Patents Represented by Attorney Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC
  • Patent number: 8295510
    Abstract: An power-saving amplifying device is disclosed, the power-saving amplifying device uses a micro controller unit (MCU) to receive a control signal transmitted by a volume controller and to generate a decision signal based on the control signal; the MCU transmits the decision signal to the volume controlling circuit for obtaining a drive signal, then the volume controlling circuit transmits the drive signal to a power amplifier for driving a speaker to output a sound with a required volume; the MCU also calculates an output value of a PWM signal and transmits the PWM signal to a DC integrating circuit for rectifying and integrating the PWM signal into a DC voltage; the DC voltage is coupled with a voltage control terminal of the power supply to increase or decrease the DC voltage outputted by the power supply to the power amplifier, thereby reducing power consumption by using the volume to control the output voltage of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sound Cheers Limited
    Inventor: Chi-Lien Lin
  • Patent number: 8294298
    Abstract: A redundant power supply device, particularly the one without installing a heat dissipating fan, includes a chassis having at least one power input accommodating space and a plurality of power output accommodating spaces, a back panel device comprising a back panel, which is a printed circuit board mounted onto the chassis, a plurality of power supply devices installed in the power output accommodating spaces and electrically connected to the back panel, at least one power input module inserted into the power input accommodating space for providing an external AC-to-DC or DC-to-AC conversion and electrically coupling the back panel. During an application without changing the back panel, the power input accommodating space is disposed opposite to the external input power supply, and the power input includes at least one power input module with AC-to-DC or DC-to-AC conversion to achieve high interchangeability, economic benefit and product competitiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Portwell Inc.
    Inventor: Shang-Sheng Yang
  • Patent number: 8293166
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing lamp shell to improve structural strength and light penetration includes steps of: providing a plastic material, injecting the plastic material into a injection molding equipment to form a preform containing a first space with an opening and a connecting section at one end and a closed another end to form a light penetrating section, and placing the preform in a blow molding equipment and blowing the plastic material by injecting gas to inflate the preform through gas pressure to form a second space at a greater size than the first space to become a lamp shell. The lamp shell thus formed has a greater structural strength to meet safety requirements, and also provides improved light penetration, and can reduce material consumption of the lamp shell to save production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Sheng-Yi Chuang
  • Patent number: 8294326
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor has a laminated stator core 10 formed from a plurality of stacked laminations, and a stator winding formed from a plurality of coils 20 wound on bobbins 30. The stator core 10 has a plurality of teeth 40 which extend radially and alternately spaced between and connected to circumferentially extending yokes 50. The yokes and the teeth are separately formed with each yoke 50 being a stack of yoke laminations 12 and each tooth 40 being a stack of tooth laminations 14. The teeth 40 are inserted through the bobbins 30 and arranged in a cylindrical form with each tooth 40 extending radially. Yokes 50 are then fixed between radially outer ends 144 of adjacent teeth to complete the radially outer portion of the stator core. Each tooth 40 has a radial location surface 144b which contacts an inner surface of the adjacent yokes 50. The yokes 50 and teeth 40 are fixed together by welding the yokes 50 to the outer ends 144 of the teeth 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Ji Dong Chai, Bao Ting Liu, Wen Liang Li, Zhi Duan Shao
  • Patent number: 8292465
    Abstract: A lamp includes a housing, a heat sink, a light emitter, a fan and a blocking ring. The housing includes first and second shells, with the first shell forming a light-transparent portion and a first engaging portion. An air outlet portion is formed in a wall of the first shell, with the second shell forming a second engaging portion and a base. An air inlet portion is formed in a wall of the second shell. The heat sink includes a base plate and a plurality of fins defining a compartment. Each of the fins has first and second ends. The light emitter is electrically connected to the base. The blocking ring is mounted inside the housing. The blocking ring has two sides forming first and second flanges. The blocking ring further includes a side forming a protrusion ring and partially covering an outer periphery of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electronic Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Chih-Hao Chung, Heng-Yu Hu, Ming-Tsung Li
  • Patent number: 8289683
    Abstract: A casing for all-in-one electronic devices includes a main body and a rail assembly. The main body has a bottom surface and a through hole disposed opposite to the bottom surface. The through hole communicates an interior of the main body. The rail assembly has a guide member and a slide member. The guide member is disposed in the main body, and extends toward the through hole. The slide member is movably combined with the guide member to be moved in a longitudinal direction to pass through the through hole, so as to protrude out of the main body. A display is fixed to one end of the slide member to be driven by the slide member, so as to change a height of the display relative to the bottom surface of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Aopen Inc
    Inventor: Jo-Chiao Wang
  • Patent number: 8288914
    Abstract: A electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a housing and a plurality of magnets fixed to an inner surface of said housing by a frame member. The magnets are embedded in the frame member. A plurality of first grooves are formed in an outside peripheral surface of the frame member, each of said first grooves extending axially from one axial surface of said frame member and having a axial length smaller than the axial height of said frame member. The housing has a plurality of first anchors formed on its inner surface, each of the first anchors engaging with a corresponding one of the first grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Xin Hui Guan, Yi Jing
  • Patent number: 8290065
    Abstract: The invention discloses an image processing system comprising a video source system, a transmission medium, and a television system. The image processing systems of the video source system and the television system are equipped with an additional digital-to-analog converter and an additional analog-to-digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Jui-Yuan Tsai, Chao-Hsin Lu
  • Patent number: 8288905
    Abstract: A motor for HVAC applications, has a stator; a motor housing forming a part of the stator; an end cap fixed to the motor housing, and a rotor rotatably mounted confronting the stator. The end cap has an opening formed by a ring-shaped collar, the collar being at least partly disposed inside the motor housing. A plurality of projections on an outer circumferential surface of the collar are received in a plurality of receiving cutouts in the motor housing. Two fingers formed at the opening of each receiving cutout are deformed to lock the received projection inside the respective receiving cutout. At least three of the projections being pressed against the axially inner end of the respective receiving cutout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Fa Yun Qi
  • Patent number: 8286524
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a force transmission structure comprising a drive plate and a shaft, and a gear train connecting the motor to the drive plate for transmitting rotation of the motor to the drive plate. The drive plate has a mounting hole with at least three sections interconnected with one another at a common area, the shaft has a toothed portion with at least three teeth fittingly received in the sections of the mounting hole of the drive plate such that the shaft is rotated with the drive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: Xian Tang
  • Patent number: 8287191
    Abstract: A blocking member is sized and shaped to be installed beneath a trigger or triggers of a duplex connector. The blocking member prevents depression of the trigger(s) of the duplex connector and hence prevents depression of latches to release the plugs of the duplex connector from mated receptacles. The blocking member does not block actuation of the latches of the duplex connector. Through the use of a tool, the trigger(s) may be bypassed and the latches operated directly by the tool to release the plugs of the duplex connector when mated to receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Nielson, Bradley S. Billman
  • Patent number: 8289634
    Abstract: An image capture lens module includes a first compound lens with a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side. A second compound lens includes a fourth lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side. A cover glass for an image sensor is positioned behind the second compound lens, wherein the first compound lens, the second compound lens and the cover glass are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Visera Technologies Company Limited
    Inventors: Jau-Jan Deng, Yun-Chiang Hsu
  • Patent number: 8286974
    Abstract: An easy-to-assemble multipurpose pushbike includes a frame having a handlebar at one end, a through hole on the middle and a locating member disposed in the through hole, a front wheel pivotally coupled to the other end of the frame, two arched boards each having a mounting portion disposed at one end and inserted into the through hole of the frame, a pivot holder disposed at the other end and two positioning matching means disposed at the mounting portion and selectively attached to the locating member, a rear wheel set pivotally coupled to the pivot holder of each arched board, and a seat having a seat pad and a seat stem supporting the seat pad and fixedly mounted between the arched boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventors: Hsin-Ta Chen, Hsing-Hung Chen, Ya-Fen Chen
  • Patent number: D668956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Finlandia Vodka Worldwide Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenneth Hirst
  • Patent number: D669157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Grohe AG
    Inventors: Paul Flowers, Patrick Speck, Kirstin Bengard
  • Patent number: D669158
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Grohe AG
    Inventors: Paul Flowers, Patrick Speck, Kirstin Bengard
  • Patent number: D669173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfram Becker, Peter Eisenkolb
  • Patent number: D669174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Makowski, Tönis Pilvisto, Viktor Josef Wimmer
  • Patent number: D669199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Fleda Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Jui-Chien Chuang
  • Patent number: RE43761
    Abstract: A jitter measuring method and device, which is capable of measuring jitters in serial digital signal without high-frequency reference clock. The jitter measuring device comprises a rough length measuring unit for measuring rough length for each pulse of the serial digital signal according to a reference clock, and a phase error measuring unit for measuring the phase errors between the edges of the reference clock and the serial digital signal by multi-phase clocks, which are generated by a multi-phase generator according to the reference clock. The jitter measuring device computes the precise length according to the rough length and the phase error, and measures the jitters from the precise length by filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Yang Chao, Szu-Shan Lo