Patents by Inventor WEN-JUN HSU

WEN-JUN HSU 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: 9112506
    Abstract: A touch panel has multiple first-axis sensing lines and multiple second-axis sub-sensing sets. Each first-axis sensing line has a second-axis sensing set formed therein with multiple second-axis sensing part of the second-axis sensing set spaced apart along the first axis. The second-axis sub-sensing parts at each identical coordinate of the second axis are connected to constitute a second-axis sensing line, and the first-axis sensing lines and the second-axis sensing lines are mutually crossed. As the second-axis sub-sensing parts constituting each second-axis sensing line are separately enclosed in different first-axis sensing lines, the capacitance values of capacitive coupling between the first-axis sensing lines and the second-axis sensing lines are relatively higher and more stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Tao, Wen-Jun Hsu
  • Patent number: 8970523
    Abstract: A two-dimensional capacitive touch panel includes three electrodes made from a single sensor layer, with the first one of the electrodes between the other two of the electrodes to establish mutual capacitances between the first electrode and the other two, respectively. The mutual capacitance between the first and second electrodes increases along a direction, and the mutual capacitance between the first and third electrodes decreases along a direction. The first electrode is applied with an excitation signal for sensing variations in the mutual capacitances to calculate a position in the direction that is touched by an external conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hsing Lin, Wen-Jun Hsu, Yi-Hsin Tao
  • Patent number: 8952922
    Abstract: Two sensing units are configured as an exciter and a sensor connected to two trace lines, respectively, for mutual capacitance sensing from the capacitance units including these two trace lines. The two sensing units connect the two trace lines together to balance them to a same voltage level first, and then disconnect them from each other. Thereafter, the exciter connects the first trace line to an excitation node to induce a charge change on the second trace line, and the sensor senses the charge change to detect the variation of the mutual capacitance between the two trace lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hsing Lin, Yi-Hsin Tao, Wen-Jun Hsu, I-Shu Lee, Shih-Yuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 8698512
    Abstract: A capacitive touchpad includes a plurality of parallel traces configured in a capacitance sensor layout scheme such that the maximum sensor gap is smaller than the sensor pitch to improve the sensor response linearity of the capacitive touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Tao, Chia-Hsing Lin, Wen-Jun Hsu
  • Publication number: 20130299330
    Abstract: A touch panel has multiple first-axis sensing lines and multiple second-axis sub-sensing sets. Each first-axis sensing line has a second-axis sensing set formed therein with multiple second-axis sensing part of the second-axis sensing set spaced apart along the first axis. The second-axis sub-sensing parts at each identical coordinate of the second axis are connected to constitute a second-axis sensing line, and the first-axis sensing lines and the second-axis sensing lines are mutually crossed. As the second-axis sub-sensing parts constituting each second-axis sensing line are separately enclosed in different first-axis sensing lines, the capacitance values of capacitive coupling between the first-axis sensing lines and the second-axis sensing lines are relatively higher and more stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin TAO, Wen-Jun HSU
  • Publication number: 20120256647
    Abstract: A capacitance sensor structure includes a first sensor in a first direction and a second sensor in a second direction for sensing a variation in the mutual capacitance between the first sensor and the second sensor by applying an excitation signal to the first sensor and detecting a response signal from the second sensor. The sensing area of the second sensor is intentionally reduced to be much smaller than the sensing area of the first sensor for noise performance improvement of the mutual capacitance sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin TAO, Chia-Hsing LIN, Che-Hao HSU, Wen-Jun HSU
  • Publication number: 20120256877
    Abstract: A two-dimensional capacitive touch panel includes three electrodes made from a single sensor layer, with the first one of the electrodes between the other two of the electrodes to establish mutual capacitances between the first electrode and the other two, respectively. The mutual capacitance between the first and second electrodes increases along a direction, and the mutual capacitance between the first and third electrodes decreases along a direction. The first electrode is applied with an excitation signal for sensing variations in the mutual capacitances to calculate a position in the direction that is touched by an external conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Hsing LIN, Wen-Jun HSU, Yi-Hsin TAO
  • Publication number: 20120019268
    Abstract: A capacitive touchpad includes a plurality of parallel traces configured in a capacitance sensor layout scheme such that the maximum sensor gap is smaller than the sensor pitch to improve the sensor response linearity of the capacitive touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: YI-HSIN TAO, CHIA-HSING LIN, WEN-JUN HSU
  • Publication number: 20110267312
    Abstract: Two sensing units are configured as an exciter and a sensor connected to two trace lines, respectively, for mutual capacitance sensing from the capacitance units including these two trace lines. The two sensing units connect the two trace lines together to balance them to a same voltage level first, and then disconnect them from each other. Thereafter, the exciter connects the first trace line to an excitation node to induce a charge change on the second trace line, and the sensor senses the charge change to detect the variation of the mutual capacitance between the two trace lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHIA-HSING LIN, YI-HSIN TAO, WEN-JUN HSU, I-SHU LEE, SHIH-YUAN HSU