Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Alfred Lei
  • Patent number: 5618124
    Abstract: A universal wiper arm connector including a U-shaped body having an upper arm formed with two flanges, two shoulders, a first and second tongues having a protuberance thereon, a lower arm provided with a third tongue having a protuberance thereon, and an axle perpendicular to the U-shaped body, whereby the universal wiper arm connector can be slid into a U-shaped end of wiper arms of different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Inventor: Liang-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 5617607
    Abstract: A rubber blade assembly for a windshield wiper, including a casing, two master blade holders pivoted to the casing to hold two assistant blade holders and a rubber blade, wherein the casing has a cowling which protects the rubber blade against the radiation of sunlight and gives a downward pressure to the rubber blade against the windshield upon the bearing of the force of thy wind, an elongated mounting slot longitudinally disposed at the cowling in the middle for mounting a connector, which connects the casing to a wiper drive arm, a plurality of circular recesses at two opposite ends of the cowling for bearing the force of thy wind, and a transverse pivot hole in the middle below the cowling and connected between two opposite pivots holes of the connector by pivot means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Inventor: Liang-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 5615604
    Abstract: A personal cooking appliance including a container having a first recess, a first edge surrounding the recess, a timer mounted on a front side of the container, a switch installed on a front side of the container, a pair of lugs each having an elliptical opening, and two grips mounted on respective lateral sides of the container, a first heater arranged within the container and electrically connected with said timer and the switch, a rectangular lid having a second recess, the second recess being less than the first recess in depth, a second edge surrounding the first recess, a third edge surrounding a front and two lateral sides thereof, a pair of ears each having a pin adapted to fit into the elliptical opening, a protective plate provided on a front side of the lid, and a handle fixedly mounted on the protective plate, and a second heater arranged within the container and electrically connected with the timer and the switch, whereby the personal cooking appliance is particularly fit for a bachelor living i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Inventor: Yueh-Kung Chenglin
  • Patent number: 5614002
    Abstract: In an air purifying apparatus having a housing formed with a recess in which are fitted a static activated carbon panel and a high voltage dust collecting panel, the improvement wherein said high voltage dust collecting panel includes a plurality of cross bars and ventilation slits therebetween, said cross bars being coated with a high conductive and oxidation resistant alloy powder to form anodes and cathodes which are respectively connected to the positive pole and negative pole of a high voltage generating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Inventor: Tze L. Chen
  • Patent number: 5613413
    Abstract: A handle for a hand tool, including a hollow handle body and a cover covered on the handle body at the bottom, wherein the handle body has a bottom chamber, an inside annular groove around the bottom chamber, a hexagonal coupling hole longitudinally disposed at the front end in communication with the bottom chamber, a transverse hole perpendicularly extending from the hexagonal coupling hole to the periphery, and a springy strip suspending in the transverse hole adjacent to the hexagonal coupling hole, the springy strip having a raised portion facing the hexagonal coupling hole for holding down a driving shaft in the hexagonal coupling hole for holding a tool bit; the cover has a plurality of split upright barrels for holding tool bits, two arched connecting walls connected between the split upright barrels, and a circular chamber defined within the arched connecting walls for holding a driving shaft, each of the split upright barrels having a transverse rib forced into engagement with the inside annular groo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Inventor: Chiu-Hua Huang
  • Patent number: 5611551
    Abstract: A collapsible working chair including a flat base equipped with swivel wheels for moving on the ground, the flat base having a recessed top side divided by a partition plate into a front open chamber for keeping tools and tool accessories, and a rear open chamber for receiving a seat, and two pairs of mounts symmetrically fixedly mounted in the rear open chamber; a seat supported on the flat base; and two pairs of folding collapsible supports connected between the mounts of the flat base and the seat, and set between the working position to support the seat above the flat base and the collapsed position to receive the seat within the rear open chamber of the flat base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Inventor: Jin-Chuang Lin
  • Patent number: 5609169
    Abstract: A hair clip which includes a clip base and a clamping leaf with a finger strip at one end, wherein the clamping leaf has two hollow cylindrical coupling portions at two opposite ends, each hollow cylindrical coupling portion having a longitudinal mouth and projection at one side of the mouth; the clip base has two transverse coupling rods at two opposite ends respectively forced into the mouth of the clamping leaf, each transverse coupling rod having a coupling groove for engagement with the projection of the respective hollow cylindrical coupling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventor: I-Chien Yang
  • Patent number: 5609171
    Abstract: A lipstick molding mold cleaning apparatus including a water level controller to automatically control the level of water in a washing tank, a plurality of sensors to detect the position of the lipstick molding mold under cleaning, and sets of nozzles controlled by the sensors to respectively wash the lipstick molding mold with washing water, clean the lipstick molding mold with detergent, rinse the lipstick molding mold with rinsing water, and dry the lipstick molding mold with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventor: Fu-Chin Kuo
  • Patent number: 5607750
    Abstract: An automobile mat including an upper layer formed with a plurality of arrow-shaped recesses and diamond-shaped recesses arranged alternately and extending obliquely and downwardly through the upper layer to form a larger open top, and a lower layer attached to a bottom of the upper layer, whereby the mat can prevent the automobile occupant's shoes from slipping and collect the sand and dirt from the automobile occupant's shoes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventor: Yaw-Tyng Liou
  • Patent number: 5605054
    Abstract: An apparatus for reclaiming refrigerant including a distillation tank, an eliminator arranged within an upper portion of said distillation tank, a booster connected to an upper end of the distillation tank for extracting refrigerant vapor from the distillation tank, a heat exchanger connected to the booster, a heat pump for transferring condensing heat from the heat exchanger to the distillation tank, and an air/water/refrigerant separator connected to the heat exchanger, whereby the apparatus can effectively reclaim refrigerant and separate air and water from the refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Chief Havc Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuo-Fu Chen
  • Patent number: 5603455
    Abstract: A deodorizer container including a casing, an inner container fitted into the casing and designed for receiving liquid deodorizer, the inner container being provided with a spray nozzle at a top thereof, and an evaporation controller including an outer tube and an inner tube rotatably fitted into the outer tube, the outer tube being formed with a plurality of perforations, the outer tube being provided at an end with a cylindrical portion communicated with the outer tube through a slot, the cylindrical portion being adapted to receive the spray nozzle of the inner container, whereby the evaporation rate of the liquid deodorizer in the deodorizer container can be controlled as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Inventor: Shi Huang Lin
  • Patent number: 5601096
    Abstract: An ashtray including a cylindrical center upright wall defining a cylindrical storage chamber and having a plurality of radial top dents, a cylindrical intermediate upright wall concentrically raised around the cylindrical center upright wall and defining with it an annular chamber and having a plurality of radial top dents corresponding to and below the elevation of the radial top dents of the cylindrical center upright wall, a cylindrical outer upright wall concentrically raised around the cylindrical intermediate upright wall and defining with it an annular chamber and having a plurality of radial top dents corresponding to and above the radial top dents of the cylindrical center upright wall and the cylindrical intermediate upright wall, and an outward flange raised around the periphery of the cylindrical outer upright wall and curving smoothly outwardly upwards, the cylindrical outer upright wall having a plurality of openings spaced around the periphery below the top dents thereof above the connecting a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Inventor: Hsi H. Lin
  • Patent number: 5600984
    Abstract: A device for bending tubes including a platform, a feeding mechanism having a sliding seat, a pair of lugs, and a chuck, a chuck controlling mechanism having a direction controller and a chuck driving gearing, an idle gear pivotally mounted on the sliding seat and constantly meshed with the feeding mechanism, and a bending mechanism having a right roll die, a left roll die, an upper roll die, and lower roll die each of which has a recess around a circumference thereof adapt to the shape of a tube to be bent, whereby a tube can be conveniently bent into a spiral or a curve as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Inventor: Reen-Yuan Sheen
  • Patent number: 5599066
    Abstract: A backrest adjusting structure including a backrest having a retractable shaft transversely disposed near a bottom side thereof and a stop adapted for stopping the retractable shaft from rotary motion, the retractable shaft having two fixed gears at two opposite ends; two guide tubes disposed in parallel and spaced from the backrest at two opposite sides, each of the guide tubes having a longitudinal series of locating holes; fasteners adapted for securing the guide tubes in place; and two sliding sleeves respectively and slidably mounted around the guide tubes, each of the sliding sleeves having an internally toothed socket raised from the periphery and engaged with one of the fixed gears, and a radial through hole adapted for connecting to one of the locating holes of the corresponding guide tube, a locating rod balanced on an upright lug and forced by a spring into engagement with the radial through hole and one of the locating holes of the corresponding guide tube, and a press button controlled to release
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Inventor: Chen C. Chih
  • Patent number: 5595085
    Abstract: An aluminum extruding machine which includes four guide rods connected between two opposite upright blocks above the machine base, a fixed die holder, a material carrying barrel moved on the guide rods relative to the die holder to carry molten aluminum, a push member with a tubular plunger moved along the guide rods to extrude molten aluminum out of the die holder, a center rod moved by a cylinder through the material carrying barrel into the center of the die holder to define an annular cavity within the die holder for the passing of extruded molten aluminum, and a cutter assembly driven by a cylinder to cut off extruded aluminum tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Inventor: Wu-Hsiung Chen
  • Patent number: 5593259
    Abstract: A motor scooter packaging case including a rectangular base frame having four side portions each having a first longitudinal recess open at a top, a rectangular upper frame having four side portions each having a second longitudinal recess open at a bottom, a rectangular front side frame having a lower end fitted within the first longitudinal recess of the rectangular base frame and the second longitudinal recess of the rectangular upper frame, a rectangular rear side frame having a lower end fitted within the first longitudinal recess of the rectangular base frame and the second longitudinal recess of the rectangular upper frame, a rectangular left side frame having a lower end fitted within the first longitudinal recess of the rectangular base frame and the second longitudinal recess of the rectangular upper frame, a rectangular right side frame having a lower end fitted within the first longitudinal recess of the rectangular base frame and the second longitudinal recess of the rectangular upper frame, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Shin Yowu Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hui-Kuei Kuo
  • Patent number: 5591242
    Abstract: A smoke processor including a housing having a recess, an exhaust fan arranged with the housing, a filter mounted within the housing and located above the exhaust fan, a smoke processing container fitted in the recess of the housing, a flexible pipe connecting the smoke processing container with the filter, a cigarette lighter mounted in the smoke processing container, a linking rod having an upper end pivotally connected with the smoke processing container, a rotating disc rotatably connected with a lower end of the linking rod, and a fixed disc engaged with the rotating disc and mounted within the housing, whereby the smoke exhaled by the smoker can be effectively purified thus preventing air pollution,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Inventor: Chi L. Kuo
  • Patent number: 5590770
    Abstract: A CD bank which includes a case, a transparent cover hinged to the case, and a plurality of individual CD holder plates mounted inside the case to hold individual compact disks respectively, wherein the case has two longitudinal rails bilaterally disposed on the inside, and longitudinally spaced pairs of transverse grooves respectively made on the longitudinal rails; the individual CD holder plates are respectively pivotably mounted in the longitudinally spaced pairs of transverse grooves between the longitudinal rails, each individual CD holder plate having a half-round recess for holding an individual compact disk, an extension board extending from the diameter of the half-round recess, an opening at the periphery of said half-round recess for the insertion of the thumb, an index groove at the extension board for mounting an index sticker, a plurality of retaining lugs suspending above the half-round recess and spaced around the border thereof for holding down an individual compact disk within the half-roun
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Inventor: Sheng-Fu Yeh
  • Patent number: D377491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Inventor: Peter Chou
  • Patent number: D378293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventor: Peter Chou