Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Charles E. Baxley
  • Patent number: 8205715
    Abstract: A muffler combination includes two pipe units each having a cylindrical shell and having an entrance and an exit, an inlet tube connected to the entrance, an outlet tube connected to the exit, and a housing engaged in each of the cylindrical shells, the housings each include three openings formed on one side and two orifices formed on the other side, the cylindrical shells are disposed parallel to each other, and the entrance and the inlet tube of one of the cylindrical shells is located closer to the exit and the outlet tube of the other cylindrical shell whose entrance and inlet tube are located closer to the exit and the outlet tube of the cylindrical shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventor: Jhen Yang Lai
  • Patent number: 8202120
    Abstract: A high frequency socket connector has an insulating housing, a mounting bracket, multiple first terminals, multiple second terminals and a shell. The first and second terminals are mounted in the insulating housing, are capable of implementing USB 3.0 protocol. The shell covers the insulating housing and terminals. Each of the terminals has a SMT soldering section adapted to SMT soldering processes. All the SMT soldering sections are arranged in a transverse row to make the socket connector compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Chih Ko
  • Patent number: 8197152
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser includes a hollow shank, a dispensing head longitudinally mounted to a first end of the hollow shank, a control device longitudinally mounted to a second end of the hollow shank and a sheath detachably mounted to the first end of the hollow shank for protecting the dispensing head after use. A passage is defined in one end of the hollow shank for communicating with an inner periphery of the hollow shank and the dispensing head such that the liquid contained in the hollow shank can flow into the dispensing head. The control device is provided to selectively close/open the passage for controlling the output quantity of the liquid dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Shang Chuan Wu
  • Patent number: 8193752
    Abstract: An actuator assembly having an operation indication function is disclosed. The actuator assembly includes an actuator, a controller and an indication lamp set. The actuator has a motor, a screw, and an extension rod, which has limit positions connected with a limit switch set. The controller controls the motor of the actuator to rotate clockwise or anticlockwise. The indication lamp set is settled on at least one point on a circuit between the actuator and the controller and electrically communicated with the limit switch set. Thereby, when the extension rod touches any of the limit positions and thus triggers the limit switch set, the indication lamp set illuminates to indicate that the extension rod of the actuator reaches the corresponding limit position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Hiwin Mikrosystem Corp.
    Inventor: Shie-Li Jan
  • Patent number: 8191185
    Abstract: A holder device may be attached to a water outlet tube which is extended from a wall, without drilling holes in the wall, and includes a housing having an inlet attached to the water outlet tube, and two or more outlet ports for coupling to a shower head and a sprayer nozzle, a base having a spring-biased latch for clamping the pipe to the base, a seat slidably attached onto the pipe for adjustably and removeably supporting the sprayer nozzle. The housing includes a casing having a chamber for receiving a valve stem, and a spring-biased valve member received in the valve stem to control the water to flow out through the outlet ports of the housing, and a knob secured to the valve stem to rotate the valve stem relative to the casing and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Inventor: Pi Kuang Tsai
  • Patent number: 8192261
    Abstract: A football game machine includes a goal device divided into multiple strike areas that respectively indicates different score marks. Each strike area has multiple pressure sensor mounted therein. Two casing mounted to two opposite sides of the goal device. Each casing has an inner side having a series of photoelectric cells mounted thereon. The football game machine can calculate the speed of the flying ball by using the time difference of the photoelectric cells and the pressure sensor. A display device is mounted on the goal device for displaying the total scores and the speed of the flying ball. A ball recycle device is mounted in one of the two casings. A football is connected to the ball recycle device via a rope. The ball recycle device can recycle the ball when the game is finished and release the rope before playing the ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Inventor: Yi-Chiang Yang
  • Patent number: 8188821
    Abstract: A linear solenoid includes a pair of soft iron pole members which are in a spaced apart linear arrangement. A permanent magnet is attached to the end of a plunger which rides between the pole members. When a first of two electro-magnet coils is energized the plunger which is latched to one of the pole members is repelled to the opposite pole member and latched. When the second coil is energized the plunger returns to the original pole member and is latched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Inventor: Victor Nelson
  • Patent number: 8181664
    Abstract: A releasing valve for an inflatable object has a body, a valve disk and a cap. The body is body and has a passage and a disk mount. The passage is defined through the body and has a bottom opening. The valve disk is attached securely to the bottom of the body to close the bottom opening of the passage and has a mounting end and a free end. The mounting end is mounted securely on the disk mount of the body. The free end is opposite to the mounting end. The cap is attached to the body around the bottom opening, holds the valve disk inside and has a stop. The stop selectively engages the free end of the valve disk when the valve disk being pushed away from the bottom opening for discharging air out from the inflating object via the releasing valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Dongguan Tiger Point, Metal & Plastic Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Chung Tsai
  • Patent number: 8177968
    Abstract: A filter cup assembly includes a first cup having a one-way valve connected to a center of the underside of the first cup 10 and a filtering part is connected to the underside of the first cup. An adaptor is connected between the filtering part and a second cup. A presser includes a pressing plate connected with a rod, the pressing plate is inserted into the first cup to force contaminated water in the first cup to pass through the one-way valve, the filtering part and is collected in the second cup. All of the parts are threadedly connected to each other so that they can be separated individually. The first cup is sized to receive the second cup, the filtering part and the adaptor when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Te-Hsing Wang
  • Patent number: 8179239
    Abstract: This specification discloses a driving safety auxiliary network administration system and the method thereof. Vehicles in motion communicate with each other about their geographical locations and current moving states within a communication range. At least one of the vehicles in the communication range becomes the router of several other vehicles that are at dead corners of wireless communications. The router is responsible for transferring vehicle state signals of those vehicles out of direct communications between them. Therefore, all the vehicles in the communication range are not blocked by terrains, buildings or other vehicles. All of them are taken into account to assess and find possible dangerous vehicles. This technique can effectively solve the problem of dead corners in driving safety auxiliary network communications. Highly important packets can be immediately and reliably transmitted to the corresponding vehicles, providing efficient warnings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Bo-Chiuan Chen, Liang-Yu Ke
  • Patent number: 8172726
    Abstract: A doorway mounted horizontal bar includes a rod having two ends for attaching to two side moldings of a doorway, two frames attached to the end portions of the rod for supporting a tubular member, and two auxiliary supports each having a lower segment attached to the rod and each having an upper handle attached to the upper end of the frame for being grasped by the user, the lower segments of the auxiliary supports are each attached to the rod with a coupling device, and the handles of the auxiliary supports are each attached to the frame with another coupling device, the coupling devices each include a quick release fastening device for detachably securing the coupling devices and the auxiliary supports to the rod and the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignees: Expectations, LLC, Inversion International, Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher Henry Leier
  • Patent number: 8166982
    Abstract: A hair barrette includes two barrette members each having an outer head engaging end and an ear extended from an inner coupling end, and a coupling device includes two coupling members disposed above and below the ears and having two pivot axles for pivotally coupling the ears between the coupling members and for allowing the barrette members to be folded to an opened working position where the barrette members are opened and oppositely spaced from each other for forming or operating as a hair barrette device, and to be folded relative to each other to a folded storing position where the barrette members are engaged with each other for forming or operating as a hair clip device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Inventor: Shih Ling Hsu
  • Patent number: 8162358
    Abstract: A lock device includes a casing formed in a housing for rotatably receiving a rotary member which has an actuating finger and which is coupled to a handle with a driving shank, and a spring biasing device attached to the housing and engaged with the actuating finger of the rotary member for biasing the handle back to an original position and for biasing the actuating finger of the rotary member back to an original position when the handle is released, the spring biasing device is locked to the housing with a fastener to disengage the follower from the actuating finger of the rotary member when a spring biasing member is engaged between the handle and the housing to bias the handle back to an original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Thase Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching Tien Lin
  • Patent number: D659168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventor: Chun Lan Chen
  • Patent number: D659169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventor: Chun Lan Chen
  • Patent number: D659170
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventor: Chun Lan Chen
  • Patent number: D659171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventor: Chun Lan Chen
  • Patent number: D661532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Lien-Fu Chen
  • Patent number: D661869
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Ju-Chung Chang
  • Patent number: D662402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Next Products (USA), LLC
    Inventor: Jacques Elkaim