Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Charles E. Baxley
  • Patent number: 8079238
    Abstract: A lock device includes an actuating lever pivotally engaged in a lock housing for actuating a deadbolt of a latch device, two rotary mechanisms pivotally engaged in the housing and each having a rotary member pivotally engaged in a casing for coupling to an outdoor handle and an indoor handle, and the rotary member of one of the rotary mechanisms is secured to the casing for allowing the rotary member and the casing of the rotary mechanism to be rotated relative to the lock housing with the indoor handle only, and for preventing the outdoor handle from being brutally rotated by the unauthorized persons and for preventing the lock device from being destroyed or damaged by the unauthorized persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Thase Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching Tien Lin
  • Patent number: 8075153
    Abstract: A combination hearing protector and illumination provider, including a right cup, a left cup, a band, a first light source, and a second light source. The right cup covers the right ear of a user. The left cup covers the left ear of the user. The band connects the right cup to the left cup and is worn over the top of the head of the user. The first light source is operatively connected to one of the right cup and the left cup and faces in a direction that is one of forward of the user and rearward of the user. The second light source is operatively connected to one of the right cup and the left cup and faces in a direction that is the other of forward of the user and rearward of the user. The first light source and the second light source illuminate in opposite directions to each other so as to illuminate forward of the user and rearward of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Theodore J. Werner
  • Patent number: 8066018
    Abstract: A hair clip includes two jaws each having a hand grip extended from one end and a connector disposed on a middle portion, and a coupling device having a spring member engaged with the connectors of the jaws for coupling the jaws and the coupling device together and for applying a spring biasing force to bias and force the lugs and one ends of the jaws toward each other, and for allowing the jaws to be forced away from each other and to engage with a hair of a user when the hand grips are forced and depressed toward each other by the user. The jaws each include an opening for anchoring the spring member to the jaws. An elastic member may resiliently couple the lugs of the spring member together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Shih Ling Hsu
  • Patent number: 8068048
    Abstract: A wireless microwave interferer for destructing, disabling, or jamming a trigger of an improvised explosive device. The interferer includes a power source interface, a control and monitoring panel, a waveform generator, a modulated HV power supply, at least one microwave generator, a waveguide to co-ax transformer and combiner, one of an ellipsoidal antenna and a spiral antenna, and an antenna adjustment mechanism. The power source interface interfaces with a power source. The waveform generator is connected to the modulated HV power supply and to the control and monitoring panel. The control and monitoring panel is connected to the power source interface, the modulated HV power supply, and the antenna adjustment mechanism. The modulated HV power supply is connected to the at least one microwave generator. The at least one microwave generator is connected to the waveguide to co-ax transformer and combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Saulius Janusas
  • Patent number: 8067203
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal vaccine directed to progressive atrophic rhinitis (PAR), comprising at least two fragments of recombinant subunit Pasteurella multocida toxins (rsPMT) capable of eliciting the production of antibodies against Pasteurella multocida associated with PAR, and to a method for producing the animal vaccine of the invention, said fragments each having an amino acid sequence that substantially corresponds to the 2-486, 486-986 or 986-1281 amino acid residues of Pasteurella multocida toxin (PMT), respectively. Also disclosed is a multivalent animal vaccine, comprising said fragments as active components against PAR, and at least a pathogenic antigen or epitope thereof associated with other animal disease(s), such as inactivated gE-deleted Pseudorabies virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: National Chung-Hsing University
    Inventors: Maw-Sheng Chien, Cheng-I Liu, Chih-Ming Liao
  • Patent number: 8065777
    Abstract: A centrifugal water separator for mop includes a bucket, a separating device and a drive device respectively mounted in the bucket. A first room, a second room and a third room respectively defined in the bucket, wherein an L-shaped partition is formed in the bucket to separate the third room from the first room and the second room, and the first room laterally communicates with the second room. The separating device includes an axle perpendicularly extending through the partition and a separating trough securely mounted to an upper end of the axle. The drive device includes a pedal mounted thereon for driving the axle with the separating trough when being stepped. The drive device includes a planet gear set sleeved on the axle and connected to the pedal for effectively drive the axle and used as a speed increaser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Yen-Tang Lin
  • Patent number: 8061346
    Abstract: A brick cutter includes a base, a swing arm that has a handle portion, wherein the handle portion has one end pivotally connected to the base and an opposite end formed with a head so that the swing arm is capable of swinging relative to the base, and a chisel that has a cutting portion and a rod portion, wherein the rod portion is coupled with the head of the swing arm. Thereby, when a user holds the swing arm with one hand, and hammers the chisel with a hamper held in the other hand, the hammered chisel impacts a brick so as to cut the brick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Cheng-Hui Tseng
  • Patent number: 8056682
    Abstract: A bicycle brake device includes a holder arm having a pivot shaft for attaching to a rear fork, two brake caliper having middle portions pivotally attached to the end portions of the holder arm, and having brake shoes attached to the lower portions, and a brake cable for selectively forcing the lower portions of the brake calipers and the brake shoes toward each other, the brake calipers may be balanced for effectively forcing the brake shoes to solidly clamp the wheel rim, and a spring biasing device may bias the brake shoes away from each other when the brake cable is released. A coupling device may couple the middle portions of the brake calipers together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Chang Hui Lin
  • Patent number: 8057136
    Abstract: A power tool combination includes a power driving device having a chuck device attached to a barrel for engaging with a driven tool member, a control ferrule engaged onto the barrel, and a non-circular member, and a tool device includes a housing having a bore for receiving the driven tool member, and having a compartment for receiving the barrel, and having a non-circular engaging member for engaging with the non-circular member and for allowing the housing to be rotated by the power driving device. The tool device includes a tool element attached to the housing, and a securing device for detachably attaching the tool element to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Hsin Ying Enterprises Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen Hung Chiang
  • Patent number: 8056190
    Abstract: A buckle device includes a female member having a chamber for receiving a strap, a male member having two tabs for engaging into the chamber of the female member and for detachably coupling the female member and the male member together, and a pressing device engaged into the chamber of the female member and having one end pivotally coupled to the female member with a pivot axle, and having the other end for engaging with the strap and for limiting the strap to move relative to the female member, and the tabs of the male member are engageable with the pressing device for forcing the pressing device to engage with the strap when the tabs of the male member are engaged into the chamber of the female member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Chun-Teng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8056988
    Abstract: A cabinet assembly has at least one cabinet. Each cabinet is a frame and has multiple erect bars, a front board, a rear board, a bottom board, a left opening, a right opening, a wheel assembly and an inner chamber. The wheel assembly is mounted on a lower surface of the bottom board and has multiple wheels and a substrate. The wheels are mounted on the lower surface of the bottom board. The substrate is mounted below the bottom board and contacts to the wheels, allows the wheels to slide on the substrate and holds the cabinet. The inner chamber is formed between the front board, the rear board and the bottom board and communicates with the left opening and the right opening. Therefore, users put the objects from both the left opening and the right opening, so the cabinet assembly is very convenient for the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Hui-Lan Pan
  • Patent number: 8056598
    Abstract: An air cushion maker includes a pair of forming rollers that are provided with recesses and electrothermal wires so that two consecutive plastic films passing between the forming rollers are made into air cushions with geometric puffy air cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Tung-Lung Chiang
  • Patent number: 8057100
    Abstract: A roller holder includes a number of couplers disposed between two longitudinal rods for coupling the rods together and for forming a number of compartments to receive rolling members, and two retaining devices disposed in each compartment of the roller holder and attached to the rods for retaining the rolling members in the compartments and between the rods and the couplers of the roller holder, and for preventing the retaining devices from being impacted by the rolling members, the retaining devices each include a projected portion located above the rods and a protruded portion located below the rods and the couplers for engaging with the rolling members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Tsung-Jen Chen, Chia-Huei Chiou
  • Patent number: 8056179
    Abstract: A centrifugal water separator for mop includes a bucket including a first chamber and a second chamber respectively defined therein. The first chamber and the second chamber are separated from each other. A separating trough is rotatably mounted in the second chamber in the bucket. A driving device is mounted in the first chamber in the bucket for driving the separating trough. A handle is pivotally mounted to the bucket. An indentation is defined in the handle and co-axially corresponding to the separating trough for holding the mop during separating water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Hsing Yuan Hsu
  • Patent number: D648749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Patent number: D648750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Patent number: D648751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Patent number: D648752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Patent number: D648753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Patent number: D648868
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: DBM Reflex of Taiwan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Hwa Chou