Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Raymond Y. Chan
  • Patent number: 6675413
    Abstract: A lightweight bottom wall structure for playyard, pen, and cot, which includes a boundary frame constructed to support a fabric made boundary shelter, wherein the lightweight bottom wall includes a bottom frame supported at a bottom portion of the boundary frame and defines a central window. A bottom wall includes a first layer having a tension surface and a second layer overlapped with the first layer to define a receiving groove between the first and second layers, wherein the bottom frame has a size and shape adapted to be fittedly received in the receiving groove so as to mount the first layer covering the central window to form the tension surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Inventor: Ben M. Hsia
  • Patent number: 6677941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and system for three-dimensional (3D) relative positioning and tracking, utilizing a range image and reflectance image producer including a laser dynamic range imager (LDRI), wherein a complete suite of unique 3D relative positioning and tracking algorithms and processing methods, including cross plane correlation, subpixel tracking, focal length determination, Kalman filtering, and orientation determination, is employed to take full advantage of the range information and reflectance information provided by the LDRI to provide relative position and orientation of a target to simultaneously provide the 3-D motion of multiple points of a target without the necessity of using multiple cameras and specific targets and the relative attitude of the target with respect to a carrier of the LDRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: American GNC Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Fang Lin
  • Patent number: 6672188
    Abstract: A frame structure for a power saw machine that includes a main frame, supporting frame, and collecting tray. The main frame includes first and second main arms in a parallel manner, a main post vertically supported by the first main arm, and a supporting shaft horizontally extending from a top portion of the main post for rigidly supporting a power saw assembly. The supporting frame includes a supportive column downwardly extending from the main post, a pair of support pillars extending from a bottom end of the supportive column to the first main arm at a predetermined angle, and a support arm extending from the bottom end of the supportive column to the second main arm. The collecting tray includes a receiving cavity for supporting the supporting frame so as to substantially support the main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: Wy Peron Lee
  • Patent number: 6671648
    Abstract: A micro inertial measurement unit, which is adapted to apply to output signals proportional to rotation and translational motion of a carrier, respectively from angular rate sensors and acceleration sensors, is employed with MEMS rate and acceleration sensors. Compared with a conventional IMU, the processing method utilizes a feedforward open-loop signal processing scheme to obtain highly accurate motion measurements by means of signal digitizing, temperature control and compensation, sensor error and misalignment calibrations, attitude updating, and damping control loops, and dramatically shrinks the size of mechanical and electronic hardware and power consumption, meanwhile, obtains highly accurate motion measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: American GNC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiram McCall, Ching-Fang Lin
  • Patent number: 6669465
    Abstract: A piezoelectric lighter includes a safety lock for preventing the piezoelectric lighter from being accidentally or undesirably ignited, especially by children. The safety lock includes a locking member which includes a pair of guiding arms and is slidably mounted on the ignition button of the piezoelectric lighter for switching between a locked state and an unlocked state of the piezoelectric lighter. In the locked state, the pair of guiding arms are adapted to bias against a top surface of a pair of sliding grooves formed inside a supporting frame of the lighter respectively for restricting a downward movement of said ignition button. Whereas in the unlocked state the pair of guiding arms are adapted to align with said pair of sliding grooves respectively, so that the pair of guiding arms and the ignition button can slide downwardly along the pair of sliding grooves respectively for activating a piezoelectric unit inside the lighter casing to ignite the piezoelectric lighter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: John Jiin Chung Yang
  • Patent number: 6671622
    Abstract: A vehicle self-carried positioning system, carried in a vehicle, includes an inertial measurement unit, a north finder, a velocity producer, a navigation processor, a wireless communication device, and a display device and map database. Output signals of the inertial measurement unit, the velocity producer, and the north finder are processed to obtain highly accurate position measurements of a vehicle on land and in water, and the vehicle position information can be exchanged with other users through the wireless communication device, and the location and surrounding information can be displayed on the display device by accessing a map database with the vehicle position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: American GNC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiram McCall, Ching-Fang Lin
  • Patent number: 6668064
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an earphone without impulse noise and surroundings blockade consists of an earphone housing having a sound chamber inside thereof and a loudspeaker mounted therein, wherein a plurality of sound outlet meshes is mounted in the front end of the earphone housing, and a proper distance is given between the front end of the earphone housing and the loudspeaker mounted therein, wherein a plurality of sound inlet meshes is mounted on and encircled the earphone housing within the proper distance; and the lower impulse noise output end according to two output ends of the loudspeaker is faced to the sound outlet meshes; via the design, the present invention can prevent not only the impulse noise directly impact to the middle ear but also the damage of the middle ear and the cause of conductive hearing loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Inventor: Chung Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 6666152
    Abstract: A foldable banquet table includes a tabletop and a pair of table supporting frames mounted thereunder. The tabletop includes a top panel, a bottom panel overlappedly mounted to the top panel and defined a receiving cavity between the top and bottom panels, and a reinforcing frame which is received in the receiving cavity including a pair of reinforcing arms longitudinally positioned at two side edge portions of the receiving cavity respectively and at least two transverse supports spacedly connected between the two reinforcing arms. The table supporting frames are foldably mounted to the reinforcing frame at the bottom panel and adapted to fold in a folded position that the table supporting frames are pivotally and inwardly folded toward the bottom panel of the tabletop, and in the unfolded position, the table supporting frames are pivotally and outwardly folded to perpendicular to the tabletop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Inventor: Frank Tsai
  • Patent number: 6662686
    Abstract: An automatic motor-output-redirection system includes an automatic motor-output-redirection mechanism and a motor control unit for controlling the automatic motor-output-redirection mechanism which includes a turntable base arranged to be driven to rotate by a motor assembly. A primary Output shaft is coupled with the motor assembly in rotatable movable manner. A second idle gear is rotatably supported on the turntable base to couple with the primary output shaft. A plurality of the planetary output shafts are coaxially supported by the casing at positions around the turntable assembly, wherein the primary output shaft is arranged to drive the second idle gear to move between an engagement position that one of the planetary output shafts is driven to rotate and a disengagement position that each of the planetary output shafts is in an idle manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Kwok Hung Chan
  • Patent number: 6665438
    Abstract: An efficiently hybrid approach to exploit hyperspectral imagery and unmix spectral pixels. This hybrid approach uses a genetic algorithm to solve the abundance vector for the first pixel of a hyperspectral image cube. This abundance vector is used as initial state in a robust filter to derive the abundance estimate for the next pixel. By using Kalman filter, the abundance estimate for a pixel can be obtained in one iteration procedure which is much fast than genetic algorithm. The output of the robust filter is fed to genetic algorithm again to derive accurate abundance estimate for the current pixel. The using of robust filter solution as starting point of the genetic algorithm speeds up the evolution of the genetic algorithm. After obtaining the accurate abundance estimate, the procedure goes to next pixel, and uses the output of genetic algorithm as the previous state estimate to derive abundance estimate for this pixel using robust filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: American GNC Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Fang Lin
  • Patent number: 6663382
    Abstract: A safety lighter includes two wheels axles coaxially supported on two sides of a spark wheel respectively. Two driving wheels, each having a receiving cavity provided on an out side of said driving wheel, are supported by two driven bodies of the wheel axles respectively wherein each driving wheel is adapted for turning on the respective driven body in a free rotating manner. Two positioning discs are disposed in the receiving cavities of the two driving wheels and firmly supported by the two driven bodies of the two wheel axles respectively wherein the positioning discs are adapted to hold the two driving wheels in position respectively, so as to prevent lateral movements of the driving wheels with respect to the wheel axles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Kin Chung Li
  • Patent number: 6663310
    Abstract: The primary object of the present of invention is to provide a button binder in which paper or sheets can be easily retained and moved out, which exclude the above-mentioned disadvantages. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the button binder includes several buttons, connection pieces, pulling pieces, a front sheet, a rear sheet and strips. An appropriate number of the buttons are fixed on the appropriate position on the binder, such as on the left portion or top portion of the rear sheet. The buttons mainly compromises a cap and a post. The cap has an axial hole. The post is capable of engaging in the axial hole of the cap and being fastened tightly. Punched papers or sheets can be hold by the post under the cap. When paper in the button binder is opened, there is big force to open the buttons. In order to secure the paper tightly, the buttons are designed to be opened only in a proper direction or site, and the buttons can not be opened in non-proper direction or site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Nanlin Han
  • Patent number: 6659764
    Abstract: A palm actuation lighter includes two elongated actuation arms having two opposed outer side gripping surfaces respectively wherein a piezoelectric unit is positioned between the side gripping surfaces. The actuation arms are arranged to compress the piezoelectric unit by a compression force applied on the side gripping surfaces so as to ignite the palm actuation lighter. Therefore, the actuation arms function as a physical barrier to prevent a hand of a child from compressing the piezoelectric unit while an adult is able to compress the actuation arms by using at least two fingers and a thumb of the adult on the side gripping surfaces respectively so as to ignite the palm actuation lighter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Zreative Products Inc.
    Inventor: Wen Xu
  • Patent number: 6659408
    Abstract: A free size automatic watch display holder includes an upper holder providing an arc shaped upper supporting surface, a lower holder providing an arc shaped lower supporting surface, and an extendable supporting frame mounted between the upper and lower holders. The supporting frame includes an upper support member transversely extended from an inner surface of the upper holder, a lower support member transversely extended from an inner surface of the lower holder, and a movable operating frame including a base, having a slider slot, upwardly extended from the lower support member and a slider arm which is downwardly extended from the upper support member and arranged to slidably insert into the slider slot such that by frictionally sliding the slider arm along the slider slot so as to selectively adjust a distance between the upper and lower holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Inventors: Kinsen Ka Fai Au, Kin Keung Chiu
  • Patent number: D483502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Inventor: Se Kit Yuen
  • Patent number: D484693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nationalpak Limited
    Inventor: Kinsen Ka Fai Au
  • Patent number: D484696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nationalpak Limited
    Inventor: Kinsen Ka Fai Au
  • Patent number: D485008
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: Peter Chen
  • Patent number: D485019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: Kinsen Ka Fai Au
  • Patent number: D485434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nationalpak Limited
    Inventor: Kinsen Ka Fai Au