Patents by Inventor Kuo-Ming Lai
Kuo-Ming Lai 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).
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Publication number: 20140308099Abstract: A pill picking apparatus includes a main arm, a picking device mounted to the main arm, and a transfer mechanism. The main arm is rotatable about a first axis and defines an opening. The picking device is adapted to pick a pill from a pill box. The transfer mechanism includes a transfer cam being rotatable about a second axis, and a driving wheel mounted to the transfer cam and received in the opening of the main arm. When the transfer cam rotates about the second axis, the driving wheel is rotated about the second axis by the transfer cam and presses an edge of the opening of the main arm, to drive the main arm to rotate about the first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140305233Abstract: A gate release apparatus of an automatic pill dispenser includes a base, a gate, a release assembly, a resisting member, a gear assembly, and a resilient member. The base includes a bottom plate and a ring plate. The ring plate defines an opening. The gate is configured to cover the opening. The gear assembly includes a swing gear. The door includes a rack. The resisting member resists the release assembly in the first position, and the release assembly resists the gear assembly to enable the swing gear to engage with the rack. To disengage from the gear from the gear assembly the release assembly is rotated by the resilient member thereby disengaging the swing from the rack when the resisting member is in a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: PAO-HENG SHEN, KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140305836Abstract: A pill box of an automatic pill dispenser includes a box body receiving a plurality pills, a base, a tray, and a vibration member. The tray is secured to the base. The box body is secured to the tray. The vibration member is located under the tray. The vibration member is vibrated to vibrate the tray and the box body, to separate the plurality of pills.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140305960Abstract: A vibration apparatus in an automatic pill dispensing machine includes a pill box and a vibration unit connected to the pill box. The vibration unit includes a motor, a vibration member and a first cam. The vibration member is connected to the first cam and the pill box. The motor is powered on to rotate the first cam. The first cam resists against the vibration member. The first cam moves the vibration member and the pill box between a first height and a second height. The vibration member vibrates the pill box to separate pills from each other in the pill box when the first cam moves the pill box between the first height and the second height.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: JENG-CHE CHEN, KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140305964Abstract: An automatic pill dispensing machine includes a dialing member, a dialing tray and a releasing member connected to each of the dialing member and the dialing tray. The dialing member includes a transmitting unit, a dialing unit, and a dialing pole movably mounted to dialing unit. At least one slot is defined in the dialing tray. An engaging portion is positioned on the releasing member. The transmitting unit is connected to the engaging portion. When the releasing member rotates, the engaging portion rotates the transmitting unit, the dialing pole drops in and resists against one side in the at least one slot so the dialing tray is rotated by the dialing pole, the dialing pole slides on the dialing member so the dialing member is rotated with the dialing pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140308100Abstract: A pill picking apparatus which can pick up pills from a pill box includes a main arm and a linkage mechanism. The linkage mechanism has a first linkage arm, a second linkage arm, a third linkage arm, and a holder. The first linkage arm and the second linkage arm are pivotally mounted to the main arm. The third linkage arm has a first end mounted to the first linkage arm and a second end pivotally mounted to the second linkage arm. The holder is pivotally mounted to the second linkage arm and holds a picking device for picking a pill from a pill box. When the main arm rotates to a position where the first linkage arm abuts against a first blocking member, the first blocking member drives the first linkage arm to rotate relative to the main arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140309772Abstract: A system for dispensing pills includes an automatic pill dispenser and a data center. The automatic pill dispenser can store different kinds of pills. The data center is connected to the automatic pill dispenser. The data center includes a cloud server, which stores patient's information. The patient's information includes patient's identification information and pill schedule. The automatic pill dispenser gets the pill schedule based on validated identification information, and can select different kinds of pills according to the pill schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: PAO-HENG SHEN, KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20140213675Abstract: A method for producing a biopolymeric material includes milling a non-edible vegetable fiber into a fiber grain; mixing the fiber grain with a solvent to form a slurry; purifying the fiber grain of the slurry to form a purified fiber; esterifying the purified fiber to form an esterified fiber; drying the esterified fiber to form a modified fiber; and mixing the modified fiber with a plastic material to form the biopolymeric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicants: Feng Chia University, POU CHEN CORPORATIONInventors: Shu-Yii Wu, Shih-Chien Chu, Ming-Lei Wang, Chih-Hung Ma, Ying-Ming Lu, Kuo-Ming Lai, Tsung-Hsun Ho
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Publication number: 20140131378Abstract: An automatic pill dispenser includes a chassis, a pill dispensing box located on the chassis, a pill box located on the chassis for a plurality of pills, and a pill fetching assembly. The pill fetching assembly is located on the chassis. The pill fetching assembly includes a driving device and a fetching device. The fetching device includes a boom and an arm assembly. The arm assembly is located on an end of the boom to fetch the plurality of pills from the pill box. The driving device includes a cam adjacent to the boom. The fetching device rotates relative to the chassis in a horizontal plane. The cam urges the fetching device to rotate within a vertical plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventors: CHAO-WEN SHIH, KUO-MING LAI, PEI-YI CHAN
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Publication number: 20140097194Abstract: An automatic pill dispenser includes a chassis, a top cover located on the chassis, a fetch box, a pill box, and a pill fetching device. The pill fetching device includes a rotation arm and a picker. The rotation arm can move into the pill box to fetch a pill and move the picker from the pill box to the fetching box.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Inventor: KUO-MING LAI
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Patent number: 8317186Abstract: A paper delivering device includes a delivering module and a detecting module. The delivering module includes a paper tray for supporting at least one paper, at least one roller attached on the paper tray for delivering the at least one paper, and a blocking member pivotably attached to the paper tray. The detecting module detects whether the at least one paper is placed in a position predetermined as correct. The blocking member is locked at a first position to prevent the sliding movement of the at least one paper when the at least one paper is not placed at the predetermined position, or may be rotated to a second position to allow the forward movement of the at least one paper when the at least one paper is correctly placed.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20120261878Abstract: A paper delivering device includes a delivering module and a detecting module. The delivering module includes a paper tray for supporting at least one paper, at least one roller attached on the paper tray for delivering the at least one paper, and a blocking member pivotably attached to the paper tray. The detecting module detects whether the at least one paper is placed in a position predetermined as correct. The blocking member is locked at a first position to prevent the sliding movement of the at least one paper when the at least one paper is not placed at the predetermined position, or may be rotated to a second position to allow the forward movement of the at least one paper when the at least one paper is correctly placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: KUO-MING LAI
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Publication number: 20070267805Abstract: A document feeding apparatus includes a driven roller and a feed roller rotatable with a drive shaft, an idle roller gearing with the driven roller and a document feeder. The document feeder includes a pick-up roller having a shaft portion, a cam slipping into the shaft portion and a driven gear gearing with the idle roller, a protrusion disposed on the shaft portion, one end of the cam being a spiral shape defining an end thereof, and another end defining a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion thereof, a lump disposed at a lateral of the driven gear. The feeding apparatus keeps in separation of the document from a next feed-in document and prevents the documents from overlapping.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Kuo-Ming Lai, Chin-Teng Huang
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Patent number: 7255339Abstract: A sheet-feeding apparatus with a paper stopper includes a sheet-feeding base having a sheet-placing stand for placing sheets, a roller shell located on the sheet-feeding base having two side walls, a preliminary feeding roller unit and a feeding roller unit contained in the roller shell, a stopper member rotationally attached to the side wall of the roller shell and a follower member rotationally attached to the feeding roller unit and located at the downstream side of the stopper. Before starting a feeding operation, the stopper member is pushed by a sheet in the sheet-feeding base to move forward and presses on the follower member. The follower member would not move any further because the follower member is restricted by an upright wall of the sheet-feeding base.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2006Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Foxlink Image Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ming-Te Hung, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20070158898Abstract: A sheet-feeding apparatus with a paper stopper includes a sheet-feeding base having a sheet-placing stand for placing sheets, a roller shell located on the sheet-feeding base having two side walls, a preliminary feeding roller unit and a feeding roller unit contained in the roller shell, a stopper member rotationally attached to the side wall of the roller shell and a follower member rotationally attached to the feeding roller unit and located at the downstream side of the stopper. Before starting a feeding operation, the stopper member is pushed by a sheet in the sheet-feeding base to move forward and presses on the follower member. The follower member would not move any further because the follower member is restricted by an upright wall of the sheet-feeding base.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Ming-Te Hung, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: D718922Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: D718923Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: D718924Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: D718925Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: D719345Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuo-Ming Lai, Lap-Shun Hui