Patents by Inventor ABRAHAM C. LEE

ABRAHAM C. LEE 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: 9216338
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf tee foldable, through rotation, in a direction of a drive swing to prevent breakage and loss and increase the drive shot distance. The golf tee comprises a ball platform; a supporting pillar; a coupling ball; and a ball coupling portion having a fixation pin. The ball coupling portion has two quarter-spherical shells symmetrically facing each other, separated by a contoured crevice of a uniform width defined by two opposing top edges of the shells. The two shells define a generally hemispherical receptacle for holding the coupling ball therein, which is open partially through the crevice and through a horseshoe-shaped bottom opening formed by two bottom edges of the shells. The crevice is sized and configured such that at a drive swing, the supporting pillar, being restricted by the two shells, moves only along the crevice, and thereby rotates and folds only in a single plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Inventors: Abraham C. Lee, John D. Lee
  • Patent number: 8936521
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf tee foldable, through rotation, in a direction of a drive swing to prevent breakages and loss and increase the drive shot distance. The golf tee comprises a ball platform; a supporting pillar connecting the ball platform to a coupling ball; and a ball coupling portion having a fixation pin. The ball is coupled to the ball coupling portion via an elongate burrow circumferentially defined on the outer surface of the ball, which mates with an elongate ridge formed on a hemispherical inner surface of the ball coupling portion. At the stroke of a drive swing, the burrow slides over the relatively shorter ridge to allow rotation of the coupling ball and supporting pillar, causing the golf tee be fold in a direction of the drive swing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Inventor: Abraham C. Lee
  • Publication number: 20140378247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf tee foldable, through rotation, in a direction of a drive swing to prevent breakages and loss and increase the drive shot distance. The golf tee comprises a ball platform; a supporting pillar connecting the ball platform to a coupling ball; and a ball coupling portion having a fixation pin. The ball is coupled to the ball coupling portion via an elongate burrow circumferentially defined on the outer surface of the ball, which mates with an elongate ridge formed on a hemispherical inner surface of the ball coupling portion. At the stroke of a drive swing, the burrow slides over the relatively shorter ridge to allow rotation of the coupling ball and supporting pillar, causing the golf tee be fold in a direction of the drive swing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: ABRAHAM C. LEE