Mobile device having gas-sensing function

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10101291-B2
Application number	US-201615364177-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2016
Priority date	Mar 11, 2016
Publication date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018

Abstract

A mobile device having a gas-sensing function including a case body, a backlight module and a gas sensor is provided. The case body has at least one through hole. The backlight module is disposed in the case body. The gas sensor is disposed in the case body. The gas sensor includes a gas-sensing material layer for sensing a gas. The gas-sensing material layer receives a visible light emitted from the backlight module and is activated by the visible light.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile device having a gas-sensing function, comprising:
a case body having at least one through hole;
a backlight module disposed in the case body; and
a gas sensor disposed in the case body and comprising a gas-sensing material layer for sensing a gas, wherein the gas-sensing material layer receives a visible light emitted from the backlight module and is activated by the visible light, and an existence of the gas is determined by measuring a change of a resistance value of the activated gas-sensing material.

2. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one through hole comprises a through hole of a loudspeaker, a through hole of a microphone, or an air guide through hole of the mobile device.

3. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein the backlight module has a light guide plate, the light guide plate comprises a light emitting surface, a light incident surface, a sub-light emitting surface, and a bottom surface, the light emitting surface is disposed opposite to the bottom surface, the light incident surface is disposed opposite to the sub-light emitting surface, and the gas sensor is coupled to the sub-light emitting surface of the light guide plate or disposed at a back surface of the backlight module.

4. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein an energy gap of the gas-sensing material layer is 1.24 eV to 12.4 eV.

5. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the gas-sensing material layer comprises metal oxide or grapheme oxide.

6. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 5 , wherein the metal oxide comprises tungsten oxide or iron oxide.

7. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein a method of forming the gas-sensing material layer comprises a three dimensional printing method, an inkjet printing method, a gravure printing method, a screen printing method, a flexo printing method, or an offset printing method.

8. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein a gas sensed by the gas sensor comprises volatile organic compounds or carbon dioxide.

9. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein the gas sensor further comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are separate from each other and connected to the gas-sensing material layer.

10. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein the gas sensor further comprises a filter membrane, wherein the filter membrane covers the gas-sensing material layer.

11. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 10 , wherein a material of the filter membrane comprises a nanoporous material, and the nanoporous material comprises polymers or anodic aluminum oxide.

12. The mobile device having the gas-sensing function according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile device comprises a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a portable game machine, or a portable music player device.

Assignees

• Winbond Electronics Corp

Inventors

• Ho Yu-Hsuan

Classifications

• H04M2250/12

  including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion · CPC title

• H04M1/21

  Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads · CPC title

• G01N27/125 Primary

  Composition of the body, e.g. the composition of its sensitive layer · CPC title

• G01N27/127

  comprising nanoparticles · CPC title

• G01N33/0036 Primary

  specially adapted to detect a particular component (physical analysis of gaseous biological material G01N33/497) · CPC title