With such structure, a sudden and inadvertent falling of the bottomrail can be prevented once the lifting cords are released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20130032301
    Abstract: An efficient light-blocking curtain fabric material includes two fabric layers, an intermediate film sandwiched between the fabric layers; and at least one non-light transmissive layer formed on at least one surface of the intermediate film. Preferably, the non-light transmissive layer is formed on the intermediate film by electroplating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventor: Shih-Ming LIN
  • Publication number: 20130025805
    Abstract: An operating device for rotating a winding roller of a window blind, includes an upright rotating shaft rotatable to cause rotation of the winding roller and having a thread segment, a sleeve shell movably surrounding the thread segment, a carrier disposed within the sleeve shell to be movable axially between pressed and non-pressed positions to hold a force transmitting member that is engaged with the thread segment, and a rotation preventing unit disposed between the sleeve shell and the carrier so as to transmit an axially manual force applied to the sleeve shell to move the carrier axially so as to rotate the rotating shaft through engagement of the force transmitting member with the thread segment in the pressed position, thereby winding up a window covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Shih-Ming LIN
  • Publication number: 20120280072
    Abstract: A string-guiding structure for an automatic curtain-reeling device in accordance with the present invention substantially has an arc guiding frame pivotally attached at an entrance for a string corresponding to a connecting pin to make the string extending via a limiting space defined between the arc guiding frame and the connecting pin. Therefore, the string is trimmed and depressed to avoid being seized caused by over-rebound or swing of the string and to make the string to work smoothly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8297332
    Abstract: An auto winding mechanism for a window blind includes two guide rollers pivotally mounted between an upper seat and a lower seat and connected by an elastic winding tape, and two pull cords wound around the pull cords. Each of the guide rollers has a gear and a bottom disk. The upper seat has a covering edge surrounding the gear of each of the guide rollers. The lower seat has a surface provided with two annular grooves to receive the bottom disk of each of the two guide rollers. Thus, each of the pull cords is protected by the bottom disk of each of the guide rollers so that when the pull cords swing or bump during movement, each of the pull cords will not be jammed between the lower seat and each of the guide rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8281842
    Abstract: A window blind assembly includes a roller blind unit, a curtain member unit, and a clamping unit. The roller blind unit includes a roller rod that extends horizontally and that is rotatably mounted at or in proximity to an upper edge portion of the window, and a roller blind piece a top edge of which is connected to the roller rod and which is able to be wound around and extended from the roller rod. The curtain member unit includes a curtain member having a sheltering portion and a plurality of partitioning portions. The clamping unit includes a plurality of connecting members associated respectively with the partitioning portions. Each of the connecting members has a confining portion, and two securing portions connected to opposite ends of the confining portion and that connect the confining portion to a respective one of the partitioning portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20120241103
    Abstract: A window blind assembly includes a top rail, a drawable curtain unit, a protective netting, and a pull cord unit. The drawable curtain unit is hung from the top rail, and has a curtain section with a cord-connecting part. The protective netting is hung from the top rail, is disposed at one side of the drawable curtain unit, and includes a fabric net that defines a cord space. The pull cord unit includes at least one connecting section extending into the cord space and being connected securely to the cord-connecting part of the curtain section of the drawable curtain unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming LIN
  • Publication number: 20120241101
    Abstract: A safety roman blind includes a shielding web unit disposed rearwardly of a blind curtain and having a web sheet attached to the blind curtain at a plurality of attached and attaching spots arranged along fold lines, and a casing disposed on the web sheet to receive and shield a pulled cord segment of a lift cord so as to prevent strangulation accidents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming LIN
  • Publication number: 20120227180
    Abstract: A combination bed includes a front frame, a rear frame spaced from the front frame, two front rails each having a first end connected with the front frame, two rear rails each having a first end connected with a second end of a respective one of the two front rails and a second end connected with the rear frame, and a plurality of connecting bars mounted between the two front rails and mounted between the two rear rails. Thus, the front frame, the rear frame, the two front rails, the two rear rails and the connecting bars can be connected with or detached from each other so that the combination bed is assembled and disassembled easily and quickly, thereby facilitating a user assembling and disassembling the combination bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Chung, Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20120193461
    Abstract: An auto winding mechanism for a window blind includes two guide rollers pivotally mounted between an upper seat and a lower seat and connected by an elastic winding tape, and two pull cords wound around the pull cords. Each of the guide rollers has a gear and a bottom disk. The upper seat has a covering edge surrounding the gear of each of the guide rollers. The lower seat has a surface provided with two annular grooves to receive the bottom disk of each of the two guide rollers. Thus, each of the pull cords is protected by the bottom disk of each of the guide rollers so that when the pull cords swing or bump during movement, each of the pull cords will not be jammed between the lower seat and each of the guide rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20120193488
    Abstract: A support device for a notebook computer includes an upright post, two connecting arms pivotally connected with each other, a lifting member mounted on the upright post and pivotally connected with a first one of the connecting arms, an adjusting member pivotally connected with a second one of the connecting arms, a connecting block pivotally connected with the adjusting member, and a support rack mounted on the connecting member. Thus, the connecting arms can be pivoted relative to each other and can be moved relative to the upright post to adjust the leftward and rightward angles of the support rack, while the support rack can be moved relative to the connecting arms to adjust the upward and downward angles of the support rack, so that the inclined angle of the support rack can be adjusted freely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Chung, Shih-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8205658
    Abstract: An operating device for rotating a winding roller of a window blind, includes an upright rotating shaft rotatable to cause rotation of the winding roller and having thread segments, a sleeve shell surrounding the rotating shaft, upper and lower coupling members anchored on the sleeve shell and each having grip ends and cammed surfaces confronting the thread segments and the sleeve shell, and an actuating member having a camming surfaces disposed to be moved upward or downward to make an upper or lower friction engagements between the upper coupling member and rotating shaft, and between the lower coupling member and the rotating shaft for rotating the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20120148822
    Abstract: A curtain fabric includes at least one first region including a plurality of non-twisted main fiber bundles extending in a warp direction, and at least one second region including a plurality of first fiber bundles extending in the warp direction and connected respectively to the main fiber bundles, and a plurality of second fiber bundles crossing and interweaving with the first fiber bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming LIN
  • Patent number: 8186411
    Abstract: A window blind assembly includes a roller blind unit, a curtain member unit, and a clamping unit. The roller blind unit includes a roller rod that extends horizontally and that is rotatably mounted at or in proximity to an upper edge portion of the window, and a roller blind cloth a top edge of which is connected to the roller rod and which is able to be wound around and extended from the roller rod. The curtain member unit includes a folding curtain cloth a top edge of which is mounted at or around the upper edge of the window. The clamping unit includes a connecting clamp that extends horizontally, and has a first clamping portion that clamps onto the folding curtain cloth and a second clamping portion that clamps onto the roller blind cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8186412
    Abstract: A window blind window blind includes a winding roller rollably mounted a window to lift or lower a roll-up piece, a blind curtain disposed forwardly of the roll-up piece and having elongate loop members, and a plurality of modular clip devices. Each loop member defines a lengthwise hole, and has an anchoring head portion having an access slot, marginal and gripped regions disposed at two sides of the lengthwise hole. Each clip device includes a grip body and a holding tongue. The grip body has loop-side and roll-up piece-side gaps to form a middle gripping finger portion, and internal and external gripping finger portions. The internal gripping finger portion and the holding tongue are placed in the lengthwise hole by virtue of inserting through the access slot to abut against the gripped and marginal regions, respectively. The roller-up piece is snugly engageable in the roll-up piece-side gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20120111819
    Abstract: A placement rack includes a rear frame, two side plates pivotally connected with the rear frame, a front panel pivotally connected with the two side plates, and a bottom plate pivotally connected with the rear frame and abutting the front panel. Thus, the placement rack can be folded to have a smaller volume to decrease the cost in packaging, storage and transportation of the placement rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Chung, Shih-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 8136462
    Abstract: A shelving unit includes a support frame and a plurality of support boards each detachably mounted on the support frame. The support frame includes a first support bracket, a second support bracket located opposite to the first support bracket, two connecting braces each pivotally mounted between the first side of the first support bracket and the first side of the second support bracket, and a connecting plate having a first side pivotally mounted on the second side of the first support bracket and a second side detachably mounted on the second side of the second support bracket. Thus, the shelving unit can be assembled and disassembled easily and quickly without using tools, thereby facilitating a user on saving a considerable amount of time and inconvenience to assemble the shelving unit. In addition, the shelving unit can be folded before assembly facilitates on reducing the cost of packaging, transportation and storage of the shelving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Ming Lin