Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Charles E. Baxley
  • Linear actuator having quick-release mechanism
    Patent number: 8156834
    Abstract: A linear actuator with a quick-release mechanism allows the unpowered, loaded linear actuator to immediately return to its initial position by operating a rotatable involute cam of the quick-release mechanism. The quick-release mechanism is connected with a remote monitoring system so the current position of the linear actuator can be detected from a distant place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hiwin Mikrosystem Corp.
    Inventors: Hsin-An Chiang, Jin-Cheng Lin
  • Foldable paper coffin
    Patent number: 8151421
    Abstract: A foldable paper coffin includes a casket having a chamber formed by two side walls and two end walls and a bottom wall, and formed with a planar paper sheet having two side panels foldable relative to a bottom panel, two inner panels foldable relative to the side panels, two end panels foldable relative to the bottom panel, two inner folds foldable relative to the end panels, and the end panels and the inner folds each have two foldable end flaps engageable between the inner panels and the side panels, and the side panels and the inner panels and the end flaps each include one or more orifices for engaging with latches and for retaining the casket in a spatial or three-dimensional structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventors: Liang Le Hsu, Kun Zhang Lin
  • Scupper joint for ship
    Patent number: 8146951
    Abstract: A scupper joint for a ship includes a body and a nut. The body has a tubular structure as a piece cut from a seamless tube. The tubular structure has a first section and a second section. The first section has a flange at one end thereof as an evagination and a threaded segment at an outer periphery thereof. The second section has at least one annular protrusion at an outer periphery thereof. The nut has an annular structure. The tubular structure has an end evaginated to form a flange and has an inner wall threaded to form a threaded segment. The threaded segment of the nut and the threaded segment of the first section are configured to couple with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Marine Town Inc.
    Inventor: Chin-Chung Tung
  • Scroll compressor having rearwardly directed fluid inlet and outlet
    Patent number: 8147230
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a chamber formed in a casing and a compartment formed in a rearward end, a fixed scroll mounted within the casing and having a spiral scroll element extended from a base plate, and an orbiting scroll rotatably disposed in the casing, and having a spiral scroll element extended from a carrier plate and arranged to form a line contact between the spiral scroll elements, and the fixed scroll includes an inlet mouth and a fluid passage formed through the base plate, and the casing includes an inlet port and an outlet port formed in the rearward end for easily and quickly coupling to the tubings of the vehicle with pipings without bending or folding the pipings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Headlight rotating device for vehicle
    Patent number: 8147107
    Abstract: A headlight rotating device includes a carrier pivotally and slidably supported in a housing for supporting a light device, a lever supported in the housing and coupled to the carrier for pivoting and sliding the carrier relative to the housing, and a motor is disposed in the housing and coupled to the lever for rotating the lever to pivot and slide the carrier relative to the housing and for rotating the headlight device of the vehicle in accordance with the movement of the vehicle's steering system and for suitably lighting the environment for the vehicle driver while turning the vehicle, the carrier is adjustable or movable forwardly or rearwardly relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Jing Hang Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien Hung Lee, San Chi Chang, Yu Kai Chen
  • Remote control ball assembly
    Patent number: 8137152
    Abstract: A remote control ball assembly includes a housing, an actuating device having a circuit board disposed in the housing and having a processing device and a signal receiving device attached to the circuit board, two motors each include a wheel attached to a spindle and contacted with the housing, and a radio transmitter includes another processing device and an angle detector and a signal emitting device attached to another circuit board for detecting a status of the radio transmitter and for emitting the status signal to the signal receiving device, which then actuates the motors and the wheels to operate or to move the housing on land and on water without being operated by the fingers of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fun Tram Corporation
    Inventor: Iin Wei Tsai
  • Window or door frame having brace device
    Patent number: 8136300
    Abstract: A frame includes a seat attached to a lower beam, and an anchor attached to an upper beam and having a pivotal catch tongue, a tubular member has a lower portion detachably engaged with the seat and having an upper latch shaft for engaging with the catch tongue and for detachably locking the latch shaft and the tubular member to the anchor, a follower is slidably attached to the tubular member for disengaging the catch tongue from the latch shaft, a lock device is secured to the tubular member and includes an actuating shank having a rocker arm for moving the follower to disengage the catch tongue from the latch shaft, and for preventing the tubular member from being disengaged from the anchor by unauthorized persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Thase Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching Tien Lin
  • Vehicle head light device
    Patent number: 8132947
    Abstract: A vehicle head light device includes an inner housing attached to front of an outer housing and having an upper casing and a lower casing located within the outer housing, and the casings each include a reflective member, two circuit boards are attached to the casings and each include one or more light members directed toward the reflective members for generating lights toward the reflective members which reflect the lights to form a high beam and a low beam respectively, a control device is disposed in the outer housing and electrically coupled to the circuit boards for controlling the light member to generate the lights toward the reflective members of the casings respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventor: Jen Shieh Shih
  • Motion guide apparatus
    Patent number: 8132478
    Abstract: A motion guide device includes a ball nut attached onto a shaft and having helical grooves for receiving ball bearing elements, and a ball coupler including a flexible coupling member having a number of openings formed between spacers for receiving ball bearing elements, the ball bearing element is contacted with the ball nut at a contact point which is spaced from the inner peripheral surface of the ball nut for a spacing distance, and the ball bearing element is contacted with the screw shaft at a contact point which is spaced from the outer peripheral surface of the screw shaft for a spacing distance that is preferably smaller than the spacing distance between the contact point of the ball bearing element and the ball nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Yan Yu Chen
  • Back support
    Patent number: D657062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventor: Pang-Ching Chiang
  • Back support
    Patent number: D657063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventor: Pang-Ching Chiang
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657385
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657387
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657390
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu
  • Cap for air compressor
    Patent number: D657392
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry C. Chu