Patents Represented by Attorney Varndell & Varndell, PLLC
  • Patent number: 6213815
    Abstract: A multimedia electric connector includes a casing holding a circuit board, a RJ45 connector connected to the circuit board and extended out of the casing at a front side for insertion into a module jack in a wall plate, two audio signal connectors and a video signal connector respectively connected to the circuit board and extended out of a respective hole on the casing at a rear side for receiving the audio cables and video cable of a monitor for audio and video signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Hsing Chan Indsutrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter Wu
  • Patent number: 6213643
    Abstract: A collapsible bag expander made by bending a patterned cardboard into shape, enabling coupled pairs of hooked portions of border flaps of panels of the patterned cardboard to be respectively secured together by elastic bands so that the bag expander is automatically forced by the spring power of the elastic band to expand and to support the collapsible bag in shape after removable of the collapsible bag from the polybag, which packs the collapsible bag in the collapsed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: Chih-Ta Lin
  • Patent number: 6203476
    Abstract: A physical exercising apparatus, which includes a first transverse frame bar having a longitudinal center through hole, a second transverse frame bars, two wheels respectively mounted on the wheel holders for supporting the second transverse frame bar on the floor, and an elastic cord member inserted through the longitudinal center through hole on the first transverse frame bar and connected between the wheel holders for stretching by the user when the user holds the first transverse frame bar in place and moves the second transverse frame bar relative to the first transverse frame bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Inventors: Mei-San Wang, Winson Ouyang
  • Patent number: 6199691
    Abstract: A golf bag and partition rack arrangement, which includes a cylindrical bag body having two elastic bands at two opposite sides, a first rack frame and a second rack frame bilaterally fastened to the top cuff of the cylindrical bag shell and coupled to each other through a slip joint, a lever pivoted to the second rack frame and forced by a spring in the second rack frame to hook on one of front and rear locating notches on a locating rod at the first rack frame, and a cap fastened to the second rack frame to limit turning angle of the lever, wherein depressing one end of the lever causes the lever to be disengaged from the locating rod for enabling the second rack to be moved relative to the first rack frame to adjust the pitch between the two rack frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Inventor: David Wu
  • Patent number: 6199669
    Abstract: A brake caliper installed in the disk brake of a bicycle and worked with the brake disk of the disk brake, the brake caliper including a base having two receiving chambers and two cam shafts in the receiving chamber, two brake linings respectively mounted in the receiving chambers at two opposite sides of the brake disk and coupled to the cam shafts, and two spring members respectively fastened to the brake linings and secured to a respective locating rod at the cam shafts, wherein the brake linings each have a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole respectively disposed at two opposite ends of a groove thereof for the positioning of the spring members, a finger rod and a locating rod raised from the periphery and aligned with the groove in a line, and a cam shaft mounting hole for the positioning of the locating rod of the corresponding cam shaft; the spring members each have a substantially U-shaped head and a forked tail respectively inserted through the first positioning hole and second posi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Inventor: Bill Huang
  • Patent number: 6199693
    Abstract: A receiving bag of a jack for storing a car jack made of plastic or cloth. The receiving bag has an approximately rectangular shape. The top of the receiving bag has a zippered opening, and the inner bottom of the bag has a rectangular bottom plate. The front and rear edges of the bottom plate are provided with respective transversally long fixing plates. Two fixing means are installed at the proper positions at one side of the bottom plate. A jack is received within the receiving bag and the wheels of the jack abut the fixing plates on the bottom plate. Furthermore, the fixing means serve to fix the handle of the jack. Thereby, the user may store the jack conveniently within the receiving bag for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Shinn Fu Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Hung
  • Patent number: 6196407
    Abstract: A garbage container includes a base, a bottom cover rotatably supported on the base to hold an outer shell and an inner barrel, a plurality of partition boards fastened to the bottom cover and defining a plurality of storage chambers within the outer shell around the inner barrel for receiving classified waste materials, a top cover covered on the outer shell over the storage chambers, an inner container formed of multiple container parts and mounted within the inner barrel, a plurality of cover panels respectively pivoted to the inner barrel and moved to close/open the storage chamber, and a foot lever pivoted to the base and operated to lift one container part or the inner container in opening one cover panel from one storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Green Wheel Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kun-Hei Liu
  • Patent number: 6193822
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a diesel engine valve for intake and exhaust having good corrosion resistance and increased valve face strength, and therefore, of improved durability. A Ni-base heat resistant alloy of strong precipitation hardening type or an Fe-base heat resistant alloy of the same type is used as the material. The method comprises hot forging to prepare a blank form of the valve to be manufactured, solution treatment, cold processing to form the face part, and age-treating for increasing the hardness of the face part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Daido Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nagashima, Michio Okabe, Toshiharu Noda
  • Patent number: 6193699
    Abstract: A medical tube made of an organic polymer having a mechanical loss tangent of at least 0.5 at body temperature and a modulus of transverse elasticity of 1-1000 MPa at body temperature. The medical tube of the present invention can be easily inserted into the body, and gives less pain and less feeling of physical disorder during indwelling in the body or removal from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignees: Nissho Corporation, Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Hajime Tsujikawa, Shunichi Hayashi, Satoru Kondo, Atsushi Utsumi, Tamotsu Kaide
  • Patent number: 6193248
    Abstract: A detachable coupling block and base frame mounting arrangement includes a base frame adapted to hold a rear wheel, a coupling block mounted on the base frame at a front side and adapted to receive a connecting frame of a head frame unit for kick scooter, a sliding locking block slidably mounted in a longitudinal sliding groove at a bottom side of the base frame and adapted to lock the coupling block, wherein the coupling block has a front bottom hook inserted into a front notch on the base frame and a rear bottom hook inserted into an insertion hole on the base frame, and the sliding locking block has a front notch and a coupling hole adapted to receive the front bottom hook and rear bottom hook of the coupling block, enabling the coupling block to be locked upon a forward movement of the sliding coupling block in longitudinal sliding groove after insertion of the front bottom hook and rear bottom hook of the coupling block into the front notch and coupling hole of said sliding locking block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Inventor: Ssu-Liu Liu
  • Patent number: 6193049
    Abstract: A three-dimensional driving system for a transfer feeder of a transfer press for feeding a work into successive processing stations which is surrounded by a plurality of uprights comprises a feed mechanism linked to a pair of transfer bars arranged parallel to a work feed direction for gripping and transferring the work and a feed mechanism driver linked to the feed mechanism to drive it. The three-dimensional driving system further comprises, a lift mechanism which is provided on a bed surrounded by the uprights and causes the transfer bars to ascend and descend, a clamp mechanism which is linked to the lift mechanism and causes the transfer bars to grip and release the work, a clamp and lift box accommodating the lift mechanism and the clamp mechanism, a lift mechanism driver linked to the lift mechanism to drive it, and a clamp mechanism driver linked to the clamp mechanism to drive it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigekazu Noda
  • Patent number: 6189979
    Abstract: A wheel mounting arrangment, which includes a wheel shaft having a locating block at one end fitted into a locating hole on a leg at a golf club carrier, and lever turned about a pivot at the leg and engaged into a transverse positioning groove at the locating block of the wheel shaft to lock the wheel shaft, wherein the pivot is disposed in parallel to the wheel shaft, and the lever is turned about the pivot in direction perpendicular to the wheel shaft, the wheel shaft has two guide slopes at two opposite lateral sides of the transverse positioning grooves for guiding the locking block of the lever into the locking position; the locating hole of the leg has a diameter gradually increased toward the outside of the leg, and the locating block of the wheel shaft has an outer diameter fitting the diameter of the locating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Inventor: David Wu
  • Patent number: 6190211
    Abstract: An isolation displacement connector includes a housing, a base circuit board installed in the housing, a terminal holder mounted on the base circuit board, and a set of terminals respectively installed in the terminal holder and inserted through the base circuit board, the base circuit board having transverse rows of metal contact holes and longitudinal rows of metal contact holes, and conductors and sine wave circuits symmetrically arranged on top and bottom side walls thereof and respectively connected to the metal contact holes to reinforce induction strength and noise preventive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Telebox Industries Corp.
    Inventor: Max Chu
  • Patent number: 6189908
    Abstract: A shock-absorbing frame structure for bicycle includes a front frame unit formed of a head tube, a down tube, a seat tube, and a top tube, a bottom forks unit pivoted to the front frame unit, and a shock-absorbing device coupled between the front frame unit and the bottom forks unit, the seat tube having a seat pillar for holding a saddle and a top end for holding a seat back, the bottom forks unit including two bottom forks, and a connector connected between the bottom forks at a front side and pivoted to a bottom lug at the front frame unit, a cross tube connected between the bottom forks on the middle, an upward lug formed integral with the cross tube to support the shock-absorbing device, and an arched frame rod bridging the bottom forks at a rear end for the mounting of a luggage-carrier and a rear fender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Tech Cycle Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Julie Lu
  • Patent number: 6188144
    Abstract: A plurality of series circuits of saturable reactors and transferring capacitors are connected in parallel to a peaking capacitor, the plurality of saturable reactors are magnetically coupled, and saturable reactors for finely adjusting a transfer initiation time are connected in series to the plurality of saturable reactors. Otherwise, a plurality of series circuits of saturable reactors and transferring capacitors are connected in parallel to the peaking capacitor, the plurality of saturable reactors are magnetically coupled, and post-saturation inductances of the plurality of saturable reactors are made different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd
    Inventor: Yasufumi Kawasuji
  • Patent number: 6184917
    Abstract: In a laser marking method, wherein a liquid crystal mask having thereon a desired pattern to be marked is scanned with a laser beam to mark an object with the pattern by the laser beam passed through the liquid crystal mask, the liquid crystal mask is maintained in a predetermined condition of a temperature higher than the room temperature, a marking operation being carried out by using a laser beam in such a high-temperature condition, thus enabling a speed of response of the liquid crystal element, and a working efficiency concerning the laser marking operation to be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Teiichiro Chiba, Tsuyoshi Okubo, Yukihiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D437351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Limax Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu-Chia Chang, William H. K. Chu
  • Patent number: D438056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Inventor: Yin-Chu Lai
  • Patent number: D438380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Po-Tang Su
  • Patent number: D438578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Johnson Kuo